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The VA has gotten a lot of bad headlines, but I work with a vet who absolutely loved the VA. He brags about the quality and speed of his healthcare all the time. This is in Charlotte, NC. Different offices might be different.
How much RAM does your mail client use?
The fact that the healthcare was paid for by the Government had absolutely nothing to do with that case. A healthcare decision had to be made for a patient that was not able to make the decision themselves. When the doctors thought that the decision that the parents were making on behalf of the child was against the best interests of the patient they asked the courts to make a judgement of what should be done. The same thing can happen in countries with private healthcare and the same thing would have happened in the UK if they were in a private hospital.
If you enjoy having hypervisors disappear for 12 hours without notice, go ahead.

Until then, I'd say Linode is your better bet :).

EDIT: A little more information, I had two VMs go offline abruptly around 1am one night. It took 3 hours for Digital Ocean to even acknowledge a problem existed (I had opened a ticket), and that was only after I started poking their twitter account. It was at least 12 hours before they brought it back online, it was never acknowledged in any mass ticket. If you are unlucky enough, you can have the same thing unfortunately happen to you. This is my second experience of having such an outage at Digital Ocean and is, as a result, the reason I still only use DO as a testbed and nothing more.

EDIT2: Another pretty bad example of Digital Ocean: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/8sk3mbgp6jgl.
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Would you make the same argument against universal education? Spending on healthcare is not zero-sum, the linked article argues that there is good evidence that universal healthcare increases GDP, benefitting the entire economy.

"Economists at the World Bank used to call spending on health a “social overhead”, but now they believe that it speeds up growth, says Timothy Evans, one of its senior directors."
I love when people fail to understand the specification of the language and blame the compiler.
I've thought about it a bit, and I do wonder if defining a VM and compiling the COBOL/RPG/MUMPS to it first then building the language off that. The languages are pretty straight forward and defining a decent high level VM instruction set would probably help with the not only the conversion but provide some assurance that you didn't miss something important.
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You make lots of bad assumptions. But if you are going to get all nihilist about it, go all in. Your wealth is predicated on the government that ensures it’s value. Nothing you “own”, including money, is “yours” except by virtue of the laws and under threat of force from whatever relevant powers exist in your locality be they corporate, military, or organized crime. You benefit greatly from the “power transfer” that enables you to keep your wealth. So your assertion that “wealth transfer”—if that’s the petty way you need to think about it—is fundamentally immoral is exceedingly hollow when it’s predicated on the same government that transfers power to you on a regular basis.
Our system is great, as long as you have more to pay.
When the issue of universal health care comes up with regards to US policy I often see those emotional arguments pulling on the heart strings. Unfortunately, this is a distraction.

I know this sounds cold, but it comes down to money. Healthcare in America is expensive. The problems appear to be commonly identified by various forms of research and including things like pricing inefficiencies of drugs, malpractice insurance, and administrative inefficiencies.

The problem isn't as simple as blaming medical insurance providers, pricing, or fees. The problems appeared be directly associated to the processes in place, or in the case of drug prices missing pricing regulation. Drug pricing regulation does exist for the VA which has a set pricing schedule, but everybody else gets to pay more.

In order for universal healthcare to come into fruition in the US these cost inefficiencies have to be addressed. If universal healthcare is important for you then these financial and administrative problems are what you should solve for.
It seems pretty selfish to expect others to pay for your costs.
That is only relevant if your entropy estimator and mixer is broken and/or you have too few entropy sources. Linux entropy handling is quite well tested. (As opposed to initialization of the RNG.)
Created my account just to respond to this.

Alfie Evans was allowed to die based on unanimous, qualified medical evidence that was placed before the judiciary, which is entirely separate from the government. This ridiculous idea of "the government putting him to death" that's doing the rounds in the US media at the moment is disgustingly disingenuous and, what is worse, factually far from the mark.

