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> We allow suppliers to set prices however they want, but we mandate that insurance buy the thing, which essentially gives them no negotiating leverage.

As far as I can tell, it's the opposite -- insurers have the most negotiating power by virtue of aggregated information about pricing and services and a revenue stream that's subscription/toll rather than service.

Patients are limited in their power to negotiate with providers by some combination of largely inelastic demand (nothing's more valuable than life itself, full health or as close to it as possible is a close second) and a lack of expertise (how do you know what you can forgo or substitute?).

Providers are in a better position (and generally do somewhere from pretty well to very well), but often carry heavy investment costs and must continue to provide services to collect fees.

> mandate that insurance co profits are a fixed percentage of insurance premiums, so they don't have any incentive to negotiate low prices anyway

This is only true to the extent that (a) they've already maxed out that profit and (b) don't have any other constraints. When you're suddenly forced to community rate, have new customers who've probably been under/uninsured joining your pool, have new care requirements to meet, dealing with an absence of lifetime limits, and limited in your ability to raise premiums without approval among other things, there might well still be financial incentives to reduce costs.
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MIT still doesn't have a computer science major. LOL
(downvote me all you want, it's the truth. i don't know or care what fucked up internal politics prevents a pure computer science major, but its a major disservice to the students)
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It's the anomaly of QE, which diverted so much of the institutional private capital from essentially zero-yielding debt markets into private equities markets.
I was just pondering about this. I imagine that moving a coefficient a small amount (and so long as the roots are not too close) that Newton-Raphson, initialized with a previously-known root, would converge very quickly to the new root while preserving the order.

If there truly are roots of multiplicity >= 2, then preserving the order of the multiple roots doesn't matter. Another issue is that Newton-Raphson might fail if the roots are too close.
I understand your PoV. I would say it would be extremely rare for a woman (or man) to make baseless accusations from uncertain interpretations.
People who bring forward accusations are typically people who've had the same untoward thing done to them repeatedly.

That said, one has to acknowledge there are genuinely malicious people --but they typically have a pattern and it will not be their first time making false accusations.
> When he needs to meet with women at work or his church, he makes sure doors are left open and another person is present.

Saint-Simon, the memorialist descibing life at the court of Louis XIV of France in the late 17th century, tells how, when the King had a meeting with his current mistress, he would leave all doors open so that no one would wonder about what was going on.

The problem was, when the King met with other women (or men) he would have the doors closed, so the fact that the doors were open was a tell! ;-)
Some people are questioning your math - I think this is due ambiguity in the expression, "Administration of the US health system alone accounts for about 7% share of total spending". My initial thought was this meant 7% of GDP, but it seems the OECD article means 7% of health spending.
Personal I guess but I see no difference in my life in that aspect between then and now.
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>> One accusation of ill-doing on my part and my life is essentially over.

Not sure why the downvotes either. I have personally witnessed a man in the office be fired for "sexual harassment" shortly after escalating an accounting audit issue. It is the easiest corporate weapon to use, and the default assumption is you are guilty. Even easier against awkward men who people love to hate.
Evolution does not necessarily move towards optimal systems, by any definition. It may find local optima, but the process has no guarantees it's moving towards a global optimum.
It's not easy.

Social relationships where there are strict rules of engagement (e.g., professional environments) and where the other person is different than you (e.g., power, sex, age, familial background, religion, etc.) can be extremely difficult to navigate. Dealing with these relationships isn't "natural," and going into it solely based on gut feeling often ends badly. The good news is that it can be taught and learned from experience, but sadly, many receive neither.
Wasn't the problem less about his personal dining habits, and more about cutting off female lobbyists, given his role in politics? No-one cares if Bob down the road is uncomfortable eating 1:1 with a woman not his wife, because he's not a political powerbroker.
Fair enough, I see now. I thought OP was saying that administrative costs would bounce back that quickly, not overall costs.
A couple of animation that feel good to me are:

* fading the screen around a popup or other notification that must be acknowledged. I think this serves well to direct the attention.

* moving/shooting a message out of the screen to show it's being send somewhere. Apple Mail does that as well.

* Highlighting a part of a list that was changed by an action. Fading it out after a single row has been deleted for example.

