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Most medical issues are not emergencies. For most problems, there is plenty of time to comparison shop, consider the urgency and/or optionality of specific care, and so forth.

We do this just fine with other usually-non-emergent necessities of life like food, clothing, and housing. We didn't need to nationalize land ownership or food distribution to create vibrant economies for these, despite the fact that people can't really just "choose not to buy them".

Things are that way in part because there is a controlled regulatory regime in there, not trying to nationalize everything but also acknowledging the duty to protect the market from bad actors. Food, clothing, and housing aren't perfect analogs because medicine is a professional service, but this suffices to show that necessities aren't necessarily exempt from market forces just by virtue of their non-optionality.

Medicine needs a middle ground between "nationalize it" and "ignore it", but in this case, if those are the only two options, "ignore it" is clearly the worse one.

My wife and kids had 0 medical emergencies last year and we still paid over $10k in doctor and dentist bills just from deductibles, copays, and coinsurance. That's after having nearly $1k per month deducted from my paychecks for insurance premiums, not to mention the part that my employer contributed on top of that. It makes me sick to add those figures up, so I'll just leave that as an exercise. You can bet that if there were any actual optionality here, we'd spend a few days trying to sort out the most efficient way to handle this stuff.

Let's also not forget that insurance imposes a significant amount of rationing too. Our policy only covered up to 40 "habilitative care" visits per year, despite the fact that every therapist and doctor we saw recommended about 3x that. These are relatively mild speech and occupational therapy visits -- 40 visits is combined, every speech and pt/ot visit counts against it. "You need insurance because you'll have to buy medical care or you'll die" doesn't always play out that way.
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I was surprised when a normally-Russian-speaking Ukrainian colleague of mine mixed up months when trying to communicate in Ukrainian with another normally-Ukrainian-speaking Ukrainian - talking about something occurring in October but using "Listopad" (which I figured from Czech was actually November). I'd guess that there's enough similarities that you could have a reasonable conversation with someone when you know Russian and the other speaks Ukrainian ... but occasionally you'll encounter words which are just completely unintelligible and not even close.
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As far as I can find out, the SF MTA is spending ~1.5% (under $20*10^6 annually) of its budget on cycling infrastructure [0]. According to the SFMTA, bicycle usage is at around 3.9%[1], up from 2.3% in relative numbers. Up almost 200% in absolute numbers from 2006 (~4000 counted versus >11000 counted).

Shifting even tiny numbers of people from cars to bicycles shaves off peaks of car traffic. Bicycle throughput is several times higher per unit of infrastructure. That has incredible potential to hugely benefit people driving cars by improving car traffic flow. Crazy high ROI potentially!

According to your logic too, one could argue that only devoting 1.5% of the transport budget to the mode used by 3.9% of its population is serious underfunding.

[0] https://blog.sfgate.com/bicycle/2014/04/21/new-sfmta-budget-...

[1] https://www.sfmta.com/bicycle-ridership-data
I do have a spare, but really I shouldn't have to invest time in setting it up over such a seemingly trivial issue.
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A bigger problem than banks using 8 character strings as passwords?
Swift runs on Linux and there are also plenty of web frameworks, so it’s definitely possible to run on a server
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No better than the stock market in this regards. Except the stock market explicitly hands out profits from the biggest and riches companies, and our tax system is designed to give more of those profits to poor people.

A low-income person getting into Ethereum today has no hope to ever get as much ethereum as anyone else in the early adopters.

Hell, a low-income person was too busy trying to buy food today and/or pay off credit card debt to even think about investing into Ethereum, the Stock Market, Bonds, or other securities.
In American English, "government" includes almost any public body. The hospital, the court, and the organization acting as the child's guardian all qualify.
Is a blockchain even required for this? Does it provide any technical advantage here in this case?
Either I have greatly misunderstood the purpose of a blockchain, or they have... I'd love to see them add some details around how the blockchain actually saved them time and why a standard database of some kind wouldn't suffice.
Replace "Blockchain" with "Database" and it would all be true.

Walmart Inc. is getting suppliers to put food on the [database] to help reduce waste, better manage contamination cases and improve transparency.

Yiannas said [database] was able to cut the time it took to track produce to two seconds from six days.
If available to you, I can recommend trying the following brands:

* http://www.kalonasupernatural.com/ - non-homogenized, available at Natural Grocers

* http://www.promisedlanddairy.com/our-story/ - seems to be from Jersey cows, if the color of the milk is any indication

Another thing to watch out for if you are buying Horizon Organic is the UHT (ultra high temperature) processing it and some other brands use. It makes the milk shelf-stable (i.e. a sealed container needs no refrigeration) but adds a burnt taste that can be offputting.
A friend of mine got so sick of the many useless meetings at a company he worked at that he would just started declining any meetings that didn’t have a written agenda.

