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BI's source: "someone in Lattner's circle of developer friends"

There is nothing to indicate this isn't some random guy who's met Lattner twice and has no idea what he's talking about but wanted to feel special by being a "source" to BI.
Are you saying that if Obamacare did not exist you would be better off?
I wish we could build our software this fast!
No. Insurance companies have to spend a majority of premiums on healthcare or rebate them to consumers. So the money goes to providers and drug companies.

We spend several times more in hospitals and clinics than what we spend on prescription drugs:

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/17-fascinating-...

(nearly $1.6 trillion to large providers, $300 billion to drugs)

So the costs are not concentrated in drugs and insurance. There are certainly some drugs that are very lucrative, it's just that they aren't the dominant spending.
In general you make good points, but I am curious about a few potential gaps:

1: If people choose not to get health insurance and then have to go to the ER, who pays for that? You and me. In most cases, it is cheaper for people to get preventative care and reduce their chances of a very expensive ER visit.

2: Preexisting conditions. Sure, but without a guaranteed customer base supported by subsidies then those people will be effectively denied insurance by having to pay insane premiums and deductibles. I have seen no evidence thus far that effectively counters this argument.

Lastly, you say you want to live off the land in some small town somewhere and you don't want the government to force you to pay for other people. Splendid! Say hello to Thomas Jefferson for me. But who builds the roads that lead to your house? What about utilities, water, internet? If you slip and fall down the stairs and break your leg who do you call, 911? If so, who pays for the 911 service, let alone the ambulance to take you to the hospital?

Again, I do agree with your premise, but since in my experience most libertarian arguments tend to crack under the pressure of public goods (like national security), where do you draw the line between independence and the needs of the populace as a whole?
The image loading on this site was pretty unbearable; the images loaded from the bottom up lazily and were pretty low resolution.

I ended up loading all the chapters before I read the 2nd page, so the rest of the pages would be ready for me. I don't know if the image loading was a design choice or just because of the HN traffic.

Very fascinating topic.
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Your solutions rely on something that does not exist in health care: information parity. A true free market requires information parity. Health care is complicated, thus information parity does not exist. Regulation is the answer to dealing with that lack of information parity.

A hospital cannot "publish prices" because prices vary wildly based on many factors. Even if they did, how am I supposed to know what I need for my healthcare? If I go to the doctor and they say "you need a surgery and it will cost 10,000" the posted prices do not tell me if I need that surgery at all, just what they cost. And, of course, the most expensive medical care is emergency, a time when price shopping is not possible.

> Remove the boundries of the state borders. This is regulation. Not allowing companies to work and provide across state lines is ridiculous and again government overreach that could quickly drive down costs.

I'm not opposed to this, but it does remove state control over insurance regulation, which is an anathama to Republicans. I also have no idea how it will drive down costs? Are some states that much healthier than others?

> Birth Control, yes and no. We should be able to opt out paying for it, especially if it goes against my religion and frankly it does, but I won't stop others from opting in and paying for it.

I don't even know where to start. If I can opt out of paying for some medically approved procedures, where does it end? Can I say that I want to opt out of ob/gyn care for unmarried women?
> We should be able to opt out paying for it, especially if it goes against my religion and frankly it does

Does this exception generalize? From the start, I felt it was immoral to go into Iraq, topple the government, get 4000+ US soldiers killed and cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. The pennies you pay for birth control a nothing compared to what I as compelled to pay for a war I didn't support from the get go. Can I get my money back for that one? I'm sure my objection to it is/was as sincere and deeply felt as your objection to birth control.
It's frustrating to see so much energy wasted in fragmenting health coverage solutions in the US. This makes it so costly, that it _looks_ like it's too expensive or inefficient, making right wing politicians justify the fact that it should be everyone for themselves.

As a Canadian with full health coverage, without any special requirements except renewing a picture card every 5 years, this looks like a very dangerous situations for millions of poor people. And while the system isn't perfect, and we do have some wait list on special cases, most heavy or light illness get treated quickly.

Even for the richer US citizens, it seems like a waste of time and a big overhead + legal battles looming on possible contract conflicts.

In term of equality of chances for that "American dream", this looks like the biggest imbalance one can imagine, just beside education.
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That's not some advantage randomly conferred onto Google, though. That's how you build a fast, global DNS service. Freenom is as fast as their servers allow in north western Europe (assuming they are indeed hosted in Amsterdam), but it's just not fast in the rest of the world.
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Right, let me reformulate: Wayland is what you get by default on Arch when you go with the gnome/gdm stack. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Use_Xorg_backend
Looks like your screenshot links got broken in the second part of your series (maybe since they're TIFF they won't display inline on Windows Chrome?). I'd love to read the rest of the series when you write it, as well!
I've been banned many times for many reasons mostly they are silly, once I got banned for 'generic' views.

