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> Hospitals will never turn away a patient with a medical emergency

No, but if you can't pay, and you won't drop dead in the next eight hours, they will try their best to toss your ass out onto the street after prescribing you a $900 bottle of aspirin.
Then what happens is everyone without insurance will go to ER for every little issue. Which is kind of what is informally happening now anyway.
I'm in the early stages of setting up a co-operative consultancy; I've found many people (eg potential partners) responsive to such an idea.
The only downside has been needing to present as a traditional, hierarchical organization to potential clients.
> Also, her idea that getting paid well means nothing because there are people who make more money left me scratching my head.

I think her point was that working (especially long hours) has costs: childcare, restaurant food if you're limited on time to cook, transportation costs, work-appropriate clothing, etc. So while you're being paid "well", you may ultimately be better off working less and being paid less.
So, botnet C&C with no takedowns and more efficient and lower risk than servers on Tor? Nice.
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It certainly can.

When I need to focus on reading something with distracting things around me, I read it under my breath to myself, or even out loud when I'm at home.
Funny you mention that. I have a 4k monitor and bad eyesight and normally have to zoom in on webpages. When I clicked this one I was pleased that it was already zoomed in for me.
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It took me way too long to figure out that the article isn't about literal whale watching. I was expecting something about a small number of customers spending large amounts of money to go on whale-watching cruises.
I am testing simplewall, it has some minor UI glitches but looks good.

I also use Tinywall in my work pc. I don't tink it does anything else besides checking for updates. But you can remove it from exception in the options, open windows firewall from control panel and clear see that Tinywall is not allowed to connect in the rules.

https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall
Medicare pays cost based rates (for all services) to small rural hospitals in part to ensure this. "Critical access hospital" is the keyword if you want to read more.
I could see a situation where, for instance, they do a security audit and are convinced that they need to significantly up their physical or network security to prevent a potential attack.

There's also the possibility of their competitors pushing an agenda with standards bodies that pushes up the cost of PKI to try to freeze them out.

If they charged a token amount I don't think it would be so bad (except for the whole getting it through the bean counters problem), but it would be more lucrative for them to charge people money for raising the rate limits in their system.

Certain people like Akamai are charging exorbitant amounts to manage large numbers of SSL certificates. Just look at their quarterly revenue, it's insane. Other providers could partner with LetsEncrypt and undercut them substantially enough that they could steal customers, but it might mean LetsEncrypt has to scale up their operational limits to do so.
I have this book, it's a great way to introduce programming early.
Agreed. My latest project has a Vue front-end (it's a small tool) and Rails does a wonderful job just dumping JSON for the front-end to render.

Even if it is a little excessive (which I don't think it is), I have features planned in the future where having an ORM like ActiveRecord+Ruby will make things very simple.
I don't mean to take anything away from freegeoip, this is basically the self-hosted vs external API debate that I've already responded to here. In short, there're cases where each solution shines more than the other.
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tct38KwROdw

The "existing legislation and regulation" section is pretty interesting for wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chargemaster
I wish it was irrelevant, but CUDA requires the NVidia binary driver.

Why can't CUDA work with nouveau? All the special sauce is in the CUDA libraries, I'm sure all the driver does is init the card and do some resource management.
Really depends on your business, but getting on a plane is the easy solution. It's relatively cheap to fly AU-US nowadays.

If it's a bigger deal, you can probably justify it. Or you stack smaller deals in to one 2-4 week trip.

Sounds inefficient, but you can pack a lot in - plus you'd be surprised how convincing getting on a plane and flying around the world to a customer is. "I'm coming in from Australia" is also a great door-opener.

Doesn't work in all businesses - but for a lot of B2B it is effective.
By "nationalized", I mean where the state owns and employs a significant portion of the healthcare resources and personnel, as opposed to just paying for it.

Personally I find it telling that it is almost impossible to find people holding your positions in places where people have experienced these socialized systems unless they have the money to pay far more for care that is out of reach of most people.

Really? Then I think you've misunderstood my positions and you might want to try another read through my original comment. Unless you think that every other developed country in the world is clamoring for the exact NHS system? Because my point is that I'd prefer single payer or a robust public option to nationalized systems, not that I want the current US system.

note that you're referring to PPP adjusted numbers

Yes, because that's what makes sense. Why wouldn't you use PPP-adjusted numbers?

the gap between the UK and e.g. the US still illustrates the most important point

As I suspected, you're just defending the UK system as being superior to the US system. On this we agree, but it's irrelevant to my broader point.

