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I'm french.

This morning my girlfriend was sick. She called her doc, got an appointment for the very afternoon.

The visit, buying the med and getting a certificate for 3 days off work took us all in all 2 hours.

She paid most of the bills using her health care card, so in total it was less than 50 euros from her pocket.

The day off will be paid in full.

Tell me again how we suffered from "waiting lists, supply shortages and all the kinds of things you don't want when dealing with people's lives".

Cause right now my life is god damn awesome.

It has been for the last 3 decades, including when I got malaria in Africa and the french system refunded me, or when I break my arms multiple times, or got my appendice removed.

I always though that the US system was that bad compared to ours from the people POV because french companies paid a lot more. Now I see it's not even the case.
Can anyone with a background in oceanography help me understand the mechanisms that would enable this event to occur?

Was this a case where the bulk of the original sand that had been lost in 1984 was trapped offshore in a location that was generally untouched by wave action? Or is this a case where an entirely new set of sand was deposited from some other location?
If we cut out all regulation on health insurance, they'll compete themselves into utility.
And let's not forget the infamous Atlantic Wall ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Wall
I'm seeing these patterns being referenced a lot more in java and node conferences recently.
Mental illness is not just a personal problem, mental illness is also a social problem. When all of society is set up to get you to do stuff for them, and treat you badly when you don't perform, when you can no longer perform society will specifically make you mentally ill, with bad treatment as being a non-worthy human being. In other more social societies, and our society is extremely anti-social and sociopathic in how we use people, people that are no longer able to contribute are not made to feel extremely unwelcome, this goes a long way towards them not feeling insecure and turning to negative emotions due to their insecurities.

It's interesting in our society we have lots of tolerance for those born with mental illness or the ones permanently disabled. But we don't have a lot of tolerance for those down on their luck, or dealing with depression, or other mental issues. There is an implicit understanding that they should just get their act together and perform.
> if all goes well within a few years most of portable devices will charge through USB Type-C by default

I feel like I've heard this one before. If history repeats itself in a few years there will be a new standard that does something better and 30% of manufacturers will switch to that.
> "checking" account is just a terminology

It's what you might call a "salary account" in other places then. It's where your pay(check - haha) ends up, and what you use for regular day to day transactions such as paying bills.

I also get confused when abroad and there are buttons to withdraw from "checking" "savings" etc. I have a handful of accounts that I name myself so it's always hard to know.
Purchased $2,029.80 USD to CoinBase. Never Received Etherum
On April 28th I initiated an ACH transfer with CoinBase.com for a total sum of $2,029.80. On that very same day, the system informed me that I would be credited with the bitcoins as soon as the money cleared. My bank cleared the transaction May 1st. I have waited until the 10 day mark given it was my first bank transaction.

10 day mark was yesterday still no coins ever came in. The only thing CoinBase did was lock in a price for me. Again, they locked in a price and didn't give me coins on the day they told me they would deliver the coins. Ever since the 1st, my transaction page has been showing the following:

Now the real dilemma for me here is the fact that while CoinBase.com has locked in a price for me, because they have failed to deliver I cannot sell my coins at any rate. Etherum could drop down to $40, and only then might they deliver the coins. It is already down to low 80's from the high $98 a few days ago. The issue at that point is that I would be down a crazy percent already. If they had delivered the coins on the 1st as they had initially promised to, there would not be this issue.

Give me a break, this company is a shit show of complaints. I regret also that I purchased an additional 5k while Etherum was on a run up towards $100. Of course the transaction has cleared by my bank but still no coin... Buyer beware.
I'm surprised the author doesn't go into deeply nested maps and deep merges. That's an issue none of the languages solves natively.
Australian ATM fees are ridiculous, $0.50 for in-network and $2 for out (at CBA). On top of 0% interest too.
I work in the public sector in Scandinavia and some of our oldest systems still in service run on an old tandem. So some of it is pretty old.

This gives us some unique abilities in terms of modeling our productivity of course, because we started measuring before anyone thought up unit testing.

Over the past 15 years, unit testing has failed to produce anything positive, and test driven development has been an absolute disaster.

That being said, this isn't something which will be universally true. A lot of the software we use isn't build by us, and I'm certainly that a lot of the suppliers on that software use unit tests quite extensively.

For the things we build ourselves, however, there has been almost no value in adopting modern test philosophies.

You say that systems have to be able to be worked on 5 years from now, but the truth is that most of our systems transport data and rarely live 5 years without getting rewritten to deliver better performance, higher levels of security or simply because the business has changed completely. A lot of it hold very few responsibilities as well, making it extremely obvious what to fix when a service breaks.