Alfie's parents, at no point, owned his life. He did, and every qualified, trained medical professional agreed that it was not in HIS interests to be kept alive with no realistic hope of recovery. It's dreadfully sad and I don't in the least blame the parents for wanting a different outcome, but this is Terri Schiavo all over again with the added media abuse of the fact that it's a child to further their own agenda.
53% of discretionary spending, though.
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This is not certain. There is evidence that the safer people feel, the less willing they are to take risks. This is only paradoxical at first glance.
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Which makes sense if you can pay. But for low income house holds it's a decision between live long poverty or death.
Here in Germany I am pretty glad that whatever I have I can go to a doctor or hospital and not get a single bill for it. Tops I have to pay 5€ for a prescription even if the drug is 120€ normally. And surely even in universal health care systems standards can be very high. It's a matter of investment.
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Not necessarily. For example you could be a decent web developer on the Microsoft stack and not be proficient with the whole section "Learn To Work in Unix Shells". Also it could be easy to get by using git with a UI and not know any of the commands or medium/advanced functionality.
Insurers offer guaranteed patients to hospitals and doctors in exchange for reduced payment rates. In other words, they hospitals make their money off of volume. This is why there are networks of providers.

If you prefer, you can visit any hospital you want in the United States, as long as you pay for the medical care. Why should hospitals accept low insurance payment from insurers who do not give them a benefit of increased patient volume?
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developers who can say "df said the disk is full", "when I try to connect to it, it times out while connecting and we don't even get a syn/ack back, but it works fine from my phone", etc

In a choice between two candidates for a web dev role it's going to come down to who's shows more interest in (say) CSS layout technologies or writing webpack plugins than any amount of UNIX knowledge. There's a minimum amount they'd need to know like navigating around a CLI and using NPM, but I certainly wouldn't expect a developer have any sort of sysadmin skillset.

I'm not suggesting it's bad to know them or that they're not nice things for a developer to have, just that I don't think they have any significant impact on the chances of getting hired.
Eddie from DigitalOcean here.

You'll only need to pay for your worker nodes and we'll handle upgrades for you.
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Besides registering to be on Do Not Call lists, how do you reduce or eliminate robocalls and scams? If the telecommunications industry isn't going to fix this, surely someone has made a reputable and trust worthy app to address this, no? I hate that we have to default to not answering the phone from unrecognized numbers and wait for a voice mail if it's legit.
You don't need government programs to do that.
The point isn’t really to compare it to the current best that the US governmeny can do. With the US’s historic view on universal/“free at the point of access” health care it is hardly surprising that the VA is a mess. What you should compare it to is the best that other governments have done, in which case there are many examples of excellent universal healthcare from public insurance based all the way through to the UK’s NHS - which does an excellent job despite below inflation budget increases and endless media hyped scandals.
> Don't people expect to be able to swipe on the screen these days? That seems more intuitive than indirectly controlling the screen via buttons.

Nope. I hate swiping. I expect my e-ink screens to be free of ugly, distracting fingerprints, and I generally find physical buttons to be more accurate, precise, and intuitive than swiping and other gestures.
I'm saying this for political reasons - since healthcare literally is defense of the people's physical well being, I'm suggesting a branding and messaging change not arguing for overall priority re-adjustments against other issues (education, etc)
I'm from a country that has public health and free college education (Finland).

I much prefer paying bit more in taxes than having to have a bad conscience knowing that a lot of the people living in my country would not have the same options as myself.

I'm not exceedingly wealthy but I make more than the statistical average employee.
FWIW, I can read HTML e-mails just fine via mutt in an SSH session. One doesn't need Chrome or Firefox to read them.
This is not a matter of health care. It’s a matter of who gets the last word in childs matters. A court can decide that the parents actions or decisions cause harm to the child and take custody of the child at the request of any concerned person. In this case, the concerned person were the doctors.

Without diving into the decisions in that particular case, this is in general something I consider good. There are parents that abuse their children. It’s also something that may lead to unacceptable outcomes, the law is always imperfect.
In my country we do have single payer health care, but I wouldn't step foot into a state hospital unless I would have a terminal disease.

The infrastructure is old and crumbling, people get infections during operations and walk out more sick than they entered.

Sometimes you are asked to bring your own medicine, and basic medical supplies because hospitals don't provide you with anything. The system is overcrowded and no one gives a shit about you unless you bribe them.

I think the key-word is functioning universal health care.

While I do support paying for universal health care and think it is a basic necessity of a civilized country, you need a good culture and competent people to make it work.

