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> Person sees the dimensions of the rooms via the live stream. Runs over Google maps and finds all buildings with those dimensions.

I don't follow. Google maps would only help if the entire building was like one room. The live stream could be inside some closet in a skyscraper with 57 floors. You'd need a searchable database of the blueprints of every building for this to work.
please read the article first. this criticism is addressed.
The US has dollar coins. They're not used much, despite decades of efforts from the US Mint to promote them. It's getting hard to get a roll of them from a bank. There are Susan B. Anthony dollars, Sacajawea dollars, and U.S. President dollars, all compatible.

If you want some, go to a US post office, put a $20 bill in the stamp vending machine, and press coin return. The older machines give change in dollar coins.
Strange, this neglects that portion of health care spend that is accounted for by profits, by marketing expenses and administrative/billing bloat that ensues.

It also neglects that for its massively higher spend 10% of Americans aren't covered and therefore don't receive preventative care yielding massively higher final costs, and it doesn't take into account the WHO ranks the US system as 31st in the world dramatically under all the socialized players.

[Edit] as I suspected [1] indicates a full 20% of spend is wasted mostly on profits and administrative costs. That should be taken off the top.

IMO this is a case of "figures don't lie, liars figure" but without the malicious intent.

[1] https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Resources/Files/Downloads/mlr-repo...
Generally speaking all this stuff is good, but I'd add that his note on Include files is dated and I wouldn't recommend it anymore. Any compiler worth half its salt at this point will recognize the include guard pattern and not parse though include'd files multiple times, so the worry about wasting tons of time due to that pattern is largely gone.

The big problem with what he's suggesting is that if you're designing a fairly big system with lots of decently small headers (Which is generally good - simple headers with easy-to-read APIs are good), you'll end-up with a crazy number of include's in every file - and if you change something to use a new dependency, then you'll have to change every location it is include'd in as well. There is something to be said about avoiding things like circular dependencies, but this requirement really doesn't make it any harder for that to happen, and just creates more problems and annoyances - it is not a very scalable solution.

If you look at the Linux Kernel source (Which is arguably one of the largest and most successful C programs) each source file has at around 10 to 30 include's at the top (Or more in some cases), and that's with the headers including other headers. If instead Linux had taken the approach Rob is recommending, that number would probably be a magnitude larger and extremely hard to manage even if they combined a bunch of the headers they have together to reduce the total number (Which, again, I would consider a huge anti-pattern).
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Only true if you have a simple standard w-2 job.

With stocks, capital gains, dividends, write-offs, company you need to handle these manually and the government doesn't know your write-offs and all sources of income.
I use https://apex.sh/ping. Works well for the low monthly price, just wish it had better incident reporting.
TIL how I file my taxes (log in and submit a pre-filled web form, or send a text message approving it) was the exception, not the norm.

I would have expected at least most of western Europe to have reached that point.
That's rarely stopped US lawmakers, prosecutors, and judges before.
The problem in the US with getting rid of pennies is that the US does not quote prices with sales tax included (unlike every other country on the planet). If you do that then you can quote prices at appropriate price points (4.25, 5.95 etc)

Of course if you get rid of the penny then rounding only occurs when you pay with cash - when you pay with a card you still get to pay to the penny
Given that there is no magic cure everything potion, I highly doubt doctors will ever have an issue with a lack of patients. This is especially true if you consider population growth.
> "Ideally, there won't be any new highway capacity built because we can't afford to maintain what we have"

It's not a detail that changes the conclusion, but I want to focus on it:

The U.S. definitely can afford to maintain its roads. The country is the richest in the history of the world, richer than it's ever been. U.S. GDP in 1960, when the Interstate Highway system and many suburbs and malls were being built, was ~$3 trillion in real dollars;[0] now it's ~$18 trillion.

The U.S. chooses not to maintain its infrastructure.

[0] According to one unofficial source on the web, which I'm going to trust for this purpose.
The data in the article shows there is no country with the same standard of living.

The article doesn't disagree that you could get similar health outcomes for less money. The claim of the article is that as people become richer, they spend more money on marginally beneficial health care.

(Or sometimes just consumer goods masquerading as health care, e.g. Oxycontin and similar drugs, used by our leisure class use to mask their ennui. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/our-miserable-21... )
For a W-2 employee taking the standard deduction, perhaps.

The IRS cannot correctly calculate what the typical small business owner owes, what the typical real estate investor owes, what the typical upper middle class family owes, because they don't have all the information available to them.
It is surprising. The justices have historically given law enforcement a lot of latitude. See this article for some discussion:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/01/22/...
Well, I'm from Europe --- and I can't stand the dollar bill. It's just too niggling an amount of money to be worth getting my wallet out for. Whenever I visit the US I always ask for change in dollar coins instead of bills (which tends to get some rather odd looks), and once in Dallas I resorted to feeding banknotes into a DART ticket machine, because it would give change in dollar coins.

