skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good counter argument, although as I see it there are assumptions here that are hard to test.

You started with "I think that single payer is a great plan for a country. I don't think its cost-saving merits would be evident in a single-state experiment." I completely agree that the scale is an important part of how well one could evaluate the success. If you read reference #2 in my comment you saw that Calfornia's GDP is slightly larger than that of France, and France has a universal health care system[1]. My thought is that if it was good enough for an economy like France then California is a large enough test case. I could not make such a case for Wyoming for example.

The argument that 'it would be a magnet, and all these high cost patients would move here' has intuitive appeal but I struggle with it. Here are my challenges with that sort of rebuttal, first I would like to understand better how France deals with the situation given that migration around the EU is fairly easy, and by some accounts France has the best health care, are they over burdened by the high cost cases flooding in? Also there are plenty of reasons to want to live in California but the high cost of living (excluding health care) has been a disincentive for many. As I see it, the set of people who would move to California, for the health care, would be that population who could otherwise afford the cost of living, or by covering their medical costs could now afford the cost of living. And I wonder how big a group that is relative to the overall existing population. I also assume that someone would rather live in a home and pay for health care than be homeless in California and get free health care. There is also the 'reverse' effect where people who are currently bankrupt/underwater and already live in California, becoming productive again after the burden of health care was removed. So what is the net change?

There is also a big fuzzing effect on the healthcare debate which conflates the cost of providing medical services and the cost of insurance. I am convinced by the evidence of concierge doctors and all cash procedures that are significantly less expensive than the 'advertised' or 'billed' prices for procedures, that a form of capture has occurred whereby the medical services providers and the medical insurance providers are colluding (possibly inadvertently) to maximize those costs in order to maximize the transfer of money from patients/businesses into their possession. And while I recognize that state efforts to minimize that (a state insurance commissioner who oversees and regulates that capture) have not been as successful as I would like, I am not convinced that the problem isn't solvable. After all, places like France solved it for some definition of solved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_France
System.Data.Odbc?
https://www.nuget.org/packages/System.Data.Odbc/
High rates of diabetes, hypertension found in India
Is lazy loading really that widely used? I used it once and it led to all sorts of issues unless I managed everything myself. I much prefer to have it off and rely on explicitly getting what I need.
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Reason why I wrote in moderation, e.g. 100% tax is not moderation and therefore theft.

Intent here was to take control over the ownership of the companies, that would have been same as 100% tax, they where just using a more complicated scheme but the end result would been the same.
> It is, and they are. You may end up living on the street if you don't work, but the choice is 100% yours.

"Be homeless or work" is not a choice. Just like "Give me the money or I'll shoot you" is not a choice.

> The fire department entered into a contract with their coverage area, bought and paid for in advance by the people they are covering.

Just like the surgeons, at the hospital. Now you're finally understanding it.

> This frequently happens, especially with surgeons.

Wow, really? I've never heard of it happening. At least, not within the civilized countries in the EU (As opposed to uncivilized America).
Probably something more architecturally sound for future platforms in augmented and virtual reality among other things. One of the biggest issues with Android is managing permissions for apps to system resources. Proper sandboxing of 3rd party code is a big deal, especially if the next generation experiences are so much more immersive.
What was the growth rate Obama achieved?
>But who these men have become is not who they are, and I write that with conviction. The symptoms they display are beyond their control and occur through no fault of their own. These men chose football, but they didn’t choose brain damage.

Completely true, and the previous generation of players rightly deserves compensation for being lied to by the NFL. They didn't know the devil's bargain they were striking. But the next generation? The ones who do now know?

Muhammand Ali was suffering from severe brain damage as early as 29, but kept boxing anyway because he was addicted to the fame and the glory. He'd come out of a match slurring his words and struggling to maintain a normal stride, yet would still deny any possibility of his brain being damaged by all the fighting. He was too tough, he was too fast, he was too macho. Until he wasn't, and then it was too late. This all coming after nearly a century of research showing the degenerative effects of boxing on the human mind.

Some jobs simply carry with them the understanding you are going to be "used up" by participating. Wrestlers, boxers, hockey players, and now footballers. Some men are willing to destroy themselves in pursuit of wealth and fame, and it's difficult to say it's our job as a society to overrule their choices about their own bodies.

However, I do think pop culture should try to stop downplaying the effects of this kind of stuff. Super heroes, for example, send the message to kids that you can engage in violence altercations for decades, and the only negative impacts will be physical (if they exist at all). I laughed out loud during TKDR when Batman's only injury from all his fighting is a bum knee and a few scars - his brain should be mush, are you kidding me?
Public sentiment has turned at this point. Tech companies are no longer the intrepid, utopic little guy fighting the good fight -- they are the incumbents.