Side note: why are Europeans so freaking defensive about their systems of governance? I swear that you can't have a reasonable discussion online about healthcare, taxes, employment law, etc, etc. without a mob of people from Europe jumping in to assure everyone that their system is the best and the US system for everything is horrible and we all unknowingly live in a terrifying dystopia.

We get it, you love the way you do things. I tend to agree on a number of issues, but I'm so tired of the condescending chatter about it. It just comes off as really insecure.

I've lived in Europe, I'd do it again, I LOVE Europe, but I don't think you've got it all figured out, or that your systems will always work everywhere.

What are you trying so hard to prove?
It means that the level where they trade the CDS should account for this. TBAs are another good example where this stuff is important.
+1. I don't do enough design work to warrant expensive software so I've been using Gravit for small jobs and it's come a long way since they first released. It's definitely useful, especially for just doing things like mockups/wireframes.
That's what people said when it went from $1100 to $200 for the next three years. No one has any idea where bitcoin is going to go, saying otherwise is nonsense. Only people with a glimpse, are the manipulators holding onto the majority of it.
FWIW banks will record serial numbers of bills that go missing after a robbery.
Pubsub is probably one of the lesser known features of IPFS right now, given that it's still marked as experimental. We're researching more efficient tree-forming and message routing algorithms, but generally the interface is pretty stable by now. Pubsub is supported in both go-ipfs and js-ipfs.

A shining example of pubsub in use is PeerPad, a collaborative text editor exchanging CRDTs over IPFS/Pubsub: https://peerpad.net
String Theory is one of my favorite essays of all time. Discusses the incredible gap between journeymen, low-ranked tennis pro's and the elite players in both ability and quality of life, as well as the gap between journeymen and highly competive amateurs.

Definitely recommend Infinite Jest like probably anyone else in this thread, but would recommend reading his non-fiction first. Jumping into Infinite Jest, I thought Wallace was some wierdo crank for a long time before I "got" his style and what he was going for. Even then, it took a long time before I enjoyed it and he very quickly became one of my favorite authors.

I think Infinite Jest and GEB are two of the only epic books that accomplishes so much, but in two entirely different contexts. They both build intense, well founded and well structured frameworks that lead up to epic resolutions, despite being respectively fiction and non-fiction.
What state/country are you in?
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A number of people in this thread are accepting the position that "engineer" is defined by the State of Oregon to only mean Professional Engineer. Let's do a consistency check. Here is a job posting for an "engineer" by the State of Oregon, which is not for a PE position:
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/oregon/jobs/1902737/s...

For contrast, here is a job opening for the State of Oregon for a PE: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/oregon/jobs/1891379/s...
Melissa McEwen is spot on. I have had 30h jobs software development jobs for the last 7 years. I make enough money as-is and see no reason to switch to 35h or 40h. I'd rather see my kids more. The only reason to work more would be do found a company again.

Btw I have 30 days of paid vacation per year (which is not unusual in Germany).
I like the concept in general but it's infeasible here in the US for a third party to survey prices and post results. Insurance plans renegotiate individual prices with providers, and each plan decides on coverage. The only way it could change would be if providers (and insurers) were to do it on their own, but they have no motivation to do so. I think only regulation or a seriously disruptive/innovative competitive force could do this.
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This is over-engineering at its finest, and doesn't answer some questions: When do you want to use a front-end framework, and why?

For at _least_ 90% of the things out there, you don't need a front-end framework like React/Vue/Ember/Angular. And while these front-end frameworks increase the complexity of the app, its trade-off often doesn't nearly provide enough value in terms of speed/extensibility/maintainability to warrant it.

Rendering server-side views is fine: plug-in Turbolinks and have a blast. It's not cool, it won't get you stylepoints with your colleagues, but you should be trying to impress your client/boss with speed/extensibility/maintainability, and not impress with complexity of your stack.
At night the ED is the only place open. I believe there should be 24/7 Urgent Care centers, where people like the person in the opening of this article could go and receive care that (1) is not life-threatening but (2) can't wait till dawn.

However, in the mean time there are ways to help.

1. If you don't already have one, get a Primary Care Physician. Go for a wellness visit, get their practice to know you. Then if something like that happens at 1am, you can call the office, leave a message and get a callback from a nurse within 15-30m who can help you through your options and help with over-the-counter options to make it through the night until the office opens (or until urgent care opens). Or of course they can counsel you to go to the ED if they think there's a risk. But the point is, you can already weed out some unnecessary ED visits that way.

Note: not all providers have that service, so it's best to enquire when selecting a physician.

2. Many insurers have a nurses hotline but few people know about it. Check your policy. In the same way, they can help triage your situation, though it's less ideal since they don't know your medical record so they will tend to play it safer (ie. higher likelihood to send you to the ED). But it's better than nothing.

