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This is such a US-centric view that the free market will just magically fix things. I used to hold the same view. Now? I think truly individual insurance would be an unmitigated disaster.

The problem? Pre-existing conditions. Let's say you have lifelong degenerative condition that will require constant medical care. What incentive does an insurance company have to take you on? You can try to make discriminating against pre-existing conditions illegal but insurance companies know who their most expensive clients are and will try and find a reason to invalidate them.

Why employer-based insurance works is that it groups people. It's really a form of collective bargaining.

If you insure one person you look at how much that person costs you vs their premiums. If you insure 50,000 employees of a company then you're looking at revenue vs cost of 50,000 vs 0. This is something insurance companies are exceedingly good at. Large numbers even out individual variance (and thus risk).

This idea can go too far. In Australia we have (had? I haven't lived there for 7 years and we have a conservative government so who knows what they'e done to the health system while I've been gone) what's called a "community rating" for private health insurance. Emergency care is largely the government's responsibility (through Medicare). Community rating means insurance companies basically treat everyone the same other than allowed factors (eg # of children).

The downside to this is that elderly people cost more but get charged the same as young people. This makes no sense for young people so they leave the private system and health premiums go up. This has been a decades-long problem.

The solution here is for there to be an alternative for employer health insurance. So someone else needs to come in and negotiate for a group rate. It needs to be small enough so there's no Walmart like situation of all but one company getting squeezed out. It needs to be large enough so the number of plan participants averages out individual variance.

The question then becomes who should that be? In smaller states it should probably be the state. Maybe there should even be more than one supplier? In larger states, maybe it might be split further?

Cover this with state taxes. Decide what this covers. It should at a minimum include basic preventative care, affordable access to a GP (PCP), ER visits, emergency medical care, big-ticket medical items like transplant surgery and cancer treatment and so on.

Then maybe employer health insurance is just for extras like better elective cover.

Americans in particular have a real false dichotomy view of health insurance as in the choice is between a free market and a 100% state-run system where all hospitals and medical professionals are government employees. This is patently false.

The current US system has providers deal with any number of insurance companies with the differences between their various billing systems (eg there are jobs where people simply have to convert between billing codes used by different companies). It's insanity. State-run insurance would grealty simplify this.
What a tragedy.

But lets not forget that this is what we see not what it is. It could have happened the other way: "patient died after not receiving attention even though they arrived on time. Doctor was busy providing care to previously late patients".
This seems to indicate that DoD uses them. Perhaps it's mostly contractors, but there are probably some liaison-type uniformed people too:

https://www.yubico.com/about/reference-customers/department-...
But abolishing tipping would allow restaurants to pay a fair wage: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-eliminate-tipping-...
The numbers are so tiny that comparisons are pretty much irrelevant. Since 1996 there have been just 8 mass k-12 shootings (incidents involving 4 or more school deaths, excluding the assailant), in a nation of 330 million people.

That's so far into small numbers territory that any comparisons are guaranteed to be overwhelmed by noise.
> "My "race/culture" is navy submariner, and I always enjoyed watching the few sailors who hadn't had their background racism washed out of them at boot-camp realize that getting the job done well was what mattered, some sailors came in with some bad biases but within a year those issues usually had been resolved by working in a meritocracy, if a very authoritarian and hierarchical one."

+100

I think a lot of submariners can relate to this (I'm also a submariner). I do remember when I was a senior sailor, and one of my division's nubs was this smart and hard-working kid from bumfuck nowhere Georgia (he was from a small town of <500 people)...well, we were sitting on crews mess and getting GMT on gays in the military and this kid was like "there's no way i'm working with some fag"...to which I, and pretty much ever person senior to him were like "shut the fuck up nub, you most certainly will work with someone who is gay, in fact you already do (we had a gay guy in our division but he was pretty hush-hush about it), and that 'fag' as you called him, might be in a position to one day save your life, so you better drop whatever bullshit prejudice you may have...and get quallified"....he dropped some of his outwardly shitty behavior pretty quick...like you said, it didn't matter what your background or sexual orientation was, the only thing that mattered was coming together to get the job done...and you totally saw this during any kind of emergency...sometimes I do miss the "togetherness" we had as a crew...just not the unpaid overtime.
Not sure my feelings were hurt. I was just pointing out a value judgement when I saw it.
There are two types of iterators in Nim. The inlined variant is more efficient, and you can fairly easily wrap it in the other type: the "closure"" iterator. Why do you not consider it a good concept?
> reduces crime and drug addiction

