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>So, a free market is ineffective at allocating resources in healthcare.

It doesn't suspend reality, that's for sure. If you don't have the resources to pay for your own healthcare, and don't have the resources to pay someone else to pay for your healthcare, then you are going to have to get someone else to volunteer their resources for it, or you're going to go without.

>Unless we redefine healthcare to mean "care for people who are not sick," which does not really make it healthcare at all, does it?

Plenty of sick people, or people who become sick, are perfectly capable of having their healthcare needs met through the market. There are many, many people who have enough money to buy health insurance, even if they have some chronic conditions and therefore would need to pay someone a lot more than a healthy person would to cover their health care expenses.

If your standard for effectiveness in allocation of resources in healthcare is that no one's ability to get health insurance is affected by their current health status, then yes, the market is going to be ineffective by your measure.

If your standard includes, for example, having financial incentives for people to limit their own use of health care services, like how we have financial incentives for people to limit their use of basically every other resource out there (e.g. houses, cars, land, anything else that costs money), to ensure that resources are left available for other people to use, and you don't want to deal with heavy-handed government approaches to that problem, then by that standard, a health insurance market is very effective.
I very much agree that live stock antibiotic use is a major issue, even with the recent regulatory advances, but I cannot agree that minimizing human misuse is trivial. Ignoring either issue leaves a flank wide open for attack.
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I know it’s not going to happen, but part of me wishes this would allow Windows Phone to be viable.

It was such a great mobile OS for basic and not so basic functions. Unfortunately MS had no strategy and no independent serious developers spent their limited resources on it and it withered.
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Nice, though I feel that if IO is the bottleneck (as opposed to the brain), then perhaps it's time to move on to a more intellectually challenging use of a computer.
> it sends a troubling signal in favor of proprietary systems over open platforms

Sorry, Sundar, but this signal was sent by you. Android users receive it in multiple ways when our phones nag us to turn on tracking options and your company builds a complex profile about all aspects of our lives. Yes, a proprietary non-tracking alternative starts to look more attractive.
For IE at that time there were obvious superior alternatives. There are no such alternatives to Chrome today, so I do not expect any downfall.
I'll be honest in that I've not followed development at all but hearing they have hired an actress just leads me to assume she is voicing/mocaping a character in the SP portion of the game. How is that any different from CoD hiring Kevin Spacey or Mark Hamil in Wing Commander? Let alone jumping the shark.
This is reminiscent of banks in the UK, who come out with direful warnings that they'll end free banking every time they're forced to lower their swingeing overdraft fees.
Can you think of any technical advantages why Google would do this? Any functionality that becomes possible when the full suite of apps and APIs and services are all present together at once on the phone?
Well, I'm getting 10-14mbps down from Fast.com and 50mbps down (as advertised) on speedtest.

Looks like Netflix is indeed being throttled here. What's interesting is that we haven't noticed any issues with speed while watching netflix.
Based on my experience:

A.- I would also add "nofollow, noarchive" tags [1] to your X-Robots-Tag header:

- "nofollow" -> do not to follow (i.e., crawl) any outgoing links on the page.

- "noarchive" -> prevents Google from showing the Cached link for a page.

B.- I would specify in Search Console (former Webmaster Console) how should Google handle "query" parameter [2]

C.- Prevent those spam searches by blocking source IP address, User-Agents, combinations of both, etc.

Good luck!

[1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/79812?hl=en

[2] https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/crawl-url-parameters...
But even within a region, having corporations do private deals with the government is corrpution.

You are not supposed to be able to get special privileges to your company to the detriment of your competitors.

There can be no free market when justice (and thus taxation) is not blind.
What do you think I said that I will feel differently about when I'm older and sicker? You made a bunch of claims about the nature of the health insurance market, and I pointed out that your claims were bogus. What feelings are involved there?
Spain's new submarine 'too big for its dock'
Of course not paying attention while driving is illegal.
Visualizing 2D Vector Fields
Healthcare, too
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Why it is assault on open source?
The problem is that Google bundles it's Chrome and search apps (which are not open source) together with android that is later installed on devices made my others.
At least that what I see in the article.
Google is a multibillion dollar advertising company, not an "open source project".

They're not fining ASOP, and Android is a nonfree OS.
Elite:Dangerous is definitely worth a look. Gave money to both of these projects and don't want anything more to do with anything Chris Roberts touches.
Link to the actual repo: https://github.com/jamiebuilds/std-pkg
The way Lenin worked was to conceal or destroy any direct trace of his responsibility for any decision he ever did. All is written in the same article.
Which generation of XPS 13 is that?
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Failure to Launch – The Orbital Engine Company (2017)
While i regularly throw $20-$50 into game kickstarters, I stayed away from both Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous when I saw how hyped they were. Nothing good was going to come out of that.

