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How strange to see this atop Hacker News! I used to live in the nearby city and have been to these caves many times since being shown them around 2014 (I'm not sure why they're saying it was sealed up - it has been perfectly accessible via the 'rabbit hole' in the picture since that time at least, if you didn't mind a few spiders!).

I would conjecture that very few locals know about it - it really isn't something you'd find unless you knew what you were looking for and the few conversations I have had about it with people in the surrounding towns and villages frequently yield blank looks; the creation of a Wikipedia page for the caves only yesterday [1] also supports this hypothesis. That said, the inside is littered with cigarette butts and tea lights, so I am far from alone in knowing of its existence.

As for its purpose, I've always assumed it was some priest hole [2] variant, but have no evidence to support that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caynton_Caves&act...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest_hole
From what I have seen, the CIA is full of technical illiterates, and if that extends to this division then most of them are mediocre at best. There are probably a few decent hackers among them, but the majority probably don't have a clue. It is another government agency. The CIA is not about tech, they are more about OPS.
I hear everything you are saying. And yet..with every passing day..any illusion that I may have that human beings are 'special' fades just a bit...

Having said that, I still cannot see the justifications for having children. If we can have a carbon tax for vehicles, then surely there ought to be a child tax?

Maybe there is a way to earn child credits? And they can be traded like stocks.

Example: if I earn enough child credits through responsible green living, social contributions etc(whatever the criteria may be) I can either use the credit to have my own offsprings or buy more credits to have more children or trade it with someone who can buy my credits(with a premium when bought. Example: anyone who wants to buy child credits need to pay 1.5x or double what it took for me to monetize it. This is not a free market)

Child credits can vary in value from place to place. Example: if the air quality is really lousy in a city, you would need more child credits to have and raise a child there than in a city where air is cleaner. It could be any other index.

Maybe not here in on earth..but if we find another habitable planet, would it make sense to regulate population if we are going to start from scratch there?
I wouldn't mind paying more taxes in order to provide others with something I consider a human right.

Under single-payer, CA employers will no longer need to provide insurance for their employees. That money could in some way pay for this. It also makes the idea of a 'gig economy' much more palatable, since people working in short-term / part-time situations will no longer have to go without employer-provided insurance. It could be a source of further economic growth since that makes CA a much more friendly place to start a business.

More centralized healthcare systems also have two arguments for driving down cost - one being that such a system is more effective at promoting timely / preventative care (which is a lot cheaper than emergency care). The second is that such a system can negotiate prices with providers more effectively, and invest in long-term projects to reduce the cost of care, driving down the cost of healthcare overall.
Say you have a single section of your code that's very compute intensive. If it's part of a larger monolith then you would spin up multiple instances of the entire monolith to keep up with traffic. To take a concrete example, say you have an app that does login, some social stuff, some billing, pulling from an external API and finally your special sauce - rendering a PDF of what your user has created. The last step is a bottle neck but none of the others are. You could increase the number of instances of renderers and your entire system would chug along.

You've asked the right question though. Is independent scaling "necessarily" better? No, it's a trade-off.

* To get this feature you've sacrificed the simplicity of having a single codebase leading to a single binary that can be deployed with ease.

* You've added extra components within your system like load balancers.

* What would earlier have been a function call is now RPC with network and serialisation overhead.

* Your system might be a little more difficult to debug unless you collect logs in one place and it's possible to follow a single user across multiple components.

* It's possible for your system to fail in ways that weren't possible before. For instance there might be a network issue between two specific nodes and it's hard to figure that out unless you have proper monitoring in place.

Of course there are advantages other than failure isolation and independent scaling but I haven't gone into those.
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I don't think California will negotiate prices down by 50%, and I would bet on that (conditional on this bill passing). Anyone - old-gregg? - want to take that bet at even odds? I suggest using the total cost of one each from the list of medical services in old-gregg's second footnote - angiogram, office visit, angioplasty, etc. I'm also open to other terms.

(Studies show[0] that people answer politically-charged questions more accurately when paid for accuracy, so I think we'd have better debates if people bet on their predictions.)

