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> Actually if they did that I'd probably start buying from them again

Not that it would inherently solve the problem or prevent pay for play, but it would be a great strategy for Amazon to have an independent review company.

There are problems, though:
1. How do we trust that there's some objectivity, particularly as it relates to things that compete with Amazon products?

2. How could reviewers possibly cover any significant amount of the vast number of products Amazon sells?
Not if you have cancer.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/health-care-wait-times-hit-20-...
I'm concerned about all the pebbles. Does anyone think of the pebbles?
If a company’s considered to be worth $X of money, if you then bundle it with debts worth $-X, the combination should be worth $0.
A friend of a friend owns and runs google ads on linux.die.net (linux manpages). It pays his mortgage.
Digital cameras are hardly a small market and they had the technology first. They just got stuck in the past.
Founders should take into account the dirtiness of the investment commensurate with how much leverage they have. But we shouldn't ostracise or penalize small companies who can't afford to take into account where the money comes from. No need to enforce an equally high ethical threshold on the whole startup community.
Interesting that everyone makes this argument for things that aren't already covered by taxes. No one sits and argues that you do have to pay for the interstate system in a discussion about the cost of using it as the turnpike.

No one thinks that no end user cost (what people usually mean when they say free) <> no money spent.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/putin-lied-abo...
Well, then we agree to disagree. Particularly with search results where it's likely I'm going to need to look through a lot of results (e.g. real estate, hotel, dating sites) I find infinite scroll, if done right, makes it faster to comb through results.

More importantly, though, I think this article is an anti-pattern of attempting to make broad conclusions from anecdotes and personal opinion with zero data to back it up.
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> You get what you pay for.

It is more than that - it takes an incredible amount of time and effort to setup a good offshore team.

It took my current company over a decade to get to a point where we can consistently get ~10% lower project costs.

That’s a decade of failed and delayed projects! And we weren’t trying to go with the cheapest devs.

When your dev spend is a few hundred million or more a year this makes sense.

However, many many smaller companies have been burned. A couple of failed projects can sink these smaller companies.
Another factor is reviews with pictures depending on what you are buying. In any case I cancelled Amazon prime. They wont be getting my money once my membership expires. I rather pay for a service thats worthwhile to me. I rather get my things at Walmart or BestBuy due to convenience and now BestBuy will price match Amazon.
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Think parent is simply illustrating what the medical case might look like in a garage. I'd say point is made.
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.

Founders of highly successful startups (or at least those on a promising growth trajectory) are in practice sensitive to which VCs participate in each round (and I suspect in the next few years they will start to pay attention to LPs as well). The "buy-in" price that you mention is not efficient because some people cannot participate no matter how much they are willing to pay.

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.
I've found it amusing that sometimes I'll be Googling around researching something, generally with respect to making an architectural decision (should I use library X or Y, what are the pros and cons) type stuff and on occasion I've found a really nice detailed question on Stack Overflow asking for opinions or experiences using X or Y and then there will even be a few thoughtful and really useful responses that were starting to lead into quite an excellent discussion of real wisdom coming from real world longer term experiences people have had and then the moderators helpfully show up and promptly close the question as "not constructive."

I don't think I've ever posted a question, nor really considered it to be honest.
I just heard this yesterday! Can second, great episode.
The journalist reports on the effect had on the “blood glucose score” of around 6.5. This sounds like an A1C score which measures long term levels of glucose. It is nice that it went down a small amount, but inconsequential.

What is not mentioned is whether or not the patients were able to quit taking insulin. I suspect not since there were placebo patients in the trial and not taking insulin is lethal for a Type I Diabetic. The headline was written as if this caused a remission of the disease and return to normalcy. But at best it sounds like patients had better luck managing their disease with the vaccine than without.

Nothing to see here, sorry.
There seems to be a pretty simple solution to high drug prices: the Bayh-Dole Act.

The background to the law is this: previously if a private institution used federal grants to develop a new drug, the federal government retained patent rights. The federal government isnt particularly good at commercializing products so the Bayh-Doye act allows for private institutions to retain patents for innovations funded via government grants. The government retains certain rights to the patent (this is important).

With this situation you have a case where the American tax payer essentially pays twice for certain drugs, their taxes paid for the federal grant that discovered the drug and now they have to pay a private company to actually use the drug.

Well, the Bayh-Dole act grants the government "march-in" rights, which basically allows the government to license any patent derived using federal funds to a third party if the original partner “has not taken, or is not expected to take within a reasonable time, effective steps to achieve practical application of the … invention”.

