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We Americans have a pathological fear of socialism and since the 1980s it's been ingrained in the collective psyche of the nation that government is bad. You'll hear people talk about how government can't do anything right but we have the greatest military in the world. Such contradictions are endemic to the right leaning people of the country. Left leaning people of the country have a differing set of contradictions.

There is also a coupled fear of a poor person getting something they don't deserve. This has foundations in religion and in the development of the nation. There was a time (over a hundred years ago) when a man(family) could do it on their own and live off the land. This inculcated in us the idea that being poor is associated with being a slouch. Such a time has long since passed but that ethos is still in the collective consciousness.

There is also a pathological fear of taxes. It is widely believed that government is always more inefficient than a privatized solution. We had a Vice-Presidential candidate laugh at the notion that paying taxes is patriot and this while her son was in the military during a time of war! A lot of people think of themselves as some sort of Daniel Boone character that can do it on their own if only government got out of the way.

We do have a national healthcare system for elderly, members of the military, and most children. Everyone else can fend for themselves.
Well, C++ is such a flexible language that it's hard to say what general C++ code looks like. I'd say I'd expect Java to either match or even beat C++ for general "business code" which is pretty vague but is typified by lots of layers of abstraction, lots of data transformation, hash maps, string manipulation etc. Modern compilers like Graal are very good at analyzing and removing abstraction overhead. I'd expect C++ to stomp Java for any sort of numerics work, media codecs, 3D engines, things like that.

my only point was that the JVM specifically isn't faster than AOT languages nor is it faster than AOT Java because of JIT specifically

Hmm, but is there such a thing as an AOT language? You can interpret or JIT compile C and you can interpret, JIT or AOT compile Java too.

I think it's clearly the case that JITC Java is faster than AOT Java. It was maybe unclear for a long time but Graal and SubstrateVM let us compare now. You pay a big performance hit to use a VM-less AOT Java compile. Java is sort of a half-way house between a really dynamic language and a really static language.... it's got dynamic aspects and also static aspects.
I have a reason to partly blame consumers.

Recently I went in for a consult to see about an operation. Before the consult, they asked for a pee sample. After the consult I got a bill, including the lab work. I never got the operation.

The doctor never needed that lab for the consult. I don't think they even performed it that day. They just threw an extra step into the procedure, knowing that most patients would just accept it rather than interrogate the doctor or nurse as to why this was needed. The nicest way to view this is the office is operating with unnecessary procedures that drive up cost. A less charitable interpretation is they're jacking up their fees.

The blame falls on me here because I put blind faith in the doctor's office and did not fully investigate everything being done and approve or deny things based on my questions.

Now, do I think I should have to do this? Hell no. I'm not qualified to speak to their procedures. But the only way I can see doctors change how they operate is to start demanding it, in addition to regulatory change to provide a fee breakdown before doing anything. I know this would probably only make everything more expensive and slower, but I don't have a better idea. Hopefully somebody else does.
Thank you! Control program sounds even more nostalgic.
This is only tangentially-relevant, but I recently read that the earth's mantle is mostly solid! (It does still flow, but as a solid.)

The state of the rock beneath the crust is subject to two competing influences:

* High temperature [promotes liquid state]

* High pressure [promotes solid state]

and apparently the latter influence (mostly) wins.

Of course, when such rock reaches the surface, number 1 wins so we see liquid rock.
Interesting that the optimized floorplans look so much like brains!
The European countries invest in public services. And have no qualms collecting taxes to pay for them...
Trump will likely sign executive order banning them.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll create an issue for that
My experience is that the more off-brand the player, the more lenient it is with what it will play. I had a crap Lite-On that would play anything.
Whoa, this update is weird:

« EDIT: After further investigation, I no longer believe it’s a factory defect. If I write the beginning or end of the affected track to a blank CD-R and rip it, the rip fails with the same error! Give it a try yourself with minimal.flac. »

https://github.com/jmillikin/john-millikin.com/blob/master/%...

Uh... so what's going on there? Something that breaks the error correction algorithm, or what? Can anyone with a burner repro this?
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That makes sense. There is some churn in the technologies but I would agree that python is far more consistent than PHP.

Maybe the evolving nature of the work requires new tools and technologies.
I love your response because it's a great take-down of the "everything is relative and cultural" argument, which I have always thought comes from an overactive imagination.

