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I don't see it as very surprising that your mother and her sister look like they belong to different races. That's how genetics works in case of individuals; siblings can get different sets of dominant and recessive alleles from their parents.

In terms of population, things then average out. There are indeed parts of the world where things are very blurred because of extensive human interaction across populations. If every place in word were like that, then there indeed wouldn't be what we call races. But most of the world is not quite like that, and particularly, in the course of history it hasn't been.
There are no high deductible ACA plans. So, no it's not 1:1. The cheapest option is a 60% coverage plan with a $7,150 annual limit for out of pocket costs. http://obamacarefacts.com/out-of-pocket-maximums-and-deducti...

The ACA lowered the costs of people with insurance by reducing the pool of people without insurance adn thus the free rider costs. Free markets however continued to raise prices just like they have for the last 30 years. http://www.motherjones.com/files/blog_premium_growth_2014.jp...
Well yeah, that's the implicit default assumption in the current hardware climate. :)
It's an improvement over the status quo but it still has health care costs increasing faster than the rate of inflation. Which is pretty easy to characterize as health care getting less affordable, even though it is likely an improvement.
Sry... I'm new to CO. Your'e right... Amendment 69 failed (72% against or something?!?! who knows... I voted in favor).

The correct name is "Health First Colorado". I signed up the day I was hurt, they backdated the signup to the month prior. It took less than 15 minutes to become covered.

I've been working for 20+ years, with spats of insured or not-insured throughout... mostly uninsured. After I left my SF gig, I gave up my insurance & didn't get any more since I'd already had 6 months for the year.

By the end of December, I needed it.

Edit - link: https://www.colorado.gov/hcpf/colorado-medicaid
How did you just read a long list of young entrepreneurs who were enabled and encouraged to start businesses because of having their healthcare covered, and you're still writing dumb shit like "GET A JOB!!"?
Generally every publicly traded company except Sun had me specifically agree to not trade in any options (of any kind) on the company's stock. There are also complications in the way in which trading windows work, although I expect you could argue writing a call was equivalent to a 41-b disclosure in terms of market visibility.
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There is no evidence because government did not raise the price - the insurance companies did, all while raking in record profits.

Premiums in states which refused federal money to expand Medicaid generally rose much, much more than states (like CA) which did not[1].

Cynically, this was likely a designed play by Republicans to kneecap the effectiveness of the ACA by skewing the risk pool towards the elderly (who require more medical care, in general).

[1] https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/health-insurance-indust...
In addition to being a really succinct and well-written summary of how KCI attacks work and a good motivator for reading on modern AKE constructions like SIGMA work, this is also kind of the best possible Github bug report; in particular, I'm stealing this:

Is this an accurate representation of the handshake? If so, keep reading. If not, you may safely stop reading here, close the issue, and accept my apologies for the misunderstanding.
When I read that sentence, I assumed that the author meant that the computed hash for an input must be deterministic.

But she doubles-down on the uniqueness claim later:

Each hash is unique but always repeatable
The word 'cat' will hash to something that no other word hashes too, but it will always hash to the same thing.

This is such a large misunderstanding of hashing (as well as being obviously impossible) that it is hard to trust the rest of the article.
With all the things GFW does I wonder if they have some secret conferences or industry journals related to the firewall's algorithms and infrastructure.
The long term inflation rate of the US is much lower than that as a whole. That's the point. Inflation in health care exceeds inflation in the US as a whole.

That is the core issue. That was not solved by the ACA. How do we solve it? Ideas? Oh yeah, you know what? Let's argue about Obama and Trump instead. That will surely work. Look at the comments in this thread.

If I asked you how to solve a sorting problem, I'd have a dozen good solutions presented. If I ask how to solve a healthcare cost problem that many other countries don't seem to have, everyone's brain switches off and they go into arguing about politics.
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Why wouldn't you just use c++ then? Almost all c++ is valid C, no?
The biggest cost driver is complexity, not profiteering.

The Japanese system is not terribly different from ours - it still depends on private employer-provided health insurance. But per capita costs are less than half the US cost, with higher utilization and far better outcomes. The key difference is that Japan has strict national-level price controls. The price of identical products and procedures is identical in every facility. This eliminates both complexity and negotiation between insurance and providers. A government board carefully tracks costs for profiteering and makes adjustments.

Do that, and you get rid of the whole "in network/out of network" nonsense of the American system.
From the advisory:

When Ansible
runs on a host, a JSON object with Facts is returned to the Controller. The Controller uses these facts for various housekeeping purposes. Some facts have special meaning, like the fact "ansible_python_interpreter" and "ansible_connection".

