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Appointed judges in Canada have worked out very well.

But they have to be appointed by a sane, non-partisan committee. US political hackery would probably make this untenable so maybe elected judges are the best options for them. Hmmm.
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Your prices may be lower than I've seen, though there are a lot of variables of course, not sure. But whether breaking even at 3 or 6 months is not much different.

I think the larger point (I'm now realizing) is that rental shops focus on monthly prices when it often doesn't make sense. Usually only already-furnished apartments can be had for a month or three. Unfurnished usually requires a full year lease, with only a fraction available for six months, say in downtown or a university town.

So, I might try lower monthly prices for a 6 and 12 month commitments. I think that would get me "over the hump" as a potential customer.
> Are you saying that Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement rates aren't public information?

Private insurer rates are definitely not public information, for any definition of "public".

Medicare reimbursement rates are sort of public, but not at the level of granularity you want. And a portion of that is because the question is not easily defined. For a given CPT code, Medicare might pay one of many different rates, depending on factors such as the geographic region, whether the provider operates in a CAH, whether the provider qualifies as a DSH, etc. That level of granularity is not easily accessible, and without it, there's no way to give meaningful example individual comparisons without running the risk of cherry-picking non-representative examples simply due to availability bias.

(Also, Medicare and Medicaid can't be lumped together. Medicare is a single, federal program that is administrated in four parts. Medicaid is a set of 50 different programs run at the state level, each of which can be administrated in more ways than I can count. The one thing that they all have in common here is that, like Medicare, they pay abysmal rates to providers, but the relationships that they have are even more complex - even in a single state, like New York, there are literally hundreds of different ways that Medicaid services can be provided, depending on the type of plan chosen.

Source: founded a company that had to abstract all of this complexity for patients, who were disproportionately on Medicare or Medicaid)
If I can't afford to buy it, I rent it :)
> Does anyone know how to look up what Medicare/Medicaid pays for particular procedures

Medicaid is separate state-run programs with different reimbursement policies in each state, and othe common federal rules governing the state programs include provider-specific (both cost and charges to the general public) limits, so, there is no simple “what rate Medicaid pays” for any service.

(And that's even before considering that in some states, a substantial portion of Medicaid is provided by private insurers who are paid capitated rates, not fee-for-sercice, by the states.)
50% (or whatever...) _subsidy_ is not a proxy for sole management and administration.

Funding _source_ notwithstanding, bills are paid to for-profit providers with limited exception (the VA being the main one).

Price caps are calculated as a function of the largely unrestrained market gouging of the oligopoly.

If you think that's a biased or histrionic description, consider this:

https://www.wallstreetdaily.com/charts/0715_HealthcareInsura...

Stunning growth in profits under Obamacare...

The fantastically under-reported reason that the GOP is struggling to find traction or indeed direction viz. undoing Obamacare, is that Obamacare as delivered represented a mostly fulfilled GOP wish list.

As a progressive, I would say: concessions to essentially print money were extracted at gun point from Dems willing to sacrifice much to pass a bill achieving specific key planks (namely the removal of 'preexisting conditions' and a strong step towards universal coverage).

The GOP walked with a bill they largely wrote. There is little left to want, other than yet more consolidation of wealth... and the roll-back of extremely popular benefits.

Watching this break into the open provides very cold comfort.
Ah good point. My expectation is that (unfortunately) he would probably get 0 dates. The online dating world is MUCH too competitive, to the point of absurdity.
What would you charge?
I am confused as to how a Canadian court could have any sway on search results in other countries? Is there even any legal precedent on the matter?
I once read an interesting story about the host* business. Apparently the dominant player is a for-profit business.

The competition is convents around the country that have traditionally supplied them to parish churches. Here you have organizations that are as non-profit as they come -- convents aren't like many hospitals where the CEO and other high level employees are raking off a huge salaries as quasi-profit. And the motives and priorities couldn't be any purer, their work is essentially in the service of what they consider the glorification of God.

Yet they are being out-competed by a for-profit company that explicitly tries to make on every sale in order to compensate the owners.

How do you explain this if you view profit as deadweight loss that can only be at the expense of customers?

Edit: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vvaeyb/the-surprisingly-c...

*The bread that is used during Catholic masses.
> I guess you are referring to the European Commission that is an executive branch of the EU institutions i.e. a government.

The difference is that the European Commission can create binding law that preempts national law, in the form of regulations.
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> is the inherent disproportionate power relationship between the company and their customer.