When you start to reduce life down to simplistic concepts, everything is not relative and cultural. Sure, maybe on the fringes (.01%) there are situations that are heavily influenced by those. But for most things in life (near or on mazlowe's hierarchy) it is almost like math, or a logic puzzle.

Brazilians don't leave uncovered holes in the street because of something entirely logical within their own culture. They leave because they are lazy and do not care for the level of danger it represents to others. To imply otherwise is simply dressing a pig.
Democracy and empire are not mutually exclusive. Not that the US is a democracy, exactly, but regardless, Athens, Rome, Britain, were all flavors of democratic when they expanded into imperial activity.
Is there a printable view of this? Not that it's multiple pages but if you try to print it, you lose all the charts after the first!
The ACA isn't all bad. One thing it did do was open the market to more providers. Prior to that every state had their own insurance companies (ie. BCBS-FL, BCBS-VA, BCBS-WA). And if you wanted it there were maybe 2-3 companies you could choose from.
You wandered off into conspiracy theory land.
I have a similar number and this is what I do (obviously not scalable to 100's or 1000's):

Check each month/year for renewals and renew all for that month/year in one batch.

If you actually want the names to resolve somewhere than cloudflare is free and easily administered.

For domains you're just stockpiling or saving for future projects you can 302 redirect to a suitable site or holding page. I see from my logs that I get a handful of direct type-ins each month for some sites - since it's free traffic, why not?

I use gandi for registration - they can be a bit more expensive than some better known alternatives but you get some useful extras such as free email and web forwarding. Customer service is actually quite good too if you ever need it.

Think long and hard about each name you have, it's likely you're paying for names that have no value and you'll never use. The costs can add up.
I think it would be really cool to be able to have a Feng Shui toggle on the weights and measures of this layout algo...
Here's a company that's trying to approach it with blockchain: https://tradle.io/
> there are other kinds of problems. You are in the hospital, you feel queasy after surgery, nurse asks if you would like medication for that. "how much is it?" If you even think to ask that, usually they will not know, and can't or will not find out for you. So you can't make a rational decision about whether to deal with the discomfort or not.

followed by

> One might conclude that private, free markets don't make sense in this domain at all, perhaps.

is an odd conclusion to draw, since the agent primarily responsible for the inability for providers to provide transparent prices to privately insured patients is, ironically, Medicare.
But this ground beef literally comes in tubes. Look at the second picture.
It's gotten to the point that I no longer even pay attention to the overall score and instead I look at the reviews and ignore any review that is a 5 star review. I figure people aren't going to pay for reviews that aren't 5 star. If the only other reviews are 1 or 2 stars I know it's probably a crap product. But, if there are a decent number of 4 star reviews I know it's probably a decent product.
“The best possible terrarium for humans” — I love that. All watched over by machines of loving grace, I presume :-)
You are exactly right, and for a business owner there are some other pretty awful forces at work as well. People will tend to avoid products that have zero reviews and people are more motivated to review short-term product failures than long-term successes.

So, it is in their best interest to create review incentives. Of course, some review incentives are better than others (personal notes telling you how valued a review is and how much they will help with any problems vs. "here's $5, give me some stars").
The direct answer to your question is that it's a complicated historical thing, where American doctors in the 1950's wanted to retain more control over their practices and happened to have the political power to make that happen.
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It’s a cultural reality. Rather than get annoyed (which I used to do) I’ve just learned to pad times.

One thing I haven’t seen mentioned is part of the cause is also that Brazilians are more “in the moment” with whoever they are currently with. It’s ok (expected) that you may be late for a future meeting because you never want to be rude or short with the people that you’re currently with.

This is also why many non-Brazilian politicians are perpetually late.
USA is not the world's largest democracy. That title goes to India.
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No it wouldn't be surprising for even a moment. When I travel to foreign countries I try to be a good guest and follow the local standards of behavior as best I can. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Come on now, compassion over curiosity.
The resulting designs could be fed through a variety of simulators, environmental, social, construction feasibility, etc.

One could also use a supervised classifier and have people rank the resulting designs. They can know what they like, but not why.
I'm sorry but the sheer amount of regulation around healthcare is not a right-wing ideology. Let's get the free market in here and watch costs come crashing down. Do away with mandatory coverage, subscription windows, the government run "marketplace" and costs will come down. There's nothing right-wing about any of those features.
Very cool seeing this here! Hope things are good out in Nashville!
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I don't understand how the "downtrodden" who rejects help from the government is somehow naive, but the billionaire who votes to have his taxes increased is somehow smart, noble, and a patriot. At the end of the day everyone votes for the policy initiatives that they prefer - whether the program is trying to help them or not.