Today being critical of Obama gets you auto banned

It's classic case of mods controlling the conversation to be more pro Government.

It's seen they allow sock puppets and allow upvotinf manipulation and flagging to support a pro government narrative.
I would say stay away from any 4chan pet projects.
A possible explanation is that those who have children know that they take quite a lot of attention/focus.
Oh, the emails you’ll get… (2006)
This story makes it crystal clear how much openAI is accelerating research, for now mostly on reinforcement learning.

I'm sure this is talked about over and over again, but could someone please lead us through the AI safety rationale behind this?
With gym and universe openAI is slashing a few months (years?) off the singularity countdown, most likely. What's the upshot? Why is the expected value of these initiatives positive? The uncertainties seem extremely large.

Edit/PS:
To put it more bluntly, and be more specific: are there any projects that openAI is choosing NOT to pursue even though they would be very useful/cool for the research community (à la gym and universe), but where it has had to explicitly restrain itself, because the expected value from an AI safety perspective is negative?
> Not when you factor in more insured people means less expensive medical costs - i.e. more preventative care and less emergency room visits.

Well, you can make the argument for preventive care on medical grounds or even moral ones, but you can't say it actually saves money. When people have access to preventive care, they also tend to consume more, which means greater costs (although better overall care)[0].

This has borne out with the ACA[1], as the data shows that preventive costs increased faster than chronic and acute care costs dropped, by a very significant margin.

[0] https://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/when-prev...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/upshot/no-giving-more-peo...
Wasn't there more fixes in the initial version of the legislation that would have dealt with this?

I'm sick of these stupid names in general.
> I don't know the details of exactly the causal chain there...

This is a really sincere recommendation: if I were you, I would research that and figure out if it's true or not. There is plenty of propaganda going around on this subject from all sides; it's dangerous to rely on things you've heard.
> No hash function strives for uniqueness. As long as the digest length is shorter than the input length, you can logically guarantee that there will be collisions.

Nope! For a known set of N inputs of length K, I can devise a hash function that maps then to a log2(N) bit result with zero collisions regardless of K.

> And since all general purpose hash functions allow arbitrary length input data, this is always the case.

It's not the arbitrary length data that breaks the uniqueness guarantee. It's that you can have 2^X + 1 entries where you only have X bits of hash result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle
s/it's not the current orthodoxy/it's not the opinion of the vast majority of people who know what they are talking about and have studied it/
Maybe Tesla should consider the following: All the time passed the point your battery is charged is deducted from you next charging session.

For example: Your battery charges in 30 minutes, but you stay at the station for an hour (30 minutes of charging + 30 minutes of idling). Next time you go to a charging station you get penalized for a certain amount of time (percentage of you idle time). Of course, this will probably never happen, but it would get the point across!
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We also know for a fact that Republicans aren't in favor of the government staying out of people's private lives. They are, after all, strongly anti-abortion, which by definition is an extremely private affair.

edit: what I said is 100% correct, so I will assume that the downvotes are simply political in nature.
I'm currently working as a consultant and I'd not be able to do it without the ACA.
You really don't understand how insurance works, do you?

People pay into a pool and if one day they too become ill they'll need to draw on that. Prior to the ACA it was in the best interest of insurers to simply eject all the "sick" people from the pool. What use is insurance if when you really need it they cut you off?

This hurts everyone. It's not about paying more in premiums. It's about insurance that sticks around when the shit hits the fan.
Don't downvote or I'll do it out of spite :)
Pull in the reigns on big pharma, they're primarily responsible for the outstanding inflation of medical costs.

Other ways to lower healthcare costs:

* Increase med-school acceptance rates & fund more residency programs/additional slots to increase supply of MD's

* Subsidize med-school tuition so MD's don't graduate drowning in debt

* Allow PA's and NP's more authority in primary care and non-trauma emergent care situations without an attending physician having to sign for every order and discharge - some states are ahead of others here, we have a lot of NP's in GA ER's that work without an attending

Oh, and single payer healthcare would do wonders too. Administrative costs for hospitals and billing companies would drop dramatically not having to manage dozens of different insurance contracts just to get paid, would love to pass that savings onto patients.
False. The ACA imposed a minimum 80-85% medical loss ratio on insurance companies. This is a cost control.

https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Programs-and-Initiatives/Health-In...