Personal statistics: 19 kickstarters backed, got a finished product on 9 of them so far, 2 more have builds that show everything is on track. Everything I got was acceptable, with at least 7 being good or above.

Also, ALL of them were late delivering.

Not bad, will crowdfund again. Never $4500 though.
I wouldn't take that "Stockfish paper" announcement at face value.

As far as we could tell, Stockfish was used in a situation it is not optimized for (very many cores) and wrong settings.

What we can say is that Alpha Zero is comparable after throwing a lot of specialised compute power at it.

Most importantly, neither system works at a symbolic level or does anything even close to thinking. They handle statistics and see searches extremely well, sometimes tactics, but most of it is still hardcoded - they are fed a high level symbolic representation of the game.

When Alpha Zero can learn playing chess by experimenting with board physics and observing a few videos or at least reading a book, then we can say it can actually produce some form of symbolic thought.

(OpenAI is closer but nowhere near close - it falls back on memory of play as a full state model.)
Why isn't Apple also being Fined?
But anti-trust law is prosecuted through the courts. Hence the Microsoft trial in the 1990s.
Windows was not free and it did not help with the IE bundle case.
you've made an eminently prescient comment here.

it explains why many scientists are self-denying and perfectionistic: failure is the rule during experimentation, and progress is not guaranteed or even knowable sometimes.

i think that eventually it gets inseparable from the person. the reaction becomes a habit, and then it sticks.
> This fine is an assault on open source

I don't see how telling Google not to force itself as the default preinstalled option on phones is an "assault on open source".

> the fact the linux didn't attaint mainstream appeal on the desktop was largely due to the lack of condition and harmonization across distros

Not sure what "condition and harmonization is", but if you mean the poor UI for normal people, then yes. I don't see the relevance of this to Google forcing itself onto people's phones.

> and the EU wants to doom android to the same fate.

It was literally a few days ago when I was wondering to myself how people were cool with Google search etc. coming preinstalled. I had no idea the EU was looking into this. As a result I don't have any reason to believe their goal is anything but fair competition.
Elite Dangerous did turn out a very successful game though.
If it’s from the late 80’s, how is the patent still enforceable? 20 years right?
In addition to may that others have mentioned such as JRE, Waking Up, Convos with Tyler, my main go-to is:

The Fifth Column - A weekly libertarian-ish take on the news and media, with lots of hilarity, generally while the hosts finish a bottle of listener-supported bourbon. Kmele Foster runs it along with Matt Welch (Reason) and Michael Moynihan (Vice News).
This is true; I only feel like I can't type fast enough when working in something that requires churning out a lot of boilerplate. The rest is editing and adjusting. Which could be faster, I think, vs code doesn't for example autoclose html tags (or jsx / react) fast enough for my liking, doesn't seem to help me at all.
I built one of these! With a shifter on the palm, and a separate control toggle, you'd get pretty much the full ASCII set.

Even though I'm right handed, it worked best on my left hand. This is because of how surprisingly nice it was to use my dominant hand to do something (use a mouse, eat, etc), while still typing with my left.

Alas I assume the reason this never caught on was due to the learning curve. People will never leave qwerty. Also it was pretty slow. When I built this back in 2005, I was thinking for PDAs and early cell phones and was only competing against T9 and early palm keyboards. After a few months of practice, I never topped about 45 wpm.
Hah!

The front cover came off my copy of Programming Perl, detached by long use. Having said that, these days I seem to write more Python, since that's what the young know.
Interesting. When I check the "Measure loaded latency during upload" option my Loaded Latency value goes up by about two orders of magnitude.

Is there a way to fix this? Seems like there ought to be some sort of traffic shaping measures I could apply at my firewall (I've got a dedicated box running pfSense) to ensure low-latency applications get sufficient bandwidth during upload.
> Does personally attack people get you somewhere in real live, I wonder?

I didn't personally attack you. I said you have added nothing. That comment has nothing to do with your personhood.

I think you don't know what a "personal attack" is. Or a "currency", for that matter.
"Pichai highlights the fact a typical Android user will “install around 50 apps themselves” and can easily remove preinstalled apps."

You cannot remove the pre-installed apps, in my experience, only the subsequent updates to those apps.
I thought that was the one of the points of turbo boost? To take advantage of high clock frequencies for short high intensity hurts while still running at the base clock for long term work? If the clock speed is staying above the base clock I wouldn’t consider it a problem.
While the recipe isn't too surprising to anyone who has grown up with popular music I love how the authors brought this paper to life online.

Even better that they provide the source: https://github.com/colinmorris/atypicality
They are not fining an open source project. They are fining a company making bad rules about what others are allowed to do with said open source project, e.g. by forcing them to choose between using Google stuff everywhere or nowhere in their devices.
Because they do not have a monopoly in market A and abuse that to get an advantage on market B, where in this case A is mobile market from low to high end and B is search/user tracking/analytics/advertising
NMS turned things around and is an excellent example of a team acknowledging their mistakes and taking the time to correct. It's a game that initially I refused to back, but have now logged solid game time in.
That's a location picker. I'm talking about the map view on which applications show you things, such as live views of all trains in the country or something.

