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I live in England. My health care is free at the point of delivery.

I have no idea what it costs.

The health care professionals treating me tend not to have any idea what it costs either.

Some accountant somewhere in the Trust will know, and will bill the appropriate code to the Clinical Commissioning Group.

But if you compare like for like treatment in England and the US you'll find the cost to NHS England is far lower than the prices charged in the US.
How much is it from our own households and silverware?
What are you going to do, pre-negotiate rates for every possible medical procedure you might ever need?

Because if you wait until you need it, it's going to be a pretty bad time to negotiate.
Shall we automatically turn off televisions and restrict the pounds per person garbage food sold each month to protect people from themselves as well? Oh, I know, let's have a new tax-funded agency that is constantly going in and out of people's homes ensuring that only those couples financially capable of raising a child are having unprotected sex.
Past performance is not indicative of future returns. We will never again have the same climate for BTC as we had. It is absolutely "wild" for you to treat strong future BTC growth as a foregone conclusion.
> Yet Comey approved surveillance on the Trump team based on that document.

The surveillance started long before that dossier was put together. So it couldn't be based on the not-yet-compiled document regardless of what this document claims.
Maybe if you are doing deprecated GL_BEGIN stuff -- but that is ridiculously inefficient even in languages with native bindings!

I don't see how FFI overhed would be a big deal for modern GL code. Most of the bindings happen only once. Then, sure, you update some buffers and ask the shaders to draw, but the buffer updates are likely limited by available bandwidth between primary memory and GPU, and the actual drawing is done in-GPU by shaders -- the single FFI call to start that process does not seem like a big deal in comparison.
I see a possible problem with that statement: starting from a poorly secured sellers site, users can't really be sure if he ends up on the real PayPal page anyway.
Can you give me some more info on this? My understanding is that medicare does less administrative work, and that might have some other consequences like they always pay out or never negotiate down, but how is it subsidized?

Bear in mind the opposite is definitely true as well: older patients are way more expensive than young ones, so their actually healthcare spending per patient has to be higher.
Don’t hold your breath. The zircon API isn’t innovative in any modern sense. Additionally it’s bloated and not clean like L4. It’s just in house IP for Google.

(HN won’t let me directly reply to the comment below so here it is:

Nothing in zircon doesn’t already exist on Linux or any other modern kernel. Additionally it has bloat, like 3 distinct IPC mechanisms.

Even further, if it ends up being any technical person’s main driving OS it will surely sport a POSIX API and at that point it’s just another implementation of POSIX with similar a security model.)
Exactly this. And I'd add that because we are now looking for tiny incremental improvements (most of the big, obvious things have been addressed already), we're going to need some data in the areas we're looking to improve.
Most consumer-grade gear can easily handle two-sided NAT transversal with merely a STUN server (no UPnP or relaying required).
and one that hasn't been terribly successful in a lot of areas! It's often sold as almost a software/business consulting effort, which requires a ton of money and time to get up and running

MD Anderson Cancer Center wasted $62 million on it: https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2017/02/md-anderson-cancer-...
You might be interested in this article that researches content on HackerNews to answer your question:

https://medium.com/msing051/what-is-the-best-time-to-post-to...
Any idea why the AI in your minesweeper sometimes doesn't declare it to be a local consideration that the one uncleared square adjacent to a 1 marker must be a mine? It's a funny hole in the final version of the game. I can't characterize exactly when it happens, but it seems related to cases when the seven non-mine revealed squares around the 1 have numbers in them.

My only other complaint is that it sometimes tries far too hard to derive facts in cases where a higher-level consideration makes it obvious there are none to be found. Try starting by clicking on 6 wildly disconnected locations, and getting a number on all of them. Requesting help at that point is very, very slow.

Regardless, this is a lot of fun, and actually requires some new reasoning. Most minesweeper variants just use the same set of 10 rules I memorized 20 years ago. It's nice to stretch instead.
It's not very hard to define "worse outcomes"... the US trails other developed nations in just about every wide-reaching healthcare metric at this point. If you have counter-examples, feel free to raise them.

> In other words, the system complains that people don't do something that the system prevents them from doing.

Uh, this has nothing to do with the system, and mostly everything to do with behavioral economics and risk pooling. People are poor at investing in preventative care, because the benefit is extremely hard to perceive at the individual level. And they over-invest in end of life care, because, well, they don't want to die. That's not the result of "the system", that's human nature. Attempting to build a healthcare system on how we "should" act instead of how we actually do isn't a plan.
Sorry that you haven't had a productive discussion with others regarding this.

