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I used to be for single part until I listened to a recent episode of econtalk (http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/06/christy_ford_ch.htm...). Christy Ford described how the current medical system evolved and how the American Medical Association made the current, insurance based system happen. Before this we used to for example multi-disciplineray offices of doctors that you could directly buy health care coverage from. That was made illegal. What we currently have is the worst of any world. It's a artificially constrained market that's practically devoid of competition. On top of that we have insurance which is clearly the wrong model for something you know you are going to need. And it's employer provided on top of it. How could this market possibly be less functional? Let's try to fix the market before we pour out the baby with the bath water.
I'm not so sure that's true. While it's likely that the mother would have had insurance pre-Obamacare, it could have very easily had a lifetime maximum. Given that this is his 4th surgery (at $200k each), plus NICU and other costs from his birth, and they are probably looking at at least $1mil in total expenses so far. In a pre-Obamacare world, they could be reaching the end of the funds available for his care.
I've encountered academic code that implements the state of art, most efficient, algorithm for solving some problem.

The code that comes to mind had the following properties: over 20 years old; written in C and badly converted to C++ somewhere along the way (the stuff-all-the-globals-into-a-class approach); a combinatorial explosion of #define and #ifdef statements (covering all the experiments in the original paper)

In the paper, it is clear that one of the experiments wins, and why. So...

Step 1: remove all dead code.

Step 2: observe that the algorithm needs no dynamic memory allocation, remove all but 1 call to malloc, calloc, realloc, and free.

Step 3: the use of float can be replaced by correctly scaled 64-bit unsigned integers, with no loss of precision

Step 4: rewrite entirely in modern C++, this has two benefits, a) I get to use the <algorithms> library (judiciously, this simplifies the code enormously), and b) the code can send clearer messages to the compiler than the mid-90s liberal sprinkling of the 'register' keyword.

The net result is no asymptotic improvement whatsoever — arguably a slight improvement for very large N as heap performance starts to interfere, but nothing worth the effort.

However, the code now has tests (step 0), is clean and maintainable, is 10% of the size, and is 5-30x faster (depending on the shape of the data)
> Failure to act on climate change has a game-theoretic cost. Taking unilateral action massively improves your negotiating position and reduces the cost for other countries to reduce their emissions via economies of scale

Thanks - I wasn't aware of that. Are there any books / articles that go into this in more detail and might be accessible to someone with a decent math + comp sci education but no knowledge of game theory?
and, as Scott Aaronson points out, why assume the brain only hosts a single consciousness* ? Maybe there are multiple consciousnesses hosted by each person's brain, and "you" are one of them at any given time - you'd have no idea the others are conscious.

* (not to be confused with multiple-personality disorder)
I have to respectfully disagree. It's time to burn down the current system and go straight to single payer.

Collect premiums via payroll taxes->fund healthcare providers. That greatly simplifies it, but there are many other first world models we can pick from. This is not hard.
Isn't trespassing, regardless of what you do once you are on private property without permission, already illegal? The video would just be evidence of the crime the person doing the filming committed by being there in the first place. It seems silly that there would need to be a separate law for this.
...did you really just say that not meditating causes cancer? O.o
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I had this idea 10 years go to use flywheels to buy cheap power and re-sell it during peak demand. Day vs night pricing will quickly normalize.
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I feel your pain: after bouncing off Haskell many times, I found that Elm was a great entry into a more practical and narrow way of experimenting with the benefits. Now I'm reading through the new Idris book, which has the same practical approach to more complex (to me) concepts.
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What is everyone talking about, this is good; free speech is a crucial part of our democracy.

you can put up no trespassing signs, thats legitimized. Encroaching on free speech however is not.
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> you want to make stuff like netflix as much of a PITA as possible?

Not op but yes, using DRM in a browser should be hard.

Netflix should just make a native app, like everyone else who needs drm do.

This clearly scopes what is open and webby and what is closed and DRMy.

Nobody has issues installing Spotify to stream music. What makes Netflix special?
The other advantage of substation level energy storage is in not having to upgrade the feed circuits. Design for average consumption not peak. Storage and renewables make the edges of the network resilient.
Thanks, this should make for some interesting weekend reading.
Am i missing something in here or are the costs in that bill really this high? $22,526 for room boarding for 2 weeks? Over here in India my grandma's bypass surgery costed somewhat about $10,000. That included everything including the stent, medicines and boarding, that too at a renowned, premiere private hospital.

