skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You will be asked to make a pre-service deposit of at least $750.00USD. If prescheduled services are estimated to exceed this amount, an additional deposit may be requested. The pre-service deposit can be made in the following ways: major credit card, wire transfer, check (we accept checks from any US bank in US dollars) or by cash. Please know your total and daily credit card limits."

Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale AZ, November 2017.

edit: I'm a bit off topic, that was for an appointment, not ER.
The term relates to a specific style of rule design.

They are usually sitting right in the middle between entirely abstract games like backgammon and "simulation" games like Risk or Monopoly. There is usually some theme, but gameplay considerations (mostly revolving around keeping the game interesting for those not on an obvious path to victory and balancing luck vs skill, hence the mention in this thread) are far more important in the design than adhering to that theme. Sometimes it even seems as if the theme was not serving as inspiration for the rules but it's only a skin pasted over the bare rules after the gameplay had been tweaked to perfection.
Is there something inherently wrong with sticker packs of animal characters or is this the standard internet conflation of furry content and characters (which would include cartoon characters you likely grew up watching) with specifically furry porn? Telegram promotes a lot of sticker packs featuring an animal character or multiple animal characters, and well as fairly risque (to some) packs without animals.
yes there's also this surprise element attached to it. You won't know if you have ordered a right item in right qty until you receive it or you immediately open the orders tab in your phone to make sure you ordered the right item.
> You cannot have a right to healthcare without taking the right to not work for someone else. [...] you dont[sic] have a right to force someone to service your health.

Why is this "right not to work" not enforced across the board? People should be able to just slack off whenever, right?

As far as I can recall, capitalists view people striking as a bad thing, and they invoke private millitaries and various laws to force people to stop striking and work.

So regardless of that, this is a silly idea, what if the fire department decides not to help you? Do they have a right not to work? What about politicians? What would happen if every single politician decided to exercise this right at once?

What about in hospitals? If the only X specialist surgeon available in the world decides to not treat you? And by this I mean, they're willing to treat other people, just not you. What then?

The world that you would like to exist, is, quite frankly, insane. What sane person would decide to let other people die, just because they do not feel like working

> This is medicare. Would you say medicare is economically successful?

Do you think making the working class bankrupt is helping the economy? The very working class that you expect to buy commodities, the working class that, without disposable income to waste on commodities, our economy would crash.
Excellent Intercept article came out about this yesterday-

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/01/nfl-concussion-super-bow...
I think you should have to take a simple intelligence test as you walk into a store. If you refuse or fail you don't get to use the self checkout. This should be a very very simple test like being able to read a number properly and pick something out of a list....when I stand there watching people use those machines I really feel like 90% of them would fail.
I liked that scene in GitSSAC because it is animated, so any proficient artist could create a realistic fake. How do you show an animated fake when everything is animated?
not exactly:

> If it’s used that way, it makes TCP a reliable, in-order protocol.

the key here is "in-order".
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What about food stamps? FDA regulates food.

But really, those are huge sectors of the economy. It's weird to say that they can't keep pace with inflation when its the majority of a lot of pay checks. Wouldn't it be better to say wages have stagnated while the price of other goods have dropped?
Choose what you find more interesting.
> How does one do this? Where do you learn it? Is there a book you suggest? The fact that I'm even asking this feel weird (I'm insured).

You can't do this if you're insured, because then the terms of your insurance apply. You can still get bills reduced, but the reasons are different and it's a bit more involved.

If you're uninsured, it's simple. You literally just tell them, "I have no insurance. I can't afford $45,000. It would take me years to pay that, and I'd probably default on the bill beforehand. However, if you reduce the billed amount to $500, I can pay that in full today, in cash.".

Substitute appropriate values in as needed, but that's the general idea. It's actually not all that different from what private insurers do, except they do all this up-front in bulk, so their rates are set in long-term contracts.
Generally not the insurance companies. While they might have large profits in gross terms, their margins are somewhat constrained by the combination of competition and Medical Loss Ratio (MLR, the amount of revenue spent on care). MLR for large group policies is 85% (of every $100 in premiums paid, they must pay out at least $85 in care).

None of which should be construed that they don't contribute to the problem. They just aren't the primary villain.
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It’s opaque by design; but ultimately a wide range of medical device manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, etc who are able to push products that are more and more expensive into the system. Because there is not much systemic incentive to push back against high prices caused by astronomical R&D costs (these drugs are very complex and the process of testing a drug in the US is very expensive). The US market basically pays R&D costs for the medical care for the rest of the world because we can’t get our act together around coordinated buying.

