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While this post thread is fire and casualty insurance, when you look ad medical insurance, it is just insane.

I had an appointment at a specialist and I am on a high deductible plan. I called up and asked how much I would be spending. They refused to tell me. I tried this again, and another person refused. "We can't know how much it will cost."

So I went in and asked. Same line. "It matters what happens in the appointment and if you have any treatments." "Sure, but what about the base cost assuming nothing else happens?" "We can't say." "Look lady, I'm needing to know if I can afford this. I don't need exacts. I need ballparks. $100? $500? $1000? $5000?" "Oh, i can't imagine it will be that much?" "Which?" "I can't say."

I needed the appointment, so I went in blind. Came back out, and they literally couldn't figure out what to charge me. "We don't see a deductible..." Yeah, I am from an HSA and have a high deductible plan." "Um, no change at this time. We will send you an invoice." Turned out to be $50.

With such price transparency, we will never fix things in the US.

While the problem is not as crazy on property insurance, it is still subject to complexities. Different policies have different exclusions and different riders. You can't just compare apples to apples. Heck, even auto insurance has nuances. Some only pay out if you are driving your own car while others will pay out for any car you happen to be driving.
> plants [...] have relatively narrow conditions

Are you sure about that? Evolution would certainly strive for adaptability... Of course, evolution went through the window when humans started interfering (breeding etc), but still, just looking outside, plants seem to survive (and thrive) in relatively uncontrolled environmental conditions with wild weather swings and varying care (fertilizers, weeding, etc).

On the other hand, I can hardly keep a house plant alive, so there's that.
Is it really helpful for Elon Musk to spitball pie in the sky ideas on Twitter?

What does this actually achieve beyond generating PR hype for Elon and his companies?

If making a giant inflatable tunnel is a serious possibility, there are better ways to float the idea than throwing it out on Twitter.
Basically this.

Access owns it. Even though they aren't doing anything with it, if they just released the code they would probably open themselves up to lawsuits over possible 3rd party code. So they would have to pay someone to go over the code to take out 3rd party stuff. That would take money for which there is no tangible benefit to them so they won't do it.
I dont know about others but I first heard of Musk as "the paypal guy who made a rocket". Felt like a sudden lucky-genius thing. Only recently I learned that he graduated in physics (energy storage or something not far). This changed my view of him substantially. He has flaws but I guess I can rely on his understanding of matter and moving objects.
The problem with universities is they create a self fulfilling prophecy, one that most students graduating from their will support, willingly or unwillingly, for their own benefit. If I go out and tell that XYZ uni I graduated from is not worth it, I would also be decreasing my chances of getting a job.

I know the 4 years I spent in my college were not worth it in an industrial perspective. Yes, I made friends, I learned how to learn, and I also got a degree to show to potential employers. But going back 4 years, would I repeat my decision? Absolutely not.

It's hard to accept what you did. But then again, you never graduated, so it might as well not affect you.
I'm pretty sure I've tried that and it reset itself a time later.

Looking again now, there seems to be no such option. I can defer updates for a fixed number of days (with separate settings for quality updates and feature updates), which might be useful if the defer is cancelled by a manual "check and install updates" rather than having to reset the setting to get them to install at a convenient time rather than waiting for them to go in at Windows' will at the end of the defer period.
In a trade war we all lose.
I've worked at 3 different companies over the past 13 years (1 large, 1 small, now 1 medium in size) and in all cases a full product development cycle is on the order of 1-3 years at all of them for both hardware and software. I've shipped tons of stuff. If you're finding "a lot of jobs" which don't involve actually shipping product to customers, maybe you're looking at the wrong kinds of companies or the wrong kind of industry?
Definitely agree. The one time I ever got a significant raise required me to lobby unbelievably hard despite the fact that I was carrying the weight of my whole team and had to do an unreal amount of shit shoveling devops, web service, and data cleaning work in addition to all the machine learning work that was “actually” my job.

I was lucky that my direct manager valued me and guided me through the process of documenting my accomplishments in the right ways to present the case for a substantial promotion.

Apart from this one time, I have always been told the company can’t offer raises or discretionary bonuses beyond whatever the board grants for cost of living, and have to switch jobs repeatedly if I want to earn more.

I don’t get it. I feel like it must be some misaligned incentive problem with HR preferring to make executives believe turnover and constant hiring have to always be the norm, to justify their jobs, instead of cultivating a culture of long tenures by actually offering substantial raises or bonuses.
Extremely toxic, as usual.

https://q3k.org/u/0a15b5ec655a7153e7c37ee5062da48c57196af3f0...
It's OK to offer help and make a statement that you are offering help.

