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"The sport itself is flawed in design."

The health aspects of this are the most urgent, but I'd argue that as coaches and analysts have developed algorithms to optimize very particular strategies, they've also squeezed much of the fun out of the game. I wrote about this elsewhere:

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Watching professional sports has become less fun over the last 50 years, due to athletes improving while the rules of most games have gone largely unchanged. Basketball players are taller, on average, than 60 years ago, yet the height of the basket has not been raised. Tennis players have learned to optimize techniques for smashing serves, which often leads to boring games where everything is decided by the strength of a player's serve -- obviously tennis is more fun to watch when there is a long and dramatic volley. American football has seen a relative improvement in defense, such that some games are just 3 attempts at 10 yards, then punt, followed by 3 attempts at 10 yards, then punt, followed 3 attempts at 10 yards, then punt. I'm not exaggerating, I actually saw a game in December where there was something like 5 punts in 5 minutes of play action. Who wants to watch that? In the specific case of American football, an obvious change that could be made is to allow 5 or 6 attempts to get 10 yards, instead of 4. That would be fun, I love watching the pass or run plays, much more than the punts. I learned to love football when I was a little kid, because my older brother loved football and I liked to watch the games with him. Back then I remember many long, dramatic passes, of a type that have become rare as defense has gotten relatively better at stopping exactly that strategy. But whenever I explain to people that the rules of sports need to be often updated to keep up with changes in equipment and training regimes, I'm told that any change would render historical comparisons invalid. Obviously that is true, but what is more important, that we are able to compare today's game to a game in 1956, or that the game is fun?

http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/am-i-completely-insan...
I thought that real estate didn't outpace when averaged across the whole country, but specific urban areas have heavily outpaced, bringing up the average?
Its sort of a "review" of an early preview. I think it demonstrates a lot especially what Fuchsia is and what it is capable of. The other point would be that Google gets free advertisements of their new OS.
That doesn't really reflect on the suitability or effectiveness of regulation to address the problem. Greedy, ignorant people who failed to study and learn from the past can be the decision-makers, too.
> education, health care (including prescription drugs) and real estate over long periods of time.

If you're talking about the housing market, the Case-Shiller index indicates that over long periods of time, the value of housing tracks inflation, it does not outpace it. (Which does not exactly help the homeowner caught riding enormous peaks and valleys in pricing, of course.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case-Shiller_index

The other two are interesting. It seems safe to say that as more and more technology becomes available to help people stay healthy and alive, medicine will continue to get more expensive. Or maybe medicine will essentially become an information technology where Moore's Law applies and costs will go down, as Kurzweil predicted.

Maybe education will become less expensive as credentialism collapses under its own weight and online learning becomes more prevalent. Or maybe we will need more and more education as job hopping becomes the norm and wrangling all different sorts of technology becomes the lot of pretty much everyone who wants to earn more than the universal basic income.
After I started riding a motorcycle, hearing this explanation started to get a serious eyebrow raise out of me. Not the explanation itself, but the thought process behind those who accept it.

The last thing I want to do is just let my helmet do its job. I'd rather do almost anything else to prevent that if I can, because there's a point when I realized that it simply keeps me alive. It doesn't save me from everything. A broken bone heals, road rash heals, CTE does not heal. If my options are to go head first into a car or lay down and take a slide, I'll take the slide every time.

I treat my helmet as just another line of defense, one of many that includes e.g. body gear, situational awareness, keeping up on riding ability, and things like that.

In case it's not clear to anyone reading, yes, I wear a helmet and gear when I ride. I'm not arguing against wearing helmets, only the incorrect assumptions made about them.
He destroyed his mind and got paid well for it. There are many dangerous jobs out there and usually the pay reflects it. The player union and company needs to invest in solutions. If there are none apparent it might cost less to up salaries then invest in R and D. The owners dont want players to get long term damage. Mining orgs dont want miners to get black lung.

Tech solutions are a great place for this but its not a moral issue. He chose to play pro football. Its not footballs fault. And not every player gets brain damage so lets hear some numbers on that. What was this guys diet? Some people get brain damage that dont play football.
no they will not - people do self-regulate and are capable of living sustainably - to say always is to make it an unstoppable fate rather than to create systems that allow people to take greater responsibility
Well, yes, the reference implementation are, reference implementation. But h.264 and HEVC Ref Encoder and let say X26x encoder were only a difference of 10 - 50 times.

Av1, we are taking about 1000x.
By your logic sprint could be held liable based on providing a phone network, or google for providing free email which can be used with encryption.
I think that captures it well.
It wasn't known that concussions caused plaques to build up in your brain that causes permanent degenerative brain damage until fairly recently.

