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Each board is its own Community. Making a blanket comment like this without naming the specific board is actually not that useful. I have seen some of the meta discussions by aggrieved users, and it usually comes down to something the user did without first looking up the answer themselves, trying to find the answer themselves, or even clicking on some of the suggested articles that will appear after they've simply typed a few words in the subject line.

People on this board are volunteers. Many of the boards expect you to try to solve the problem yourself before asking. When you asked, it is very useful if you spend time formulating the question correctly, so that others after you that have the same problem can understand the answers in context.
What's your alternative then?
> This differs significantly from what I see, the local agencies in my area are focused on providing testing, care and treatment, not funding advertising.

Sounds like your local agencies either aren't doing their jobs or aren't spending their money appropriately. Public service announcements are an important part of public health in every country. Dissemination of public health information and knowledge of what resources are available doesn't happen by magic.

> In the latter half of your comment, you literally described how this is set up to scam insurance. If one has insurance, everything is great, otherwise they get stuck without medication they need.

"the copay with insurance is less than the out-of-pocket expense without insurance" is not, in se evidence or a description of a scam.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/koch-brothers-dark-money-repub...

https://www.vancouverobserver.com/politics/charitable-fraser...
If I suspect strep, I make a same-day appointment with my family doctor, show my government issued health card, get swabbed and have a result in a few minutes. I then smile at the receptionist and walk out; there is no bill for seeing your doctor or having tests run.

If I need antibiotics, my employer provided insurance covers the full cost and I pay a fixed $10 or so fee to the pharmacy.

You live a few hundred km south of me I bet, and in every way except this our world is very similar.. but you guys have far deeper problems then just transparency. Your entire view of healthcare is wrong.
Maybe I misunderstood, but I could swear they reworked a ton of their algorithms as part of this effort.
GF is likely to scrap that project since they dropped out of the node race.

SSC also put a hold on building a 7nm node fab in China.
Yes, but more precisely it’s a signifier of the market’s belief about the (current value of) future cash flows of the company (for investors) and future price movements of the share (for speculators).

So, if the liabilities exceed the assets by a significant margin, will shareholders trust the company enough for the market value of the share to not move towards zero?
Expanding your Linux commands site to also covering Unix commands in general, Mac shell commands and Windows Linux subsystem commands specifically, might enlarge your audience.
Well, Li-Ion was mass adopted way after the fall of the USSR, so back then Ni-XX is all they had. The Ford Endura Diesel engines provided ~60 HP, but were more than good enough for everyday use.

If they kept up with it, electric may have been quite standard by now. Of course, the US had electric cars almost a century before,which were abandoned, as well. And electric batteries are still nowhere near petrol by energy density.

It seems like a good experiment for the times.
That ship has sailed, bro...

https://i.imgflip.com/1nh3qo.jpg
> nothing meaningful has changed

Except that you don't now have blood on your hands...

If "being able to sleep at night" gets counted as "meaningful", I'd say something has changed.

If the only question you count as "meaningful" is "did we leave any money on the table". Perhaps you should think more deeply about the world...
I'm starting to feel the same way about medical professions. Example: I go to my dentist...and as I'm sitting in the chair, hygienist tells me she's going to put on fluoride and xrays as part of routine. Alright, no problem, I have preventative coverage.

Turns out it cost $30 for flurodie and $60 for xrays. Fluoride is only covered in kids, and xrays every 2 years. I call up dentist office and you know what they tell me? They don't provide treatment based on insurance coverage.

Right...they provide treatment based on how much money they can rip you off on. Fluoride for adults is new. We have fluoride in the water and in the toothpaste.. I don't recall having it in the past and my Google search tells me where's a debate on whether it's even beneficial. I only see that it benefits the dentist's pockets.
It's a fact that Trump and Republicans ran on a platform of free-market healthcare and full price transparency, unlike their opponents.

The article I linked points out that this price transparency could not be achieved in the very first legislative step -- by the nature of that first bill, related exclusively to tax and revenue since it originated in the House.

Politics is an art of compromises, to achieve what is doable with sufficient majorities, as well as taking into account popular support in view of the next round of elections.

In this case, the only change that could pass was to remove the tax-shaped penalty so that people are allowed to ignore Obamacare plans. Next would have been a basic repeal of Obamacare (blocked by Senate Democrats and McCain). Finally would have been new and very different regulation, including price transparency (which could not even be attempted since step two was blocked, the consensus was that new regulations should only be passed after repealing Obamacare, and Republicans failed to build a majority around that approach).
The Tesla battery packs are ~500kg, so what's changed is the power - 320kW or something.
> Nurse practitioners are, I think, the future of primary care.

Agreed. When I visit my PCP, I normally meet with a NP. I’ve been quite happy with the quality of care received.

> Where we're really spending the money is on long-term and end-of-life care.