When I schedule a meeting with clients, I send them an email with the questions I’m going to ask them and what I need to learn from the meeting. As a meeting attendee, I don’t want to be asked a question that someone knew they were going to ask before the meeting. I want to hit that meeting with answers so I’m not having to say, “I’ll look into that and tell you at the next meeting.”
Maybe you should use Kotlin instead. It runs native on IoS, on the server, and on Android as well.
While I agree with your analysis in general, you cannot ignore geography and weather. Copenhagen and Amsterdam are pretty optimal for biking since they are basically completely flat and the weather never really gets warm or cold. From what I remember of Seattle at least the entire downtown is on a very steep hill.
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Yeah, it really does. It will get better with KiCad 5.0 though which should be released soon.
It's a lot easy to "quickly deprecate" when the ecosystem is small and breakage is acceptable. Let's see how Swift handles the situation at a similar point in it's life cycle. Bear in mind that most criticisms of the Python2/3 situation came from people that wanted less breakage - not more.
It did work with EA's Battlefront 2 right? EA's stock value went down. Then sales of Battlefront2 wasn't as good as expected. Then there's now the hot topic of lootboxes being illegal.

We'll need to exactly define and agree what it is to be achieve tho. In my view, I think the point has been made and have been heard successfully and have caused the desired punch in the face.
Yes it is obvious once you learn French.

It’s usually (not always) clear how a word is pronounced in French if you know its spelling.
I think that some EU court ruled that only actual milk can be called milk so no more Soy Milk, Almond Milk etc. Don't think that it is enforced anywhere yet.
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Absolutely not. Czech orthography is beautiful. Latin letters, clear featural marking of palatal consonants (č, š, ž, ď, ť) and simple marking of vowel length (á). The spelling is even morphophonemic!
It’s not like he has a vested interest or anything.

It doesn’t take much google time to get a more informed answer. The numbers in the studies aren’t large but it’s presumably hard to get ethics for feeding people with a severe stroke intolerance something that is closely related to the allergen. Starting small would seem logical.
Sure they have done an analysis. Which no other country will accept. You're essentially asking to create some sort of river-pollution version of the IAEA, plus all the diplomatic costs that come with enforcing this. It's probably cheaper to just pay for the cleanup.
The bigger, more dangerous to others vehicle must look out for smaller ones.

You expect cars to look out for bicycle, and should yourself look out for pedestrians.

I live in Copenhagen, on a road that's a pedestrian zone shopping street. It is absolutely unreasonable to expect pedestrians to look out for cyclists - I'm in their space! So on the last 100m of my journey home, I must cycle at half speed or even walking speed, depending how busy it is.

If cyclists stopped being careful, cycling through the pedestrian zone would eventually get banned, like it is in Britain. (Or else enforced, I don't know if its already banned.)
I guess they didn't try with a "signed append-only log", they might be able to shave off even these two remaining seconds.
One suggestion: change the way you think of a schedule. Book in those 4 hour blocks, calendar gym, calendar leaving the office etc.

People tend to start trying to work around the outside of those blocks.
Yes, but that‘s no indication you have to provision an instance (not serverless). Google just decided that their granularity for billing is 1GB, like aws lambda and google cloud functions are billed in second granularity and not milliseconds.
Replace database with computer
How are scooters even a public hazard?? Governments just make up non-existent issues whenever there is an industry that they have no control over, then create laws that stifle innovation and create high barriers to entry by creating endless laws that will discourage other startups from entering. This is how oligopolies are created.
Botsquad's Bubblescript language does something similar, although more imperative: http://www.botsquad.com/2018/04/14/beyond-the-dsl/
They're in conflict with federal law, but they're following a legal and regulatory framework that was established by their local governments, so there's a broad consensus where they are operating that it's OK to break those rules. That's not unilaterally deciding to ignore the law. A better example of a start-up in the marijuana space that did do that might be, say, the Zeta Cartel.

(obviously, I'm not saying that no one should ever break an unjust law, but I don't believe for a second that we should allow profit-motivated companies to be good judges of what are just and unjust laws)
This is categorically wrong. French spelling has absolutely nowhere near as many idiosyncrasies as English spelling.

It is totally impossible to predict how an unfamiliar written word is pronounced in English, but quite easy in French (barring some ambiguous situations like if a noun ends in “s”.)

By the way, I don’t know what CA means. If you’re referring to the French word “ça”, its pronunciation is completely regular and predictable given the spelling.
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There's no such thing as "the" Blockchain. Walmart is using "a" Blockchain, in which I'm guessing they themselves own and operate all nodes.