But there aren't any real cost controls on providers, drug companies, medical device companies, and other suppliers.
interesting, wow, in that case I would immediately sell (depending on the tax scenario) and buy a competitor's stock or something in the same sector to write calls on

proxy trade
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Sure the vast majority of people know what they are talking about. They get their opinions from journalists and rent-seekers.
Everybody in this thread should explain why they think what they are saying. I don't really know much about what Obama did or did not, but I'm not saying anyone providing me that information, just a bunch of people taking about their opinions. So I'd really appreciate if people could share their reasons for them.
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it also makes it easier to associate views with someone, whether they want those views known outside of a smaller group or not.
Army report: Self-doubt and sleep deprivation led to 2-star's suicide
It's actually nice to open a repository of an application with a complexity like that one and just see a few files, no crazy folder structures, no insane build scripts or similar.
Apologies in advance for cherry-picking points to respond to, but ...

> * Age 26 under the parents health care plan, fine, but damnit kid, get a job. Do something with yourself.

I don't think you can simply equate having a job to "do[ing] something with yourself". Neither can you equate not having a job to not "do[ing] something with yourself". As always, situations (especially in the macro) are complex and subtle and solutions can't be boiled down to a simple directive.

Adults < 26 are often not the ones responsible for not being able to obtain a job. Yes, they may have chosen a field of study that's not in demand (even though many were probably told to "do what you love"), but they've also likely had very little opportunity to impact things like domestic economic policy, employment trends, or even employers not recognizing shifts in demographically driven skill-sets.

> * Birth Control, yes and no. We should be able to opt out paying for it, especially if it goes against my religion and frankly it does, but I won't stop others from opting in and paying for it.

In a system where much (most?) health insurance is provided as an employer paid benefit, why should my employer get to decide whether I'm opted in or out of a particular thing based on religion?

Ideally (from my point of view), religion plays zero part in health care. What is wrong with a benefit being available to all and only used by those that want to use it? Is this so different from the "in the privacy of my own bedroom" argument?
But isn't "certifying" the part that actually matters (making sure I have the right key for a persona / the right persona), and AFAICT, Key Transparency is focused on the logging aspect.

This is what I'm really not seeing in the blog post / GitHub repo; how does this actually establish trust in the received key?

(While it is true that the owner of the key can audit their account, that doesn't help a sender. Also, if watching people "verify" SSH & GPG keys has taught me anything, it's that even engineers who should know better are way too lazy.)
Of course, it's better to have a nationwide health service, now that ACA is toast, may be it is time for states to start considering health care systems within their borders. Many states have populations multiple the size of many countries which have universal health care. It could be very possible.
Why do we sit here and argue about whether people should use WhatsApp or Signal? It's Facebook. How can we talk about Facebook as a serious candidate for private end to end messaging when they're one of the world's biggest data brokers? Why wouldn't you just use Signal and recommend it to everyone?
Which states have universal Medicaid? I'm surprised this hasn't become a bigger thing.

Having insurance tied to employment is utterly terrifying. You'll stick it out in a sub-standard job to maintain coverage. You'll be fearful of taking risks on self-employment. It's the exact opposite thing you'd do if you wanted to encourage entrepreneurship.
"Health care inflation" isn't directly comparable to the overall inflation rate, as the quality and amount of health care has been rising alongside the increasing percentage of GDP we spend on it. Compared to when the only available remedies were bloodletting and leeches, I bet we spend a lot more on the health care sector.
I haven't done anything with twitter. Technically I do have an account, but most times I visit the site, I'm not logged in. I can't find a way to get a toehold toward anything but inane babble.
Anyone with access to the hypervisor at the service provider will have access to plaintext. TLS protects you from service provider network compromise within whatever scopes that covers. If you're in the cloud, you do have to have some basic trust in your service provider as compute is always in plaintext (barring homomorphic encryption).
I don't know what the bystander effect is, but I assume we're taking about the same thing: I often feel that everyone is, along with myself, thinking "great - open source! I'm sure someone's checking it."

Of course, the counter is that if you publish it you don't risk that someone actually is checking.

Open beats closed, but we must be careful not to think it immediately makes the code sound.

I've been thinking about this particularly recently in relation to Monzo, the will-be bank. There's no web app and slow progress on the android front. Lots of open source effort though, since they publish an API, but... That's my bank account I'm (not) giving open source developers access to.
My accounts have been banned before they violated guidelines, they've been banned for reasons not in the guidelines, seriously review some reasons why you and other mods ban accounts, they don't always match up. You control the narrative here to be less critical of the Government.
> But there aren't any real cost controls on providers, drug companies, medical device companies, and other suppliers.

