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That would be really strange if it was the case, because the actual reason why Telegram even exists is that vk.com founder got forcibly removed from his position.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Durov#Dismissal_from_VK
Indeed. My understanding is that US hospitals will inflate their bills because they know the insurance companies will turn over every stone to find ways to drive the bill down.

This in turn bites those that try to pay directly, as they end up with sticker shock.
This is horrifying and sad... and also can’t possibly be true for the general population.
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There was once Pebble.

They went out of business and their assets went up for sale.

Then guess who buys some of their assets and keeps some of that dev goodness alive?

Yes, Fitbit.
Combination. I use a Paipur notebook for physical notes. Slightly larger form factor than a typical Moleskine but very good paper quality still.

I used Ulysses app for years for journaling and note taking etc, and I loved it, I but don't like the fact they've switched a subscription model so I now use Emacs in combo with GitHub.

Something that I tried years back and it worked quite nicely was sending myself emails - it sounds sad but you get auto-archiving dates and all the benefits of the email app/web app (search, labels etc.). Tempted to go back to doing that frankly, but got into the habit of using Emacs now.
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> smaller federal government

> larger federal government

I find both of these positions frustratingly vague, and I'm eager to blame them for making the problem appear intractable. They're perfectly intuitive enough to make people have a gut-feeling for what it means without actually thinking about what it means, and in that sense avoid actually debating that, which would be productive.

What does "large" and "small" even mean? Governments are complex social/cultural/legal systems, no matter what the "size". I'm pretty sure waterbed theory applies here[0].

(This is not a critique of your post, but about the US discourse surrounding this in general. At least how it comes across to me as a European)

[0] "the observation, ascribed to Larry Wall, that some systems, such as human and computer languages, contain a minimum amount of complexity, and that attempting to "push down" the complexity of such a system in one place will invariably cause complexity to "pop up" elsewhere.",

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterbed_theory
I'd have imagined Facebook usage, if anything. And to the degree that they allow to use it even more, smartphones.
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Foremost one should look what java.util.concurrent[0] has to offer before reinventing concurrency patterns from scratch.

[0] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/util/concurre...
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Price controls is a dirty term we refuse to talk about in the good 'ol USA. Most other healthcare systems in the world with low prices have some kind of combination of it when it comes to drugs and procedures performed. The AMA has been fighting any kind of single payer system for 50 years now. They know that a single payer system will result in some kind of price controls. On one hand you understand their point of view (maximizibf their income well being) and on the other hand you understand the issue with that for all of society.

Having said that it's not just the income of doctor. Healthcare administration is expensive in the USA. Many doctors offices spend a non insignificant amount of money on just the billing, collection, insurance administration. The health insurance system as we naturally ended up with sucks up a non insignificant amount of money out of the system. It also leads to these weird distortions where every insured procedure is discounted to the insurance agency like 75%... But not if you deal direct.

Additionally, operational insurance (malpractice indurance) is another non-insignificant contributor. Our culture and our legal system ensure that many doctors practices will pay a multiple of a practitioners salary in malpractice and related salary.

If we want cheaper healthcare all of these need to be addressed one way or another. I am not hopeful that we can escape this local maxima that we're stuck in. Every attempt at change will be meet with fierce opposition from the current status quo.
You should not have to learn the internals of any decent source control system to use it in a way that does not lead to a mess. An overview of usage principles and examples should be enough and should provide enough insight to search for more information if needed.

User level documentation should be sufficient for user actions. If someone wants to learn internals, great; but this should be an option, not a requirement.
Right. The point is not that HTML shouldn't be "semantic". The point is that HTML5 semantic tags aren't suited for this purpose (tags like: article, section, figure, figcaption, details, summary, even header). Instead use ARIA attributes, microformats.
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I share your sentiments, I remember those "social networks" i.e. forums, irc, etc being a place that actually were centered around social activities. In the late 90s and early 2000s there were numerous communities with their own flare and "internet culture" (in a positive way), they facilitated local meet-ups and were genuinely friendly to new members. Even though users were pseudonymous there wasn't as much hostility as it is now behind the real names on fb, probably because those communities were small and you users actually knew each other. I'm not sure what happened, maybe bullies and jocks found their way to the web, maybe everyone just suddenly became superficial, maybe it's generational changes, who knows...