Don't get me wrong, we've seen problems we wouldn't have with 100% coverage. But that doesn't matter when spending resources fixing them is still a net positive on every account.
>Are you talking about Victoria?

No, but it's a problem coast to coast, apparently.

>every time I actually try to access healthcare it seems to work much better than my friends led me to believe it would.

You sound healthy. Not everyone is so lucky.
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The Atlantic pointed out a few years ago that removing all the profit from health insurance companies would not make a significant dent in health care costs.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-ame...
heh good one.
They are evaluating the code in a sandbox to see what it is going to do - for example, is it going to download and run some payload or maybe add itself to autorun registry section. Many antiviruses do the same to discover obfuscated malicious programs.
passing 0 to f returns infinity (IEEE 754)

Not arguing the point here. It's just a terrible example.
The US may be the only rich western country without universal health care, but it is by no means the only one without single-payer. Germany, for example, has private health insurance[0] but everyone has to have insurance, public insurers have to accept everyone, and employers have to pay part of the cost.

[0] There's a distinction between "public" (gesetzlich) and "private" (privat) health insurance, but neither is run by the government. Public insurers are private organizations. The difference is in what is covered (all public insurers provide essentially the same cover), and how they are funded (the cost of public insurance depends on income, while private insurers can set their own prices). There is an income threshold below which one is required to take public insurance; private insurance is seen by many as kind of a scam. Private insurance is generally cheaper for young people, but one can't easily switch from private to public, so you'd better be sure your income will continue to be high as you get old and premiums go up.
Why the U.S. pays more for health care than the rest of the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXBPKE28UF0
Pirates was a fun little game. Another one that I loved growing up was Covert Action.

Only the electronics and breaking in mini-games were really any good, but the game was set up so that you could focus on those and pretty much ignore the others. I loved the whole mystery and trying to untangle the crime aspect with the different actors, as well as how if you took too long or looked in the wrong places you could miss capturing some of the bad guys, or even screw up the whole mission.
The impacts are several-fold:

* Inefficiencies in delivery mean that those for whom low-cost interventions are most beneficial, most especially pregnant women, and infants and children, don't receive preventive and supportive care which offsets future problems.

* High healthcare costs translate directly to high labour costs, exacerbating the competitve disadvantages American labour faces relative to the rest of the world, and obviating much or all of the advantage of the greater efficiencies of such labour.

* What health care services as are offered are, counter to my first point, late and heroic measures which do little to extend life or its quality, but keep sick patients alive longer. They are delivered largely based on capacity to pay, rather than social need.

* Programmes to increase overall community well-being, ranging from vaccinations, education, and other public-health measures, to treatment of drugs and drink addiction as medical rather than criminal problems, aren't provided. Entire towns and states fall victim to epidemics of entirely preventible conditions: measles, mumps, cervical cancer, HIV/AIDS, alcoholism, drink driving, heroin and opoids additions, cocaine and meth addiction.

* I won't even talk about mental health services. They are a national embarassment and shame to all Americans.

Instead, a handful of insurers, hospitals, drugs manufacturers, equipment manufacturers, and service providers (look up medical transport for an eye-opener) are skimming off fat profits whilst delivering little of actual value, and actively eroding the competitive and health viability of the country as a whole.
It certainly runs on .NET Core (I'm currently using it that way for a project); it just also runs on full-fat .NET, too. ASP.NET Core seems to break with that and only run on .NET Core.
My thoughts exactly; I can remember reading that the first time around on HN/Reddit.
ATM fees are unusual in the UK, as the parent post said, though we use the term "cash machine".

Using a cash machine is free, for the majority of cases — those in banks, supermarkets, shopping centres, railway stations and so on are run by one of the banks and are free for customers of all banks to use. It doesn't matter if the machine or customer is with/is a major bank or a small one, they're all on the same network and charge the same: £0.

The exception is captive markets. Cash machines within a stadium, nightclub or a convenience store often charge. I've never used one of these, it's so easy to avoid doing so.
In the UK, the vast majority of ATMs are free.
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Are you saying that Sweden does not have these problems? Based on what? Do you live there? Any facts?

US problems in health care are not the same as the Swedish problems. Different problems, different solutions.

Disclosure: I live in Sweden and follow the health care debate here.
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> Cause right now my life if god damn awesome.

