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>On the other hand, you're at a great disadvantage in terms of population density. Finding a quiet road seems like it'd be a bit of a trick.

Surprisingly, it really isn't. We're extremely densely populated, but we also have very strict controls on sprawl. The UK has a peculiar planning policy called the green belt - there's a ring on the map around each city, beyond which any development is effectively prohibited. Outside of London, you're rarely more than half an hour away from open countryside.

For example, this road is about half an hour from the centre of Manchester, our third biggest city:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.5976642,-2.0181352,3a,75y,...

As you might imagine, a Miata, a Caterham Seven or a classic Mini would be the perfect match for roads like that.
These are sticker prices, used for anchoring expectations during negotiations with insurance companies. i.e. if your initial offer to the insurance company was $330, you'd get an actual rate of $25; whereas if your initial offer to the insurance company was $25, you'd get $20.

The problem is that if you don't have insurance, you are charged these total fantasy prices - which is part of why being uninsured in the US is about so much more than just being on the hook for catastrophic costs.
I live in a US city, and I still don't understand why this is the case. It completely baffles me why people would prefer to sit behind the wheel in stop-and-go city traffic, deal with pedestrians, cyclists, traffic lights, one-way streets, and parking, instead of designing and developing the city so everything they need is a short walk or at worst a quick transit ride away. It just seems like madness, like people are deliberately making their lives significantly worse, and they see the effects of that decision literally every day.
Why does my stack have an extra 4 bytes?
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The persistent fear of being exposed as a fraud
Ambulances are not a nationalised service in Australia. In some States it is State run, in others it is a private company.

I live in Western Australia and it's all done by St John's Ambulance. My partner has needed two non-urgent ambulance call-outs (transfer to a public hospital), which were both charged at ~$500. She's on my private 'extras'* insurance policy, and my insurer fully covers an unlimited amount of ambulance transfers ($50 co-pay for non-urgent). I believe this to be a common thing for this type of insurance policy - I'm not on any fancy tier of coverage.

HOWEVER:

A couple of years ago my significant other had an accident in a public area where she unable to move or call an ambulance. A nearby resident heard her yelling and called the police / ambulance. The paramedics seemingly had the authority to take her away from the police officers who were questioning her. She was taken to the nearest public hospital and was discharged from the ED shortly thereafter. She never received a bill. She's only young and the accident (very apparently) occurred as a result of drug use, so I think that the paramedics operating the ambulance are allowed discretion when deciding whether or not somebody should be charged.

* Physio, psychology, dental.etc. (all non-emergency). These services are not (fully) covered by our public health system, so many people opt for private cover. These policies work heavily on annual limits, so it's a bit unfair to call them insurance.
My wife was in a car accident, and surprisingly, the ambulance bill (perhaps 5 miles, "night" surcharge (7pm), private ambulance in the bay area) was "only" ~$3400. I seem to recall an ambulance ride when I was a kid (20 years ago) costing something like $5k plus when I crashed my bicycle.

Funny thing, though, the ambulance bill was the only thing NOT covered 100% initially. The hospital and surgeons bill your insurance, and we didn't pay a dime (other than a comical $200k+ explanation of benefits telling us our claim was denied when they initially submitted to the wrong insurance). The ambulance company billed us, and I spent ~6 months working it out, and I think it's finally sorted. The upshot is because it was a "car accident", the health insurance doesn't want to pay it; car insurance is primary. In theory the car insurance is the primary on her entire hospital stay, but because the medical payments on our car insurance is only $10k it's basically pointless to involve them. They don't even know there was a hospital visit. So I had to go back and forth a bunch of times to even (re-)open the car insurance claim, get it submitted, send more and more documents, fend off the ambulance company always threatening to send us to collections because I had better things to do than deal with their crap, and so on.

Current status is I've paid maybe $600 on a payment plan, my insurance says they paid in full, the payment wasn't yet reflected on the ambulance co billing site, but in theory once that payment posts they issue me a refund on my payments to date.

We're so incredibly lucky to have insurance; actually she was double-covered at the time of the accident (hence the billing confusion initially), we have money, we have family in the area to help with doctor visits, and there was really only one provider. I can only imagine what a nightmare sorting the bills would have been if we had to manually submit to insurance from multiple providers and stay on top of many many claims. It would be a full time job for sure.
Article should have "in the US" qualifier.
I was skeptical, and one month in, I still sort of hate it, but there isn't really anywhere else to go.

Firefox 1.0 arguably had better UI, or at least the option to make it better.

Also, I remember running it on a 32MB machine. Today, with only this single HN tab open, memory consumption is reported at somewhere above half a gigabyte.
You described a big example in the book “Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It.”