> Yiannas said blockchain was able to cut the time it took to track produce to two seconds from six days.

With no more detail I can't even start to think how a Blockchain DB makes any difference?
Are you using only a single decryption key?

If so, you could switch into M of N scheme - far more secure, and thanks to Ethereum, the coordination between key keepers would be really simple.

(Kind of what we did with Orisi.org years ago)
To quote the Fonterra billboards that are all over NZ “Milk Money From The Land”. That disgusting company accounts for a third of the worlds dairy exports. They are doing just fine.
Is the article partially behind a pay wall?
I am a regular and boistrous cheerleader for the prospects of blockchain technologies to empower changes in the world... but I do not understand what is going on here.

This seems entirely centralized, and thus a very poor use case for a blockchain.
I've said it here before, and will again, Keller is THE man when it comes to chips. If you study his work history, and respective company achievements, nobody comes close. I'm sure others are involved and I mean not to take away from them, but if you want to lead the chip business, you hire Keller.
Secondary, this appears to be his MO from an outsiders perspective. Once he has finished what he started, he seems to bounce. Not sure if it's his style, or if a different company throws more piles of cash at him, but it's interesting to watch.
What would be the purpose (for the layman)? Handling spikey event ingress?
What are loot boxes?
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I don't know how that helps. If the idea was getting closer to the West, then they could've promoted the use of English(as we have done in India).
Isn't this happening to everywhere where jobs are? Barcelona rents are soaring but the salaries aren't going up much.
Chinese, Japanese, or Malay?
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This blockchain uses IBM's blockchain technology, which is in turn created with Hyperledger. In both cases, the technology is called enterprise grade. That seems to be true - though, I'm not sure a blockchain is needed here. Maybe a ledger with distributed access, but not necessarily a blockchain.

https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/platform/

https://www.hyperledger.org/about
> With Bitcoin you can only validate a transaction by having all of the unspent transactions in memory.

I'm somewhat sceptical of that claim, for the reason pointed out in the blog post, and I think you can get away with much simpler solutions for quite some time.

- You can use many heuristics to decide which UTXO data to keep in memory. LRU + deprioritizing addresses where the balance is too low to pay the current transaction fees seems like a good start. Research shows that there is a high percentage of stale data[0].
- With a block time as high as 10min, you can definitely spend 1ms on read latency for retrieving UTXO data from disk.
- Even if you don't manage to retrieve UTXO data from disk quickly, that just means that the transaction missed its chance to be included in the current block. It could still be ready in time for the next one.

Overall, UTXO set growth is, of course, a problem since it increases centralization, but I don't think the problem of _in-memory_ UTXO sets is as big as it is often made out to be.

[0]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1095.pdf
Do you have some data to back that up or are you guessing? I studied Russian for about a year and frankly the alphabet was a very tiny hurdle. Sure, it's a little more work than learning a language using the Latin alphabet but you can teach yourself the Cyrillic alphabet from scratch in a few hours (longer if you add the rather terrible Cyrillic cursive, but it's not as important nowadays in my experience).

IMO it's really insignificant compared to the barrier of learning all the vocabulary (it's not like romance languages where every other word is a cognate, plus the stress patterns in Russian are harder to predict), the vastly different grammar (case system, perfective/imperfective etc...) and the cultural barriers.

My Russian is abysmal and I haven't practiced in years but I just went to lenta.ru and was able to read just fine. I don't understand 99% of it of course but I can read the letters reasonably quickly.
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As long as you don’t swim or like clean water. On the bright side, we adjusted the permissible E. coli limits, so more rivers are now ‘wadable’. You can’t make this stuff up.
I haven't followed the news about Chris Lattner. For those who like me who haven't seen that he's in Google now:

http://nondot.org/sabre/

"I worked for Apple from July 2005 to January 2017, holding a number of different positions over the years" "This included managing the Developer Tools department, which was responsible for Swift Playgrounds for the iPad, Xcode, and Instruments, as well as compilers, debuggers, and related tools. In early 2017, I briefly ran the Tesla Autopilot team. We built a lot of great things, but Tesla wasn't the right fit for me."

Joined "Google Brain" in August 2017.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/14/swift-creator-chris-lattne...
What is the point of this comment? Are you acting as if doing a wrong thing is right if it's pleasant?
Made this experiment a while ago too. Many pages, even plain simple ones, fail because it doesn‘t support the HTTP host header and therefore name based virtual hosts.

It can only display one site per IP and port.
> As for the self righteousness of "only peds belong on sidewalks", I get tired of that.

