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> For the rich individual, it is in their short and long-term interest to prevent universal healthcare.

Not necessarily, although it does depend on the definition of "long-term":

* Reducing ER visits for preventable issues lowers hospital costs

* Higher demand for supplies should lower costs

* A larger market creates stronger incentives to research and address rarer diseases

* Eliminating individual medical debt reduces crime rates, increases education/competition
nobody cares if you took wrote the software yourself or got it from someone else's library, as long as the software product works

They do if you are in violation of a license...
> 2. I can get an MRI in the USA within 3-5 days (sometimes next day), virtually anywhere in the country.

AFAIK you can do that anywhere in Europe as well, provided that you pay out of pocket, or that you have purchased extra coverage to do that -- the cost of which is usually a fraction of similar coverage in the US.

(Also AFAIK, you weren't able to pay out of pocket in Canada for that 20 years ago - I don't know if that has changed).

> If you were diagnosed with a possible brain tumor/cancer requiring an MRI to confirm, would the 50 to 90-day difference in MRI and diagnosis result in a measurable difference in outcome, if you did in fact have a tumor?

The 50-90 days number quoted is, AFAIK, related to non-urgent things. I know two people who got it within 24 hours when there was suspicion of a tumor.
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Why Ukrainians Hate When You Say 'The Ukraine'
http://www.newsweek.com/why-ukrainians-hate-when-you-say-ukr...
The first implementation of a smart phone was likely the LG Prada not the iPhone.
When you go to your settings you can 'activate and migrate' your user account or organization accounts to GitHub Apps. We will switch your service hooks to GitHub App service hooks in the process. Our support team is also more than happy to help :) support@travis-ci.com
It really wasn't as massive a leap as you make it out to be. It's likely that we would have ended up with something very similar to today's smartphones even if the iPhone had never existed.

It wasn't the first smartphone. It wasn't the first phone to use a capacitive touch screen. The first iPhone didn't even have the app store - it launched with the 3G a year after the the first iPhone was released, if I remember correctly. At that time, Android and Blackberry both had app stores in the works. They might have released before the iOS App Store - I don't remember.

Anyways, Apple did create a great product that deserves all of the popularity it has but they absolutely did not push us 10 years into the future of computing.
I choose Rancher 1.x for a large project at my last place, it allowed Researchers to run their algorithms wrapped up in containers. From the start Rancher was the perfect solution that checked all the boxes: really easy to use web interface, LDAP Authentication, automatic deployment of hosts, easy to wrap up deployments into catalog items. But after a few months it was just so unbelievably buggy due to the products maturity.

It's good to see they have got their focus right with version 2.
Congratulations! Jupyter is such a gem. It has become such a critical piece in the whole data analytics/ML landscape that I can't think of living without.
(Rancher employee) I'm not sure what you're asking for but the UI is l00% static client-side code. Everything it does can by definition be automated through the API.

Getting the command to import a cluster is ~5 calls from a brand new server container.. Login with admin/admin, set a better password, set the server-url, create a cluster and get the registration token/command for it.
Thanks for using and trusting us :)
They're a cancer or disrupter to old ways of financing a startup. They're not cancer if you have executed one yourself and if you understand how trading vehicles work along with the capital markets. Wall Street is the real cancer. Software engineering has never merged very well with financial engineering except in the world of the quantitative analyst. It's all about how the funding is used in the end. Some ICOs will actually be part of solving for cancer. If you’d like to acquire accurate information on the structure, performance and differences in ICOs, contact me kasian.franks@gmail.com
Taxation is not violent coercion by the state and it is disingenuous to describe the former as the latter.
That's true but have an example in the US, universal healthcare is provided by the US government, if you are over 65, it's called Medicare for people who have paid into the system while under 65 and a few others. People over 65 are free to buy insurance and pay for their own healthcare, thanks to ACA.
Staying longer also has opportunity costs. The article says he will take "some time off to do things I enjoy", but perhaps one of the things he enjoys is a new $10B startup.
> Always nice to have book recommendations, but you learn programming by programming.

Did you read the article? That's literally what she said in the article.
States in and of themselves aren’t moral under your framework because they can only exist by threat and use of force.

But some of us are interested in solutions for the real world instead of the debating the merits of unfeasible utopias.

I, too, would enjoy a stateless peaceful utopia of equitable commerce, but that has zero bearing on how we should decide public policy. Foraging for utopias is the same kind of naïveté Marxists trot out again and again and were it ever enacted at scale it would lead to the same kind of human suffering.
I've seen some 160GbE links in datacenters - 4x40's - how much they were actually utilized, I have no idea.
I don't care about innovation.