And this is just one example, there are a hundred more things that are in the proprietary google suite, without which you'll be able to install only a few of the apps available for the platform.
> How is the Play Store related to the Google Seach app or to Chrome?

- They're not, and the attempt to claim they are part of a mobile "suite" is the same sort of obfuscation Microsoft used when they argued a web browser (IE) was an essential part of a desktop OS. This ruling seems obvious to me.
The Executive team had nothing to do with the Memoji’s. It was probably someone from marketing or their web team. Why even bring that up? It doesn’t help your argument at all.
Are you suggestion that AOSP has nothing to do with Android!?

And if we were to take the existence of AOSP into consideration then this fine seems even more ridicules and unwarranted.
I'm hoping we'll soon get some ML for typing/completing boilerplate code.
I have no issue typing full speed with two thumbs on a large phone in portrait. This incidentally enables an 80-column terminal....

That is, even on QUERTY on a laptop keyboard I get significantly higher typing speeds due to the use of more than 4 fingers combined with the lower travel distance (measured relative to the target precision), along with the distinct tactile feedback of whether you hit the key or one next to it. Tactile feedback, like a blackberry keyboard, would allow even higher speeds and, most importantly, allow to keep the eyes off the thumbs, as they are needed to use typos as feedback and also to correct these typos.
Apple is simply imposing such onerous terms that no OEMs can sell iOS. But because (as a result of this anti-competetive behaviour) their market share in the OS market is low, it doesn't break the law.
Warframe would be another, imo.
I was coming at it from the viewpoint of a regular consumer that gets wrangled into these "schemes." I understand the risks, the regular consumer sure as hell does not.
> I've seen some commercial keyboards like this, but they're incredibly expensive and non-mechanical (mostly geared to people who are disabled/have limited or no use of one hand).

The Matias 508 is one such http://www.508keyboard.com/ , are there others?

One feature you might want in such an arrangement is a capactive sensor in the mouse: https://plus.google.com/105224327306964621564/posts/51Jkbioc...
I actually meant one third, rather than 'one', but I realized the mistake after I was too late to edit.
Google is working on a new Android kernel so they were planning in a long while to take full control and probably go closed source with newer Android versions.
I'm trying to understand your point. Google has nothing to do with Qualcomm keeping their hardware drivers proprietary. What am I missing?
Hmm, aside from the triviality, it sounds like they may also have patented pre-existing art in 2006 then..

I-Planet portal server can be traced back through Webtop to Pony Express.. It was one of several competitors in the late 1990s, and I think they all provided this style of SSO.
100 dollars bonus is risible. That's not even 15 hours of federal minimum wage. Does the landowner not realize that when she goes on the record in the NY Times?
Is this due to their focus on iphone and ipad? Probably and very likely, if I remember, most of their hardware talent had been pulled at some point to work on things that bring more money, these products get less attention. Looks like mac line upgrade cycles suffers due to that, don't quote me though....

But on the other hand this is good that it a came out, should be fixed in next upgrade I would assume, no wonder we got huge bump spec, people voiced their concerns loudly.
Someone prone to alcoholism tries their first gateway alcoholic drink, becomes alcoholic, kills themselves and several other people in a drunk driving manslaughter. This is not hypothetical, it’s a much too common scenario.

You’re praising the de facto drug of violence, comparable in social harm only to heroin, as “socially acceptable”, while grossly misrepresenting the actual harm potential of substances like LSD (“Openness To Experience” is “Russian roulette”, seriously? So is a trip to the Grand Canyon.)

Then you just call anyone you disagree with mentally ill… You know Donald Trump is a teetotaler, right?
St. Petersburg (FL) used to be like that, but business owners started working with artists, and then more and more businesses did the same.

https://stpetemuraltour.com/photo-wall/
Any company can use AOSP in their devices and laod them with anything they like, see the Chinese market, see Amazon Fire tablets.
That's basically what the EU is demanding. The EU has handed down what is an anti-tying decision. "You can't tie Android to Google Search, because that prevents competition in Search."

Okay then, but Google Search is what paid for Android development, so if you can't tie them together, Android needs to seek other sources of funding. The most obvious one is some sort of licensing fee.

(It could also possibly fund itself from search revenue (like Firefox) and App Store fees, although the second one could be broken up by the EU too on anti-tying grounds)

It's no different from when Windows was prevented from tying Windows to Internet Explorer. It opened competition in browsers (and we now have Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Brave, etc.), but it also forced browsers to find independent business models.
Don't forget the unbreakable criteria:

<= 3:30; shorter is better

No more than three verses made of at most two straight-rhyme couplets.

