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It sounds to me that what is being monetized is the authority of doctors.

I think what you've described is really the US healthcare system as a whole.

I really don't understand why this isn't more of a focus of discussion. The US healthcare system is so monopolized, and so lacking in competition and transparency, it's obvious why healthcare costs are skyrocketing.

I understand the outrage over this story, but I don't understand why it might be surprising to some. So much of the US healthcare system is driven by similar incentives, especially at private, for-profit hospitals (and even at nonprofit public hospitals).

Think about it this way. Take some fundamental human need. Now legislate and structure society so only a relatively tiny number of people with a specific certificate, based on program completion, not skills demonstration per se, can supply that need. Go even further and structure the regulation of that certification by people who already have the certificate, under the argument that they are the only ones who are in a position to judge it. Now reinforce the whole thing by FUD arguments that any other approach will lead to catastrophe, illness, and death.

What do you think is going to happen?

Almost everything about the US healthcare system is characterized by rent-seeking, monopolies, or power structures and lack of transparency. It's begging for corruption. If you wanted to design an economic sector so as to drive up costs, you'd end up with something that looks basically like US healthcare.
The stereo only goes to 11? The stereo in my previous car went to 60.

What's with all the pop culture references in this car? Is this the Ready Tesla One trim package?
20mph and 28mph work out pretty good. I have a 45kph bike- faster than that would be rather dangerous, but it's fast enough. I sometimes think a cheaper 20mph (32kph) bike with less power and weight would be pleasant; on the 45kph bike, you can't enjoy the scenery or hear the birds, it's too fast. 20mph would be as fast as I ever ride unassisted.
To me, the word "smart" applied to anything but a human has now gained a negative connotation: "it's smarter than you and can work against you." Plenty of dystopian science fiction to support that view too, but scary that now it's actually becoming reality.
However how is the "Unread message" status icon, the notifications and e-mails about pings that are sent by default (Yes, you can deactivate them) not an indicator that by default Slack wants you to look into the program as often as possible.

That's a good point, I know the nagging feeling you speak of just looking at my own iPhone and some of the messages that have queued up for my attention.

I'm not sure if there is really a way to reconcile that against our FOMO tendencies that technology seems to only be exacerbating-so I will concede that point but only so much. Yes the technology exacerbates the need to check in and remain accessible even across high latency channels (like distance, time zones, etc), but IMO only in the way that gravity also exacerbates the possibility that you will smash your finger with a hammer when trying to drive a nail.

One can admit that they might smash a finger when trying to drive nails, but they would still reasonably operate the hammer in a way that minimizes smashed fingers while still using the tool for its intended and designed purpose. I propose a similar view for our communication stacks.
China 'creates two billionaires a week'
It's time to worry about the housing market again
It is not exactly same, although it is similar, and most thing that is one is also other; is best if it is both free software and open source. Is not only the emphasis which differs. Open source has more specific requirements, although still sometimes they don't work; that is why you should need to be both at once. For example, GNU GPL is both a valid free software license and is also a valid open source license, so is good.
I saw things the same way as you. There are millions of books out there, most of them are pretty worthless. Not much point in drawing attention to one book not worth reading. I was hoping for something more along the lines of 'this book looks at things from a unique viewpoint but it actually makes sense'.
I think it truly depends on the person. Give me $10 million and I will be very happy for the rest of my life as I indulge every hobby I’ve ever wanted, and build concrete security for myself and my family. I think it truly depends on the person. Give me $10 million and I will be very happy for the rest of my life as I indulge every hubby I’ve ever wanted, and build concrete security for myself and my family. The philosophical questions that money cannot buy you friends in love, but that Mrs. the point of people who don’t necessarily need that in their lives.
I think it's a well-established fact that going from poor to middle class makes a huge difference, from middle to top makes difference too, but not as big.

5 years ago I was a carpenter in New York making some 30k a year, I was miserable. I wanted a different job, but not only because of a better paycheck, but also a kind of work I'd do, the way I'd spend my days.

Now I'm a web developer and having that background really puts things into perspective. That perspective makes me pretty darn happy. My point is this:

It's an equation with multiple variables, where 'money' is only one of 'em. For me it's

M + T + Q = H

M = Money

T = Amount of time you spend to get it

Q = quality of that time. Sure you can make big buck but do something you're absolutely horrified by, something that makes you miserable... Or you make a pretty modest paycheck, but enjoy every minute of it.

Of course, there is more to it, but it conveys the idea:
Money affects how you feel, but there is more to that.
You'll be very hard pressed to average higher than ~20 km/h in cities.
I've been trying to solve this for windows,

take a look at https://appget.net if you use windows.
In principle, yes. In practice, a halted recount in FL in 2000 affected who represented 100% of Americans as President.

