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I am opposed to the mandate because it requires me to purchase something from a private party just because I am alive.

If you want everyone to pay something, we (as you pointed out) have something for that, it's called taxes. And that's what pays for your other "insurance" examples. (And don't bring up auto insurance. I don't have to have it, I can choose to not own a car.)

But by involving private companies you have creates perverse incentives that I have no sway or visibility into.

If we want to socialize health care then lets do that, but lets not introduce a private party middle man that not only disconnects the payer from the consumer but has a government mandated client base of the whole US.

I am opposed to it because it is a horrible individual rights breaking precedent.
> I'm glad I'm unemployed so I have time to configure it! - my mate Steve

> You should go outside one of these days. - Mother

These quotes are great.
You're friend's story does not make any sense. New York screwed up its individual health insurance market a long time ago, via 'community rating'.

Here is a nice summary:
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/wsj-nyc-insurance-market/20...

There is no way he had any kind of health plan for $175/month, not in New York pre-ACA.
My computer doesn't perfectly replace reality either, it must be a fad.
> I had childhood cancer and at the time it'd have costs millions without insurance.

This is the entire theoretical reason for insurance: to spread costs out across a large group, so that by having everyone pay a little nobody has to pay a lot.

It's also why the logic of modern healthcare makes single-payer systems the ones that work the best; they spread the costs across the widest possible "risk pool." And why the ACA had to include a (deeply unpopular) mandate that everybody buy some form of health insurance -- as long as your system is based on private insurance, such a mandate is the only way to get the young and healthy into that pool.

> It may actually be reasonable that budgeting $5k/person/year for healthcare is sane in terms of both risk and what you get, but just far more than people are used to thinking about or seems intuitively reasonable.

Remember that most Americans' income has been stagnant in real terms for nearly 40 years now, while health care costs have done nothing but increase and seem set to keep on doing so. So, barring some major change in how the economy works, whatever figure you set for "a reasonable amount to save for health care" is only going to seem less and less reasonable as it grows to consume a greater and greater share of those stagnant incomes.

In other words, if peoples' wages increased by $5K a year at the same time as they were expected to bear $5K a year of health care costs, it'd feel a lot less painful than just expecting them to pull that $5K out of the couch cushions.
They were inside the headset, lining the lens, such that you couldn't tell between a normal Vive and an eye-tracking Vive unless you cracked it open.
> they clearly never had to use HMDs with 20 degree FOV and 320 x 240 resolutions...

Being better than what they had in the 90's doesn't mean it's good. It's still too low - like trying to view 4k content on a 720p display.

> The key, though, was to stop focusing on the issue - which some people couldn't.

Or the low resolution is thrown in your face. For example, attempting to view a virtual poster on a somewhat distant virtual wall. It's large enough that you should be able to read it, but the resolution is so low you can't.

Nothing pops you out of that immersion faster than having the fact you're looking at low resolution display thrown in your face.
> "most of it is illegally shared software/entertainment"

I prefer to think of it as "conveniently shared". Here in Australia we have a problem with lack of convenience around legal avenues of digital entertainment, so there's not exactly an equivalent legal alternative to something as easy as downloading. It's a fragmented mess of services if you choose to play by the rules.

Regional restrictions, lock-in contracts, and free-to-air "rights" to particular programs exclusively means every platform plays a tug-of-war with viewers, trying to get their subscription dollar or eyeballs on advertising.

People will find the path of least resistance when the commercial interests around them close in with deals and promotions and hype we can't possible keep up with or remain in tune with. So we turn to the internet.

Not everyone is "illegal" all the time. I buy blu-rays of shows I really liked that I previously downloaded. Exposure to content otherwise never discovered has a value we are not seeing factored in to these arguments.
Not in Japan, because of IP rights issues. Not all regions are cacheable.
It's called taxes you pay, assuming your a fellow European. I pay 33% of my income to Healthcare so these rates you Americans say you pay are really small, you're just spoiled :)
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VR Porn will totally destroy all social norms and sexual IRL practices.

It's WAY too damn real, especially if you mix it with a real partner.
Considering every single TV spot is selling us things to make us Fat or die sooner, I would not want to take the otherside of the bet against people getting sick.

Americans, we are all about freedom. Freedom to kill ourselves and eat twinkies. But we expect help when we are sick.

One side or the other has to budge a little. Do we give up being able to get the same insurance despite unhealthy habbits? Do we give up helping the poor and the sick?
Sublime is great for hacking your way through a CSV file very quickly.