The thing about lots of "downtrodden" people is they want opportunity - not support from the government. They want to be able to stand on their two feet to support their wives and kids - not to have Warren Buffet pay for their meals.
Quarterly GDP growth was 4.1%, which is not unprecedented at all, if uncommon. We had a quarter of 5.1% growth in 2014. Annual GDP growth of 4.1% would be a really big deal.
1. The discussion is about US healthcare costs compared to the rest of the world which is different to your monthly payments.

2. "Obamacare" seems to an outsider to have been a hellish compromise - the only thing that could get passed considering the political balance of power at the time. It was far from the legislation that was originally intended - and that even legislation (what was deemed politically possible in advance) is probably far from what would be needed to fix the US healthcare system.

So it's entirely possible you ended up with a terrible outcome instead of the merely inadequate outcome that might have transpired in a different climate.
Conversion rates in competitive categories on Amazon usually drop by 50% or more when star ratings drop from 4.26 to 4.24. You could have a product converting at 10% go down to 4% or less after the rating drop. The perception difference is absolutely gigantic even if the actual difference is inconsequential.
The democrats big mistake was trying to compromise with the republicans, who still refused to work on it. it's clear the whole system is borked, and I only see one party at least trying to do something about it.
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It really kicks the llama’s ass.
And so can lack of decisive action, so it's a mixed bag, isn't it?
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Yeah, and the cheap bathroom scale would have been just as awful as the middling ones on Amazon. And that would have probably been just fine.

One of the weird things about Amazon is that its turned us into people that think we need a crowd-sourced review for every $20 common household item.
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I don't think you've sufficiently proven the argument which the rest of your statements hinge on: "People are always going to make choices in their economic self-interest". It's an attractive (if somewhat cynical) point, but it's no more reasonable than any other generalisation. Not very.
The US isn't even a democracy, it's a federated republic. Lately I think it's just a plutocracy. We vote quasi-democratically, but really the two party system is a one party system that protects high level interests and prefers corporations over individuals these days. It's an ugly mess that nobody really wants to see reformed.
Why are you so sure a conservative mindset wouldn’t be more helpful?

In practice, it was liberals who enacted heavy sentences on crack usage.

California, an extremely liberal state, voted in a 72% majority referendum for the three strikes policy.

So, I’m just curious why liberals have some sort of lock in the minds of people as being on the “side of the poor”.
If you ask me, the fall of America from the lone 'superpower' to a 'great power' is all but assured as long as the structural racial inequality in this county persists.

Let's take a look at education for an example: USA ranks pretty low on global education rankings despite the fact that we have some of the best schools in the world across all levels, its hard to think why that may be the case but when you consider the inequality in school systems due to property tax law and de facto segregation it makes a lot more sense.

Look at the criminal justice system: we have over 1 million prime aged men who are basically frozen out of achieving economic prosperity and contributing to this countries success because of bad policing and disproportionate enforcement of law.

Look at healthcare, there is a huge gap (although closing) of life expectancy between races.

India and China are not utopias by any means, but they have 1B+ people: these countries are growing larger and larger in influence and will create a middle class that contains hundreds of millions of people. The US is getting more and more in-equal and at a certain point we will reach an inflection point where we are too damn lopsided for our own good. People want to talk about lower productivity and lower wages, when you have 1.5 missing men from the workforce what do you expect?[0]

0: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/20/upshot/missin...
It is a rich vs. poor issue. If that "savage" had had a lot of money, they would have paid bail and still committed the murder.

If they're truly a "savage", don't offer bail as an option. That's the judgment call that needs to be made.
Don't bullshit me, copying files and applying error correction is trivial compared to maintaining paper copies of books which degrade and burn. We write emulators for just about every popular old computer system, so even if you have to use a dated reader to extract the info, should be possible. We have whole organizations dedicated to digital preservation that would have no issue doing this for millions of books.
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The asymmetry depends on the culture. In some cultures moaning is more common than in the others, using Google in English to gauge that, results in serious skew.
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> Hopefully somebody else does.

