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Part of the thought process around that is that most DBs don’t have a good option to do it well.

In larger applications, if you’ve got a need to have a stored procedure handle a complex modification your application will be blind to it.

Plus, at the application level you don’t have any way to enforce that the particular place in your code that modified the data and then emits the change is the ONLY place in your code that can modify that data. This becomes more pronounced over time too.

The problem is amplified if you find something that needs to be done to inbound data that is better handled in another language for some reason. Then you have to remember to duplicate the logic or hook your new code into the application, forcing a new layer in front of your database.

There are some things that the database is better left handling. :)
That sounds reasonable enough, but how fast is your queue moving? I'm 3,800 something - will I remember this show HN when I get access? :)
Cognitive dissonance associated with politics in some cases, and probably just ignorance and an assumption that there's some amount of fairness and reasonability behind pricing in other cases?
So... you make it a point not to read html emails on it?
Ditto on the problem reporting being so much more useful coming from someone who knows how to do just a little bit of investigation and diagnostics.

A web developer who knows to try the issue from a different machine and a different network is so much more useful to those around them. Makes work much more smooth, and speeds up development too.
No need to fight over which one gets to be called number 1. Both are components of a whole vision; a healthy, thriving populace, building off the successes of one another to create a better experience for everyone, rich and poor alike.
> Nurses could do a lot of things doctors do now, and for a lot less money, but MDs refuse to cede any authority

Nurse practitioners are actually increasingly common in the American health care system.
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I couldn't agree more. I don't think U.S. has a real progressive party, the choices are off the rails conservatism, or conservative lite. IMO, a progressive/liberal is concerned someone might go hungry, a conservative is concerned that they might miss out because someone got some food they didn't earn/deserve.
Great Story, Smart Guy! One of the best New Yorker Articles I have read this year.
Agreed. This must be written by someone out on the west coast.
I've seen the lyon thing. Completely insane. Even if I love the mad max vibe of skaters that was to close to deathwish to my tastes.

Flores video was thrilling. He says it, the sheer determination is what they are about. It's something I value a lot after years.

I wonder if physics teachers should analyze that with pupils. It's so damn impressive how much control they get out of their bare feet, in motion, about to leap over voids ..
See my update to the comment. Its memory footprint is greater than I expected. I shan’t pursue it any further at present, I was mostly just curious to get an initial feel for it. Taking it (or something like it) to a polished product is something I’d like to do, but I’ve got other, much more important things to do on FastMail and Topicbox, and I don’t think anyone else in the company feels strongly about it, so it’s unlikely to ever actually happen.

One avenue would be to use a different, more light-weight engine; https://github.com/zserge/webview, for example, can use the local platform’s engine, which is likely to be somewhere between a little and a lot more efficient than Electron/Chrome. Running FastMail with the MSHTML renderer via the Rust bindings for that (DPI scaling issues, but meh), it starts at about 60MB but is easy to get over 80MB with some use. Still quite a lot less than Electron/Chrome.
aren't exposed to crippling debt

Whoa there. My family has a good friend whose child was born with a severe genetic disease in Canada. They are paying a ton out of pocket for care for their child since the gov't doesn't pay (night nurse, some physiotherapy). Both parents are having to work full time just to pay the medical bills.

For your average Canadian everything gets paid for, but if you have special needs, you're sometimes on the hook big time.
If you get cancer, would you rather be treated in the US or Europe? Survival rates are significantly higher in the US, so I know what I'd choose. And yeah, I'll pay more, too, because I want high quality doctors.
FYI, there's a loophole out of the penalty. Don't know anyone who's tried it, but if you get a disconnect notice from the utility you get three months I think, so just time your payments accordingly.
Why assume that someone wants to be forever competent in his position?

Many people just want to be mangers, even disregarding the salary. I would take a management job anytime even if my salary is reduced and even if I'm not competent enough.

What do they think that I'll be productive in my current role forever? NO. I'm productive now so that I can be a manager someday.
Epidural hematoma. Careful observation is necessary because if there is a sudden decline in mental status, emergency surgery is essential.
A problem with government-provided healthcare is that the government will have ultimate say over a patient's care.

This is not merely theoretical. Last week, Alfie Evans, a 2 year old, was put to death by the state-run healthcare in the UK.[0]

"Alfie's parents had offers of care in Rome, where doctors said they would investigate different treatments. Even Pope Francis appealed to the British government to let Alfie go. Yet the British government barred Alfie’s parents from taking him to Italy or anywhere else to try to save his life. Despite tests that showed Alfie was not in pain, the courts ruled — at the hospital’s urging — that moving Alfie anywhere else was unacceptable. That’s a lethal abuse of power and reminiscent of dictatorships that built walls around their countries to keep people in.[0]

Alfie’s parents watched while their son was held captive in a British hospital. The final decision about his care was not theirs to make. This core flaw in the British system has harmed other parents, too."