Is this a special case or are healthcare costs generally this high in America?
I remember building funny little DSL-Tools with flex and bison.
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I used it for AutoSar applications, where you create tailored embeded programs from a DSL specification.
>...At closing the keys are hand over. There isn't any other way.

What you mean to say is that you can't imagine that things could be done differently than how it was done where you are located. That pretty much sums up every comment you made here...
That is one of my pains with react-native and the JS-community. Their tooling sucks, because they use javascript for everything.

Having a NullPointerException/"undefined" in my code means I have to go hunt the bug for a couple of minutes. Having it in my buildtool means I my productivity drops to zero for an hour.

RN also keeps using deprecated and old version of android-buildtools.

Fun fact:
"NullPointerException" gives 2.47 million results on google.

"cannot read property of undefined" gives 3.71 million results.

(Background: I'm a Java, Kotlin and JavaScript developer, shipped an app using react-native for the Views only, but Kotlin for the business-logic. I also picked some fights with the RN-maintainers on github issues.)
It is really such a sad story - I'm glad that this mother seems to have been able to get her costs down at least (if I read the story correctly), sad that probably there are others that can't. We must all learn to love and forgive one another
Yup, it is. And you know what? Pumped storage the article calls "ridiculous" and "silly", is what is needed. It is 10x much, exactly as you said.
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Well, it can't in its present form, but there is a market (me, at least) for a distributed app framework that would be the basis for uncensored (and uncensorable) serverless p2p versions of all your favorite social media.
Some of them trespass, yes, but most of the filming is done from the outside using a powerful zoom lens, or from a drone, or more commonly, by an employee with access to the property.
Given your other statements, I cannot take this statement on face value.
Paradoxically, more frequent fires can often mean less severe fires. That's the rationale behind controlled burns and traditional aboriginal land management practices.

And because this is Hacker News, have a play with the simulation hosted at Fourmilab: http://www.fourmilab.ch/cellab/manual/rules.html#Forest
There's lots of bad language on twitch. Racial slurs are not acceptable though.
It wouldn't, though a lot of the initial "Web 3.0" hype seemed to imply that, such as this post by a cofounder [1]. Even their website used to mention Facebook [2].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140723210829/http://insightsin...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20140801161657/https://www.ether...
There's been much work on this in graph and information-theory. To the point of centralization: it's a trade-off between efficiency and robustness (for one thing). Most living systems show evidence of this trade-off, having a mixture of centralization and distributed processing. For example, the body has a distributed blood supply (all cells share the same network) but has a central heart. Cells themselves have mixed centralized components (the nucleus, various organelles) and distributed aspects (the cyctoplasm, parallel transcription of DNA and production of proteins etc). The brain does distributed parallel processing but has centralized components (the amygdala, the pituitary gland, the cerebellum)
Right, but what I was referring to was this:

The Utah Legislature approved a bill in 2012 that made it a class B misdemeanor to trespass on private livestock or poultry operations and record sound or images without the owner's permission.

So this particular law seems like a solution without a problem, given that trespassing for any reason is already illegal.
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> the community mindset is usually just to find another dependency to integrate.

I agree but tachyons.css is different.

OP asked for "margin and layout" guides.

Tachyons gives you exactly that. A dimensional and typographic scale without forcing you into their framework, because it uses atomic classes.

http://tachyons.io/#style
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What do you mean by "take aspirin everyday every second or third month"?
> are healthcare costs generally this high in America

Yes they are ridiculously high, even after factoring in cost of living / currency rates or as a %age of monthly salary, if you are comparing it to costs in a different country. 1 month after coming here (to America) from India (1999) I had to get wax from my left ear cleaned as it was blocking my hearing.

They squirted some liquid in my ear and got the wax out. 2 weeks later, I got the insurance Statement. It cost $ 800. I was astonished. In India a year before, I'd paid a Doc 100 Rupees (at that time, $2 equivalent in USD) for the same exact thing.

A month later, I had a chest x-ray taken, and some weird quirk in insurance it wasn't covered. So I had to boot the bill. $ 576 for 1 single chest x-ray. My take home at that time as a software engineer was about 2500 / month after tax and deductions, so this was 23% of my paycheck!

