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Internxt – Welcome to a New Internet
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Fantasy gaming can be better than reality
I have UHC and take Adderall XR. I have never had an issue because of how the prescription was written. My doctor has always written it for Adderall XR with generic substitution allowed. This allowed me to get the generic version prior to switching to UHC and has allowed me to get the name brand without issue after switching to UHC. Even if the way your doctor sometimes writes the prescription causes an issue. It seems this is easily preventable with minimal effort on your part. Just remind your doctor how it needs to be prescribed and double check the prescription before leaving the office. My co-pay for Adderall XR with UHC is the same as my co-pay previously for the generic version. Maybe I was getting gouged before.
The NGO boats can rescue the migrants and take them back to Libya instead of to Italy. Why aren't they doing that?
One thing that bothers me as someone who works at Google (but is speaking purely his own opinion) is that this manifesto implies some pretty wrong things about our hiring process. In particular, it conflates diversity sourcing programs with a lower hiring bar.

As an engineer who's done a fair bit of volunteer recruiting work as well as conducted interviews, my experience has been that race- and gender-specific programs are used exclusively as outreach, sourcing, and mentorship tools. James claims there are "hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate," which strikes me as untrue. Regardless of how they are sourced, once candidates are in the interview pipeline their are all treated exactly as rigorously as one another.

In other words, recruiters are responsible for finding, reaching out to, and advocating for candidates. Once they source the candidate they "throw them over the fence" to the cold, hard interview process, which involves experienced interviewers and a hiring committee of senior-tenure engineers. The aim is to ensure you can trust that those who make it out how the hiring committee to be top-notch.

After years and years of working at the company I haven't heard even a whisper of complaint among anyone about the quality of people we're hiring. After working with people of all stripes I can say I haven't met a single person where I thought to myself "how did this loser get through the filter."
> a copy of him gets assembled on some planet (using local materials I believe

Doesn't the Star Trek transporter use the _same_ atoms/materials without making a copy?
What does it mean to "accept people" though? Does it mean to act in a non-discriminatory fashion specifically in the context of using Airbnb? Or does it extend to discriminatory opinions held in general, even if not acted upon in the context of using Airbnb?

I think it can only be the former as the latter could easily clash with religions being included in the list of protected groups. There could be (and in fact there are) religious beliefs that are clearly discriminatory against other religions, world views (like atheism) or sexual orientations.

The only way to not ban someone holding such a religious belief is for Airbnb to say, OK, we don't care what you believe, but in your role as an Airbnb guest or host, you must act in a way that is non-discriminatory even if that goes against your beliefs.
Let's assume this guy knows statistics; by lowering the rate of false-negatives, you raise the rate of false-positives. This means that he's heavily implying Google has employed undeperforming engineers with these practices.
Toupee does help with that.

Although, he looks much older than 15 years ago.
Holy shit, really, Google is as bad a a biker bar for republicans? That's pretty damning. I mean, I wasn't asking to walk into a la Raza meeting. I meant a vanilla google office at MTV.
Nope, it was a page (or popup?) with a short and visible text and forced you to Accept or Decline:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/553a1999e4b01dde7b6bc...
Joy is interesting: I never programmed in it, but I had a lot of fun reading it and learning how it works from the documents.
I think it's for the best.

Publicly publishing something that has garnered this reaction from people, it's certain he would've been the victim of discrimination and bias in his workplace.

If Google's workplace is anything like the Twitter comments, I don't believe there was any scenario where he could ever work in any team environment.

However, idealistically, this should not happen. People should be mature enough to accept other people have their own opinions and are perhaps those opinions are not in-line with their own, or are even focused negatively on them.

The same with workplace romance, it's important for both parties to make an effort to maintain stability and cooperation, no matter how insulted and bad they may feel.
No one said anything about "needing." A person can have happiness and joy in their life while single, yet find another person who adds even more happiness and joy.
every political point of contention has real world consequences for real people. The whole point is that we try to approach fairness from a rational standpoint so that people aren't being treated badly based on their gender, sex or the colour of their skin - and this whole debate centers around whether diversity initiatives are fair because they counteract inherent systemic sexism or if they're actually countering natural gender predispositions and thus being unfair by giving one gender a leg-up over the other.
> Outside those doing pre-med or pharmacy students do not need to take any hard science/math/cs classes ( the later in a lot of schools taught in math departments ) for years.

