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having had a fair amount of experience of the british healthcare system i find this very hard to believe, ive been treated like shit by them many times, been talked into an operation i didnt really want (i think they were extra keen because its a rare condition) which they then managed to screw up and cripple me.

another little gem is my current insurance claim, i was knocked off my motorbike over a year ago, yet i still havent received a payout from my insurance, id assumed their lawyers were dragging the process out but by this point she has been convicted, my insurance company have been paid by hers but i still havent had anything back, when i asked my lawyer what was holding it up he said it was just one thing they need, they are still awaiting the medical records from my GP which were requested and paid for back in September but despite monthly attempts to get them to send it they still havent done so and every time i try and contact them to ask why im told that the medical secretary isnt in at the moment and only she can deal with it, but they will tell her to call me as soon as she gets back in, i have yet to receive a single call from them.

i could go on to site a ton of other various reports of shit service that i have personally experienced let alone that of others i know. if i was insurable id have taken private medical insurance long ago and still strongly advise any healthy person in the UK to get private medical insurance ASAP, sure its an extra cost no one wants to pay but if you ever do get sick youll be damn glad you have it
Planning Fallacy (wikipedia link)
Huh. Paying with card is way faster than counting cash unless you happen to have few items and even change easily available. Just 1. insert card, 2.enter pin, 3. ok amount.

In most places you would have done 1 and 2 while they are still scanning your items.

Then of course there are the old, slow machines that take half a minute to connect over some shitty gprs connection but those are only used by individual cloathing and jewelery merchants, not 7-11.
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It's actually you who doesn't understand.

There's already thousands of businesses where your dollar bills are unwelcome (try sending an envelope full of $100s to Amazon for your next order if you don't believe me).

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Currency/Pages...

>The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," which states: "United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."

>This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.
I see a lot of people saying how easy it would be to crack this, but I don't see it cracked...
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Democracy used to include only middle and upper class people (i.e. you had to have some wealth to be able to vote) and was only relatively recently extended to everyone.
Quantum darwinism
> There is certain views that should never ever be publicly stated

Who gets to decide what is or is not allowed to be spoken?

> Liu said China needs to be colonized for 300 years to get better, is it just free of speech? sound quite repressive to me.

Even if it is repressive, preventing him to say it by arresting him and his family is not repressive to you?
I had tried running over the years, mostly on treadmills, and never really done more than six miles: I decided I far preferred weightlifting (and sports).

When I left my job and was gymless for a short period, I started running along the water in San Francisco after not having run for several years. Within two weeks, I was doing about ten miles. It's really hard to overestimate how much easier and more pleasant beautiful surroundings make walking and running. (Temperate weather 365 days a year doesn't hurt either).
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Some people in UK have very long waits (over 6 months) for treatment that should be relatively easy to provide and for things that are not minor.

One example would be 'community based psychological therapies' - long form talking therapies.

these are an alternative to far more expensive inpatient hospital stays. Without it people are subjected to increased detentions under S136 of the MHA; they use A&E more often; they use crisis teams more often. And those are all more expensive than a talking therapy.
That sounds defeatist. It all has to start somewhere. Someone has to get the ideas rolling. The road to democracy in the western world was long and tortuous and stretched back a millennium or more, but we got there. His ideas are not in vain.
Agreed, the article handwaves away the legal aspects which imo is more interesting than the actual mosquito engineering in this case.
I don't follow. tf.scan will execute as many time steps as there are elements in the input series, which is the same behavior you'd get with tf.while_loop or tf.dynamic_rnn. It does not execute for a fixed number of time steps, which I think is what you're implying?

The difference from using tf.while_loop directly is that tf.scan handles the logistics of an accumulator to keep track of hidden states, so you don't have to implement that piece yourself.