Basically, treatments / devices are developed without market demand, priced at a premium, and adopted because they are incrementally more effective than the previous version — but the people paying for them ultimately just pass the costs on to another middleman in the form of insurance companies. Patients often have little / no choice in the treatments they receive, but they’re the ones ultimately paying for it. This causes people to avoid the medical system until they’re deathly ill, which ends up costing the whole system more.

Edit: also, the laws don’t help. For example, health insurance companies are required to spend 85% of revenue on direct medical expenses, which means they get 15% to fund operations and take a profit. How do you get more profit with the same operations spend? Just increase medical spend, and increase premiums / copays (revenue) accordingly. They actually have a disincentive to keep costs down. Things are starting to change but I suspect Amazon Health is going to be revolutionary for this reason alone.
That's surprising, if it is indeed that large a gap.

Are you sure you were not comparing positions between product groups and research? They tend to have different compensation.
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I find it fascinating how polished the UI is even as it's missing core features.
Special pleading? Why would this deal have a different outcome than others?
> Of course then you get taxed on the remaining 90% as income.

What? No, that's not how it works.
> The Simon Tatham version

The Android version [0] of Simon Tathams games is most likely the best puzzle compilation you can get for your phone!

It is small, free, fully offline and does not contain any ads. I literally spend hundreds of hours playing this game over the last few years.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.boyle.chr...
There aren't many things in the world that are simple enough that they can be described in a snarky one-line quip.

This however, is one of them. I really do think it's that simple. The sport itself is flawed in design.
I don't think that is quite true. I believe with UDP there is no promise of packets being received in order. I think this article is saying that you still get the benefits of processing the packets in the order received, but you don't have to worry about the latency of waiting for the re-transmission of any packets.
Nurses in the Seattle Metro area make 6 figures. It is a master program, but I know more than one person who has decided to change careers into nursing.

That said, a masters in nursing isn't easy, a good nurse earns their pay.
To pile on what others are saying, implementing reliable, functional distributed networked storage at scale is an insanely difficult engineering task. EBS (AWS Elastic Block Storage) was notorious for years for causing problems both externally (reddit) and internally (causing AWS outages). If anything, one should be impressed that smaller companies like DO and Linode are able to offer block storage at all.
Apple broke WebAssembly on iOS and are leaving it broken
It is a very inefficient system with a lot of unnecessary couplings and vested interests and it does not allow for a major improvement via a sequence of local optimizations. Any change is likely to hurt someone and vested interests scream: see what you do to some_choosen_groop. IMO a rebuild is needed to fix it.

For example, if $X gets billed it is seldom the price that gets paid. Usually insurance has negotiated rates of 0.1-0.2X and pays that. Different insurances pay different amounts for the same procedure. Hospitals know this and internally amortize expectations (to, say, 0.15X) pretty well.

Now for the stinky part: someone without an insurance gets a strong push and occasionally a threat to pay the full bill. The patient might push back, but success varies and poverty is the only high probability way to successfully lower the bill. It is a BIG pain for both sides, as it usually takes years to collect even a part of this and any money will likely be shared between hospital and any organizations that help collect.

Many hospitals would gladly take say, 0.2X upfront (their amortized expectation is $.15X). But they must bill same amount to everyone; thus they bill an outrageous amount and the few without insurance lose BIG.
I interviewed for a big position at GE Security about a decade ago. The nice but uninformed Director of Engineering starts quizzing me, asks if I've heard of "Object-Oriented Programming," as if it was some new thing.

I asked him the last album he bought; he said, "Free Bird." (which isn't even an album).

This forever shaped my opinion of GE.
Ultimately, the audience is responsible. The NFL is merely delivering what people want to see. And the audience are the people who are paying for this, either directly by buying tickets or broadcasts or indirectly by buying products that are advertised. Everyone else is just following the money, and they have no incentive to stop.
No surprise here - the last 20% of project taking 80% of development time.
I don't know, I'd say that was price with doctor's fee, or just exaggeration
> You are confusing Linux distros and The GNU kernel.

> Android is built on the GNU kernel like Linux, but does not share the same libraries and packages as Linux.

That'd be Stallman's dream. But no, Linux is the kernel. Evil corporation has no plans to switch to GNU Hurd as far as I know (at least that's the case in the dimension I live in). And the packages that are used together with the Linux kernel are from GNU project (that's why those are called GNU/Linux distros).
I'd be okay if we removed 'on either end'.
Sure it is, the US spends almost double per-capita on meds compared to western european countries. On the other hand meds is only 12% of US healthcare expenditures, so if we were to reset to e.g. Germany's per-capita medication costs, it would cut US costs by less than 6%.