General crime maybe...drugs not so much.
Yes -- I missed the "pool of candidates" part. I was assuming based on their defensive posture they were referring to the hiring manager dropping resumes of otherwise qualified individuals.
Saying “rideshare is supposed to be a part time job”, in addition to spreading baseless anti-driver rhetoric, indicates a fundamental lack of understanding of the scale Lyft and Uber operate at. If every driver worked part time, everyone would pay big surge pricing for every ride.

Edit, adding: In Lyft’s ExpressDrive program, the quota to get free rental is 105 rides per week. They apparently think it should be a full time job. You might get 3 rides per hour during peak periods, if nobody barfs in your car after closing the bar, but mostly you’ll average about 2 rides per hour over a week.
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It would be nice if there was a platform that was as good at short messages as Twitter while also being good for longer more deliberative posts.

Of course the problem for any new social network is that it is hard for it to become successful, due to network effects.
I don't even know if I call that corruption. Humans are the key part of business, and relationships with contractors are just a reflection of that. That absolutely happens, near constantly. I don't think of that as corruption, as much as in a world of very difficult success, when someone proves they can be successful, and make you feel confident, it makes logical sense to stick with them.
I'm not from America, I'm from the UK, which while not the top of any democratic indexes has objectively fairly free and fair elections.
You forgot mossad assassins.

That doesn't mean this is legal; much like in other countries military intelligence have no jurisdiction over citizens - there are separate domestic agencies for that (the FBI/CIA, MI5/MI6 distinction).
In my experience, your average doctor is really bad at diagnosis too, they just have way more confidence in their diagnosis than the average person has in their own.
Think about all the times you've seen people disagree. After interacting on LIFE, how often do they grow together vs. further apart? Come away holding each other in respect vs. contempt?

People on the road, queing at the bank ?

And IRL, the system is a safe gard because being a jerk can lead to worse consequences.

But that's not twitter's fault.
> the sort of library that excites intermediate developers

I find this true about nearly all microservices in Go. Microservices are much more useful in something like Node that can only take advantage of 1 OS thread per instance. Without containerization and load balancing in Node you wouldn't be able to scale.

Go on the other hand can efficiently utilize a nearly unlimited amount of threads as necessary with its scheduler. You're much more likely to over-architect if you don't keep this capacity in mind.
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That's because most Americans have no idea how probability or risk mitigation work. It's their body, dammit, and they want you to fix it!
I enjoyed Black Swan: "Everyone is doing statistics wrong, except me" and was about to read Anti-fragile... Maybe I will quit while he is ahead.
I would like to point out before this discussion moves too far along that UCLA does in fact have an introductory programming course which is taught using Python: http://web.cs.ucla.edu/classes/enroll/97/

Students that are unfamiliar with programming are encouraged to take this course before the C++ course.
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Another case where “the winning move is not to play.”
It's surprising until you realize "people" in this context also includes CIA agents and assets.
It is not acceptable in the sense of "ok, we can stop now."

It is however an improvement, unless you think it is fair to discriminate one group massively and one not at all.
I don't actually think "how" is even a question at this point. If you poke around wikipedia's (clearly incomplete) list of cooperatives and employee-owned* companies the answer is/has-always-been pretty clearly: just like any other form of company works.

*coops however aren't necessarily employee owned-- there's a several models-- and ESOP style employee ownership can be pretty weak from an ownership perspective so in addition to being woefully incomplete the lists should also not be taken at face value.
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Why? Isn't the whole idea of using git that changing branch is just as simple/fast as doing "cd"?

