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>combination of climatic factors and unusual weather.

> Summer 2015 was unusually hot and dry relative to the last 20 years

So data over last 20 yrs is enough to conclude "changing climate" ?

> Middle East becomes more arid in the long term due to climate change

This article[1] blames it on ' farmers who pump water from limited underground aquifers '. Is there any proof that middle east is becoming more arid and it due to 'climate change' ?

1. http://www.aljazeera.com/video/middleeast/2013/03/2013322185...
I repeat, attributing more significance to observed similarities than observed differences is a social construct. One minute we're talking about fairly obvious visible differences like Korean-descended people almost invariably having paler skin and narrower eyes than Bantu-descended people. You also mentioned stature, which is rather less helpful to your thesis because there's a huge range of average heights between different Bantu subgroups and on average North Koreans are substantially shorter than their genetically difficult-to-distinguish southern cousins. Except for someone like Ri Myung-hun, who's over 7'8". Would one say his stature is best evaluated by analysis of the average height of people bearing "Korean" genetic markers or using a tape measure?

And of course, inevitably you move on to pretending that the huge and stable variation in measured test performance within a population is of lesser import than relatively small and unstable difference in average test performance between populations. Even if we grant the rather silly proposition that tests so unstable that the Dutch population improved by more than a standard deviation in thirty years are actually a good measure of innate intellectual differences unaffected by non-genetic factors, you've got the problem that it's impossible to predict with any degree of certainty what the person who took the test's genetic background actually is. I mean why would anyone interested in investigating innate intelligence choose to focus on genetic markers that predict my skin tone pretty accurately but can't even rule out the possibility of me being in the very top or very bottom percentile for results in any cognitive ability test?
Why ? Were you not paying attention ?

https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/blogtalk-obam...

In 2008, before the election, Obama clearly showed he would increase the surveillance state when in office. In what way did he dupe you ? He already showed what he would do in office in July 2008. Claiming buyer's remorse now is too little too late. The above vote was why I decided not to vote for him.
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Tactically you are right, but the people who fund the think tanks that fuel the fires you are describing, are playing a longer game. Same people and motivations behind the de-education of Americans kicked off by Reagan.
Not when you factor in more insured people means less expensive medical costs - i.e. more preventative care and less emergency room visits.
"I had heart surgery when I was 18. I was virtually uninsurable. I now have health insurance. Why we need the ACA is no more complicated than that."

I am a bit confused by this story. Was Zach not covered under his families' health coverage? He also went to: Westminster School - one of the most expensive private high schools in the US.

Now, one could argue he had a pre-existing condition and thus, was not covered under any health care providers plan, but he states: "I was virtually uninsurable." This tells me there were options, but none that covered the entire cost of the surgery.
Honestly, this story alone makes me seriously question the purpose of this post.
Maybe this better: press conference with LEOs that finished their investigation. You are talking about officers with 20+ years of experience evaluating fraudulent documents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EAxesVQ8wo
If you like how this forum is different then other forums, then we shouldn't try to bring the culture from other forums here.
But Michael Feldman did not say that he could do that, he merely said the universe. Through context, it is obvious that he is restricting to the observable universe, just like when people say "American" to specifically to refer to people in the United States.

Sorry, I hadn't realized we were arguing about this level of pedantry.
Arguments against ACA:

- It cost me money

- It's not perfect

Arguments in favor of ACA:

- It literally saved my life

Regarding increasing premiums, the complaints tend to be anecdotal. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, in 2016, the average monthly net premium increased just $4 -- or 4% -- from 2015 to 2016 among the insured that take advantage of subsidies.[1]

Furthermore, premiums have gone up year-over-year every year almost every year since I've been paying for my own insurance -- and that's well before ACA.

There's an interesting chart on the Kaiser Foundation website, where it shows the average plan prices and percent increase year-over-year broken down by state. It also shows that, after tax credits and with very few exceptions, plan prices have remained stable (0% change) between 2015 and 2016.

I understand and sympathize with the high premium prices, but I have serious reservations about the assertion that the high premiums are due to the ACA and not external factors.

[1] http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/health-insurance-premium...