And the principle of "utmost good faith", which insurance companies abuse to remove cover after a claim, unfairly disadvantages many people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance_law#Utmost_good_fait...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uberrima_fides
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AFAIK, all of the TDD proponents would agree that lots (most?) glue code doesn't need to be covered by unit tests.
There is so little differentiating the real estate finding websites that something like this is enough for me to suggest to my home-searching friends to use a different service.
PC Chrome support is only in custom builds here: https://webvr.rocks/chromium
Works with SteamVR (OpenVR)

or here, the builds seem newer from the same google devs?
https://webvr.info/get-chrome/

Looks like they are hoping to get it in mainline soon:
https://github.com/toji/chrome-webvr-issues/issues/151
Falling out of love is big deal and reason to split, but hardly reflects badly on partners character the way racism and violence does.

If you are neat freak and she is systematically messy, than the relationship is bound to break or be lifelong hell. However, it is no violence and both partners can move to different successful long term relationship (this time being smarter and checking cleanness standards compatibility before first kiss).
Inexpensive, mass-market furniture is going to be hard to build a business around in this regard. A lot of rightful squawking about prices compared to Overstock/Wayfair.

What if you're targeting too downmarket with this?

What if instead you marketed heirloom-quality furniture at the same price point, but gave the option at the end of "leases" to purchase or relinquish that furniture. You get margin on the lease, get paid out for the rest of the asset if they buy, but if they don't, you have great inventory that you can mark down.

That would give frequent movers access to something better than wayfair/overstock/ikea without having to commit to a $3500 armoire if it doesn't match the aesthetic or lifestyle that they have after moving or growing.

Good luck and all!
Looks very nice, congratulations.
Exactly - if you want to make choices based off what's economically the best (studying CS), that's fine. But there's so much beauty in the world that is "impractical" to reach for (like studying music, art, seeing nature, etc)
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I have a question that I hope someone can answer for me. I've owned about a dozen or so digital currencies as far back as 2012. Ethereum is one I am still trying to understand. My question is this - How does the functionality of Ethereum (it's blockchain and all that comes with it), convert to the valuation of one ETH being worth $300, or $500, or $100, etc.? How will ETH (the digital currency) be used that will give it these valuations? I understand other currencies. Take Ripples XRP for example; the more banks that are transacting with XRP, the higher the demand is for XRP, which equates to a higher valuation of XRP. So how does Ethereum and ETH get their values? Can companies use Ethereums service without increasing the demand for ETH (digital currency)?
Right, but why did Eddy Nigg sell StartSSL to WoSign?

My guess is Heartbleed made him re-consider whether he wanted to keep doing ssl/tls certs, and once Let's Encrypt came along he started looking for a way to get out of it.
We changed the dialout number to 2 here. Problem solved.
I don't think that people in factory jobs are stupid, I think that the people I personally knew didn't spend much time on intellectual pursuits. There were a few notable exceptions and every single one of them left that kind of work.

The turnover rate is crazy--think double digit percentages per month. I can assure you that nobody stays very long on a production floor with no AC in a place with 120F summers if they can possibly avoid it.
Having it all in a list like that leads to some interesting comparisons.
Not much more. If the apartment is way up a walkup and we're carrying 4 dressers, 4 tables, 4 armoires, etc, we'll generally change the $99 delivery fee to $149.

Re damage: if you break something, we charge the cost of fixing the item. Since it's different for each item (ie. a small cut in the sofa vs reupholstering an entire sofa that had a bottle of wine spilled on it), it's difficult for us to explicitly state how much it would cost us for each type of damage. But we could certainly try.
Tim O'Reilly mentioned on twitter that he's not opposed to selling PDF's via a third party bookstore.

https://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/880472045137670144

I can only hope that a statement like this isn't used to pacify the masses until this issue is relegated to obscurity. In the mean time, I'm looking at other publishers (thank GOD that many of them I heaven't heard of are discussed here) for content and refuse to pay for a $400/yr safari subscription while NEVER REALLY OWNING ANYTHING.
Thanks for that link. For years, I've been arguing that animation is an accessibility issue, but the situation keeps getting worse. I hope that there is a way to enable that on Linux and Android.
Despite the occasional disadvantage of buying over renting, I always prefer to buy. Renting makes me question the extent to which I can use something, and it makes me fear the consequences of breaking it. Rather than investigate and remember the details of everything I choose to rent, I'd rather just own it in order to reduce cognitive load.
Thank you. Very good article, thank you for writing it!
Odd definition of luxury goods, which makes me wary of the division of necessity vs luxury:

The Deutsche Bank Research report defined luxuries as “goods or services consumed in greater proportions as a person’s income increases” and necessities as those goods or services that make up a smaller proportion of spending as a person’s income increases.
> Very roughly (it's more complex, but not worth more detail here) ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes are used for billing, and ICD-10-PCS procedure codes are used for institutional billing, as well. HCPCS (which include CPT) procedure codes are used for professional services billing.

