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I am very pleased by this post. I am 60, people around me age and it is sometimes a not very pleasant experience. What is important when you are very old and impotent? I think that is to, still be able to interact with other people. The time we spend on social networks, including this one, shows that interaction is what matters.
Here it is very limited, but what if we would be able to couple HN with some kind of "social network butler" to interact with the physical world. It would fulfill both the need of social interaction and the capacity to do stuff.
After that, the need for a physical body, at least for the people who are very old, would not be so important.
And if young people can enjoy living in the fast lane, I am sure some new experiences can be created in virtual worlds, that would match, if not replace, experiences brought by the physical body.
I would say try not to be prejudiced. Making good software and posting on imageboards aren't mutually exclusive.
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The idea that the lack of competition between states is the reason for high health insurance premiums is a red herring.

The reason premiums are high is that costs are high, and our population is obese, disease prone and litigious.

If we want to contain costs we have some options:

1) Public option/Medicare for all could save us 10-20% in parasitical insurance company costs/administrative overhead.

2) We find solutions for obesity. Obesity is the #1 driver of increased health costs in America.

3) We stop holding doctors/pharma financially responsible for bad outcomes outside of their control through the legal system.
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I agree with Jessica's perspective. For me, though, there's an open question with how best to balance it with the "luck surface area" concept, especially when starting out. [1]

[1] http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surf...
> Remove the boundries of the state borders. This is regulation.

Yep, and I hope it's to prevent "lowest common bidder" syndrome on plans. Why does Delaware get all the Corps? Why does a East Texas Court get all the patent cases ?

Frankly, my Texas health care plan sucks. Doesn't cover "anything".

> Lastly, I want hospital prices published. I want to shop around.

Can't shop around in an ambulance.
This may surprise you, but I don't have particularly strong views on gun control. I reject the claims of the pro-gun side that guns are a useful and necessary defense against tyranny, and I do think gun control would probably be useful and good, but I don't argue that side strenuously and don't vote based upon it. Going even further, I think American liberals should abandon their gun control fetish at least for the time being, because it's costing them a lot of votes for no particularly good reason. As far as issues go, this one is way down the list in importance.

Anyway, on to the actual link. My first question is, why is it useful to survey the opinion of economists on gun violence? That doesn't seem like the right field to poll at all. Shouldn't you be asking criminologists?
I've been on Pandora forever, but not Spotify. Maybe I should defect.
Of course people without insurance go to ERs. That's not going to help you if you have, for example, Type 1 diabetes and need daily insulin and test strips. The ER isn't going to send you home with 1000 strips and a half dozen vials of humalog.
> you probably haven't heard of burden of proof.

I don't think the climate systems on Earth care about whether or not you believe in something, or if the considerable amount of proof produced by the vast vast majority of climate scientists meets your always unreachable (and dare I say it uniformed) goalposts.
> If A got his keys stolen, he's indeed in for some trouble.

This is slippery-slope weasel-wording. The particular impersonation-to-A scenario is well known (due to a standard DH key agreement property) and can be protected against (see lvh's top comment for examples how it's possible to do that).
https://geektimes.ru/post/284588/ - some discussion in russian
With a tripod, you don't need to worry. They are perfectly fine for VR, as long as you don't move the tripods while playing.
Please consider moon physics! I haven't heard anyone talk about this but I've thought this was the answer to locomotion in VR. It strikes a balance between realistic movement and not being too tiring, and moon jumping would be hella fun, especially in a FPS.
Didn't Elon previously say people they reject go to apple?
I don't understand why we don't have Universal Healthcare? Every other first world country has it. They also spend a lot less money than us. We should borrow what works best from around the world.
I'm getting a "Page Not Found" error when I follow this link.
>I have cried in one

What's the story with that, if you don't mind?
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Which VR headsets have you tried? The problem's wildly worse in some than others.

I've only ever seen one person find the Vive at all uncomfortable, for example. Whereas the Oculus DK1... yeah, that was vomit city, population you.
As I was reading this comment, I realized that I had picked up my phone and gone on Hacker News almost subconsciously, while in a lecture at school.

I don't think I'd have as strong of an outlet for constant distraction without my phone.
Its a bit more complicated.

Its that JSON data, the request to API endpoint(s) to get it, the JavaScript to drive it, the request to fetch that JS and whatnot. That may not waste much CPU indeed, but instead wastes bandwidth and time. This is quite easy to notice on mobile devices.

Your servers now have to serve these API endpoints; static pages can be deferred to proper CDNs. For larger deployments this can drive the server costs to eat your profits rather quickly. Not even considering the fact that the dynamic route was much more development than the static one in the first place.