[2] http://kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/2017-premium-change...
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This ship has sailed, because pushing the Web Platform (which every year exposes more and more of this platform functionality in JS) is a vested interest of Google and Mozilla, for different but related-enough reasons to where they rapidly achieve parity.

You're going to have to dig up a browser whose authors don't subscribe to this vision, or browsers that may intend to do this down the road but haven't caught up yet. For the time being, out of graphical browsers, Dillo and Netsurf are in this category.
I quit my job and moved to Colorado ("Health First Colorado" === medicaid). Over the winter holiday I broke my collarbone.

If it weren't for medicaid, I would be flat broke. my bills start at $5k... that's only the first bill I've seen. My savings would be dissolved, and I would be forced to find work for somebody else.

Instead, because of this coverage, and in spite of limitations on the amount of time I can work at a computer with a busted arm, I am able to continue my entrepreneurial efforts. My partners and I are all hopeful that this will be a very valuable use of our time, and our investor's money. I hope to be able to pay Colorado & the USGov back in spades, through taxes.

* - edited to correct Colorado Cares --> "Health First Colorado"... because I didn't know what I was talking about.

edit 2 - HFC is medicaid for those who qualify... Thanks HN for educating me :P
As an occasional tabletop gamer, I can often conceive several different winning strategies just by reading the rules of the game.

In the game of American representative democracy, I would not recommend your strategy. It's playing for 2nd place.

If you truly believe what you said, you should be recommending that people act to corrupt a public official in a manner that provides some leverage to them, personally. Alternately, poach the blackmail material from someone who already has leverage.
What evidence is there that the government itself doubled the price of the plan? The government doesn't collect the money, and it certainly goes somewhere...
Nice post, the stories echo multiple people I know as well. Having health insurance tied exclusively to a job is anti-entrepreneurial. That should be fairly obvious.

The ACA has flaws but it also has some great features that need to persist: minimum care requirements, pre-existing condition exclusions banned (having a pulse is a pre-existing condition BTW), no lifetime caps on treatment.

What's the alternative? Still haven't heard anything.
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Regaining control of your attention doesn't mean not using your phone. It means being self-aware. The author is relying on a crutch. Not using the phone is just removing a single source of distraction, it does nothing to actually help attention regulation. It's like saying, I fixed my impulse issues by never walking in to gas stations, so now I don't have to worry about buying lottery tickets! You didn't fix your impulse issues, they're still 100% there.
> any article critical of Apple ... goes immediately to the HN frontpage

Considering that this article (as I write this) has 184 points, and is sitting one spot below a slightly older article with 35 points, there seem to be two sides to that story.
I am unconvinced that healthcare affects the number of startups as this have been going down also after Obama got on board and is going down also in Europe (ex Denmark where healthcare is completely free)

But I am all for an alternative to what we have now or what we had.

The most important thing IMO is to make sure that people don't get hit by pre-existing conditions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-is-the-number-of...
It's vaguely true. Insurance policies are regulated at the state level (so to be sold to residents in a state a policy has to follow the regulations in that state). It's kind of hilarious that the conservative, small government party is proposing to federalize this regulation.

The reality is that the policies that companies will be willing to sell across state lines are likely to be truly awfully shitty, by doing things like not having a coverage agreement with most hospitals (which will at least drive up out of pocket costs and complicate claims, if not enabling the companies to outright deny claims).
You're blaming an act meant to increase access to healthcare (which it does) for the prices that drug companies choose to charge?
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This is not a thing you can legislate away effectively. The key to understanding here is that negotiation for health care is hard due to the fractured nature of providers and care. Insurers are micro-monopolies because they tend to serve districts or business sectors more effectively (cheaply) than others and rise to the top, but without a huge base of citizens to negotiate for no significant pricing change can really occur.
If hardware was the only factor then consoles wouldn't exist because everyone would play on their PC.
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I enjoy the content sure, but I didn't realize a harmless gif in reaction to an admittedly scary virus that explodes insects would draw such reactions.

I'll just log off for the day and go enjoy Friday on those other forums.
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Every bad thing must be attributed to climate, and climate must be attributed to man. Otherwise, what excuse will the rent-seekers have? Get with the program...
There's a </sarcasm> there right?
Are you volunteering to give up your health insurance to test your theory?
Less Unaffordable for 20% of the Population Heath Care Act ?