I just want macOS and Mac hardware to be as reliable as it was in the Snow Leopard times.
New Research Reveals Record Growth in Microservices Is Disrupting the Landscape
No kidding. I was blown away by the notion there are working web devs who don't understand HTTP or basic networking.
I feel like this advice could be summed up in one sentence, "Create at least two good full stack web applications for your portfolio, put them in your git, use different languages for each and a minimal IDE."
The best advice to stand out has already been said here, soft skills that complement fundamental technical competence. Once you're in an interview understanding basic human empathy and having a strong and apparent capacity to work with a team has way more persuasion than bullet points on your resume.
I remember having to schedule a 780Kb download overnight and hoping no one picked the phone up. Or years later having to download shows in advance (illegally because they weren’t available) because streaming wasn’t possible.

Now I casually (and legally) boot up any show I feel like within seconds at HD resolutions. I love thinking about the sheer amount of data that is traversing around the internet now. And it’s more fun to imagine what becomes possible when you bump up another order of magnitude or two.

In games for instance, a significant limiting factor for implementing large player counts in fast-paced multiplayer come down to bandwidth. The amount needed, for the most part, scales linearly per-player as the player count increases. Add more bandwidth (and some more CPU power) and games can evolve entirely new experiences.

The battle royale games like PUBG are a great example, but due to bandwidth issues and CPU usage the server tick rate is much slower than normal fast-paced games (20hz vs 60hz) and therefore the experience suffers quite a bit.
Facebook did just announce a "dating" app...
I wonder what the result would be of the US government requiring all hospitals to have a public, fixed, non-negotiable price list the same for all insured and uninsured.
That would effectively be introducing a gatekeeper, just one that's not particularly good at filtering bad actors (money).

There are a lot of benefits to allowing hobbyists and students to cheaply (or even freely) register domains.
> I used to view Apple as a vaguely sinister company

What about Apple gave you the impression they were sinister and what has changed?

I've actually been going the opposite direction with my opinion of them. All of their talk of "you are not the product" and "we respect your privacy" is great but feels opportunistic given the current climate. The foundation of Apple's products that they are touting as privacy focused were actually about controlling the experience. They've cleverly spun happenstance into a platform to promote their products.

None of that really strikes me as sinister though, when I say that they've been going in the opposite direction I'm referring more to the way they support their hardware and their shady tactics when it comes to device repair. For Apple the profit is in selling you a new device, they make no money if you don't upgrade. A repaired device isn't a profit, it's the burden of continued support. So what we're seeing is products that look great but aren't designed with longevity in mind and replacement focused support.

Apple shipped the iPhone 6 with a battery that degraded quickly and by most would be considered faulty. Rather than issue a recall or some other pro-consumer solution, they hid the fact that batteries weren't functioning to specification by throttling the CPU/GPU and degrading performance. This also had the nice benefit of coaxing users to upgrade because their device was slow.

When Apple got called on this, their response was to claim it was a benefit to the user rather than admit the batteries were faulty. They then graciously offered to lower the price on a battery replacement. So instead of a costly recall, they're profiting or breaking even on you having to pay for a replacement. If that wasn't enough, many people are reporting that Apple is refusing to replace batteries on devices without first fixing other faults like cracked screens or "broken" microphones [0].

Apple is also using it's new found position as bastion of your privacy to justify other shady practices like disabling components or bricking hardware entirely if it isn't "genuine" and then claiming it's to protect the consumer's privacy.

Their growth as plateaued and I feel like this is only the beginning of the Comcastic abuses of the customer we typically see from the market leader trying to find new ways to grow. That's why I think they've been becoming more sinister anyways.

[0] https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3031484/apple-dema...
I agree. With CSS Grid now part of the browser in Chrome/FF/Edge, we really should be ditching these frameworks and using CSS Grid directly.
From the horse’s mouth: https://youtu.be/omnskeu-puE
Maybe. But possible one in a hundred times, the "banged head on table" could lead to complications. I'm familiar with such a case.

Somehow, everywhere in the developed world except the US, people can go to the ER-or-equivalent (many places have 24-hour clinics/triage centers that would send you to an ER only if needed) after they've banged their heads, and 99% of the time be told "go home, it's fine" without being bankrupt. I would say the problem is with how the US healthcare system is run.
>a 3 month long period before they get deactivated

It's 12 month long actually.
Doing nothing is not violent or coercive. It may be morally wrong for a person to do nothing, but it's not violent or coercive.
It's evocative. Like saying something is a "cold war", or someone has gone "postal" or a situation went "nuclear".