Highly recommend it. It’s got some great ideas.
Hardening C/C++ Programs – Executable-Space Protection and ASLR
These sort of stories I usually use to explain to non-US people how is to live there.
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The IP has to exist before you can "mash it up"
Thanks for the references. I was referring to who did a large _volume of traffic_ in this type of distributed node first on a _global scale_ - not who did it / patented it first.

Most importantly, outside the North-American/Europe echo chamber Netflix is a blip (a large blip nonetheless) compare to google/facebook/Akamai (probably even Cloudflare) traffic. I don't say this to undermine what Netflix does both as a service and a Network Engineering standpoint - I am personally a big fan of their service and their tech blog - I was trying to make a point on some info mentioned in the blog.

I am sorry if I wasn't able to express my point properly.
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Why is this described as "recent research" and yet I can listen to an "in our time" episode from 2011 describing the use of meteoritic iron in the bronze age ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zm1ks). Time machine in action?
Hell, we even have that on SF buses and trains, and our transit is terrible. I regularly see people on Muni buses in wheelchairs, alone and unassisted.
I am disliking the current US debt-based economy already. It is pretty frustrating that they keep delaying the gov shutdown by only weeks.
Imo Shenzen has shown some real supply chain innovation but... seriously you're bringing up counterfeit goods offloading IP development costs onto competitors as an example of innovation from China?
No one is suggesting that there aren't special cases where using a car is the right move. But the vast majority of cases where people take cars, replacing that experience with better public transit is entirely reasonable. Hell, improving public transit would improve your use-case as well; you'd have less traffic to compete with while driving.
Exactly my experience in Alaska. Just a bit gamey, but I would definitely try it again.
You have to enable the SCHED_UTILEST flag when compiling the kernel. Most end-users don't compile their own kernels, as doing so requires a very large and time-consuming amount of configuration, but you can if you want (might want to start with your distribution's configuration as a base).
I had a brief look at the websites this page links to, and some of them fail to mention what they're about.

Blockstack tells me their token sale has ended. But what the hell is blockstack and why should I care about its token sale? Matrix is an open network for secure communication? What does that even mean to regular joe?
*wonderfully intertwined :-)
Why not?

Or, perhaps you have a small frame and the difference in leg room wouldn't impact you at all.
Extraterrestrial craft existence 'proved beyond reasonable doubt' Pentagon chief
How often will we reinvent LaTeX ?
I don't think self driving cars will ever have a low enough barrier. You need data to train the cars, and you need a lot of data.

Google is mining millions of captchas for their self driving cars, they could publish their algorithms for it too, but unless you have access to all that beautiful training set, it wouldn't be much of use.

I have no idea how lyft or uber is going to get that much data, maybe potentially buy paying drivers more to stick sensors on their cars to collect insane amounts of data? But it's gonna be a tricky thing to get right
I've called a taxi three times in my life.

The first time was in 2012 because Microsoft was paying for it. It was from downtown Bellevue (so not an obscure place). I called them, they estimated 15 minutes, and it took them 40 minutes to show up. I'd never called a taxi before so I didn't realize this was normal; I called them back a few times to ask what was wrong, and they just said "soon!"

The second time was in 2015 in a country that didn't have Uber. They had an app. The app didn't work. They also didn't answer the phone. I tried multiple times, including an hour later after eating lunch. I gave up and spent 50 minutes walking home in ridiculous heat.

The third time was in 2016 because it was in a small town in the US that didn't have Uber. They did have an app. Their "app" displayed a phone number and told me to call it. That was the entire app. I called it, they estimated 30 minutes and showed up in 45 minutes, and they charged me $40 for a ten minute ride. Small town so I can understand the wait, but the price was definitely because they knew I had no other choice.

Meanwhile, I get annoyed when Ubers take longer than 5 minutes to show up because they take wrong turns.

I think it's definitely a matter of luck and location. Some places have horrible taxi services, some places have okay taxi services. Some places only have okay taxi services now because of competition from Uber. Ubers are still nearly always a huge margin better.
The plot context overview on Wikipedia is chilling just by itself...
Death of the American Mall
Wonder how they decide who the 25M will be...
wouldn't such a policy artificially inflate the price of "living there" by jacked up real-estate prices? Now that the supply is stopped and the demand is not..
Definitely a topic that needs to be discussed more often. Thanks for sharing.
fwiw they take debit cards, and there are services like bluebird [1] that provide a bank account + debit card (iirc) without a credit check.

but I agree with the spirit of your post.

[1] https://www.bluebird.com/
These are the European Smarties, not the american kind[1] which are more of a flavored chalk than a chocolate covered by a candy shell.

1. http://caffeineplease.typepad.com/caffeine_please/images/200...
It's this kind of stuff that's going to cause cryptocurrency's short term demise
I agree that most of these technologies won't disrupt big tech, but completely disagree on why.

