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France has additional factors mitigating against a potential flood of medical-care-seekers:

1) Most (all?) other countries in the EU don't have terrible American-style systems of healthcare provision, so the pull isn't as strong.

2) Language barriers make e.g. a Poland-to-France move more difficult than a Missouri-to-California move, even though the latter move actually requires covering a greater geographic distance.

Of course there are practical barriers against every medically underserved American moving to California to take advantage of a single payer system. My intuition is that there could easily be enough of them to more than cancel the economic benefits that you'd expect from imitating the successful single payer systems of other countries. YMMV. I'd love to be wrong about this.

EDIT: dragonwriter brought up a good point about business-magnet effects, which offsets some of my pessimism about the outcomes of trying this in California. And you have a good point about Californians who might be able to re-enter the workforce.
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In my opinion, the set of players should be inclusive of all football players. By limiting it to the most successful outliers in a power law distribution, we limit ourselves to the players with the best possible outcome. Players don't really get to choose whether they belong in this set; they choose to play highly competitive football.

In short, I think we should define the group by factors that result from choice, not outcome.
It's not that complicated. Humans tend to build in flat areas. Flat areas tend to be flood plains. When flood plains flood they leave behind sediment. There are additional ways that sediment builds up such as airborne deposits and importantly from growing plants leaving behind biomatter, but in a lot of cases flooding explains the substantial depth of sediment deposited.
An FX trader saying Bitcoin is gonna die? right, he's not biased at all.

Yeah, currency traders, what do they know?

Isn't it very obvious that anyone in the current financial world(Traders/FX brokers) doesn't like cryptocurrencies?

Oh, it's obvious. Ever wonder why? Bias? Conspiracy? Ya know, traders would trade cockroach shit if there was a market. It could be bias, could be that these professionals ask themselves, "how can I value this?" and come up empty.
And we've got new taxes on solar too!
Setting up single-payer in California would end up being unnaturally more expensive because of the tradeoff with some federal benefits.

Also, in the current national political environment, there is very little chance that if implementation of such a plan were to actually go forward, that the federal government wouldn't start coming up with punitive measures (because fuck those rich elitist Hollywood liberals).
As a Canadian, I find it easy to believe. Go and ask some of the hospitals just across the border from Detroit. They have gotten bent over many times by Americans who come over to Windsor, get injured (usually related to the lower drinking age), show up in the ER, then bail when it comes time for the bill.
I don't think it is obvious that this would aggravate congestion.
It is true that TCP's speed control mechanism automatically slows the transmission rate when it detects lost packets and the article's proposal would mask lost packets. But, as long as the receiver keeps telling the sender, and nodes along the way, to stop sending some packets, bandwidth would scale down as it should. TCP's default policy of increasing latency in order to match available bandwidth is not appropriate for video streams. What this proposal does instead is tell the sender not to slow transmission in terms of frames processed but to instead don't send all the frames which is just what you want for video. But yeah, just use UDP.

I would like to see a proof of concept before I full buy in to the author's claims. It's difficult to tell what this might do to proxies or how all the various router firmwares on the Net might handle it. I could see a hop along the way having trouble with the receiver claiming it received packets it could not have. For that matter, it's possible for the receiver to claim to have received a packet that the sender had not yet generated. The sending TCP stack may very well consider this an error.
I've seen them in their phones. Swiping, tapping, swiping, tapping. Endlessly. Idiots.
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Trying to catch a falling knife is a pretty solid plan for investing into a purely speculative instrument.
There isn’t a lot of long term evidence that suggests the hitting in UFC is less damaging than the hitting in boxing.

It is just as likely that the brain trauma differences are due to the dramatically less number of hits taken. This has more to do with the rules than the gloves.

We can be reasonably sure of that because boxing could change the glove types trivially and haven’t even in places that have changed other rules for safety (youth & Olympic boxing).
I freaking hate taking antibiotics and would rather not be prescribed something if it's not needed. That 30 day course of levaquin I got stuck on a few years ago was hell (admittidely, it was needed).
That's a big blanket statement that it will end badly. Sure people will realize that most of the altcoins are a scam, but Bitcoin, Ethereum & few others will survive.
That's a brilliant use of that xkcd classic because it also dampens the chance of posting it yet again here.
watched this movie a few years ago.
Basically the drug companies, medical equipment manufacturers, the GPO's, Health Insurance Companies.