Copy what works well in the rest of the world?
> They want to be able to stand on their two feet to support their wives and kids

It's pretty hard to stand on your own feet in a hospital bed.
Pre-Modi India anyway.
Amazon profits from limited transparency and seller oversight. After analyzing over 160 million customer reviews of 2 million plus 3P sellers on Amazon- others are having a problem too.

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This is it. Both parties have failed with healthcare - Republicans through complete inaction, and Democrats through pushing through legislation that simply expanded insurance coverage. While I think the ACA made things better than before (it got a lot more people insured and thus no longer easily susceptible to medical bankruptcy), it was a very imperfect and inefficient solution.

Because of the donors to each side - small government boosters like the Koch’s for the Republicans, insurance and pharmaceutical companies to the Democrats - it’s going to be very hard to move to a single payer solution. Even if you don’t think that’s the right way to handle it, you must admit that there is not much money behind it
Yes I'm aware that you need an evaluation heuristic. My point is that you don't need a particularly good one to be able to beat an average intelligent human at chess. (After all, most humans don't have very sophisticated chess position evaluation heuristics, and they are able to examine vastly less of the search space than a computer.) Beating Kasparov is another matter, of course.

Here's an example of a simple chess engine that is good enough to beat amateur human players at least some of the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8133125
Unprecedented? It isn't unprecedented at all. It is entirely pedestrian. Add that it was substantially caused by a) a massive burst of government spending, b) foreign buyers front-loading delivery to beat out pending trade wars. It is going to get ugly from here.

The American economy is pretty much at 100% right now, as any chart could tell you has been the result of almost 10 years of growth since the financial crisis. Which is why it is shocking and startling that it is coupled with extraordinary deficits approaching a trillion dollars. This is the time when the government is supposed to be eliminating deficits, not blowing them up.

The US debt is simply grotesquely unsustainable, and when even the anti-deficit right has ceded the fight...bad times are ahead.

So yes, the US economy is a "terror" movie of sorts. It is so profoundly irrational that it has some serious jump scares coming up.

As an aside - Trump is boasting about a steel maker making record profits. Ignore that it cost $12B in taxpayer money to farmers in a single year, and will cost billions more, and that it dramatically increased the prices for US consumers and threatened a wide swath of manufacturers...at least US Steel is making money, right?
Then it should say "world's largest economy", not "world's largest democracy".
This is purely speculation with no sources.

These articles are a dime a dozen in the age of Trump and most of them are shortsighted and factless.
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How many elementary school children have perished in school fires in the last 25 years?
Maybe give freeVMS a try :) It's an old (crazy) friend of mine who did it...
> The blame falls on me here because I put blind faith in the doctor's office and did not fully investigate everything being done and approve or deny things based on my questions.

The thing you are describing is not the problem. In a normal healthcare system patients aren't expected to second-guess and interrogate doctors.
Actually there's at least 2 incentives: 1) even with insurance coverage you have a deductible, and unless you have a year with a lot of doctor visits or procedures, you're probably going to end up paying almost everything out of pocket, 2) higher medical bills drive insurance costs, if you can get lower bills you can reduce your insurance costs (not even negotiating with the insurance, but just simply switching to a different/cheaper plan with lower coverage).
For the sake of argument, can you name a current law that treats people unequally by some immutable quality of the individual?
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> mandatory coverage

Yes, removing this reduces costs - by creating a category of people who can't get insurance at anything resembling a price they can afford, and therefore either have to suffer, go bankrupt, die, or all three.
I don't know. I think in tech those feelings are accurate because the knowledge domain is so massive. It's taken me half a decade of accumulated knowledge to shake those feelings.
Any sources on your claim that they are actively trying to solve that problem and that they are failing at it?
Seems like a ton of work for pretty dismal results. Cool work though, just kinda disappointing what was captured.
"the company agreed to block Pennsylvania users from its site"
If it was being blocked at the ISP level, then I would be concerned.
> How long can they continue doing this before the whole system collapses?

The system is working as designed. Regulation ensures the corporations are getting rich and you're going broke.

When the government decided to make insurance a mandatory product, what did you really think the outcome was going to be? Insurance companies acted in their own interest: lowered payments to providers which forced providers out of their 'networks.'

I know, I know. The insurance companies (that formed 'non-profit' entities) are 'losing' money. But, thankfully, the laws provided for subsidies in case of 'losses.' It's all smoke and mirrors.