As you say, tf.scan uses tf.while_loop internally; it's not particularly different from something you might build using tf.while_loop yourself.
I agree with most of your comment, but hiking for hours is pretty substantially different from the amount of walking you do in walkable areas. Particularly because, by definition they have shade and places you can stop for cool drinks etc. Thr notion that walkable areas aren't always good is a pretty silly conclusion to draw from the tragedy you cited.
I had a dream where I invented this, ha! Could it be done with laser cooling?
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Bloom filters don't seem useful as the primary means of deduplication for an actual data storage system to me.

- False positives means marking data as duplicate when it's not.

- Bloom filters are not associative. So unless the application is very special and can find/identify/retrieve the data later in some other (likely inefficient?) way, a separate index is required anyway. But if you have a separate index of the data you already have, you can just use that to deduplicate. This index is the main memory cost of deduplicating storage.

Bloom filters are of course interesting in certain scenarios e.g. to statistically reduce network traffic.
I've never come across this concept before. What is it? Is it something like, to see the page content, you must have a key which is either time-consuming to compute, or is just given to you if you first view an ad?
> Funny thing is it doesn't even follow best practices, they clearly don't have much experience in the space

Do you mind elaborating on this?
Found here: https://aeon.co/essays/the-quantum-view-of-reality-might-not...

Zurek and his colleague Jess Riedel have been able to calculate how fast and extensive this proliferation of quantum copies is for a few simple situations, such as a dust speck in a vacuum flooded by sunlight. They find that, after being illuminated for just one microsecond, a grain of dust a micrometre across will have its location imprinted about 100 million times in the scattered photons.

It’s because of this multiple imprinting that such objects seem to have objective, classical-like properties at all. Ten observers, say, can separately measure the position of a dust grain and all agree that it’s in the same location. Each observation consumes a different replica of the grain in the reflected photons. In this view, we can assign an objective position to the speck not because it truly ‘has’ such a position (whatever that means), but because its position state can imprint many indistinguishable replicas in the environment. What we take as obvious common sense turns out to have secure yet far-from-obvious underpinning in quantum theory.

There’s a seemingly bizarre corollary to this picture. When we measure a property of a system by probing its replica in the environment, we destroy that replica. Might we then potentially use up all the copies by repeated measurement, so that the state can’t any longer be observed? Yes we can: too much measurement will ultimately make the state seem to vanish.

What Quantum Darwinism tell us is that, fundamentally, the issue is not really about whether probing physically disturbs what is probed (although that can happen). It is the gathering of information that alters the picture. Through decoherence, the Universe retains selected highlights of the quantum world, and those highlights have exactly the features that we have learnt to expect from the classical world. We come along and sweep up that information – and in the process we destroy it, one copy at a time.
You know the rapid access to multiple forms of scanning is something that causes harm and death in the US, right?

Over testing, over diagnosis, and over treatment are not good things.
You joke, but I believe police in the US is already installing advanced microphones along with CCTV cameras to hear what people are talking about from a distance.
This user was downvoted for his views which are the rough equivalent of "she was asking for it".

To see this as people simply being closed-minded to different cultures is really myopic.

I personally refuse to hold people to different moral standards because they come from another country.
Except lawyers do it once, and they're done. We do it every time we change jobs.
Its not random- its based on pure statistics. I wished at least "hackers" here would understand.

More than that actually, there are politicians who are notorious for being hand-in-gloves in their home countries. They always get picked for these "random" checks in the US.
I’d argue that they are not being disagreed with because of what is “socially acceptable”, but because their comment added no additional facts or information, and was instead just a couple of opinions without much to inform them.
Or more to the point all forms of electronic banking.
I had acquired a green card a few years ago, then it got revoked b/c I hadn't settled quickly enough in the US; I'm sure my subconscious was somehow at play at that time. Today, I certainly wouldn't make any effort to acquire a green card again.