Where is the critical thinking on government-provided healthcare? Everyone looks at the sunshine and rainbows of "free" healthcare for everyone, without considering the serious questions of restricted freedom and heavy taxation involved.

[0]: http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/385533-thanks-to-bri...
Being able to take someone aside after a meeting and tell them why they're wrong is an amazing skill.

You'll get a much better result, too. They won't be super defensive because they weren't called out in front of a dozen people.
Balance billing is complete bullshit. My long-term plan to deal with it is to move to Texas for their superior creditor protection laws, retire off of retirement accounts + annuities + owning primary residence, have zero assets that creditors can go after, and tell the hospital and insurance company to figure it out because they are legally unable to force me to pay.
Universal health care doesn't require government coercion. Many more people in the US would have access to health care, including insurance for catastrophic events, if the state and federal governments stopped interfering in the supply side. The same groups that use force to prevent new hospitals being built, restrict the number of doctors, prevent nurses and nurse practitioners from treating many problems they're more than qualified to address, and disallow insurance being sold across state lines say that the solution to the problems they created is more government. It's almost like they have an ulterior motive.

Big government programs raise taxes and decrease liberty. To quote Penn Jillette, "Why not err on the side of a little more freedom?"
On site owners site? That extensions likely punishes owners of sites visited by you by suspending their ad network account for click fraud. I can see how that might be considered harmful.
This isn't a great analogy. Many anti-sprawl urban planners actually say this is exactly what we should be doing to encourage more efficient (denser, more urban) development.
The other difference. Training in the US to become a doctor costs hundreds of thousands of dollars up to 1M. In your country it is free.
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Why didn't you just wait to see your primary physician?
When an OB doc pays 6 figures a year in malpractice insurance — that’s why.

The party on the left who complain the loudest about health cost are incidentally heavily supported by the plaintiffs lawyers. Look at who opposed tort reform in Texas — it wasn’t Republicans, they are the ones that proposed it; it was plaintiff lawyers and the candidates they purchase.

Literally billions a year is paid in malpractice claims and punitive damages in the 7 figures is common. Who pays those awards? We do. Try suing the NHS. Or in the case of Alfie, try even having someone else willing to pay to leave the hospital — not happening.

There is also cross-subsidation as well. When an uninsured “undocumented” person visits the ER for a sore throat — that money is almost never collected, hence the $100 bed pan. When services are effectively shoplifted, everyone else covers the loss. For data on this, look at the finances of south Texas hospitals compared to a hospital in Wyoming. Or better yet, go work in a hospital billing department. Those that disagree with this have never worked in an ER.

Ironically, in Mexico, if you need an emergency surgery, you better have proof of funds or they will literally let you die in the waiting room.

Even the “beloved” NHS will deny care to non-citizens: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pregnant-bri...

But the US? Pregnant woman walks in to any US hospital, they’ll be treated regardless of ability to pay or citizenship — which is a good thing, but then we can’t be surprised when we get to pay for that when we visit the ER.
"This is an article trying to make an ideological case rather than to discern truth."

Generally Economist is unashamedly political. That's what makes it so good - they don't try to hide the fact that they take a stand. They give you the facts and their arguments, and then it's up to the reader to digest it.

If you disagree with some of the points, I suggest you send them a letter. The letters section of Economist is one of the high points of the magazine as well - they publish rebuttals and corrections no matter how far they stray from the magazines core claim as long as the letter is well written and sanely argumentative.
As a 'web developer' you can pick your area of expertise. Nothing says that as a front end developer I can't learn Java and become full stack or backend. People can pivot within the world of web development.

If I find I am not standing out as a Python developer I could very well decide to learn either Vue or Java to stand out. Either language is still within the world of web development and would key in with existing skills and knowledge. What wouldn't make sense would be apprenticing in carpentry, that's not going to help you stand out as a web developer.
Hm, I don't see any mention of D, which is what I was most excited about. I know that D has been merged into gcc, but is it not there for this release yet? Will it be in the next release?

edit: Oh well, gdc 8.1 is there in the Debian repos. I'll ask Iain Buclaw what happened. Maybe gdc will get released with the next gcc. Looks like the merge wasn't quite complete in time for 8.1. I can be patient.
I'd much rather pay for healthcare, infra or basically what ever benefits us, the society, than for the war industry.
We are on pace to run a $1 trillion deficit this year thanks to the Republican tax cuts. Simply rescinding the cuts and putting things back they way they were in 2017 gets us about 2/3 of the way to paying the cost of Medicare for all.

