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It is interesting to compare the sentiment in this thread and one from a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16208210

When considering whether to get a flu vaccination the recommendations of health insurance companies seem to be treated as gospel...
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> Old software is exactly where you won't see a performance difference.

For 'current' old software yes, because Moore's Law held until a few years back, but now we can no longer count on that. So a game from this year will presumably become 'legacy' by 2021, but will hardware power have advanced sufficiently that it will run on 2021 virtualized container with nearly the same FPS as today on bare metal?
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No, of course not, that's an indefensible position.

Their benefits out weight their detriments. I'm just not a fan of amateur journalists with no oversight, poor training, an ideological axe to grind, and possible mental pathological tendencies.

How do you filter all that out? Ahhh, you can't. At least not without a cultural homogeneity that leads to strong social support for education and care of the less well off. How do you get that? Time.
They really should. My wife had a similar issue - charges were not nearly _that_ much.

Albeit, one of the larger ones is STILL in negotiations between the hospital and the insurance company.
Easy solution, just don't be born in Honduras.
Trust me, if you don't like the idea of your entire livelihood hinging on weather or not a piece of equipment boots up, farming is NOT the career for you.
EDIT AGAIN: No, this is the same as the article I thought it was. They didn't actually specify the cost vs duration of the storage. There's a figure which shows duration for another project, but pricing info is not shown, so it's not very useful.

But I did manage to find this linked to in the story, which does specify duration in parts:
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/record-low-sola...

This is a continuing pet peeve of mine: "solar plus storage" but very hard to actually parse out how much storage they're talking about.
Why does my friend's TI-84 behave oddly with these magic numbers?
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-has-finally-figured-out...

Not sure why I'm being downvoted, it's a perfect example of a difficult problem (creating the metal ball) taking a long time to figure out when there isn't a shortcut. It's not a value judgement, other countries have had longer to figure this stuff out.
And then the triager messed up and that person died in route to the other hospital....lawsuit!
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If politics can help it through subsidies, then it can certainly harm it through opposite means (subsidies of competitors, fees, taxes, tariffs, overregulation like zoning rules, extra requirements or legal liability, etc.).
My point is that war is not "illegal", and the current "deterrent" has done nothing to deter proxy wars in places like (as recent examples) Syria and Yemen. It has also done nothing to deter Russia's invasion of Crimea, the US's boondoggle in Iraq and Afghanistan (nor the extremely vague 'war on terror' that enables the US to arbitrarily attack anyone it perceives as a 'terrorist').

The number of folks experiencing war may be shrinking [citation needed], but it's far from being 'illegal.'
The worst thing in all of that is how accepted it became in US culture.

Emergency visit or medical treatment requiring remortgaging, debt or spending otherwise life savings are used as a background plot mechanism.

When I was younger, money was the plot (and that was already depressing enough): valiant doctor fighting to avoid their patient to have crippling debts, but now, often it is part of the background. Of course cancer is going to ruin you, everybody knows that, so let's build drama on top of that. Doctor are uninterested in making it cheaper, all is based around choosing health or money.
Ask HNs: What would you consider a must-read/know for LATAM founders?
In my spare time, I am writing a free small guide for peruvian startups. It is basically a guide that will have "generic startup content" (e.g. links to explanation of convertible notes/SAFE/etc), but more importantly, it will have information about the local ecosystem (e.g. where to get local funding, how to launch your product in the other LATAM countries, where to look for talent, etc).

What articles/books/links do you think are generic must reads for startup founders?
Including by the countries supposed to enforce the rule (UN security council: Russia who annexed Crimea, China building illegal islands in the Pacific, US who started wars based on lies for oil..)
Maybe in a year they'll release a new "Windows 10 Classic".
The data shows a downward trend in interstate conflicts, colonial conflicts, and per capita battle deaths since the 40's. Civil conflicts peaked in the early 90's, but nukes aren't a factor in those.

Source: https://files.prio.org/publication_files/prio/Gates,%20Nyg%C...
These seem to be more about how to read poetry and literature critically. I guess I'm looking more along the lines cutting back how much information I take in, and choosing better what information to take in.
App-to-app isolation is probably necessary in the end; at the moment a win32 app can just PostMessage() gaily into any other app whether it likes it or not.

That doesn't necessarily mean getting rid of the old API, but it might mean radically sandboxing it.
Maybe, they ask for account number, address, employee number etc. None of those other details matched.
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Sorry for the unrelated comment but I wanted to thank you for your nice lecture notes. I found them clear and very helpful during my studies.
Amen. Huge silver lining to Meltdown has been raised awareness over what a mess our hardware is.

As long as we're in Intel x86 land, the Plan 9 service-per-box approach is probably about the best we can do, and I'm not saying that with any joy, or as an endorsement.