None of this should ever take more than about 0.5-1 seconds, with the exception of the send-notification maybe, that signals/celebrates the end of a longer task.
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Isn't this a satire website? The next article is named "Leaving the fridge door open to halt global warming".
It's a cultural issue with Americans. There seems to be a belief there that equality is not really equality but a battle of the genders imo. Women and men alike obsess over the differences and have very traditional dating structures/marriages. Gender equality in Europe makes the states look like a joke
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I hope you're joking, but if you're not, that sounds like a horrible idea to me.

Being a woman, and having had 1:1's with male managers for pretty much my entire tech career, I've never heard of this happening. I don't know what spiritual vulnerabilities you are talking about, but in terms of ethics if you can't work with a female employee, you shouldn't be a manager.

You're basically telling the person that you can't trust them enough to be alone with and honestly communicate with them when times are good. What happens when things get difficult?
Two surprises about this article: 1 - 25% of women think it's inappropriate to have a work meeting with a man. 2 - 41% of men think it's appropriate to have a drink one-on-one with a women.
As dumb as it is, it's also the only reason you are alive. Some people see their main goal in life as to find the best partner they can.

Sex is closely related IMO.
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I agree that a 3% reduction in total health spending would not make a single payer system worth it.

Hypothetically, if that figure was 30% would you be in favour of a single payer system?
My personal opinion, like some of the others, is diversify out of tech. You can still work in tech, of course, and I suggest to stop putting all your hopes/desires/fears into the "tech" basket. Try investing in a non-tech project/venture like: woodworking, dancing, public speaking, rock climbing, organizing, run for office, volunteer, teach, coach sports, throw dinner parties, learn a spoken language, learn to draw, design an album cover, do street art, unicycle, juggle, start a band, foster animals, etc... Investing in tech has diminishing returns, pun intended. If you choose to go this way, try to detach yourself from deadlines and monetary compensation. If something has deadlines or monetary compensation attached, it is not a hobby, it is a part-time job (or worse). Accept that competition, even if you succeed in getting better, becomes asymptotic as you approach the right side of the curve - you will likely never be a Jeff Dean or Shel Kaplan or Bill Joy or Dave Cutler, eat some Jimmy Dean for breakfast... Celebrate your unique abilities. And share your life with others: some of my poor (usually liberal arts major friends) have a rich network of diverse friends and acquaintances that makes their life interesting.

Good luck!

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> Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.
Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!” “Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”
>> People who bring forward accusations are typically people who've had the same untoward thing done to them repeatedly.

Sounds like you've already pre-inclined towards a guilty party then, before you even heard evidence from both sides. And if there is no evidence, the man is in a world of trouble.

I have personally witnessed a man in the office be fired for "sexual harassment" shortly after escalating an accounting audit issue. Convenient timing and very effective way of dealing with an accounting issue.
Such an irrational fear, like worrying about getting hit by lightning on the way to the shops.

Also goodluck convincing anyone that I sexually assaulted someone. People wouldn't be able to take you seriously after a claim like that.
That's great! I had bought several of your books from O'Reilly -- I will head to your store directly then in the future.
I've studied, taught, interviewed, hired, and worked with many computer science majors from both sides of the system. There's no rule to quickly compare the two in terms of how useful they are in the industry/a research lab.

For example, I've found the average MIT or Stanford BSc to be in a similar league as the average French student from a top 5-year school (eg INSA Lyon, Polytechnique, ETH Zürich, etc).

On the other hand, the average engineer out of a state university BSc is not quite as good as the average engineer out of a French public university licence program.
There's value in cross-platform, sure. I stuck with Dropbox because they have Linux and Mac clients.

But aren't there whole government departments and other very big customers that are pretty much single-platform, usually Windows?
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First of all, "the best doctors" may not be better for outcomes overall:

https://www.google.com/amp/www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut...

Secondly, other countries have more doctors and hospital beds per patient. That whole refrain about "we get better service for the money" really starts to sound hollow when you realize that, at some point, everyone having a hospital bed is better than half the people having a super amazing hospital bed.
Please, no. Manufacturers will use this to force selling us new equipment every 2-3 years. It's a very bad solution.
How do you avoid being the type of person a thief targets? Is it a brawny/threatening look, or just not using an iPhone in public?
> You'll lose your job.

The default outcome in he-said-she-said, no other proof is no action from HR.

On the other hand, if it's he-said-she-said-she-also-said-she-also-said-she-also-said...

Or if it's he-said-she-said-and-also-has-texts-and-emails...

People involved in the latter two... Do love to claim that it was just he-said-she-said. Until the counterparty brings undisputable evidence to the table.
Yeah the drink thing is definitely inappropriate.
I wrote this when the Pence story broke in March.

