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I added an edit that there is plenty of room between full current subsidy and 0% subsidy.

You're doubling down on the strawman of adding new slots at 0% subsidy, and you're not considering the possibility that the requirements are too stringent to begin with. (Full bachelor's plus MD plus full residency.)

Edit: Also, it wouldn't be "seeing the effects" of it until the number of med school applications = number of med school slots.
Joe Rogan had Dr Rhonda Patrick on and they spoke about Time restricted eating and she referenced some studies that if you keep your eating within a 10 hour window without doing anything else, you will lose weight and gain lean muscle mass. You will also improve long term memory recall. Facinating stuff, it's toward the end of the interview around 2:27.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxM_CLsvieE

He also had Gary Taubes on and that was a treat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0ffswUVoxA
Yes, this is how things work Down Under.

There is a universal public health care system that everyone is part of and funded via Federal Govt taxes. This allows anyone to be treated for free in a public hospital. Given your condition and severity of the problem, you may have to wait for treatment.

This system works quiet well overall.

There is also a parallel private insurance system and privately owned hospitals. Which you may choose to be treated in if you have/can afford the insurance. Top private insurance cover for a family can run to about AUD$5,000 per year.

If you earn over a certain amount of money a year ($90,000+ for singles and $180,000+ for families) you will pay more tax if you do not have private insurance. This is to try and push those that can afford private insurance and treatment into the private system, to free up resources in the public system.
> Yes. Ideally, that's what governments should do: require citizens to act in our collective and long-term best interests, not only their own.

That's starting to sound a lot like Marxism where the value of the individual is less so than that of the collective (Government / State).

I'm sorry but no thanks. Who determines what our best interest is? The only person on this planet that can determine my best interest is me. If I'm incapable of doing so for myself then that is too bad.
Fair point.

I'd argue it's a more logical and likely explanation than sexism though.
My favourite analogy is that of finding out which row you are in at the cinema. You don't know which row you are, but you know you're 1 behind the guy in front of you, so you ask him and figure you'll just add 1 to that. He doesn't know either, and using the same strategy he asks the person in front of him.

Eventually, the guy in the second row asks the guy in the first row, who immediately says he's in the first row. Then each person adds 1 to the answer they get back and feed it back until eventually you get your answer.
One of the major issues here is that if you disagree with the currently fashionable narrative then you're immediately painted as a sexist. It's completely binary: you're either on the side of the narrative OR you're a bigot to be purged, a heretic to be burned at the social stake, there is no room for inquiry, debate or applying critical thinking.

Accusing someone of being a bigot is 100% risk free, it's all upside, the accuser is always safe on a moral pedestal.

Even going meta like I did gets you flagged, case in point.
They strike they strike. It's happened before, it will happen again.

As for a change in tax revenue, the same is true if you contribute more to your 401k and/or get back less because your investments didn't do good. Also, if you lay state employees off, your state income tax revenues go down.
The programmer role also changed, as far as I'm aware. I think there used to be more separation between program designers/architects and the people who would translate the requirements and punch/verify cards, and operate switchboards. I think the people at the bottom of that chain were called programmers.

The definition of the role is at least somewhat different today. It could also have something to do with the wide availability of women who were trained typists in the '50s and '60s, as keyboards were used to punch cards/tape.

I won't purport to be an expert on exactly how that phenomenon came about, I've not seen a satisfactory explanation of it.
California is already running a budget deficit, in part because of the health subsidies it already provides. Also, it allows voluntary contributions, so you can already pay more taxes: https://www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/vcfsr/vcf_faqs.shtml

Thus far I have been able to resist the tempation to do so.
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Another thing I'm finding out is that states have been playing accounting gimmicks and moving funds about accounts that should not have been mixed up as they were...

tens of thousands of local government entities issue bonds, and some employ dubious accounting techniques “that obscure their true financial position,” according to a 2015 report of the Volcker Alliance
https://www.city-journal.org/html/zeroing-government-fraud-1...
Basically fake news, right?
Ah yes, "collectivism." What you call that, the masses of humanity call civilization.
I'll take it and democratic representation over corporate waste, incompetence and corruption.

In fact, the reason government sucks right now is that corporations/wealthy have rigged the game by buying representation average citizens can't compete with (legalized corruption = lobbying).
To think about recursion, first, think about recursion.
Ok, well, as a cyclist who doesn't own a car, and as a vegetarian who doesn't eat meat, and as a childless infertile dude, I'm sure tired of subsidizing you cow-eating motorist parents.