This is a great example of what my comment is saying. There is no obvious silver bullet because everything in the US costs more than in other countries.

[edit]

Also, per-capita government expenditures on health care in the US are actually higher than in Germany[1]

1: https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm#indicato...
Why is a nurse's services worth less than a computer programmer's?
Drugs that get advertised are ones still on patent that have high profit margins. Opioids and amphetamines are cheap to manufacture, long off-patent, and available as generics. They're not the drugs that get advertised on TV.

The pharma business used to have spectacular margins, 20 years ago. The ROI of new chemical entities has been falling since the 1990s. Pharma companies have been shedding personnel and facilities and merging for a long time to keep stock prices up. They're having a hell of a time coming up with new patented products that are broadly useful and better than generics, so direct-to-consumer advertising is one of the few avenues left to boost revenue. It's funny how corporate arrogance and desperation can look so similar.
Being bitten by a snake is in no way comparable to drunk driving.
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No. UDP is connectionless, which makes it harder to use with NAT.
Rent stabilization is capped at 3%/yr in LA. On /r/LosAngeles, you can read about those without it getting crazy increases like 22%. A 10% max seems reasonable. Given that unless you switch jobs you're unlikely to see any big % increases to your salary, why create instability or price out good tenants.
That's disingenuous. They haven't prevented the eventual release of it. What they've prevented is circumventing the rules of the oversight committee which have a series of events (committee vote, wider vote, review, etc) prior to a public release.

Rep Adam Schiff not doing his homework soon enough for it to be released in tandem with the Republican memo is his fault. They're not stopping it, they're just requiring he follow the same rules.
> like a fart in a spacesuit

relevant quora discussion [1] - doesn't seem too bad since the suit has a carbon filter and the helmet is well-sealed & separated from the rest of the suit. (breathable air is prioritized for the head of course, not so much the rest of the suit)

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-happens-when-astronauts-fart-in-t...
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I just started reading this book last night (my wife listened to the audiobook version several months ago, which caught my interest). Strange how these things "come together"...
> I mentioned the war on drugs as an example of old laws that would not be voted on today, and the argument of keeping them because they must be good is destroying lives today.

You're arguing with a straw man of your own design.

> The SEC is killing people today as well. Its barring most of the world on investing in the US on startups that could lift people out of poverty

Jesus, that's the most ridiculous, hyperbolic thing I've read this month.
The speaker suggests serving up mobile layout for older browsers and this is the pattern we are following at my company.
Most 'common colds' are viral and not treatable with antibiotics. Circumventing the physician and using antibiotics contributes to the growing antibiotic-resistance crisis.
What's the possibility of Signal being removed? That's one of my most used apps
For a second yeah, i think that's what's supposed to happen.. It rattles, I get scared, I avoid it. nature in action. They're hard to see though. But, if you're in an area with them, it's very possible to be bitten. Definitely rare, but possible.
Honest question - football helmets have not changed that much in what, 25 years? Are there any efforts underway to use technology to improve the protection provided by helmets? What about a softer layer outside the hard plastic. What about crumple zones for lack of a better term - that means helmets are designed to absorb one large hit, then be replaced. I am sure there are studies underway, but seems like an area ripe for "disruption"...
I've always thought football was a sport intentionally designed as an analogy to war, so in some sense, head injuries are an expected outcome.
>its pretty nakedly about clicks

I think in this case "mass hysteria" is this particular author's shtick:

>Frank Bures is the author of The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World’s Strangest Syndromes.

His other article on Slate:

"Is PMS Real? Or is it just a figment of our menstruation-fearing culture?"

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...
My understanding is that it all comes back to the fact that Durov has upset Putin, so anything that gains traction in Russia must be controlled by someone close to the Kremlin (ie Putin). It's scary but I'd be surprised if any other app didn't suffer a similar fate if it gained a popular following in Russia.
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It's absolutely trivial to put a sequence number in UDP packets.

The question is whether you want the other mechanisms of TCP: handshaking, (limited) retransmission, flow control...
this sounds a bit like what Cruise is planning to do. Not remote control, but remote instruction

>“The specially trained operator [then] provides a domain extension to the vehicle to help define safe operating boundaries (e.g., permission to use the opposing traffic lane where cones are demarcating a new path of travel)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...
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In the US, literally because there are not people offering them larger salaries.

It's anyway probably not a great argument if you are trying to make people making 5-10x the median wage some kind of baseline.
Yeah i think we are heavily underestimating how quickly nature can retake cultivated land.
No I am absolutely certain, I was offered more than 2x for the same position by another tech company.

