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Majority of economists also prefer a fully private healthcare market over single-payer government-paid healthcare. How is that working out for the U.S. right now?

The two situations are kind of similar because in both cases the economists prefer "market efficiency" (so they say) over the poor (in this case startup companies) being able to afford the services that the rich (in this case big companies) can afford.

All that matters to them is "efficiency" in the sense that the rich can get to pay say $1,000,000 per year and get a super-efficient service back for their money, while the poor could only afford to pay $1,000 a year but also get "great value for their money" (just nowhere near what those people who pay $1,000,000 get).

In their minds this is great, because "efficiency" is the same. The only difference is that the rich would be able to get the best cures for say cancer, while the poor will die, because $1,000 can't buy them the cures.
Google would obviously never harvest personal data, not ever never. Nuh-uh.
You can transact using Ethereum in a couple of seconds. Multiple block confirmations are important to be sure you are in the longest chain. With big amount transactions you should wait for multiple blocks, being 6 enough to be extremely sure.
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No. It's a flawed premise, since you are not actually part of the negotiation. You are not the customer, you are the product being traded.

The only way you can change this is to insist on your privacy being respected, by using tools to inhibit tracking, and by voting with your wallet, by choosing services and vendors who respect your right to privacy.
Make plain statements of fact and expect the same (or distill what you read until it looks plain).

Typically this means that everything you read and write should say exactly what’s going on, nothing more. Who said/did what and when. If you are distracted by someone’s appearance, etc. then you’re probably experiencing a bias and should imagine what you’d think if you saw the same words printed with no attribution: does the statement stand by itself?

And if a statement might not stand by itself, have questions in your head that, if answered, would let the combined statements stand.

For example, “up to 50% off” sounds like a great deal and when emotions take over you might miss the fact that the statement doesn’t stand on its own. Example follow-up questions: 1. What is the minimum discount? 2. What was the price last week and last month? 3. What do competitors charge? 4. If this discount is taken, are other coupons also honored? It’s pretty amazing how many statements start to fall apart under slight scrutiny.
Anti net neutrality is anti-competitive. A world in which you have to ask for permission of the incubent companies is the farthest you could possibly get from a free market.
The "hash" would have to be non-reversible. When we compare images based on content, afaik we transfer them into a vector space and measure distance. Do we really have tech to make and compare such a content representation in a non-reversible way? That sounds like a lot to ask for tech that seems still in active development.
That why google is there.
If it is facebook, things would be different
Because you're selling it for way way too cheap.
Aircrew are only technically "working" once the cabin doors are locked and the plane is taxiing to the runway, until the doors unlock at the other end. That's why the hours look low. But obviously there is a lot to be done outside of those times.
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You are looking at the wrong metric, it seems like they count only transactions, not holdings. Only Fort Knox holds over 4000 of metric tons of gold.
I don't really think anyone believes it, I think there are only people who believes that someone believes it :)
Probably just cutting the standard big-corp fat. If I'm correct their financial results are great, in many areas even improving
Interview with her on the BBC Radio 4 show "The Life Scientific" here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016812j
they have a similar attitude for many things: trump vs obama, religion vs science, apple vs microsoft, angular vs react, flat vs round, “me” vs the others, US vs Russia... i believe it is because competitiveness is a pillar in the american society. it is sometimes so important to lead to the absurd.
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was there a reason given as to why the company was dropped from search results?
Really? Wow. I recently moved in with my partner and we keep having issues with deliveries, I’d never have imagined it could be due to bad or missing OSM data. I’ll check when I’m near a computer.

Thank you for the heads up!
That's not a useful response. ATM's will likely have over 1-2% in fees, and just trading USD isn't enough - you need a way to get your money in and out.
Don't depend on search for people to find your product. Just like you do not include vesting when comparing salaries between startups.
This needs a full anti-trust investigation.

If it's true that this has happened, then they need to have a regulatory oversight body right up in their operations.

The power of search engine is immense - they could change stock market outcomes, election outcomes, entire economies.
To add to the Germany counterpoint, the UK also manages a trust system without a National ID.
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You're completely right. You can get an amazing server in a very good hosting provider at a fraction of AWS. Really. You can get for $200/month a good server in a good hosting that costs literally $5000/month or more on AWS. Azure and Google are not different.