When I was playing years ago, it was called, "getting your bell rung." It was a temporary problem like getting a muscle cramp or something.
Download Minecraft.

Install ComputerCraft mod.

Write lua skripts to control turtles and computers.

???

Your kid now has obtained basic programming skills.
My concern is that changing Football will be difficult, if not impossible. It would be like asking them to change the Bill of Rights because some of it is outdated. It's a religion to many Americans.
IANASportsFan, but... isn't football a bit more play-by-play than rugby? seems like there's more time to get ready for the next iterative sprint-smash in football than in rugby. maybe I'm remembering Aussie-rules.
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Anecdotal evidence, I played rugby in college. We'd send at least one person to the hospital every game. But few head injuries. A friend of mine who played football played rugby the spring of his senior year, and promptly broke his neck by leading with his head when tackling as he was used to. Fortunately he didn't sever anything, no permanent damage.

Personally I think a lot of our injuries were because we had a lot of former football players who were used to a different sport. It takes time to adjust. My "career" (fun hobby) ended from a ridiculous move from an overzealous opponent that destroyed my shoulder. If we were wearing football gear everything would have been fine. I wonder if rugby players in the US get injured more frequently than in other countries because of our legacy of American football.
This is something that has always fascinated me - just how do the processes which cover a landscape with, say, layers and layers of sediment - or jungle cover - really work?

I mean, I get it - you leave something out, a few weeks later its going to get covered in a layer of dust/sediment. But how is it that entire cities get buried under 10's of meters of dirt? I'm sure geologists have this all figured out, but it always amazes me that our world changes like this so rapidly.

In this case, I'm sure the answer is 'the jungle eats everything' .. but there are places in the world, buried under meters of sand and sediment, that I just wonder .. how does this happen ..
Why does it matter that IPv6 is old, if your users are only using IPv4 ?
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This. This is what customer service is about -- taking care of the customer when things go badly. In the span of five weeks, Amazon had A) "lost" two packages (in reality, they were shipped to the wrong distribution center and weren't rerouted), B) were two days later on one, C) four days late on another, and D) EIGHT days late on the fifth.

For every single one, I contacted customer support and complained. As performance got worse, I actually got on the phone.

* The first time I was comped a month of prime. $8.

* The second time I was comped $20 in Amazon credit, and they reshipped the package ($55 in goods). I was told if the other one showed up, to keep both. The other one showed up the next week.

* Third time I was comped a month of prime ($8) and package was reshipped. This was $160 in electronics. I was told if the other showed up, to keep both. The second one showed up 2 weeks later.

* The fourth time I called I asked why I was paying for prime. After 10 minutes, the rep agreed. They refunded my entire year of prime ($100).

* Fifth time they didn't care. They admitted their performance was awful, and were confused how their logistics operation was doing so poorly, but if I didn't like the service I should go elsewhere.

To their credit, I was compensated $351 for five failures in five weeks, all of which were not in peak season (this was 60 days in advance of Holiday shopping season).
We have something like that in law at least (a certain time allotted after 4 hrs of work or some such, lunch) but rarely isn't ever that direct. People being people will get up, walk around, get coffee, take a piss, etc.

Beyond that, at least in office work, you'll regularly see folks eating lunch at their desk and working through it even though by law they're supposed to be 'relieved of all duties'. This isn't because some supervisor said so but because they feel obligated to do so.
Chronic injuries might go down. Immediate injuries would go up. All the helmets and pads weren't added for no reason.
Good value/cost in comparison to other developed nation's public healthcare solutions. Isnt that what the OP is comparing healthcare in the U.S. to?

Medicare is also very expensive, it spends less in administration but also has very high costs in regulation. Medicare has the size of public healthcare in other developed nations, and its still high cost in GDP/capita. So expanding medicare would not solve the cost issue, it will just swipe it under the rug.
Geocities was my gateway to learning basics of HTML & JavaScript. Didn't take much to impress friends with coding in those days (high school / early 00's).
I have a good friend who is type 1 diabetic.

Her 1 year term at a university elsewhere ran out, and obtained a job elsewhere. Both have insurance. But the insurance is the problem... Let me explain.

Since she's T1, she takes insulin. There's different types of insulin. Fast acting, slow acting, and various compounds and mixtures of each. In her case, she was prescribed Humalog, and has taken it for the last few years.

