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'Most' being the operative word. In the UK, the most basic of generic meds are this flat rate as are the latest targeted medications which could cost tens of thousands of pounds if bought with insurance.

Unless it's administered in a hospital, in which case it's free.

The whole US system seems designed to gouge as much money out of the 'consumer' as possible by confusing you. Similar to how we run trains the UK. Except if you miss a train, you won't die.

For most europeans (especially brits), how the US manages to continue to justify the existence of such a system is baffling.
> Irrespective of the original memo, and this is something I've felt more strongly in the past couple years, it's just not safe to share dissenting viewpoints in tech anymore.

It is not safe to share your viewpoints anywhere where it is not considered germane: and the workplace is high on that list. A firm will fire someone who becomes annoyingly political or who makes a public ass out of themselves on social media. I work for a medium sized tech firm in the American South and we had one engineer that was very open and sometimes combative about her progressive viewpoints and people stopped wanting to talk to her, even those who agreed with her. She didn't last a quarter.

Expecting firms to give their employees a forum to speak openly about anything not work related is a recent phenomenon across the board, and many still hold onto the view that if you want to engage in political discussions then do so outside of the workplace.
Come to Detroit! I'm sure we can find a house for you.
I see what you're saying, but if in one interview someone is throwing a million red flags that show they are not and likely will never be fit to working there, then why not make the blacklist to ensure they don't interview again and fake their way through it?
In the other thread I asked one of the responders if they could even as a joke wear a Trump hat at Google MTV. and how they might feel/b treated vs wearing a Pussy or Hillary hat.[1]

They compared a Trump hat at Google is the equivalent of walking in to (a presumably hardcore) biker bar in Iowa. That's a pretty damning response, even if they meant the opposite.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14957708
Welcome to the world of brands. Where Adidas and Burberry are owned by the same company:

https://www.fossilgroup.com/who-we-are/brands/
You're right, but maybe I phrased it badly.

What I mean isn't that I should be able to in practice be offended with what I disagree with, but that blatant agenda pushing behind science that doesn't quite fit your agenda should be questioned.

I'm not offended by facts, I'm offended by dishonesty. We probably don't disagree in concept, but perhaps on this specific case.
I don't see anyone calling for the government to force Airbnb to let these people use their service.
I think it's an issue of efficancy. Elderly couples living in 5 bedroom houses when they'd more likely be better suited with something smaller.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...

If you read it, it was about his opinions about damage that Ideological Echo Chamber causes to company.

This discussion needs to happen at google. And he made it clear that this arent his opinions but he sourced most of controversial claims in memo.

His paper was completely aligned with section 1.5 of Google's code of conduct that says “Any time you feel our users aren’t being well-served, don’t be bashful - let someone in the company know about it. Continually improving our products and services takes all of us, and we’re proud that Googlers champion our users and take the initiative to step forward when the interests of our users are at stake.”

Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in memo “We strongly support the right of Googlers to express themselves, and much of what was in that memo is fair to debate, regardless of whether a vast majority of Googlers disagree with it.”

...and fired him anyways. It seems to me that he will easily win on court saying he was fired for political reasons and accuse them of defamation.
Would you sell in their place? They have no reason to sell. They are acting as rational participants of the market.
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When paying with cash you are also only exposed to the risk of loosing what you have on hand. A debit card is a bit more akin to handing over the key to the vault with a contractual agreement as to how much can be taken.
On page 3, he clearly discusses overlap between men and women even with biological differences. He did not write in absolutist terms.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...

Note, I’m not saying that all men differ from all women in the following ways or that these
differences are “just.” I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men
and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why
we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership. Many of these differences
are small and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything
about an individual given these population level distributions.
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And why would they participate in the market and sell? Most of my older neighbors have paid off their house and are retired so now they have where to live without paying a mortgage every month so no extra expense for that.
Isn't this the general idea of some people thinking ahead?
What would they do if they sold? Go to a nursing home?

I was talking with one of them a couple years ago about the idea of downsizing. They couldn't find anything that meet their requirements so they didn't.
His PhD is in "Systems Biology", isn't it? Which is more about computational approaches to understanding biological systems than, at the risk of simplifying horribly, "messy" biology.

> making people feel bad at their job is inappropriate (even though the memo did no such thing)

Say you've got red hair and someone sent a memo around saying that they'd heard that everyone with red hair was more of a fuzzy people person than a real coder. Would you agree that people with red hair may well feel targeted?
Norwegians mostly use debit card thanks to the BankAxept system which all banks are part of. Most BankAxept cards are both bankAxept for everyday use and VISA if necessary (online shopping etc). When you pay with BankAxept it's counted against your account immediately. Another reason debit is mostly used is that not all shops accept credit card (which might also be because everyone has a BankAxept card so having MaterCard capabilities or whatever costs more than it's worth.

