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For most people it is actually a forth party pays. There's the traditional three party insurance system, but for most people there's also the forth, their employer. So not only is the receiver of medical care removed from any price sensitivity by their insurer, they're removed from much of the insurance price sensitivity by their employer.

Removing the ridiculous system of employers paying for health care and instead just paying people the money (come on, FDR's WWII salary fixing has been over for 70 years, yet its harm continues).
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> Right now both of the camps will be able to say that they are discriminated by the other one.

But only one of those camps is actually correct.

> it's putting out fire with gasoline

Not even slightly.
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Again, you're overstating things. If it genuinely takes you more than a couple of minutes to run apt and modprobe then I really think you shouldn't be allowed anywere near a degraded system to begin with. These aren't "sub-problems" - they're the absolute basics of system administration.
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Point taken, and is what I wanted to avoid. If it puts people in a bad mood before they hit line 2 then shame on me. Thanks for the feedback.
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> Although there are a few genuine collectors

I don't dispute that very high end watches can be used for money laundering, but there are quite a bit more than a "few" collectors for watches, even in the $50k range. Blogs like Hodinkee have a large readership of collectors at this level, and relatively speaking a $50k watch is not uncommon among collectors at, say, a watch conference. $50k buys you access to the second tier (right above entry level) for brands such as Patek Philippe, A. Lange & Sohne, Vacheron Constantin or Audemars Piguet (and even smaller "independent" watch houses like F.P. Journe). If you go to the /r/watches subreddit, you can reliably see collectors posting watches well beyond this price, even if the day to day items are <$20k.

Based on my experience with watches and collectors, I'm (weakly) doubtful that your friend's perspective is indicative of the industry overall. Again to be clear, luxury items in general can be used for laundering, but I can't see any basis for calling "most of the business" an effort to frustrate money traceability. For one thing, off the top of my head, there is a clear awareness of disrepute among watch collectors, and savvy collectors (particularly those spending five figures on a watch) engage in due diligence and transparency for most of their purchases that would make laundering pretty difficult and inefficient. Obviously a complicit buyer and seller would have no reason to do this, which implies a bit of a sampling bias to what we can see. That said, these practices are widely and reliably enough used (even on, say, eBay, or among jewelers) that it's clear a very large volume of watches change hands "in the light", so to speak.

There's also a question of valuation. For most of the brands I mentioned above, purchasing them new results in a reliable 30% reduction in worth, though you can stymie that a bit by keeping the watch in excellent condition with its box and papers. The watches which retain their valuation the most are brands like Rolex. A Rolex Submariner can actually appreciate in value over time, even past inflation, because the brand is so recognizable. These would be a good target for money laundering because of their liquidity. On the other hand, brands that retain such value tend to be the most visible, which means they are the most imitated and faked. In 2018, I don't think I'd feel comfortable purchasing a Rolex unless it was new and directly from an authorized dealer. It's become extremely feasible to create fraudulent Rolexes that cannot be distinguished from a real Rolex by anyone, save for an extensive review at a Rolex inspection center.
You'll have to start the other way around: start testing ideas using the back data and in the end you'll have not only the test to prove the theory, but the algo written as well...

The automation after that is easy, the current data is not a problem either, you can get it trough the API from your discount broker, here are the docs for Interactive Brokers for example:

https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=5041
There are other likely explanations for that data. If more women are getting screened more frequently then their cancers will be detected earlier and improve survival rate. That doesn't mean the diagnostics tools themselves have improved the survival rate, only that the diagnostic tools are now used more frequently.
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Exactly. You have to be an established patient to get some of the benefits, the most important being (IMO) being able to see a doctor within a day or two if you're really sick. (But not emergency room sick)
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> In it, he argued that women were essentially worse at logical tasks than men, and further that this made them poor engineers.

No he didn't. He said they were inherently less interested in STEM, and speculated about a few personality characteristics from psych research that might explain why, but all of that is irrelevant. Damore explicitly said that you can't judge individual competence from a probability distribution, even if the distribution of competence of each gender were different (which they largely are not).

Here's a broad overview of the literature covering what Damore got right and wrong: http://heterodoxacademy.org/the-google-memo-what-does-the-re...

Turns out, he was right that women seem to have different interests. I suggest reading about the things vs. people hypothesis. You can get more women into STEM subfields that deal with people if you highlight those aspects. Hiring quotas and some of the other measures Damore was arguing against would indeed have no effect on gender diversity given these facts.
I think modern times probably need fear of snakes more than nurturing mothers (or fathers).
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A reddit post from a student in China.

“ It's been 4 days now. I look around, everything looks the same, but I know, it's not the same world anymore. He choose to become a dictator officially maybe means nothing to most foreigners, but as a Chinese born and raised in this land, I know it's just the beginning of a series following "1984" episodes, and maybe even worse: Cultural Revolution 2.0. This may not happend in 10 years, but I live here, we live here, someday, something very bad is gonna happen again, and I can't do anything to stop or evade it.