You're probably not doing your ongoing work in the branch you are merging for release anyway, if you did you'd have solve any conflicts all over again when you switch clone.
It's not "overreacting."

If you do a scan in someone asymptomatic and see a tumor it's oftentimes completely impossible to know if it's a "turtle" or a "bird." They can look exactly the same and we don't have a crystal ball.
Yes. I drove part-time for Uber and the vast majority of Uber drivers are part-time. I had a real job paying 7x more during the day. If Uber didn't exist I just would have earned less.

I assure you I wasn't earning $3/h though, that was just what it ended up saying on my taxes because they let me deduct part of my fixed expenses that I was paying anyways like insurance, finance interest, license, registration, etc. It was closer to minimum wage, and tax-free at that (which suited me because my marginal tax rate was high from my day job).

Before Uber I just drove for free by myself in random directions for fun. That was way more expensive.

Edit: I also have an expensive car that guzzles premium fuel, or it would have been significantly more than minimum wage.
And then your tiny business can initiate a trademark action against a multi billion dollar company with more lawyers dedicated to defending trademark actions than you have entire employees.

A remedy that is impossible to get in practice is no remedy at all.
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In a big metro area, perhaps they don't need a car.
Only for a sufficiently restricted definition of asset. You're thinking of the article that was referring to financial securities. Student debt may be leading in that category, but the government doesn't own much in the way of financial securities compared to land and military assets.
> In my lifetime the vast majority of my acute health issues went away on their own without any particular medical intervention. I mean well over 99.9%.

To be fair, if they didn't, you might not be here to talk about it, so there's definitely some survivorship bias there. The people who waited and died obviously can't say anything because they're dead.
I know in my country when my city was founded, the industrial moguls invested and created schools to improve their workforce education (and thats for manufacture workers). I think that would be the right direction to take.
How do I shop for prices when I'm bleeding out in the back of an ambulance?
Thanks for the link, which presumably contains the OC I'm about to reference.

We've seen several classified documents claiming (pick a three letter USG agency) have minimal operational ability to deanonymize a particular Tor user, and even less-so in real-time.

Fortunately, the FBI has proven it doesn't need to break Tor to interfere with the most egregious of the malactors who call it home. They've hijacked servers hosting objectionable content and used them to deliver Firefox exploits to leak real IP addresses.[1] They've done "good old fashioned police work" and exploited human trust [2] to bring down well coordinated teams of international players.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/playpen-story-fbis-unp...
[2] https://www.wired.com/story/alphabay-takedown-dark-web-chaos...
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I think it would be especially difficult with children, since the English version tends to be the 'real' version. As such I would assume songs to just be more natural in english, and that tends to be the part children obsess over. I'm from the US, so I have the same problem from the other perspective, "Why learn a language when everyone speaks English." So you get a bunch of children who don't want to become bilingual since it serves no apparent value in their lives.

It doesn't help that schools basically only push Spanish, which is actively besieged by half the population. I really wish schools would push things like mandarin and german more since it's a much larger part of the world economy.
They don't, and they've been lobbying for changing the law. They've said so on record (that they grab and store everything, and deletion is based on intelligence value, not following laws governing surveillance and storage of personal (citizen) data).
It is very racist to treat a group ("whites") by their skin color in this day and age.
I think Antifragile is quite useful and a good concept to keep in mind for many things. In fact, it is perhaps more broadly applicable than the Black Swan.
Treating infectious disease than can cause cancer (H. pylori, HPV) has nothing to do with cancer treatment.

Treating, for example, thyroid or prostate cancers that would not have killed the person improves cancer survival statistics but nothing else.
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First I'm not sure that is a good source. We have no idea if this list is vetted. Second, just because there is an increase in volume doesn't necessarily mean an increase in rate.
That's definitely true too, so always a risk. At least we could conclude that economic pressure can be a driver for change.
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Yasha Levine likes to spin these grand conspiracies but comes off as completely clueless, technically (not sure if deliberate but it doesn't really matter). Completely absent from his work are any sort of technical advisors or rigorous technical writing.