With the boomers entering the end-of-life phase of their lives it will be interesting to see if we will be able to change culturally and realize the huge sums of money spent with little benefit to the economy. I’m struggling with this myself currently as my parents are aging (quickly). They don’t have unlimited savings to spend on health care. While I have ample resources, I’m not convinced shelling out $1MM is worth it for them to live with a marginal quality of life for just a couple of years. Just writing that makes me feel like a terrible person but I try to think rationally and without emotions.

Edit to add: I’m genuinely curious about your thoughts on this, @tptacek. I’ve always respected and appreciated your opinion here on HN.
GF has foundries in Germany and in the US, TSMC is Taiwan.
Beyond that the only other fab for hire company with an advanced node is SSC and all their advanced fabs are in Korea.

The only thing that China can currently fab on a matching node are display panels.

Their IC nodes are still stuck on 28nm and even that is pushing it.
You are certainly describing a lactose intolerance vs allergy. If you immediately presented with symptoms there was nothing slight about it, it is just an intolerance.

My household prefers lactose free milk(not necessarily Lactaid brand) over alternatives, which can also be cheaper. I would also guess that you will continue to drop weight as your digestion improves and inflammation decreases.

The best way to describe it would be that you had self inflicted IBS.

We had a child in care in our home that presented with obvious un-diagnosed lactose intolerance. After removing lactose, she dropped about 3-4% body weight in about 60 days, and then grew about 12% in height over 120-150 days. So her ability to absorb nutrients dramatically shifted after we got her off lactose. I am sure other factors contributed, but simply not having nearly constant loose stool drastically changed her health.

I am also convinced that a much larger portion of the population has difficulty in processing lactose than people think.
> The biggest culprit is the "fee-for-service" model of reimbursement, where healthcare providers (physicians) are reimbursed based on the quantity of care rather than patient outcomes.

Charge a hospital based on patient outcomes? How would that work?
Worse. Much worse.
1. All real estate held by non-human persons ( i.e. corporations, LLC) gets taxed at a higher rate.

2. All real estate used for income production - i.e. AirBnB for significant percentage of the year

3. An owner can declare a single piece of property their primary residence, all others are taxed as commercial property.

4. etc....

Vancouver needs to define "residents" and tax property that is not being held by non-residents.
Disclaimer: I will say I work for a company that does government contracts, I'm just a Software Engineer.

I think where they screwed up is trying to force engineers of a non-military contract focused company into military work...

I think Google should of made an entirely new company and gone out to hire people specifically for military work. I am surprised Alphabet has not figured this out.

If I am hired to work on some camera system and now you want me to work on a weapons system. Guess what... I will probably quit if I dont feel comfortable with that kind of thing.

We are employees not slaves. Give us work we want to do for best results. Otherwise hire new people to work on those NEW tasks...

I do love the hidden history of SV videos they are a wealth of knowledge.
In this case, I’d say the only way to win is not to let anyone else play.
I'd recommend you read part 2 which came out today.

https://medium.com/@daxaxelrod/facebook-destroys-billions-of...
Not true (sadly). NYC, Miami, SF, etc. have a big problem with shell corporations using real estate to do money laundering.
> There are 3 million people living in the US with Hepatitis C, many who are needlessly dying from it are not incarcerated.

I was responding to the claim about people who need it the most. People who are incarcerated are, in fact, the people who benefit from curing HCV the most. And the price is not the reason they are unable to access it.

> The sticker price is a scam to make insurers feel good when they get double digit percentage discounts, while still lining Gileads pockets.

Even if you subscribe to the absurd notion that massive insurance companies incentivized by their bottom line could be oblivious to that dynamic and content with "feeling good" about an imaginary discount that lines their vendor's pockets, this argument falls apart when you look at how much the same medication costs in countries like Germany and France.

Sovaldi costs about the same over there, and in fact, used to cost more than it did in the US (in addition to receiving approval much later than they did in the US).
And just a reminder the US doesn’t even spend much less taxpayer money than Canada and other Western countries. The US taxpayer spends about 8-9% of GDP on healthcare, and gets this result. Other countries spend the same and get a free universal healthcare system.
> Fungibility can hardly be true for the venture capital ecosystem. Many people who wanted to invest in Facebook, Snap, Uber, etc. could not do so.

Many people who want to invest in Amazon right now cannot do so, because the shares are very expensive. That doesn't mean they're not fungible, it only means the existing owners won't sell for what you're willing to pay.

> The "buy-in" price that you mention is not efficient because some people cannot participate no matter how much they are willing to pay.

If you went to Zuckerberg in 2004 and offered to buy in for the equivalent of Facebook's 2018 valuation, would he really have turned you away?

Early stage startups are sensitive to who invests because early investors typically get seats on the board. The problem with the Saudis was not that they would use their board seats to ruin your company.