It's sad in a way, there are glimpses of hope emerging, like matrix and mastodon. Fb has eaten the social networks as I knew it and it came out of the other end to the point that I sometimes call it faecesbook, that summaries it well for me.
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I'm not so sure. I think boredom is the biggest factor, so Netflix is probably the cause. For example the Indian government once tried offering electricity in rural areas to lower child birth rates. "If there is electricity in every village, then people will watch TV till late at night and then fall asleep. They won't get a chance to produce children,"[1]

[1] https://www.treehugger.com/culture/indian-government-pushes-...
My doctor recommended this one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NY6JXA (it's $42).

Keep in mind, that I'm not a doctor and I don't know if this one will work for you. I would definitely ask your doctor. Maybe run this one by him/her for a confirmation.
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>> "videos of the the most physically attractive women imaginable"

Is it just me, or are most of the porn stars really just little above average, when it comes to looks? Like 7/10? The women that I would call "most attractive women imaginable" are all regular movie/pop stars, not porn stars.
Excellent advice! Wish I could upvote it twice.

> it's very easy to teach a physicist to program, but the converse is not true.

Programming isn't everything, and there are a lot of subjects out there that will make you a better programmer.
Writing in another language doesn't come close to solving the problem - a modern OS sits between lots of differently-privileged processes and thousands of devices, most of which have DMA access to host memory (and which are thus "memory-unsafe" in any language). On the other hand, C does give you good low-level access, an enormous ecosystem, and a large number of potential contributors.

HN is fond of blaming C, but seldom has any awareness of why almost everything does use C. This is not to say that C is perfect, but replacing it needs deep expertise in the fields in which C is still dominant.
and this is whats happening in medicine. it's going from an activity where the doctor and patient are trying to 'learn' about an illness to a business where the 'client' must be pleased by the 'provider'. The concept of allopathic medicine would never have been invented in our day and age.
Wow. So first men are vilified for being sexual creatures, now they are blamed for not having enough sex.

With all this twitter justice #metoo, who can blame men for not wanting to having anything to do with women. After all the shaming of Mike Pence for not wanting to meet alone with a woman, it sure seems like it was by far the best way to go.
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You’re committing the naturalistic fallacy that is implies ought.
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On your second point -- namely why does Juicero get funded and qualitative innovation doesn't -- I think it comes down to the still very real weight given to subjective alpha-primate-ness in business decision making.

On two occasions I've had VC types (in one case post-beer) tell me they almost never fund anyone who doesn't have (paraphrasing) "presence" or "a reality distortion field" etc. I would have assumed it to be subconscious but these comments convinced me that it's a conscious explicit bias in at least some cases.

This is a really outstanding book on the topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet:_The_Power_of_Introverts...

Put enough weaponized extroversion and alpha primate signaling behind it and you can get people to invest in millions in absolute BS. You can also over-inflate the value of something real to stratospheric degrees. See also: Uber.

On the other hand if you have an underspoken introvert try to sell something outstanding, the majority of businesspeople will not pay attention.

I have seen a case where a meek soft-spoken woman tried to pitch a mobile startup with outstanding user base growth, revenue, and cash efficiency numbers and got yawns. She wasn't asking for much. This was seed stage stuff and these were crazy amazing numbers. In the same pitch fest the investor panel perked up for a number of vapid pre-revenue proposals backed by more extroverted alpha personalities. I don't think it was just sexism since one of these was also a woman. (I suspect some sexism is actually this bias since it may be tougher for women to play the alpha primate card with men.)

Most innovators ("artists") are more on the introvert end of the spectrum.

Edit: this may be rational for funding things that rely heavily on in-person salesmanship, but it's applied broadly.

Edit #2: another reason this may be rational for VCs is that they are only thinking about their cash-out. They may be looking for people who can pump the value of the company's stock to later investors more than people who can actually deliver lasting value. The company's product is its stock, not its product.
I just enabled it. I'm still a bit slow but so far it seems there's less fat fingering. I'm in the smaller phones camp so I guess fat fingering is a larger issue for me than it is for most who prefer the big flagship phones.
A great place to begin to explore would be medieval European cathedrals, many of which took 500 years or longer - dozens of generations - to complete.
I have a relative who's a kidney patient and who only
recently realised her blood pressure was getting too high- it was up to
194/112 back in February this year. She only realised when she mentioned
having strong headaches during a doctor's appointment.