>>>>>>>>>

I wanted to write this yesterday, but thankfully I didn't, because Jia Tolentino did a much better job than I would have in the New Yorker.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/mike-pences-m...

What bothers me about Pence's "no meals alone with women who aren't my wife" and "no working late with female aides" rules isn't that he's trying to protect women from himself. He rightly understands that he's a powerful man, and many women have been harmed, sexually or otherwise, by people remarkably like him. Kudos to Mike Pence for getting that, even if he also doesn't get that many men have been harmed in just the same way.

What bothers me is that he (apparently) pays no heed to the question of how to protect women from himself while still ensuring they can have equitable careers. "You go home, honey; Jack will stay and help me" is saying that women and men have different roles to play in Pence's staff, and that's quintessential sexism (and may be illegal). And as the article points out, "no successful woman could ever abide by [Pence's no-meals-alone rule]."

Anyway this article frames the issue really well.
That presumably puts a real damper on the sort of direct communication and private feedback 1:1s are supposed to support.
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What a way to live... From the US are you? Nothing wrong with that but it seems a US thing. How can we close the gender gap when people think like you?
But universal benefits pay everyone, which remove all incentives.
Ah, wasn't it aborted?
I don't doubt that can happen --there are vindictive, retributive people out there. That kind of person would not need a 1:1 or drive home, etc., to bring forward an accusation.
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There are a lot of ways it could be made appropriate, e.g., group setting, a long work-history together, very equal power dynamic. But the idea of a superior bringing out a female for a drink one-on-one is almost certainly a recipe for disaster. Go for lunch, coffee, or a game of golf instead.
Not the OP but when I'm overseas I try to blend in in terms of attire and so on (dress down and don't be flashy). I mean, dress like normal locals dress.

Basically don't stick out as a shining target.
Very nice, Thank you
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Hit the nail on the head. Americans are in constant battle, whether sex, sexual orientation, race, religion, etc. It's not as 'equal' as it seems, and if it is, it's because persons go out of their way to cater to those groups. It would be nicer just to see them no differently at all, but I digress.
It helps to understand features of conservative religious communities:

1) sex, marriage, and family are still inseparably linked and are believed to be foundational to life and human flourishing. Thus, breaking marital vows reflects a profound failure of character.
2) individuals within Convervative Christian have a deep mistrust of their own capacity to resist moral failures.

From my conversations, the individual isn't avoiding awkward situations but fears that, should a mutual attraction develop, he would potentially lack the moral resolve to stay faithful.

Interestingly enough, I've talked to a few conservative Christian counselors with 25+ years of counselling experience about this issue. They all responded that they actually felt more strongly than when they started counseling about avoiding circumstances that would allow romantic relationships to develop because they had seen so many people ruin their families, reputations, and careers this way.

Outside Christian communities, sex, family, and marriage are not inherently related so the priorities seem bizarre or sexist. it largely boils down to a different understand of what it means to he human.
> Remind me never to air my concerns in public again.

If losing a couple of imaginary internet points is all it takes to retract your comments... how strongly do you hold those opinions in the first place?

Downvotes just mean disagreement. If more people disagree than agree with you, well, welcome to the ghosted text. But so what? It just means that your opinion is a minority opinion amongst the people who cared enough to click one way or the other.
DMX512 runs at 250 kbit/s, so yeah, "not a lot". I've usually seen standard rackmount gigabit switches in installations, when I was involved in touring audio it was usually fanless consumer switches (think 8-port netgears), but these weren't for ethernet snakes.

In terms of data, audio multicores over ethernet and video content distribution/playout massively dwarfs the bandwidth that lighting uses. But when it goes down, everyone notices.
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> The default outcome in he-said-she-said, no other proof is no action from HR.

There needs to be more justification to this statement. What happens in HR is basically a black box to most people.
Sorry to hear about what you went through. Any tips about how you recovered, or what you would have done differently?
You are talking about a superior; then you have to be a bit more careful. What if equal colleagues? I cannot why that is a problem. It is just a drink.
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It's not really about trust. It's just business and mutual protection.

I'm not sure which way to feel on the issue, but it's hard to deny that the recently reported harassment happened while both the victim and the abuser were alone together, or shared a private channel of communication. If you eliminate this aspect, you might eliminate the harassment along with it. That seems like a positive outcome.