In the UK, where I grew up, the smallest (proper) banknote is five pounds (worth about seven dollars). (The (proper) is because there are still some Scottish one pound notes floating around. I believe they're still valid, but they're not printed any more and so are decades old and disgusting, and you need to be really unlucky to see one.) In Switzerland, where I live, it's ten francs (worth about ten dollars). Switzerland actually has five franc coins, which are amazingly chunky things.

...the smallest coin in Switzerland, BTW, is five rappen (one rappen is a hundredth of a franc). The two rappen coin was deprecated in 1978, and the one rappen coin in 2007.
If you gave me this argument 10 years ago I'd be completely on board with you. Today? Not so much.

> Parking meters.

Lately I've been seeing updated parking meters that take credit cards. Not sure how common it is but depends on your area.

> Laundry.

Last time I did laundry at a laundromat they had credit card machines on each washer and dryer. I just kinda assumed this was becoming more and more common.

> Vending machines.

I've never seen a vending machine in my life that didn't accept bills. Even better, I haven't seen a vending machine in the past 2 years that didn't accept credit cards. Granted I know they still exist I just hadn't run into one in a couple of years.

> Public transit.

All the public transit I take (train, sometimes bus) accept either specialized cards that can be refilled via vending machines or online (with credit, debit or cash). Vending machines for tickets typically take credit, debit or cash, too.

I'm sure buses will allow coins but is its usage even common anymore?

> It's also nice that with a single coin you can buy something. A bagel? A muffin? A coffee? If you shop at the right place you might even be able to swing a muffin and a coffee for a single coin. You really can't get much for $0.25 these days. Even a pack of gum is vastly more than that.

It's "nice"? Personally I find it "nice" to be able to buy something with a single bill. Is your point necessarily better than my point?
We directly and consciously altered our environment, energy consumption, knowledge consumption, mobility, appearance, anatomy, life expectancy etc. etc. But genetics is somehow not cool to touch?
But they can withdraw from linked accounts as easily as they deposit to them. You give them permission to do so, even for disputed amounts, in the TOS.

The only safe mechanism is to close them off from the bank side (e.g. sever their access, close account, change account number).
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The canadian penny phase out went so smooth I didn't even notice it... Until I went to the U.S. and the cashier gave me pennies. I felt somewhere between being pissed off and amused.
You and everyone else in this thread should know that "immunologist" is an existing specialty. Find one. Make sure it's not just an allergist, but an academic type with multi-system hospital privileges.
It would be even better if there was a way to pay $2.50 that get distributed among the creators of the consumed content.
No. How would they know how many charitable donations you made? How would they know how many miles you drove for your business? How would they know how much you spent on travel for your company? How would they know how much you paid for the raw materials for the products you sold? Or your business utilities, rent, etc? How would they know your unreimbursed medical expenses or casualty losses?
That's nice to hear, but doesn't the analogy break down when you start thinking about what a corporation is? Unless you mean to say:

Doctor want you to be sick? - no. Health Execs - yes.
Instacart Express promo $99/per year.Is it fair for users who signed up earlier?
Can you go directly to court, or is there an arbitration process in the way, first? What does the current TOS say?
Generalize the business logic in to things you do all the time, with data that you lookup as part of the context.

In that way your program is actually more flexible, there aren't magic numbers or magic things that happen only in some cases. Those have been moved to co-residence with the data they belong with.
It does make a difference. TurboTax is an app that allows you to enter this info. The whole premise of auto-filed tax return is that you don't need to enter anything. The argument "to be able to file without entering anything you need to either vastly expand what IRS knows about citizens, or to restrict it to a small number of very simple cases" is not refuted by pointing out neither IRS nor TurboTax initially do not have the info. Because TurboTax side is not based on the premise of having the info upfront, only auto-file case is premised on this.

The correct way to refute such argument would be to prove that the simple cases - the ones that can be auto-files - constitute not a small part of cases but a part big enough to warrant IRS doing it. That's the argument I'd like to see - with proof, of course - i.e. how big is that part that can be auto-filed completely without increasing IRS knowledge it has now.
Proving bad faith for lobbying is impossible. TurboTax would argue that the simple filing would allow the government to stiff citizens by not taking full advantage of their potential tax credits, etc... Proving bad faith would require fraud, and I don't see how there is any indication here of that.
Previous discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5443203
Inelastic demand is the fatal flaw in any non-nationalized non-single payer-system.

Lasik is great, but it is a very optional surgery. Lots of people opt to just go with contact lenses or glasses, Lasik is just a more convenient longer term solution to the problem, but it isn't necessary for anyone.