Sure nurses and Doctors make money but if you know anything about that job any good one is probably underpaid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puncture_(film)
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This still happens in the bus station where I live.
What about Rust disqualifies it? Let's say besides ecosystem immaturity (lack of libraries). As a non-systems programmer, I'm curious.
I hear all the time from the crypto-people the reasoning

> Isn't it very obvious that anyone in the current financial world(Traders/FX brokers) doesn't like cryptocurrencies?

"Oh finance people just don't _like_ cryptocurrencies!"

Well, finance people make their living either trading or selling anything at all they can get their hands on. Have you asked yourself why it is that they don't have the same attitude towards cryptocurrencies? Why is it that they don't apply the same knowledge and experience that they have from years of trading other financial instruments, to cryptocurrencies? Nothing strikes you as strange here?
We've always had AfterEffects and CGI. Some viral videos have been proven fake , but for the most part a lot of those faked videos were low res to make it more forgiving to fake them.

Captain disillusion on youtube has a great channel covering all of this. Here's an example of a fake lightning video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPRtCW5sRk

Deepfakes has made it so the average user, with no knowledge of Aftereffects / composition, to basically run a python script so long as they have high res images + several angles / expressions of the target user. That same folder set of images can be replicated in multiple scenes with just the cost being GPU rendering time

Deepfake videos can also have a much higher resolution than "viral videos" with aftereffects to fake effects.

Deepfaking also leads to a lot of legality issues as well.

TL;DR deepfakes does make faking videos much cheaper, higher resolution, and easier now
You missed that boat twice already.
Do venture capitalists invest in something based upon a Facebook ad? Probably not. The cryptocurrency hype targeted the unknowledgeable with a blatant 'get rich scheme' worse than state sponsored lottery.
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> How ingenuous of you is it not to suggest that the Republican memo wait so that both can be released at the same time.

There's no rule that all memos on a subject need be released at the same time. Each is released once it completes the release process. If there's a "rebuttal memo" from the Republicans upon the contents of the Democrat's memo, should we wait for that as well? How about the rebuttal to the rebuttal?

The only requirement is that the vote and review process is followed.

> Also, its true that there are Republicans on the committee that don't want to see the Dem's memo released at all!

The comment to which I responded claimed that "Republicans have prohibited the release of the minority memo" which is false.

If you're going to make a claim that some Republicans are preventing the Democrat's memo from being released then feel free to name the names involved. My understanding is that it's entirely a process issue and Rep Schiff is a tool for claiming otherwise.
Possibly, but it's not like it's the Bitcoin's first time either.
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HAHAH awesome I just made exactly the same comment.
For scale, the Amazon jungle is a couple million square miles.
A way to value crypto assets
http://www.jsfour.com/value-crypto-assets/

TL;DR - Bitcoin is an energy arbitrage.
One of those loopholes that small mid to low income citizens can do is by majority elected revolutions and majority voted wealth reallocation. Should we scorn them for doing that, and on what moral principle is that different from a company exploiting loopholes or using political lobbying to disregard majority opinion in order to create laws with loopholes in them.

Scorn or moral objections is not the same as legal. If 51% voted to take the land and property of the 1%, then that is a democratic decision and the publicly published law. It would also be overwhelming scorned by those effected. Should we just tell them that they too would redistribute the wealth if they could and its stupid for anyone to not take wealth if they could.
> I would expect it to become a magnet for people with expensive health problems from the other 49 states

OTOH, if the tax-induced cost to business (or even some identifiable subset of businesses) of the single-payer system were less per employee than the cost of provide and manage healthcare benefits, it could also be a magnet for businesses from other states.
Most "reinvent $thing" projects begin by reinventing the parts of the $thing that are fun to reinvent. The "core features" are no fun to reinvent
You realize that countries like Switzerland and Singapore have private insurance companies, universal coverage and reasonable costs?

That would suggest insurance companies are not the problem.
My favorite-- even people without gluten sensitivities have been deluded into thinking it's universally bad, so they'll happily opt for anything with a gluten-free sticker on it...

...regardless of the fact that the product in question has no wheat component to it at all.
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Though compared with libffi, this can't replace libffi with this in most projects. libffi is a tiny library with no dependencies on Python, Clang or LLVM that's easily integrated into a language, and which doesn't rely on the parsing of any files.