I think BankAxept is pretty similar to the Danish Dankort.
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> As a German I call that theory into question. Our currency has been stable for 60+ years.

Also as a German, OUR currency has been stable for 26 years.

I'd still question the theory.
Humans do not need an "excuse" for being vicious. Viciousness is a part of our nature. If the game involves sex, power or money your fellow humans will show their real nature.
So I work in advertising specifically focused on pharmaceutical brands. One of my client drugs has a problem where Pharmacists are dispensing as generic where their drug has a different Mechanism of Action and is only prescribed after the generic fails. Pharmacists can actually be incentivized in some cases to give the generic when the brand-name is written. Apparently they don't even have to tell you that they're switching it.

We have multiple clients who are undertaking 'dispense as written' campaigns with healthcare professionals to offset that.

I'm certainly not saying that it is ALWAYS the case that a drug which vs. generic is the best choice. Sometimes they are literally the exact same molecule.

Sometimes though, you're not getting the same level of care. Sometimes not even the same mechanism of action.

I imagine an insurance company's position on that might be the offsetting of liability. If a pharmacist dispenses a generic when the brand-name is different and the treatment fails the insurance company bears the cost of that in the form of extended care. (and possibly other things)
Also, the original Bittorrent client looked like an Internet Explorer file download dialog. The download experience was nearly identical: you clicked on a download link, and a download dialog with a progress bar opened up. Behind the scenes, the torrent file MIME type was registered to the Bittorrent client, so it was downloading the torrent file and launching the Bittorrent client, while a normal download showed the download dialog directly, but the user didn't have to be aware of these details.

So yes, it's the way it was originally meant to be used.
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I don't think the article is making that point. It is illustrating how difficult it is for people to both buy and sell homes when the overall supply in some impacted areas is down. It would be interesting to see data on how many people are moving out to rural areas for retirement now vs a few decades ago. I would bet it has been trending down.
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Interesting. At least in my experience in the us, people paying cash is much, much slower than using credit or debit. All it takes is one customer paying cash to turn a fast register into a storefront-filling queue.
The elephant in the room is that it's mathematically impossible to optimize for quality of hires and diversity simultaneously. You have to pick one or the other or some compromise between the two. Start with some selection of people chosen optimally for job performance; any deviation from that for any reason will necessary give sub-opitimal performance.
Our arms have an entire subspace of possible solutions (you can move your elbow around while keeping your hand in place). In robotics, there are a couple of measures that can be minimized/maximized while computing inverse kinematics. Work is one of them but also time to reach the goal configuration or its "dexterity" for moving on in a future command.
Have you lost so much faith in your democracy that you don't feel responsible for who you collectively elect?

For a people that is always chanting "USA! USA! USA!", "Freedom!", "Democracy!", I find the reactions in this thread pretty rich.

You, collectively, are 100% to blame for the actions of your government. You, individually, share 1/300 millionth of that blame. If you don't feel that way, your democracy has failed.
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As I said, merely the first counterexample that came to mind.

I'd judge surrendering your freedom and your property without putting up a fight as "more disgusting than war." Allowing an innocent ally to be conquered probably also qualifies. There's really quite a lot of stuff that is "more disgusting than war." But people can feel free to choose what they're disgusted by...
>"Come work for us - where Senior SREs will publicly question whether or not you are capable of doing your job, based on your gender!"

"Senior SREs will privately doubt you are capable of doing your job, based on your gender/racial hiring preference" sounds so much better?
Here it's illegal for merchants to add fees at checkout.

That being said, yes, they might mark up their products for it. That being said, I doubt it. The retailers I've worked with while developing e-commerce solutions already made enough profits on their products to absorb that fee.
One doesn't get a fat paycheck just because they are intrinsically awesome. One gets a fat paycheck because turnover costs, especially opportunity costs, are higher.
Contactless is faster than making change, so it's just far too convenient to use a contactless card.
SUCH AS?

Jesus Christ.
That's right. Bank-foreclosed properties are big old liabilities that they want off their balance sheets ASAP. Unless the mortgages were extremely underwater, there's no real incentive for the bank to hold on to them.
But having exact change on hand is seen as being responsible and prepared, which is another highly valued trait. You came into the shop with the ability to pay the exact amount of the purchase.

That's made easier by the VAT system as opposed to the US sales tax system.