Repeat chorus at least four times, more is better.

Keep all instrumental interludes short and simplistic. Cliche pentatonic guitar solos only.

Edit: almost forgot the most important one: be hot, use your body to sell the music.
DeepMind, Skype, and Tesla founders pledge never to build killer robots
Too late. It's been a while since I have it.

The temperature is something that bothers me but is usable, I guess.
Nitpick: dominant position, not really a monopoly.

But the rest of your point stands.
WordStar was the first word processor I used. I've lived in Vim for years now, but I still have WordStar manuals in the software museum section at the back of my bookcase. I haven't gotten them out in approximately forever:

https://i.imgur.com/hFaFdgK.jpg
Why existence of some source code or forks cancels the abuse?
Hollywood Handbook.

The funniest satirical podcast I’ve found.
Install another home screen, probably can be done in a minute. It is much easier than trying to modify anything at all about the iOS or Windows Phone home screens.
Because, what happens when you want to update that config? Even if you're just doing it for your personal stuff, MDM means centralized push-based management.
Yeah, I'd say this is wrong. His direct quote is [1]:

> Today, because of Android, a typical phone comes preloaded with as many as 40 apps from multiple developers, not just the company you bought the phone from. If you prefer other apps—or browsers, or search engines—to the preloaded ones, you can easily disable or delete them, and choose other apps instead, including apps made by some of the 1.6 million Europeans who make a living as app developers.

"Easily disable or delete"? Not to mention the lack of deletion on a lot of these (...any? I don't recall if I've seen any with deletion), I don't always even find a hard way to disable or delete preinstalled apps on phones... unless we're talking about booting custom bootloaders and wiping your phone etc.

[1] https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/andro...
Its not the ISP fault if they are the monopoly.
can you suggest any please :-)
The original post by Pichai is more carefully worded as "you can easily disable or delete them", so it's an inaccurate summary by theverge.
The Brotherly Leader and Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya was well known for having female bodyguards, they definitely added theatre to official meetings.

If you write for the Daily Mail then they also become 'virgin' for added sensationalism.
> If I were Tim Cook I would fire Dan Riccio, and then resign myself and hand the company over to someone who cares about products and not supply chain optimization.

You mean, if you were someone who cared about product, couldn't execute on it yourself, but also had the capacity to direct Tim Cook’s actions, you would cause Tim Cook to do all that.

If you were Tim Cook, you would either not have the concern that motivates this or you wouldn't need to resign to have someone who cares about product in charge.
I got a HTC Vive when it came out. I spent close to a grand for it. When I set it up, got it working, and was able to play a game I thought "I'm happy I spent this money" after a couple of minutes. It's the same with Star Citizen. I've gotten enjoyment for my money.

> There are better games for much less money.

Yeah. And there are better cars out there than a Lamborghini. But I still want a Lamborghini because it's a Lamborghini.
> Fire OS and my personal phone which is running a Google-free version of LineageOS would like to have a word.

Hilariously, you just made the parent's point for them - you yourself said you aren't running Android but Fire OS or LineageOS. Android, the product, comes with Chrome, Google Search, and the Google Play Store. If you want Android, you have to take all of Android. If you want to run something else, go for it, but then it isn't Android.
I've read somewhere that typical smartphone user installs 15 apps. I certainly can't imagine my grandma installing anywhere close to 50 apps
Ah, forgot the 1900x was Threadripper.
I found myself thinking of teletype wire signals, probably because CuriousMarc have been uploading videos on them refurbishing a naval version recently.
Also, Apple has like 15% market share in the EU. If anything, it's the FTC that may want to start looking for an anti-trust case against Apple soon, which I think has around 50% market share in the US.

Apple already does many things that could be considered "abusive behavior". They just "don't count" as much right now because you can't argue it has a "dominant position" in smartphones in the US. iOS and Android have about 50-50.

When Apple starts reaching 60-70%, however, that antitrust case could (and should) be made.
A browser has to be installed on Android so that embedded web views work properly. Similar to how IE has to be installed on Windows.
What they like, minus Google apps. And if they want even one device with Google apps, they can't make other devices without them and Search an Chrome
Communicating with UDP Sockets from R
Yes, this ruling should've come 5 years earlier
It was announced relatively recently. If it's even half as good as the interpreter book, it'll be worth the price :)
Now I just need someone to service my daisywheel printer.
Android is the very opposition of Free Software. Google took the Linux Kernel, modified it, added some proprietary bits, and they're doing what they can to replace open components with their own proprietary versions, making a really open version of Android hardly usable and extremely difficult to build.

Charging manufacturers for using the operating system you built is a healthy business practice. "Giving it away" and building in dozens of tracking mechanisms is hardly ethical.