It's bad idea to pitch solutions publicly on Twitter. Musk could contact the rescuers and provide solution options privately. It's very easy to create chaos and political pressure when politicians, relatives and others are demanding why are you not doing like Musk says.
Elon Musk sends engineers to help Thai cave rescue mission
If you can hire those you need in the current market good luck to you, but at the moment there are more people wanting to hire than those available.
Which means the worker is hiring the company, not the other way around.
And that's how it should be overall to drive forward wages and productivity.
Fitness First did this to me, probably a genuine error their side that they didn't cancel my account properly but I'd cancelled the DD with my bank and it re-appeared. I contacted the bank about it and they offered to put a lock on my account so I have to be contacted about any future Direct Debits which seems like it should be the default.
Outside of specific industries such as video games, very few software development teams use the waterfall model these days. Viewed in that light, Carmack's comment is difficult to reconcile with standard practice. Much of the software in development today is never really finished, it's under constant revision.

I can definitely see the appeal of finishing a project before moving on to the next one, however.
It needs time to determine if you are searching the web for any text with "* 2" excluding (-) "-2". I'm sure that over time with enough of the same calculation requests from different users it will become much faster at producing the correct response, due to machine learning.
Knowing what we know about human psychology, emotions and behavior, this proposal alone make me think that Plato did not understood much about those. You can't raise 30 children "like few of your own" not even if another 30 adults mess with that too.
Parent is specifically talking about full time positions. No one is concerned about short stints that are clearly internships. That's just how they work.
I see a lot of hate on Jordan Peterson. I'm not an unwavering fan, but I don't see what is so offensive about him. I also don't see him as a thin-skinned narcissist.
When I saw it this morning I instantly loved it. But for some reason if I select the option for it to follow the cursor whenever I click on an item in the list it scrolls the list back to where the cursor is in the document.

It's a super obvious bug so it's possibly already fixed. And they've probably added 3 features for the next release while they're at it. Amazing development speed.
> If plain, idiomatic React so great, why does every semi-complex React app end up bringing in a separate state management framework like Redux or MobX?

Because React = state to DOM while Redux = how to get from previous state + action to a next state? :)

They do different things.
Yes, it is so nice to see CEOs take advantage of other people's tragedies to distract from their crashing stock prices and failing company. Because making promises that you will never keep in foreign countries where your claims will never be verified is much better than actually delivering on your promises to investors, the people who paid for your products, and the tax payers who subsidized you.
Cabify categorically denies that it is in negotiations for sale to Lyft
Tokyo Sarin attack: Aum Shinrikyo cult leaders executed
I have had the same thing happen to me. My primary email address was hacked and Google wouldn't do anything about it. This was the address I used for absolutely everything - including my PayPal! Fortunately I didn't end up losing all that much in the end, except for a rather nice email address (my full name @gmail.com) and my Wordpress/Gravatar account.
There are other ways, but why are they better? He says it out loud, other people can chime in and improve the idea, the Thai gov't sees it without him having to work his way up through a bureaucracy to find someone who can do something about it, etc.

This seems as good a way as any to do it to me.
>seems like an attempt to keep stable

No. They rewrote the whole thing (minus the deskbar/launcher). If it looks to you that they're just keeping the old system stable, that'd mean haiku has been very successful in recreating it as open source.

They're close to 1.0beta1, which is defined as feature-complete for 1.0. It's after they do get 1.0 that they plan on really taking the system's design forward.

Not that it doesn't already have a few fundamental improvements, such as the integrated kernel debugger, the support for newer architectures or the package manager.
You might consider noting that on your resume by listing all the jobs under University Co-op/Internships or a similar heading.
You can't prove that your change in coffee additives was what caused a loss of body fat or reduction in appetite. It could have been caused by other factors and there was no experimental control.
Reads like an opinionated piece which is cherry-picking it's stats.

The report he's citing most heavily is indeed about social mobility, but social mobility isn't always "up", social mobility measured by OECD is the state of flux and certainly by itself does not correlate at all with improvements in social class from the lower levels.

The author also talks about "more equal" not equating to "more mobile" and he/she is absolutely correct, however the way it's phrased makes me believe he/she is intending to change the mind of the reader as to whether more equal is a good thing.

Overall I'm not coming to the same conclusion as the author from the source material. Flux is bad if you're middle/working class are ending up in the poor class. Which is happening from what I can tell anecdotally.
The market will sort it out. Those companies taking a 'doing you a favour' attitude will be competed out.
Why don't we have something similar to vi modes to jump between different 'interpretations'? I believe scsh had something to that effect using chars to switch modes ala quote/unquote.