I would bet serious money that one of the hallmarks of the next presidential election is regulation of big tech. The backlash is building. That wave will have some mainstream politicians calling to break up big tech.
For those of us around when the optic nerve implants are available, it's going to be a wild time.

You'll be able to experience your own subjective reality, completely differently from anyone else.

Want to replace the grocery store with a Minecraft dungeon? Sure! Want to see dragons soaring in the sky above? Sure! Want to pretend your self-driving motorcycle is a speeder bike from Star Wars? Sure!
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Amen. I drank from a "clean" mountain stream next to my campsite on a weekend trip, then the next day I noticed there was dead mouse upstream.

Don't know if the dead mouse was the direct cause or not, but after returning home I had Giardia and needed strong drugs to recover, thankfully it wasn't a week-long trip.
> A poor person today lives better than a king of old.

This is dangerous bullshit. A poor person who spends their life working long hours on menial work where they have no agency is not better off than medieval nobility just because they have cheap entertainment available.

A lot of "poor people" stress about providing enough food for their families or losing their homes. Not something that nobility ever had to worry about.

A lot of people today live better than medieval kings; you and I probably do. But our society does a shitty job of distributing the bounties of technological miracles, except in superficial ways.
How ingenuous of you is it not to suggest that the Republican memo wait so that both can be released at the same time. Also, its true that there are Republicans on the committee that don't want to see the Dem's memo released at all!
Don't cross that bridge, the engineer who designed it may have made a mistake in their calculations. Stay home, don't go anywhere.
Unless contaminated chemically, e.g. by heavy metals. Most portable filters do not protect against these though.
There is a link and a problem between Rugby and CTE, but nothing like football because heavy head-first hits aren't a feature of rugby.

One feature that makes a difference is the American football system of downs: the next play begins where the last play ended, to the inch, and on many plays there is a nonlinear point. One inch short of a first down is vastly better for the defenders than just making it. In rugby someone taking another foot or two to go down isn't going to hurt the outcome the way it can in football. The goal in football is to stop the person in as little space as possible, which means maximizing the deceleration and thus the impact to the brain.

With the NFL, they also spent a decade and a half purposefully covering the link up and publishing biased science trying to obscure the link, so there is scandal on top of the horrors of the physical consequences.
I think most routers set themselves as the DNS server, so NAT is not in effect (the computer only sends the request to a local address) unless you define a custom DNS server, which isn't common for home users.

That said, I've never seen a router that didn't allow UDP packets to flow back to the origin client.
I found this post (not by an economist, mind you, but by a psychiatrist who also writes about economics and politics a lot) helpful in thinking about this "cost disease" that afflicts healthcare and many other industries.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-...
First of all, why does it need to? It's so tiring when a solution is thrown out just because it doesn't solve everything. A very common argument against vegans is "well, animals (like rats, mice) are still (accidentally) killed in harvesting grains". Yeah, so? That could be prevented with better care harvesting, and also not eating animal products is a massive reduction already vs. the amount of animals kill from grain harvesting.
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That was his image, he and his family owns a company in the tax haven that is the Netherland Antilles, which on a yearly basis receives 3% of the total turnover of IKEA in a brand name licensing deal.
I believe the kernel is based on L4, which has at least one bug-free implementation[1].

1: http://sel4.systems/
> If you use this deepfake technology and stick an 18 year old's face on a porn video it is legal but if you do the same thing with a 17 year old it isn't. The production of those two videos is the same. The only difference is the potential victim

For reference, artificially created child porn (e.g. in mangas, or in other ways created) is in a legal grey zone in many areas, including Japan and Germany. It is absolutely illegal in other, e.g. Sweden.
"Investors".
A tax would go to the state, and then it would be used to build roads and schools.

This is theft. It goes into the pockets of the parasites who are benefitting from this convoluted system.
Not really true for Android as there are alternative ways to distribute Android apps in the form of alternative app repositories like FDroid, Aptoide, Amazon. It is also
possible to sideload apk's without the need for 'rooting', this in contrast to iOS.
Well that would match up, apparently the Elven city was in Guatemala (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42916261)
The better link for Americans is here on National Geographic: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/maya-laser-lidar... It lists a special including the Lidar discoveries on Feb 6 on National Geographic.
So what? I shouldn't eat anything? I mean yeah, I could try that. But what is your point, that nothing should be done because it's useless to do anything?
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Someone I know to immigrated from a different country 20+ years ago, and has never been back, was able to see his sister's new house via Street view. :)
I've had no issues with iMessage on OS X. I do however get the stupid bug of having replies on top of my messages on my iPhone.
> If someone is going to starve to death, do they have the right to demand food? Society says you do, and you do it by asking the state to help with food / benefits.