Or, perhaps we can claw our way back to the 1960s and reclaim working memory protection? As obvious as that sounds, I wouldn't take it for granted. People already accept all sorts of half-broken proprietary bullshit for GPU performance, bootloading, AMT, etc. From the mailing lists, looks like Intel is trying to normalize that for CPUs as well.
Or you could explicitly design the package so that your pre/postinstall scripts ensure that you install to a separate directory, and rename-replace the old directory, so you can’t get half-finished updates.

Regarding the rest, if your code has incompatible API breaks between two patch or minor version changes, you’ll need to rethink your development model.
Any critique on Uber's use of Triggers for triggering billing service? I have been reading that Triggers shouldn't be used to esp, call external services as, the external service might not be ACID compliant(no rollback?) and if expensive, they can hold the DB lock on the row for really long time.
"The doctors in the emergency room did multiple tests including a CT scan and ultrasound"

CT scan is expensive. Each scan (CT, ultrasound) is reviewed by a radio-logical expert (i.e. doctor), plus taking up an ER bed for many hours, lab work, IV medications, etc...
It adds up pretty quickly.

I'd love to know how much this actually costs in say Canada, or the UK, and I don't mean to the patient (I know they wouldn't pay much if anything), but the actual cost on the system.
Not to mention the defensive tone they take. "It's not fair that we are having to "massively overpay" (interesting phrasing) for what could have been handled by routine care".

The insurer takes the view that it's _their_ money, that they earned. When it's their customers that are paying, in the insurance pool, after, and only after, Anthem has already taken its cut.

Yes, it's not as black and white as that, and part of that administration cost is ensuring efficient use of the pool's money, but nonetheless, to read insurers defense of these policies, you'd think they were just trying to defend against lazy/greedy customers and ERs trying to milk them out of their money (and with good reason, because they absolutely do view it as their money once your premiums are paid, and the less they pay out, the less they get to keep - pop quiz, say a pool of 1M people pay $5,000/yr for insurance, with a pool of $5B for benefits, and an insurer takes 10% administration costs. Say this insurance pool only pays out $4B that year. What are the odds that the insurer pays out that $500M back to the pool, or as a dividend/rate reduction? Of course you know the answer. Of course the reality is that in theory such money could be kept in the pool "for a rainy day", leaving aside concepts of reinsurance, etc., but that often doesn't happen either, not when there's bonuses to be paid...).
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In the article (in an image) - states 4 to 10 hours: http://reneweconomy.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Screen...
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Utilities certainly will build a coal plant when coal subsidies are over 3% of global GDP. That's a huge figure, and hardly capitalist.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X1...
Fortunately there's enough demand from DIY and small-business effects makers that a good selection of different Hammond-like boxes is cheap and readily available online even as single units, at least if you're willing to drill your own apertures. Maybe USD6-USD12 or so per box isn't near the unit cost but it's low enough not to worry about until you need at least a few ten of them. If you can accept something lighter but less stompable you can also get similar plastic enclosures for even less from electronics suppliers.
In America a lot is being done to actively discourage anything but CNG and coal. Montana is literally crippling their economic growth to keep coal and CNG producers and burners happy and the US is raising tarrifs on solar panels and components to further damage a market that has already been under constant, pointless regulatory assault.
decreasing prices also reduce an investor's return

if prices keep dropping hugely year after year: investors aren't going to be very willing to risk their capital, as tomorrow's prices might not allow them to recoup their investment

(yeah, futures are the answer, but are presumably expensive if you're talking about decades)
We have a long ways to go.

I haven't read the book, but I strongly suspect that it doesn't suggest that we are finish, or that we rest on our laurels.

Feeling good about progress made thus far is an excellent way to provide the motivation necessary to push forward even harder.
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Ultimately I'm not too worried about this, simply because of how the money flows. Twitch is owned by Amazon. YouTube is owned by Google. If it ever comes down to copyright infringement, Google and Amazon both have billions of dollars to lose by not defending the creator from the lawsuit (they don't want a negative precedent affecting their bottom line). So both of these companies could profitably invest literally billions of dollars defending the creators. Thus, I'm not worried. Not only is fair use a reasonable argument, they can simply make the legal proceeding unprofitable for the game companies. Reputations are at stake as well, which is why you only see tiny companies you've never heard of DMCA-ing streams.

The game companies too have to like videos and streaming. I have only ever played games that I've heard about on YouTube and Twitch. I imagine I'm not the only one.

Disclaimer: I do not work for Google anymore, so this is even more of my own opinion than usual ;)
It just occurred to me that I could quit my job and lie around reading books all day and pretty much be in the same place as Bill Gates.
Just to clarify, the intended customer base was made up of various types of customers over different axes: big companies, small business, people that work in purchasing, people that recommend products, and so on.