[0] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/06/17/political-vi...
A 501c6 like the LF has to accept any member at a membership level so long as they comply with the Bylaws and policies. There are antitrust issues if they selectively blocked someone.

Also, consider that the LF may now be helping VMware with their compliance issues. They have many programs to help companies build compliance processes and tooling - is the author suggesting VMware can never right its wrongs? Would we say the same thing about Intel who wasn't that great in its initial Linux journey? Just turn them away for trying to get better?
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Completely agree. The trick is making sure it's well-executed so that other states can use it as a template. Once one state proves that single-payer can be done well, I suspect it will cascade inevitably.

With 100% seriousness, if the ACA is repealed I will likely be choosing between Massachusetts (where Romneycare would hopefully take priority again) or another country. It's too risky to do otherwise.

My extended and immediate family members have too many horror stories about being denied coverage or it being prohibitively expensive. Like a cousin who had to choose working over being a stay-at-home mom to take care of her kids, since her husband's policy as an entrepreneur wouldn't cover her. She didn't even have any ongoing health problems, just a technical pre-existing condition.

I am unwilling to be stuck in a job or forced to accept unreasonable compensation or a nasty work environment because I have to have health coverage. Which is a decision too many in my family have been forced to make. Many family members (including myself) have far worse chronic illnesses, so it's utterly involuntary -- work or die. And thankfully I have a choice in where to live by virtue of my education and credentials.

I have been blessed so far to not have to deal with it because I've only lived in MA as an adult prior to Obamacare -- where Romneycare was in place by the time I finished undergrad. But I've heard enough first hand accounts and seen the suffering that kind of horrible choice creates. And the absolutely perverse incentives it puts onto the job market, and onto individuals. Health care is not a voluntary market, and treating it like one is bonkers.

Now I'm in California. I seriously doubt I will be able to stay without a guarantee that I can manage medical expenses, and I'm definitively privileged economically compared to the majority of the US population.
IANAL, but the wikipedia page on Interstate Compact states that "Not all compacts between states require explicit Congressional approval - the Supreme Court ruled in Virginia v. Tennessee that only those agreements which would increase the power of states at the expense of the federal government required it."

I'm not sure this would cause the federal government to lose any power, especially if the ACA was repealed.

Also, if the bill allowing for interstate healthcare exchanges were passed it would seem to imply that states are allowed to cooperate on healthcare?
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> We avoided reads (get operations) since the current version of etcd performs reads directly from the leader, without contacting the cluster, which doesn’t preserve the same consistency level as Bizur and ZooKeeper do.

It's wrong. Etcd provides "?quorum=true" option which makes reads go through the Raft consensus algorithm archiving linearizability see https://github.com/coreos/etcd/issues/741
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Agreed. If you want more Zebras, raise interest rates. The capitalist system isn’t the problem, it’s the cheap money handed out by fiat from the government to banks that funds the madness and the impending fiasco as investors chase ever more fleeting returns. Zebras die when Unicorns have access to nearly unlimited cheap capital to chase after markets with subsidized products being sold at negative margins. It’s price dumping on a massive scale. ZIRP turns the economy into a lottery favoring those with the best access to the trough. Raising interest rates will be painful, but it’s the only way to fix the current situation and goes against the overwhelming Keynesian consensus. Central banks are great when you need to fund a war, but other than that, they can’t take their foot off the gas and simply distort the economy, increase economic inequality, and exacerbate business cycles instead of smoothing them out. We never should have removed political from political economics. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_economy
Yeah, that's pretty much what taxes are for. Funding the government which is what keeps us in line and keeps us from acting like the apes that we are. Part of not being apes is supporting people who won the life-disaster-lottery (which, if you think about it, could be you in 1 year).
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This paper seems to be from 2006?
Quote: "These are variables, and when I've been teaching people to program sometimes I see the light dawn when they realise that a variable name is like a box with the name on the outside."

Yes. Maybe there could be some algebra in advance of -- or alongside -- early coding lessons, where this idea is central to both fields. One variable name, any numeric value.