It can be done, we the people need to stand up and demand it while voting in leaders who will make it happen.
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> Universal health care is a euphemism for the poor and sick getting their medical care subsidized by the wealthy and healthy.

Is it? I would have thought it is the commonwealth looking after the people that make it! Surely for countries with large sovereign wealth funds (especially those derived from the country's natural wealth), it makes sense to care for the people for which it is meant to provide!

The whole redistribution lens is a very specific way of looking at things.
These are all good skills to be proficient on day one.

What I don't see listed that I would prioritize above some of these (because every environment is different so skills are sometimes different) is testing discipline. Have you written a unit test before? Can you write testable code?

That is a much harder set of concepts to understand and would likely take awhile. Make sure what you put up is tested - that would separate you quite a bit.
For all the people railing against hospital corporations, please note:

1. Los Angeles County, of 10.1 million people, runs its own hospital system.

2. New York City, of 8.6 million people, runs its own hospital system.

3. Colorado, of 5.6 million people, runs its own hospital system.

Etc etc. (All of them quickly add up to the population of Canada.) They still do these horrible things we're talking about here, even though they're ultimately accountable to the people and must do what our laws says they must do.

And we think we're gonna suddenly be like Canada, like magic? If so, get the five people running the LA County hospitals to do so. (Yes, five people represent 10.1 million people, lol.) And the same goes for NYC and CO and the rest.
> Universal health care is a euphemism for the poor and sick getting their medical care subsidized by the wealthy and healthy.

You might have a point if the US system didn't cost taxpayers more for worse care. The US government pays more per capita for health care than other systems, but doesn't provide universal coverage.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

Universal coverage provides more levers to control costs.
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I've seen people take this view, and their view crumble as soon as they get a life-threatening condition and receive (mostly) free healthcare (in Australia). If I'd been born in the US, I'd be dead by now.
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> How is Kara being offended a smart and socially conscious decision?

That's not what the article is saying. The article is not saying that Kara being offended is smart and socially conscious. The article does not judge whether being offended here is smart or stupid or whatever.

What the article is saying is that it is smart and socially conscious to be aware of the fact that Kara is likely going to be offended. It is certainly true that awareness of others' likely reactions is smart and socially conscious.

The rest of your comment is pretty much a restatement of the conclusion of the article :)
60% of the US budget is spent on the military.

No, it's 16%.[1]

[1]https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...
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As far as comments on a checkin go. The main thing I find is that the way to phrase things is very important.

Whatever you do, write any of your thoughts as suggestions instead of tasks to be completed. If you have a decent coworker, they'll know when something is really a problem, and when something is actually up for discussion.
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i must zsound so obtuse. How does redirection happen? If there is a web page with a button, then what is /toggle? Is it another web page on his site? Isnt a button some code in html on the index.html page?
If Kara's emotions and defensiveness can't handle a clearly articulated, rational, objective argument against design decisions, then for the sake of the product and the company, she probably needs to find another job. Avoiding discussions doesn't work for me. I'm happy Steve Jobs didn't read this post.
This is not merely theoretical. Last week, Alfie Evans, a 2 year old, was put to death by the state-run healthcare in the UK

Please don't spread misinformation about this particular topic.
The problem with corporate health care is that the corporation will have ultimate say over a patient's care
In countries with "universal healthcare", there is a big incentive from the organization paying the costs of exams to emphasis preventive care because ultimately, they won't run a deficit every year.

And usually, it has a big bargaining power because its decide if if will reimburse the medicine or not.

See for example : http://www.pmlive.com/pharma_news/france_agrees_lowest_soval...

Similarly, there is a big incentive to reduce tobacco, alcohol consumption and obesity, because it has a big cost shared by everyone paying to the common fund.

So I would say that universal health care has the same incentive to reduce the overall cost, that a multi payer system.
He wasn't put to death. The poor child was already brain dead. You could have left him on a machine to make his lungs go up and down forever but he was no longer there.