What you don't get is all their regions, easy scalability with EBS, managed services, etc. But all of that has a very high price, and depending on who you are and what you're trying to do, these cloud providers are probably the worst option.
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A small point.. What is called "left-leaning" in the U.S. looks right-leaning to most of the world. [source?] Supporting one (the less far-right one) of the two main business parties gets you called "left-leaning". Supporting health care apparently gets you called a communist! That seemed everyday opinion in the U.S. - it seemed absolute appalling idiocy to the world looking on. Up there with "freedom fries" etc. "The centre" I guess then falls somewhere halfway between a primetime news anchor and their right wing thinktank guest.
This is a favourite grievance to mention with Bell, but there was no expectation she should have won the prize.

She did not discover pulsars. She was a lab assistant who, as she was writing the numbers down in the lab book, first noticed that there were pulsar patterns in them.

Being the first to lay eyes on something is not typically what we mean, in science, by discovering it. Or else the guy cleaning the ship's deck in the morning should be rewarded for discovering America.

The prize was awarded to the head of the team as it was a project of his design and his organization. To have split 1/3 of the prize with whatever grad student happened to be keeping the books seems ridiculous.
Mailfence.

I'd be very interested to hear the problems with protonmail, considering all they claim to see is email metadata.

Edit: ok some quick googling says its related to ddos protection, which is still in effect currently, the malicious intent here seems overstated.

The official statement - https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/protonmail-isr...
> Interesting that there is a maximum rate.

Besides the other excellent reasons given, these sorts of clauses sometimes exist to protect the company. If the union has control over who works, as is often the case, they could choose to allow excessive overtime and make the airlines pay out for it regardless of whether circumstances really demanded it.

They don't usually do this because it's not in the favor of the union to keep people out of work. But there are always extraneous circumstances that could result in such outcomes, for example a national emergency that causes a shortage of pilots and those who stick around are contractually able to pull in ridiculous overtime while at the same time AA is restricted from changin flight schedules based on labor costs alone, etc.
The good author would perhaps be more open to discussing this point

> Meaning that it is unlikely that market power problems are so acute in this market as to justify regulations unheard of in other markets where price discrimination is widely practiced.

If the question were flipped.

Perhaps it not that NN is a unique regulation, and perhaps it is that many other industries also require net neutrality style provisions.

(I doubt there are many truly comparable industries. And all economic defenses underplay the last mile issue or say that WiFi/mobile is good enough.)

Can someone correct me - has there been underinvestment in American telecom infrastructure?
Nope they can argue for a greater share of the profits of the company or better pension rights. Back when I was a union branch secretary I helped get several thousand people get a better deal from the BT pension scheme.
Yes, this is standard pricing model for all new tech.
I don't think you read past the first sentence.
That is a long-exposure shot although the sky does really look like that if it's dark enough - just not quite that colourful. Here's an attempt by a photographer to recreate the effect:

https://vimeo.com/113287920

The band in the photo is the milky way.
As if these things could be more interesting, some exhibit 'glitches' which appear to be quantization of angular momentum on an N solar-mass scale.

http://www.unn.edu.ng/publications/files/images/EYA,%20INNOC...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOkjLtCCozM

About as far as away as one can imagine, a similar thing appears to happen with very low accelerations with some of our satellites. My search-fo failed on that so far.

Bonus scale crazyness for all the battery 2.0 articles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp4JrbpBvWc
Yes. Salaries in the SF bay area and NYC are ridiculous. Unfortunately cost of living expenses in those areas are ridiculous as well, which makes it far less worth it to move there for the average person than one would think.
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I wrote this a few days ago to talk about the mania (Disclosure: I operate Crypto Lotus, a crypto hedge fund):

PSA: I generally can't give you advice about specific crypto investments as much as I want to for multiple reasons related to my job.

This is my one statement on the market: It is loud.

Crypto is moving very quickly and I regard it as the riskiest asset class that is available today. To invest in crypto is to accept that currency can be narrative driven and that juxtaposition requires accepting that currency can be simultaneously worth any amount and no amount. The things that favor crypto as an asset class are that there is lots of positive news, a reasonable long-term narrative, and some of the largest assets are deflationary in design. The things that are unfavorable to crypto are that the pricing is uncorrelated to observable reality, the regulatory risk, and the cryptographic risk.

Overall, it is a bizarre, whimsical space to be in right now, but it is also terrifying. Don't tread lightly, and please don't invest more than you can afford to lose.