Yeah, this is the rabbit hole I was hoping not to have to go down. :)

All I wanted to illustrate was that the desire for public health statistics could be satisfied without requiring a move to the flaws of the current billing model - they're different systems.

(And historically, the move to the current billing model came about primarily for reasons other than a desire for public health statistics).
Mine too. Wither, Dune....
So he mentions hard problems in game theory and computer science which have never been solved... with maybe a handful of people working on them... and he thinks it will get done some time before the end of next year?
Uber has met with SEC about giving drivers equity
How far are we away from making tiny robots that can float along in the blood stream and wirelessly beam back DNA and virus patterns they've identified?
True. If you are going purely functional I guess you wouldn't have much state to inspect. Plus in a stateless web server you generally want to avoid keeping state around on the server.

I remember one time, it was actually with Clojure, I had to deal with Paypal. Since paypal only sent results back to the server and not to localhost I couldn't debug the problem locally. So I connected to the server, bunged all the debug information into an atom and made a few requests. Then I could inspect the atom, make some changes and find out what the problem was and fix it right away. It took just a few minutes.

At about the same time I was also working on a C# server. There was a bug there that could only reproduce itself on the server. To fix that bug I had to put a load of logging into the source. Check the file into source control. Wait for the CI system to build and deploy. Then kick off some requests. Inspect the log files. Make some changes. Check in.. wait.. etc.. It took days to fix that bug.

Admittedly the Clojure project was mine on my own server and the C# project was on some corporate enterprise behemoth so there were other factors that hindered that project, but it did highlight to me how much quicker you can get stuff done when you have that instant feedback.

When I say inspect the state, generally I just mean inspecting the values of global variables. In CL it is possible to put breakpoints in the source and inspect all the variables up the stack. Mind you, this can be a bit hairy on the server if there are multiple people connected as there is no guarantee as to whose Slime connection will pick up the breakpoint.

The round trip edit is pretty similar to Clojure. You would generally have your source file open in Emacs, change the source code and press Ctrl+CC with the cursor in your function definition to apply your edits to the server. Then you save the file and check it in to source control. You don't have to type directly into the repl.

You don't have to work like this if you don't want to. Without mentioning any names, it has been known for the server image to be completely out of sync with the state of the source files to the point where there weren't really any source files. The work around was to just treat the server image as the master source of truth. Luckily in CL you can just dump the image to create a new executable with its current state. So for several years this one server existed only as a constantly updated binary image. I wouldn't recommend working like that, but it has been done.

Depending on your implementation - I know Clozure CL at least allows this - you can extract the source code out of the running image. So it is certainly possible to propogate back to master source. It was eventually how this one server was restored to a more orthodox source code tree..
After watching the video from the Kafka Summit talk https://www.confluent.io/kafka-summit-nyc17/introducing-exac...

it's an essentially-useless guarantee for any sort of Kafka consumer that interacts with an external system.

Exactly-Once is not something that can be provided-for or delegated-to an arbitrary, non-integrated system. For an "integrated" system, it requires idempotent behavior, in which case it's really At-Least-Once, so...
and one for every time you suspect johnc said "Ayum" while thinking
I 100% agree with being oneself but there are some unfortunate human pitfalls which prevents human beings from communicating their true value to others quickly and in an attractive manner. e.g. A guy may be kinda sorta balding, but he might turn out to be the best dad in the world. How is he supposed to convey that value to his potential mates?

This is why I recommend at least paying lip service to notions of fashion and social behavior. One doesn't need to become an outgoing extrovert, only to be able to use the signals that society associates with attractive mates. For males, this is: confidence, good style and posture, hygiene etc.
How to find the best hotels and apartments on a budget while traveling the world
(Don't know their expenses, however if they don't pay rent downtown they should be saving some money.)

High fees go hand in hand with the high risk they are taking of not being paid back. Everyone has to chip-in or the model doesn't work.
I assume that should have been http://debune.org/
>Uh, do you not support democracy? Because how else do you have a democracy except to vote for elected representatives, and you have DIRECT control of doing so through voting?

In some countries you vote to a candidate to a position but in many countries that still call them democratic you can not.

For example you could vote for a candidate into the parliament but the actual members of the parliament are selected based on a formula that sets higher preference for the candidates more upward in the voting list.

