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>Everyone is at potential risk for needing something like a transplant eventually.

Not everyone is at equal risk, and many choices people make can have an impact on that risk. That's the point of this thread.

>Making the pool large enough allows reasonable premiums, just as I can pay a couple hundred bucks a year to replace my entire house if it burns down.

What is 'large enough'? The populations of many entire European countries are dwarfed by the number of subscribers to several health insurance companies in the US. Of course we don't know how large health insurance companies would get in a market without heavy government interference, but do you have some reason to believe the size of pools in a market with less interference would result in unreasonable premiums?

>The rest of the developed world defines the risk pool as "everyone", and the end result is healthcare costs half of ours (including the tax component) and similar outcomes.

And our health care system requires subscribers to insurance companies to pay those insurance companies to A) provide charity to people who wouldn't be able to afford to buy insurance in real market and B) pay for routine care (i.e. care where there is no risk to insure against - you know you're going to need it). And of course the health insurance company is going to collect its cut of the money that the government has forced subscribers to funnel through those companies. Is it really any surprise that system gets expensive?

>You need government, not a charity.

You need charity, whether it's administered by a public organization or a private organization or funded by private individuals or taxpayers.
idk, the US spends more than any country on their education, but we dont produce the smartest students.

Money is minor compared to the culture found in a government agency
Whenever I see some shit like 'thanks for sharing' or 'noted'
I want to kill someone.

These are cautionary tales: ignore at your leisure.
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I would be disinclined to try to tell TSA what their authority is, just as I am disinclined to tell them in person that it's flipping stupid to require me to remove my belt.

Telling the hands of the government that they don't have the authority seems like a very fast ticket to a very inconvenient travel delay. There's almost certainly some rule or administrative thing where they Can Get Away With pretty much what they say you can, and then you're stuck finding a lawyer.
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Now this is the kind of post I come to HN for. Deeply technical explanations of real expert work!

I'm particularly keen on some of the details around goroutines since Project Loom hopes to bring something similar to the JVM and it's nice to see what the design space looks like.

Another is that go sometimes gets dinged for not being modern enough in a bunch of different directions, e.g. no rust-like immutability/borrowing, generics, or generational GC, but there is a lot of thought put into what they are working on and where they want to focus the language.
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I have family who work in TCM, and I think their guidance is pretty decent: if it's serious go see a doctor, get medicine, get better. If it's not serious (you're okay with living with it), go with the herbs, because the downsides are much smaller (and the effect sizes too), but that's okay because it's not a serious disease.

But I must stress this: if you have cancer, don't eat herbs and pray, go to a damn doctor.
> We're going down some kind of bizarre path. Insurance is ultimately about risk sharing. If every risk is modeled then there is no insurance, just expensive prepayment.

This is completely backwards.

Insurance is about risk smoothing, across states of the world. Insurance should not have a positive expected value - that is, there should be no person for whom the total lifetime expected payouts exceed the total lifetime expected costs.

For a number of reasons, health insurance isn't actually insurance, and this is one of them. You can identify individuals who are dramatically likely to receive more money in payouts and benefits than they are to pay in their regular premiums, which means you're talking about a redistribution system, not an insurance system.
Defendants are allowed to call "character witnesses" during sentencing hearings to tout what a good person they are, and judges can take that into account. I fail to see why the other way should not be allowed either.
Shithead.
It might work fine but (the homepage) is most likely draining your battery. Have you looked at your cpu usage?
The problems with Alzheimer’s, ALS, and Parkinson’s drug discovery are not data handling problems. The important problems with drug discovery in general are not data handling problems, and unfortunately there are many people who would like to think that they are. Who would perhaps like to think that everything could be solved if we could just obtain and correlate enough data. But what we’re short of is insights, ideas, and understanding, and those come slowly, painfully, and expensively.

sad but true.
Bad ads appear with every ad network, and ad networks are lazy to stop it because they know that sites will take all the blame (your comment is a great example). Pop into /r/adops sometime (or the associated slack channel) and watch site owners working nonstop to try to find a solution to this problem. It's mostly a game of whack-a-mole at this point with no real long-term solution in sight.
Not for VTL-based resolvers, as far as I can tell. I haven't run performance numbers to be sure, but it seems like the VTL resolvers run pretty fast.

If you need to do really complicated logic in your resolvers, though, you'll probably want to write a Lambda to back those particular resolvers.

So a GraphQL query's performance may vary depending on how many resolvers are involved and whether those are VTL or Lambda.
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I agree, it's tough.