Is it insensitive? Probably. It's fitting though, if you see the analogy as "something that will kill the host if not treated".
Change your location in your profile to Luxembourg and then avail yourself of the GDPR compliance features?
Unfortunately, most of these LR programs don't work in AWS (RDS) land, since they require PG plugins, and RDS LR only supports the built-in test decoder.

I wrote a similar program that uses LR to stream changes to AWS's Kinesis[1], using a mini library that parses the output of the default test decoder[2] as a result, in case anyone else is in RDS and has the same limitation.

[1] https://github.com/nickelser/pg_kinesis
[2] https://github.com/nickelser/parselogical
> "Taxes == get fleeced" ... no. Or, at least, not as a matter of course. Maybe some taxes are bad, or unfair, but we can judge each tax on its merits.

Sure. I pay private healthcare and i also pay a medicare tax. Im already getting fleeced for a service I don't use.

> "Government program provides worse services" ... no. Or, at least, not as a matter of course. Maybe some things the private sector does better? But a huge swath of civic life relies on government services because, well, that's by definition what government provides, the building blocks of civic life.

Government is just unable to provide something more efficiently than the private market, it has to be a very particular case for that to be true. What i can do is provide services no market can provide. (like security, legal, etc). A private legal system would run afowl, private armies would be civil war, etc. But thats not because the government is efficient,its because it cant be provided otherwise. I would never call 3.6 trillion defense spending efficient.

The argument in favor of public run healthcare is that private healthcare is unable to do it not that the government is better at doing it.
Facebook commits to civil rights audit, political bias review
> nokia, samsung and others were all on their way with competing products that would have filled the void had the iphone not been there

We used smartphones in the labs at Motorola when I started working there in 2001. They ran Linux and had all the capabilities you would consider essential to a smartphone, not just the form factor. They were targeted for public sale in 2002 or 2003, if I remember correctly, but got shelved because the dotcom crash caused the networks to delay upgrading their infrastructure (yes, high-speed data networks had been in the works since the 1990s). A smartphone for sale in 2003 would have been absolutely useless. You'll remember that the phone networks could barely handle (or couldn't depending on your viewpoint) the iPhone for the first few years.

I didn't work in the cell phone division so I can't say for sure, but I think that most of the manufacturers let their smartphone development stagnate or stall from the early 2000s until 2006 or 2007, while Apple kept plugging away at it. When they proved that people would buy a smartphone even when their mobile network couldn't handle the traffic, all the manufacturers put effort back into development but by then they were far behind Apple.
Well. At about every sail club there is a guy who knows and says all the right things. Helpful and willing to share, bringing an owe. Until he gets at helm.
Over my brief following I had the growing suspicion that He is the guy. I might be wrong, but his sublime attention seeking become too annoying...

Just think about the article. You are frikking street cop fresh from the Academy. He just graduated. How being featured in New Yorker will help you working with other cops? It won’t.
So, apparently guy is not thinking about his job...
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Cancer is a terrible disease which many have to fight with, and likely die from. I had to fight it and luckily didn't die.

ICOs are a scam.

Learn the difference.
As a heavy user of Rancher 1.6 this is amazing news!

The only gripe I have is the api is not as functional as 1.6, It's lacking features such as upgrading a pod. Other than that it's looking better than ever.
I've lived in countries that have socialized medicine and ones without and my experience was dramatically different. I was always taught that socialized medicine was better. However I never got half decent care until I bought private health insurance.

My whole life I've been on government healthcare plans, across various countries. Imagine my shock when the first time I called my private health insurance provider at 34, it worked well. They chose the clinic I would go to, when I arrived to my appointment I was immediately ushered in to meet a physician. The physician was able to diagnose many problems within a couple of minutes, and I was asked to call my insurance company back so they could approve a series of tests and treatments.

I waited half an hour for approval and I then immediately saw two different doctors and had an x-ray all before leaving the building.

The clinic is interested in actually treating me and giving me the best care possible so that I don't come back. This ensures they get repeat business from my insurance company. Socialized medicine never gave me that kind of care or expediency in my life. The problems were all fixed.

One of the problems I've had for 10 years. Doctors were never able to diagnose it properly or it was "come back in 2 weeks, try this medicine, try that, etc." They were not interested in treating me they were interested in seeing me again and again because they were getting paid by the state.

I'm sure there are anecdotes to the contrary but I am completely sold on private healthcare. It's also fantastically cheaper. In Germany for example I was paying 800/month for healthcare, half "paid by my employer", which would really be my money. My current private healthcare costs about 380/year.