You can statically link libffi for platforms that don't usually have it installed as a dynamic lib; it adds next to nothing to the footprint.
https://demo.bitmovin.com/public/firefox/av1/ has a sample that works in Firefox Nightly.
>"Investors"

I also don't like the term, probably a most appropriate term would be "Holders"
So you are going to time the market? Why do you believe you can do this better than others?
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I think we're actually in agreement. You seem to be doing something about it, with your podcast, and that's great! My point was mostly aimed towards the first poster, whose stance seemed to be to mostly complain and wish that people would "just get" that recycling is the key to the problem. I'm not saying recycling isn't the solution. I'm saying the strategy of waiting or wishing for people to start recycling won't work unless incentives change, such as introducing new social norms, or changing our culture or relationship towards recycling. Bringing the subject into public discussion, like what you're doing, is a great strategy to make that happen, I think, so props to you!
Because it's not just the browser, it's WebKit for the entire iOS.
I would say the US is the best country in the world to have medical issues in if you have good insurance.

That's why you see Canadians making the trek down for treatment when they can't get it (or at least the quality they want) in Canada.
I have a high-deductible plan, and have had one for ~7 years now. It doesn't really change my decision process that much, honestly. Especially when I'm considering a procedure that my doctor has told me I need, but I don't know / understand the technical details of... I will try to go in-network, but I don't really have the capability to go shop around and assess which providers will give me a better outcome per dollar spent. I especially don't usually have the necessary skill set to assess if some cheaper option that's not my doc's first choice would really be a good choice.

With healthcare, it's not just about "what's the cheapest option", it's also "who will deliver the best service"... given the relatively limited ability to optimize the first, I generally will focus on the second, and I think that's what most folks do - they go with providers they trust.

It all comes back to my original point: healthcare, particularly non-elective healthcare, is not well-suited to a free market solution.
Probably depends on the state. CA has better labor laws than most and doesn't seem to apply it different for exempt or non-exempt:

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_mealperiods.htm

Most places I've worked given an hour by default as part of company policy. My point was that a lot of folks will choose to work through their lunch instead of taking a walk outside or relaxing a little.

I recall when one coworker hopped on the Soylent train. They had this whole plan that it would free up their lunch to go do other stuff like go for a bike ride, check out a museum, etc. They essentially ended up chugging the Soylent at their desk and working their entire lunch.

Maybe I'm old school but I don't like giving my labor away for free. Work will always be there.
I’m not a lawyer, and don’t know what jurisdiction you are talking about, which celebrity you’re talking about (alive/dead/long dead, where do/did they live), etc, but I think the model copyright will be yours, but you will be restricted as to where you can use it because others have the right to make money with its looks.

Law works similar with copies of physical objects. For example, you are free to make a 100% copy of an iPhone, the Mona Lisa or a pop song and enjoy them at home, but you can’t display them in public or sell copies, or even give them away (did I say I’m not a lawyer?)
Entropy arbitrage.

Edit: You might as well try to assign a value to gold based on how much you spent on picks and hammers.
You just provided at least two good reasons. Add the ABI instability as a third and rust has struck out.
Get with the times. Clearly Rust is the answer!
It's funny, as six month ago I wasn't very fond of the whole "Grid is ready today" talk with ~65% of browsers supporting it. But actually I am glad that within 6 month that percentage seems to have risen by another 10% so that we have ~75% today: https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-grid

And when you take a closer look to the numbers you can see that in another 6 to 12 month the technology should be practically out there in every browser, as the few who will still not have it, will be some mobile browsers which will use the mobile first baseline variant anyway, if you follow the recommendations from the video.

Pretty cool stuff.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments, especially not flamebait, extra-especially not flamebait on a divisive topic, and extra-extra-especially not flamebait on a divisive topic that has been done to death and then some. Your underlying view may be correct, but this is still being a careless camper.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Looks like an average upper middle class house in the US. Hardly swanky.
It's one of the most security-sensitive components on the system. Users will still need to know it's getting updated, and to OK the update. There's no logistical difference.
Agreed. I think lightning will be the next big leap. There are a lot of brave souls (423 as of right now) trying it out right now.

https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/?100=
How does this value Bitcoin? It only says that if BTC price is above a certain value, a riskless opportunity for profit exists by doing "energy arbitrage". You can not use this reasoning to set the BTC price. Or am I missing the point?
One drawback about Rust OSes right now is that they must use nightly Rust, and therefore, don't gain our stability guarantees. This is another form of immaturity.