The government has NEVER exercised it's march-in rights. I understand the hesitation to drastically change the market for a product by granting a 3rd party a patent that they would otherwise never have, but it's been made clear over the past few years that many pharmaceutical companies are acting in bad faith and abusing their market position by drastically increasing drug prices.

I think exercising Bayh-Dole on a high profile drug (EpiPen??) would shake the market back into reasonable price structures. It's a huge hammer the federal government is not wielding.
This article acts like higher wages have been tried already, bullshit.
But you want array[len(array)] to throw an error rather than return array[0], so modulo isn't the right operator.
Can you check this out and provide feedback?

https://blog.teddyhyde.com/2017/10/11/take-back-your-blog-ju...

chris@teddyhyde.com
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You are way off base. The original WSJ article has links to other articles detailing how hospitals merge themselves into a monopoly that has to be accepted by the insurer. The hospital sets the prices. They also go into how these large hospital systems gobble up doctors offices and use the same leverage to increase prices and tack exhoribiant fees--just like the experience of the person you are replying to.
“Millions of policyholders would start moving their life insurance”

Is that practically feasible though, there’s a great cost favorability loss in reinsuring in a new policy years / decades after initiating a policy
> char was usually how you got a int8_t

Not sure if that's just a typo, but you would use a signed char, which is a different type to char even on implementations where char is signed. Part of the reason for this, of course, is because char can be unsigned so if you want a signed integer you have to specify that. But more philosophically, unsigned char and signed char are numerical types that are not meant to be characters (despite their names), whereas char is a character type that just happens to be backed by an integer.

Indeed I believe that int8_t is almost always just a typedef for signed char (but I still would use int8_t where available for clarity).
Competitors will pay for fake reviews. I know a friend who gets offers to do this in exchange for discounted goods.
I hate infinite scrolling because once implemented nobody cares about disabled javascript case - like reddit, the experience is broken without it - you can only see first couple of topics and can't load more.
A lot of analog synths from the 70s and 80s have full service manuals with complete circuit schematics, so repair is actually very doable. People even clone old hardware from tracing these circuits and laying them out on new modern pcbs.
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What about Switzerland though?

(definitely not defending the US system)
> It's not like these are fields that require a precise integer.

If you are treating the street address as more than a string something is wrong. Its supposed to be a string by design unless you are trying to be efficient by storing ints as ints but then you shouldnt be evaluating them from user input and if you are... Treat it as a raw string.
This makes me think it is exactly the kind of attitude that makes StackOverflow unfriendly. Your concern is valid but your post feels accusatory and dismissive.
I'm feeling cranky as hell, so let me go ahead and toss out the wildly unpopular idea that the real solution here is more research etc into dietary and lifestyle changes. But I seriously doubt he's going to go in that direction.
Anecdata: had to take spouse to ER earlier this year. She had a reasonably run-of-the-mill cold, but the cough had irritated her throat enough that everything she attempted to eat was triggering her gag reflex. She was getting pretty feeble from lack of food (and throwing what little she could get down back up).

Insurance is through her work, so I had to coax her through logging in to her account so that I could try to find an in-network ER list.

After spending ~30 minutes grumbling at the website over the complete lack of anything resembling clarity, I had a list of 3 hospitals that appeared to be in-network (and a sinking feeling that this could easily cost thousands of dollars). Set off around 2am. Arrived at first. 5+hour wait. Went to the next, no wait. They didn't manage to do much aside from giving a few tests that came up negative, administered fluids, gave her a steroid shot, and did a blood panel.

Her blood panel had one abnormal result that the doctor was willing to admit her for observation over (and had admitted people in the pass for less), but the doctor also noted that the parameter can vary a lot person to person; some people would be fine at that level. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach and decided it would be better to take her home to keep an eye on her than risk financial ruin. I think we were there 2-3 hours.

When the bill came months later, it was $2600 because the doctor was out of network.
Because that bit indicates if it is a normal object or an integer (for 32 bit VM)
Yeah, but Amazon is paying them and branding their trucks with the amazon logo, they should take responsibility for quality of service.
All of what you said is true and doesn't take away from my points, except the first sentence. Cheers.
Much rattled very startle. You'll also be AMAZED what doctors are saying about this new diet thing!
No, as the article clearly detailed, insurance has no hand in it other than removing the actual cost away from the person receiving the care. The hospital is a monopoly which the insurer MUST do business with. Read the fucking article before you try to speak with authority.
Again, I have lived there, and the numbers seem on the upper end of plausible for non-essential surgery like breast reduction, but extremely bogus for anything important. A day or two was normal for routine treatments.