On Jan 1, at the start of her new job, the job offered a different insurance. Humalog was considered an "Uncovered drug". In other words, this maybe what the doctor prescribed, and what your body is used to - but the insurance company is the primary "doctor" that makes medical decisions above and beyond your PCP.

She didn't have much choice. She went on an insulin that was "covered". The insurance said it was "virtually the same". Bullshit. She took too much the 3rd day and had to take the day off, while asking friends to check up on her. Diabetic comas and death are a thing. She's never had that happen before. (Her A1C stays around 5.1-5.2 , which is impressive for any diabetic.)
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> Hmm, forgiving a debt is considered income. I wonder if the situation with hospitals depends on a lot of technical details.

It doesn't. It's not a debt yet. You don't have to pay taxes on the difference.
Why are there some entries with what appears to be a poll with garbage answers? Seems like they're taking up a lot of space and I don't understand the point of them.

https://imgur.com/a/FftPd
x264 –slice-max-size <A> –vbv-maxrate <B> –vbv-bufsize <C> –crf <D> –intra-refresh –tune zerolatency

There's some pretty crazy stuff going on under the hood. Here's an old blog post by the x264 lead developer: https://web.archive.org/web/20150507012544/http://x264dev.mu...

Periodic Intra Refresh completely eliminates the concept of keyframes
Something I was told when I was new to training in martial arts is that lighter gloves used in MMA and, for example, traditional karate dojos (simple cotton gloves with light padding -- same design as many MMA gloves, just different materials) simply protect your hands, not the other person's face.

Boxing gloves, by contrast, can and do cause the same sort of faulty reasoning as football helmets when education isn't properly included: there's padding, therefore I can hit harder. Except, no, it (clearly) doesn't work that way. Certainly not when mass is a variable in the equation.
I wish I got paid 150k everytime someone did something stupid.
This is neat. Was looking for something like this for Xmysql[1] - which has a CHART API to fetch 'numeric column distribution' in MySql table. The data from Xmysql-chart-api[2] can then be fed to this. Will give it a try over weekend.

[1] : https://github.com/o1lab/xmysql
[2] : https://github.com/o1lab/xmysql#chart
> Also a high rate of insulin resistance.

The majority of NFL players are African-American, which might explain this.
I think George Carlin summed it up best:
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor7.shtml

Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

Football is played on a gridiron, in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.

Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

In football you wear a helmet.

Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting and unnecessary roughness.

Football is rigidly timed, and it will end even if we've got to go to sudden death.

n football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.
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You can do one line summaries without reading the article - without reading it the answer will be along the lines of "fucks them".
side note: can you imagine anybody ever purchasing a self-driving motorcycle?

i. would. never.
Having worked in a tech startup adjacent to healthcare insurance one of the biggest reasons healthcare costs are out of control is largely a result of how healthcare is billed. Most consumers (i.e. those insured under an employer-offered plan) are very far removed from the actual price of a service because, assuming a medically necessary service or drug is covered, you are paying up to some deductible, coinsurance, or copay but usually never anything that closely resembles the retail price. Most insurance companies operate off a "network model" where they go out and negotiate contracts with different providers/hospitals to get discounted rates that are usually pegged to Medicare prices (which is as low as the prices go). Large employers can negotiate good rates through insurance companies as well to drive prices down to control their own healthcare costs.

The opaqueness with which care is paid means that consumers receiving care have little incentive to shop around for prices, quality, value, etc., which means providers can basically charge whatever they think the gov't (through medicare/medicaid) will pay and a percentage above medicare/medicaid for everyone else. Of course, if you are uninsured or go out of network (i.e. your insurance company has no contract with the provider you saw), then you're going to be asked to pay ridiculous retail prices that very few people actually ever pay.

If you look at the difference between price trends for elective vs non-elective care (i.e. cosmetic surgery, LASIK, cosmetic dermatology), prices for non-elective care outpaces elective care by a long shot with the main difference being consumers pay out of pocket for elective care and actually put pressure on prices whereas consumers do not for insurance-covered non-elective.

The reality is that if you are ever in this situation you should ALWAYS negotiate. There's a reason medical debt is bought for pennies on the dollar because 1) difficulty actually collecting "patient responsibility" in the first place and 2) everyone know these retail prices are completely BS.
Absolutely, click "No extra automation" on the last version and play it normally. It makes you question everything you previously thought was a random guess. Makes the game vastly better, because you're richly rewarded for thinking through every possibility. And you're incentivized to spend time thinking because you're not punished when it ends up being a truly random choice. Great, great work. Too bad minesweeper is not suited to mobile devices because I'd play this version all the time.
> it's basically two rounds of SHA-256.