Not much to do really, but if I would do this, I'd stay away from changing the methodology and the code, and make it clear that it will be tough to make this fly.

Focus on:

Reduce scope. Make sure only the important features are built. Set up periodic meetings with all stakeholders to prioritize (down) features and subfeatures.

Get a grip on what's built and what's left. Make a realistic prognosis and make sure to anchor the new realistic target date with the stakeholders.

Make sure bugs and tasks are tracked. Set up manual testing routines with some experienced testers. A big team if the automatic tests are of low quality. Iterate and prioritize this list constantly.
Yeah, but then you're driving an old car. Some people (myself included) would rather not do that.
No, no, no, no, no. The chat transcripts were right there for everyone to see. If you're going to claim things were fabricated, you have to prove that.
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> That's completely immaterial to the precision of it, which is why I'm unable to use it

To me that reads as though you are unable to use it because the device itself is imprecise. That some indeed do find it more precise would seem to exonerate the device. Personal preference, is a different can of worms. :)

No zealotry present at all, here at least.
On that note, my insurer helpfully put a note in my file that the doctor should tell me about being more physically active based on my BMI. When I listed everything I do, he turned to his intern and said "this is an example of how BMI doesn't tell the whole story." Then he deleted the note. So it has to be the right data and the doctor needs to be the final arbiter of whether it's meaningful or not.
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Might have thought that you were me if not for the cider vinegar. I find that it overpowers the flavor of the peppers. I mostly use white vinegar and citric acid, with the occasional lime juice.
CNN, like the vast majority of news sites, is best viewed with javascript disabled. Pages load 10X faster, scrolling is not jumpy, the CPU doesn't go crazy, and text reads just as well. It is hands down a much improved user experience.
> Because the preventative care reduces the costs down the line

This is a common myth. Preventive care actually doesn't reduce costs, on net. It improves the overall quality of care, yes, but it doesn't (in aggregate) save more money than it requires.

For some conditions, early intervention is cheaper (and more effective) than delayed intervention, but that's not always the case - and either way, it's not considered preventive care.
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I was going to post essentially the same thing, so here is an upvote :-)

While I always find storage analysis interesting (I spent 5 years at NetApp where it was sort of a religion :-)) some of the assumptions that Brian was tossing out are not good ones to make. (like the lack of correlation, or that Drive Savers will exist as a company 10 years from now).

Still it does help you to understand the they take data availability seriously which is the underlying message.
my insurance was for 18 months of travel though, so i intended to travel for 18 months. I think that's reasonable. Maybe my wording came out wrong in the post, I wasn't telling them, "no i wont come home" I was telling them I didn't have a return flight pre booked because I was planning on travelling for 6 more months yet.
I think that your point is what they were trying to address by saying that anything beyond eight nines is impractical. Their examples of correlated failures included earthquakes and floods which might have huge reach rather than just impacting a single rack, but I think it's the same general idea.
It's not unrelated. If people want to wax poetic about how much social good an organization who's on record as breaking the law to fund neonazi groups they should probably provide a reason for the justification.
No, I wouldn't. Because the jury has nothing to do with the sentencing. The prosecution also wouldn't just make up the story of killing some dude; there would be some evidence to link me to that action.

Stop pretending that Ulbricht is some kind of saint, and that there is no evidence of him doing this.
> My personal advice, stay out of product code/client code ...

Sage advice and I understand and agree with what you wrote about the role. The founders do not see a CTO in this light. They see me as more of a Super Senior Developer, Dev Team Manager, and Lead Architect all in one.

For instance, when the client and the founders have meetings about upcoming feature dev, the tickets are by default assigned to me if they are too complex as the juniors won't be able to handle it.

And I'm only 3 months in so I don't want to push too many buttons and push back because this stuff needs to get done and there's no one who can do it at this time.

Thus, I don't see it changing much as we have 4 junior to mid-level developers and have a ton of big platform style projects...
I trust it with defense and that's about it. I don;t even trust local governments to efficiently maintain roads
> What is the practically relevant difference between 100% prediction capability and 99.999% prediction capability?

If there were 100% prediction capability, there would be no risk to smooth, and there would be no reason to buy insurance, because the insurance would be more expensive than paying the costs of the would-be insured risk directly.
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How can I possibly muster any sympathy for the plight of a company who has been part of the problem? The paernt company name is GoViral Inc... tells me everything I need to know. Bye bye. Try doing something that isn't so blatantly parasitic next time.
Yes, we've reverted the title from “ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2018: S3 Suspend Workaround for Linux (shame on Lenovo)”. The guidelines are clear about this, so submitters should please follow them.