Oh, wait, that's what society is--we all pay for communal stuff because we're all ultimately in this together.
The basics of BASIC, the programming language of the 1980s
I think it's relevant to life on Mars that plants don't grow at antartic temperatures, which are:

> The highest temperature ever recorded at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station was −12.3 °C (9.9 °F) on Christmas Day, 2011, and the lowest was −82.8 °C (−117.0 °F)

Mars:

> A summer day on Mars may get up to 70 degrees F (20 degrees C) near the equator, but at night the temperature can plummet to about -100 degrees F (-73 C).
I worry that this is the chaos of folks not understanding compiler theory. This is the result: every minifier is a compiler, but none of these minifiers boast properties like idempotence and none of them are sufficiently correct that they achieve their goal on the first try. I don't expect to necessarily see scholarly papers, but I would not ever expect a minifier to improve on itself when run multiple times in a row!
Count me in. I'm in Ponce.
Maybe Monogamy Isn’t the Only Way to Love
The thing about math is that you can't reason with it, hide it, debate it, or pass laws that make it untrue. Eventually, pension systems with poor structures collapse, and a lot of people get hurt.
Yeah, I'm sure all the people who chose to get cancer or be born prematurely are just leeching off the rest of us. Even if you rarely ever use the system, you're still better off having a country where people don't have to worry about going bankrupt of something terrible happens to them and they need healthcare. Also, it actually makes things easier for businesses to not have to deal with figuring out how to pay for insurance for everyone every year.

A single tax that you can plan for without worry and just get on with running your company? Sounds good to me.
> For example, government doesn't force me to obey the law; I do it voluntarily. They don't force me to pay my bills, not shoot my neighbor, and pay my taxes. I do all that voluntarily.

Yes you don't do those things because you will be sent to prison. Is it going to be Ok to send Bobby to prison because he didn't want to cover Suzi's medical bill?
Costs across the board are higher due to structural and incentive factors - more intervention, more fee for service, etc. also, specialists' income has risen ridiculously vs. GPs .

http://www.healthbeatblog.com/2008/01/health-care-s-1-2/

http://www.vox.com/a/health-prices#chart/11
you allow me to? so what if I stop working and pay no taxes? do I have to leave? you sound very self righteous. I assume you're a typical liberal. do you realize you're making an argument against illegal immigration?
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I wanted to know when companies say "Are you authorized to work in the US", do they mean if I will require future visa sponsorship?

I am authorized to work in the US, but I will require visa sponsorship. I am sure there are others who are confused about this.
I guess they 'found' it in the sense that you find a library or a good coffee shop.
Do people migrate out of EU states with universal health care? They have free movement and everything.

I think this would actually be another great lock-in feature, on top of rent control and Prop 13 making it so nobody would ever want to sell their house.
Couldn't they still pay extra and get it? Can't you do that in Canada?
A bit late, but apology accepted! =)
To be fair, the article didn't tout it as a discovery. It just said that a local man went out to photograph them and shared it with the BBC.
"We even know California's population is large enough to support its own single-payer system since Canada has a slightly smaller population and a single payer system."

Except Canada can (for the most part) control who can enter, stay, and participate in the system, while California is at the mercy of its open borders (newcomers from other states or countries).
L'Etat c'est la grande fiction à travers laquelle tout le monde s'efforce de vivre aux dépens de tout le monde.
The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.
The State in Journal des débats (1848) par. 5.20.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat#Quo...
Hah, my first LOL this week. Good for you!

Bonus points if you ever leave the webcam on while changing a diaper or breast feeding. :-D
> It seems that eating is inherently stressful for the body.

Broadly speaking, somewhat accurate, but in the details it can vary greatly. Digestability, resources required to be mobilized for certain foods vs others (enzymes, how much stomach acid & how often etc), and certainly insulin among other "signaling hormones" are crucial factors. In mammals insulin especially is almost always a quite potent "stress/damage" agent ---observe the capacity of human pets to develop diabetes (not exactly something a wolf in the wild could ever catch, even when absent abundance of prey animals munching some berries or fallen apples in the applicable very short season)--- even wild pigs are nowhere near as fat as our agri-breeds, and practically all mammals given abundance of their preferred natural food choices, eat a high-fat diet (in herbivores this is effected by a radically more potent microbiome of bacteria and other microorganisms converting cellulose and most-not-all other carbohydrate into chiefly short-chain fatty acids, plus synthesization of some vitamins/etc for that mammal) --- my point? "Eating is doubly stressful for humans" if we consider the foods we have invented since the dawn of agriculture, namely (A) quickly and easily digested carbohydrate loads (B) available year-round, and (C) 24/7 --- a real triple-whammy for the mammal. OTOH we're quite robust mammals (systemic damage only really gets noticed/troublesome with age! it's amazing the assaults human bodies can handle for so many decades, whether we're talking foods or other substances) on the whole IMHO and we're quite a bit "better at fasting" in a way (we can utilize more ketones for longer and more efficiently esp our brains, no other mammal could fast as long as we can, indeed if you're 200-300+lbs with a handy source of just-the-water-soluble-vitamins you can easily fast a year, as an interesting pre-1971 study investigated before "ethics guidelines for research" were.. "cultivated") which could well mean that it has less pronounced / fewer of such "benefits" as is the case for MICE!