I write in Sublime at least 20% of my formulas and then paste it into Tableau and Talend. Easier (even without autocompletion) than working in a small window/pane than I usually have inside that tools, plus I use a new line for every change, so I can see what I had before (there is no version control for Business Intelligence).
The most compelling suggestion I've heard (and heard people who know more than me parrot, mostly from Guns, Germs and Steel) is that EurAfricAsians had domesticated and were living closely with animals of varied backgrounds, where the Americas had very few animals suitable for domestication. The close proximity to other species allowed diseases to pass back and forth; those diseases became endemic in the population, leading to higher rates of immunity to the diseases. I've even seen it argued that overall European/Asian/African immune systems were stronger overall due to exposure to these diseases.

Additionally, the long east-west band of temperate climates across Europe, Asia, and Africa accommodated trade and travel, where the varied north/south orientation of North and South America (especially the relatively impassable central isthmus) impeded trade. This allowed crops, animals, and diseases to all spread quickly in one and poorly in the other, exposing entire populations to diseases much earlier.

Let's not forget that Europe, Asia, and Africa have all had major die-offs in history when new diseases were introduced. They just all got introduced to the Americas at once.
You should try Beat Boxer. Its a rhythm based exercise game for the Vive and Oculus and will really get you sweating.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/546650/

Full disclaimer: I am one of the developers.
Fair point. Haven't look at it from this angle. Thank you.
I rescind my gripes about my $1300/month for a family of 3 on an unsubsidized marketplace plan.
Like in Python, you're free to call your libc's exported symbols directly.

IMO it's a good thing rust doesn't support open()/read()/write()/close() directly and doesn't document it alongside the higher level abstractions.
Lily shuts down
When can I get my hands on it? And is it only for prediction, or also for training?
Study finds association between eating hot peppers and decreased mortality
Sure, but I think the size of a research team's budget/grant allocation is a good proxy for how "valuable" that research team is. Also, just because you and I are paid salaries doesn't make us commodities, but it does give info on our worth to our organization's/context in the overall economy.

Someone had to evaluate this deal, and I'm interested in understanding the process behind valuing something so far-removed from any commercial product or market.
4chan's /g/ tells you how to build it: https://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/S58469437#p584....
Interesting. I've got a 4k setup with a GTX 1080 at home right now. I'm sort of debating about a Vive or another 1080 when I've got some extra cash to blow.

The Vive seems harder to rationalize because it seems like a really expensive toy with only a few crappy games for it. Am I wrong about this? Is the VR really worth it? I keep reading awful things about the resolution and about motion sickness issues - I care very much about those things.

I'd have an easier time with it if the resolution was doubled and it was closer to a $500 price point. But as is it just seems crazy to pay that much to have a way lower resolution screen than my current monitor strapped an inch from my eyes.
That's what I'm saying. I wouldn't call this art, and it certainly has no point, at least not a utilitarian one. You wouldn't make money, and it probably wouldn't even be that fun to play. It's just cool.

It's mastery. Doing something because it's a challenge you find interesting, not because there's something external to be gained. It's pretty zen, really.
As slow as growth has become in the graphics card and general computing industry, getting to the point where we can do 120hz at 8k per eye is a lot further than 10 years off. It will require a significant change in how (where?) we're generating graphics, not just better hardware.
I have a 2m x 2m area in the basement I use. I wish I had a little more space but it works well most of the time. The low ceiling is the problem - your brain is so convinced that there is sky or a high ceiling above you that you try to throw something over your head and smash the controller into the ceiling. I have marks on the walls and drywall dust embedded in my controllers. The chaperone boundaries can't do anything to warn you about that and those mistakes happen too quickly anyway.
All the information in this article is fucking terrifying. Ex:

> High on O’Neill’s recommendations for the FDA has been his call to permit companies to market new drugs without first proving that they work. Srinivasan, for his part, has claimed the FDA creates “catastrophes” to increase its funding and that drug development takes too long.
I launched my OSS project Plsm (formerly Plasm)[0] and have 27 stars and 14 hex downloads. It is the most successful (in terms of stars and usage) project I've worked on. Show HN helped that as well as /r/elixir

[0]https://github.com/jhartwell/Plsm
One problem on top of the getting it passed part..

Many doctors don't take Medicare. Over a situation where say there are 3 doctors for a specialty in a town... the two better ones do not take it, and the new less good one will take it. So if that flat answer is let everyone take medicare, I think there are some serious quality of care problems.