"Big co's" most ALWAYS fall because of another innovative startup/technology because of innovator's dilemma.

That said, most of these technologies IMO won't succeed NOT because they're niche (You HAVE to be niche in order to succeed, that's how all innovative technologies succeed. On the other hand, all new startups that try to play the same game as the bigcos in the large field ALWAYS fail) but because they got the priority wrong.

Most of these pursue decentralization for the sake of decentralization, as in a philosophical sense. But most people don't care about some esoteric philosophy. If they did, Facebook wouldn't be this dominant.

What they should be doing instead is coming up with a clear use case that fills an actual need (not some philosophical appetite). A few of these technologies may have this trait so I tend to think in more optimistic way.
> His scepticism seems deeper. It isnt merely that he thinks that nothing satisfies that equation, he seems to in addition think, that even if something does it wouldnt count as "existing".

I think that's just the only way to express scepticism about the existence of a solution to x^2 == 2 in a world where any schoolboy can tell you x = 1.414...
China can take ambitious practical goals like that seriously. The West cannot, the West is problematically irresponsible.
You can get a feel from these two articles depicting the expulsion of migrants from Beijing which also has a population limit.

Campaign to Drive Out Migrants Slams Beijing’s Best and Brightest(https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/world/asia/china-beijing-...)

Why Parts of Beijing Look Like a Devastated War Zone(https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/asia/china-beijing-...)
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Pretty interesting and quite a realistic theory, I wonder if it has been refuted.
Makes me think of Microsoft Comic Chat[0] this is kind of cool looking though, and definitely different.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
I'm admittedly naive in this front of anything JavaScript/npm/gulp/yarn/many other tools. They always seem to be over complicated for my interest.

Quickly reading about pug feels like it converts templates to some JS files which I don't want.

I'd like a Markdown/SunDown/custom markup to one inlined HTML, which I can deploy wherever I want..
If it wasn't working for you locally in your mac, and you have docker you can do the following:

docker run -it ubuntu bash
apt-get update
apt-get install wget
wget https://github.com/vaniacer/piu-piu-SH/raw/master/piu-piu
chmod +x piu-piu
./piu-piu

Controls are WASD for arrows and P for select or shoot.
I highly recommend this book to anyone because it creates a framework for understanding the world from someone who is addicted to social media. It takes the current state of affairs to their conclusions in a rather well made way.
Very good material, but the page design is awful to the point of being distracting (and now I know why I kept telling myself "I'll read through this again, later, when I can concentrate more and do the excellent source material justice.")

The "Retronator Magazine" banner at the top and the nag banner at the bottom take up too much of the vertical space and combine with the width of the text column to make my viewport essentially square. Add to this the ultra-wide 1920+ pixel images that run past the edges of my screen (and are three times as wide as the text), and it should be obvious why I felt I was reading an excellent article through a toilet paper tube.

Firefox and Chromium at 1920x1080, and sorry I couldn't do this article justice.
Medical stories from the US always sound like from third world countries to me...
I'm Deaf and read lips.

Thanks for this extremely intriguing idea to use emoji to depict a talking person visually.

You know, some animated films get it right. Sometimes I clearly see utterances like «Thank you!», «Okay», but more often not. Especially older animations don't care and just let the character move the mouth in very simplistic ways: «Babbabbabaa Baababba ba baaa.»

Similarly for that emoji. It is moving the mouth in quite arbitrary ways. It looks like: «Sobbabbabee be <grin> seebee <grin> <frown> babbaa».

To solve this problem we need about twelve emoji for utterances: «ah», «ay», «ee», «oh», «oo», «b», «d», «f», «l», «n», «r» and «s». The «r» emoji must be animated (so we see the trilling tongue). The other sounds are either invisible like «k» or cover several different sounds like «b» also covering «m» and «p».

«Okay» would be rendered by: «oh», «oo», «oo» (standing for «k» wich is invisible) «ay» and «ee».

Edit: Add «th». This is an extremely simple sound to lipread. I remember my delight when I learnt English in my youth and in an movie suddenly realised that an actor said «Thank you».
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Tom Campbell is also famous for his virtual reality theory. According to him the acceptance among scientists grew from few people to several thousands and continues to grow
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> https://pixelart.academy/

There's definitely something cool going on there, but I couldn't really get anywhere without the UX going haywire. Either the text adventure part would lose keyboard focus and I'd be stuck, or I'd get to an article but zoomed-in too far to read it, etc.

It seems to be a front-end for a newsletter-type thing the author makes. Is there a way to get directly to the content hiding behind the UX?
I am building a B2B platform for logistics and taxi companies to store dash cam footage and easily retrieve and annotate them (for accidents, training, etc.).