Maybe something based on Color Forth's ideas?
Braking before a turn ( or trailing-off in the turn ) is only necessary when the approach speed is higher than the entry speed.

For a computer-driven car with accurate mapping, and hence foresight, it is more efficient to plan the approach so that no braking is necessary. After all, reducing cost requires efficiency rather than speed. Likewise on a long cycle ride I'll try to match the approach and entry speeds by easing-off rather than throwing-away calories by braking.
I think that his twitter-hype did help in Australia's case.

I'm annoyed by musk being all over the place touting technology. But as long as he doesn't impede the actual rescue why not.

Also the tube idea is probably the fastest and easiest to sustain the group survival.
I love it too, though I wish they had a way to look up philosophers by chronology. Their chronological ordering is based on the post date, not on the timeline of the philosopher's life.
I am looking forward to the death of reddit because I think it can be done way better. One big thing I'd like to see changed is the very blunt upvote/downvote hammer that results in tyranny of the majority every time. Instead, I'd like comments to be sorted based on my "network of influencers", or users who I've rated positively...

Another thing I think should be changed is that mods shouldn't be all powerful and they shouldn't be able to just shut down.
Recurring payments are implemented in the worst way possible. You cannot see a list of your subscriptions online, cannot see how much you have spent, cannot stop or cancel them. And even if you don't use some service anymore, they still can charge you. That is because systems like Visa earn money only when you spend and have no motivation to make cancelling easier.
>why invest in that person? Why bother?

Tech firms below the top do relatively little investing TBH. Things you pay to bring anyone on board are not really investments.

But also, it's possible they have no kids/dependents and are playing as a free agent. That doesn't mean they'll be able to deliver value for someone out there, and they likely had no way of knowing you were looking for longer term candidates before applying.
How does the System76 13" model stack up?

Does anyone have experience or a link to a good review?
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Inevitably. Hiring managers with that attitude in this market will rapidly be let go.
I found his comments about them just walking out through a bouncy castle tube, or his flip remark about being good at digging holes, less than useful. He clearly doesnt understand the forces and dimensions involved. This isnt sunny/dry california.
The more I think about IT industry the more I'm convinced that the majority of it is bullshit jobs [0]. Productivity, efficiency, job hopping, long term short term - it all almost doesn't matter. Giving raise or not is not about an individual's contribution to the bottom line. It's about social status, pecking order and winning an argument for its own sake.

> "There is wisdom that only comes from complete product cycles -- no amount of job hopping can provide it."

Sure there are places where it matters. But for majority of projects it doesn't. There are countless examples of (semi-)failed projects with massive budgets, and those budgets keep getting allocated regardless of any track record.

So no wonder a lot of people in this industry get bored. Will frequent job hopping hurt their future career prospects as one of the comments suggests? Probably not. Why? Because it is important that software projects fail - [1]

[0] https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
[1] http://www.berglas.org/Articles/ImportantThatSoftwareFails/I...
> We may be headed to a possible future in which technology makes it possible to decouple "romantic" impulses from the reproductive drive.

This type of techno-hubris, which thinks it can undo millions of years of evolutionary biology, leads to the type of utopic visions that devolve into murderous chaos.

What you're proposing isn't terribly different than eugenics.
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I struggle to think of a less applicable situation for that quote.
> Also the tube idea is probably the fastest and easiest to sustain the group survival.

Is it? How much experience do you have in cave rescues? How much experience does Elon have in cave rescues?

What if they go with his suggestion, due to pressure from the publicity, and it turns into a disaster?
Scrum vs. Kanban – what’s the difference?
But now you have a new problem: Managing the freshness of that cache.
It feels shameful when you see it directed at others, but then if you post your own stuff you don't want the feeling that the community is pulling punches just to play nice.

Fortunately most of these things are open source, so there's always the 'well submit a PR' response. It's been so long since I slung HTML that I am fairly certain if I attempted it for a Show HN, folks would be so distracted by how bad it is they wouldn't pay attention to the utility of it.
Most of these things (absolute, fixed, relative and static layouts or padding/margin/border and the boxing model) I know. The problem (I think) is that I can't get the full picture.

As you say, I want to avoid tweaking things and using trial and error to fix things :/

Formally learning CSS as you propose is a path that is time-consuming but with high success probability so I may try it. Could you recommend me anything for that path? I'd really prefer reading instead of watching videos.
No, 100% no.