I was so surprised by Amazon's offer I conducted a small survey amongst friends and acquaintances to find which of my offers (there were more) was 'normal'.

The thing is, you can, as Amazon shows, have an enormously successful business by treating employees badly and not paying top of the market. Of course you can. Paying more does not always get you the best, and for many many tasks you don't need Jeff Deans, you just need someone to work hard and get it done.

There is tons of talented people willing to work for less than the top to get a chance to prove themselves, to learn something, to get their shot. It's just that they tend to leave Amazon (c.f. retention rates) after that, and Amazon seems to be doing ok with that. It's just a fundamentally different approach to employee management.
I think the issue is that basic medical care is enormously expensive in the US. Other countries will have similar outcomes for much less money.

This is an entirely separate point but your argument about stealing doesn't seem related to healthcare as I don't see anyone in this thread arguing for stealing healthcare
The problem here is that it fails to take into account why any packets might be missing.

If it's due to congestion, you've just subverted the mechanism TCP uses to relieve it - and the more people that are using the deviant implementation, the bigger the problem becomes, which impacts everyone.
I just read that as Facebook will track even more private parts of your life and enagage in darker patterns to make you click on their ads.
I think he was commenting on the fact that there are a lot of people self-medicating antibiotics for things they shouldn't be.
Good point, my first thought was that people are doing this from despair not stupidity. Well some of them are.
No, because it wasn't income. When you find something on sale, you don't pay income tax on the difference between the sale price and full price.
The scary truth about doctors is they frequently misdiagnose. When I was healthy each diagnosis was pretty accurate "you're fine". Then I had a real catastrophe and was mistreated by the medical community. Till this day I suffer and I'm still not content with their diagnosis. Don't put too much faith in them to save you.
I know France has an budget line for those cases where they probably won't be paid, hospitals bill the State from this special fund for people who wouldn't be able to afford it. As far I know, it's just a few millions euros per year (of 145 billions tax income).

It should be noted that the bill won't be different from an insured person bill, the prices are "posted".
If you’re saying that are participating in a capitalistic marketplace, then yes that’s true as it is true for every business in the United States. Putting our feelings about the system in place aside, people still want things, and businesses have missions besides a profit motive. Not all of them, again I’m speaking only for myself. I had a conversation with the founder of a yoga school, one of our clients, and I told him that we could raise our prices a little bit because they were having some cash flow issues and their prices were far below market. This is one of the oldest, best and most reputable schools in the world. And he said “no, I know we could but that’s not why I started this. I like to keep it cheap so people can afford to come here”.

His mission is not profit driven. Sure, he has to make money to keep the place open, pay teachers etc. But his mission is to get more people doing yoga. Whether you think yoga is a worthy cause or not is besides the point.

Facebook and google are hugely important for him so people can find out about their offering. I know this guy is an outlier, but I think it’s an important thing to remember that good people out there are doing good things with the power of Facebook ads.
Is there an email I can reach you about roles at SF? It would be great to have the chance to send you my resume and discuss about the role. Thanks a ton.
Within a few years there will be apps that take movies of two different people and allow you to just tell it the parts to swap. People will be able to easily make their own videos like this easily. Banning the technology is a temporary and questionable fix at best.
Not sure why you say that, UDP conntracking has been around for a long time.
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Hi! The maker here! Yes, it will be searchable, I'm currently working on this right now!

I was looking for to develop the feature before share in HN, but the website arrived here before I complete the feature.
World Nomads offers a good product (https://www.worldnomads.com/) that I generally travel with but some travel credit cards also have pretty good medical benefits as well.
50 years ago when there was only had a small leather helmet, players wouldn't go head first into each other. I thought this is an overlooked point worth mentioning. Without a doubt the level of roughness has increased in 50 years and so has the methods of diagnosis for injuries.
I still assert if you take away all (or most) of the armor that modern players have the injuries would go down. All of the spearing, head leading etc would no longer happen.
My friend (programmer)'s wife (nurse) outearned him by a wide margin in the Bay Area. She had a 2-3 year head start on him, career-wise.
My town recently moved from public waste management to a private waste management company and they have so many restrictions that people are just not recycling here anymore. Compared to before, this new company (which isn't even headquartered in this state, so the money is leaving the state) takes only a tiny fraction of recyclable materials.

They also manage to miserably fail at regular trash pickup. Skipping houses, ignoring calls for large items for weeks at a time, just generally terrible at their jobs to the detriment of the culture of recycling we once had here.
Taking a selfie with one is pretty stupid.
What? You do not get taxed on anything. Discounts are not income.