This was not the case at my university at all.
It was a hybrid of several algorithms. Yes, it was an adaptive model trained with a large historical dataset and updated daily.
You aren't suggesting that all men are embroiled in Uber-like scandals? Danielle Brown might have a word with you.
Completely inaccurate analogy. The MID is in the tax code available and given blindly to everybody who wants to apply for a house, not part of any human judgment on merit or ability.

A more relevant one would be whether brokers are now showing houses or discussing financing options differently to people based a perception of the person's identity group.
Well it's better to have a job that to don't have one, right?

But being treated as less capable thus requiring lower barrier of entry to women is just plain old sexism.
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Recommend one of the "See also"-links from the Wikipedia page, for those not familiar with the term: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_place
Is Left the new Right?
Yes please, someone do this
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Ask HN: When to create a legal disclaimer for side project
Hi all,

I was just wondering how soon should someone create a legal disclaimer for their side-project while trying to validate an idea?

Is there a quick/easy way to perhaps generate a "standard" legal disclaimer that covers early usage until the project has progressed enough to warrant a proper legal notice form an attorney/lawyer?

Thanks
It's time to leave your employer and do something that makes you happy
My argument for years now has been that "providers" should be required to charge the same price for every patient. In other words, insurance companies should not be able to negotiate prices with them. The idea that an insured person (and his insurance company) is charged less for a procedure than an uninsured person... well that's just wrong.

As usual I like to clarify - providers should be free to set their price for a service/product, but they must charge everyone the same for it. Different providers would be free to charge different prices of course.
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Same question, except $2400/mo.
According to https://www.cashforless.de/ec_cash_info/Fakten_zur_Kartenzah... methods for payments in stores 2011 was 57% cash, 5.3% credit card, 33% debit card (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cash).

> "of course, [the Germans] attitudes toward currency must owe something to Germany’s tumultuous monetary history. During the Weimar-era hyperinflation that peaked in 1923 [...]"

> "the German tendency to settle up in cash undeniably reflects the fact that for much of the last century, Germany has been either on the brink of, in the midst of, or struggling to recover from, disaster."

As a German I call that theory into question. Our currency has been stable for 60+ years. It would've been nice if other countries with recent disasters (war, hyperinflation, sanctions) and their attitude toward currency was compared against.
Often things like the normal of the end effector is important. Other important factors are reducing power consumption (and thus motor heat) by taking into account system momentum and static torque on joints.

I've even seen 5-joint arms in factories for when the robot needs to reach around something in order to drill a hole or install a component.
I honestly can't understand most of the discussion. For me, the crucial point is only one:

What is the objective?

What are you aiming for? Google, governments, NGOs, eccetera have their own objectives.

What's Google purpose? Make money, lots of it, as simple as that.

Well, what do you have to do then? Really simple: optimise for profit! In regard to hiring, A/B test the mix of people that work best. Is a group of only minorities the best one? Hooray, hire only minorities and, when you can legally fire the "white males" just trash them as soon as possible. Have you found that there's a secret mixture of "white males", "black males", "white females", "esquimeses" that perform superbly? Well, keep on hiring them!

Are you the US government and need to optimise for general wealth? Perfect, then you should hire that woman, who needs to support her 4 children, and forget about that 19 year old Stanford PhD, he will make tons of money somewhere else.

Are you Google and need the general consensus of a particular group of people? Well, then just behave accordingly.

I laugh when I see "biological differences", not because it is untrue, but because it misses the real point.

What is the objective?
I was hoping for an image or video of the dung beetle in action... instead there were simply a large number of stills of dung-related insects around dung. Kind of disappointing, given the title...
I am not a coder, I have no issues getting work as I run my own company.

But it's now clear that without strawmen you have no arguments just insults and claims about my person you can't back up. But I guess that's kind of symptomatic for this discussion isn't it?
Maybe not glorification, but definitely respect and appreciation for their sacrifice.
1) affirmative action don't force anyone. It could mean that health care and education with several professions with over 90% gender segregation would have to stop all hire of that gender, or hire anyone of the minority gender that show up at the door. The list of gender ration in different professions are publish here in Sweden, so it would be very easy to see where the biggest effect would be (IT, with a about 70-30 ratio is very average profession in regard to gender segregation).