I agree if Italy had agreed to take him then they should have let him move him.
$5700 ER bill for an ice pack and refusal of treatment: https://www.vox.com/2018/5/1/17261488/er-expensive-medical-b...

this is what's broken in America today.
Did they pay for your HHKB?
The case of Alfie seems quite independent of Universal Health Care. There is no particular reason why the implementation couldn't have permitted Alfie's parents to take their child to Italy or anywhere else. If anything, the case of Alfie seems more related to CPS, Child Protective Services. That is, when should the state intervene to protect children from their parents.
"If you think the private healthcare system is immoral, you should take a look at the 100% government ran healthcare system that is the VA"

Or you could actually read the linked Economist article
The insurer only pays part of the bill because you entered into a contract with the insurer that specified that as such.

No insurer pays 100% of every medical bill, no matter what, with no expectation of copay or deductible. Even if you had that sweet deal, you would be paying premiums that nobody could afford.

Do you have a right to receive services from another human without appropriate payment?
But other countries can do this. So the hard question then is, why is the US government so uniquely bad at doing things that it doesn't want to do?
This is a principal reason why the US was crossed off my list of countries where I would work and live. I fight against the privatization that is occurring within healthcare in my native country, Iceland. We used to have the Scandinavian model but decades of attacks from the right-wing Independence Party has broken our healthcare system. The next phase described by Chomsky is handing it over to private capital since people are outraged that it doesn't work anymore. I'm sickened by the development and feel a little like an old man screaming at the desert wind.
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> Kara, the icon is wrong

Well, no kidding, if you're literally going up and saying /that/, which doesn't help anything but your ego IMHO.

Learn to deliver criticism properly! How about "I think the icon is misleading: I saw customer X interpret it as ..." or "I think the icon doesn't fit the style of the rest of the thing, look at how all the other ones are using pastel colors and this one ..." or "The icon is too low-res and looks pixelated on my monitor" etc? The point isn't that they are wrong and you are right, it's that it could / should be better in a certain way.

Also, go in with some dignity and not with the assumption that the person is incompetent: perhaps they had some other goal or an absurd deadline or a constraint that they were working around and not "you missed this obvious thing that even I could see, doofus".

Also, first tell the person privately and casually, in an environment where they don't feel pressured to maintain appearances: like it or not, there is a stigma around making mistakes in most offices (or learned behavior on some people's part) that doesn't work to anyone's advantage. So don't blurt out "the icon is wrong" out of nowhere in the middle of a meeting with superiors or "ha ha, GEEEZ DID YOU MESS THIS ONE UP" in the middle of the open office.

Sure, if you've been tactful and helpful and still being ignored and it's important, then raise the issue above the person. But gosh, being tactful is a learnable skill.

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Edit: I think the quality of the interaction mostly really comes down to: does the person think you're genuinely trying to be helpful or that you're just trying to point out that they're wrong (and perhaps get brownie points yourself)?
Why not with Freshmen? They're usually around 18 years old and they've been in school for 12 years at that point. I think they outta know by now that cheating is wrong.
The VA was a good system not too long ago, but the past couple decades has seen it get extremely underfunded in a starve the beast strategy. It used to be a black eye in the Republican's view of healthcare, but they sure fixed that.
Wages certainly are a contributing factor to the cost of US healthcare. Canadian physician salaries are high by any normal standard, but still much lower than US salaries, especially when you get into specialties.
Are survival rates higher for everyone in the US, or just for those who can afford cancer treatment?
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If treatment means bankruptcy, is that much of a choice?
There's some serious mental gymnastics going on here to justify that the US spends 2x the next country per capita on health care expenditure and still doesn't manage to pay for all its citizens. Especially when the federal government has already taken all its worst customers (the old) and thrown them into a socialized pool (medicare) without anyone to balance out the risk.

Wasn't there a writeup recently that wealth distribution isn't materially distinguishable from luck? [1] Your argument that the healthy/rich subsidize the poor/sick is tantamount to saying the unlucky should fend for themselves. That's an easy argument to make if you're lucky. Your luck may turn at any moment, and then if it does, you're SOL.

Further, if the moral argument falls flat for you, the self-centered argument is that if someone is too poor to get their horrifyingly contagious disease treated until its too late and it spreads to you, you're still sick, and you may still die, cover or no cover. It's why the fire department is socialized -- if the fire spreads to your house, it still burns does it not?

Especially as you argue you're not particularly well off necessary, you should be the strongest advocate for yourself, and therefore, for socialized medicine.

The world is moving there -- at least towards a two-tier system -- and this argument is on the wrong side of history.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-...

[EDIT] I also wanted to throw in there the self-centered argument for socialized higher education. If you believe in the value of a college education, then you believe it will increase the productivity of that individual. A more productive individual makes your country more competitive, boosts GDP, moves the markets higher relative to that of other countries. This in turn benefits the wealthy who likely hold equities. Speculative, of course, but the argument seems consistent to me.