My relative is in a scientific discipline and she likes collecting data, I
guess, so she's been tracking her blood pressure meticulously since then. I
helped her to plot it out in R. You can see the resulting diagram below:

http://www.goblinopera.com/hn/dec_17_anon.png

I think anyone who sees this chart cannot fail to notice the big dip in BP
in October: from an average of 140/90 from February to September, to 120/75 after October. So far, this has lasted (with
a bit of a recent spike, possibly brought on by the inevitable Christmas Binge™).

This dip follows from her decision to control her salt intake, starting around
October. She no longer cooks with salt, or salt her food, she eats very little
cheese and generally stays away from food she hasn't prepared herself and can't
control the salt content of.

So this is the message I keep from this chart: salt intake can really affect
blood pressure.

Obviously, that's a single case and it's hard to generalise- but on the other
hand it's impossible to deny that a specific intervention (controlling salt
intake) was taken in the hopes of having a desired effect (lowering BP) and
that the expected effect directly followed the intervention.

There were confounding factors, to be sure. I've marked various medication
milestones in the chart (anonymised, to protect her privacy). My relative was
suspicious that "Drug 1" was affecting her blood pressure and the chart has
helped convince her doctors that she should stop taking it (see the big spike
after "Drug 1" is taken at the end of May). She is now taking an alternative
("Drug 3"). My relative also lost some weight between February and September
and that definitely contributed.

However, the fact remains that she was able to lower her blood pressure to the
levels considered safe for kidney patients (those are lower than in the
general population) only when she started controlling her salt intake.
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The empirical evidence speaks in your favor, since I fully expected my remark to be downed, but instead now see a lot of supportive votes.

Mea culpa, I blame negativity bias[0]. US-centric thinking annoys me in a "don't be short-sighted" way (Eurocentric thinking too, but I have more blind spots there), and as a European, the "neutral" position for regulation is probably far more on the regulation side of things (just like how the "neutral" political leaning being very left compared to the US, for that matter).

I also suspect that hathawsh comment elsewhere is right about discourse taking more extreme positions in general, although I doubt the polarization in the US is the lone cause. Stronger opinions are always more vocal, so it is the nature of the internet, and public discourse in general to show apparent extremities within public opinion[1].

[0] perception bias where negative experiences, which includes annoyances, are given more weight, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias

[1] https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2939
As I commented elsewhere, I got a lot of upvotes for complaining about the deregulation-bias, which supports your observation.
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They are in many cases. But they can also be prohibitively time consuming and expensive for a small business - be it your corner bodega or the 5-person startup working out of your neighbors basement.
That brought tears to my eyes. Ever since I can remember I've felt deep inside me that it is my duty to help others and do everything I can in me to make change in this world. That I must show others the same. Sometimes this can feel like more weight on my shoulders than I bargained for. Sometimes it helps rise me up and reminds me to always keep moving forward. I can't help to ask myself though, is this just something software developers have inside them? For myself I understood this pretty well, but I can't help to maybe think this isn't just software developers that have this everlasting feeling to serve man.
Most porn stars probably don't fall into the "most physically attractive women imaginable" category, you're right. But you certainly can find pornographic videos with extremely attractive women, if you look for them. Of course the camerawork and editing makes a difference too. Nowadays there is quite a lot of well-produced porn on the internet and some porn stars do look like your "movie/pop stars".
Hundreds of years ago, the average man would be delighted to get sex from the average woman in his local community

Laws of supply and demand apply here too.
Applied mathematician here. It’s pretty sad that the totality of the comments ignore the content of this post and deal with rendering the notation (and of course add to that this comment itself, which is meta-commentary on rendering, and doesn’t pertain to the content either).
And there would be plenty more that would produce far less.
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> Yes, all the greatest tech innovations are free. So Keybee is free and it will be always free because the keyboard is the basic human

> Keybee was invented, developed and patented by Marco Papalia

That is dishonest, it isn't free if it is encumbered by patents. Also i'm not sure how this works considering the author is from Italy and EU doesn't consider software patentable.
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For those relativizing this with various closures of twitter or facebook accounts: this was a channel with more than 1 mio followers.
To be successful, it doesn't have to make as much money as the other exchanges. Just enough to continue to operate.
> It wouldn't be difficult to produce dozens or hundreds of Lennies on quite a small budget.