Another example. You vote for a candidate but this candidate also belongs to the party X and when this party gets majority in the parliament, the leader of this party gets appointed (by president (possibly elected by previous parliament) king/queen) to form a government. Members of such government are commonly not voted by electorate but are selected by the leader of the government or by some other agreements. So you definitely can not have direct control over selection of members into the government.

In most dramatic case the leader of the party can step down and another one out of the blue gets the change to play the lead of the state to advance her agenda.

>I'm not really anti-EU. I don't much care, whatever keeps that continent from boiling over in war

And UK just increased the change to get into the war with continental Europe or part of it.
I know the main thrust of the post is building a complex visual test harness, but:

.ellipsis {
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}

> In both my application code and my unit test, I’ve mistakenly written .ellipses. Unfortunately, all the unit tests pass.

I kinda feel like a graceful way to handle this particular error is to acknowledge that "ellipsis" is a word that is super easy to misspell, and either declare this class to apply to both the proper word and the misspelling that's going to constantly get scattered throughout the codebase, or to pick another name entirely such as ".truncated" or, I dunno, ".elided" maybe?

Naming stuff is hard.
Microwaves. Remember to put the wire meshes to your windows before entering the powered section...
How is the vibrating alarm? Is it a nicer experience in the morning?
umm the brute force more or less learned from the humans, that's how it narrowed down the search space to a manageable level. it's not as if cracked the entire search space all on its own as the search space on its own is quite a bigger than something that even the most powerful computers can tackle.
Looking at the response headers, could they be inferring the timezone based on what cloud front server the user hits?

Edit: This is probably way over thinking it, but here are the Amazon data center IP's. Search "CLOUDFRONT" https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json to see the list of regions.
> Nobody can tell you because nobody knows. And nobody can know.

That's definitely not the case, because they have to know in order to bill you. To get us back on the same page, let's rescope and consider only elective procedures and primary care.

Your example is extraordinary and could be specifically excluded. Even if I got a treatment plan with equivocating language about "risk of procedures / changes / infections / etc" and all that noise at least I could make an informed decision about which treatment plan I think is appropriate.

The guff I was sold when we were shoved to high deductible plans a ~decade or so ago was that we could make decisions about our healthcare. They come up with BS estimates or treatment calculators that are from the insurer and not the provider.
The Google News redesign makes reading the news difficult. My 24 inch vertical monitor- right have nav has 11 inches x 3 1/4 inches of blank grey space. Too much blank space to content ratio. You had one job...
Question: what is the relationship (if any) between TCP and the Two Generals Problem?
The same is happening to Taiwan (stuttered growth; in-fighting, etc.). The issue is deeply rooted in local power-wielding elites conspiring or opposing the ruling government. It has nothing to do democracy. The riches have already allocated some of their wealth elsewhere (see Canada and Australia), so they don't really care. It's always easy to blame it on Beijing, isn't it?
For sure. I was surprised to end up using iBooks for coding books. Had assumed Kindle would be better, but they weren't for a few key reasons.

This isn't just one seller leaving the field, it means that there will be no more DRM-free (legit) versions of a wide swath of development books.

A sad day.
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A NYC insurance startup is doing the slog of rolling out one state at a time:

https://www.lemonade.com/lemonade_goes_nationwide
Tontines – How They Work and Are They Legal?
IP geolocation - try it from a proxy.
Basic economic theory probably should be a requirement.

One of the purposes, it seems, of primary education, is to impart a kind of basic literacy of the world. Software is in everything, ergo.

It would be nice if everyone graduating high school understood the law of supply and demand, or wrote some loops.
Things I miss from Firefox:

1. The search/URL bar was much better at predicting the page I wanted

2. When downloading a file I can just click "Open" rather than having to navigate to a temp directory, save it, then open it, then delete it later.

3. Password manager was in the toolbar. In Chrome it involves several mouse clicks and scrolls, and doesn't stand out at all.

4. When saving a file Firefox remembers the last directory used on a per website basis.

5. Delayed loading of tabs until they're clicked (as an option), as well as "reload all tabs"

6. All those extensions, but it looks like even Firefox is making most of the existing ones incompatible now.
Sounds reasonable, add it to the FAQ. ;)
> they will have a temporary tower up in a few hours.

This entirely depends on location. A lot of major WECC locations are remote and would take a crew a long time to get there.

> substations fail once in a while.

What do you mean by this? Usually substations are fed from diverse lines, so a single incoming line outage, or XFMR (usually N+1) failure is able to easily be absorbed.
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