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Most people are not rich, but if the richest 1/10 spend ten times the amount of what the rest in average, that alone almost doubles the total average. Averages are funny that way. I don't think this is even far fetched, because if you have the money and you are going to die, why would you not clutch to any straws you are being offered?

Certainly the same takes place in other rich countries as well, but maybe in not quite the same extent. Anyway, it would be very interesting to see how the healthcare spending would look like when grouped in percentiles by the total spending of each patient. I wouldn't be surprised if there was quite a bulge on the far right with the U.S. and not so much elsewhere.

Another reason why I don't consider this a big flaw is that expensive treatments are also often experimental and drive the general medicine forward, which may make them more affordable and more generally accessible in the future.

Not saying the system is perfect. Just that maybe it's not such an outrageous rip-off as the article makes it look like.
It also depends on the way the two party system is organized. One point that keeps the American system as polarized as it is is closed primary elections, which guarantee that only the most fervent and 'ideologically pure' candidates are selected. Since only registered party voters can cast ballets, the type of candidates that resonate are elected and continue on to the national election.

In the last elections for example I heard multiple times from friends and family (that identify more with the democrats) that they would have considered voting for someone like Kasich (2016) or Jon Huntsman Jr (2012), but are robbed of that choice because they are blocked from voting in the republican primary.
> You will find strangers in strange lands around the world wherever there's money to be made.

I learned about Punjabi Mexican Americans[1,2] in the early 1900s recently. It's interesting to think that without the various Asian exclusion acts and jurisprudence[3,4,5], the US would be even more diverse today than it is now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Mexican_Americans
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/punjabi-sik...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_...
The article doesn't mention that this is not new; nor is it 'the' app you can't trash: it joins Safari, Finder, and most other 'Apple apps'.

I find it quite surprising. Even when Windows defaulted to IE without choice, it could always be removed with 'Add or Remove Windows Features', as I recall.
I can't even imagine how large the bug bounty can be for the researcher who created the PoC.
If you get <200ms Time To Interactive, working middle mouse click and back buttons, in which scenario wouldn't you want that?
> but buying the license for static linking won't be a problem for us reallly.

You can statically link with LGPL code, as long as you provide a means to relink (typically, shipping .o files if requested).

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynami...
> Guernsey, Monaco and Cyprus

Tax havens. The billionaires themselves are usually "citizens of the world" who live in hotels or a series of holiday homes. Countries don't "have" billionaires in any kind of possessive sense any more. Instead they compete in the hope that billionaires will pass through and trickle down some wealth.
I think what you're doing (seeing this as an optimization problem) is asking the right sort of question

A related point is the FOSS-style model of "give away music for free, make money on tours/advertising/movie soundtracks" biases the search towards music that works well in live performance/in advertising/in a film. So we are missing huge parts of the search space.
In 2018, I want to find new music without using algorithms
Hyperbolic title - this has merely been suggested. Not agreed upon.

As someone who has spent time working with the Ghanaian regulator on cryptocurrency education, I think they're very unlikely to do something like this (unless they're extraneously incentivised by something else or trying to do something fishy [ML]).
E.g. in the UK 10% have private insurance (though very often as a employee benefit that they don't pay much for and so the takeup is artificially inflated that way).

But presumably the fact that they have to convince people it's worth paying extra on top of their taxes provides massive additional competitive pressure and is part of what helps keeping the prices low relative to the service provided.

E.g. I've seen cases where it'd pay for Americans to fly to London and stay in a luxury hotel and get treated at top private clinics in London vs. getting relatively basic private treatment in the US.
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Maybe true, though I don't really know Russell Group until now. Ultimately it depends on name recongition and rarity.
Isn't it the opposite?
> Health care is the absolute prime example of a Veblen good

"Veblen Good: A good for which demand increases as the price increases, because of its exclusive nature and appeal as a status symbol."