In practice, that may not be achievable, or it might be a bad idea for other reasons. But anything that results in a positive impact seems worth considering.
I'm not sure I see what point you are trying to make?

It's been shown, especially recently, that HR and legal are not necessarily on the side of employees wronged by sexism in the workplace. Harassment training is an ongoing joke.

Or are you saying in other jobs men and women are less likely to work together alone, so people might think it's more inappropriate?
> what's their value proposition in 2017?

I have been paid user of Dropbox for now 4+ years. The reason I have stuck with it because "It works! plain and simple." I have tried other storage services like Google, iCloud and Box. But none match the simplicity, consistency, invisibility, cross-platform, seamless features of Dropbox. Google is untrustworthy because you never know when they discontinue any service. They have no concept of customer service. They might well be running by robots. I experienced Box at work, forced by the work IT group. IT wasn't very willing to hand out Box accounts unless you can justify business use case , people who used it didn't like it. Box interface was always in your way if you wanted to do anything stored in Box, few extra clicks to do anything. Most people who needed to collaborate used free Dropbox to get around all restrictions. iCloud is okay but only seems to work with Apple ecosystem. I still can't figure out how to access files in iCloud from my Mac and iPhone. Works great for photos and contacts but not so much for files. While Dropbox has released new features, I have never bothered with any.

IMO, Dropbox need to continue focusing their service seamless. There only mistake was to not go after business/enterprise earlier. They could have killed Box easily. While Box was hiring consultants and Enterprise sales people to pitch to IT groups (top down) Dropbox had the mindshare of employees (bottoms up). They were Dropbox champions, just Dropbox failed to leverage that in enterprise.
I like this.

Let us encourage people everywhere to ask more questions. We need it badly.
> can you imagine the existence of such a person

I am acquainted with the "precious snowflake" theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Snowflake). I was hoping it wasn't true. Alas.
If it's copied, they likely copied it entirely because trying to remove bits of the lithography mask is expensive and time consuming. Since it's not normally scene there's no use in spending the time or money to change it if you can get the mask.
This is not what the OP was talking about, though. I do know about faking wood barrel ripening with wood flakes and I heard about "polverina", but the latter is, for what I know, something of the past (and the Ethanol scare in Italy played a large role in taking it out of the game, for what I know).

In other words: "the plural of anecdote is not data" - I would like to get to the source and understand better the "flavored yeasts" claims. And also see what countries the article was talking about.
Very nice! The covering transforms have similar structure to the Galois theory. It is cool to see them in action visually.
If it's done properly, there are alternatives. Instead of having drinks one-on-one, you invite a mutual friend, or you go for lunch, coffee, or a jog. I don't think these alternatives are natural to most people, but I do think they can be taught. In good organizations, they are.
Tell yourself this daily: "Quit being a corporate lackey. This company doesn't care about me they only want to extract value from my labor."
Defence contractors on matters of national security?

Advocates for refugees or political asylees?

I'm not saying I don't like your suggestion. I'm trying to find examples where the transparency might not be likely or a positive development. And then ask: how would you handle those cases? Specific carveouts? Time-delayed disclosures?
I know it's not polite to ask about downvotes on HN but I'm also unsure why you where so quickly downvoted. I personally don't feel the same way you do, but I also don't think you said anything rude or outlandish.

As a small counter to your post though, I've read some articles recently talking about the importance of general social networking and one on one mentoring in some professions with the point being made that if men in power in these professions adopt a stance of not being alone with women, this could impact women's ability to progress professionally compared to their male peers. I think it's important that if you adopt such a stance, and are in a position of power, that you find ways to mitigate the unintended effect it may have on women.

I actually have a male friend who was accused of harassment by a female subordinate that was later decided in his favor. Being gay, happily married, and from what I know of him a very good employee and boss, surely helped his case. After this incident he stopped all outside of work one on one meetings, but he did so with both men and women so no one is adversely impacted by his choice.
I've worked in retail, in warehouses, in call centres, as a medical technician, and now in tech, and never with a half-decent HR dept. At no point in any of my jobs was there a norm for people to be wary of 1:1 meetings with the opposite gender.
I use downvotes to signify that content was off-topic or against the site guidelines. I am guilty of upvoting due to agreement or if someone put a lot of effort into a articulate response.

But. While I might be a minority with these beliefs, shouldn't people be offering me counter-arguments instead of downvoting? It feels bad to not have a dialog. "You're wrong imo" is not a very useful reply; and that's all you get with downvotes.
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