Well now.. what was my point just now..
You actually pay more taxes if you do not choose the private option. Though private insurance is generally more expensive. Over the years since it was introduced, there was an exodus of sorts from public to private due to this incentive. It has recently started to turn as insurance companies have been drawing more profit than the value they provide.

It helps that the standard of care in Australia, for significant or life-threatening health situations at least, is generally as good if not better in the public system. For everything else, insurance or otherwise, the only way to get quality healthcare is money and contacts.

As a system of encouraging higher spends on healthcare, private insurance works.. The only issue is none of the profits of that system goes towards better healthcare. It is just more damn rent.
The entire fiasco started with Linux Foundation pulling funding to SFLC.
Mostly agree but I think you misrepresent this argument:

>People will try to say it's because of malpractice insurance or because the US invents all the drugs (they don't)

It's not that the US invents all the drugs, but that US customers bear a disproportionate share of the drug development costs because drug makers (whichever country they originate in) can actually charge above marginal price in the US, compared to the monopsonist discount that other countries can secure.
> you don't do those things because you will be sent to prison

No, I don't do them because I don't want to, and because I respect group decisions. I want to pay my bills; I don't want to rip off other people. I don't shoot my neighbor because I'm not a sociopath and like normal, healthy people I very much don't want to do it. I pay my taxes because we took a vote and I respect that and want to do my share. etc.

You can get away with a lot and not go to jail. That's not what determines most people's behavior.
>Although you cannot access the superannuation fund until you turn 80

This is incorrect. You can access your super from 65 no matter what. You can also access it earlier under some specific circumstances.

https://www.ato.gov.au/individuals/super/accessing-your-supe...
The pharma and medical instrument pricing racket is unbelievable. Took a look at the cost for our last delivery - of the $36k+ cost billed, facilities, equipment and medication were way over the billed rate of the doctors/nurses/anesthesiologists.
> For example, government doesn't force me to obey the law; I do it voluntarily. They don't force me to pay my bills, not shoot my neighbor, and pay my taxes. I do all that voluntarily.

That sounds like the IRS's shtick about income taxes being "voluntary". From a technical perspective, these decisions are under duress, under threat of legal repercussion, even if you find that choice agreeable and would act in the same way without the law involved.
I fail to see how political correctness is both a nebulous concept and a dogmatic belief system at the same time.

Along the same lines, the idea that their is some sort of over-arching "liberal elite" belief system that colleges slavishly adhere to is laughable, or it would be, if folks like the author of this piece didn't take it serious. While professors in any given discipline often share a number of "beliefs", colloquially known as "facts", if you get a few of them together in a casual setting, they'll more often than not take to arguing about the finer points of their field. In fact, this sort of behavior is often encouraged, in both casual and professional settings. That's why grad students write and defend a thesis.

I also think that accusing professors and students of using political correctness as a tool to further their own aims and to preserve their entrenched power is assuming quite a lot about the actions and motivations of a huge swath of people.
Obviously the numbers still don't add up for a delivery business so what exactly is driving the valuation up?
Best places to find a copy these days?
How do you know it will be substandard?

From my travels to New Zealand, I'd argue their single-payer health care experience is overall better than here. You can buy private insurance there which supplements the public system and lets you visit private hospitals outside of the public systems, but you don't need it for emergencies or standard GP checkups. Most people don't bother since the public system is good.

And from a tax perspective, according to the BBC, the US effectively taxes an average income single person at 22.7% while NZ taxes at 16.4% [1]. For the top bracket, in US it is 39.6% while in NZ it is 33% [2][3]. I'd argue they are getting a much better deal than us. And don't forget the US numbers are before health insurance is paid.

So, it is definitely possible to get a good system. I think one of our major problems as a country is that we lack transparency which undermines trust and makes it easier to corrupt the system. You can't run a good health care system without transparency and accountability, regardless of whether it is a public or private system.

Cheers!

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26327114
[2] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf
[3] http://www.ird.govt.nz/how-to/taxrates-codes/rates/itaxsalar...
I don't think most women are as empowered as you seem to think they are. I don't believe a job per se equals "female empowerment." I also don't think we know what actual "carrying capacity" for the planet is.

Best regards.
> Compare the number of people you know that have built parsers for a DSL, data, documents, or whatever

The vast majority of those people that I know of have not even been aware of tools like ANTLR, and usually resort to regexp-based abominations instead unless they happen to know about bison/yacc (slightly more likely than ANTLR).