About the 90% wasted CPU, I was talking about how the CPU constantly waits for memory because very, very few programmers optimize for cache misses and lots of dynamic languages make it impossible to. Waiting on memory still shows as activity in the task manager, but the CPU isn't computing anything.
Indeed. And I'm sure this is the main point in selling the importance of funding AI safety when talking to governments.

Another of the main concerns before the singularity is the possible social breakdown due to massive unemployment and inequality, the main issues being the transition, not the possibility of a post-scarcity society.
I don't think anyone that has dealt with housing contractors thinks it is an ideal free market. The "uncertainty" concepts that Arrow developed in this paper have been used in studying all kinds of other markets from health insurance to used cars. In fact, this paper has been used to argue that health markets are not that special from other markets because there is always some uncertainty.
It's an unfortunate feedback cycle. Medical providers charge high numbers because they know insurance companies will only pay out a percentage of the billed amount.
Now that I think about it, it's probably why Apple hasn't thrown their hat into the VR ring

They're working on AR
The cap is a percentage of cost, a truly evil incentive to encourage ever increasing health care costs.
And that should be cash compensation. No stocks. No options. They can give stocks and options if they want to pay more, but I don't want to see companies saying the need somebody and then giving them $100k in stock options or something and paying them $50k or something.

It's bad enough that we have a job problem. The last thing I want is the few good jobs left where people can actually negotiate great wages be left to companies to circumvent the market using labor laws.
I went full-time in my business in 2010-2011. I got denied for months for health insurance. I was in my early 30s, wife, and one child with no major health issues and barely ever used insurance. I got denied from the same companies I previously had insurance working full-time non-stop for years and years from. Finally I did get some by putting me and my family on differing plans across companies. It was insane, I was actually taken back at how messed up that seemed. It caused more panic than it needed to.

The ACA (or similar basic rules: no pre-existing, must cover, supports small business and self proprietors as the market goes more that way) is needed for entrepreneurship and in cases where you can't get it through a job, it is a must for starting business today. Other places have a competitive advantage to starting a company in a country that has healthcare figured out and away from the job.

We should be able to get insurance as a pool of individuals. The current insurance companies are not setup for non employer based healthcare and need to either change or go. They group based on company or individual not pools of people across companies and individuals, which is a broken legacy system. We need consumer facing companies to be in healthcare if private healthcare is the main thing, companies in auto insurance and other insurance are more consumer focused (Geico, Progressive, Nationwide etc). I wish for more competition in this area that is consumer focused not employer focused.

Insurance needs to be remove from employment (probably through legislation or market benefits) to ultimately solve this consumer facing insurance problem for healthcare. We also probably need a separate health insurance plan for catastrophic events and a healthcare plan that handles day to day healthcare needs, bundling them is a bit wrong when compared with other insurance i.e. car maintenance is not covered under auto insurance, home maintenance is not covered under home insurance.

Ultimately, fixing healthcare is needed for business and quality of life reasons. Our system is becoming a competitive disadvantage to businesses in the US.
Why do you think that VR requires Linux support to succeed?

I'm long past the mentality of software having to run on each and every platform, especially Linux. I love my Mac for work with software development, my Linux to deploy my servers to, and my Windows to play the latest games. Best of ALL worlds.
You make a good point - many investors (maybe us as well) don't start thinking a new technology is cool until they can investing in companies using or leveraging that technology... From a user perspective though, I bought Oculus Rift dk2 and thought it was horrible. The user experience has come a long way since then.
The flip side is that the ACA has enabled small businesses to screw over and exploit their employees by exempting businesses under a certain size from having to provide health insurance to their employees.
Single payer is considered socialism by half the population due to decades of Republican rhetoric.
Same grayhatter, here and there. In talking with another person who understands the system, we both are unable to determine how that attack is possible. Could you explain how, by stealing Alice's key, you could impersonate Bob to Alice?
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Yeah but 200k is top 2% of individual income. 100k is already in about the top 10% of individual incomes. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be a metric but to say that 200k should be the minimum because 100k just isn't enough strikes me a weird
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My experience was with a multiplayer game - which was a ton a fun
That strategy will increase your power, if it works. But it carries much higher downside risk...
No. This is roughly how TLS ephemeral suites work with mutual auth. Reusing a key pair for signing and DH (or at least being able to) is why TLS KCI attacks worked against static DH ciphersuites. Static DH certs basically don't exist, but ECDSA does. The important distinction here is that the long-term keys are signing keys, not DH keys.
I wish my first thought after this concept hadn't been "not until there's RetinAdblock"
I'd offer you the opportunity to do your own research into the subject if you'd like to investigate the implementation of ACA in NY state:

https://nystateofhealth.ny.gov/

Let's start with how much money you need to make to see your subsidies completely extinguished: $50,000. That's the limit no matter if you live in Buffalo or Westchester.