> Similarly, imagine if Uber wanted to hire a top Computer Vision researcher, and they could not. This hiring situation might not even get noticed by a LP, but an LP would surely notice if a VC was not able to invest their money in the next Uber / Facebook.

The thing about "the next Uber / Facebook" is that nobody knows who they are yet. And the number of startups who could be them is huge, even though most of them won't. Not being able to invest in a random startup that might become the next Facebook is hardly an issue when there are a hundred more that you can.
Amazon absolutely has to deal with the fake review problem. In some ways, you can think of it as analogous to google search. Google's moneymaker isn't the search; it's the ads. But Google spends a lot of time fixing search quality and dealing with people gaming search results because otherwise the ad revenue disappears.
It is however I believe they are reposting it because the second half of the article just came out and completely changes the intent.
A follow on problem: If there is a problem at a property Vancouver needs to track the beneficial owner to handle liability and maintenance issues.

Vancouver has a problem of determining responsibility for poorly maintained buildings, fire code violations, etc.
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> Ah perhaps I have stale information then. Last I heard retail truvada will run you north of $1,500 per month in the us.

The sticker price is meaningless. Because of the assistance programs, nobody needs to pay it, whether you're on private insurance or uninsured.
This 512-Year-Old GreenLand Shark Is the Oldest Living Vertebrate on the Planet
The reverse of that is the hallmark of the greatest entrepreneurs:

Selling something that doesn’t even exist yet
I actually disagree with this. As someone who uses linux as the primary build OS for my software projects, i need to know just enough to make things work but I don't necessarily want to be an uber linux expert. This results in me constantly googling "command for <XYZ> ubuntu", which usually lands me on a stackoverflow page with something that points me in the right direction. Now, i'm not saying a linux example commands website will be successful for my anecdotal reason, but i have to imagine there are many more devs just like me.
Einstein's brain
At least you got a quote...I've been told by providers that they only accept insurance patients (no up front cash), and they can't tell you till they bill you...Not sure why this is the only industry like that.

You don't go to a restaurant and get the pricing after you eat. Heck when you go to a buffet you don't get billed based on how many plates you get.
The link I provided documents the 2016 Republican platform of full price transparency in healthcare.

You quibble about how they failed to repeal ACA and follow up with new regulation. Factually, Trump and the Rs failed with their 3-step plan, right after step 1 -- hence we remain stuck with the lack of price transparency under the Democrats' Obamacare.

So, blaming Republicans is not factual.
This is classic. I've been around the block mate.

Apparently I am responding to a strawman after the OP actually replied and said my assessment of what they said was correct.

This is why I dislike speaking to the FSF crowd. It is much like a religion (as far as I am concerned).
It's not about putting it in bad light it's about showing how the statistics world can be 100% correct but still not represent the real world.
I don’t know why is this being downvoted.

Anti bodies are produced to combat a pathogen if the levels of the pathogen are below of what would trigger the immune system you will not produce anti bodies and the ones that you have had produced will fade of over time you don’t have anti bodies for every pathogen you encounter flowing through your blood that would likely kill you.

If the pill can reduce the virus to trace levels and prevent HIV from developing into AIDS it’s not unreasonable to question if it can affect current HIV detection protocols.

Heck it wouldn’t surprise me if they measured the levels of anti bodies dropping while the levels of immune cells remaining normal to test the efficiency of the new drug.

That said I know some HIV tests check for the levels of virions in the blood these are often used for AIDS prognosis I don’t know how sensitive these are and if they’ll be able to detect trace levels of the virus if anti bodies response tests will become unreliable.

Also like with everything it’s not binary if this new treatment regiment can reduce the effectiveness of HIV testing by any meaningful margin it will be a problem.

I have very hard time believing that current HIV testing is 100% false negative proof.
> So in the years 1980-81, the first serial Soviet electric car was produced – over fifty cars were made in that first production run.

Does 50 cars produced over a 2 year period really qualify as "mass-produced"? When Tesla makes a few thousand Model 3 cars in a single week, analysts complain it's not enough.
Police Body Camera Bursts into Flames; New York Pulls 2,990 from Use
> Angie's List or Houzz.

Ok sure, you can put it down to moderation, or you can put it down to size. What is the size of Angie's list to Amazon?
My first digital camera was a Fuji.

It was reviewed to have better colour than pretty much any other digital camera at the time.
We live in a boring dystopia https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/990570131238473728
Python negative indexing isn't modulo. It's just shorthand for array[len(array)-i].