So while you may normally define it in the inventory, it sounds like, from the advisory, it can also be defined by the host.
> The ACA helped many people. It helped people under 26. It helped people with pre-existing conditions.

And the cost is being borne by everyone else.The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
Mandatory viewing for anybody considering messing with ML + infosec ... https://www.blackhat.com/html/webcast/02192015-secure-becaus...
Except they could say exactly that and none of them do, and over time incidents /can/ be revealed to the public where surveillance was instrumental in stopping terror/hunting down terrorists/preventing attacks but it never has been. Their crowning achievement was locking up a taxi driver who gave to a Muslim charity overseas that spent some of its money on terror.

Don't you think the surveillance boosters would love to provide proof that it actually works while right now all we have is proof of its failures? "Classified" information can be quickly declassified if it helps the public perception of intelligence agencies; Zero Dark Thirty was a propaganda film built on classified intelligence leaked because it made intelligence agencies look good and glorified torture. Incidentally, the people who leaked information for that film were surprisingly not targets in Obama's war on intelligence leakers.
> I don't think they will throw out the good parts

You are mistaken. The good parts, like covering pre-existing conditions is exactly what causes your insurance to go up. It's basic economics. The Republicans do not have a plan to fix that.

If there was a way to fix it, don't you think it would already be implemented? You think they're purposefully keeping your rates high just to fuck with you? Not to mention suffer all the political fallout of it?

Don't forget. Obamacare is the Republican plan. This repeal and objection to Obamacare is all politics, not an attempt to fix a broken system.
> 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.

The problem with this POV is that young, healthy people end up having no insurance and thus leave the older, unhealthier population to pay all the bills, whereas a full-insured population would distribute the financial load.

Also, it would lead to young, healthy people foregoing insurance in order to save money, and then when catastrophes happen (you're talking about living on the land, so imagine something as harmless as scratching yourself on rusty farm equipment, being bitten by an animal... both can send you to the hospital for weeks!), these people would face financial ruin.

The purpose of mandatory healthcare thus is to protect elderly or otherwise pre-conditioned people from having to pay devastatingly high premiums, and to protect people literally from their own short-sightedness.
Or, as Alan Grayson described the GOP plan:
* don't get sick; otherwise
* die quickly
So your primary complaint is with the price of pharmaceuticals, and perhaps the cost of health care in general in the USA, and not health insurance itself.

If only there was some large body that was able to negotiate reasonable rates for health care on behalf of consumers... it's amazing nobody in the world has figured this out before!
Huh, why wouldn't you talk about young children with investors, esp if they have some themselves?
> I suspect it may have to do with the fact my options vest in about 2~3 weeks.

OK, that's a whole different kettle of fish. You may want to talk to a lawyer before signing, because if you sign, you most likely sign away your right to sue for the options. (On the other hand, you may not have any case for suing for the options anyway. And your expectation value of what you would get from the options, times the probability of winning them, may be lower than the cost of talking to a lawyer for an hour...)
ACA works. But it seems to me that young people just starting out have it so much worse when it comes to healthcare.

Example. Out of college. Got job. Had insurance and didn't think much of it. $2 all RX

Mid '80s had kid. 5 days in hospital (C section) and it cost $500. Insurance was 59 per month. (I making $36k)

Got thrown out of tech into federal job with federal insurance. Excellent coverage. Got $102k prostetic from New york hospital for< $5000 out of pocket.

My life with health insurance was been charmed. I am so glad I dont have to start like these young people.
> What's special about healthcare except that it's expensive?

Great question. Everyone needs food, everyone needs shelter, everyone needs medical care, but this deep passion only exists for the last item.

My opinion is because the system we have today is basically a wealth transfer from the taxpayers to large interest groups (nurses' unions, big pharma, etc).
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I really think the GOP needs to go with evidence based policy analysis. If they think they can come up with a better health care system, fine, but what are the metrics for better? health care costs have gone up way past the amount of inflation, and to some extent that makes sense, because there are new treatments, but it seems like tax breaks are not going to help the working poor to the same extent that the ACA subsidies and medicare expansion do.
My understanding is The "good parts" like keeping kids on till 26, pre-existing condition are the ones that make the insurance more expensive, the requirement to get insurance was supposed to get the insurance pool big enough so that it wasn't a big problem.