I just remembered that I have indeed heard about biofilms and their ability to prevent antibiotic activity. However, I have only heard about them in the context of secretions by specific kinda of bacteria (e.g. pseudomonas aeruginosa) that form this wall around foreign objects preventing the efficacy of antibiotics. It is why we have to change out certain catheters after a specified amount of time.
> I'm not sure I have an attractive offer as I'm asking strangers for help without really offering anything.

Uh, fix your attitude first. You have technical skills that you feel may apply to their area. You have time, interest, and inclination to figure out how to make that work. You want to tailor a solution to their company's specific problem, or at least the problems you uncover in anyone who will discuss them with you. (This is as opposed to selling some one-size-fits-all type of thing, or telling them what they need.)

All of that has value, and that's the value you're offering. Prove it by doing what research you can on their company's problem, and lead with that. Sure, you don't know that what you're thinking actually makes sense and would be of use to them. And given that you're an outsider, it honestly probably won't. But having the conversation you're trying to have is a way to make it make sense.
my guess, hodlers aren't new purchasers ... they already bought, and have just watched the value skyrocket. even after this recent depreciation... we're still considerably above where we were 12 months ago.
> You're right. IF the gatekeeper (read: primary care physician) prescribes the drugs, they are cheap or free.

I've been there as well.

Physicians typically have a sliding scale options and payment plans. It is not uncommon for docs to fudge billing codes, give out copious amount of free "samples," and see patients after hours to help patients afford care. They're not all greedy gatekeepers. There are also free clinics for the uninsured.

The best thing is to have a good relationship with a PCP who will pull strings for you. Most people aren't aware what their actual options are, which is a problem that needs to be addressed. The system is broken and that also desperately needs to be addressed. But it's not a straight up binary choice between $300 vs self-treating with fish antibiotics.
Garbage article with no new information, regurgitating random bits of English-language blog posts about the app, with no "how".
Random subjective opinion presented as objective truth!
Every time I see websdr.org mentioned, I supply this caution:

I just want to caution folks about visiting this site. You could find yourself getting sucked into a years-long obsession with RF and software defined radios. Pretty soon you'll have dozens of RTL SDRs strewn about your desk, coax tumbleweed snaring your feet and six iterations of a quarter-wave ground plane that still don't work quite as well as the first one you ever built.
There will be a hollywood version of do your own story books of course.
Go google "history of food safety" yourself. C'mon.
Something like OpenWRT or buildroot can fit into 8 MiB easy. These people have an actual reason to make small "containers" because flash is a big part of the BoM cost and adds up when you are shipping many thousands.
The eternal human obsession with death explains our intense interest in the experiences that come as close to it as possible. I also think it's obvious that, even if death "feels like" something, these experiences are probably nothing like it. There's a huge difference between rotting in the ground and having your heart stop for a minute.

One of my relatives had a near-death experience quite a long time ago. While he was unconscious, he says he met Jesus, who offered him the choice to rise to Heaven then and there, or stay behind with his children. He chose the latter and (somewhat miraculously, actually) recovered and is still alive today. It probably goes without saying that he's a devout Christian. Now, I don't believe he actually met Jesus, but I do believe that's what he experienced. It's interesting, and somewhat comforting, that the brain can have these intensely emotional and personally meaningful experiences in the moments before death. Maybe his "choice" even had some bearing on his recovery.
How so? Isn't sitting still for 9h/day way less healthy than playing professional sport?
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Hmm... this contradicts everything everyone else said in this thread. I mean, everyone says that if you have insurance you have no chance of going bankrupt but it is not enough, you have to be insured for enough money in a first place, which I think might not be possible even for non-poor people and that defeats the purpose. And it's very scam prone...
Of course! The cutoff is about a year, as the HN FAQ says: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

If the repost weren't legit, we'd mark it as a dupe. The link to a previous discussion is because readers like those. Recent explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16250070
InMails have a notoriously low open rate.

But once you've got an individuals profile details; it's relatively straight forward to reach them via a work address.
Fair point @mattbillenstein.

The point we were trying to make was that we were serving queries with low latencies from disk in a cloud environment, where folks have told us the random read latencies are higher (presumably due to multi-tenancy and virtualization).

