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Market competition? As if the US healthcare market was free recently? Nowadays, many educated people believe that without the ACA, the US healthcare market is a laissez faire system, which is why it has so many problems.

This could not be further from reality.

We have more government distortions in our healthcare market than countries with completely socialized healthcare. For example:

Medicare: socialized medicare for the elderly, which alone creates more distortion than a universal program would cause, by inflating demand/prices for non-qualifying citizens.

Medicaid: socialized healthcare for specially qualifying poor people, which creates the same distortion as Medicare.

An oppressive FDA: which, coupled with overly-powered IP laws, grants de-facto monopolies in the medical product industry. We have an incredibly expensive and subjective medical equipment pre-approval process (as compared to a less-terrible FDA that would just be in charge of labeling, preventing fraud, and maintaining accountability in the event of incidents). Then there's the length and flexibility of patent protections in our current system (maybe we could cut those protection times in half, and patent trolling would not be a lucrative industry).

Oppressive occupational licensing: It's way too hard to become a doctor of any kind, even the kinds that don't manually put things into your heart. This will be a major battle as AI comes to the point where it can better diagnose conditions and largely replace generic/non-specialized pediatrics. Of course, the government will not make this easy.

Plus a slew of more minor things like malpractice regulation, and now the ACA (which is not so minor, and which will apparently be replaced with something similar and even messier).

If we cleaned up/removed all of the problems in the above and replaced it with single payer, it would be OK and we would have something similar to Canada/other countries with long wait times, not as much access to specialists, slow innovation, and a system where a government bureaucrat gets to decide who gets the last liver transplant and who dies. That would be a less distorted market than we have today, but ONLY if accompanied by fixing the aforementioned problems.

OR we could try going the free-ish market approach and try to find a much freer balance with the FDA/USDA/occupational-licensing/scrap Medicare/Medicaid,etc., which we do not currently have AT ALL. And maybe even declare health insurance fraudulent and pay everything out of pocket (accident insurance makes more sense as a hedge against risk, which is what insurance is supposed to be, whereas all people are expected to develop health problems at some point, with a probability approaching one).
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(Not to imply that it's a bad service - just meaning that the CAC is a lot higher for Blue Apron than an iOS app - they have fewer, but more valuable, customers.)
Yes, but you need vitamin supplements.
This is only half the story. The chips discussed in the article do the basic function advertised, but may not have the same tolerances as the genuine chip. But there are other types of counterfeits out there.

When we "recycle" our e-waste, much of it ends up in large landfills in China, where very poor workers melt down old boards, remove chips, and sort them by size and pin count. They then use a machine to scrub off the label and print on a new label of whatever part they want to market (usually obsolete parts that can't be bought from the original manufacturer). These end up in the supply chain of even reputable distributors. Amazingly, some of these counterfeits have made there way into military equipment, and as a result, there's a whole division of Homeland Security that conducts tests on suspect computer chip shipments entering the US.
Interesting, confirmed my bias from read of abstract.
Presumably those on the right would be much less likely to take MDMA. (I'm sure you are not suggesting doping them without consent, since that would be unethical.)
here is the problem I have with the way it was done before this bill was passed:
The EPA was allowed to used scientific research that was not publically available for review.
This seems contrary to everything I have been taughgt about critical thinking and the scientific method of research
Am I wrong?
What about brainfuck?
Yeah, maybe if they'd picked people who actually drank wine on a regular basis they'd have had different results. You can't tell me with a straight face that white wine and red wine taste the same.
Okay, why is it helpful? Or it is just for entertaining?
If their system is anything like in Quebec (probably is), the three year is the same as a 4 year (or 4 is the same as 5 for engineers).

In Quebec there's a stage between secondary school, and post secondary which lasts 2-3 years.

In terms of years, it looks like this:
Primary:1-6
Secondary:6-11
Pre-Post Secondary: 12-13
Post Secondary 14-17(14-18 for engineering/etc.)

In the end they are equivalent, however differently structured.
I quick search for "how many servers google" pops up 900,000 servers. My guess they would be CPU based.

The current state of the art in Bitcoin mining is to use ASICs designed for Bitcoin mining. ASICS have speed capable of reaching 60GH/S (60 billion hashes per second) or more, which is over 1,200 times faster than the average computer.

So divide your 900,000 by 1200 and we get 750.

So Googles entire CPU based servers pointed at Bitcoin would generate the equivelant of only 750 ASICs.