(I have no better solution though, every angle seems bad).
I always find committing to LLVM very nerve wrecking, because of the post-commit CI testing. LLVM has so many architectures that more often than not something I write will fail on one of them. And the only way for me to find out is to commit it, wait for the buildbot to fail (which can take a few hours, during which I really can't leave my computer lest I leave trunk broken on some buildbot, which is a big faux pas), revert it and then figure out what went wrong. I'm hoping that at some point this will be improved, such that I can run the whole buildbot army on my commit before putting it on trunk.
Idk dude, VR headsets have already sold to millions of consumers and new applications pop up by the day. Not only that, but unlike most of the technologies you mentioned, VR has massive backing already from some of the most powerful companies in tech.

It has billions in investment already, FB is putting hundreds of millions into Oculus and funding applications/games. HTC has basically pivoted their entire company to the Vive.

This isn't going away, VR/AR is going to replace current keyboard/mouse/screen interfaces, because why wouldn't it? The aforementioned are even further from replicating what I am trying to do on a computer. Why do I have to move a mouse in two dimensions or tap on a flat display to interact with many concepts much easier to work with in 3D?
If you're spending the money on the business, how can they count it as income? Shouldn't only your salary count as income? (which may very well be 0)
But transportation taxes also require you to purchase something from a private party. You just hand your money to the government, who does the purchasing for you.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a strong believer in single payer health care (I'm from Sweden), but in the absence of that, whether you pay the money in taxes or directly to a private end party doesn't seem that different to me. (And the US Supreme Court apparently agrees, since the mandate was upheld as constitutional.)
I just said this a few days ago on another topic, but it bears repeating here -- people are thinking too narrowly. Replacing Input X for Input Y or Output X for Output Y are not seeing the big picture. Inputs and Outputs are now a multitude. We are entering the era of many-to-many for I/O.

The companies that succeed are not going be the software dudes who make their apps work for web, phones and VR (that will be a requirement, not a killer feature). No, the success stories will be those who build the glue to let everyone else easily make "all the things" work for all the inputs and all the outputs.
Some states have tried, including Colorado in the most recent election via ballot measure, but the plans have been resoundingly defeated at the ballot. I doubt even Massachusetts's current health system would pass a vote if it were on the ballot today. I suppose that could change depending on how badly the republicans muck things up.
Yes, tax rates are arbitrary so not qualifying for an exemption is mathematically equivalent to being fined. It's just presented in the reverse.

You are being fined for not paying mortgage interest. You are being fined for each kid you don't have. Buy your house and have your kids or you will continue paying more in taxes!
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> an extremely highly skilled worker for which there is no local supply

People keep saying this. Where is that documented?
The problem is that we mandate that hospitals treat the indigent.

Without a mandate for everyone to carry insurance, we have one industry footing the bill for what should really be paid by the government.

Instead, the indigent have insurance (in theory), and they can get healthcare other than at the emergency room, hopefully at lower cost.

The alternative is to end the mandate for hospitals to treat everyone.
It's kind of like having everything maximized, but more flexibly. For example:

* You can have two editor windows "maximized" into two halves of your screen, letting you compare things side-by side

* Expanding on the above, my typical development workflow on my laptop is to dedicate one half to an editor window, then split the other half, with the top for git (I use Emacs w/ Magit) and the bottom for a terminal window (usually for actually running my project). I'll then add editor windows to the left half and terminal windows to the bottom-right as needed. All windows are maximized into their little compartments.

* Your "maximize everything" workflow is actually the default in StumpWM (which doesn't split windows unless you tell it to split windows), and is how I typically work when I don't need to be viewing multiple things at once.
If diversity is important, should we not be spending more time encouraging boys to look at these fields?
Maciej has a great post about his visit to McMurdo: http://idlewords.com/2016/05/shuffleboard_at_mcmurdo.htm
The name can still carry terrifying connotations given the history of the area, regardless of its origin. And of course in this case the practice of lynching was named for one of the founder's relatives.

I happened to see your comment almost directly after reading the submission "The Sound of Silence", as they sat as siblings on the front page, and it seemed oddly appropriate. A benign bit of narrative prose somehow distracted a reader enough to make outrage their primary response.
??? Header files is the problem, not the solution.
> "VR doesn't even replicate reality"

if you meant to use "doesn't"- then you're only proving OPs point. VR is a matter of when, not if.

if you meant to use "can't"- well- that seems a little short sighted for something that is so obviously in the realm of physical possibility.
4: Many people have reported that slowly conditioning themselves to be resistant to motion sickness inside VR has also helped them become more resistant to motion sickness outside of VR. As in, some VR users are saying "I can read in the car for the first time!"

I emphasize slowly because trying to muscle through motion sickness has the opposite effect and can even lead to giving yourself an aversion to VR that resembles having an aversion to tequila after a "bad tequila night". Some people who have done this to themselves get sick from just the smell of a headset.
> I take full responsibility for everything I said, but I hope I don't need to take responsibility for other people's posts.