3. If the issue is pain management, you can also try your neighborhood 24/7 pharmacist. They can't diagnose you but again they might have tips to help you through the night until you can get proper care.
Needs more GPU.
Emergency departments are still loss leaders, at least at the hospitals I’ve worked with as a consultant. The hospitals make up for it through the referrals and imaging procedures generated by it.
I often see people refuse to move from far right lane and refuse to adjust their speed to accommodate drivers merging onto a 3+ lane highway/freeway. I don't know the laws on this one but it seems like a similar level of asshole behavior as staying in the passing lane despite an open lane to the right and faster cars behind. You may have the right of way but an action that's usually very simple for you can alleviate a situation that's usually difficult for the merger.
To a newbie this setup process is totally insane. Is this really what it's come to in Late 2017?
But what about pop ups that come from within the application? Anything that has dialogues come up when there is a chance the user might be using enter/return for a different purpose is a bit crap, especially with multi-screen systems where there is a fair chance the user is looking elsewhere. Even just having no pre-selected default would help (so arrow - enter/return would be needed).
FYI, tried to contact you but the contact form is broken and is raising a 405 error.
Slight sidenote, but this recent interview of Brian Armstrong (Coinbase CEO) on Bloomberg TV left a really good impression. He managed to appear both humble, smart and confident at the same time. Things a lot of people could learn from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqF43uD3kKQ
> Being in the business, it's a game to read NP's postings to determine how early in I can tell who paid for it.

Seems we have a shared hobby! :)

That being said, among the marketing camouflaging as content, they have original articles as well which can sometimes be quite decent. Not very in-depth in a technical sense, but gives you overviews of things happening you might have missed otherwise.
If you know what socialism is, then you would know that they would indeed be better off.

It's simple really, eliminate this concept of capital ownership by individuals or corporations. That way, when you work, your boss is not getting a profit on top of your labor. That means your wages go up! Best thing of all, whatever your participating in, you have part ownership in.
What is a business without clients?
I think that Americans are extremely optimistic. It seems that many Americans believe in fate, at least on a subconscious level; that everything happens for a reason and that everything will work out in the end.

Maybe it's related to the kinds of movies that Americans watch? I love watching Hollywood movies sometimes, but I have to say that compared to international films, the characters in American movies tend to be much more one-dimensional (have very well defined roles) and everything always works out for them in the end.

If you watch European movies, the characters are often hard to pin down and the story often ends either badly or unsatisfying at best... Just like real life.
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Pull up long term BTC chart. Step aside and ask your self this : is this a good time to buy this asset or sell it?

I think most people are late to the party and will simply get burnt by the market like so many times before. It's going to be a good show for sure.

I'm watching this develop with my pop corn ready.
I think if your item #1 were a reality, HR departments would mysteriously get more jobs filled quicker, and with likely more appropriately-matched candidates. And, yet, HR systems and processes seemed designed as the article notes, to block the "flood" of candidates. It is silly really, and I agree with you 100%!
I relocated for a job. It was a huge pain in the ass, and my situation was similar - my family had to wait for the house to sell to come join me. She packed while I was away, when the house sold I flew back to help her load up a U-Haul and we drove back together (my move was only about 1k miles so not across country).

It was an incredibly stressful process but we did it. Then I found out that my employer was a liar and a psychopath, I left that job after only six months. So why did I move? It worked out though because I found a better gig only two days later.

TLDR: Moving is hard, and plans usually don't work out the way you expect them to. Advice - be as flexible as possible.
This sort of shit wouldn’t fucking happen if they put the login/lock screen into its own separate and independent desktop like Windows does.

When Windows is more secure than you, you have big problems.

In case someone thinks desktop Linux is better, it’s not. It’s much worse: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/04/i-told-you-so-again/
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I'm amazed at the stupidity permeating this thread ( and wiling to burn karma to defend against it).

A random guy wakes up at 1am with a cramped muscle. Goes to facility that is equipped to deal with anything. On the spot surgeries, ability to break teeth safely to intubate and keep alive, drugs, cabinets with up to date equipment. Staffed with non-expired drugs that are regularly recycled. Staffed with people that can use all that round the clock, multiple backups. Staffed with people that keep the place reasonably sterile and safe. Staffed with all others to support an operation like that and expecting to get sued if it fails even a bit.

And then complains, he had to pitch in for all that. An engineer, most likely earning above 8k usd, had to give a weekly salary for something that he considered worth dragging his butt out of bed at 1 am.

The guy is delusional.