I imagine some of the larger Bitcoin mining farms have many more ASICs than this.
Do you mean we end up with a labeled chip whose insides are something completely different, and so won't ever work?
Surely that doesn't happen this way. It must be many times cheaper to just buy empty packages than to clean up old ones?
Yeah that's more my line of thinking.

Have a job ready but ask for a promotion without revealing that you have an offer. If they promote, great. If they don't, just leave. If they delay or waffle over the decision, leave. The delay tactics are to pressure the employee psychologically to reveal that he/she has an offer and needs to know about a promotion decision by such and such date.

Also it's a good idea to do this around the time of the company's annual review/promotion period (it's not easy to have perfect timing but good to try).
They specifically mention using it for inspiration and/or data.
Take one day at a time. Do your best and trust that it's good enough. Every month that you continue to get a paycheck will prove that you are good enough to be where you are. (Or maybe your really are an imposter, and your superiors, being even greater imposters, are unable to spot this. But in the end it doesn't matter since you still get a nice and steady paycheck).

Don't put the weight of the world on your shoulders. Usually, when working on a team, your personal successes or failures don't make or break the project. Also keep in mind that your teammates also have their personal successes and failures. You'll carry each other.
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Optimal for whom? May be it does move to optimality, but not for humans, so human science does not find it.
It's a term from the Socratic canon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher_king
Actual title is "Ti NE555 - real vs fake : weekend die-shot".

Current title "Chinese fake microchips hit rock bottom with 7¢ Ti NE555" is bad IMHO.
I think the results of that study have been badly misinterpreted. If anything, the conclusion you should draw is that most of the words used to describe wine have nothing to do with the actual flavours or odours of the wine, and so are pretty meaningless. You can't say that the students were fooled into thinking the red-dyed wine was red wine unless you asked them "is this wine red or white?"
You can still do this in macOS [1]. It's one of the first things I change on any new MacBook, along with remapping Caps Lock to Control.

I'm not sure why Apple doesn't present this as a main option instead of burying it in the settings.

In my opinion, it's a significant usability & productivity improvement. Three finger drag makes selecting text a breeze, along with quickly moving applications across monitors.

Having to maintain pressure while awkwardly moving your finger across the touchpad, while simultaneously appeasing the force touch gods, seems rather uncivilized.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204609
And here I am trying not to look pissed off at everyone around me because they're sitting there doing little to no work, talking, and making noises.
Yes there are known instances of parts being remarked as something completely unrelated.
Oreilly lets you download drm free copies though? You're not "removing" anything if it doesn't exist in the first place. That's the source of my confusion here.

I won't comment on DMCA regulations.
I assume there's another capacitor inside the blue one too. Matryoshka capacitors!
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The public value of the anti-authoritarian sentiment as an externality of psychedelic use could be quite high, depending on what it could prevent in our future.
You should change bank ^^.

Personally, I've moved two times and I didn't have to do the close/open/cheque stuff. And the direct debit authorization I've since before the first move keep working.

As for cheques, It's very rarely used, I still use the first chequebook I was given when I opened my bank account more than 10 years ago. I've never experienced the "pay by cheque" at the super market since I was a child. Cheques are used in very few situations, the last I encountered was for the "solde de tout compte" when I left my previous job.
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Source, please?

(I am Italian, my family used to own a small vineyard so I have some hands-on experience on wine making, albeit we made it only for our own family).

I find the part about "yeasts" a bit difficult to believe, but I have been wrong in the past so I would like to find out more.
"I can go to an average grocery store that is far larger than just about anything I've seen in all my European travels"

How is this relevant?
The recent FDA judgement is that basically vaping should be regulated identically to cigarettes.[1] You might think that's pretty reasonable. It would be, except that for this part (which also applies to cigarettes):

> Today’s rule also requires manufacturers of all newly-regulated products, to show that the products meet the applicable public health standard set forth in the law and receive marketing authorization from the FDA, unless the product was on the market as of Feb. 15, 2007

So cigarette products made before 2007 (which is most of them, but predates most vaping) are grandfathered in and can be sold without expensive review. (As can "substantially equivalent" products.) But any vape product is required to go through the "new tobacco product application" process.[2] That process is (apparently) very expensive and can result in rejection anyways.

Anyway, we all know cigarettes are bad. We don't have real data on how good or bad individual vaping products are. I think that in all likelihood, at least some of them will be less harmful than smoking. The FDA has taken the stance that all vape products should be banned until they go through the premarket research.

You can understand why vape businesses are upset.

(I'm not affiliated with any of these businesses and don't use any of their products, just follow it all with mild interest.)