Let's then get into the regulations associated with ownership of a company. Did you know that as the owner of a company no matter the size or organization, you're NOT considered an employee of your own company? Nor is your wife?

From the NY state website:

"Under 29 CFR 2510.3-3, an employee would not include a sole proprietor or the sole proprietor's spouse. The definition for Common Law employee can be found here.

The structure of the business does not matter. For example, the business could be a corporation, LLC or d/b/a.

Employees
(1) An individual and his or her spouse shall not be deemed to be employees with respect to a trade or business, whether incorporated or unincorporated, which is wholly owned by the individual or by the individual and his or her spouse, and
(2) A partner in a partnership and his or her spouse shall not be deemed to be employees with respect to the partnership.

Specifically, 29 CFR 2510.3�3 states the following:
(c) Employees. For purposes of this section:
(1) An individual and his or her spouse shall not be deemed to be employees with respect to a trade or business, whether incorporated or unincorporated, which is wholly owned by the individual or by the individual and his or her spouse, and
(2) A partner in a partnership and his or her spouse shall not be deemed to be employees with respect to the partnership."

So it does matter that the self-employed seem to get screwed a bit harder than the popular opinion acknowledges.

So, tell me again, which part of shifting costs from people who didn't go to law school and dropped out to work at McDonalds to those who finished school and did sounds like a fair deal to you?

Does shifting costs to those more conscientious sound like a great plan for national unity? How do you feel when your co-workers play hookey, sleep in, and write bad code? Do you think those folks deserve the same promotion opportunities you do? Do you think that any society that punishes achievers is one that is set up for success?

Let's discuss facts and not opinions. Show me the costs for insurance and where the subsidies end and tell me if you think it sounds like a good deal to you in a county where the property taxes for a small condo run about $25K per year.
Sounds like your graphics card isn't configured correctly, maybe?

I use X11 (StumpWM, actually) on three computers with different graphics cards and system configurations, and I don't have jerkyness, tearing while scrolling, or graphical glitches on any of them.
They do not log the user's IP address. It says so on the page I linked.
Hospitals and insurance companies are co-dependent. In my experience, hospitals price everything high so that they have more room when they negotiate with the various insurance companies. No one is meant to pay these prices.

Hospital billing is also pretty awful. I've seen them place every possible reimbursable item on every bill, full well knowing that some insurance companies would cover some items and others different things. This resulted in inflated bills that were never paid in full regardless of a person's insurance coverage.

Many hospitals will negotiate with the uninsured but it's rare for them to make this easy to do.

This article is pretty weak, but the best I could find on this relatively arcane subject:

http://truecostofhealthcare.net/hospitalization/
The ghostbusters experience was done by The Void[1], who in my opinion are on the forefront of where VR could really take off. People are thinking narrowly about VR in terms of personal use, but there's so many obstacles there for mass consumer adoption that it's a way off(and honestly I think mixed reality will be the real killer app, VR has other limitations for personal/consumer use at home).

Instead I could see a lot of VR arcades popping up once the technology is more polished. You go to a large warehouse space, don a VR suit of sorts and with your group of friends can battle pirates/aliens/whatever in a large enough environment that it doesn't matter that it's still physically confined. There's obviously an appetite for this sort of thing,(see the explosion of "escape rooms" or higher end laser tag/paintball places).

https://thevoid.com/
> What is the consequence of coming out to gay men?

Out gay people are both more likely to out someone and more likely to have complicated feelings about others preferring not to be outed.

> What counts as absolutely necessary?

It's always better to come out than be outed.

> How much of a role does flirting play in the business dealings of founders?

Ideally none. Unfortunately when you're a woman in her 20's courting men in their 30's as investors, the rituals often overlap with romantic overture. (suggesting coffee, discussing deals/valuation over dinner, feigning interest in their opinion or soliciting advice, grooming, etc.)
The point is not that it's ok to flirt, the point is that it's ok (and not your fault) to be perceived as flirting. Too many female entrepreneurs avoid approaching male VCs because they're afraid of being misinterpreted.
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This (creates a new APIs) I feel is very much at the root of many people's dislike. But it's also exactly what was most important for advancing star-nix.

Historically we've had very little for managing processes. Start stop restart is about all we get for public interfaces, and they all involve shelling out via system().

The entire rest of the computing world has gotten immensely rich and powerful and grown. It's grown because there have been APIs. OpenStack, AWS, Kubernetes- once other applications start depend on the API (as you say) things start getting really good and powerful. The API makes it usable, gives the thing having an API programmability.