I'm not following. Heart surgery demand is based on having a heart problem. Taking a step back, health care encompasses more than just picking a heart surgeon. Most practitioners won't tell you the dollar price of a service beforehand even if you ask. Standard behavior is to go see whoever is covered by your insurance.
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How can you request a citation about things relating to possible intelligence agencies efforts with a straight face? It's literally their job to make sure such material doesn't exist or sees the light of day if it does. It's not exactly publicly-funded science now, is it?

You request a proof that's impossible to procure. Are you now gonna claim the lack of this proof supports your thesis?
That depends on what you determine is important to you. In the Netherlands there is a 'Party for the Animals', which doesn't compromise on anything and is quite literally a protest one-issue party. Obviously they don't get as much done as other more diverse political parties, but people still vote for them because the party at least shows everyone else that there are citizens who care enough about animals to have a protest vote and have the chance to at least sit in congress.
They already have that level of government interference, just not in the right way.

That is the bizarre part of the US system - it might very well work better than today if it was actually a free market, but they've managed to get the worst of both: A highly regulated market where the regulations doesn't ensure proper service.
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https://bolt.com/jobs/technical-product-manager

It doesn't mention anything about the years of experience required. I am looking to move from dev to PM role. Am I eligible to apply ?
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Whilst the US has more self-made billionaires than Europe [0] the US has lesser social mobility than Europe (less the UK), rendering the idea of 'the American dream' more a dream than a possibility [1, 2]

Healthcare is a price-inelastic good. Not having some form of pricing controls is a licence to rip the heart out of a population.

[0] https://howmuch.net/articles/billionaires-map

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/07/social-...

[2] https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/02_econ...
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Well that depends how you define lobbying. I live in Switzerland and referendums very frequently have large advertising campaigns attached to them - sometimes unopposed (that is, there is no noticeable advertising campaign for one of the options). There is definitely money in politics. Of course that is not necessarily a bad thing. The adverts alert people to an upcoming vote they may find interesting, primarily.

Also Switzerland is notoriously bureaucratic. Even very simple tasks require visits to one of the many, many small government offices that dot the landscape and each interaction always costs hundreds of dollars ... even when the act itself is basically "print out a piece of paper and give it to you".

But I fully agree that direct democracy creates better quality of government in general.
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They were only barely perceptible until someone told you about them. Then you saw them every time you looked at the screen :)

I do miss my 17" FD Trinitron monitor though. That was lovely. I didn't have enough money or room for a 21"
Apple, protecting the user from himself?

As for removing IE. My understanding is that this would perhaps remove the UI and certain other assets, but the engine and various other bits would remain as the rest of the Windows UI relies on it.

Or at least that seemed to be the technical side of the claim that IE could not be removed during the antitrust trial.
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Yes but pay for both is a topic of frequent controversy. Does anyone really think it's harder to find a university chancellor, or that it requires more skill and time, than being prime minister? Or is it the result of correspondingly greater monitoring and accountability on politician's salaries vs the essentially unaccountable university system?
The fact that phoneme letters should have been used instead of alphabet letters in order to decide what mouth shape the icons should have.
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> China has a billion more people, borders Russia, North Korea, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, yet spends less than a quarter as much as the US on defense, even by the most liberal estimates.

Sure. But it has no (conventional) power projection capacity, whereas the US has been engaged in two simultaneous occupations of outright hostile foreign countries literally on the other side of the world for a decade, at the same time as deploying troops to defend dozens of friendly nations all around the world, enforcing freedom of the seas again all around the world... . The front line of a US-China conflict would likely be Taiwan, that's what spending 4x as much is buying us. Again, we can argue over whether that's something we should be spending money on, but on the whole (of course there is some level of waste, as there is in all large organizations) we're getting what we're paying for.
you got dedicated äöü keys on your keyboard?

i just long-press the letters if i really need an Umlaut, but generally i just type the normal one and use the suggestions to switch to the correct spelling.