Diagnosed immediately, immediate care. I can buy as much or as little as I want and don't have to subsidize others. I'm encouraged to stay in shape and healthy.
I'm fairly convinced that the only way this gets fixed is if enough people complain loudly to the phone companies & cancel accounts. Verizon / AT&T / T-mobile / etc. absolutely have the power to fix this, and they're choosing instead to largely ignore it, and productize the solutions for anyone who cares enough - let the spammers pay to create the problem, and let the consumers pay for the remedy. Telcos win on both ends.

I registered on the US national do not call list a decade ago. I'm not sure how much it helped over the years, but in the last few years, the phone calls illegally ignoring that list are increasing like crazy. All the telemarketer strategies are changing too, to get around whatever blocking method you have. They're spoofing random local numbers now, so you can't use your phone's number blocking feature. They're hanging up and calling back later to avoid time wasting. They're offering fake do not call lists to confirm a human is listening. I think it's hopeless, my only strategy now is just decline any call not in my address book. If it's someone who needs me, they'll leave a voicemail.
He could also quit today and Facebook could donate the $1B and you'd end up exactly the same.
Hey Josh, biggest issue I run into is not being able to CI forks of projects, any chance this could work in future?
In the US, the first sentence holds true, it just costs a lot more.
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I've accepted that they are a part of living in a system that doesn't value my privacy as much as corporate profit when the interests conflict.

I've registered with Do Not Call and I don't answer calls beginning with my 6 digits. The next steps would take too much effort.

I don't like accepting something I find repellent, but I have other priorities and I'd rather happily work on them than angrily be distracted.

Meanwhile, I'm working on cutting my incoming junk paper mail. I downloaded PaperKarma, but it doesn't work (it takes pictures but fails to upload them). I emailed them two bug reports but no response. Does anyone know what I can do instead?
It does say Computer Science and programming. So you might not read those books while learning to program, you (arguably) would while learning computer science.
Stories about who is winning an election, or about how many votes a candidate is going to lose because of some comment she made during her campaign are not of interest.

But there is a difference between politics and policy. The effects of various policies and how to construct policy to achieve a given effect are topics that will be of great interest to most hackers. Hacking society is what legislators do all day long. That's why you see stories like this one getting upvoted.
Over 30? Too Old for Tech Jobs in China
There is no such thing
Thanks for trying but it blocks that site as well.
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It's responsive for me using Vivaldi 1.15
Stackoverflow :)
The big riddle is how do you get the health care costs in the U.S back in line with the rest of the world, which doesn't necessarily have single payer. I'm a big fan of Singapore's public/private hybrid which delivers excellent results for a very low percent of GDP. We spend double as a percent of our GDP on health care vs all other developed nations.
> Yeah, but don't forget that the pieces to be able to create the iPhone had to be there first.

Like the LG Prada?
At Rancher we don't really want to introduce another level of abstraction on top of Kubernetes. You are right there's no value in doing that. Kubernetes is already the orchestration standard that most people are willing to use and most infrastructure vendors are willing to support. Rancher just tries to make it easier to manage lots of Kubernetes clusters.
For the same reason spam contains misspelled words and grammatical errors. If this turns you away, you aren’t the target audience.
A lot of good stuff is falling through the cracks nowadays. Even YC content is going unnoticed, e.g.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16946261

But if a submission gets no comments you can re-submit it after a few hours without setting off the de-duper.
> The US has been developing its health care system, uninterrupted, longer than other nations.

The NHS is 70 years old, and it partly exists because Welsh coal miners set up cooperative insurance schemes. These worker's medical aid societies started in the early 19th century.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-history-...
The only thing they have in common is that they're both near a fault line. Tokyo has a foundation of solid bedrock so soil liquefaction is not an issue. Very little of the area surrounding downtown Tokyo is sea, compared to San Francisco, which is a peninsula around 10 km wide.
I've been to a VA hospital. My brother/dad/uncle have been to the same VA hospital. Our experiences have all been poor.

If you were told that you'd get an appointment some time in the future and they sent you a notice randomly in the mail a few months later, you probably wouldn't be happy with the service. If your doctor was over an hour late, you wouldn't be happy. If you had a friend that was paralyzed after a spinal tap (my dad's buddy) then you probably wouldn't hold the VA in high regard.

You are the first veteran I've ever met who had good experiences at the VA and who doesn't know anyone that has been crippled by the VA.
How Much Sugar Would It Take to Get a Rocket to the Moon? – FiveThirtyEight
Personally I'd mark having a Facebook account as a negative in terms of sanity.
Nice charts! Which technologies (frontend and backend) have you used?