We had run this experiment at the request of a customer who had benchmarked a number of systems and shared this concern about higher latencies especially when having to read from disk. They were very happy to see this result (pleasantly surprised even), because performance in cloud environments seems to be an issue for multiple people. So sharing widely.

BTW, we did some performance analysis/benchmarks against Cassandra here: https://blog.yugabyte.com/building-a-strongly-consistent-cas...
Don't lump me in with the cryptocurrency maniacs. Most software engineers also see blockchain as useless when applied to the domains you listed.
It's amazing how a little bit of light insider trading can trump all the algorithms...
Yeah, it's wonderful how you can make it in such a system. Just imagine - a self-employed blue-collar worker slips with his car on a wet road. He loses his wife, his unborn child and his leg. He sells his house to pay the bills of the hospital and the mortician. His parents also pay some bills because he still had not enough. And then after a year or so on the street somebody tells him how negotiable these bills were. The American dream...
And too bad so sad for the rest of the world that can't operate there! Our only place in the market is to buy cheap manufactured goods :)
>>Should we think of this “piscifact” as some great achievement of puffer fish civilization, that should be celebrated throughout the solar system?

Well I for one am very proud of that little pufferfish and wish him the best and would definitely put it on the fridge if iwashis mother.

(It's a thing male pufferfish do to attract a mate, I'm not just using 'him' as generic pronoun, also pufferfish are adorable and super cool and you should fall down the Wikipedia hole if you have an hour)
Just do a netboot with a preseed file (have your own local cache - either with apt-cacher or something more independent)

Our server preseed has the following line

d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server build-essential iperf htop screen sysstat vim-nox

And a couple of internal packages which have their own dependencies (including lldp, snmpd etc) which do a variety of things including user management (active directory based), automatic registration into our asset database and monitoring systems
(2017), but still good.
See? That's the problem. Two different bindings recommended already. Better than 6 tbh, i might look at those 2.

And to the twitch guy I'm sorry, I'm old enough to prefer written documentation :)
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Nah, writing a kernel in modern C++ or Rust is pretty rad. Higher level abstractions can be designed to avoid bugs (As evidenced by the explosion of macros in the Linux code base). Check out L4Ka::Pistachio https://github.com/l4ka/pistachio
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Right, but don't you think there should be SOME limits on what is covered? I don't think we should be paying $10,000 for someone to get a homeopathic treatment.

There has to be SOME process for determining if something should be covered, otherwise you will have SO MUCH fraud, as people make fake 'experimental' treatments and get the insurance to pay for it.
Wonderful, I've always hated how much crap a default Ubuntu install comes with. 10% idle CPU usage just after OS install? Ewww.
How many of the core devs don't work for Google? How much of the overall project direction is decided by people who have nothing to do with Google?

Saying "it's open, so they don't really control it" is like saying Linus doesn't have control of the Linux kernel.

Maybe google will figure out how to make an Android style play and hold this OS hostage by withholding their services.

> If anything, this will result in less power over the Linux kernel for Google. It seems like that’s something you’d appreciate.

Yes.
Great points, thank you for sharing. Personally though, I have a few projects that are very well scoped that I redo over once in a while and it was interesting to experiment with different approaches on a project you know well.
But its worse than developed countries healthcare in terms of cost. That has to be an indicative that the private vs public debate is a red herring, something else is making it expensive.
I didn't claim anything of the sort. I was just saying the current system is full of moral hazards and hardly market based.
You mean just like Android does with Chrome? How hard is that? Why is this even worthy of debate? The browser is an application, not a system resource. To commingle the two makes no sense.

Unless you think it's worth saving a few mbs of storage to have two instances for security and stability??
I don't think the damage there is as immediate as NFL players being basically legally incompetent and unable to take conscious decisions. It's probably more likely that they have no experience of managing a budget, saving for long term and planning their future - a trait shared by many people who never ever put a foot on a football field. And when you get $ton-of-money and have no experience in managing your finances, pretty soon you're broke. Look up the statistics of the gold rushes - a lot of people coming into sudden wealth got broke pretty soon, and didn't need any hitting on the head for that to happen. The percentage of people that got wealthy and were able to keep it long term is depressingly low.
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Yeah, yeah, I know the hype. It's just another grid-based layout system.