The official government figures, where about half of patients get care within 24 hours, and about 90% within 48, are much more in line with my experience.
Amazon has been known to deliver counterfeits including counterfeit books which was a popular story here on HN a while back.

Edit see here on Amazon counterfeit books specifically Python for Kids being counterfeit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546
The German nuclear weapon program had a number of fundamental flaws, according the Wikipedia article on it, and so I assume it would have failed to produce a weapon even if Roennenberg's raid had not taken place. However, at the time no one on the Allied side knew this, and so it made sense to launch the raid.
"The Ni-Zn batteries were a heavy load – over 380kg of weight. The engine had 25 kWt (35 hp) which could get the car up to 90 km/h."

a car that weighs nearly 1000 pounds with an engine that was about as powerful as a riding lawnmower.

reminds me of the old joke...

"what do you call a lada on top of a hill?"

"a miracle."
Isn't the interstate system frequently blocked and the roads not really good, the speed limit low, construction way too expensive and slow, etc? I wouldn't really want to have that in my healthcare system...

My point: Let's stop comparing healthcare to road construction/maintenance. It's human lives. It works differently.
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Truvada does nothing to change identification of HIV+ donors. Truvada does not change response to HIV tests, an HIV+ person taking Truvada as part of treatment does not stop testing positive for HIV antibodies. Nothing changes from the existing blood donation situation due to Truvada.
Looks like this in Win10:

https://imgur.com/a/X9PcgZe

Should be better anyway, but it is usable.

I already got it better but the VM has changed since and the rendering is not as good (but is faster for some reason).

Vs IntelliJ, it sucks a tad.
We basically stopped getting any products that go on or in your body from Amazon due to the pervasiveness of fake products on there. Tons of fake makeup, shampoos, vitamins, electronics. imo Amazon is worse than ebay lately with the amount of counterfeit goods.
Citizens United is one such example.
For all the problems that Amazon has, there is a long history of Best Buy actively pushing consumer-harmful practises that I would still rate them a lower choice.

The first one that comes to mind is forcing printer manufacturers to not bundle USB cables so they can separately sell them at a high markup
Isn't this better solved with a combination of bookmarking, tagging, good search, and resetting the person to the same spot on a page when it reloads? (facebook doesn't do the latter for instance, and it's massively frustrating to me)
Let me again repeat this, which you ignored:

> That's 3.65 million a year- that's absolutely enough to support rent, part time employees, and a nice profit margin (~10 - 15% on average).
I'm not asking it rhetorically, I genuinely don't know the answer. Do agree there is no universal advice.
> In C, a function argument or return value of type char gets promoted to int. So, code that uses char a lot does a lot of such promotions.

I think you're confusing standard C and machine/implementation-specific behavior. (If not for yourself, for people who read your comment.)
If people wanted to fake review Angie's List or Houzz, they would do it.
There are millions of abstractions in mathematics, and the truth is that the human brain has a much better time remembering stories than it does math. You teach the stories so people have some context to associate complex ideas with.
> "but what about emergencies!" note that emergency care is a single-digit percentage of total health expenditures.

Right, as soon as the patient is admitted, it's a cardiothoracic surgery issue, or an oncology issue, or a high-risk obstetrics issue, or a critical care issue, or a neurosurgery issue, or a nephrology issue, or a general surgery issue, or an in-patient psych issue, or an ENT issue, or an opthalmology issue, or a geriatrics issue, etc.
At the linked site, click "Find a repair cafe" for a map of the many local ones. In particular for the SF Bay Area note Palo Alto and Mountain View ones. The Palo Alto cafe[1] is particularly active with quarterly events that are very well attended, processing over 100 repairs each time. The video on that page gives a good feel for a typical event. I've been a volunteer "fixer" there a couple of times and it's great fun if you have some basic repair skills.

[1] http://www.repaircafe-paloalto.org/
Anyone have an inside scoop on where to buy cheap recently expired film online?
A common mistake I see is developers often view a big and well known service and assume that means the entire market is fully catered to. For example, 'Firebase' is a large Google service that handles backend-as-a-service (BaaS). Does this mean the entire BaaS is now off the table for others?

Of course not! Maybe you can create a specialised BaaS that works great for the unique demands of Ruby developers, with a seamless SDK for them. There will be multiple specialised niches that Firebase does not cater to because they are so large that small niche areas are not worth their effort. But that niche might make a nice little lifestyle business for a developer! Do a good job of it and you become known as the go-to place for the Ruby community. (This is just an example, I have no idea if the Ruby community needs a Firebase BaaS)
Technically optional, yes. Any implementation that lacks them is in for a very bad time, though.
Yes they can. It all depends on the policy. For example USAA routinely insures service members and those policies have a rider for dying in combat. And it is only a couple buck for a month on a normal $500k policy. When I retired I took that rider off.