So it works as a totality but not in pieces
These are all the same boring thing, if only CSS could hide everything with 'indiehackers' next to it...
There is basically no real cost control in the bill, with the logical consequence being that insurance companies will do what they can get away with to raise premiums so that the new premium rate minus subsidies equals the old premium rate. The extra requirements of the ACA, and the lack of universal roll-out basically ensures that there are plenty of excuses for doing so.
The health system in the US is a total mess. Single payer is the only sane way to go. That too will be imperfect and ragged but it is provenly absurdly cheaper - practically all advanced industrial countries are single payer and all spend far less as a percentage of their GNP - as in half to a third - whilst covering everybody. The admin savings are staggering, the drug costs are lower etc etc.
Well, in April Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is coming out. Enough to keep me busy for months.

You just can't make some people happy, they seem to be in an ever-negative spiral...
>> * 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 think this is something that a lot of small-government conservatives don't want--it's moving responsibilities from the state governments to the federal government.
> But ultimately the only way to significantly cut costs would be to ration care.

As far as I know, Western European countries spend about half (per capita) on health care as what USA spends. I don't know if US health care is that much better. And if it's not, then in theory there is a way to get the same results cheaper.
1) The government forces law abiding citizens to pay taxes, get vaccines, educate their children, etc...

2) Sam Altman agrees with you that it's okay to repeal it as long as we maintain the best parts of it.

> "If Congress ends up repealing it, I hope they earnestly try to preserve the best parts, and put in place something better."

We have to start somewhere. The provision about preexisting conditions, and by extension the ACA, is literally life-saving.
Damn. I saw the title and thought YC was starting a healthcare company. That would have been awesome.
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What is interesting is the really expensive portion of insuring individuals is already essentially single payer. When people age most of them end up on medicare and the majority of health expenses happen in the weeks and months prior to your death.
I'm not sure it is or will work that way, in practice - the more preventative care, less emergency room part, anyway.

The total cost of my health insurance premiums is about 20k/year; some of this is subsidized by my employer. I have a $4500 deductible. The insurance does not pay for anything, outside of preventative care, until I've paid $4500. After that, they contribute 80% up to some number, $7500 I think, and then they contribute 100% until the end of the calendar year.

Because I have such a high deductible, and due to the opacity of medical billing, I am not going to the doctor unless I'm pretty sure that not going to the doctor means I'm going to be put out of work or going to die. "Preventative" care is defined very strictly: you get a physical. For example, "preventing" the development of pneumonia by treating your respiratory illness early does not count as preventative care.

The best I can do is squirrel away what I can in my HSA...but that's one health catastrophe from being blown away. God forbid I come down with any kind of chronic illness that lasts longer than the calendar year.

That said, for the poor population, this is definitely true - Medicaid is a dream compared to private insurance. At least in my state, if you're on Medicaid, you don't even see medical bills. It's really lamentable the states were allowed to turn down the Medicaid expansion - the expansion of public health insurance was the best part of the ACA, in my opinion, and the most regrettable part of the bill is that the public option is not available to everyone.
> They are for free market radicalism. It can hardly be considered "conservative" but it is certainly for something.

Neither party is really in favor of free markets in any meaningful sense. The GOP happens to use that rhetoric more than the Democrats do in order to gain support for their policies, but knowing how to leverage the rhetoric doesn't mean that's what they actually support, if you look at their actions.
Fair question... I don't think I asked myself that at the time. But it definitely occurred.

How? Belligerence... naturally.
> And both are in a race to become the world’s first Universal Map — that is, the first map used by a majority of the global population. In many ways, this makes Google Maps and Apple Maps two of the most important maps ever made.

> Who will get there first?

Isn't it pretty clear that Android is well ahead in global market share? I mean, Apple isn't even trying to become the market leader, they are solely focused on the premium segment.
> Health care is not becoming more affordable. The rate of inflation in health care is significantly higher than the US inflation rate.

I think healthcare has become a jobs project. As manufacturing employment decreased, many found replacement jobs in an ever-expanding health care industry.

There is no incentive for anyone to get medical costs under control. The health care delivery system has every incentive to use the "blank checks" offered by the insurance industry. The insurance industry makes a certain percentage off whatever they pay out in claims, so their incentive is to pay as much as possible.

Patients want to feel better, and aren't in a position to evaluate whether the recommended treatments are actually their best option.

> But point this out, and everyone starts their partisan bickering and nothing gets done at all.

In the early days of medicare the government's costs quickly got out of control. The first reform was to figure out what a procedure should actually cost. It's been "trench warfare" between doctors and payers ever since.