2) & 3), when making law, rules tries to become more general but only to a point. Where that point is is naturally up to debate, but should match the intention of the rule maker. If we want to eliminate gender segregation in the work place, then it naturally ends with gender. If the idea is to eliminate segregation in general then more classification of groups would have to be included.

But the big question I wanted to ask is if we take gender based affirmative action, would that explicit form of action be consider moral when made into a general rule rather than applied locally by specific companies. If it is not, then why is it moral when done in smaller scale.
This seems counter-intuitive to me. The author argues it's due to hyperinflation from the pre-WW2 era, concluding that "People in countries that suffered banking crises quite sensibly often prefer to save in cash."
If there really is some national memory of that crisis, wouldn't they actually prefer to actually avoid saving in cash? During the hyperinflation period your cash could lose half of its value overnight. This just doesn't make sense.
It might be worth mentioning, but the payment preference goes both ways. Germans' preference for cash payments sometimes means or meant that payment options common elsewhere might not be available.

This caught me out at a McDonald's in Berlin that accepted neither Visa nor MasterCard earlier this decade. Even bigger brands adapt to local culture, it seems.
If they have a friend zone it's because they are using other criteria to select a partner.
Fair enough, I felt like I should've known that :/
Because that's how the real world works.. some guy claiming some other guy got shafted out of a engineering degree because some third guy got preferential treatment is hesrsay and therefore bullshit.
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I think the question refers to this: https://medium.com/@ghengeveld/isomorphism-vs-universal-java...
I actually think that there is a real problem forming in society where certain views and ideas are sacred cows and any mention of an idea that runs counter to those ideas in any way results in the person being personally attacked and shamed. This doesn't raise the level of discourse or make people more sensitive or agreeing with the sacred cows, it just makes them hold their views in private and then express them when they vote and don't have to explain themselves.

I also believe that Google has every right to fire this employee based on the memo. A company is a place you work. They pay you a salary in exchange for your time. It is not a democracy. You don't pay taxes to them for fair representation. You have no expectation of free speech when it comes to work. Clearly Google is trying to build an environment with certain values. If somebody is working there who is promoting an opposing set of values, it makes complete sense that they would remove that person. The person then has the freedom to go work for a company that they feel is promoting their values if they feel that that is something that is important for the company they work for to do.
I found that rebuttal less that satisfying, to say the least, given his #1 bullet point:

"1.I’m not going to spend any length of time on (1); if anyone wishes to provide details as to how nearly every statement about gender in that entire document is actively incorrect,¹ and flies directly in the face of all research done in the field for decades, they should go for it. But I am neither a biologist, a psychologist, nor a sociologist, so I’ll leave that to someone else."

But... that's exactly what I keep hoping to find, and have yet to really see - and its the thing people, in all their breathless responses, seem to excuse themselves first from undertaking.

The rest of his reply are really expositions about his own value judgements on empathy and politics.

I would find it highly educational and valuable, if someone who is more learned on these matters than I, would offer a good blow-by-blow factual rebuttal to the "manifesto".

More empiricism and less moralizing would be a breath of fresh air.
Would much like to know your opinion on why people in your position don't confront the architects of these "diversity hire" programs with reasoned argument to dismantle them as doing more harm than good.

I'm trying to approach this respectfully by acknowledging that I know it's only your opinion, but I rarely get the opportunity to ask something like this, so please forgive me if my curiosity seems out of line - I genuinely want to understand better and no offensive is intended.
Don't kid yourself. It's not a debate when you don't back up your claims with data and/or proof. It's you feeling angry about the world and ranting at it expecting the world to take your word for it. It makes you feel better but the world thinks you just some crazy guy screaming about injustice.
I've saved $3/pill (75%) with a GoodRx coupon. Blink also provides a similar service. But how insane is it that I have to not use my health insurance to buy a health product at a good price?
No it's the same and if you believe that you are wrong.

There is a world of difference between someone having spent their entire life coding and someone only starting at university. Or someone having learned to draw from the age of 5 and someone who starts way later in life. That applies to men as to women.

Being not as good is about experience and knowledge having put in the hours. It is not about intelligence.
Perhaps it means that when your money is in a bank account, the bank can refuse to give it back to you until it loses all its value. In cash, you can spend it straight away.
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I think you are being a little unfair here.