Of course this is anecdotal. But what's not anecdotal is the fact that this country has been going south for quite some time now (even if living in the US, you may not realize it), which is why this destructive movement will prove hard to stop.
I think that it's always worth remembering the iceberg effect when we talk about trends: the silent majority of developers don't comment on HN or Reddit, don't answer questions on Stack Overflow, don't publish code on GitHub, and are using the same un-hip stacks year-on-year (Java, C#, PHP, maybe Rails, jQuery or Angular).

The C# developers that I have spoken to have used Angular for years, like TypeScript, and reach for Angular + TS by default, rather than React + ES6/7. Plenty of Rails developers stick with jQuery, maybe with some CoffeeScript: Rails only "modernized" their JS stack a few months ago.
Are you suggesting rank-reversal aversion (and so other behaviours in the social reflexes range, I suppose) is innate ?
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Ah yes those imaginary lanes called lines that motorcyclists use to make your commute time and traffic lower.
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EDIT: @dang, please remove my post.
Just move to Europe, you'll be happier for it.
The best way to explain these laws to the uninitiated is to point out that they literally criminalize private communication between citizens.

Essentially, all letters must be written on postcards under a regime like what Turnbull is proposing.
> If you get assigned a good doctor for your condition

You can chose your doctor. You can change your GP at any time and you don't need to give a reason. You can choose and book your consultants.

About the only time you don't get to chose is for mental health treatment.

> because their livelihood directly depends on taking good care of me.

their livelihood directly depends on them giving the appearance of taking good care of you, and avoiding you suing them. this means they make much more use of testing and scanning which results in a lot of overtesting, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment, which all cause harm.
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This is how the photo fence from intellectual ventures detects and destroys female mosquitoes.Unfortunately they never released that tech as open source
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Well anyway, how about a walking machine that could walk on the ocean floor from one continent to another. Like an underwater ATAT.

(Half bakery still exists right?)
Fix what? Your government is the one telling you it's broken. Your idea of US democracy has been spoon fed to you by your government. You're throwing stones from a greenhouse.

While US democracy isnt a particularly good form as it puts too much power in the executive branch, it's overly partisan and two-party, there's nothing fundamentally broken about it. There's disadvantages to proportional representation, which would break the two party rule, and as we see with Trump, an autocratic president seems, in reality, pretty ineffectual when the other arms.of government start balking at their demands.
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It seems there's no consensus on the big picture in the general population. It's a very divided country.
> most Chinese are probably not ready for their message of political openness

Isn't this exactly the problem. Someone else deciding what you are ready or not ready for. For me democracy is about everyone having a voice, even those on the lower levels. There will always be different levels.
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> Even if it is repressive, preventing him to say it by arresting him and his family is not repressive to you?

Are you sure he was arrest because of saying that? Do you have any facts to support your view?

> Liu said China needs to be colonized for 300 years to get better, is it just free of speech? sound quite repressive to me.

Do you think Liu deserves Nobel Peace Prize after saying that publicly?

Remember that the argument was "There is certain views that should never ever be publicly stated".
Adding a "reject for maintenance" button to an app that summons an automated car is the obvious solution to a problem that was brought up years ago. To avoid abuse, you use a consensus pattern (2 or 3 rejects in a row).
That used to be true, but in the USA the new card systems are way slower. You have to insert the card, it's not clear when it needs inserted, it asks all the time. Then you have to leave it there for a good while, then it asks to sign.

Cash, or android pay is way quicker. Or if you can find one a chipless credit card.
Humans have and have always had social status structures, reaching back into evolutionary time. This is why such a huge portion of our psychology is devoted to dealing with status issues.

Animals have status too. Various primates form stable status hierarchies in their bands. Chimps are a great example. Canine species do this as well. And other animals, too - all the way down to lobsters. Basically any animal with any intraspecies interaction has some concept of status hierarchy.

And like the animals, humans like their hierarchies - the hierarchy fulfills a psychological need, the way being in a herd makes a herd animal feel safe.