Result being that less than _1_ minute of looking into his latest "scoop" from someone with a technical background is enough to see through Yasha's bullshit. The code of TOR is not only there for everyone to examine, the incentives are so big that serious protocol issues would have come to the surface many times over, esp taking the number of security experts who are constantly looking there (meaning this goes way beyond "many eyes => bugs are shallow").

I used to read him when he was at Exile (together with Taibbi and Mark Ames), he was good for a few laughs (and Exile was full of black humor and sarcastic writing).

At some point, he started seeing himself as a serious journalist and hilarity ensued. Stick to being a clown Yasha!
it’s unlikely that any of them will prevent mass school shootings

“The thing to remember is that these are extremely rare events, and no matter what you can come up with to prevent it, the shooter will have a workaround,” Fox said, adding that over the past 35 years, there have been only five cases in which someone ages 18 to 20 used an assault rifle in a mass shooting.

this seems weak. if shootings are rare events stopping one would make a considerable difference. just because assault rifles were rarely used in past 35 years in what way does that influence a future projection? What if we had a Vegas type event around a school? I don't really understand the thesis here
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I think this is a really interesting point. I used to be all over self-help books because I wanted to improve myself, but it seems to me as though so many authors just regurgitate the same points over and over again with tired anecdotes mixed in.
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How do you know if a candidate is LGBTQ? Do you just ask them?
As with all extremes, the pendulum must return to its path, and soon we will see a return to a meritocratic approach. Approaching the lack of diversity in this industry from a hiring perspective is too late stage and short sighted- the change should happen with education during childhood and teen years in areas where there are concentrations of historically uninterested parties that are uninterested due to a lack of mentorship availability.

I want to see after school programs being arranged, charter schools being built, stipends for families who encourage this field of study, fair pay for the teachers who are selected to offer to service to these areas, extracurricular activities that focus on tech and following through with those that show any modicum of interest potential.

The change begins at home, and it has nothing to do with race, it has to do with opportunity to learn and the freedom to abstract your home life problems and concerns long enough to make use of the education without the preoccupation of where the next meal is or where you’ll sleep.
Universities are a hotbed for binge drinking and drug use. So I'm not sure I buy into that.
If you’re going to do this, I recommend renting weekly through the Lyft/Hertz or Uber/Enterprise route. It costs more per week, but both networks have a quota where free rent kicks in. But you’ll have to drive superhuman hours and only for the one network to hit the quota.
Let’s say I’m a dry wall contractor. A general contractor comes along and offers me $20k for a job. I say “$25k?” and he says, “No, $20k.”

If I take the job I am not magically transformed into an employee of his, simply because I lacked the bargaining power to negotiate the rate.

The reason I am still a contractor is that I have absolute control over whether to agree to do that job at that price.

There are obviously lots of factors that are considered in the employee/contractor analysis. I just don’t feel that “ability to negotiate rate” is a particularly important one when “absolute ability to refuse fare” is in the picture.
Every person I have known who drove for these services had given zero - zero! thought to depreciation. Sure, it covers gas money but when your $24,000 car is worth $5000 in three years it won't be a great deal.
He was talking about preferences and abilities.
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You're right, but at the same time, it's a totally unhelpful statement in a project.

Everything is bad design everywhere, at least when you're a consultant. You're generally not brought into projects that have good design, and everything's roses.

I've been on a few projects with amazing design, and it was a very different experience. I didn't even argue for more work for them, because they had it all under control.

They essentially, wanted to be confirmed how great they were. I don't know if the CIO was curious if it was true, or if they all just wanted pats on the back, but we taught them a few really detailed things they didn't know, helped on a few really tricky edge cases, and said you're golden, keep killing it.
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Why? That would seem to pick up lots of factors unrelated to the issue of school shootings in the United States.
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Yeah, almost everything B2B has prices listed that no one actually pays; they're just meant as an initial negotiating position.
Right, because splitting people up into arbitrary groups based on melanin levels and ancestral migration does a world of good in promoting trust and good will.
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