Land is cheap and there is A LOT of it.

The Sun is FREE, lights cost money.

So it's a greenhouse with a roof on it?

Shipping is cheap.
Can you explain why? I think it's a smart idea, except getting the tube that size/strength of course...
The vast majority of the planets population accepts and cherishes their gender identity.
The wishful thinking of a few people will not change that.

The attempt to force any kind of ideology that makes everybody exactly the same and eradicates differences is , in my view, problematic.
There are so many things about their new design and changes that are very negative for new visitors. I’ve encountered a dozen bugs and niggling flaws which as an experienced user I can work around, and recognize as an error, but a new user would not understand.

For example, say you come to reddit, you get the new mobile design. You do a search. It tells you no results were found and there’s nothing else on the page but that line of text: “Sorry, we couldn't find any results for
'Celiac'”

It doesn’t indicate that it restricted the search that sub, or that you can search the entire site.

However, if you get results? “25+ matches in r/Perfectfit Search all of reddit”. This is starting at one result, so it’s puzzling that it is not there for 0 results.

The behavior of automatically restricting the search to one sub is also the opposite of the behavior on the old the desktop version.

As a web programmer and designer, I also recognize these as the mistakes of lazy people or amateurs which could be rectified without delay. I have reported several bugs like this months ago, and there has been no change.
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How to drop 10M packets per second on a single CPU core
> otoh, to fill a vacancy is most probably a streamlined process which keeps everyone busy and happy (even if its worse for the company as a whole)

I find it hard to believe that the cost of interviewing candidates, onboarding and ramping up a new employee is less work than making the case for a raise with a solid performer.
Did that hurt your little X-ian snowflake feelings? Poor little thing!
Observational Hazard: History of Web Programming (2014)
I think the discussion in the article of how to define perversion is interesting. Nowadays it is difficult to say that certain consensual sexual practices are morally wrong without being condemned as a bigot.
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it's there, bottom left
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For someone who's number one trait is promotion (as you claim), he definitely seems to have achieved much more in his life (I mean, last 15 years) in engineering than most other marketers, promotoers, or, well, engineers.
Spotlight is absolutely horrendous?
Hey, I'm in Ag too, I knew a guy that, until last year, was making $1/2M a year going around the country setting these guys up (CropKing).

I asked him how profitable his customers were, he said he had never seen anyone make any money other than the weed guys.
This is patently not so.

Maybe if you are used to JSX.

- three different html-like attributes

: and @ are just shorthand for v-bind and v-on attributes.

v-bind and v-on (and v-if) accept regular javascript, and it's not just expressions... you can use `active = true` to change a data value, for instance.

The only exception is v-for, as you mentioned, but it is close enough to ES6 for syntax to make sense, at least IMO.

- three different scripting languages in templates (two Javascript-like, one Javascript, but only expressions)

This is splitting hairs a bit, isn't it? Apart from v-for, you can write pretty much anything you want in the other two.

- one scripting language for controller/model which actually breaks JS assumptions (about what `this` is, for example) by magiacally hoisting some (but not all) properties of an object

You mean the script part of components? Do you have any examples of that?
Again, look at the twitter account. These powerful, influential men are apparently so insecure that every piece of criticism warrants a personal response.
If this works, more power to them, but on it's surface I don't see how this has anything to do with the game FarmVille other than it taking place on a farm. I'd also encourage anyone who takes part in a scheme like this to go over their contracts with a fine-toothed comb, as arrangements like this have been used to awful effect here in the United States:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping
Hmm..yeah but I like the opposite gender as it is and will "naturally" evolve. What you're describing reeks of ideological agenda. If it happens fine, but for now I like to know someone is their gender because thats what I prefer. I'm not biologically interested in man-woman/woman-man hybrids. My genes and psychology agree with me.
I wish this was the case.
Perhaps instead of replacing the call center itself, it could eliminate long IVR sequences, gather better and more pertinent data from the customer and make the humans on either side more productive. As an example, in India you are often asked to press 1 for language X, 2 for language Y. But a smart assistant can just listen to the customer and decide this automatically. This can be a huge win by itself.
Because that wouldn't work for copying and pasting code nor writing shell scripts. If you're going down that route then really you need a printable character to prefix the command line (or similar solution)

For what it's worth though, most shells (including my own one) do support switching between different text entry / hotkey modes - such as vi - even if the syntax is consistent.
His skin seems thicker than yours at least, so I'm not sure you should be the one to judge...
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Off topic:

What are some decent general tutorials for programming voxel games?