Thar be Dragons.

______

For clarity, the reasonable long-term narrative is that bitcoin is easier to work with than existing banking infrastructure for some transactions. In particular, if you are a high net-worth individual negotiating with a nation state or a person of low means who conducts low-trust transactions, bitcoin serves you better than most other means of payment. For the vast majority of people who don't fit in those two categories, bitcoin isn't really useful.
I agree that the whole "no platform" thing is a bad idea. You shouldn't alienate people; it doesn't get you anywhere and it's kind of mean.

It's not like I'm against debating things in public either, I just think it's important to know when to stop. For example, let's say NASA had added some easy/intuitive proof to their comment that people can do at home if they want to. That's cool, right? So now you get a irrational response back from the other side. Do you respond? I guess the question is how often can you respond before you end up doing more harm then good.
A speech recognition researcher I knew spent some time at Eastern Washington university because they had a lot of transcribed Washington state proceedings, which was open access enough to go into his company’s speech corpus, I guess (I only found out because I mentioned my mom graduated from there). Anyways, these people turn over a lot of rocks to realize their huge corpuses (erm, corpi?).
It's not privacy vs stability, that's a favourite red herring around here.

The problem is your development process is not capable of producing stable enough software. I don't know why that's the case, but you should work on that first.

Deming: "Inspection does not improve the quality, nor guarantee quality. Inspection is too late. The quality, good or bad, is already in the product. As Harold F. Dodge said, “You can not inspect quality into a product"". This goes even more for crash-reporting quality into a product.
Union's have regular democratic elections for positions CEO's don't face a mandatory share holder vote every year or two do they
It’s pretty much all governments, not just the US. “KYC” regulations are kind of brutal in some ways. Especially when the security of that data comes last to everything else...
It really doesn't matter what build system other libraries use. If you use CMake, you just need to use `find_package` directives (https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.10/manual/cmake-packages.7.h...) to integrate third party libraries (which should be separately installed in the system).

It only seems difficult if you're stuck in the mentality of shipping all your dependencies with your source code and statically linking everything. C and C++ libraries actually care about maintaining API (and usually ABI) compatibility, so you don't have to ensure you have a specific version of dependencies.
* https://posteo.de/en

* https://mailbox.org

posteo implements multiple encryption schemes: encrypt incoming mails with GPG (making them inaccessible by any end device not having the corresponding secret key). Or encrypt via the login passphrase with transparent decryption on authorized access.
Just indicates how many bored hipsters have enough free time to engage in post-ironic trolling
I'd be interested in your rebuttal of this:

https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/protonmail-isr...
Wordpress :(

Use the right tool for the job which is NOT wordpress for a job board.
Yeah, but there seems to be an endless supply of startup success story fan employees ready to be exploited.
Employee salary is not a market in the same way shares are employers keep secret what they pay from potential employees.
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In general, when the CME enters a market for futures, they take all of the air out of the room. I don't think it's realistic to believe NASDAQ can compete with them.
> Majority of economists also prefer a fully private healthcare market over single-payer government-paid healthcare. How is that working out for the U.S. right now?

It’s tough to say; there hasn’t been anything close to a fully private healthcare system for decades, at least since employer-provided healthcare became a tax-free benefit. For some rather large populations such as the poor (Medicaid), the elderly (Medicare), and veterans (VA) systems exist that are comparable to what we call single-payer in other countries.

Without a reference I don’t believe you that most economists prefer a fully private healthcare system, but few think the current system is very well-designed or functioning.
Nobody is going to try to compete with Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 from year one of a new ISA, for the same reason ARM chip makers didn't try to do that for years. It's just too risky and the investments need to be much bigger. Instead you "grow your way up" as ARM chips have done.

Now, Cavium's Vulcan-based ThunderX2 seems to be beating Intel's Skylake server chips:

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/11/27/cavium-truly-contend...
> Landlords will more often than not demand a document from the Schufa (supplied at your own expense) to consider you eligible for renting a flat or a house.