Pretty much any insurance company does the same.
The Fraser institute, which published this study, has a right wing bias and is funded by the Koch Brothers. It seeks to displace the public system in Canada with private healthcare modelled after the US. While they claim independence and give their research away freely, one should be aware of their interests.
As a European, I agree.
That reminds me of this video about the beauty industry. Brands will pay influencers $15k for a shoutout or good review about their brand, but will pay upwards of $60k for a disparaging review of their competitors brands:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/makeup-artist-accuses-cosmeti...
I'd say this is exactly where some kind of web of trust could work. Meaning that everyone is shown the reviews of their added family members, their trusted people (with less weight) and so on and on. If they betray the trust the system could even have a "trust less" button. It'd actually give people the ability to choose who they trust.
Gilead deserves a lot of credit for their work on HIV.

The credit on the hepatitis C cure and Sovaldi goes to the scientists at Pharmasset of Princeton NJ. Gilead bought the company when it became clear what they had, and then more than doubled the price Pharmasset was planning to charge for Sovaldi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmasset

Interestingly, one of the principles behind Pharmasset, the scientist Raymond F. Schinazi, was born in Egypt. Egypt has one of the world's highest rates of hepatitis C infection. Egypt unintentionally gave itself a hep-C epidemic - while trying to fight another public health threat - that reached over one in ten people. Generics, post Sovaldi, have dropped the price of treatment down to $84 per patient, with Egypt now making rapid progress against hep-C.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/05/why-egypt...
Not off base at all. Their description of the perverse incentives was very accurate.

I had worked as an engineer and was closely aligned to the fraud division for one of the larger insurers some time ago.
Who are these dying patients, can you elaborate?
That was "The Heroes of Telemark" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059263/ from 1965 staring Kirk Douglas.

Ray Mears documentary from 2003 on the real heroes is excellent. I love Ray Mears.

A few years a big budget TV series was also released "The Saboteurs" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3280150/ It is very good.
How is this legal? I mean, you can just straight up make it illegal. There's no fundamental law that says you have to allow such predatory practices.
A non-paywalled alternative?
Yes, Khashoggi's case is qualitatively different -- not just because he was killed, but because of who he was in life, the manner of his alleged murder, and the ensuing coverup. We can agree in theory, or ideally, that all deaths/murders should be equal in weight. But pragmatically, we only have a limited attention span to devote to a finite number of these tragedies. And the info and background around Khashoggi's case is substantially more accessible than people who have been covertly murdered.

Of course famous people get more attention when things happen to them (not just death, but relationships, babies, job changes, etc) -- the nature of being famous is that more people know about you at all. But the parent commenter is wrong to believe that the attention and stories given to Khashoggi are simply about the event of his murder. Khashoggi was a journalist for one of the world's largest and most prestigious news organizations -- it shouldn't be a surprise that those newspeople are inclined to make a big deal of his death. And because his life involved being an outspoken critic of a particularly important world leader -- which unavoidably entangles other world leaders, such as President Trump -- the matters surrounding his death are going to continue draw worldwide attention.
Thats gp’s point though, isn’t it? For such a vast crime, its managed to get covered up to an impressive degree, even despite his death. It normally shouldn’t be that difficult to unearth such a controversial and recent event; and wikipedia, which often manages to cover events faded from the public memory, has failed to cover this, speaks to the degree at which this has been covered up.
Makes sense if your hands are filthy.
Great insight - what services do you use to watch your own & other sellers? Been meaning to write software in this space for a while. Feel free to dm me email is in profile.
The act of creating is entrepreneurship, not the result.

To add even more advice to a lot of good advice already posted, I would encourage you to learn about sales and marketing as much as anything. The building is just the start. If you build something you still have to sell it. Also, set some goals. If you havent had much success to date I would suggest setting a goal of $100 to $1000 a month or whatever suites you. Now, do the work with that goal in mind. Are you going something that moves you closer to that goal or just writing more code?
I swear to God if Aragon takes over Castille while I'm programming my immersion will be ruined! Needs to be 100% historically accurate!
I'd be very tempted to remove the review, take the money, then repost the review...
Like most things in science, be suspicious of pure logical arguments. The question for any test, even a true-false, is first a matter of "how much". Antibodies fade over time, ergo various vaccine boosters, such as tetanus. At some point, we can't detect it.
Americans pay out the nose for all medical care, not just drugs. So I doubt your assertion really holds water.

If the world wants and needs better drugs, there are other ways to fund research. If we give a damn, we can find such solutions.