That's what I said.
One of the maintainers of ts-loader here. Debugging original source is totally possible. Take a look at the setup here: https://github.com/TypeStrong/ts-loader/tree/master/examples...

And in the official samples (WebPack 1): https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScriptSamples/tree/master/r...
Not sure how to reply to this, it seems I certainly failed to get the point across here.

> No; this is an excuse to pat yourself on the back for being contrary. Don't validate your beliefs by how much they make others angry

That was absolutely not what I intended to say with this admittedly tongue-in-cheek quip. There is a kernel of (subjective) truth in there though: if you find yourself agreeing with one side of a meme war 100% on everything, it's most likely time to rethink some assumptions. Conversely, if you're not agreeing wholesale, you just have a target on your back, that's a given. So I could have worded that better, it doesn't have anything to do with being contrarian for the sake of causing offense.

> Group identity and culture wars are not new (and are certainly not going away).

I thought I addressed that. Again, I probably worded it too obtusely.
> increase of the debt [sic] limit, running from $580B/year (2017) to $946B/year (2026)

Growing the deficit from $580bn to $950bn over 7 years means it is growing at over 6.2% per year. To be fair, the median nominal GDP growth rate between 1933 and 2015 was 6.4% [1]. That said, forecasted near-term growth is expected to come in between 2.5 and 3.5% [2].

The difference between the 6.2% deficit growth rate and 2.5 to 3.5% nominal GDP growth rate will need to be made up with a mix of tax increases (austerity), inflation (redistribution) or, while unlikely, default.

[1] http://www.multpl.com/us-gdp-growth-rate

[2] http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth
It seems that there is enough demand from women to become police officers to justify the quotas (based on general population, not proportion of applicants), whereas not a lot of men want to be teachers. You see the same thing with nursing.
I guess it's just a weird branding win for Google. They made such a song and dance about fiber early on, everyone assumes that Google Fiber is great and everybody else sucks.

It seems like that should be a recipe for success, so I also don't understand why they're laying off staff and scaling back their rollout!
Why don't you reinstate my original comment? Or is mentioning Obama's numerous war crimes too sensitive?
Yes, I wouldn't have gone down a road that was cut out from underneath me, and almost lost a marriage in the process.
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> "For example, bullet-proof vests and body armor are made of kevlar, a plastic that consists of rigid molecular rods aligned in a parallel structure – however, interweaving polymer strands have the potential to create much tougher, lighter and more flexible materials in the same way that weaving threads does in our everyday world."
It does siphon traffic by serving it from google.com, and adding a frame to the top that when clicked will take you back to Google.com. When you swipe left or right, it takes you to other AMP links from different results.

AMP links are given priority in search.
Understood, I'm looking for an analysis - it would cost x to hire the same size team of researchers with comparable research experience for the same amount of time to build out these datasets as proof-of-concept products, plus whatever other costs an ML research team accrues.
> The GC was the most powerful console of its generation,

That's not true. The Xbox was far more powerful CPU/GPU-wise, and had far more storage (the 8 GB HD was pretty amazing) so games could install themselves to HD and use virtual memory to increase their performance.
I disagree this is a "party" doing.

Mitt Romney had similarly reformed Massachusetts law in 2006 as Governor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_health_care_refo...

I see the article briefly touched upon the American notion of health insurance being tied to employment.

Nobody seems to want to really solve this problem, just band-aids and lip-service. Neither mainstream party would consider a single-payer system, nor direct government negotiation with drug companies.

It's as though the drug and insurance companies are better represented (and have more rights) than its citizens.

Heck, even Medicare is divided into at least four regions to "negotaiate" regional prices.

How do other countries perceive this?

The US falls further and further behind in healthcare and affordable and available high-speed internet. Let's see some real progress.
I'm a little confused. The page you linked describes high deductible ACA plans (aka HSA eligible plans.)
If you were making that little money, you were likely eligible for Medicaid.
A few years back, I quit my job and founded an (ultimately unsuccessful) startup. A big factor in deciding to do it was that the ACA would go into effect before my Cobra coverage expired.
What? You must be some sort of conspiracy theorist. Just be rational and extrapolate from your beliefs: if you admit that Facebook might do this, then why not Google, AT&T, Microsoft? There would be no end to it. Basically it would mean that all businesses are spying on you and handing the information over to the government.

I have complete faith that that is untrue based upon just the history of the last 5 years.
Religion plays a part in birth control, especially for the forms of control that kill after inception. Think on it.
Is there an App that gets rid of all technology? :)