Not just landlords, employers do Schufa checks too, same for phone/mobile contracts, cable TV, and for what its worth even power/gas companies. The latter is really bad because it locks poor people into the highly expensive "Grundversorgung" tarriff (regulated, the local utility MUST offer it) by the local utility, thus taking away even more of their money.
Alpha? so far is buy and hold is pretty good.
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Wasn't this at the same time when ProtonMail migrated their site from a .ch to a .com? I would be thankful if I would be able to get such a special treatment from Google for a borked migration. For most of us it is a death sentence when we bork a migration, protonmail gets help and then they whine about it.
For the record, the author of `faster` did not post to HN. Secondly, since this is just a pleasant wrapper around stdsimd, I wouldn't expect performance to degrade severely. Finally, this is still a maturing project, and no where on their project page does the author claim that their work done.

lay off the unnecessary aggressiveness.
I personally see that the mac is getting lots and lots of love! Not my place to say more than that.

I pointed to this resource due to the concern expressed about iOS.
These anecdotes are great, but, and I'm being honest here, I don't care about 450% growth or how many millions of container instances that are reportedly running. I care about long-standing bugs being fixed in a timely manner.

Take a look at any random Github project that's unmaintained. That's the image Amazon has been showing the development community when they look at ECS. They don't see the closed source work. They don't see the hundreds of millions of internal KPIs ticked per week.

Now, I haven't spoken with a developer advocate, but I'm happy to share some of my frustration with you: I've had a dedicated resource working around bugs and limitations in ECS for months. We built a service mesh because ECS lacks service discovery, and then we built wonky patches to work around weird bugs in ecs-agent regarding how containers identify themselves. We've spent serious, deep time tracking down intermittent failures in the scheduler. We've worked in and around the strange task abstraction. This hasn't been a lovely experience. It's been hard and painful, but we press onward only due to the lack of time to convert to Kubernetes/Istio.

Are you in Seattle? Shoot me an email; I'd be happy to grab a coffee and share our experience.
I have this crazy theory (just for fun) that flat-earthers are people who want to be taken to space, as in they fake the disbelief in order to advance space exploration. If I bet you $1000 that the earth is flat you'd have an incentive to prove me wrong, the easiest way is to make going to space for me to observe the earth from a distance as cheap as possible. In this age of outrage it is easier to get people interested in a subject by spurring controversy than it is by igniting their curiosity.
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Which is difficult, and in no way preferable to having them already word-wrapped.
So does Mailbox.org but unlike posteo Mailbox allows using own domain.

The only issue is "German" quality customer support. So be patient and expect to receive terse "no." ;)
I get what you say about not insinuating, though I feel the two people who asked so far weren't so much insinuating as actually puzzled, as it genuinely seemed the parent couldn't have read the article and still thought it was an ongoing issue.
Whether that is “open access” enough for commercial use is an interesting question. I thought that the SCOTUS recordings, for example, can not be used for commercial applications, but that might be a restriction imposed by the organization that processes and publishes the data, not the proceedings themselves.
Yes. Pointing to a global evil conspiracy held up over centuries is a very weak argument, compared to what round-earthers could bring to the table. So, one would assume reasonable people would be convinced by the round-earthers.
well it makes sense for the rare occasion you need extra resource to pay OT it also helps to make sure mangers properly schedule work if the costs are high working on say thanksgiving at dark o clock
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I absolutely _loved_ doing phone technical support, but I don't do it any more because I can't afford it. I earn far more money as a developer and I can't turn that down. I wish good support was valued more highly , and compensated accordingly so I could afford to keep doing it.
The security improvements are interesting. I hope they take DJB's advice into account when implementing the new crypto instructions and features:

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140517-insns.html
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The gimbal allows you to orient the camera (avoid people to touch the lens with greasy fingers), it can be substituted by a cheap 3d printed piece for manual adjustment if the functionality is not needed.
It has some awe effect, and is fun with kids. It makes the camera more alive, specially in the tracking mode.
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Also this project has a DIY component to it, so doing the gimbal is a great introduction to robotics.
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Sounds like a good book. Was it #1 or #2?

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I've got Windows 10 installed and working on a 2006 MacBook 1,1. It just got an update to 1709 Fall Creators Update, and still gets the usual weekly security patches. Something is awry when Microsoft is able to provide support & security patches for Apple devices longer than Apple itself.
I think this (or something like this) can be used as a way to transmit a video chat on a very low bandwidth (think tens of bytes/second) level.
I always like the bridge example here: how would you react to someone trying to convince you that you should jump off a bridge? Reasoning with them implies that you accept that they might be right (it’s not a debate otherwise). The appropriate response would be laughing at them, or ignoring them, or something similar.