I think it is more like saying:

"The modern Right is dripping with hatred for the Government - quite ironic given that we live in one the most free, prosperous societies ever created in human history. They are driven almost entirely by resentment, and lack even a shred of gratitude for the vast wealth, comfort and freedom they've been born into."

You could ask me, and rightly so, who is this "modern right" and if I'm being fair when addressing their motivations.

You could ask me, also rightly, how the debate advance in a positive way with this kind of all covering statements.
While the US might be an outlier amongst postindustrial western countries in terms of the military being a survival opportunity for the poor, in the grand historical picture this has probably been the norm more often than the exception. When lost crops meant that you would not likely survive the next winter, a plundering army could count on a steady supply of recruits, much like a fire uses its own great to prepare the raw fuel for quick oxidation.
Of course one should remember that Finland lost WW2 "better" than most countries won it. In fact, many Finns will say that it was a victory. While the war was brutal, Finland is one of the few countries where the casualities were mostly limited to the military. There were only ~2000 civilian deaths. Finland was never occupied[1] and there was no large scale bombing of cities. Finland remained an independent democracy, and prospered after the war. The contrast to the rest of Eastern Europe is pretty stark.

[1]: Only one major Finnish city (Viipuri) was occupied by the USSR (after the civilian population of the city was evacuated).
They're smart.

I went all cash a few months ago for everything except hotels and rental cars. It's very liberating. Credit cards give you 3-5% incentives to spend because you spend more. Since going all cash, we spend in average 15% less.
BriovaRx I assume? These guys are the worst. OptumRx (might be who you have through United as well) screwed me over because no one ever explained to me what the hell a "specialized" medication was.

I was put on a $drug and so when asked where I wanted to fill it I told my doctor to send it to my local Kroger Pharmacy. I went and tried to use my insurance but it wouldn't run for this $drug. I called OptumRx (the number on my healthcare card) and they said it should work. I gave them all my info, they assured me Kroger Pharmacy was In-Network, and they had me stand in line again so that they could talk to the pharmacist. No one could figure out what was wrong so the pharmacist gave me 3 pills to get started and OptumRx told me it would be cleared up by tomorrow and they would call me. Day 1, no call. Day 2, no call. Day 3 I call the pharmacy and they say they haven't heard anything from OptumRx, I called OptumRx and they finally realized that this $drug is a special drug that can ONLY be filled by their online pharmacy BriovaRx. I get transferred to BriovaRx and they say they can mail me the drug in 2-3 days and I tell them that's not going to work because I took my last pill today and there aren't supposed to be any breaks in the medication. Finally they cave and call in an "override" so I can get it from Kroger this one time.

They also fucked up a delivery once and told me they couldn't send more pills until they figured out what happened to the last package (which could take days) and I was 1 pill away from being out. I had to fight my way through people telling me there is nothing that could be done about it until finally, again, someone called in an override. Mail order may be nice and all but when I can't re-order until I'm less than a week out and shipping doesn't always work as expected it's a huge PITA and a big stressor. I order EVERYTHING off Amazon so trust me when I say I prefer the idea of mail order but when I need a medication I want to be able to walk down to the Kroger Pharmacy and fill it instead of waiting for something that might not come on time.
McDonalds didn't accept card payments anywhere until around 2002.
Just because somebody wants something to be political doesn't mean it actually is. I can call for a law saying people who drink beer out of green bottles are evil and brown beer bottles are the right solution and I spend millions of dollars campaigning to lock up people who drink out of green bottles, is that suddenly a political stance? No, it just means I have too much time on my hands and maybe even have some mental illness.

White nationalism is not a political stance. It is hatred and bigotry. Just because racists want it to be political doesn't mean it is.
> more Republicans have installed solar than Democrats (which is true, by the way)

Can you elaborate please?
>After years and years of working at the company I haven't heard even a whisper of complaint among anyone about the quality of people we're hiring

That point is less persuasive after Google has demonstrated it will terminate people who complain - even if they do so in a reasoned manner.
Interesting article but it will be flagged soon.
Is it not reasonable that any Joe Schmo can easily build both front end UI's and servers with one of the most adopted languages?
"The old way: Micropython" <-- what? really? old, already? They're just getting warmed up, baby.