The number of true "toss up" states is unfortunately fairly small.
Did you read the article? The kind of scooters being talked about are the standing, electric ones.
I don't know, Github + Basecamp are also used by fully remote teams and they don't focus on realtime chat functionality.

Some kind of tool is necessary for sure, but different tools set a different focus to provide a solution for organization teams and companies.

I guess everyone should find what works best for them.
I think attributing that to the design of the roads is kinda silly. We have very low standards when it comes to acquiring a license to operate a vehicle.
For background, here is an earlier HN thread about wave function collapse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12612246
"There really is no fast-forward button to mastery – behind every step forward may be a couple steps backward – but slowly, it is earned."

Worth the read by the end.
It also would not have happened if a human was driving.
Or... I'll just drive a car. It's true that I could weather it all myself but I care about the safety and comfort of my family and would rather ferry them (and myself) in modern machines instead of huffing and puffing on a bike with a wagon.

There's a time and place for evreything, but minimizing needs as "just wear some rainpants" doesn't convince anyone.
I mean, I've seen plenty of software engineers with guaranteed incomes settle into their jobs and slack off so I'm not sure it's a great comparison really if proving your point is what you want to do.
Yes, and? Do you expect police to come to your house because you're a carrier for Cystic Fibrosis?

Please state your argument in full. Statements like this are just further FUD.
The only kidnapping I'm aware of, was someone in my friends network had a custody dispute, and the mother ran off with the child. There was abuse involved (edit: on the father's side), but unprovable.

She fled to avoid further abuse for her and the child. The judge didn't see it that way. Saw it as kidnapping.

Kidnapping her own child...
I think Headspace is quite a good fit for someone looking for 10 minute (or shorter or longer) sessions. Since you have meditated before, I would skip the "Basic" sessions.

The "Pain Management" facet of Headspace has been the most rewarding and I think its focus on breath movement through the body (even if you don't have pain or discomfort) is brilliant.

As far as reading goes - I've recommended Jon Kabat-Zinn's Full Catastrophe Living before and still do. I read it before starting a guided meditation program (I didn't buy his CDs) and eventually added Headspace.
Thoughtless criticism like this, even as a joke, is what will prevent us from getting any self driving cars.

There are three modes for how aggressive to be with lane changes. A least aggressive mode, a most aggressive mode, and a middle setting. You can also turn it off completely.

Naming the highest setting Mad Max mode doesn't make that setting more dangerous -- it makes the average car less aggressive by discouraging people from selecting that option. Contrast that with if they called the options "drive super slow", "drive slow" and "normal" without changing the behavior of each setting.
>, I believe that slack in general is a waste of time in a TEAM. Why not have meetings or meet up in real life rather than hiding behind a screen without any physical interaction?

In the book "Facebook Effect" by David Kirkpatrick[1], one programmer described how Mark Zuckerberg and the other programmers extensively chatted on AOL AIM even though they all sat at the same table elbow-to-elbow.

When one of the new programmers responded to one of MZ's chat texts by just looking up and vocalizing an answer, MZ didn't look away from his laptop to respond. Basically, the new programmer unintentionally broke the silence etiquette. The early Facebook team was using chat as virtual hallway conversations.

It seems the "correct" way to use realtime chat depends on differing personalities?

[1] there was more than one chat story in the book and this was one of them (but don't know for sure if Google Books link will show you the page excerpt): https://books.google.com/books?id=PxTvbM-VCPEC&pg=PA137&lpg=...
That would only show what he experienced during the times he went to catch one.

Not whether other people with different commutes would experience the same, or if its true throughout the day.

Plus, it would incur a sampling bias based on the authors particular commute schedule.
What are dockless scooters?
it doesn’t help that they use square as an example which had its last raise at 6 (they said that was overvalued) and now is worth 30 on open market
> It's really a non issue. 25kph is an unreasonably slow limit. The energy levels involved in a bike crash simply don't compare to the potential for damage in a car crash, in part due to the lack of mass.

If I crash my car at 50 km/h collision speed chances are quite good that I'll be sleeping in my own bed that day.

If I crash my bike at 50 km/h collision speed, I'm lucky if I survive.

Energy levels are irrelevant. When I'm riding a bike, my body is the crumple zone.
“Smart” stuff is great, but really requires third party governance and regulation.

It’s possible, just based on what you can buy for commercial smart building systems. But it adds cost as you cannot sell devices at a loss and farm revenue based on selling data.
Most restaurant food is expensive and terrible for you. It all depends on the risk rate but I suspect for people with a good reputation the risk rate of home cooked food is low.
Calling the opposition "fake" is an old political practice used as both valid criticism and deception. Unfortunately, the claim sounds the same even if the facts are not.