I would never ask you to do so! Thanks for clarifying.
All I can picture here is two clunky headsets colliding in awkward fashion.

There was an episode of Black Mirror that dealt with this though, using AR contact lenses instead.
This is the reasoning.

It's enormously exacerbated for female founders with young children. And God forbid you be pregnant or planning to have more.
If this is your first year looking at Exchange plans it's worth doing a spreadsheet with some auto-calculating fields based on guesstimates of your number of primary care and specialist visits per year.

One thing that I discovered when I did that my first year was that the big difference between some of the Gold plans and the Silver plans was pretty much only in the minimum amount I'd be paying per month as premiums - the maximum out of pocket was pretty much the same and there wasn't that much variation in my "expected" out of pocket - I was just paying it as higher copays IF we did go to the doctor or as a higher premium regardless of whether we went to the doctor.

Something to watch out for is "coinsurance after deductible" aka "you get bupkis until you've used a lot of care." With school-age kids and probably a minimum of one checkup/physical per year per child plus vaccinations, etc. you might be better off looking for a plan with copays even if the premium is a bit higher. It's also worth looking at the emergency coverage, there can be some variation in there.

Oh, and check the provider network - BCBSIL at least has different provider network levels, so if you see seemingly-similar plans from the same carrier with a significant price difference it may mean that most providers or hospitals are going to be out-of-network which means you pay more.

Good luck
Am I the only one who's more excited by mixed reality such as Hololens?

I can't imagine VR being as omnipresent in our daily lives in its current state. Oculus or Vive implies you are shutting yourself from the outside world. You cannot interact. You cannot go out, talk with others etc. It's easy however to imaging how Hololens can enhance existing reality and how anyone (even my grandmother) could use it for their daily lives.
I don't think the issue is purely semantic. The government provides a financial incentive to buy houses. I can decide whether I want to be $x richer and have a mortgage to pay. I can similarly decide if I want to be $y richer and have a health insurance plan.

I don't mean this as a rhetorical question, so I apologize if it comes across as snide, but from the point of view of economics, what is the difference? I'm trying to understand why one kind of tax incentive is objectionable and not the other.
> the majority of people who don't have insurance, they don't pay it

Exactly so. They don't pay it because they can't. And they're ruined. Even people who have insurance -- good insurance -- can be ruined. This system is the ultimate form of price discrimination, perfectly tuned to extract the optimal amount of money from the consumer who has literally no pricing information, and maximize the profits of the business. When insurance companies pay out, it's referred to as "loss".

Markets and the profit motive may be "efficient", but they're not optimizing for health outcomes, and certainly not optimizing for morality. Insurance companies ultimately cannot be part of the equation.
> James Clapper's job is to worry about everything

"And Ye Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Shall Make You Free" is inscribed in the lobby of the CIA, but informally they say "the truth will just make you nervous". :(
Insurance companies don't really make that much money. Neither do hospitals. The median profit margins are between 3-4%. The problem isn't an insurance monopoly.

Pharmaceutical and medical equipment companies are raking in double digit profits. And they can sell wherever they want.
Right, but that doesn't really say anything about causation; there is definitely a linguistic link between the body parts and numerical digits in this word, but that could have easily developed after base ten became common for other reasons.
Or have a public option...
What's the model for building apps, then. Oculus is owned by Facebook. How do you create a game - does it require a paid SDK?
I haven't updated to a Google maps version with this feature, but my current version does give me Uber fare estimation and a link to the app and these are labelled as advertisement, so I really do wonder what Uber is paying for this sort of integration.
How does the VPN work?
Having muscled through VR sickness exactly once back in the DK1 days, I heartily agree with the second half of this statement. In the language of my people, dinnae dae that.

Incidentally, if you're thinking of becoming a VR dev, that's one thing to bear in mind. You will, by definition, spend a lot of time in an unoptimised and buggy VR environment that sometimes has really interesting things go wrong.

Feeling queasy and having to take a lie-down occasionally very much comes with the territory. Ask me about the dodgy fog shader that had flipped its eye outputs some time...
Absolutely agree with the parent comment.

That said, you can look at stuff like the HN who's hiring trends, or StackOverflow trends:

http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2016/...

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016

Personally I'd invest in mastering React, but YMMV.
I always thought that the mitigating factor here would be that you don't have to take big loping leaps, you can also accomplish a fairly earth-like gait, just with fewer steps.

I could also see another way of using it that is similar to the teleport mechanic where you clear an area, make a big jump, and when you land you clear that next area before taking another jump. But it would be an interesting thing, almost like a angry birds pulling the slingshot back thing, where the accuracy of the jump is also put to the test.