It's useful, to me at least, to come up with personas that are based on clusters of customers (based on research) so that every design choice can be validated against the impact to them. Each persona may have a different goal or priority.

The other use is when thinking of scenarios for personalization, what data can be used to segment customers?

It might be useful to have a dashboard on the homepage showing the status of POs and bills for somebody in purchasing vs. showing previous items ordered to facilitate reordering for somebody else.
Let's not forget major wind power states literally making it illegal to compete with gas.
Or perhaps in some of the not so bad places...

https://cointelegraph.com/news/man-robbed-at-gunpoint-for-11...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/28/britains-first-bi...
Downvoted you for your edit about getting downvoted, the HN guidelines forbid commenting on voting
If you're an anthem customer you can't safely go to the ER to deal with unknown and possibly life threatening issues.

Saying Known issues are covered is meaningless.

The only response to this is to either sue them or switch coverage because they have failed to provide the services you have paid for.
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On internships, there are different contexts. One can clerk at a law firm during law school and be paid for it and a starting attorney at a firm is often arguably paid more than they are worth making them akin to an intern (the firm is investing in cultivating future attorneys for their firm). These are the opportunities I am suggesting are shrinking dramatically, but still exist. The intern context I’m speaking about is in the context of small firms such as my 6 partner transactional firm. California sets out a set of requirements for a unpaid internships to be legal. Essentially, it must be an educational experience where the intern is not really engaged in productive work for the benefit of the business. Our firm is not in the position to create an educational experience for an intern without tangible benefit to the firm. At the same time, the services they might provide to our firm are not important enough to us to merit paying them even the minimum wage (plus deal with other employer hassles and risk). Transactional work (e.g. negotiating a SaaS agreement) is particularly challenging in this regard because it doesn’t require much low-level work as compared to litigation or M&A work. All of that said, I’d be happy to mentor a new attorney in negotiating and drafting commercial agreements in exchange for them say, organizing my forms library. I believe that this would be a mutually beneficial arrangement and I don’t think there is much likelihood of abuse. New attorneys are capable of evaluating the benefits of this arrangement and leaving if it doesn’t work out. Entertainment is a peculiar example where there is unusual desperation to get into the industry and unusual concentration of power in individuals in the industry (and many egos and *holes). I’ve heard of production companies where the interns not only didn’t get paid, but had to pay the company e.g. $30k. I’m sure there are industries where these unpaid internship restrictions provide some important protections and I’ve no illusions about businesses’ capacity to take advantage of people, but in my context, I think it’s preventing what would be a useful arrangement to help address a critical need.
Many games are still CPU bound. May applications are still CPU bound. Notice all the threads lately about how applications have so much more latency now than 20-30 years ago? Virtualization does have impact, and games still max out the hardware available to them.

If this is 100% seamless virtualization that doesn't make anything noticeably slower, it might be acceptable for business users. I doubt it's going to have zero impact though...

I highly doubt it's going to fly for power-users and gamers.
You know how people can get irrationally invested in defending gaming consoles because they’ve bought one for $500?

Imagine what it feels like when you have tens of thousands of dollars invested in something where the flamewars might actually have a real effect on whether you ten-double your investment or not

I think it’s gonna get much uglier than this down the road
Those tariffs are brand new and in the US, but the data in TFA is fro last year in Australia.
The British philosopher John Gray is a good counterpart to Pinker's idea of progress. He focuses on the myths of progress, civilisation and freedom.

This is his response to Pinker: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/13/john-gray-stev... "A new orthodoxy, led by Pinker, holds that war and violence in the developed world are declining. The stats are misleading, argues Gray – and the idea of moral progress is wishful thinking and plain wrong"

One example: Torture was recently brought back in the leading liberal democracy of the world. Something that was once thought to have been made illegal everywhere was made legal (waterboarding) but not in a backward dictatorship, but in the vanguard of progress and liberty - the USA. Now, Obama made it illegal again (mostly), so that shows that you have to fight to keep your progressions. Progress does not occur automatically, and once achieved, it doesn't stay, Gray argues. I think Gray also argues that wars are mostly many and small proxy wars that occur all the time instead of larger grander affairs.

I think his current ideas on Freedom area also similar. We assume that western democracies are the best ever and getting more freer, but there are examples of a decline in freedoms, in a decline in enlightenment values etc. In a previous book, Gray even highlights that the Enlightenment itself was flawed (with leading figures being overtly racist to say the least) and that we shouldn't put a halo around it by default - rather that there is nuance, and that it's a fragile thing. He also points that whilst the Enlightenment and Freedom is an old idea, ISIS and Islamic terrorism is actually a modern thing. Modern != Progress.