Unfortunately, I think politicians know that most people don't have the time or resources to fact check and claims don't need to be supported by much evidence to be believed.
> You're literally talking to one of the main initial people behind the Mozilla project that uses the GPU for browser rendering more than any other browser, on the comments of a post about this stuff making its way to a release

I don't see how this vague appeal to authority adds anything to the conversation.

> Webrender has a pretty large team working on it at this point.

I guess what you're trying to say is that Firefox and Webrender in particular is a high priority for Mozilla. I would like to believe that this is true, but take a look at what Mozilla allocates its resources to[1] - Firefox Reality, Firefox Monitor, Pocket, ethics in CS, women who tech, etc. All fine and dandy, but the problem is that time is ticking for Mozilla Firefox.

Firefox is not even at feature parity with Chrome, never mind performance parity. For instance, I filed a bug[2] on bad input latency a whole year and 7 releases ago, and its still not fixed. A devtools bug for a websocket frames inspector[3] was filed 5 years ago, and its still not fixed either.

The time it takes to fix bugs and ship all these features is inversely proportional to the dedicated manpower. By the time Firefox reaches feature/performance parity with Chrome, it will have an insignificant single-digit market share, down from ~10.5% now. And that is with the incorrect assumption that Chrome will remain static.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408699

[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885508
>Taxes already do focus on the wealthy with progressive taxes (in many countries), though.

The tax system provides tons of ways the wealthy can skip taxes, progressive or not.
I think there's two ways things can be smart without being invasive. Either it can be smart, but not personalized, such as monitoring general traffic flow and making changes to accommodate (some express lanes on highways, for example, switch direction based on the time of day), or it can be personalized, but private to you. Most smarthome devices wouldn't be a problem if they remained entirely onsite in your possession. Obviously the former is a way a city could be smart, but the latter is really not.

I want a smart city to shut off lights that aren't illuminating anything or to optimize trash collection routes based on efficiency. I don't want a smart city watching where I, personally, go and suggesting I do things based on that.
I use some proprietary software (but never as native code; some of the problems are most relevant when it is run as native code), although I intend to replace them with free software when possible (for example, I am currently in the process of writing Free Hero Mesh, as a replacement for Hero Mesh (which is very slow on DOSBOX), that is compatible with Linux, and preferably also BSD; later I may also make FreeZZT as a replacement for ZZT).
That's not really the point of the article. It's saying that multiplying share price from the last round by all outstanding shares overvalues the company. The effect is increasingly relevant the further back in line you are for payout.
Most PhDs are all R and no D. And you don’t necessarily need to build up a record of publications to do real world R&D outside of academia. In my experience having a PhD is just a crude filter for employers, because what else are you going to rely on? But unless the PhD thesis was in the exact same area as the real world R&D (quite rare), you can assume that a newly minted PhD will not be hitting the ground running.
> Honestly, I see Julia as the up and comer here. Julia has IMO the best syntax, is JIT compiled, is a real programming language, and is IMO python done right.

I think Julia is very exciting, and yes, the core language is very good. But so far I see very little uptake outside numerics. Hopefully it will get there.
Yeah, I had the same question lately, since I think about a month ago, there are a lot, 5 a day seems like it.

It's very annoying and distracting. Proper solution I think would be appreciated.
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Thanks in advance.
This is a great argument against working unpaid overtime. Unpaid overtime work holds M constant while reducing T - recomputing your M and T cause M to reduce at a rate of 2.5% per hour worked past 40. And your Q might reduce as well.
That's what Google does. They're spending money trying to find the next thing...their interests do not align yours.
It's curious that there hasn't been any backlash against non-tech companies for this stuff. E.g. something like airmiles, where your entire purchase history is sent to advertisers. No one gets up in arms, despite how sensitive that data is.

That's not to say people shouldn't be concerned with their privacy, but it's a weird double standard.
You obviously have no idea about how HFT works. 100ms later than your peers and you're out of business. It's a real time auction, if you react too late, the price would most likely have moved against you. If you were trying to buy, the prices would have climbed up higher than your models projected to be profitable, if you were trying to sell, the prices would have dropped.
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No, it doesn't get more boring. It is very relaxing and leads to less stress. I use it almost every day, including driving from LA to San Francisco on Friday.
Not sure what you mean here.

I mean this book: https://www.amazon.com/Relativity-Special-General-Albert-Ein...

It's excellent.
As another anecdote:

I worked at Walmart years ago. During one Black Friday, 2 someones walked into laywawy dept (in the back of the store), and proceeded to unhook the register! Security footage shows it but they were wearing hats, so no faces.