If people have bicycles or scooters on sidewalks, they should be walking them, not riding.
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Some do still read his books. I have (re)read all his books in the last year or two purely for pleasure. He is actually a minimalist writer - seldom more than 1-4 key characters, succinct prose, linear stories without departures to discuss wars of old... You may like his writing.
I think this is the most appropriate reason. They could've promoted the use of English if getting closer to the West is the aim.
Are you? Fonterra are a terrible company and I do t believe that many farmers would be pleased with the management of Fonterra.
Sorry, I already commented but did want to recognize an important point OP made.

> The examples above are contrived but it does illustrate the danger of not properly architecting your AWS system and monitoring it once it’s in place (especially if you’re using T2 instances).

> I often see this issue with a website that receives increases in the baseline traffic over long periods of time with occasional spikes. If the instance type is not changed and sized appropriately, this eventually leads to all the accrued CPU credits being used paired with downtime and a significant amount of head scratching.

This is so true. Proper architecture and planning up front will save all kinds of headaches. Anyone serious about using EC2 needs to understand and use autoscaling groups with ELBs to manage scaling. If production availability is important, and you don't want to be bugged to fix something at 3AM, ASGs are a nice way to mitigate for potential AZ issues (you can do that with an ASG with max size of 1 even!). The biggest problem I always saw was that people would not take the time to test what happens when an ASG instance is terminated. Also You can't be ssh'ing in to manually change things and expect those changes to stick around.

Proper monitoring and alerts if of course the other side to this.
Howdy appdrag.

I've added a note about T2 unlimited to my article, I will likely be writing up another article in the near future explaining T2 Unlimited concepts.

Thanks for the note!
Define "London". In inner/central London, where cycling infrastructure is being built and where the Congestion Charge is in place, the cycle commute share is significantly higher than 5%. (Back in 2011, for example, it was 15.4% in Hackney: it will be bigger than that now.) In the outer suburbs, where there's no infrastructure and no Congestion Charge, it isn't above 5%. That should tell you something.

Meanwhile, you talk sneeringly about "invest[ing] billions into poorly designed public transport". Public transport is, of course, something London does very well. Car commuting across the whole of London, inner and outer, is around 25%. Public transport commuting is around 50%. (Source: LTDS. This covers London residents only, so is probably an underestimate given the vast numbers of people from outside London who commute into the city by rail.)
As a Swede, it took me a while (perhaps in part due to insufficient quantities of coffee) to realize that this "Oland" they were going on about, which I had never heard of, was actually Öland.

In this age of near-universal Unicode support, is writing it properly really too much to ask? In fact, this mysterious letter Ö is even in latin1 and codepage 850, so the BBC would have had access to it even if they were still using MS-DOS.
With no scoping you don't, because there is no inner scope.

With dynamic scoping you also don't, because there is no lexical scope.

What am I misunderstanding?
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There’s a very small number of cities in the world where cycling is popular, and their success comes down almost entirely to geography and climate. These cities also tend to devote very little infrastructure to cycling-only roadways.

There’s a lot of examples of cities spending huge sums of money on cycling (SF has spent far more than a billion on it), and none of them have been successful in drivingcycling adoption.

Also the only studies that show road building as ineffective are looking at cities that have many years of population growth where road spending didn’t even remotely keep up. People don’t materialize out of thin air to fill up new roads. You’re using neglect of infrastructure to justify further neglect of infrastructure.
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I noticed that it's very hard for people to "remap" the sound of the letter to match phonology rules of a target language. I.e. the familiarity of the alphabet while helping a bit it also works against "listening" and "getting" the actual sounds.

I remember an Irish guy who was speaking pretty fluent Italian mispronouncing the word "firma" making it sound like English "firm" instead of "feerma", and I'm pretty sure that wouldn't happen if he had to learn a new alphabet. As part of learning the new alphabet he would match that gliphy with the "ee" sound with less chances of associating it with the English sounds just because of similar spelling.
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Exactly. But this is poorly understood by the general population and who is going to understand or know if a particular milk protein is present?
You discovered a few important market dynamics! First is that the spot price is only one of the variables to take into consideration when trading. Market depth and liquidity are two others.

If someone says they will pay you $3 for an apple, you don't run out and buy 100 tons of apples. You first need to see how much they will pay for the second apple, the third apple, a ton of apples, 10 tons of apples, etc.
> To make matters worse for Drupal security records, the vulnerability is being actively exploited hours after the patch was released by the Drupal core team.

This is true for Drupal 7, but not for Drupal 8. Nothing in wild has surfaced regarding SA-CORE-2018-004 for D8 yet.
I’d say anywhere where the interest rates are low for an extended period of time and there’s stable work.

That combo seems to blow up house prices and rents.
I like how WWW is one protocol amongst many:

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