I'm not sure. Even though it is, as you say, remarkably unsophisticated on a technical level, it is extremely accomplished on a artistic level.

When I first learned about Lenny, I listened to most of his conversations, and it's impressive to hear how often he actually seems to be answering questions or gets distracted in just the right way at just the right time.

The writing (and acting) is just about perfect. I don't know if this is because of sheer genius, or simply lightning in a bottle, but either way I doubt it could be simply reproduced hundreds of times.
Spot on, I see many wide eyed junior developers thinking just becse they can code they can be the next startup enterprenuer with their side project and show what they can do at their current job. With a bit of experience they soon realise just because you can code doesn't mean it's good code nor does it mean it will satisfy the user requirements. Luckily most juniors I have dealt with respect their seniors and take advice, there are a few who quite frankly haven't got a clue but make out they know what they are doing.
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I worry that #metoo also scares men of from approaching women?
Porn not Netflix, why would any male want sex with the effort of chasing a woman, romanticising, dealing with the hard-line feminists, when they can just knock one out for free?
Same... I think they need a service status page
> A dead dude with a rifle

Yeah, like Jefferson Davis, or any other dead dude with a rifle used to incite violence. Nothing new here. Nothing to take lightly.

> dead Arab with a gun

Why are you trivializing Arabs? Much less dead Arabs? I don’t think Arabs would appreciate being taken so lightly. I don’t take them lightly. They’re serious people.

> That’s a laugh

This is exactly what I’m talking about. Glossing over and making trivial things like this. It’s not funny. It’s real and it’s serious. I’m certain you wouldn’t be laughing if it was your killing being incited.
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I think that the researchers are on to something broader. The research shows that smart device use lessens sex. Japan for example has early high technology usage and high suicide rates but low birth rates. Does devices with entertainment substitute getting together with your partner and friends?
The recommendations feels random...

K&R for C was very confusing for me and I really couldn't write in C until I discovered the Harrison and Steele book. This wasn't just a personal preference either, this was the book recommended on the C lang FAQ on Usenet 25 years ago.

I'd argue that today's reference to modern/advanced SQL is Markus Winand's book which isn't mentioned either.
According to the abstract, the declines are driven by people married or living together, and especially people in their 50s, with kids, and those who DONT view pornography.

So according to the paper pornography is a complement to partnered sex, not a substitute.
If your still in your teens, keep your options open. You love programming? Fantastic! But software developers aren't the only professionals who write code. Lots of scientists do too - physicists, chemists, biologists - and of course engineers in all manner of fields. Don't disregard an interesting career path just because it doesn't say "software developer" on the cover.

As for "leadership position": that's a privilege you've gotta earn. Leadership isn't about technical prowess, it's about experience. Actually, it isn't even about technology, but about people. You always lead people; and doing that well takes a very different skill set to writing pretty code. If you want to lead, don't become one of those nerds who is incapable of normal human interaction. You're going to need other people, learn to get along with them now.

You sound like somebody with a lot of potential, and I like that you're being proactive here. I wish you the very best of luck!
This infographic isn't very convincing. It shows a bunch of forms of valuation and debt have drastically increased in the last 7 years, but that doesn't alone mean it's a bubble. You need to establish that the rate of growth is the same type of thing that preceded other corrections. You need to show that the growth is irresponsible or problematic.

I believe we are in a bubble, because the valuations of a lot of companies defy all real logic, and for a number of other reasons I won't get into because it will just devolve into an argument about what I believe. But I still find this infographic lacking.
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My concern was to defend the topic at hand. Trying to distinguish between different forms of economics and sociology would muddy the waters a great deal.

For sure, no doubt, there is highly defensible macroeconomic and sociological work done.

There does seem to be a boundary where sociology meets macroeconomics meets english literature meets arsty-psychology wherein a huge amount of highly speculative work is done. Work which seems, as far as its truth apt, mostly false.

I don't think this work properly belongs to any of those subjects and is really a kind of speculative blogging that certain academics like to do that happens to get published somewhere. However that also tends to get seen more often than their detailed work on interest rates in the 1970s.
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