We already have one interested customer, so trying to finish the MVP by January!
I was using the open source drivers, but the version in Debian stretch does not support my card. I had to go to buster to get it working after tracing a long list of forum posts of people having trouble with this card.
TFX is indeed quite a massive one. Well played Google
Tesla isn't going to win this war. They are slowly realizing that yes, in fact, you do need LIDAR to make self driving work.
That code will still work, they are using the experimental feature only when the backtrace is printed to a tty.
The Time for Self-Sovereign Identity Is Now
3.4k and 5k. I would expect the keys to ambulance after the ride for that price. How can that cost be justified, did you get any treatment in the ambulance other than oxygen and maybe some morphine?
In the West, we decided that individual liberty is more important than mass control. The Chinese government is corrupt to the core. Do you want that kind of government controlling you?
Not only is it popular, but it is currently the third largest crypto currency in the world. It is closing following behind the market cap of ethereum.
> With Mr. Bai, they have failed.

Sometimes I wonder if people over-estimate the effects of AI/ML. There is a whole industry out there trying to figure out effective lending practices for centuries now. But, it seems people thinks huge amount of data crunched along with AI/ML is enough to solve this problem.
No, the West can but we don't kid ourselves by thinking that the means to the end won't be inhumane and violent. Just like the 1 child policy. There's ways to accomplish things gracefully, and they tend not to be explicit .. they tend to be encouraging the alternatives, finding underlying causes, and promoting those. To cause subtle percolating change. China's way for change is reminiscent of when they killed all the insects and then caused starvation of millions. Brute force solutions are not the answer. And neither are brute-force black-line cutoffs. Initatives. Not cutoffs. Freedom with encouragement of positive behavior. Not forced behavior.
Funny you say that, I just started studying for an MS in math and stats, while working as an ER doc :) Thonking about maybe going on to do a PhD - I was interested in learning how machine learning might safely improve medical care, and began to suspect that to do so without understanding the math would be like diagnosing disease without knowing anatomy, phyiology, biochemistry, pathology, pharmacology,...
It turns out that math is at least as fun as emergency medicine.. :)
A year or two ago I was in the IRC channel for the D programming language and someone was showing me they were working on something that makes me think it's a micromouse and it was all coded in D using @nogc everywhere effectively. I wish I had saved his youtube videos somewhere, it was quite interesting.
I certainly don't want my organs harvested because I smoked weed on my birthday.
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I use the Telegram bot. Very quick, always on, keeps a history, available on all devices.
> You're equivocating on the word discrimination. When activists or people in the media talk about discrimination as a societal problem, they're referring to discrimination based on irrelevant characteristics.

Kind of. I was highlighting the fact that the word "discrimination" is inherently ambivalent (you could also say equivocal I suppose) - it simply means to distinguish between. It’s no different to the words "categorisation" and "selection" in this sense.

As you recognised, there are forms of discrimination that are absolutely necessary and even desirable - such as discriminating against someone without a medical degree to practise medicine.

The point I was making is that it's not always so easy to distinguish between positive and negative forms of discrimination. Is it wrong to be biased against less-educated people? Well, it depends on the situation. Are you hiring for an important position that requires higher education? In this case, it would be unethical of you not to be biased against less-educated candidates.

The problem I have with this kind of article is it paints a one-sided picture where discrimination-as-such is bad. You can make a compelling case for this. When you discriminate against people without a law degree for performing legal work, you deprive those people of a well-paying, high-status position in society. You could say that's not fair, and there’s truth in that. But what's the alternative? If your view is that all forms of discrimination are wrong, the logical answer is to do away with all forms of discrimination, even the positive ones. You can see this in the article by its promotion of non-quantitative assessments in education:

> So, what could help overcome the education divide? One view is that different ways of scoring tests could help even the playing field. In several studies, Butera’s team showed that giving children graded tests or exam scores actually reduces motivation and performance in reasoning and decision making. If there are no graded scores it also reduces social comparison, which we know can often negatively affect performance, as Sheehy-Skeffington’s work revealed.
If detailed feedback on how to improve is given instead of simple graded scores, it helps “focus on assessment as a tool for education” rather than assessment for selection, Butera argues.

Of course removing graded scores “evens the playing field" and reduce social comparison. It also makes selection based on competence impossible - it’s “throwing the baby out with the bathwater”. And don’t think for a minute that proponents of this think it should be strictly limited to primary education and not also apply to secondary or tertiary education, where grades and certifications supposedly have some value as selection criteria for employers.

> Nobody is arguing that we should allow blind people to drive cars.

Don’t be so sure. Arguing that we shouldn’t be allowed to discriminate by level of education is no different to this in principle - it’s only a matter of degree.
Evicting tens of thousands of poor people on no notice is "responsible" to you.
That's sort of what happens with Beijing car licenses so that sounds about right.