Where the the screws really get turned in health care costs are for the treatments that you actually need to have a reasonable chance to continue to exist should you have certain health issues: Hep-C regimens, EpiPen-type systems, etc.

(Of course there are other factors that contribute on top of inelastic demand, like what I would consider too-lengthy intellectual property coverage for patented treatments, eliminating the possibility of cheaper alternatives altogether in some cases).
So you've got a working prototype, which is 80% of the way towards your spec (which changes by the day, mind you) where and when do the tests then get written? Do you start from scratch when you go from prototype to product? Is that feasible in a tiny lean startup with few developers and real hard fast deadlines?
I don't in stores but it's still pretty much the standard way to pay a lot of service people. (Physical checks are also used in a number of payments I make through my online bank bill pay although I never see the actual check.)
If your UI is relatively stable, yeah. If you're redoing the UX every two weeks this isn't feasible.

There is no single right answer: it's all about tradeoffs. And in order to make those tradeoffs you need to understand strengths and weaknesses of each form of testing.
I'd like a small Editor that had autocomplete/follow function etc. for C++.

So far Qt Creator is fine but it's hit or miss to get those features working right on each system and it's​ missing a call tree. Plus, it's heavy and doesn't have a command line interface.
Sorry I was vague in my comment . You will have it on the books and the lawmakers can point to it when they get elected . Other than that the behavior that you want won't be prevented . At best you will have some long drawn out court case that will strike down the law .
Generally I agree, but one problem is that most families can't easily absorb the cost of a trip to the emergency, X-RAYs, and a cast. It may be a good lesson, but it's also an expensive one.
I've looked at Credit Karma tax free, but I'm a bit nervous as I own a California LLC (100% sole owner), and also have capital gains, dividends, write-offs.

Is Credit Karma a good choice for more complicated returns? Last year I paid H&R $650 for literally one hour of time which infuriated me.
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I'd like to see Pike vs. the MISRA guidelines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA_C). Rob's notes here are not about the kind of safety critical, hopefully small, programs that MISRA claims to improve.

It would be interesting to hear his thoughts about just those kinds of programs, and whether pointers and function pointers are still helpful.
> It basically says women make no money

Could you explain this? I don't see where MFJ assumes women make no money.

> if you're a dual income bunch of shmucks, that your wife must make 80%

Also don't see how it means that. Could you explain your argument in a bit more detail?
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Agree, thanks for pointing the 'daily' part out, I'd missed that in the OP.
Ships are more like cars than they are like agriculture; so the comparison isn't insane. Especially since it demonstrates that cleaner combustion is possible even in tricker (smaller) circumstances. I'll go out on a limb and speculate that even fairly hefty price increases in shipping fuel (e.g. were bunker completely phased out) would barely budge end-consumer prices.
What do you mean "neglects"? Did the author somehow remove that from his numbers?

The WHO ranks the US low because 62.5% of their score is a measure of inequality. Only 37.5% of their score is related to actual health care measures (health outcomes and patient satisfaction). The US scores #1 on patient satisfaction.

http://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/whr00_en.pdf
> it's still pretty much the standard way to pay a lot of service people

Fair enough I was mostly referring to using them at retail locations like I thought parent was alluding to. I forgot I also pay more service folks with a check (though with things like stripe I see more and more service folks using those to prevent bounced checks).
Since I sell access to web based software I don't have to ship anything and the product is "delivered" instantly.

Since your "delivery" is not a discrete item and tracked by a common carrier they recognize (e.g. USPS, UPS, DHL, etc.), you also have zero protection from chargebacks. They won't even investigate beyond just taking back your money plus a fee.
Wow, time4vps.eu is even cheaper than hetzner for storage. Definitely going to be testing them out for my cloud storage needs.
I see. I thought system bytes included the mmaped block of memory (the docs for malloc_stats explicitly say it does not) and I thought the last graph was a demonstration of why the Python memory allocator was necessary.
Is it possible that healthcare in the US is a "superior good" (definition in article) because the lower quartiles can't afford proper care and as they become wealthier they progress from zero care, to basic plans that don't cover nearly what they should, to plans equivalent to the care people receive elsewhere in the world as a right of citizenship?
More so than brain function, cancer, etc, I feel like we'll look back in a decade or two's time and be shocked at how little we understood autoimmune diseases. Sure, we understand that the immune system adapts in an almost evolutionary way, and can wrongly recognize self-components as foreign. But what signals cause this adaptation? What's causes antibodies to develop against your thyroid, or beta cells, or skin? We understand how so many components of the immune system work, but have so far to go assembling the pieces.
Even on mortgages, the IRS doesn't have all the information.