Totals are easy to calculate in your head. I'd say this is a stronger driver of cash use than anything cited in the article.
This is the moment. Google used to be this dream place to work, not anymore. If other companies want to hire good conservative/libertarian engineers, they should motion loud and clear that they will not ostracize employees for having a differing political opinion
I understand that a true minimal lifestyle is illegal. However if we ignore that issue (I in fact do not agree with those laws) we can look at what our true minimums are.

A mud hut will not cut your lifespan. A mud hut of course implies that you don't have access to good medical care, don't have good heat, and cooking on a smokey wood fire. All of those will cut your lifespan, but it isn't the mud hut it is the rest of what it implies. In short poverty which I already said is a problem.

We can move up a step: at $5/hour (less than minimum wage in the US, but lets call the rest lost to taxes) you can potentially earn $800/month, put $600 into rent in a cheap apartment and that leaves $200 for food. You will be walking everywhere, getting clothing at goodwill, but it is enough to live to a fairly old age one (once you get old you can no longer afford your medical bills, but most people can live to old age with minimal medical care)
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Both Germany and the US insure savings accounts for 6 figure amounts, meaning bankruptcy is not a major concern for most people.
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This is a fantastic explanation. Thanks! (Also, I love the gifs)
Many countries' military have gone through that name change to make it sound more palatable. It's basic PR. I live in Finland's neighbour country Sweden where as late as 1974, the Swedish Armed Forces were still named "Krigsmakten" as opposed to post-1975 "Försvarsmakten" ("krig" = "war", "försvar" = "defence").
Pinzon (by Amazon)

Top. Secret.
Don't all companies do this? wayfair.com has like ten different sites that all sells the same stuff with a different name. It's annoying as hell. You'll never know who actually makes the stuff.

I have now learned that the best way to price compare something is to do a google image search and find out what they are selling it for on their other sites.

I had to do this for a set of curtains I bought that went out of stock. Oddly, when it went back in stock, it was on the same site, under a different name. As a consumer, that is a ridiculous cat and mouse game to play.

Funny enough, a lot of it times it leads me back to Amazon, where it's the cheapest.
I'm pretty sure I used my UK (debit) card, the other day, to pay for something absurdly cheap - maybe 49p? I was about as surprised that they accepted it as I am when a shop requires me to pay a huge minimum - e.g. £10 - and it's not quite as straightforward as "big shops do this, small shops, that".
It doesn't. He just wanted to argue about minimum wage lol
Would they evict the lesbians who've been tossing Jews out of pride parades (which is no joke, it happened in my town)? Or do they evict the Jews?

Shouldn't they evict all Pride March leadership since Black Lives Matter have been stopping Pride parades due to allegations of systematic racism? Or do they evict BLM for stopping Pride parades?

Would they evict the professors of Evergreen who students claim are guilty of systematic oppression? Or do they evict the students who were patrolling campus with baseball bats?

Shouldn't they evict all white men, since all white men are guilty of participating in colonialism and patriarchy? Or do they evict all white men, since white men supposedly got Trump elected (something the statistics very much dispute- Trump made gains in several demographics)?

This is a very slippery slope in these times.

If the leaders of AirBnB were the white nationalists, and they were tossing out their opponents following white nationalist policy, everyone would say the white nationalists deserve harsh retribution.

The policy itself doesn't matter. The politics do. And yes, AurBnB has to play politics. I'd wager they saw a couple markets where they hope to keep a foothold for being "the good guys" instead of an illegal business in violation of various local ordinances on innkeeping.
> If you're like me, you probably thought of yourself as smart, and had a short list of "smart things that would be cool when I grow up." Astronaut, doctor, computers, stuff like that.

I think it was magazines. Which weren't gendered. I don't think I've seen any male programmers on TV, and I don't have family members who were programmers, and I was interested in computers before I knew that programming was a job.

As far as I can tell, computers were just innately interesting.
> " it gets skimmed off by insurers, drug companies, individual practitioners, hospitals"

7% goes to the insurers and it's not like there aren't equivalent workers doing much of the same work in your healthcare system for similar costs. Maybe it's slightly more efficient, but not by much.

As for being "skimmed" by practitioners and hospitals... that's a weird word to use, since they're just being paid for their services.