It's the same with functions, the lifeblood of analysis -- one function name, any equation. So in a perfect world, people would be learning calculus and general analysis while writing their first program functions -- indeed, they might be learning higher math while coding their lesson materials at the same time.

http://arachnoid.com/calculus
It's the insurance companies dance with the healthcare providers. Over many decades, the insurance companies have negotiated payments much less than the quoted payment. In turn, the healthcare providers raise their rates in order to make sure they can still make money even with the discount they give insurance. When the time comes for the insurance companies to renegotiate, the same thing happens, and the healthcare providers raise their rates. This works fine for those of us who have insurance, but for non insured individuals, they have to pay the "actual" rate - which has been inflated because of the insurance company discount! This has been going on for many decades.
The problem with this frame is that it assumes costs under a more socialized system wouldn't budge, making a single-payer system nothing more that simple wealth-transfer.

The thing to recognize is that the every-person-for-themselves approach leads to outcomes that drive costs up extraordinarily. Avoiding the US model is why every other OECD country offers universal coverage and boasts longer lifespans, even though health care costs them one half to two thirds less a portion of their GDP.

For all its bleeding-heart, hippy commie values, the major advantage of single-payer is massively reducing the costs of health care, and making life very hard for anyone not directly creating value. This is bad news for rent-seeking holders of pharma patents and CEOs of private insurance companies making $20 million per year, good news for just about everyone else.

It comes down to this: will you accept that some forms of socialism work in return for getting a better deal on health care and the indirect benefits of living in a society where access is a given? Or are you so ideologically committed to free-market fundamentalism that you would rather waste more of your own money and live in a more unstable society because hey, that's how John Wayne did it.
They're more than likely on this already.

Any photo you save in the app is already categorized by content.
This is something I've observed and would be curious to know too.
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It's literally just that simple too.

Unfortunately this isn't good advice for a fat person trying to lose weight. Even a very low IQ fat person understands that if they eat less and move more they'll lose weight. Nor is it particularly good advice for trying to craft a top-down policy unless the intention is to force people to eat a certain amount only and burn a minimum amount of energy.
Don't forget the unmarried, childless (ie. gay) uncle or aunt could pitch in occasionally as well.
I don't see anything that is really object-oriented specific here.

Yes, the terminology is all OO-based, but it is really about unauthorized access to code. There's nothing OO specific about it.

For example:

Twelve vulnerabilities abuse a confused deputy to call MethodHandles.lookup to get a lookup object on behalf of a system class. Such a lookup object can be used by malicious code to access members that are accessible to the system class, but that should be inaccessible to untrusted code

This vulnerability would be exactly the same in principle if it was a functional or imperative programming. Loosely bound code is loaded into the incorrect security context and exploited. In a very loose sense, it is similar to https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-3479/, which is an EMACS Lisp bug cause by incorrect checks[1]. OO or Functional - bugs like this are the same thing.

[1] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/13/1
Kozmo.com was another amazing one back in 2000. We would order movies and food and have them delivered in < 1 hour.

One of the delivery guys even walked through our (open) door, dropped the food on the coffee table and put the VHS tape in for us.

Sadly, those economics didn't work out.
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I find that a bold assertion.
> He barely even won --- he lost the popular vote by a greater margin than any candidate in US history.

This point unfortunately plays into the messaging that you're criticizing sama for. The electoral college was the winner take all victory. They actually call it a genius masterstroke that he "focused" on winning in the most strategic and economical way.

Besides, it's not enough dismiss him or the strategy as having "barely" won. If things had gone the other way in those determining districts then he would have "barely" lost. He lost the popular vote by millions but it was still within ~2%. With a candidate like Trump you need to do better than that by far. He should have been defeated unambiguously, and yet he managed the astonishing feat of just barely eeking out a win.
Oh, is that why I see websites like Facebook and Google using ids like .u-123-gz instead of something like .search-bar?
It seems like most of the complaints about healthcare now relate to unpredictable costs and complexity though. I'm not sure the simplicity and stress-reduction of a single-payer system really are appreciated. I'm Canadian, and our system is fair from perfect. That said, it's hard for me to comprehend the stories I regularly read about people's experiences in the American system, trying to decide on plans, sacrificing care due to cost, even just having to figure out what hospital they can go to when they need one. All this hassle has an effect that's significant but difficult to quantify.