[1]: https://www.fda.gov/newsevents/newsroom/pressannouncements/u...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premarket_tobacco_application
The riskiness of the dotcom boom of the 90s crashed so hard it spent the entire stock market into a downward spiral. Maybe it makes sense to have those kinds of risks taken largely in private markets for accredited investors only.
If laptop makers really want to differentiate, they can start by getting rid of 1366x768. It's fucking 2017; laptops really have no business shipping with anything less than 1920x1080.

Also, the complaints about the numpad are certainly a matter of personal preference. I personally find a built-in numpad to be a significant plus when laptop-shopping.
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If they're looking to attract founders, founders will obviously care about exits. It might not be the #1 concern, but it's up there. France has a reputation for very high taxes and a seeming contempt for very large cash windfalls. I'd be curious how they plan to improve this international image.
You're talking to him.

Entine's own stock in trade is largely reputation attacks, smears, and playing loose, if at all, with the facts.

Again: first time I came across him, my first response was neutral. But that (and the Slate) article are so content-free and slippery that my hackles went up. That paid off.

Even my biotech friends are coming around to that viewpoint (having been initially critical).
I like your comparison to LASIK and cosmetic surgery, which I agree are functioning markets. But I'm not sure I agree with the rest.

There are two components to healthcare funding: (1) insurance which protects from the serious unforeseen health expenditures; and (2) healthcare, which includes routine health checkups, preventative care, and also, the very common ailments as one gets older. The two are somewhat inter-related (if you're generally unhealthy, you're more likely to have serious ailments), but makes sense to separate the two as separate products.

Even for relatively wealthy people, it's difficult to afford serious medical care out-of-pocket (it can cost >$20k/day in the hospital). So that's one product people can buy, with its own deductibles.

However, routine medical care that everyone needs no matter what is a different product, and the cost of that product could be more closely tied to the value of the services received.

Separating these two products may bring about more competition in each, and perhaps more efficiencies.
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In the last couple of days in Toronto, Canada there have been attacks which have the hallmarks of terrorism. 7 stabbings including a machete used to cut the face of a woman and a regent park shooting leading to death.

Trudeau has not spoken out against these. He has recently contrasted Canadian immigration with US immigration, and in the process is inviting extremists from all over the world.

These are signs that Islamic extremists are emboldened under his watch. In fact ISIS directly called for attacks on Canadians on Canada day. Trudeau has not spoken out against these either, so he tacitly approves the killing of Canadians.

As far as India goes, there were spontaneous NotInMyName protests without Modi being present. There are more killings in all the muslim middle-east countries in a single day, than in India in a month. It is not going backwards.
Did you have a pretty good idea that this was the case before sending them to TI? Hardware design fascinates me and I'm just curious how something like this goes down.
There's a Feedback link at the bottom of every Slate page.

feedback@slate.com is the email address.
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No, there's no trade-offs. From UX perspective, of course, user is not required to enter all this data. This is for his convenience, so he is required to provide bare minimum of information by his choice. However, for some functions security requirements are elevated, so he may be required to enter additional details or provide additional means for authentication.
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I swear I've seen the logo on that one somewhere as well, but I can't seem to recall or find it anywhere else.
I suspect I am in the extreme minority here, but since I get wrist pain within minutes of typing on a regular laptop keyboard, I have just resigned myself to carrying around a portable Bluetooth ergonomic keyboard.[1]

This sounds exceptionally nerdy but it is less of a nuisance than I had expected, my hands are much happier, and as a weird bonus, every day or two someone comes up to me in a coffeeshop and asks about "that really cool looking keyboard."

The day that a laptop manufacturer figures out how to integrate this sort of gear into their product will be a good day...

[1] fwiw after a bit of research I ended up with the one made by Goldtouch; http://www.goldtouch.com/ergonomic-keyboards/
Not sure how AI is gonna help here. For many of these questions, we have committees of skilled humans with all of the information looking at the details, and they often cannot come to a consensus.
This is great. Searching for an example of the rolling shutters PPM image transformation in Python, anyone?
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> But I was under the impression that the point of message brokering is that it doesn't have to be service A that puts it there; only that some service puts the message there.

It doesn't matter, but it's more about debugging. If Service A does not work correctly, where is the bug? Is i Service A? Service B? The network?

The use at your company, is idiomatic to the paradigm. You have n different units of work, that can run seperately, so you do that and communicate with messages.
Yeah, but they may not have an account on github.

And I see more and more students using gitlab instead since they have free private repos
Partially correct. [Source : I'm part of the Jain community]

There's sects that enforce not eating underground veg (potato/onion/ginger/etc) at anytime. Others avoid eating these only during 4 months of monsoon. Others maintain no restrictions.