I dont think people can enter your property and take food from your fridge to satisfy their need. There is no right to food, lets not forget America also has a big issue in kids malnutrition. That is what it is today.

The problem you will always run into is that you cant use the state to give food to some without taking something else from someone else. And because the means are force, the results become quickly irrelevant. You cant get good results through bad means. If you force people to provide healthcare and not get reimbursed for it, they will not do it, or they will do as minimum as possible and litigate as much as possible. So then the state spends money fighting, and people spend money fighting the state. The state can be more efficient on many things, and its worth looking at it: but it is not efficient in healthcare, not particularly so. And it has created most of the cost drivers. That is a fact, not an opinion.

Force is not the way to get costs down, its the way to get something done at any cost.
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You're one of the few people who seem to actually understand this.

By comparison, a 4-year degree is probably worth more in the long-term than those NFL earnings. So the players are actually being better compensated in college than the NFL.

Edit:

The median salary for an NFL player is about $770K and most players are out of the league in under 3 years.

https://www.si.com/nfl/2016/03/01/nfl-careers-shortened-two-...

http://blog.futureadvisor.com/nfl-players-must-go-long-on-re...
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Looks like no, no substantive improvement in 1.9
It certainly sounds like a sweatshop in the descriptions I've heard from friends who work there, or have worked there in the past, compared to the experiences I and others have had in other large tech companies. I can only think of three people I know who have stuck it out at Amazon for more than two years. The egregiously back-loaded vesting structure is clearly built around the expectation of a high attrition rate, so I believe that the meat-grinder effect exists by design and not merely incompetence.
I re-tested with 1.9 and got:

# Go 500000000 in 53058 ms

# C 500000000 in 1989 ms
You're just evading my point. Implicitely or explicitely you must have a _working_ hypothesis. When you make decisions, you must assume one or the other.
probably their package "universe" ;)
Selective disclosure? You mean that they should have also mentioned that he walked little old ladies across the street, so as to more accurately portray his character? All that's required to establish guilt is to the disclose the facts surrounding the alleged illegal activity. As long as these statements are truly facts, then guilt has been established. Additional statements beyond that don't matter much.

An FBI official's political beliefs do not constitute a conflict of interest. If that were true, why should the Special Counsel (Mueller) be allowed to be a Republican? Are we supposed to be erring on the side of the accused (Trump)?
I've seen both sides.

If you're healthy and you make a lot of money, America is a great place.

It's a very unforgiving place to be poor and sick, however. When you fall, you go all the way down to the bottom. If you can't make money, you're worthless.
You know what hostile design is? It's the design of sites like hackernoon and others built with its engine. 40% of vertical space is consumed by useless menus. I usually remove them using "inspect element" feature of chrome or Firefox. So I could read articles with comfort. I am not mentioning useless social networks menu, since they are taking horizonal space, but sometime I remove then also.
> The way you describe a footer makes it sound like the last block of text of any article (being at the bottom) is by definition the footer. Which is of course not the case: it is used for certain types of content.

That's a fair point. Since, historically, the convention has already been established that the stuff we put at the bottom of the page in a footer tends to be stuff about "X", we can now say with some confidence that "footer" has the semantic "about X".

> They are not just literally aside the regular flow of the document (actually, about that, see the next paragraph), the type of content in them is different - it is reserved for tangential stuff like jokes or deeper information that would interrupt the pacing of the main narrative.

Right, they are both. They are physically off to the side because they are unnecessary for the main line of the narrative. The form and the function are in harmony (as they should be!).

"Aside" is another funny word because it's also a spatial word. I'm not sure how it entered use for print. I could see it being simply because the text is to the side.

But "aside" also means an "an utterance not meant to be heard by someone; especially : an actor's speech heard by the audience but supposedly not by other characters". That conjures up a delightful image for me of an actor literally stepping to the side, leaning towards the audience and muttering a joke to them. That's the picture I always have in mind with the asides in my book.

I could see it entering print from that etymology too.

> I bought the epub version when it came out, and although it was a symbolic purchase (I had read the whole thing already as you wrote it), I somewhat regret the format choice due to the sorry state of epub readers.