Now if it was a full constraint system, that would be more impressive.
I don’t know what health insurance plan you have, but most (even decent) plans now have relatively high deductibles. My BCBS family plan has $6000/yr deductible before anything gets covered. I doubt that I’m an outlier, and this effectively means many Americans are already paying for non-emergency care as you propose. Prices and premiums still suck. So what’s the actual proposal here?
debian does that too
Question: how far away is this from a "person swapping" GAN video synthesis kind of application?
Of course, any time you have a so-called negotiation between partied with severely different bargaining power, it will be a race to the bottom to the detriment of the powerless party. This is why we need regulations, OSHA, unions, consumer protection laws, product safety rules, etc.
It's a little harder perhaps for Tim Cook to finagle his state of residency compared to a person that travels for a living. Most of these people are not paying NYC income tax. In fact, I'd be surprised if they couldn't establish residency in states without an income tax at all. This 'pro sports tax advice' site specifically and vaguely hints at controlling your state of residency. http://www.prosportstax.com/Images/Attachments/rn4b61f78e0a8...

Also worth noting the NFL has a 2:1 match up to $10k/yr. So every year you put $10k into your NFL 401k the NFL gives you $20k in tax free income.

A quick google search didn't give me a good indication of what the royalties are to low end pro athletes. I would not be surprised if the after tax on those is greater than the taxes on their traditional income.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16281986
$300? I can believe that. It is a fool's wager to ever underestimate what could be charged for the most mundane things at a hospital.

OK, two examples of how this could happen:

A few years ago I was charged $500 for a 1 meter length of IV tubing to connect a saline bag to my IV line. That was the Obamacare "negotiated price" -- it was substantially higher before this "negotiation" though I don't recall precisely, I remember thinking I don't spend that much on food for a month.

When my daughter was young, we took her to the ER due to a particularly severe sore throat. A nurse sweetly asked my daughter if she was thirsty (yes). Nurse went to the soda machine across the hall, selected a ginger ale, poured a bit of it into a small paper cup (disposing of 2/3rds of the drink) and handed it to my daughter. We got the bill a month later. Line item "Glucose - $30"

Medical care is completely, utterly broken in the USA. For those who doubt, just try asking what something will cost before it happens. I'll leave you to discover the punch line for yourself.
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> Not OP but the reason I dislike Rust for OS/kernel development is that it's just too damn complicated

isn't?

I'm also not sure why stating my opinion is a problem. If you can't handle someone not bother to pussyfoot around and preface any statement with an "IMO" disclaimer, that seems like your problem.
Yeahhhh not on HN. People here are very hyped by lab meat and reversing climate change thanks to science and technology, so any change of diet is not necessary. Especially since so many people here are convinced by keto diets, whic relies heavily on animal protein.
>See? That's the problem. Two different bindings recommended already.

You were recommended one binding for SDL and one for GL. Obviously they're different.
I am glad I read this just now, I was jumping from hoop to hoop. and not only hoops but craft paradigms, reminds me of the Fred Brooks idea "There is no silver bullet".

Brooks argues that "there is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude [tenfold] improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity." He also states that "we cannot expect ever to see two-fold gains every two years" in software development, as there is in hardware development (Moore's law)

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> My idea is to cold email people and ask for their time.

Understand that emails are easy to ignore. The Old School phone call is still a remarkable tool. They need to HEAR your voice. I'm a real guy, reaching out on a professional networking basis. I promise to be brief. Your advice and perspective would mean a lot.

Have some rock-solid questions ready. And be sure to ask if there's anyway you could return the favor and help them?
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> The survival rates for cancer in the UK are dramatically lower than they are in the US.

Please can you provide sources?

Here's a US cancer doctor who says it's a bit more complicated than that.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/06/13/why-the-us-has...

> The United States has better survival statistics compared to most other countries. Whether this is simply because of better cancer treatment is arguable.
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It's stupid that you've been downvoted. It is so tiresome to see people ask such useless questions like "what? you want to use this thing in some way that my tiny brain cannot envision? what is this madness?"
Considering how damaging it is on soils fauna, I wouldn't be so sure.
To take your comment a little deeper despite me knowing you are being facetious, I think that's exactly it: the algorithms cannot communicate to facilitate these types of advantages. They cannot, in essence, be human.

In a world ran and dominated by humans, there will always be an inherent advantage to being part of the race that creates the game. If algorithms perfect a system in such a way that there stands no gain to be made by those at the top, people will simply create a new game to play.
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Presumably, not every person who holds bitcoin is doing so to get rich.
There are, but they don't work well. Like darktable.

Out of all the photo library management apps, apple photos is by far the most performant.