People like knowing where they stand. They like having a role to play and knowing others are playing their roles. Without a clear hierarchy people feel nervous, the way a dog acts out from anxiety when the humans don't take charge.

Some people are driven to climb the hierarchy but most just want a stable existence somewhere in the middle of the pack where they can "camouflage against the herd" and avoid being noticed too much.

Most people like security and dislike responsibility for hard choices. Having others of higher status to take on those challenges absolves them of the need to make such decisions.

Egalitarianism is definitely also a part of human nature, but it's as a psychological counterpoint to the status hierarchy. People want the hierarchy to exist - but they want it to seem fair and legitimate and they want people to deserve their positions. People only dislike a hierarchy that seems illegitimate according to their mental heuristic.

So no, humans would not prefer a classless society, and such a society can never exist. If it existed for a moment, it'd cease to exist the next since classes would instantly form along the various dividing lines between groups of different personalities, proclivities and capacities. Level everyone's wealth and you quickly just end up with the same distribution as before, as we've seen after various bloodbaths in China, Russia, etc.
> Who gets to decide what is or is not allowed to be spoken?

You can spend your entire life arguing whether it is good or bad for China to be colonized by the west for 300 years, I am not going to waste my time on that.
As someone who lived in china for 9 years, and married a Chinese woman, perhaps you could recognize that you might live in a very specific bubble in a culture very different from China, and that the perspective is so different that reaching out and trying to understand this person's world view might be more productive than tritely dismissing the comment on technicalities.

I hate China's government and the way they operate but I also recognize that the world is very complex and cultures are ancient and have very different but also successful mechanisms of operation. On the same note I would not write off an American's perspective because the president is a wack job.
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We could say that the medication advertising budgets in the US are huge, and that Americans experience that in increased prices.
I always felt that China simply faced much starker realities and choices than ever we are able to fully appreciate when we complain about the systems they have.

I'm no Sinophile, and I think Great Britain should have built a floating desalination plant before ceding Hong Kong Island. But the little I know about Chinas history, the fragmentation of historically antagonistic races among the Chinese diaspora we call a people, and the immense variety of issues that have developed in isolation unique to their world, I believe all conspire to alienate the most rational observers from true neutrality. My mind blows fuses just contemplating the pressures and tensions that abound seemingly everywhere in their daily lives.
Is he actually arguing that China should be colonised? Or just making a comparison with Hong Kong's development and hypothesizing how long it'd take the mainland under similar yoke and rule.
We can't just simply discount the effect of the Nobel prize and world media coverage of Liu Xiaobo. I am reading the book Perfect Hostage by Justin Wintle, it's about the life of Aung San Suu Kyi. And, yes there were a lot of Burmese people and their leader who fought fearlessly for democracy, but I think in addition to that there is a real sizable effect of Suu Kyi winning the Nobel peace prize and world media coverage following it. Whether you like to attribute it or not, I think the effect is very real. Suu Kyi was house arrested for few years when she was awarded the Nobel prize, this was followed by many other awards and recognition, the world media coverage about Suu Kyi and their cause increased and so did the general awareness about the plight of the people and their struggle, and so did the diplomatic pressure from other countries, sanctions, embargoes etc. I know the situation of present day China and Burma in the early 90s is very different but I think the point still stands.
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I'm not American, or from the third world. I'm Scandinavian and even I have seen talent drain to scilicon valley where they've created thousands of jobs that could potentially have been made here.
Mine was learning that we could exchange email beyond the corporate network and becoming the first in my company to have my (pre-domain-addressing) email address added to my business cards.
no more so than having kids you cant afford to properly support
In economics, "demand" isn't just a word for "something I'd like". It's a technical term, meaning "what actually gets bought".

Farmers in Alabama fretting does not mean demand. Farmers in Alabama paying workers means demand.

To put it another way, me looking at a Ferrari in a store doesn't create demand for Ferraris. Me going to the store and buying one does.
Could you be more specific about vaccination opponents aspect?