I think a good culture makes shit work, not the process itself. (just like applying Scrum / Agile won't make you solve anything without the right people)
While unfortunate for them (and their child!) that's still a better situation than being in the US.
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They're not talking about the copay or deductible. They're talking about "Hospital believes that the services provided should cost $X, insurance company believes that a reasonable price is $Y, you now owe the hospital $X - $Y".
Penn Jillette also believes global warming is a conspiracy. No nation with free market health insurance has universal healthcare, so as the person making an extraordinary claim, it's on you to come up with proof.
I have 3 kids, one of them in diapers. I stay up late and work on side projects / watch dumb shows alone after the family goes to sleep. No matter how later I still get up early to get the older kids ready for school. I'm tired all the time but it's worth it to get that alone time.
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People are usually careful to not use too many services from the same provider to not give the provider too much data. This used to be true at least, and was the argument heard when Google+ launched.
Brush your teeth (and tongue!), wear clean clothes, and comb your hair!
Not that true: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/06/13/why-the-us-has...
How much RAM does your current mail client use?
TIL. Couldn't remember the original domain.
Nr. 1 implies that they (or their users) don't care about efficiency. It doesn't tell us anything about native cross platform development being expensive.
I think Tokyo is a good counter to the nonsense perpetuated in SF that the law of supply and demand doesn’t somehow apply to housing.

Homelessness however is more a multi-headed beast, and Japanese culture likely plays as much into a lack of people on the street as does housing availability.
No, it isn't the same thing. But it does make comprehension easier. You can get a feel for this by making a text editing window really small, say 10 x 20 characters and then trying to comprehend an otherwise perfectly legible program through that window. It's going to be much harder than when you have more overview. This is also why we make diagrams to show a simplified version of a program to aid understanding.

APL went all the way with this and assigned many reasonably complex operations on complex datastructures to single character symbols. Once you know those symbols the code is about as hard to understand as any other language that you've mastered. It's just that because the symbols are not used in any other language family that you are going to struggle quite a bit in the beginning. It's like trying to ready Cyrillic.
There was a good comment(I have it saved somewhere) explaining this quite well - some places in the world(European nations mostly) got so fucked over by history, over and over and over again that as societies they realized you cannot "pull yourself by your bootstraps" and provide for yourself in all circumstances. Just in the 20th century it was possible to see your country ravaged by two world wars, change ideologies three times, change the dominant religion and ownership of land between major powers few times in just few decades.....the societies have realized that the only way to make it work is by providing certain services to everyone, free of charge, purely because they are citizens with no strings attached(and no, this has nothing to do with communism). Meanwhile, in US, the "pioneer" ideal still reigned - anyone could achieve anything, given enough hard work. That ideal didn't exist in Europe at the time, or was crushed so thoroughly its destruction echoed through society - you could be the most hardworking person in Europe, but if someone decided they were going to pillage your land, rape your family and send you all to concentration camps - that was going to happen. No amount of positive thinking and hard work was going to prevent it. So yes, to my granparents it's absolutely obvious that everyone should have equal chances - healthcare should be funded by the state, as should education and child-bearing. They still get really upset over the fact that despite all education being 100% free in this country students still have to pay for their own housing - why should they? The state wants to have well educated citizens, why the hell should the students be paying anything to study. Once again, this has nothing to do with communism, but I am sure Americans would label it as such.
I'd be happy to help if you want.
Universal healthcare is not a silver bullet, in certain Eastern European Countries we pay a large amount of our salary in taxes so that we have universal healthcare and yet you still have to give "gifts" to every nurse and doctor that treats you unless you want the bare minimum treatment and care. Doctors can also intentionally botch surgeries if you fail to pay up. Not so much that it can be called malpraxis though.
Yep, the closest thing I've seen to a free market is the pet healthcare market in the US. I've met businessmen who got out of the human healthcare market into vet care because it was so much more profitable even though the prices are way, way lower.
> When it comes to public funding for public goods we tend to worry about some poor person getting something they don’t deserve. The go it alone I’ve got mine, fuck you attitude is unhealthy.

1/3 of our GDP goes to "the village". We spend trillions every year on the things you want most. Education, healthcare, environmental protections. You name it; we spend money on it!

70 million people use medicaid. 44 million people use medicare. 22 million veterans eligible for the VA. 22 million government employees who receive healthcare benefits paid for by the state.

We are drowning in the healthcare spending you pretend doesn't exist.
People should really stop using the wrong comparisons.

Liberal/Authoritarian
Progressive/Conservative
Democrat/Republican

Progressive means that you want to change society while conservatives want to preserve it as it is.

The Nazi party was as progressive as it can get since they wanted to restructure all of German society and the whole world, so were the Bolsheviks neither of them were particularly liberal or democratic.

A purely conservative society will stagnant and decay a purely progressive one would result in chaos.