He encourages us to assume that progress is fragile, is not automatically improving and that we need to be active in defending our freedoms, our progress and the things we take for granted.
One nitpick on a bullet point:

"The global average IQ score is rising by about 3 IQ points every decade. Kids’ brains are developing more fully thanks to improved nutrition and a cleaner environment. Pinker also credits more analytical thinking in and out of the classroom. Think about how many symbols you interpret every time you check your phone’s home screen or look at a subway map. Our world today encourages abstract thought from a young age, and it’s making us smarter."

This is called the Flynn effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

However, it's important to note that there is no consensus on why this effect is being observed. There are multiple theories and us having to interpret symbols on smartphones is just one of the proposed ones.
Here you go: http://course17.fast.ai . (It's also linked from the 2nd paragraph of the new course FYI.)

The old forum is still at the same place http://forums.fast.ai/c/part1
Modern C++ should be safer. If you keep dynamic memory allocation to a minimum, use the STL heavily and are OK with lots of copying then it's harder to screw up because there's not much manual freeing of stuff and buffer sizes are systematically checked.

Of course if you're going to leave C, why not use real time Java or some other safer language.... C++ doesn't seem like a very ambitious sort of upgrade.
Personally I'd really love to move off of Windows, but I've never had this supposedly "good" experience with linux that people talk about. Everything is overly complicated and inflexible unless you want to strip it down to the kernel and start over, which is probably why there's a thousand distros out there.
Is it possible to extend this to relevance logic?
For future reference: https://github.com/developit/greenlet/blob/8f51450aab0e1f988...

(The issues that were discussed in this thread had been resolved by the time I wrote this comment, and so the link above pointed to the wrong commit.)
> I've read the paper.

OK, the content is essentially the same.

> Or maybe I'm missing your point completely.

Yep, I'm pretty sure that's the case. You should probably re-read section 3.
Someone I know was recently in the hospital for heart surgery. Granted, it’s more involved than a “simple” ER visit, but the total time for the operation was ~7 hours with 4 days of in-hospital recovery after. Total cost: $260k

If you look at the per-hour breakdown it’s insane, even when you consider doctors making $500k+/yr . Consider also the actual hours in contact with a surgeon or doctor vs most of the time that was spent laying in their bed.

I also wanted to note that in every instance I’ve seen where the possibility of insurance is involved, medical care providers will give you a no-questions-asked “cash discount” of 30-40% (typically) just because you’re not the insurance. I basically read this as “we charge them more because we can”.

Also in the US: http://mashable.com/2017/12/14/study-shows-people-call-uber-...
Its agitprop but the truth is not so ridiculous.

The marketing was terrible, urgent care isn't just for coughs and colds, its its pretty much for anytime you're not actively bleeding or can arrive in something other than an ambulance.

"they’ll have to force me into an ambulance to go to the emergency room"

I'm not seeing the tragedy in that, beyond the horrible marketing rollout. She would have gotten the same care a lot cheaper at urgent care. Where I live its merely a different floor of the hospital, which emphasizes the accounting tricks nature of the situation, a chest xray from urgent care is like $300 but from ER is $3000 for magic accounting reasons. There are no uninsured people in urgent care, which ironically means faster service unless you're so sick you scare the ER nurses, which means you're probably not even conscious.

The problem with the ER is bifurcation of tasks. On one hand, infinite labor and capital to save trauma victims, gunshot wounds, car accidents, industrial accidents. That's gonna be expensive, but if you lost a leg in a horrible accident they can probably save your life. And on the other hand the ER is the free clinic for uninsured coughs and colds and aches and pains, so even more money needs to be dropped on triage and the inevitable legal bills when triage is messed up. A lot of problems with the system could be fixed by separating the "trauma clinic" from the "free clinic" departments. Its very expensive to have the same department handle both gunshot wounds and uninsured painkiller pill addicts.
It's too bad you hadn't read the article which deliberately mentions this...
It doesn't cost $12k. The insurance company likely ended up paying less than half that amount.
Nuclear (from what I understand) usually has both far higher bid/pitched costs, plus an agreement to pay those over a longer period. Plus they usually come with finance or arranged finance.

The risk is in the building, but once built they are (in theory) a cash cow. But govt seem to find all sorts of ways to subsidise them - offering the clean up etc. P
I'm unclear on what the woman should have done if not go to the ER? Had she tried contacting her doctor first or did they immediately go to the ER? What did the insurance company claim she should have done when experiencing severe abdominal pain, take two aspirin? If it had been appendicitis, would that have warranted an ER visit? Did they expect she would be able to distinguish between the two? And as others have asked, how did this visit cost 12 grand?
I get the benefits of namespacing. I'm just not sure making it mandatory solves any issues. For example, what's stopping someone from publishing `@developit/greenlet` or `@greenlet/greenlet` without owning the respective org/username in github?
That's a triage problem, not a "user" problem.

They're fun and costly ambulance rides up until that hidden blood clot goes unnoticed.