>>> a = [1, 2, 3]
>>> a[-1]
3
>>> a[-2]
2
>>> a[-3]
1
>>> a[-4]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IndexError: list index out of range
Yes, people change. My concern about people suddenly changing their stance on Saudi Arabia is why now and why only Saudi Arabia. Two major points:

Saudi Arabia is a brutal regime. That didn't start Khashoggi. If we had any doubt, the 50,000 civilian deaths in Yemen should have cemented the brutality of Saudi Arabia. I'm more concerned about people who suddenly decided to consider their moral position after a single US permanent resident (Khashoggi) died, and conveniently ignored the years of brutality leveled upon Saudi Arabia's neighboring civilians.

I'd also challenge whether tsese individuals are also distancing themselves from Lockheed Martin -- the weapons manufacturer selling weapons of Saudi Arabia. Recently a Lockheed Martin bomb was used to kill a bus-full of Yemeni school children...I suppose that is still OK?
Tbh Jobs is more of a Michael Jackson, he started a wave. Both perfectionists and somewhat assholes in personal lives.
UW researchers unveil an AI system that predicts problems during surgery
The relevant thing would be shareholder equity (book value; assets minus liabilities) rather than market cap, in that impairment of assets at a financial firm is supposed to hit shareholders before it hits debt or depositors, that being a pretty major responsibility of equity in financial firms.

Book value doesn't necessarily march in lockstep with market value, which (as you point out) is set by actors' marginal propensity to buy the stock.

A more interesting thing to note would have been that financial firms trading at a marked discount to book value are effectively being judged by the market as being in distress. Financial firms can be analyzed as two things: an operating business and also as a big pot of money. The market is saying "Well, that certainly does look like an attractive pot of money, but you'd have to pay me quite a bit to own that operating business (and the attendant risks of it)."

Unexpected losses on a large life insurance portfolio seem very, very unlikely, absent a mass casualty event (in which case they're likely to get at least partially socialized).
Yikes. This sounds, however, like a completely different bug, if it is only triggered by unzipping archives. I'm sure that the situation is more complicated than it looks - because it looks like there is just a shocking lack of QA testing being done, if basic edge cases like this are resulting in undefined behavior.
Why buy expired when you can buy it fresh? Kodak just reintroduced Ektachrome after discontinuing it in 2013!
Are you kidding? People I know have TERRIBLE judgement when it comes to products. Who builds trust based on that characteristic?
My veterinarian charges around $60 for office visits. A surgery with general anesthetic might be $1000. It's about 10x cheaper than a human doctor, maybe 100x if you go to a random emergency room. Veterinary medicine involve all the same steps as for a human patient. I can usually get appointments the same day too. It's a totally free market, where vets compete on price and service.
Regarding a counterfeit product, is the return period relevant? It’s a case of fraud. It seems it would be an open and shut case for a small claim court, if they didn’t provide a refund.
Strange, in 2016 the Republicans ran on a platform of full price transparency in healthcare.
while technically true, the title is misleading because it makes it sound like every file operation (copy, move, etc.) is botched, when in reality it's only messing up when extracting from zip files and they already exist.
> reminds me of the old joke...

Despite the jokes, the 80s ladas weren't so bad.

My dad had a second-hand one in the 90s (almost certainly from mid 80s) and it was a pretty solid car. There was a degree of simplicity to the maintenance that was uncharacteristic of other cars at the time. I don't recall it needing any major work doing to it at any point.

It also had windscreen wipers on the headlights which I recall a strange fascination with because at night the blades would cast moving shadows across the road.

When he sold it, it was snapped up quick for the Russian market.

However, the power of the electric lada in the article does sound more worthy of the old jokes.

It still seems pretty ambitious for the day and certainly surpasses my expectations on range.
Never once have I heard of an American going to Canada for medical tourism. I live on the Ontario/NY border and have my whole life.

I'm sorely disappointed in your arguments so far. Your stats support your point and are legitimate but mine are not. Typical liberal nonsense.
True, but hard to adjudicate. The problem is how do you differentiate between people who don't pivot because they think the next feature will make them successful and are justified in doing so, versus people who do the same thing but really should pivot? It's tricky because we have all of the following examples:

- People whose initial idea isn't working, but who pivot and immediately hit product market fit.

- People who launch the exact same thing once a year and it finally becomes a huge hit after the fourth time.

- People who pivot quickly and fail, whereas they would have probably been successful had they pushed the original idea to its logical conclusion.

- People who pivot after five years and become wildly successful, but where it's unclear if they would have been as successful had they had pivoted sooner.

- People who pivot and become successful when they would have been better off shutting down and starting over. (e.g. Derek Sivers)

This hits home a lot for me because I always strongly favor the strategy of building some optionality into the product, both for my own startup and when doing consulting, on the assumption that we're probably directionally correct but may be wrong on some specifics (e.g. how a feature should work, who the early adopters will be, what the economy will be like in the future, what the cash flow of the business will be like on any given day, etc.) And I take a lot of shit both for not committing 100% to one specific product and go-to-market strategy, and also for not pivoting fast enough when something isn't working. Go figure.