The US health care is, on the expensive side, and can be better, but nobody can argue it without taking into account all that goes into maintaining that, just so one can randomly walk inside with a spasm, or after a huge carcrash with 40 broken bones, and liters of blood lost, and probably stay alive.

I'm also amazed how most people here just ignore the reality of the scope of the overall operation, and claim that for a limited use case, it's too expensive.

I'm not even going to insert a car analogy here. If you can't see why health care by nature is socialized and a utilitarian model, I'm not going to argue with people from USA thinking that everything should be proportional to the service and their pocket.

Man up. You are not the center of the universe. This civilization was built for you, by people, and no matter if you like it or not, you will pay to maintain it for the people coming after you.

Humanity, is a social concept worth defending.
I think 1500 per day is practically useless unless for a very small side project. My old blog got many more daily unique visitors, but YMMV.

[edit] Aside from that, I personally would not do business with someone describing his own offer as "pretty generous", but that's just me.
I always find it very odd that your average American puts up with the current system instead of revolting

as a kid growing up in the UK I remember watching (and not understanding at all) the episode of the Simpsons where Homer went to A&E, was told he needed a triple bypass urgently, couldn't afford it, and his condition got worse and worse

in my mind you went to the doctor/hospital when you were sick, and you came out well (or not at all), money didn't enter into it

I re-watched it again as an adult a few weeks ago, now with an understanding of HMOs, deductibles and previous condition waivers among other things, and found the episode to be really quite sad
I agree with the author of the article that sales is important to any organization. It's a chicken and egg game between engineering and sales. No sales means no customer but no engineer means no product. I feel like sales gets a bad rep from engineering because whenever we do projects, it feels like we do the work and they get the glory and money (which may or may not be true). The worse is when a company cuts out engineers from the decision process for project requirements. We end up being liable to lucrative claims that other make.

That being said, I absolutely DISAGREE that everyone should get some hands-on sales experience. Just like how not everyone is suited for engineering, not everyone is suited for sales. The author comes from a product management role so I would guess s/he is more extroverted than most engineers. I have met many design engineers that are ridiculously introverted. However, that's the beautiful thing about engineering. It doesn't matter. If you can design something that solves the customers problem, then you are doing a good job. A good manager would make sure a good design engineer get's shielded from the political bs. Unfortunately, the engineering culture is turning into a culture where we promote those with charisma rather than a good designing skillset.
If CDS market disappeared or dried up - the broader insurance market will survive and exist just as it had prior to 1994 when the first CDS arrived.
Indeed. I signed up for Coinbase last night, moved right to verifying and getting set up on GDAX, uploaded my ID, got the "this will take 5 minutes" thing, waited 30, got bored and left it overnight, and in the morning the verification had simply disappeared and it wanted new pictures. If that was a rejection, I didn't get an e-mail or notification about it. No clue.

Credit card verification withdrawals went through fine, still waiting on the bank account verification deposits to appear as pending with my bank. Same account as the card.

Verification seems to be struggling.
So, Apple has the most available cash resource of any company out there (or at least close to). Yet, bugs galore, and strange product decisions. The obvious conclusion is that their management is failing to staff accordingly to the work that needs to be done. This could be because they are not aware that work needs to be done, which means engineers are not telling them, or that the management is not succeeding in hiring enough people to do the jobs.

My gut instinct says that a some former people at Apple used to do a lot of undocumented QA work and sanity checks, and that as the company has grown and changed, nobody picked up the slack when they left. Now, they'll have to go through a formal process of re-identifying QA steps that need to exist, and hiring against them. It's been a hell of a month for them, though.
So companies who have an opening for a "Software Engineer" or people having resumes with "Software Engineer" titles (Which is prettty common, I mean my resume has it, most of my peers call themselves Software Engineer / SDE and some prominent people recommend this title as a mean of improving your chances to be hired, http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro... ).

All are basically violating the law? (except those who actually took the official PE exam, which apparently is available for computer science since 2013 - https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3954... )

Basically in states like Oregon, the officials can just scan linkedin, anyone who lives in the state and has Software Engineer in their title and is not a licenced engineer, can be forced to pay a $500 fine?

Edit: I actually went and did the search, there are 18,101 software engineer titles in Oregon in LinkedIn, here's an easy $9 million for the state in fines.

My assumption that if this gets to court, since the colloquial term for a software programmer / developer is nowadays "Software Engineer" and since there was no official way to become a certified "computer science" engineer prior to 2013, this will be hopefully thrown out the window.
> mastery, and its use for effect, can replace the ideas that they generally prescribe

Is there any field for which this is not true?