I still wish they would have done it anyway, but oh well :)

On a technical level, there's nothing stopping you: we already have one serious project (Redox) and many, many hobby projects that exist.
Lightning network has just been released on main net, and while it's still the early days, this is darn new and exciting.

It's actually a solution to the micropayment problem that has dogged the internet for decades, and resulted in the ad based internet content sites (and pathologies) we see today.

In terms of "something of value" there are many levels of this, and one of them is that bitcoin as a currency is something of value, for people in venezuela and other countries with highly debased currencies its a lifeline. It also is revolutionizing the remittances business. Just a few of the use cases.
That's not what's being talked about here. The idea is that you ACK packets that you believe have been sent, but have been dropped or delayed, because you've received a later packet.
The link below may be interesting to look at (or laugh at?) since the LDS church's famous book claims to be about 3 civilizations that lived somewhere in north,central or south america. As far as I understand, one or more LDS leaders years ago decided (for arguably valid reasons) that all of the Book of Mormon events occurred between 600 BC to about AD 400.

This has made it more difficult for the church to say "look, we were right!" when discoveries like this are made because the timeline in several cases doesn't align with 600 BC to AD 400.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology_and_the_Book_of_Mo...
DEC Sixel has been around since the '80s, although I'm not sure how many modern terminal applications support it.
I think you should redo this project and see how your coding style have changed. I went through your code and I could see myself doing something similar at the time, but I would code it up very differently now.
1 - many players are not making millions a year. eg in 2017, two rookie quarterbacks in the playoffs were making $450k, the league minimum. All those average salary facts include eg Tom Brady.

2 - even at $1m/year, you may collect $550k after tax. Three years of that is not never work again money.
Does it _have_ to be?
I'm ready to buy a new graphics card to render graphics with. That'd be cool.
Buy low and sell high? Crazy Talk!!
... in which case blocking is not an issue. Consumer-grade NAT hardware will no more block client-initiated UDP than it'll block client-initiated TCP, at least not without extra configuration.
I'm sorry, I see now that I mismwrote on the original version of löntagarfonder, I wrote buy, the correct word should be take.

Original idea was to take the dividend as new stock. Nothing voluntary, no buying at market rates.
It would be very good for the net if something came up that penalised middleboxes though. Maybe this could be it.
I mean none of this is a new problem, is it? The means are more sophisticated but the basic problem is not new.
A further complication in my mind of healthcare operating as a market is a hippocratic oath.

The ability for a doctor (merchant) to refuse service in certain situations just doesn't exist without violating an ethical boundary.
Also, if the consumer picks the cheapest item on the store shelf, then companies can’t afford to be philanthropic, as the company most skilled in avoiding taxes will be able to offer the same products cheaper.
Lightworks has a very narrow use case, heavily focused on cutting feature films and longform video with a very different workflow than most non-Avid NLEs.

It shines with large video asset databases, and once you get a few weeks of muscle memory behind it (or a few months if you're coming from FCP or FCPX), it's a fast tool when making lots of simple cuts. It has a well-earned reputation for cutting stuff like drama and comedy, where effects and pre-rendered sequences take a back seat to well-timed cuts between takes and fast iterative editing feedback. The node-based compositor is... unique, but I'm not sure I'm qualified to say it's an objectively easier or better workflow than AE — YMMV.

It's also capable of doing other things like handling basic A/V effects and compositing, but not as well as other NLEs or compositors. Its best output formats are behind a licensing wall, though they're still far cheaper than Adobe, Apple, or Avid, and you can do almost all your actual cutting with the free version. While it's more stable than some FOSS NLEs, it's still shakier than Avid or Premiere on well-supported hardware, with the distinct advantage that it's got native Linux support.

The weirdest part, though, was that it was supposed to have been open-sourced after EditShare acquired it, then they didn't, and they've been saying "it'll be open sourced when it's ready" for almost 4 years now.[1]

[1] https://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&c...
counter-narrative

I'm confused, doesn't parent fit the narrative of "get rich on bitcoin"? Anyway, my guess for why the downvotes is because it's a reverse of "appeal to authority". The classic appeal to authority is, "he/she is a $MUCKITY_MUCK in this field, and therefore should be listened to." with no real reason to listen other than that they hold a title of authority on the subject. Parent is the reverse: "Authorities on the subject are, of course, biased and should not be listened to."
Maybe it was a pragmatic decision to quickly fix something that effected everyone at the short term cost of a feature practically no one uses.
Same boat, birthday is a couple months away and I want to build a PC, need prices to go down before then.