I even have one personal anecdote - on a recent trip to Disneyland with some friends, a friend of mine got sick and needed to see a doctor. He had purchased travel insurance, so called the insurance company to figure out where to go. It turned out that the only walk-in clinics covered were halfway across LA. There were other clinics within blocks of our hotel, but they weren't covered. So, he basically wasted an entire day. Now, compared to serious healthcare issues, obviously this isn't a big deal. But still, the experience was just alien to us. Here, if you need to see a doctor, you either book an appointment with your family doctor, or if you need to see someone sooner or it's more convenient or whatever, you just go to a clinic. Any clinic doctor will see you, and will bill MSP (the provincial health plan).

Again, our system isn't perfect. Compared to someone with good coverage in the US, our wait lists for major procedures are generally longer. It's occasionally debated whether private clinics should be allowed to perform these procedures, allowing people who can afford it to jump the queue. The theory is that this leaves more public resources for everyone else, so it's win-win. However, generally politicians steer clear of anything that sounds like private health care, because in general people fear any erosion of the public system. (For example by having good doctors go to private clinics.)

Anyway, that was a bit of a tangent. The point is, there are intangible benefits to single payer healthcare that I don't see often discussed in the US.
The problem exists in the first place because carbs are delicious and cheap.

But sugar in particular has an addiction characterisc. Once you go some time without it, you don't miss it as much anymore.

And fat is also delicious.
Gitly is not related to gogs. It is going to be more stable and easy to use, work better with larger projects, and have a set of unique features.

Yes, it's going to be open source.
um, not really. the property taxes are so broken that many people own multi-million dollar homes and pay for them as if they were worth nearly nothing. that said, sales tax and state tax rates are high, so if you just mean that, you are right.
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> CA is already dealing with severe budget issues [2][3],

False. California has a budget surplus of nearly $3 billion and will be able to weather a mild recession without major budget cuts or tax increases for the next 4 years.
What are the factors? Number one is that doctors in the US are paid too much. Why is this? Because health insurance is purchased by employers, not individuals, so most people don't see or care how much it costs. This also explains number two - the price gouging by pharmaceutical companies and hospitals.

People will try to say it's because of malpractice insurance or because the US invents all the drugs (they don't) and bla bla and while those are contributing factors, it's very clear to me as a UK expat that key players in the medical system here just take too much money off people.

A simple example is that Paracetemol (Tylenol), available since the 1950s costs about 10x as much in my local CVS as it would in an equivalent British pharmacy (Boots). Why? Because the US market is already used to paying far too much so they have no idea what a rip off is.
Thanks for sharing! I also lived in Berlin for four years and was impressed with how easy healthcare was.
You're just one serious illness or layoff from being one of "those people"
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Haven't read the entire guide yet. But, I hope it has a few lines somewhere about over-engineering a solution. Yes, fault-tolerance, Asynchronousism, individual scalability are virtues you want, but not for a super simple problem that needs functional work. I've been in so many discussions with people that talk about all these virtues and speend too little a time on making that core function do what it is supposed to do.
I get especially happy, but why especially your own?
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It could also trim comments after a certain depth, like Reddit does.

HN may do that, but I've only seen it paginate by the number of subthreads. The bulk of new traffic in a thread is likely to be comments to existing threads. This would also make thread folding faster, because there would be a hard limit to the depth of any thread on a single page.
Am I right that in a system implementing algorithm explained in the article there is no way to execute operations on two key-value pairs stored in different buckets atomically? For example, two CAS operations that will either both succeed or both fail?
In general this true, but California is unique among American states in that its got an economy and a population bigger than most other nations in the OECD.

That is to say, we've reached a scale where we absolutely can start thinking and acting like a nation state. That doesn't mean that smaller, poorer, and weaker states can simply copy what we do directly, one-by-one. But it does mean they can band together to see that a demonstrably good model gets implemented at the Federal level.