Maybe, but Le Pen got a lot more interest than she should have. If the economy was roaring and France was "awesome" would that happen?
At least it's not as bad as Apple maps which don't even provide an option for cycling. Sigh.
Note that python3.4 is pretty old - in particular 3.5 fixed a few things - and 3.6 has been out a little while. So for anyone else that's coming into this for the first time, I'd recommend the latest stable, official python (3.6.1 at the time of this writing). The official python is built with/works with Visual Studio (the community version works fine) - and with hooking off "add python to path" in the python installer along with first installing Microsoft Visual studio command line build tools/compiler -- most regular python packages should install nicely with with pip.

For your own sanity, please do use "virtual environments" (venvs) -- now officially part of python:

python -m venv kivy-venv

Will create a python3 venv in a folder called "kivy-venv" -- that can be activated in powershell via the script: "kivy-venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1". Then commands like "pip" will be run in the context of that venv, and not mess with system python.

For reasons I don't fully understand, the official python binary on all other platforms, post python 3, is "python3", while on windows it remains "python". This leads to some additional conflicts on windows if both python 2 an 3 are installed.

You can also install python in your user profile - and if you do so, running the default installed pip outside of an activated python virtual environment will mess up your install (and/or fail).

Always use a venv when doing anything in python. The only exception is if you're creating your own linux/os distribution, and want python to power part of your distribution tooling (eg: the package manager, like "apt").
How often do you need non trivial procedures?

Surgical operations are split into 2 groups - planned and unplanned. In planned enter people that could wait a bit.

If there is good medical reason that you cannot wait you get the treatment on the spot.

You only have real waiting lists for transplants.
Remember, these are the people that came up with the System32 folder for 64-bit files, and SysWow64 for 32-bit files.
Well if we stop calling products insurance that are not insurance it might be a step in the right direction. I think catastrophic medical insurance should exist and that earns the name "insurance". What most people perceive as insurance is really a service plan. You pay a fee to have services selected on the plan to be available when you want them and you get provided with a list of those who can deliver.

Still the real bogeyman is just like income taxes most people don't see the cost first hand or don't associate it with their income. They see the final check value and somehow disconnect the costs.

The step is getting name insurance off of products that are not insurance
As previously mentioned, that metric is not at all helpful. Recently I ended up just committing a single digit for the day and researched all day what the appropriate number would be.
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Health care costs in the US did not start rising faster than the rest of the economy until the government got heavily involved in it in the 1960s.

The free market is not the problem.
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> There is no waiting lists or rationing

This is nonsense. Someone has to decide if a procedure is worth the cost. If it's not the patient (who isn't paying) and it's not an insurer (though who wants that?), it's the government.

Deciding a procedure isn't appropriate or worth the cost is rationing. In a bureaucratic system, you have bureaucrats deciding what procedures are for whom and when.
“In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious disease deaths occurred prior to the age of antibiotics. Less than 4 per cent of the total improvement in life expectancy since 1700s can be credited to twentieth-century advances in medical care.”

― Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12627.Laurie_Garrett
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Are you conflating the economy in general with healthcare simply because you have no argument?

Le Pen voters are angry for some part, yes. They're the ones with the fewest resources, yes. And you know what? They still get the same health care as anyone else.
Looking from the outside, it seems to me that the root of the problem is not about the health care in US, but about the prices of health related services and products? Prices are so inflated, hospital and medication bills are huge compared to what the same things costs in Europe or elsewhere.
The issue is relative efficiency. If I spend $500 more on treatment X in US vs. another country, that money is paying a healthcare employee, but the employee is also "paying" with their time. A more efficient system that needs less employees frees up other people to contribute to the economy in more ways. All of those extra people health insurance companies employ because they can get away with it would get other jobs and hence increase the total productivity.

The same argument applies to bloated costs of equipment. If a surgical sponge is $500 vs. $10 elsewhere, i doubt the added benefit justifies the extra $490. That $490 is coming out of someones pocket and its a complete waste.

This graph [1] also shows the same story. The return on investment measured by life expectancy in the US is pathetic. The extra money is just not helping... so its either being misused or stolen, probably both.

https://ourworldindata.org/the-link-between-life-expectancy-...
Waiting lists beat the status quo of "no procedures for you!"
Hmm... You're capitalizing "Unit Tests" like there's a need to distinguish the difference between those and what I infer is "code that was not Unit Tests that we ran to verify correctness". Am I correct? Are you drawing a distinction? Or did you truly have no code used to verify correctness? Or no automated way to test?
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Do you think the top 1% of Americans consume significantly more government services than an average 1% of Americans?

If not, why should consuming those services cost significantly more money?

It might feel right that rich people should pay more, but that's not how any other market works - why should government services be different?