You also have to understand that, since you don't experience the US healthcare system directly, the only thing you're going to read is people complaining. The wait times for many services in the US are vastly shorter than they are in government run systems. For an example, same day MRIs are available in some cases or with a day or two wait in most cases.
That is preposterous. What if they're just more interested in other things? Why do you assume a priori that men and women share the same interests internally? What evidence do you have which suggests this? OR are you just making an assumption because it seems "unsexist"?
We need more women to represent in coal mines
If you read the article, it certainly isn't too sympathetic to the millenial home-seeker. It is mostly neutral to both the buying and selling side. At one point they almost paint him as a hipster by describing what he's wearing - which includes a Schlitz belt buckle. They also raise questions of gentrification.
Breitbart is fascist propaganda, you've made the world worse for sharing anything from them.
In Canada the usual limit is CAD 100 (about EUR 67). Tapping to pay is way faster than a cash transaction.
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I think he went too far when he suggested women are inherently less capable in the computer sciences than men.

Saying diversity training sucks, or that Google should re-evaluate how they encourage diversity, or that men are getting a raw deal, would have been tolerable.
Actually I think you have it backwards. By not firing him, they would have done too little to distance the Google brand from the manifesto (and worse, people's third and fourth hand readings of the manifesto). That would cost them more potential and current engineers short term and certainly devalue the consumer brand more than sending a message that company wide memos like that aren't tolerated. They can't just take this sitting down.
You can express your minority views as long as those views don't violate company policy. That's reasonable. You certainly wouldn't expect to keep your job if you published a memo saying you should be able to call black employees "nigger" because _cite some pseudo science here_. That's a minority view, isn't it? The expectation that every minority view can or should be safely expressed is both naive and unreasonable.
As a German

a.) I mostly pay cash because it's faster

b.) some shops that can afford it only have cash payments to save on CC costs

Not because of inflation or because something happend 100y ago.
I mean, the argument is ridiculous. They are blaming people who own houses for not selling houses. Build more houses --simple. Allow development. What's the next headline? Young people without real-estate holdings are first time buyers.
> due to to the "no enemies to the left" formula [2]

If that was (still) a thing Hillary would've won in a landslide. There's a lot more dissent in the left than the right.
Which neighborhood, or at least, which region of the US?
Makes sense, brands don't mean anything themselves.
The problem essentially reduces to finding the roots of a system of polynomials. This article suggests solving the system basically with Newtons method (generalized to higher dimensions). But an alternative approach is to use Groebner bases[1] which can give you not just a single (arbitrary) solution (which is what Newtons method produces) but all solutions. SymPy has a good implementation of groebner bases if you want to try it out.

[1] http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Groebner_basis
Have been living on and off in Switzerland for the last 7 years(Zurich mainly). Your post describes my experience in Switzerland when I first moved here, however for the past year or two (since contactless payments and NFC took off) I would say that your first point has completely reversed - it is now much faster to pay with card unless you have the exact change ready.

Also regarding your third point, anecdotally I have heard that many smaller shops/restaurants are now pushing for non-cash payments as it is more difficult for employees to steal that way.

In Sweden and Denmark there are many places where cash isn't accepted. Come to think of it, I was on a business trip to Frankfurt last week and the restaurant we ate at only accepted cards.
The point is that you don't need to show that the therapeutic effect is the same, you need to show that you expect the therapeutic effect to be the same. The trials required to prove the latter are orders of magnitude simpler, faster and less expensive.
> Also, almost every store accept touch-pay method

Definitely not the case in Berlin where cash is king, German bank cards work often, and credit cards are rarely accepted.
You may be right, but later in the note Pichai himself writes:

> ...we need to find a way to debate issues on which we might disagree—while doing so in line with our Code of Conduct

As if admitting that currently there are no avenues for open discussion on highly controversial topics such as this one or at least none that do not clash with the Code of Conduct.
I'm reminded of earlier efforts using Firefox OS which sought to create a "Web of Things". I'd didn't get around to backing the Runcible project but watching Aubrey's video below, I hope it succeeds.

http://janos.io/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qgIObR6jGs
http://mono.hm/
Keep politics/religion out of work. Its one thing to rant on reddit at end of day, its another to broadcast it to co workers. What did he expect would happen? His little write up would change everyones mind? Both left/right are extremists these days and will never change. All you will do is alienate and anger a bunch of co workers for a few pats on back from "your" side. While the smart people will put heads down and get actual work done at work and talk politics at end of day at a bar with friends/family like the rest of the country.
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I know a handful of plumbers that love their job (hours/pay/flexibility), and they're pretty awesome people.

"Nobody wants to do a job where money/effort-done is very low" is a generalization.
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In the US it's common to see cash prices at gas stations.
It varies based on what gets traded. And I don't really know because I stopped thinking about what I was paying and started thinking about what I'm earning. I really don't care what his cut is if I'm netting 3.75-4.0% on average.