I have some anecdotes from my passengers and friends that would hopefully sidestep the bickering to point out that the status quo is quite harmful to the health industry's customers...

Iatrogenic conditions are exceedingly common. These are conditions caused (or worsened) by the treatment provided.

For example, hospitalists (doctors who manage patients' care in a hospital) are starting to look at old patients' pile of prescriptions to figure out which ones are actually necessary [1].

[1] When less is more: De-prescribing medications - http://www.acphospitalist.org/archives/2016/05/deprescribing...
Great article. I have a Carbon/Powerplant app that I stopped developing that I would live to get it working again. Perhaps this will help.
So let say you use code with many dependencies, but you want to make a small change in one of the dependencies. In other languages you would then just compile and be done with it, but now with golang you now need to also modify potentially hundreds of places unless you resort to somehow cheat golang.

As I said, being opinionated is great if the opinion matches yours otherwise you might end up fighting it on every step.
> or you can hit by a bus if you want

Given that cars are obliged to have insurance, said insurance will pay for victims' healthcare costs. In Germany, there is a special state fund to pay for the rare case of an uninsured vehicle being involved in an accident.
If anyone is wondering, the lasers aren't an essential element of what's going on here; the point is that targeted electrical stimulation to a certain area of the brain causes this behaviour. With areas on the brain surface, you could just use a wire for this.

For areas deeper in the brain, however, you can't exactly feed a wire in there without destroying things, so instead, you use optogenetics: you get a virus to be the "end" of the wire (finding the right area of the brain to live in, and then converting light pulses into electrical pulses) and then you point a laser at the brain and the viruses "go off" in response. The virus is essentially just serving as one half of an electrical optoisolator.

As an added benefit for the optogenetic approach, the electrical pulses released by the viruses are each local to their host cells, so they won't have nearly as much "bleed-over" into surrounding tissue as you'd see with one strong pulse from a wire.
"I found this source code confusingly written (and downright scary at times) and the specification woefully underspecified and inexplicit"

People, please stay away from Tox.
Chiming in to say that we wouldn't have been able to start our last company or this most recent one without the ACA. One of these YC stories had a founder who was rejected because they had a sleep study done. Most people have never interacted with the individual insurance market, and so don't realize that virtually any interaction with the health care system beyond a strep throat test would, prior to the ACA, get you declined automatically: you were uninsurable at any price. That's what happened to us; for instance: my daughter had an unexplained seizure when she was 4 (she's a healthy 15 year old now), and was thus declined.
what's so breakthrough about this? scientific community have already demonstrated the ability to map brain wave patterns to thoughts, or specific words.
As usual, mindless assertions that we're all going to die of climate change get plugged; the contrary view gets down-voted because it's not the current orthodoxy. Beautifully stalinist: we have always been at war with EastAsia.
OT: What are these sub brands from Medium like Backchannel and Hackernoon? Are there more sub brands/communities and why did Medium create them?
>Those price increases are not from the ACA, they're the result of Medicare Part D, which took effect in 2006.

Oh good, let's see you present to me evidence that the inflation rate of health care in the US is below that of the inflation rate of the country as a whole. Can you do that? Because that's my point.

Health care is not affordable. Hospitals are charging tens of thousands of dollars for treatments that cost a couple hundred dollars 2 hours away across the border.

http://archive.azcentral.com/business/articles/20120831scorp...

That's fraudulent. Put those people in jail.
> One thing the ACA definitely did was help a lot of founders start their companies--without it, being a founder would make sense for less people

Hmm. I've heard many small companies could not afford to provide health insurance for their employees after ACA passed ( I don't know the details of exactly the causal chain there ). So they stop providing it and pushed people to use ACA which had ridiculous price hikes and also in some states companies withdrawing from the exchanges.

In other cases I've heard companies have pushed people part time status in order to avoid having to provide health insurance and other benefits. I think that is mostly lower wage employment.

My own rates working for a small company a few years before the ACA and after went up much high even before ACA was about to pass in anticipation. There the insurance representative who we talk to every year stated clearly why there is an increase -- because of the volatility and unknown effects of ACA they decided to increase prices. After it passed and was being phased in our rates were going up much high.

Some things were nicer, like no pre-existing conditions, no lifetime maximum, some free preventative checks overall it has been worse.

Now, no doubt it has helped many people, but I am not sure if small businesses and their employees (especially in the tech sector) saw a benefit.
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Do you think it's okay to wait for a replacement after repeal, or come up with changes / replacement before repealing?
I'm not aware of any elections where you can "vote against" a candidate.
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