EDIT: To all of the people saying rich people consume more government services than poor people: you're forgetting about welfare payments. In the UK this is the largest government expenditure, and it is consumed almost entirely by people who are not paying for it.
Okay, just upvoted you. Now i know why the cure was what it was, when i put the .exe in the other ( i thought wrong) folder...
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Why suggest reducing malpractice insurance and reducing malpractice compensation instead of reducing malpractice?
The internet is one of the greatest inventions to which we still have yet to see it's full potential harness. In step, The Fools who wish to control the world's repository of shared knowledge by trying to Repeal net neutrality,and there by allowing the few to control the many. Let me put it in terms the fools should under stand, a language their are familiar with "I'll give you my "net neutrality" when you pry it from my cold, dead hands".

The FCC should KEEP net neutrality rules. ISPs are fundamentally different from internet website providers like Google and Facebook. A consumer can choose not to use Google, but there is no way to opt out of using an ISP or allowing the ISP to see your private internet history. ISPs serve the same purpose as roadways, water pipes, and electricity wires. We do not want roads spying on where we drive or the electric company spying on which appliances we use at which times. We must also prevent ISPs from discriminating and charging different amounts to access different websites or throttling the speed of competitors' websites. We do not want roads charging different amounts for different makes of cars or electric companies charging different amounts to use one brand of dishwasher versus another brand. Net neutrality is good for human rights, privacy, consumers, and competition. Please DO NOT REPEAL net neutrality.
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There is also ClanLord[1] that is still going, more or less also with a fraction of the players that used to be there.

I used to be a GM on it, more than 15 years ago (!) -- it was one of the rare game on Mac as well, at the time when Mac weren't trendy at all..

[1]: https://deltatao.com/clanlord/
And then the scandals when it turns out these generics are fakes as happened in Africa with faked AIDS drugs or drugs with a nugatory amount of active ingredients
Interesting side note: A lot of those calculators have a fake solar panel and just run for years and years on a single battery.
> Socialism in healthcare

What you even mean by "socialism in healthcare" ? Is it a trigger-word for Americans so they switch off their brain ?

Anyway, in most west EU countries, public-run health care works very well. It's more efficient by a vast margin : no marketing cost, no middle-man overhead, no for-profit requirement.

In fact in France we are currently evaluating getting rid of private sector altogether, as recent reports showed it would be much cheaper and better overall.
> Getting employers out of the business of all of the above is paramount and what businesses should be lobbying for.

Amen. I never quite understood what benefit (pardon the pun) it served, although I've got some idea of the origins of employer-provided health insurance.

The cynical part of me believes it's definitely a way for larger companies to hold more control over their employees, and they may lobby for this because it provides an extra advantage over smaller competitors.

I've known plenty of really sharp/talented folks whose talents may better serve the economy by taking those skills to other companies (sometimes in other parts of the country). "But I'll lose my health insurance" is almost always a primary reason why people've stayed in their job (however crappy it might be otherwise re: pay, commute, colleagues, boss, industry, etc). This seems like it's been a real drag on labor mobility for some time now.

I would have thought 'conservatives' would be all over a 'free market' where people make their own choices with their own money. They'll happily deride a "nanny-state" as fostering people who just want the govt to provide them with everything, but ... expecting people to need employers to provide access to basic services? Apparently there's no problem there whatsoever, and it doesn't even seem contradictory to many I talk to.
> memory compression

Can Linux do that? I remember when OS X introduced it, performance improved notably because the system did much less paging. Would be nice to have that on Linux.

(Rephrase my question: If Linux can do that, do I have to take any special steps to enable it?)

EDIT: Nevermind, I should have thought of googling for it first!
> Wald's chapter about manifolds with Carrol's definition

You shouldn't be getting these definitions from physics books anyway.

Carrol's note are good to get a decent grasp on the subject and using them as a trampoline to reach higher levels.
I've been working on e-commerce platform that been around 7+ years with the same core logic.

Since we use DDD, we can swap out technologies but keep our core business logic.
To mitigate against the concern of parasitic capacitance raised by @pmoriarty, I would decouple the display layer from the computational layer using a shielding substrate.

You could get a very similar effect to what you're proposing if you used a future-version of a flexible OLED screen like the ones that LG[1] (and others) are beginning to produce. It's not exactly the case (yet) where you could fabricate it at home with your super cool electronics inject printer. It is, however, definitely a step in the right direction for giving enterprising people the ability to create open-source and bespoke tablets, phones, and other media devices that previously were only within the reach of very well-funded companies.

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[1] http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2015/05/19/80/05010...