Autocorrection is dependent on your keyboard btw. It might be a good idea to try a different ones. I haven't really had that issue since i've switched to GBoard, but i remember struggling with the same problem before as well.
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Full agree, especially now that you have to hand over your cell phone and laptop at the airport.

It's like "give up your personal privacy to help others keep theirs", a bit ironic, right?
I'm not sure I follow. You're suggesting Oracle invest resources in Java bindings for Cocoa, Qt, and whatever the flavour of the week is on Windows?

That wouldn't make sense. Not only would it go against the Java philosophy of write-once-run-anywhere (Java is very hostile to cosying up to platform-specific frameworks), it would also be a mistake in practical terms - they're right to just keep maintaining JavaFX, which is a perfectly competent GUI framework.
Looks interesting until I got to this section:

https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/blob/master/doc/intro.m...

> In the above example, you had to share your private key (the blinding factor) with Carol. In general, even though private keys should never be reused, this isn't generally very desirable. Practically, this isn't an issue because transactions include a change output.

Yes - it's a change output and a new private key but it's not a great way of doing things.

Also - what's with the name? MimbleWimble?
This is only true with Ryzen CPUs that were manufactured before week 25. ThreadRipper wasn't affected, nor was EPYC.
> Why are prices not falling?

In many European countries, prices are negotiated by the publicly-funded health service or a government-appointed body.

Every country will attempt to negotiate the cheapest price they can get. Even so, drug prices across Europe vary widely by country. And there are powerful European pharmaceutical companies[1] who naturally resist price discounts or cheaper alternatives (UK example: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/nov/01/drug-giants-...).

[1] Large European pharmaceutical companies: GlaxoSmithKline (British), AstroZeneca (Anglo-Swedish), Novartis (Swiss), Roche (Swiss), Bayer (German), Sanofi (French)
I wonder why that happens, since they use models that take into account the keyboard layout. Maybe they assume you don't have a Nordic layout and "helpfully" correct it for you?
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I am probably too much an old-timer, but my TV is actually a Sony Trinitron CRT, bought (for a very steep price) in 2002 or 2003 and still going strong.

For the record, it is a "beast", even if it is "only" 32" in size, it is weighing around 70 Kg!

I bought it at the time with a specific table/support for it.
Obviously not /s

They are now busy to hide all related news. All Intel CPU related news vanished, "great work".
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I wouldn't classify "C++ guys willing to jump to Rust" as freshers.

I meant, the job posting requires the previous experience in Rust.
It's worked well in every company I've worked in. The one person I fired is the only one of hundreds of developers I've worked with whose performance was actually negative once we'd tried to shift people around, and while some were probably "wasteful" for a while until we found work they could do that justified their salary, most were not.

A lot of the time people are just not in the position that's right for them.
Days to the moon at an extreme cost with little to no benefit vs hours for the satellite if something goes wrong.

Again we don't even have the technology to make mining the moon, if it had anything of value, profitable.

Two weeks a month on the dark side of the moon.

"I don't see that at all. Unmanned satellites would make sense, but the surface (or possibly an aerostat for some planemos) is always going to be a much more human-friendly environment in terms of gravity and radiation shielding."

You are missing the point. They don't have to be manned they are hubs between the planet and the surface and back home. They provide important information about the planet to those who live on it.

This is circular reasoning.

Has nothing to do with circular reasoning not sure you understand that word then.

The knowledge we have obtained on earth will help us when we put stations in orbit around the planets we want to explore.

The more solid we can make those stations the better for everything else.

Which is why the moon makes sense as a next step. It's challenging but doable.

No, it doesn't make sense as there is no benefit compared to the cost. We simply aren't there yet no matter how lovely it sounds.
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Same. Even though HackerNews despises IOTA for rolling their own crypto, building on ternary and having a centralized coordinator, I still think that IF IOTA manages to solve their issues and can establish themselves as an IOT powerhouse, they'll be absolutely enormous.