A lot people around me seems calm and quite. Maybe they already learned to "shut up and having fun while you still can", or, maybe they are just like me: too shocked and depressed to think of anything to comment. I feel so helpless and scaried, it's like, how do I put this? sitting in a biulding which is on fire, you watch the black smokes and red flame coming from the bottom, but you can't find a way out of your room, there isn't any extinguisher in the room neither. All you can do is just sitting in the corner, hugging yourself tight, waiting for that momnent to come, in despair and silence.

sorry my English sucks, I tried my best to write in English. As a native Chinese, I can't stop to feel pessimistic about the future, hell, now I know we are doomed, it'll be easier to suffer if just push me off the building instead of letting me watch it burning for decades.“

https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/80xttj/silence_this_...

And another one post from a student in China

"I’m studying in a university in China rn and holy fuck I thought I entered an alternate reality, my classmates were all talking and worrying about the issue on the internet few days ago before they were censored out but after that , no one dares to talk about it in the campus , it’s dead silence , I KNOW everyone cares but everyone is just so afraid , this is pretty much a 1984 scenario in real life and I don’t know what else can we do. I guess they have already won in this point . :("
I don't see this as a controversy. The Signal protocol is funded in the same way.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/whatsapp-is-now-...
I don't see any contradiction. Enlarging the pool - actively seeking people who might think they wouldn't be hired because of their background - looks to me like the best way to balance diversity. While excluding qualified candidates only because they're the wrong gender or color is exactly the wrong way to go.
> If your point is to search for greater clarification and mutual understanding, as opposed to argument

I don't believe those things are actually opposed in any meaningful way. Also, I think it's possible to take the principle of charity too far. At some point, it's just as much putting words in people's mouths as a knee-jerk misinterpretation.
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Those screenshots are damning. Enforced equity is not the answer to these problems.
Boy, that's a shame for them to do that. But I've been in similar places before. Do they also block reg'lar github.com?
So much this! I broke my leg a decade ago and asked my doctor how much did it cost to get X done if I wanted to pay in cash. He didn’t know and looked dumbfounded by such a simple question.

In what other profession can a professional perform a task not knowing what he’s charging for the services being rendered?
Atlassian status page is a great reference for this..
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Except, it returns:

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An email signup page is not really a 'Show HN' because there is nothing to play with or try out. In terms of feedback, I'd suggest building a non-scalable implementation and iterating.
I work at Google. It is the most unpleasant place to work, largely because work evaluation is almost 80% politics (might be 100%). I am a senior engineer. You get stuck here because the pay you better than elsewhere, but I think it is a very bad and very sad place to work. My stomach curdles every morning before going to work and I wonder if it is worth it. Many of my peers talk in the same vein.

Please consider not working here, if you have other options (which you almost always do)
It's not his job to remove the plates.
This was a great take on the steps one should follow to leave well.
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> This is a mistake.

thanks for bringing this up - i couldn't quickly find info regarding how uM handles inline scripts, but i see that uBO does have that specific option - this has caused me to look deeper into uBO and i'm now considering revising the guide and dumping uM completely since i personally don't require all the granularity of uM (i always allow images/css globally for example)

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How do the survival rates speak to the impact of advances in diagnostics?

For improvements in diagnostics to be particularly important to survival rates, you'd need to show things like cancer being found much more often now or that finding it sooner (than was typical in 1985) greatly improves survival rates.

Really what has happened is that treatments have gotten a lot better.
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What's your proposal for a solution that doesn't discriminate? Do nothing?

Can you fix the existing imbalance without doing something?

What if the affirmative action were only temporary, and was designed to stop once balance is reached -- is it still discrimination?

The solution can't be to do nothing, doing nothing is why we are where we are, doing nothing is why discrimination exists. We need to fix #1 and #2 on your list before we can fix #3.

I would love to hear of an alternative thought process, please please suggest something better than affirmative action that might fix discrimination.
Only for high value transfers? Interesting that they felt the need in that context but didn't roll it out everywhere.
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People should check out the actual complaint [0]. It includes a lot of things the article doesn't including:

A screenshot of an email from Allison Alogna to "Team" stating

> Please continue with L3 candidates in process and only accept new L3 candidates that are from historically unrepresented groups.

Another stating in part

> And we should only consider L3s from our underrepresented groups.

It also tells us that this wasn't the first time the plaintiff had issues with his manager over this topic. He had the same issues with the previous manager, the previous manager was found by internally by Google to have retaliated against him for his complaints, and Allison Alogna was hired to replace that manager.

[0] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4391847-18-CIV-00442...
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Maybe this is a bad example because, I will need it quick. But when my BMW had problem in spain, I had no choice than finding quickly someone that will transport it to my country (2000km) and thus not really had choice, but I'm sure I will do my best to don't use compagny that use agressive annoying ads.
Today, Twitter is a planetary-scale hate machine. By which I don't mean "people post hateful things on Twitter." I mean literally generates hate, as in, put a bunch of people with diverse perspectives on Twitter and by the end of the day they hate each other more than when they started.