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No, let's not help the guy. He's not deserving of help. And despite you wanting to claim the murder stuff is "unproven and uncharged", the evidence of his involvement is pretty clear.
Also, if they got it to work they would surely keep it secret.
I had a few surgeries but nothing major. I enjoy my insurance but don't want to cover people who are overweight and/or lazy
That could be a power surge taking out a whole rack

This failure mode, at least, is already accounted for by sharding data across cabinets:

Each file is stored as 20 shards: 17 data shards and 3 parity shards. Because those shards are distributed across 20 storage pods in 20 cabinets, the Vault is resilient to the failure of a storage pod, or even a power loss to an entire cabinet.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...

However, they don't seem to offer multi-datacenter (or multi-region) redundancy so are still susceptible to a datacenter fire/failure.

In comparison, AWS S3 distributes data across 3 AZ's (datacenters), and you can further replicate across regions if you choose. Though you pay for that added redundancy in 3 - 4X higher cost.
I don't believe taking out questionable overwrought performance voodoo would constitute "redesign[ing] their cores from the ground up". Just like any other form of engineering, you know when you've solved a problem, and you know when you've made a hail mary pass. Take out the hail mary passes.

In most other areas of engineering where there is still some concept of liability, the process is: validation first, save hot-rodding for v2. CPU industry is largely unencumbered by liability, driven by specious benchmarks, and has no use for that process.
An original digital image isn't the same thing as an original physical object.

The difference lies in the state of the object. Over time, it will degrade, change, be impacted by it's environment.

A copy, can be thought of like both the photo and a physical object.

In the photo sense, a capture sufficient to exactly reproduce the object is no different from the photo. That's just data.

In the physical object sense, the moment a duplicate exists, it begins to diverge from the original, which makes the original an authority. Future copies will differ from prior ones.
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Regardless of the "value" the company adds to the world...

Investing so much in a single platform and not having a contingency or moving to diversify, while also growing to 150+ employees, is a fundamental strategy failure of leadership. I am kind of awed that people that show such a complete lack of foresight are capable of "running" companies.
No, he's not. He's imprisoned for the crime he was convicted of. The judge, having discretion on how much time he should be imprisoned for, took into account the defendant's character.
Very interesting, thank you!

I thought they would have improved the linkage since I last saw - especially the marriage records and name changes.

They are still weak on that, so basic opsec will work.
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Dell has done similar things in the past, too.

Intel has its ME, which is much worse than any of these.

AMD has its own ME-equivalent.
Trackpad also doesn’t work under Linux with the NFC model. Hardware wise the webcam and sound are beyond horrible. The fan curves are obnoxious and it still gets uncomfortably hot. It’s such a shame, I had high hopes for this laptop but it’s collecting dust in a drawer. Between the sleep states, track pad, thermal issues and throttling, poor audio visuals and battery life … the thing really should never have had that price point.
With facial recognition and other biometrics improving I see little purpose in chipping for identification beyond ultra-high security niches. Arguably that's more of a privacy concern, as there's little you can do to detach yourself from your biometric identity.
> The entire sector is rotten, easily demonstrated by providers not publishing a uniform list of prices for every single customer.

Why does that imply that the sector is rotten? Supermarkets don't publish the amount they pay for food, for example. It's a valid negotiating strategy; it means that offering a low price to one consumer doesn't mean that they have to offer it to another.

I suspect that the care-providers and care-purchasers are too close, and that collusion is a source of the extra cost that Americans experience. (They also have far reduced waiting times, which is a genuine expense).

In the UK, the NHS is funded from taxes. I don't get a choice whether I pay that or not. Mandatory insurance (or an equivalent) for all is a common factor in well-run healthcare systems worldwide. Without it, it's a bit like allowing car drivers to not purchase insurance until after they've crashed.
As a publisher, I really hate Outline.

There is no paywall on this Thelogic.co Asking for an email address is a modest request.

I am sure whoever posted the article on Outline.com did it without permission; that is copyright infringement. Though, I doubt theLogic.co will find out, and if they do, there is a real cost to filing DMCA complaints.
> Riven: The Sequel to Myst had some cutscenes where the fantasy native population were actually speaking Tok Pisin, which is a creole language from Papua New Guinea

Interesting tidbit! I had thought they were all artificial.
In general if it tastes OK and doesn't have visible growths (e.g. fuzz, green or white patches) then it's fine. A lactic acid fermentation will actually kill most pathogens, so it's surprisingly safe.