The tool that mediates this in a modern democracy is bureaucracy which provides resistance to change but ensures that once it reaches critical mass it would go through.

Which is why the extremes of both political ends attack or try to circumvent it.
Great piece. Would love to see more discussion of it on HN. I hope you reach justice with the NLRB for your case.
Survival rates are higher as they are detected earlier. So this should be - where would I rather have my cancer detected. But again it is not that clear:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/cancer-spen...
Quote: A new study shows that the U.S. spends far more than Europe on cancer care but has a higher mortality rate for lung cancer, the leading killer
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The VA is far from perfect and is really noticeably worse than many other country's nationalized health systems. But it's not obviously worse than private health insurance in the US and generally veterans are as happy with their health care as other people. I think the VA example tends to dispel the notion that single payer would save that much money but it works about as well as other approaches, of which the US has way too many.
I think there's a perspective you're missing. If you're in school and need drugs to keep up, what's going to happen when you're out of school? Instead of developing strategies for success now, you're using drugs. I think it'll be a crutch you'll find difficult to get rid of.
Sorry BSVino, but this has been the total opposite of my experience working in UX and UI. I've seen this exact attitude leading to mindless groupthink, and the accumulation of technical or design debt. It doesn't work because it's entirely opinion based, in which case the stronger personality/authority will just force their viewpoint.

What I find works best is to clearly define what results you want from a design change. For example, if you can both agree that it's very important a particular icon is NEVER misunderstood, agreeing on an icon becomes much simpler. If you really disagree, you now have an objective way to measure if it succeeds in it's goal.
Could you go into a little more detail about this setup?
Fun fact that most Americans don't know:

We _ALREADY_ spend more than enough on healthcare as a nation to fully fund healthcare for everybody. It's just that, unlike in other countries, our current system routes that spending to various for profit entities that don't involve actually providing care.

tldr; Lack of funding is not a legitimate argument against providing healthcare to Americans.
I love SlipWays! It's really impressive that you crammed a game that deep into such a small system. That and Celeste were big inspirations to look into PICO-8 myself. Looking forward to the full release.
That's the contract you enter into.

You pay a premium for coverage of unexpected medical costs and you agree to pay a copay and pay up to a deductible amount.

If you don't like the contract, enter into a different contract with a different company, or start your own private insurance companyn or self insure.
It works very well and has controls so you don't schedule important workloads on preemptable instances: https://medium.com/google-cloud/using-preemptible-vms-to-cut...
> I can’t believe I had to explain that.

You didn't really have to. I guess I made my point badly. The fact that a "web browser" is somewhere in the chain of what is reading an application does not mean that the application itself has anything to do with "the web", so I think calling it a web app is confusing and pointless. And again, seems like a technicality.

> As for the second issue: users care because performance is worse, accessibility is by and large non-existent and platform features don’t work.

I agree with this in general. It doesn't mean it helps the user to call it a web app. Maybe we need a third, generic term for electron apps and others like them. A name that refers to the potential differences in performance, accessibility, and performance that users may notice?

Web app doesn't work for what you are talking about as far as I can tell. Of course this is an industry where terms and definitions change a lot.
A UK court ruled he could not seek treatment elsewhere, and was ordered off life support. That's not misinformation, it's reality.

edit Downvoted for citing a verifiable fact. This is a remarkably emotional, politically-charged thread. Comments and voting in this thread are driven not by logic and reason, but by emotion and political bias.
As a healthy wealthy individual, more than happy to pay for sick people that cannot afford healthcare to become healthy. It is in my direct interest to have as little sick people as possible in the country where I live.
no reason why single-payer means government-run hospitals
I don't think emotional arguments are a distraction, they're the whole point. This is a moral issue. Other countries manage to have universal healthcare and it doesn't break the bank. In fact, they spend less per person. The fiscal argument is the distraction.
> When a person gets a life threatening disease they ought not worry about whether or not their treatment will leave their family in penury.

You can't start any economic argument by saying that paying any cost is a must. You will get fleeced.

It is not true that universal healthcare pays for everything. The most expensive and experimental treatments will not be covered ever by the system, and it shouldnt.
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> Survival rates are significantly higher in the US

Citation needed.
"Survival rates are significantly higher in the US, so I know what I'd choose."

Uh, something is going to kill me anyway. And the percentage difference isn't that high. I'd much rather have everyone state funded healthcare than a bit higher statistical chances for myself.
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