I really appreciate you buying a copy! I agree, ePUB is about the worst format. But it works on eReaders, which is nice. If you aren't limited to one of those devices, the PDF or web version is probably better. If you'd like me to send you the PDF version, email me and I'd be happy to hook you up.
Are nation states still valid in the Internet age?
The Internet has somewhat broken down borders, especially in things like e-commerce. There are many more examples. So do we still need governance in the form of nation states?
If he believed that his foundation was better suited to appropriate that money than the government, then avoiding taxes is a rational thing to do, and doesn't necessarily mean that their claim about his not caring about the money is false.
"Deep Voice 2 can learn from hundreds of voices and imitate them perfectly. Unlike traditional systems, which need dozens of hours of audio from a single speaker, Deep Voice 2 can learn from hundreds of unique voices from less than half an hour of data per speaker, while achieving high audio quality." - http://research.baidu.com/deep-voice-2-multi-speaker-neural-...

Now imagine that with Tacotron quality, and you'll get that "strange" effect with anyone, meeting their vocal clone.

This is still text-to-speech, so it's not live-copying your intonation, but you could easily imagine a seq2seq network designed to do so.
Thanks for your response, Yev.

Hope you I didn't offend you, or anyone at Backblaze, by certain words in my comments. Didn't mean to. Was just being casual and looks like I shouldn't have. Sorry about that.

Will be eagerly waiting for "2". Thanks again.
As a corroborating fact, there has already been efforts to ship chronically homeless people off to other jurisdictions, since a bus ticket is cheaper to provide than a psych hospital stay. And a good number of the homeless in San Francisco are from elsewhere.
I actually also implemented seam carving in JS a while ago with a live demo in the browser http://davidalbertoadler.com/projects/seam-carving-js/ https://github.com/mfbx9da4/seam-carving-js
It's how people deal with video (adaptive bitrate streaming). It also used to be how people dealt with images in the dark days of content rewriting middleboxes. So it's not that nobody's thought about the idea: it's that it's way harder to do once it's a question of really changing behavior rather than just being more aggressive with a quality/size trade-off knob.

Also, mobile friendly versions of sites are at least as much about the user interface and rendering speed as about reducing bandwidth usage.
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> is there a concise spreadsheet to show the state-of-the-art

doubtful imo. the state of the art is rapidly changing, and plenty of things are happening behind closed doors.

clinicaltrials.gov is your best bet but the expected success rates is not something anyone would willingly have as public information.
With both the screen brightness and the volume I change them with quick taps to the keys, repeated if necessary. And for whatever reason, they were never hard for me to locate. I'd guess that's partly because they're just 1-2 keys in on both sides. I also suspect peripheral vision helps... I can't "read" symbols on keys (or a touchbar) with PV, but I can absolutely perceive key shapes and so without changing focus I know where they are.

Once I get farther into the row of function keys, I don't have as much of a memory for them. I'd guess that's at least partly because I don't use the key backlight and playback controls as much (auto key backlighting works very well for me, to the point where I almost never adjust it manually, and the playback controls don't work with much software other than iTunes which I've been avoiding for years now). Maybe mostly that, as in the past I've definitely had a "tap without looking" relationship with F5 for reload (now apparently mentally mapped to cmd-R).

"Having a dedicated position to change often-changing settings is more useful" is pretty much the whole point of function keys, except they do a better job of it than the touchbar does, and quite likely a better job than the touchbar can.
No one is saying that Amazon warehouse workers should become fabulously wealthy for their tiny contribution to the company's rise. Just that Amazon is fabulously successful and could afford to not treat their workers so badly.
I am not even talking about the problem with the practice itself. I am talking about the culture that caused the practice in the first place.
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One of the bigger problems in healthcare is also over-utilization i.e. getting things are are technically covered under insurance but not objectively medically necessary or getting a more expensive brand name drug over a chemically equivalent generic drug.

Agree that the patient-provider relationship today is usually "I'm a doctor and I'm going to tell you to do this, this, and this" regardless of cost, and we go with it because if we're insured under today's system it means marginally more out of pocket dollars for us. If you had an high deductible plan with an HSA (i.e. paying pre tax dollars out of a health savings account), I'd bet psychologically you'd be more choosey when shopping around for healthcare and/or ask more questions of your provider around "is this really necessary?" or "is there a cheaper option?"
Your comment is pithy and likely to get downvoted, but anyone who thinks cryptocurrency is an "investment" is a fool. I have heard no reasonable explanation from crypto enthusiasts when I ask them how they arrive at a fair valuation.

Even as a "store of value," anything this volatile is useless. Call a spade a spade: this is nothing short of pure mania and speculation. It will end poorly for the majority of people getting swept up in the hype.