Health Insurance coverage is too closely tied to employment. In order to get continued coverage, you are more or less working "for the man" till you die.
The distinction I'm drawing is that to consume a movie (etc.) you need the images to make it into your brain; OTOH a game can be played without its code ever leaving the device. To effectively stop people from saving the images means stopping freedom of thought; that's different from "I'll rent you this program only on this closed tamper-resistant platform" which doesn't claim a right to control what happens in your own brain. Maybe it's clearer if you think of a cochlear implant -- should it be against the law for me to run my own software on my own cochlear implant? Fuck no. Likewise for future cognitive prostheses. So DRM can't be more than a tiny speedbump to a person wanting to copy a movie, in a free society; but it might still work for things like games, if sellers can keep convincing people to accept good-enough DRM platforms.

When it comes to suing someone for distributing a work they copied, like you I don't see a difference between a game and a movie.

(added: I dunno why you were downvoted.)
Did Netflix ever support iOS devices without an app or DRM? Since iOS 6, there’s been FairPlay DRM available in Safari – and it added support for time-limited (expiring) keys in iOS 9. In many ways, I’m less worried about DRM and more worried about the value of content as expectations change to prefer free stuff from YouTube etc. Making things easy to watch/share is one of the only ways to compete...
well, a violation of a minor law as a necessary step to stop bigger and much severe crime ... Or imagine somebody is having what looks like a heart attack and is falling onto a somebody's lawn, ie. private property, from the sidewalk - stepping onto the lawn to help would technically be the crime of trespassing, wouldn't it?
Apropos the topic at hand, I want to post a picture I recently took at a hospital here in Bangalore, outlining patient rights.

http://imgur.com/a9axFK2

The first one is the right to an informed choice, including information upfront about the price of treatments.
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I support that idea (at least with respect to posting it here).

Especially with the cross-site layered redirect to Medium and obnoxious popup overlays at both stages.
Hawaii and HECO are worth watching closely in the real world of energy and modern grids.
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> DRM'ed video streaming should be made a difficult and unpleasant experience.

why can't DRM'ed video be difficult and unpleasant, but DRM-free videos be made much easier to implement, and have smooth experience for end users?

Why is DRM-free a non-starter? The whole point i wanted to make is that by making DRM'ed video easier to deploy (and consume), it normalizes the fact that _it's DRM_. Why are standards bodies putting in standards that consumers wouldn't ordinarily chooses, and is only meant to appease businesses? Why couldn't they be more socially oriented, such that anti-consumer mechanisms aren't added to an open standard?

Imagine if it weren't DRM, but anti-adblocking? What if the web standards bodies were attempting to prevent adblocking in a browser, in such a way that to be a compliant browser, you can't possibly intercept content? How is that any different to this DRM standard?
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Price of battery systems seems to be same now per unit of storage and lower per unit of peak power. So that's fine: all things being equal, battery is definitely better than a pumped storage plant.

They just need whole lot more than this 1 battery to solve the problem.
There is a game developer on twitch that uses his VODs (video replays) as a versioning system as he doesn't use anything. "Wait, what and why did I do this? Lemme look at yesterday's vod".

It suprisingly works quite well and is more entertaining for the viewers to see what and how bugs get introduced.
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In my country somewhere in europe you pay ridiculous taxes and you cannot opt out. The healthcare is shit, corrupt and if you want good care when they do not treat you like shit you need to go private and pay extra. Beware americans with your mentality you end up paying more ans getting less with programs like obamacare.
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How do you cryptographically, trustlessly verify that food is healthy?
> If DRM of movies is broken past the initial sale craze

What you're missing is that this delay is fundamentally impossible. The day a movie is available, it will be ripped, no matter how good the DRM is.

Game DRM can hold people off, because the game actually has to run once pirated. Game DRM has to be broken. Movie/audio DRM doesn't have to be broken; it can be ignored entirely by pirates.
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Uhm, 5% of national output is a lot of energy. That's not relatively bad or anything, but improvements in transmission would be like getting power plants for free.

High-temperature superconductors: I want to believe.
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This is great news for those that try to work to improve conditions for farm animals. Collecting this footage is already risky as it is (violent retribution is not unheard of), but remains a crucial tool in convincing people that factory farming (ie, more than ~95% of animal agriculture in the US) continues to treat animals brutally and inhumanely.
Can't talk about current employer, but precious employer ran thousands of Cassandra nodes to capture and index billions of events a day into a real time graph. Talking petabytes of data, millions of writes per second, in order to fight hackers.