Process management has not had a decent API until systemd. Now we can write programs that watch for units being started, watch for them failing. Everything, the whole world, suddenly has a consistent well integrated API. It's appalling to me that people would disfavor this, when the past has been a bunch of hand jammed /etc/init.d/ scripts with varying capabilities and little introspectability.

I agree that being non-Linux is absurd and unfortunate. There really can't be that much special sauce that was relied on. Umass-PLASMA group has systemgo which is an interesting alternative, imo. https://github.com/plasma-umass/systemgo
The Sumerians already knew it existed, and much more: https://blog.kareldonk.com/planet-x-nibiru-an-analysis-of-ak...
By that logic everyone should have the cadillac plans since they cover the most things. Where do we draw the line at required?
One problem may be that sick people would move to California just because of this. May be it is not a big problem if enough states do it. The extra load would be shared among several states.

Smaller states may have not big enough to have a healthy market.
Some background: TokTok was started a year ago and inherited the core code from Tox with the intention to take the project to the place it claims to be in. TokTok is not equal to Tox, and we have no control over what the Tox project presents on its website.

I do think that making such claims without any backing security proofs is quite bold. In TokTok, we've avoided that and instead say: our aim is to bring security software to everyone. We don't claim that the software is already secure, but we have confidence in the general architecture and are working towards provable security. Part of that is a formal specification (not the human language spec) helping us provide users and cryptographers with a security proof. We are aware of some flaws, and have concrete plans (roadmap) to fix them.

I know that saying things like that statement you quoted doesn't improve confidence, but I think that saying "we're very secure" without proof is simply a lie. Many projects out there, some similar to Tox, claim security but aren't actually proven secure.

We are now simply a group of people who believe in the idea and want to make it reality. I am affiliated with TokTok, not with Tox.

Regarding public acknowledgement: I will update the TokTok website shortly.
blog post: https://thepiratebay.org/blog/241
A very easy fix for this is to tie compensation to cost of living. If the cost of living is dramatically more expensive in San Francisco than it is in Little Rock Arkansas, the income requirements should reflect that.
You mentioned California, so I am using that as an example. They would find it difficult to do such a thing. Other states with more reasonable approaches to taxes, might find it easier, but I'll denote the challenges specifically in California.

First off, keep in mind the following:

1. Populous states like California pay far more in Federal Taxes than they get in return in return. [1]

2. California must have a supermajority in the legislature to approve taxes. [2]

So it's a complex issue, but simply put, there's not a lot of wiggle room for California to add billions of dollars of health subsidies to it's state budget.

Medicaid is basically one big government subsidy for the poor. When the Obamacare medicaid expansion goes away, millions will fall out of health insurance instantly. [3]

As for the managed plans, subsidies were used to make the plans more affordable to the taxpayers which made it easier for people to afford coverage. [4]

It's possible that some things may stay in tact like the pre-existing condition clause, but unfortunately the health insurance companies won't be able to cover everyone without the individual mandate. [5] Also, before the pre-existing clause, health care companies were rejecting people for health insurance with pre-existing conditions. [6]

The options besides subsidies for California are:

1. Government mandate of costs at doctors offices and hospitals, which may become illegal if the US Congress votes against it.

2. Government mandates on the behavior of insurance companies. This might drive many insurance companies out of California.

Neither appear to be a viable option.

1: https://goo.gl/paMrzG
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...
3: https://www.healthinsurance.org/california-medicaid/
4: https://goo.gl/JVkaN0
5: https://goo.gl/STciup
6: https://goo.gl/Uoljhx
This book, a good read about the invention and adoption of the telegraph, includes references to information overload from the 1800's.

https://www.amazon.com/Victorian-Internet-Remarkable-Ninetee...
The exchanges are terrible. In Texas, the only options available on the exchanges are HMOs, and in large chunks of the state, only a single provider is available.

If you don't have employer-provided health insurance, you're still basically screwed even under the ACA.
I agree wholeheartedly. In my opinion, insurance providers and providers of health care (hospitals in particular) are trapped in a co-dependent cycle. Capping one without the other seems short-sighted to me.
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I dunno if it's fair to blame corporate exploitation for your experience - I feel like the current perception that everything must be "free - maybe with ads, and maybe pay later" is more to blame. :/

Portable personal avatars is going to be a huge undertaking. I'm really looking forward to the results, though!
In many respects Obama did great. Consider that a president in office has to put up with a lot of pressure from many different sources. There's the party, the opposition, the lobbyists, etc. Even if you make promises (in good faith) before the election, it's very difficult to honor them. And this applies to all politicians in office.
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