Also IOTA and Rai aren't really competitors. So for the time being, I hold both.
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Yes, however most computers are marketed using GHz numbers, not experienced performance (And in the cases where they are it's relative, like x times faster than before). It's hard to show a 17% slowdown to a store clerk.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for being able to return a product that's 17% slower today than yesterday, I'm just saying it might be difficult since it's an issue that requires a degree of technical knowledge to understand which most store clerks don't have.
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> Things like this are why all the "Java isn't slow" articles miss the point completely --- 100ms to do nothing useful, on a presumably quite fast machine, is ridiculous.

"Ridiculous" is like "unprofessional", it's what you say when you don't have a real argument. Yes, ha ha, 100ms, very droll. What does it matter in practice?
> "we can’t live forever in the shadow of the early 90’s FDIV bug"

There is a valid point there though - if you are testing for testing's sake and not finding anything extra through the extra effort then you are wasting time and potentially worse: lulling yourself into a false sense of security. Testing should be done for utility, not just in response to fear - you need to test intelligently, not just test lots. Like TTD in software, good testing processes make life much easier and quality much higher, bad testing processes can be worse than useless.

Processor bugs are always a thing and always have been a thing - look at the list of bugs the linux kernel scans for and works around many of which pre-date the FDIV debacle.

What made FDIV special isn't that is was a bad bug, it was the recent change in marketing. Before then processors were sold to manufacturers who might tell the customer what is used, unless you were a hobbyist you didn't much care for the specifics. But the Pentium line was the first time a processor had been particularly marketed directly at the end user. It had started with the 486 lines a couple of years earlier when "Intel Inside" was first a thing, but there was a huge push in that direction with the release of the first Pentium lines. Suddenly Joe Public was more aware of that detail, but was blissfully unaware that CPUs are complex beasts and generally not 100% perfect.

It didn't help that the bug was very easy to demonstrate in common applications like Excel so Joseph & Josephine Public could see and understand the problem where they wouldn't, for example, the FOOF bug, and it was easy to joke about (We are Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated) which fanned the rapid spread of the news. The fact that the bug only significantly affected fairly rare combinations was lost in the mass discussion about how such a bug could happen at all.
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> Confusingly, there are two different collation standards when treating German umlauts: One for lists of names and one for everything else.

Yes, this alone is confusing. My point is that it is even more complicated because strictly the standard only applies to umlauts but not to letters with diaeresis.
Unicode offers a way to treat these two cases differently utilizing the
combining grapheme joiner (CGJ).

>> The CGJ can also be used in German, for example, to distinguish in sorting between “ü” in the meaning of u-umlaut, which is the more common case and often sorted like <u,e>, and “ü” in the meaning u-diaeresis, which is comparatively rare and sorted like “u” with a secondary key weight. [1, page 850]

> When reciting the alphabet German school kids don't add the umlauts (at least I didn't – I don't think that has changed in the last decades)
and if you ask someone how many letters the alphabet has they will answer "26" without hesitation while in Sweden they are treated as distinct characters of the alphabet in every sense.

You have a point here and maybe the English Wikipedia isn't so wrong in listing them as special characters. Being special doesn't make A umlaut a funky A though. It still is a letter in it's own right.

[1] Unicode Standard 10.0: http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode10.0.0/UnicodeStandar...
> - Politically the US is the most divided western country with its two party system

This sounds like you think that political pointscoring drives up health care costs, but the UK & AU both have strong, long histories of two-party politics & have much lower health care costs.
And the bigger problem is that there is profiteering at every step of the way... Medical Insurance, devices, private testing labs, hospitals, doctors, pharma...it all adds up. As someone else said, it's a free market without a real market for competition... I don't remember where I heard it, so citation needed, but the number that sticks on my head is that we spend 25% on administration alone. Lots of billing companies exist just to handle the complicated mess we have created... More profits in the system.
I know that's just anecdata and not representative, but: Donald Trump.
I'm less confident. It's hard to combine those two, as one doesn't have a unified ledger and the other needs it.