There's a bit more to this; there's clever optimisations you can do (based on the Merkle–Damgård structure of SHA256 and the format/semantics of the data being hashed): http://www.mit.edu/~jlrubin/public/pdfs/Asicboost.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.00575.pdf
I'm hoping it will be noticed by Linus and other Linux developers and help them address some of the shortcomings that Fuchsia aims to fix. It seems like this is how Google is exerting pressure on Linux to get what it wants...
Very few players that big are that fast or that trim.

Lots are a bit faster and around 230 or 250 lbs though.
We must do whatever it takes to maximize human populations. Whatever it takes.
Yes, Teddy Roosevelt is credited for saving football. In 1904, there were 18 deaths in college football alone, and there weren't that many colleges and not that many games.

http://www.history.com/news/how-teddy-roosevelt-saved-footba...
I haven't seen B. fragilis in any OTC probiotic supplement, but wouldn't hurt to check the label. Typically manufacturers choose strains which are well-studied enough to be blameless, if not necessarily magically good for you (to avoid liability, the cynic in me says...)
Liable based on what law? You really need to support your arguments.
I was in a similar position. No interests, nothing. Started reading all kinds of books. Ended up with the computer science ones, began learning low level stuff. Life is meaningful again. It's just webdev wasn't fulfilling enough anymore.
Let's keep this in mind next time there is a domestic abuse scandal involving an NFL player. Perhaps shaming the NFL into booting the player and cutting off his benefits isn't a appropriate solution for someone whose behavior may partially be the result of brain damage accrued while providing us with entertainment.
But it doesn't. Consumer gear NATs UDP pretty much as nice as it does TCP.
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It’s a very labor intensive, capital intensive business. It’s why you can get open heart surgery at 3AM 365 days a year.
Hey man, a lot of suggestions in the thread, but I think you can also do some journaling. Just open your text editor and write whatever you're feeling. For me I thought this was stupid and a waste of time but it's nice to see your thoughts and see the progression of how you're thinking/feeling. I sometimes have crappy days where I write "I just played the Sims all day" or "I am really not in the mood" and I find that for some reason I can't keep on writing that same thing for several days in a row.

It's like when I write "I did crappy things" down, I get irritated with myself for not being productive and I want to do better things tomorrow. Not necessarily programming at first but something productive (like cook a meal, exercise, etc.).

Not sure if this will help but for me it did so hopefully it works? Also eat right and try to exercise. If you don't like exercise just take walks. I find walking to be therapeutic too
Removing helmets in football without removing almost all forms of contact will likely lead to deaths, which would hard to describe as "much less serious" than brain damage.
Just like miles, which can look rather good if they are all highway miles, aircraft incidents are concentrated around takeoff and landing.

Risk also skews results: Pilots taking off and landing on beaches in Alaska aren't comparable to pilots taking off from airports on the basis of incidents per 1000 hours.
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Football players purposely spear other players with their helmets with full force. They had to make rules against doing this, and it still happens, although with less frequency. They are not using their helmets as a last line of defense like your motorcycle helmet. They use them as weapons.
I don't think it takes a medical diagnosis to use common sense and think if I hit my brain a bunch there will be lasting impressions. (Boxing, soccer, football to name a few.)
>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"...

The very existence of hard plastic helmets is what has caused the issue in the first place. It creates enough protection that people are able to hit much, much harder than normal, which causes concussion/CTE. You can fix the game by getting rid of the pads.
Yes, lots of things are social constructs. We are social animals, we have created and evolved highly complicated structures. But very little is intrinsic.

The hierarchy in my filesystem has a similar structure to the one in my family tree / political system / place of work. But the fact that they form a shape that has an abstract representation doesn't mean that there's some law of physics that say that humans form hierarchies. Many people form monogamous relationships. You know what else does? Oxygen atoms! Maybe there's a link!

The difference between science and religion (which is in the same ballpark as society) is that if you started from scratch you'd eventually converge on the same observations and scientific theories. Society, on the other hand, could go a very different way.

Other societies decide different things, case in point, America.

I can't be bothered to argue sex vs gender. But if you really think everyone fits neatly into two buckets in a nice bimodal distribution, maybe you haven't met enough people. That's kind of the point - inferring some kind of law, and therefore "should" from "looks like", e.g. Natural Moral Law is flawed.

I understand it's very unsettling that there aren't many certainties in the world. We construct them to make ourselves feel safe. I'm very happy to inhabit that psychological world. But I'm not fooling myself that we're not alone in a cold universe.