So, they unhook it, and load it into a cart. Then they, during the Black Friday bedlam, just push it right out of the store. Off they went.
Companies paying workers 3 to 10 times the average wage for an area adds real stress. Berlin's problems are that, and also:

+ A global shift toward freelance and remote work letting people take a risk and move to a new place.

+ The first German renaissance back toward the east after the wall fell. The older generation in the west still remember Berlin and people from Berlin in a negative light, but their children have quiet a different impression and their parents are alltohappy to buy property for them in under-priced Berlin. Additionally reunification gutted all industry in the east causing a renter exodus to larger east German cities

+ A global debt surplus and rich people everywhere looking for stable places to stash wealth with Germany's open markets an attractive destination. In some odd way financially conservative Germans think they win with this, not considering how it increases costs of all social services and thereby their tax burden as well.

Focusing on overpriced jobs is definitely only one of many places to start. Google just made it very easy that people target them first because their products are so disliked for their lack of care for privacy: post-snowden I'm not sure I know of a single service Google has switched to being e2e encrypted.
>I've still not reached the point where more money hasn't increased my happiness

Depends on the persons age and maturity level too. At some point shiny new cars and other trinkets are not really what makes you happy...

Besides, if you're making a wage (whether way above average or not) you might not still be quite that independent that more money makes no difference (or draw your happiness from competing in the race)...
It's obviously a truism that the preferred shares will have a higher valuation than other shares. And if you multiply the preferred share valuation by the total number of share you'll end up with an "overvalued" number. That doesn't tell us whether anyone is investing in at an overly high valuation though, since they're actually investing in preferred shares...
> If a candidate who learned with MOOCs can apply for a job which previously "required" a PhD, then that requirement was simply misguided in the first place.

Therein lies the problem. A lot of people I've talked with in leadership positions but without a statistical background believe that data science/AI requires a PhD, and since there's a healthy supply of candidates with the PhDs, there isn't much reason to reevaluate that position.

(that's more for traditional job positions; obviously research positions will benefit more from a PhD.)
In Portland damn near every food cart is on some delivery platform. It’s actually made ordering from some of my favorite spots almost impossible in person since their order volume is just too high.
That's probably because it's not so obvious so many just don't know about it.
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>I feel like my life is comparable to cloud hosting

There are some philosophies that suggest this is no accident.
You mean Oracle can one day start suing people for writing programs in Java and using the open source OpenJDK to run them?
I occasionally I find them very usable. Before you ask on IRC (on a channel you haven't visited before) you will google it extensively. If the question is either a quick question that anyone in the know can answer directly with a yes/no like answer then IRC can be a good option.

But I especially find that IRC is better for very niche questions that won't benefit anyone else (and won't have been asked before) that also requires some back-and-forth debug style to get to the bottom of it.

Similar to problems where email doesn't work and you need make a call instead. A ten minute call can sometimes save you a week of emails if they are not quick enough to answer (common with large timezone differences).

Also much quicker, you either get the answer or you don't, either way both are good to know (so that you know to try something else).
I've heard good things about the dhamma.org 10-day Vipassana retreats. The sessions seem to require registering months in advance for new students, though.
Do you mean except for the crash barrier that the earlier crash destroyed?
I don’t think it’s possible for a private company to have the public’s interest at heart, at least in the long term. Especially for Google, who have shown a lack of respect and privacy for its users.
Exactly. It's _because_ the right to free speech doesn't apply outside of government that we need to diligently support it. If we foster a culture of protectionism, we'll erode our culture of free speech to the point where only the majority opinion is allowed, and the majority is quite often wrong.

I choose to not engage with sites like gab and voat, but I also vehemently defend their right to exist. Hosting providers, payment processors shouldn't discriminate except on the basis of the customer's ability to pay or illegal use of the platform. That doesn't mean they should be forced to serve those they don't agree with, but we as a culture should avoid companies that discriminate.

I saw posts in favor of PayPal's choice to refuse service to Gab, and honestly the whole thing made me want to use PayPal _less_. I don't appreciate censorship at all, though I respect people's right to censor.
Yeah. When minimizing off-topic chatter and using the chat features carefully (e.g. threads or private messages in addition to channels), chat hits a perfect balance of immediate but asynchronous coordination.
It doesn't sound like that to me. It sounds like they are saying that this is NOT a driverless car and you need to pay attention. However, it is a little bit misleading in that this is all Tesla's software can do right now. Even if the regulatory framework was in place, they couldn't just enable it instantly. They have a lot of dev / testing work to do before that happens. But they do have stuff working in the lab that is more capable than what they've released publicly.