The yeast and other lactic acid bacteria are coating (and usually inside) the produce, so you don't need to worry a lot about "the right culture". (If you want to be sure, you can collect a starter culture, but that's quite advanced.)

Source: I make beer.

More authoritative source: http://houston.afdo.org/uploads/1/5/9/4/15948626/1000_jay-ne...
It's a poor fit for the current economic/political model of drug development, licensing, and commercialization.

It isn't legal to sell a treatment for any disease or condition unless you've conducted multiple rounds of clinical trials proving that it is both safe and effective. Running these trials is fantastically expensive, especially when you don't know ahead of time which treatments will make it out the other side to become sellable products.

Pharma companies are good at getting things through these trial stages. But they can't afford to do it unless there's a patent-protected profit on the other side for the ones that work.

Thus the problem is that phages are essentially a virus picked up out of some pond muck or something. You can't really mass-produce them, and it wouldn't make sense to anyways, as the application for any one phage is very limited. You can't run a particular phage though a set of clinical trials - the effectiveness of a particular strain would be gone long before you got through the first phase. Making enough profit from selling it after commercialization once it made it through the clinical trials that it can't possibly ever pass is a completely absurd notion.

What we need to make phages more widely used isn't economic investment but a complete redo of how we legally require the healthcare industry to operate.
Turkey needs to recognize the Genocide, instead it's putting all its effort into denial propaganda inside and outside Turkey. They even made Armenians not bringing it up a precondition for opening the border. Until Turkey can be honest Armenians will fight for truth to be preserved outside of Turkey. This may be an abstract issue for you but most Armenians today still are just one generation away from survivors and their stories. Should Armenians just let Turkey keep adding insult to injury? This is an article about an area where Armenians lived for millennia and there are none left by now, how did that happen?
The one constant about the Thai rescue was that the reporting was absolute garbage. I heard so many conflicting reports that I doubt anybody not at the scene has a total grasp of the details.

At one point I was reading an article on CBS about how the coach was first out because he was in the worst health, and hearing a report on NPR about how the coach was going to be last. Kids were out, then they weren't, then they were again, then they had contracted some kind of fatal disease, then it was a precautionary quarantine, etc...

Hopefully whomever writes the book gets his information firsthand.
That's a perfectly normal price for travel insurance in the UK. Because it doesn't include healthcare when you aren't travelling.
Or they could work where there is better healthcare. Even as a lot boy at Home Depot the healthcare was pretty reasonable and much better than the governments
PPACA legislation caps net income for health insurance companies at 15% of revenue.
They have separate divisions for FCRA and non-FCRA data, so which products and data points you have access to depend upon who you are and what you're doing with the data. I believe the data at issue in this article are non-FCRA, which puts it in a category I'd call "enterprise-grade public records search" (as opposed to consumer-facing public records companies like Intelius and Instant Checkmate).

Yes, they are one of the few companies that does the legwork of directly ingesting public records. For example, they buy and resell a lot of data from DMV agencies in states where the DMV is authorized to sell it (Google DPPA for more info). It is otherwise nearly impossible to get these data. I have tried, with the help of the right lawyers, and concluded that the only way to do it would be to sue the DMV.
The point that I didn't really make is.

Companies that are successful working inside an open market don't bribe the government to provide them subsidies and protection. The system we have is the result of 50 years of market failure and government intervention.
Nice. I haven't seen something like this before - I wish I had it when I used Bootstrap in the past. Congrats on getting it out the door.
Quantum computers won't change anything about people posting misinformed political opinions.

Three orders of magnitude speedup is a constant factor. Quantum computers provide between sqrt(n) and log(n) speedup depending on the problem - for example, biochemistry simulation for improved drug designs and such. That seems worthwhile.
I'm assuming they're speculating/exaggerating.
Is Shor's an application of entanglement though?
Financial failure or service shutdown by the provider is the highest risk for long term storage. The backup services CrashPlan, Dell DataSafe, Symantec, Ubuntu One, and Nirvanix all shut down. Nirvanix only gave two weeks notice for users to save their data.[1]

[1] https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Nirvanix-failure-a-bl...
that link says nothing about

> Lenovo's suspend feature relies on an unsigned binary blob from China sideloaded during system boot over an unsecure HTTP connection

it talks about Lenovo Service Engine, Superfish, Lenovo Solution Center, and Lenovo Customer Feedback.

if you blow away the default install of windows, including the UEFI partition, and install (windows or linux or whatever) from scratch, how could any of those things affect you?
I seriously think people shouldn't be able to comment / see comments on HN unless they've at least clicked on the darn link. I took one look at the "keylogger" source code and recognized it.