One of the the core tenets is non-violence, and the Jain ideology provides levels of life, from animals, to trees, to wind and fire. Violence to sensory animals is seen as abhorrent, whereas violence to plants is unavoidable. Underground plants seem to have a higher level of life as many animals are part of their ecosystem. (One hypothesis I have is that these rules actually came about due to the seasonality of these vegetables during the inception of the ideology -- we no longer are similarly restricted in our farming.)

Lapsed members such as myself form a large part of the community -- hence the above claim is only partially true.

On a sidenote, more and more science fiction I've been reading seem to have elements (like Gaia) that provide a higher level of respect to vegetation than non-life, which has provided for some stimulating ideas.
It seems to me that our US HC system is operating in a manner that optimizes the wrong thing. It currently maximizes jobs and an odd form of wealth redistribution. It should be minimizing costs subject to "good" HC (or "adequate"?) for the target recipients (all citizens?).

Let's name our HC goals (the objective function) and then tackle the strategies.

The methods are wrong too, and spin off unfair side effects. For example, corporations by the (insurance) product, not consumers. This gives companies leverage in employment activities.

Edit-> Some form of tort reform (e.g., limitations of liabilities) would help as well. I don't have a current number, but layers of malpractice insurance drive substantial costs.
What did satoshi nakamoto bitcoin and ethereum get right to be so successful?
A coin is worthless if you own all of it. It's only valuable if everyone owns some of it. What did btc and eth get right to be so incredibly successful ?

What did satoshi nakamoto btc and ethereum get right to be so successful?
Price discovery requires the ability to price some customers out of the market. For serious healthcare (the only kind that costs a lot of money) that means life-long disability or death. There is no such thing as a free market without the ability to set prices for maximal profit (vs maximal coverage).

BY DEFINITION a free market in healthcare MUST kill people (or allow them to die of treatable diseases if you prefer). Period. Full-stop. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200.

A free market means if you are unlucky and born into a poor family, get bonked in the head, and have a retinal detachment then you should go blind. Despite the massive dead-weight economic loss to our society of converting an able-bodied person into one with a life-long disability, if you can't pay for retinal re-attachment then fuck you buddy.

I wish all your free-market healthcare proponents would address this fundamental inescapable fact. I suspect most don't because the idea is repugnant and the argument falls apart. Please don't bring out the charity canard. That's largely how our system functioned in the past (and still does for some people thanks to states refusing Medicaid expansion) and it simply doesn't work.

I don't want to live in a society that so prizes the god of free markets that it is willing to let people suffer and die of completely treatable diseases. I'm happy to seize as much money as required from whoever is required to make non-elective healthcare free for all citizens. Fortunately a minor tax on the top 10% along with a larger tax on the 0.1% is more than enough to cover healthcare. As a member of the top 10% I say that knowing I will pay higher taxes.
Simplicity and efficiency are at the heart of everything I do at Pokrex. It utilizes clean UI and intuitive interactions to make it make estimating easier. The original thought of building up this tool, is because the network environment in China sucks, most of the tools we were using ain't working smoothly. Then I started to create one to focus on usability and holistic user experience.
Your freedom ends where my freedom begins. Hate speech only does harm other people, so why should we tolerate it? Sure it may be abused under circumstances, but afaik most people here are in favor of these laws. Just because you disagree doesn't make us less free. Oh and of course we're talking about obvious hate speech here, not suppressing political discussion.

By the way, we already had the "Stasi" in Germany and know exactly how real political censorship feels like. There is quite a difference between that and trying to protect peasants from being harassed to death.
It's where we should all be striving for I think. I recently did the Eudyptula challenge, and it was like wading into a morass of nonsense when it got to device drivers.

Whoever started that systemd thing should be ashamed.
Except that Apple has been pushing better support for math in their office suite. It's just that the people handling these slides didn't use it.
I'm in favor of single-payer, but the main argument against it is that in a government run system, there is little incentive to correct inefficiencies. In a private system, if you become inefficient, you'll fail and cease to exist.

Advocates of single-payer needs to at least recognize this issue and be able to account for it.
I just went to the Box website to look for a Linux client. I'd like to report back, but on Safari[1] I can't read anything on the page. It's just black.

[1] Version 10.1.1 (12603.2.4)
I've never had that thought or known anyone else. What states are those? There's gotta be a major difference between areas. In my area, if anything, meeting with the opposite sex can insinuate something.
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