Mandatory Purchase of Service from Private Industry Act ?

either way it was a redistribution to some at the expense of others. decide yourself which moral side you sit on.
I think he's saying after the surgery and before the ACA, he was "virtually uninsurable."
"Life's too short to worry about privacy" is precisely the kind of attitude that normalizes increasingly invasive surveillance and inadvertently feeds into the desire of companies to glean as much information as they can from their users' data. Why does the convenience of Facebook messenger have to come at the cost of privacy?

I think it's an appropriate response to criticise a company for implementing what can only be generously interpreted as a bug, if not a backdoor, and dismissing concerns when it was pointed out to them, all the while making specious claims about being secure and lulling its users into a false sense of security. Public outrage is a powerful tool in ensuring that companies don't get too adventurous in spying on their users for fear of getting caught and called out on it.

At the risk of raising the spectre of authoritarianism, I think the folks who held on to their religious beliefs in countries that enforce/d a particular religion (or no religion), or secretly organised protests against communist regimes would gape in disbelief at the choices of the current generation to use always-on digital assistant devices, communication tools and social media platforms that have been shown to be linked with government surveillance programs. Sure, your government may be democratic and benevolent at present, but what would stop an authoritarian President from using troves of already collected data to purge the country of its "dissidents"? It's not a far-fetched concept - Why do the UK fire and rescue authorities need access to the browsing history of citizens [1]? It will be all too easy for a government with all kinds of data on its citizens to establish a "citizen value" score [2] and optimize access to healthcare and other services based on it. Just the possibility of such a dystopian future should be a cause for concern on our willingness to exchange privacy for convenience.

[1] - http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/big-brother-watching-you-every-orga...

[2] - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-surveilla...
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He seems to be implying that, post surgery, he had a preexisting condition that would prevent further insuring for the rest of his life. The heart surgery itself was (presumably) covered, but after that he was on his own.
Virtually all economic growth comes from small businesses and startups. If we're "optimizing for overall economic productivity", we should be bending over backwards as a society to make it as easy as possible to start businesses! The existing employer-provided model strongly discriminates against small businesses and startups. Providing insurance to employees is both a cost and a bureaucratic overhead. Big corporations have much more negotiating power and can get better prices than small businesses. They have much more staff and can afford dedicated HR staff to deal with insurance.

Moreover, in the case of expensive or catastrophic coverage, society is picking up those costs anyway (or alternately, just letting people die). Your premiums then go to cover the costs of people who wound up declaring bankruptcy. And no insurance (or bad insurance) cuts into preventative care that can detect problems early, when they're much cheaper to treat.

I support the ACA (or better yet, much more socialized models) because I want to optimize for overall economic productivity.
"Pro Business" means, "Pro-me" which means, "Pro to the businesses that bribe^H^H^H^H^Hlobby me.
One of the largest and seemingly most unnoticed changes recently has been the consolidation of local hospitals into regional monopolies. It was already difficult to compare pricing in healthcare, now imagine when there are no other choices in your area.
I'm in the US; if you're going to stay in India, my advice may be less helpful.

But I would say that you're in an environment where everyone cares greatly about credentials, because that's all anyone has so far. Once you graduate and have worked for a few years, people don't care so much about the credential. It may matter some, but it matters more that you can actually do things.

So you need to get a credential that is good enough to get you a job. But it matters more that you actually know what you're talking about, rather than just being able to repeat what the professor said. You need to understand, not just memorize. You need to be able to write software that actually helps people do things, not just classroom exercises. If you can, then you will surpass many who have better credentials than you. It may take a few years, but you will pass them.
The ACA allowed adult children to stay on their parents insurance until age 26. Without this provision, Zach would have been kicked off his parents health plan and been uninsured at 18. He probably wouldn't have even been able to afford the heart surgery in the first place.
I love projects like this. I wish I had the desire to just do something cool, whether or not its useful or utilitarian. Accomplishment strictly for the sake of accomplishment is pretty admirable.
Also who made the decision that a quantum computer has to be faster, or better or even solve harder problems?
> In the new design, permission prompts stay up even when you interact with the page.