I refinanced my mortgage and paid points for the refi. Those points have to be amortized over the life of the loan (which the IRS knows the law, but doesn't know that I paid points on the loan).

I just refinanced that mortgage again, meaning next year that I'll write off the rest of the points for the previous loan as a 2017 expense.

There's plenty that the IRS doesn't know until you tell them.
Americans are too sentimental, its why we could never switch to the metric system. And congress voting to get rid of the penny is so low on priority I wouldn't count on it happening soon.

Pennies are made because there is demand. If businesses stop requesting rolls of pennies, the mint would make less of them. If you want to get rid of pennies lobby businesses to round their after tax prices to the nearest nickel. Just McDonalds and Walmart dropping the penny might cut the amount in circulation by a significant amount.
Neglects as in they don't consider that spend to be "waste" in the computation of whether Americans are paying more than a comparable country. IMO that should be subtracted off the top as none of that exists in a socialized system. They appear to be attributing those costs to the "higher standard of living".
The article you linked concludes that "the wealthiest 1 percent are an outlier: 36 percent of their income comes from capital gains". As the graph suggests, that number quickly decreases to 10% and 5% when the group encompasses the wealthiest 5% and 10%.

So for those three groups the income not subject to capital gains tax constitutes 64%, 90% and 95%.

This is before the capital gains are even broken down into long-term vs short-term (which are taxed at plain old income tax rates).

I am still not seeing what led you to believe that the effective tax rate will be significantly lower.

> That is federal income tax, you've missed state

Mmm, okay. Well, I am not a CPA and not sure about other states, but California makes it easy by treating any capital gains (long-term or short-term) as income, so (at least for CA) the effective tax rate of someone relying on long-term capital gains will be pushed up, not down.

I agree though that if some other states have favorable treatment of long-term capital gains, the numbers would look different.

> medicare and social security

Both are subjects to wage limits, and at $166,000 (which will be a higher value once the state tax is incorporated) we're well past those limits.

> the lottery has a negative expected value, investment does not. In the long run

But a capital gains requires a sale, which means the position has been exited, and there's no long-run. True, it might be a partial sale of an asset, and in some case the proceeds of a sale are invested into another position, but at this point you're pretty much betting the new assets will increase in value and be a candidate for a sale. Hence my lottery comment.
You know, I had a similar list for an API-based side business during development. The closer I got to launch, the more I would add, until I finally dropped support for subdomains and simply went with nested URLs. Is it less pretty? Sure. But I've already made plans to use multiple sub domains for sub-products that I wouldn't have put on that list.
As a counter point my experience with Backblaze has been perfect. Been using it since it first came out I think, backs data up relatively fast, and when my drive failed they shipped me a USB drive with all of my data in a day or two (and I believe it came from US > UK so that's pretty impressive). At $5 a month for unlimited I haven't even thought of switching. I believe - although I could be wrong - they also encrypt the dat and give you the option of managing the keys so they don't have access.
No data obviously, but several people in my group have mentioned that they ran into (software) bugs with your tax filing software. You might want to look into that. I love your service, so I hope the tax service takes off as well!
I've never opened the App Store on macOS except when forced to. I certainly would never use it to discover apps, I just assume it's flooded with crap publishers trying to game the system.

Same thing on iOS... I rarely search for an app through the store. Usually the first thing I do is google for discussion threads on sites like Reddit.
Rationally, entities have choice. Any time an entity or an aggregate removes choice from an entity, by way of disrupting that entities communications, it is removal of choice for entity to speak freely.

You remove choice from Shia when you attempt to indicate the irony in him "shutting down free speech" on his feed. In fact, given it is his communications channel, his right to limit anything disrupting that channel is well within his right, as entities have rational choice to speak their mind.

Irrational choice is where logical arguments paralyze trusted communication.

Your post, for example, does this here, by saying "but still", indicating disapproval of his actions. Further, you remove choice from the parent's post about their emotion of disgust.

I find it disgusting people will continue to rationalize altering communication's trust in an effort to win an argument.
Even a good part of SF proper (maybe 1/3 or so) feels pretty suburban to me. Two-story single-family homes, each with a private garage as the most prominent feature of the ground floor frontage. Granted, they're more "old-style" suburban homes. On smaller lots and with smaller yards, on a grid street plan, more like what '40s-'60s style suburbs looked like. Not the style popular since the '80s with big houses on huge lots on a cul-de-sac. But not exactly urban, either.
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City people use, and work at, the malls and airports and office parks and industrial parks and colleges and universities that exist in their suburbs. So the bus lines serve them as well. And it's to the city's benefit that suburban people can easily get into the city to spend their money at city businesses. So, while they may have some merit, I don't think your points are as cut and dried as you think they are.