Reminds me of this William Burroughs excerpt

At any given time recording devices fix the nature of absolute need and dictate the use of total weapons--Like this: Take two opposed pressure groups--Record the most violent and threatening statements of group one with regard to group two and play back to group two--Record the answer and take to back to group one--Back and forth between opposed pressure groups--This process is known as "feed back"--You can see it operating in any bar room quarrel--In any quarrel for that matter--Manipulated on a global scale feeds back nuclear war and nova
Simple, there aren't any. Never, EVER, assume anonymity on the internet. Also I'll add the fact that if you even so much as download Tor, you have made it on a watch list; also exit nodes are a massive vulnerability. With those two things plus government involvement, it is unwise to assume Tor is anything but a honeypot. You want anonymity? Keep a low profile and try to hide in plain sight, maybe check out some add-ons recommended on privacytools.io
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Companies should clearly articulate how diversity programs work. It seems like people don't understand that diversity outreach programs don't create an advantage for minorities, instead they level the playing field as once closed pipelines get opened/discovered.

I fear that all this recent news about diversity and Google will create an environment where perfectly qualified non Asian minorities won't feel welcomed or will unfairly have their competency questioned.
I guess my question isn't so much "Why would anybody build this?" but "Why would you upvote this to the front-page?"

Seems like part of a larger "I built X in Y" HN pattern.
There are two ways to nullify a problem. 1. Solve it 2. Create another problem in equal magnitude and opposite direction.

Unfortunately, most countries/organisations seem to prefer second one, because it's easier and shows effect earlier, although over long period of time, it's going to be the worse one.
If you're trying to to cook a PH-balanced dish, and it's currently too acidic, you'll discriminate in favor of adding high-PH ingredients, no?
There are a couple of reasons people are so quick to claim other people didn't read the memo verbatim. The first being that the first major publication to run with it, and the biggest one here on HN, was the verge's article where citations and graphs were stripped away from it.

The other is that is it often given such uncharitable descriptions that people who have read it simply can't believe the hate levied at it comes from actually having read the thing. I've actually talked this whole topic through for hours back and forth with someone who is very against the memo, but even they they would call it a sexist manifesto. That sort of thing comes across as off the cuff criticism by people who haven't read the thing.
That's funny. This one says everything is still fine:

https://status.bitbucket.org/
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For the physical harming, Nassim N. Taleb wrote a book called "Anti-Fragile" desribing the concept of iatrogenic illness.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iatrogenic

An alarming fact was less dying patients when an hospital workers were in a strike action (during 2 weeks).
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I would assume a legal filing would call it what it is: illegal discrimination. I don't trust ARS to get these things right.
Most likely the site is sending a content-disposition: attachment which forces Firefox to show the save file dialog. This is a very old bug.
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In the US system you agree to pay any bills the insurance will not cover prior to receiving treatment.

Which is an obvious opportunity for improvement. When a giant hospital and a giant insurance company get in a knife fight over whether a procedure is covered, the patient shouldn't be the loser.

(Maybe some sort of system where if the provider states that something is medically necessary then they are on the hook if insurance denies the claim)
Came here to ask this myself. I get that you can do anything you want to but I'm super curious about the author's motivations. Seriously, why?
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Sure. What's universal is universal. But what's the point of defining something as capitalist (or anything) if it applies to every case.

Characteristics of capitalism (let's go with the Marxist definition) certainly aren't universal. Not every human economy includes private property, for example. Not every system include a bourgiouse elite, a customary, religious or military elite is more common historicaly.
Note to applicants: see the very last item in bullet-list about their definition of "remote". I was told that I am not eligible because I'm 4 hours away from Louisville instead of 3 hours away.

I would have assumed in the context of HN (and StackOverflow, where I first saw the listing) that "remote" means anywhere with an internet connection, not just "working from home but in our city".

I did receive a relatively prompt reply though, so that was appreciated (and it was fun answering their questions).
Did you read the article? It was a very nuanced look at how to provide medical care and the reasons caregivers and people either under-treat or over-treat and the high levels of uncertainty about the efficacy of any given medical procedure. Certainly financial issues are a large part of the equation but certainly not the only one.

Really an excellent read overall.
That Tor is funded by the US gov is well known, yes, but a close look at that is warranted. I have neither the time nor knowledge to judge the details for now, but claims like "passing on security reports to government contacts" (https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/claim-tor-does-not-provi...) at least look bad if the the claim is that Tor merely profits from the relationship to build the best tool possible, even if the author presents it a bit over-sensational. Let's wait what they'll extract from the documents and judge that instead of immediately claiming it as FUD.
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Reminds one of David Pizarro's TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_pizarro_the_strange_politics...
Heath care has gotten vastly better over time. Look at 5 year cancer survival rates for example. However, this improvement takes a lot of effort and really does mean higher prices.

So, all you are proposing is rationing care aka if people can't get care then cost is not a problem.

I would suggest a public option that excluded any patented medication or extensive intervention could be really cheap if you also removed most paper work and the ability to sue. But, nobody would accept a significantly lower standard of care.
What about if you are white working-class man? Is a middle-class black woman less privileged than a white working-class man? What about short versus tall people? What about beautiful versus ugly people? The halo effect is well-known. The whole thing is just absurd and dehumanising.
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