Doing that with an RDBMS would be ... unpleasant. Doing it with Cassandra isn't trivial, but it's straightforward, cross-cloud capable, cross-DC HA, linear scaling, and tunable consistency.

Data integrity is a nonissue - when you're dealing with the scale nosql was meant to solve, you're probably smart enough to learn how to write multiple places safely.
The storm caused extra load on the interconnector. The power went off when the interconnector shut down. The interconnector is needed because there is inadequate power generation within the state. There is inadequate power generation because coal generators were shutdown in favour of renewables.

The South Australian Government were patting themselves on the back about their high proportion of renewable energy but the reality was they were dependent on importing coal derived electricity form interstate. The storm exposed this dependency.
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Yes. Can you answer it? Assume I'm neither a libertarian nor an anarchist.
Yes. For residential installations they banned the 'charge during cheaper power, discharge into the grid during high power' thing for subsidised solar.

But for this it's the whole idea.
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But Spotify is a native app.

It can have all the drm it wants. It's not part of the open web.
In academia you don't care about the quality of your code, in professional you do care but don't get the time to fix it ;).

On a more serious note. In addition to what is already mentioned by others on quality, performance and so on I'd like to add that in professional career you most likely work with a (larger) team. Which means you will run into code conflicts where code is reused for different purposes and you cannot simply change it. In addition you have to think about readability and documentation as your colleagues have to be able to understand the code without losing too much time or needing you.

You will also always have to work with legacy code. Most likely code you want to change but can't considering the timelines.

You will have to sync your design with many others. You might have to convince them or discuss issues with conflicting requirements or deadlines. There will be times you can't finish your entire design and have to think of a staged introduction or even harder, change it so it can work with only 50% of the design.

Also, your code has to run for many years. You can't simply take an expirimental third party package maintained by a single person. Too risky. You have to think about hardware expiring or no longer being supported (especially with gpus).

You gave to think about licenses. Academia is usually free. With professional you have to take a close look.
Weirdly, I got more space when they went free. I think I signed up on my Android for OneDrive to store my "camera roll" which gave something like 25GB free. I used that storage briefly to store/share .wav files for my band's EP, which took up a couple GB. When OneDrive announced their downgrade to 5 GB, they gave a free year of Office 365 to anybody that was currently using more than 5 GB. I think that expires later this month, at which point I will NOT be re-subscribing. It's miserable trying to maneuver around these cloud services; I'm sticking with Resilio Sync.
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It would appear that the author is trying to post as noopkat and has been declared dead (new account?)
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The Snowy Mountain scheme is around 1500km from Adelaide. It might help in the Eastern States, but transmission losses are significant over that distance, and in the Eastern States they haven't had the power problems yet.
> Just to provide tax breaks to rich folks

Your statement illustrates one of two competing views. The following statements are extremes of the two positions.

1) The government by default owns all your money, and any money you get to keep after taxes is just a tax break.

2) You own your money by default, and the government should not take your money except to provide things that the market is unable to (some examples of which are law enforcement, military).

Those who espouse one of these views, tend to see people who espouse the other as morally wrong and evil.
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Having used healthcare in a wide variety of settings, super-deregulated private healthcare in countries like India, Mexico, etc. is vastly superior to government-run healthcare or the US's red-tape-choked "private" healthcare system.

I just pay for everything under the table with cash and it's much cheaper. If doctors can avoid American "insurance" providers (which are not allowed to function as actual insurers, and have to keep margins up by being as stingy as possible), they can save a lot of money and effort.
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I like it... because I'm good at it, so it's easy for me. However, I get no idea of what working at the company is like (beyond what can be gained from asking directly), and the company gains no information about my suitability for that particular job, since they're assessing me on exactly the same criteria as every other job.
Why would anyone install what is basically alpha quality software on their server and allow access to critical functions? That is world-class malpractice.
You don't have the moral high ground forcing others to absorb the cost of your dirty coal.

Poisoning people is, in general, a great deal less moral than charging them more money.
There are a few experimental installations of these around. I don't believe they are viable for larger scale storage, but fit smaller scale they seem competitive.