I think this is going to be a nice improvement. It was way to easy to "loose" the permissions dialog in the older flow.
No, it would not work. Neither fMRI or "bulk EEG data" (whatever that is) reproduces brain activity patterns for even the most basic ideation, I have no idea why you would think they do. This is fantasy.
Would be awesome if I could use the Switch to also stream my PS4 and my Steam games to it. Don't it will, but that'd be cool.
I was ok with Trump winning and the random element is why. I wasn't really behind Trump, but I wasn't behind Hillary either.

I just think atleast Trump has a chance to do something different, Hillary wouldn't have.
I think it's less that they're charging "too much" money, and more that costs are too high (which can be true for plenty of reasons other than profit).

I believe that single payer systems can bring prices lower with more efficiency, but there are plenty of things that can be done that are less controversial (combating waste, increasing administrative efficiencies, etc).

One personal example from my life that put health care costs into perspective was surrounding the issue of Midwives vs. OB/GYNs when we were having our first child. We were approved by our insurance to have an OB/GYN deliver our child, which would cost the insurance company about $5,000 if everything went well (more if there were complications). But they wouldn't cover us at all if we delivered the child with a midwife, which cost about $1,500 and has been shown in study after study to reduce the likelihood of more costly intervention.

In our case, we paid the midwife out of pocket, but there are so many people that don't have the economic freedom to make that choice and the result is that their insurance companies pay far more money for child births than they would have otherwise had to.

Again, just one example, but I'm sure there are thousands more.
I am a Republican. More in fact, Fiscal Constitutional conservative.

Now that thats out of the way.

I hate the ACA. Its overreach by what the government should be doing. No where in the constitution does it say the government is allowed to force law abiding citizens to do something. ACA does exactly that. It forces people to do things against their will. Or they will be forced to pay a fine. Alright, don't down vote me just yet.

Lets repeal the ACA. But I certainly see things that should be quickly made into law.

* Preexisting conditions cannot be denied and should be slightly elevated costs compared to the average user.

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

* 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.

* 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.

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

* I am business friendly, but these are common sense laws.

I think EVERY Republican can get behind these thoughts as every other Democrat, but forcing me to pay for it, when I just want to live off the land in some small town somewhere. Complete overreach and strictly unconstitutional.
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Something to ponder for a future generation: How important really is our physical being? Reproduction, social interaction and sustenance are transitioning from physical necessity, to augmentation, toward replacement. We talk of AI as replacing humanity, but it could be they are inexorably merging and will evolve along their own path that really belongs to them. One would have expected the neanderthal to have experienced existential stress about the emergence sapiens. It may be that in evolutionary terms, bipedal man's time may very slowly be nearing an end.
Take a look at the longer chart.

https://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet

It's up to a historic rate of growth that has been typical since the early 90s.
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Something just seems wrong about a lot of these stories citing the provision that they're allowed to remain on their parents insurance until they're 26. Because the story is really, "not having to worry about the high cost of health insurance afforded me the luxury of taking more financial and career risks." Surely we can do better for people who are older than 26 or who don't have the option of getting insurance through their parents. If we wanted to give everyone this kind of benefit we would just have universal healthcare with the state acting as everyone's 'parent'.

The counterpoint is course you're able to take more risks when you have fewer life-dependent expenses, so we should just pay for everyone's utilities, food, and housing too. You might even throw expenses for dependents in there too for older folks. What's special about healthcare except that it's expensive?
Google Maps works offline. You can select a zone in a map and download it. Although it's not perfect and has quirks like not being able to plan a walking route offline.
My comments are systemically removed from hacker news because they are critical or the government.
It's an unwarranted assumption any Republican plan will deliver health care to very sick people. Except perhaps enough of a sham to get the legislation passed in the glare of the media.
Several regimes changed to democracy? Is that so? And how are they doing?

And don't forget dropping bombs everywhere. Including weddings and hospitals where Obama achieved first world occurrence of a Nobel peace prize winner bombing another.
just curious, what % is $300/average salary in Bolivia?

PS health cost is US are not just stupid expensive, it is broad day light extortion. the victims for some reason prefer not to see it as robbery, but rather to argue about qualities of their robbers. charging $600 to empty the urine bag is possible only because the whole hospital system is rigged (i.e. excessively regulated and monopolized).