I agree those are cases where a tool like ANTLR might very well be preferable to someone hacking together a regexp-driven mess, but my personal experience is that the people most likely to know about these tools are also the people most likely to know how to handwrite reasonably clean parsers.

Some subset certainly will opt for the tools some of the time (I have done that myself, even though I much prefer handwritten parsers; I've also written parser generation tools myself, out of frustration with the existing ones... Im still frustrated enough by my own tools to end up handwriting parsers... (EDIT: Clarified; I could use a good parser to check my English sometimes) ), but the parser-generation field is a peculiar one.

I have no doubt that sooner or later someone will crack this nut (maybe ANTLR will be that tool one day) and handwriting parsers will go the way of handwriting assembler and be something you do only in rare cases, but we're far from there still.

Note that I'm not saying ANTLR is a bad tool. I'm saying this is a space where a lot of the potential audience are a bunch of very difficult to convince and picky people (myself included...), and where a large other part of the audience doesn't know the field at all and are unaware of the tools.
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That is outrageously wonderful. Thank you!
Air pollution can alter the effectiveness of antibiotics
What is this amateurish and inept junk?

I was hoping to see a real plan. This doesn't even make grammatical sense, let alone spell out ANY PLAN WHATSOEVER.

Embarrassing.
You're free to leave anytime. Why haven't you? If you have, then your opinion is moot.
Not to mention that detaching health insurance from employment is sure to create a lot more fluid labor market (contracting would be easier, part time work becomes more viable, etc....).
Recursion sometimes makes it easier to implement certain algorithms, since modern programming languages have an implicit call stack which conveniently provides a snapshot of the state of all local stack variables at that point in the algorithm.
Most people are provided healthcare through work and are not given an option of what healthcare to buy.
Here's a recursive directory traversal in Python:

import os
import os.path

def list_files_recursive(path):
filenames = os.listdir(path)
for filename in filenames:
fullname = os.path.join(path, filename)
if os.path.isdir(fullname):
yield from list_files_recursive(fullname) # recursively explore folders
else:
yield fullname

and here is the same program with an explicit stack

import os
import os.path

def list_files_stack(path):
folders = [path] # create stack of unexplored folders
while folders: # repeat until stack is empty
path = folders.pop() # pick a folder from stack
filenames = os.listdir(path)
for filename in filenames:
fullname = os.path.join(path, filename)
if os.path.isdir(fullname):
folders.append(fullname) # push folder to stack
else:
yield fullname
Yes, inflating away currency to become worthless is a time-honored method for countries to tackle their debt obligations.
i wouldn't even buy it for $1 with that off-center keyboard.

in fact, you probably couldn't even pay me to use it.
Note that your example seems to only matter if I use differently spec'd instances for different services. If they all have the same ratio of e.g. memory to cpu to disk, I'm not sure what slicing my instances across services really gets me. If you slice it across services, you add a few instances, and your system chugs along. If you don't, you still add a few instances, and it still chugs along.

I could maybe see if you have some services that take huge amounts of memory and others that take huge amounts of CPU. If you have a standard "monolithic app instance", and had to scale up your CPU by 10x but memory only by 1x because of your pdf renderer, you will likely be wasting large amounts of memory. But unless you have huge disparities in memory vs cpu use (and services don't vary in use together) I don't really know what sort of cost savings you can get here - wouldn't this be the actual value add of being able to independently scale - less cost because you can more accurately hit your resource (cpu vs memory vs disk and so on) requirements for your project?

In contrast, from my experience, separating your web/app/database/cache layer from eachother tends to be extremely beneficial for independent scaling because they almost always vary widely in how they consume which resources (memory vs cpu vs disk and so on). They also tend to be written with this in mind and so it is basically free to do so.

An aside, but many of your downsides apply not to just services, but also having to scale an application horizontally. If the name of the game is scaling, then many of these you will pay for regardless of the question of monolith vs. services.

All that above aside, I definitely feel the other benefits. But I really don't get it - every article I read about services seems to mention independent scaling, when it seems like a fairly suspect benefit. Maybe I just haven't worked on the correct project.
From what I've seen, there are less African-American and non-white hispanic men in tech than there are white and Asian women, yet I never see this discussed. Is this not an important issue as well? Will skewed racial ratios only be handled after gender parity has been achieved? Or do they not matter at all?
Part of the reason those drugs exist in the first place is that they've been engineered to extract the maximum amount of cash possible from our nightmare of a system. Yes, you may blow through your lifetime cap on one ailment, but the incentives are in place for pharma makers to see that as much of your cap ends up in their pockets, rather than the competitions. Treatments for Hepatitis-C are one of the more notorious examples of drugs being developed to maximally exploit our system.

The point of controlling costs is to provide incentives for developing drugs that not only work, but that do so at non-ruinous prices.
kaggle only has about 12 employees. a lot of folks who are competitors list kaggle as their employer