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>Medicare is more efficient than private insurance even given its only providing services to the most vulnerable (and costly) population.

That’s what makes it so inefficient.

In the 70’s, private insurance got into Medicare.

In 2003 the flood gates opened with Medicare “Advatage Plans” which are private insurance managed care. The numbers of patients opting for Medicare Advantage is growing every year and now accounts for 1 in 3 Medicare patients...and they’re often the chronic care patients (most vulnerable and costly).

This has directly lead to market consolidation (lack of choice in plans, networks, doctors). It has also lead to outcomes based reimbursement while the market leaders are reinventing HMO so they can get paid for a managed care system and not be subject to outcomes based payments.

I’d be all for a system like you’re talking about, a single payer system, but that doesn’t exist, and private insurance is running amuck with the $1T+ Medicare budget.
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Clearly not true. Microsoft had a position of industry dominance in the mid to late 1990s, money was never in short supply. They couldn't be the leader of open source back then because of their culture and attitude toward open source. The open source industry knew it and the dislike was mutual. Even if they had wanted to, they couldn't have purchased loyalty from open source users & developers, while simultaneously behaving as they were.

If talking about heart and greed is all that's left to burn Microsoft with at this point, then they must really be knocking it out of the park.
And then magically other people will start doing maintenance for free?
The same thing applies to AWS, and AWS doesn't have '10 servers maximum' limit.

Beyond anything, it tells people about their target audience, which is indie development. That's fine, and it's a great market to be in. But in the case I have to spin up 17 servers in 24 hours in three continents, I can't really afford to deal with DigitalOcean's support under that kind of stress. This doesn't happen often, but when it happens, it absolutely breaks you.
The genius of what I'm accusing him of is this: the story itself was real (Bush going AWOL; taking advantage of his father's position).

Why not make a document that ostensibly validates that and bake in the fact that it was a forgery to be revealed so that all focus is on the forgery and not the facts that Bush shirked his service?

It's a brilliantly devious move and exactly the type of thing Rove would do (e.g., bugging his own office and then accusing his opponent of the misdeed, etc. etc)

https://theintercept.com/2015/10/27/george-w-bush-was-awol-b...

https://www.seattlepi.com/local/opinion/article/Rove-s-dirty...
Because what they are rolling it back to is just the pre-August 2015 rule. In other words, the Obama administration was fine with the existing rule until most of the way through his second term, apparently doing it for just political chits for the 2016 election cycle.
How I was treated by most of the people I have come in contact with over the past three months of my life will be forgotten over the course of the next three months.

I will never forget 2001: A Space Odyssey. And this is true for millions of people.

It doesn't have to have anything to do with celebrities or entertainment, but it's very hard and very remarkable to have a profound impact on large numbers of people. And it's exceedingly rare to do this unintentionally.
One issue the article goes into is that the sailors were distracted by their high tech bridge computers and so failed to notice the ship they were in the process of ramming. I have trouble understanding how this works - what is your high tech bridge gear showing you if not the surrounding area? Someone should be checking where the ship is going and whether they check with their mark one eyeballs or their high tech ship scanner doesn't seem to matter.

In other words, I don't buy that the high tech gear getting in the way is the issue. The issue is that nobody was watching where they were going by means high or low tech, and thus they ran into something they shouldn't have.
Thanks to Snowden, we have hard proofs that the USA have been using hacking on a very large scale for multiple goals including industrial espionage.

Now, they say that their #1 economic rival is using hacking to steal data. But, there is no evidence.

At least, before the Irak invasion, the US made some efforts to forge some fake proofs that Sadam had weapons of mass destruction.
Google is killing off Fusion Tables
Well, actually, most compiz features were first show in WinHEC 2003. Novell copied the demo 3 years later with the misguided XGL implementation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0idaN0MY1U

The funny thing about XGL is how ahead of its time it was. In some way, it still is. Building desktop OS on top of game engine is a trend starting to take hold. Newer Linux Mesa GLAMOR acceleration is just that. Qt6 will brings this to tons of embedded devices near you. Modern SOC are more efficient when pushing GUI into 3D space.
How about cut out all of the red tape and poor treatment that big companies force upon their job candidates?
Yes, and it mostly speaks Ukrainian, or Chinese.
I didn't vote for Trump and don't support him to this day. But I still think that China has gotten away with more than they should up until this point.

There is nuance to this all.
I agree with your take but I disagree with hedging being inappropriate here. Hedging just means using qualifications and conditions given some uncertainty in a claim.
A magic rock by some likely 100,000+ year more advanced civilization. Story wise however they could have been visiting the Grand Cannon as neither the protagonist or antagonist had access to magic. You could do the same thing with the rock saying releasing the Nanite cloud and nothing changes.

As far as 2001 is concerned it’s basicly highly advanced Starfish Aliens. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StarfishAliens Which seems like the most likely contact with extraterrestrials we will see. Motivation and reasoning are not going to be obvious, is this some major effort on part of their civilization or some 6th graders high school science project we just don’t know.

Again though, the Aliens are mostly irrelevant, it’s HAL human relations that’s driving things.
Don't forget the Chinese program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhou_program#Missions_laun...
I added Livemarks. It helps, but it's still missing a critical feature of the old extension- the icon showing which RSS links you've already visited. That'll be added at some point at least:

https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/issues/17

Still, this update felt particularly user hostile. My user experience was:

- I'm in the middle of browsing and open a tab to do a search, but the new tab shows the "Firefox needs to restart because updates are more important than you!“ page.

- I'm forced to restart. Manually, since the automatic restart is probably broken on my system. Tab state in some SPA tabs are lost.

- Now I have to migrate my live bookmarks. They converted themselves to regular bookmarks- I have to right click and delete those one by one. Then I install Livemarks, import the exported bookmarks data, and then drag those one by one to my bookmarks toolbar.

I'm half considering Chrome. If Firefox is going to be like this, why bother? Might as well start the Chrome dominance and stagnation part of the browser cycle.
> I assume that is 64-bit inodes for UFS2 ?

No, it's a kernel ABI change such that all of the stat(2), getdirents(2), etc, ABIs take and pass a 64-bit value instead of a 32-bit one. This enables:

(1) 64-bit NFS fileservers

(2) Direct-pointer "inode" numbers for FUSE filesystems or cd9660/UDF

(3) Probably other uses I'm forgetting

Additionally, other ABI enhancements were committed as part of the ino64 work: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=31873...

In particular, I'd point you at d_namlen bumping to 16 bits, MNAMELEN to 1024 bytes (from the anemic 88), and nlink_t from 16 bits to 64 bits. None of these are necessarily used in any particular filesystem, yet, but the generic ABI support is now present.

> there is no reason to use UFS instead of ZFS unless you are severely memory constrained.

Eh, that's an oversimplification. Here a few reasons:

(1) Addressing the "severely" in the above: ZFS memory usage is astronomical, and it is sort of designed to be a filer — it thinks all of the RAM is for its use. It eats all of memory for cache (which is fine, that's what any filesystem cache does) but is slow to release memory under pressure. Also, it requires significantly larger caches than most other filesystems to perform acceptably.

(2) Database and similar workload performance — ZFS is a CoW filesystem. That has all of the same problems for databases and similar workloads as any other CoW filesystem. Namely, overwritten blocks will be reallocated to a completely different part of disk and you lose any physical contiguity you might have had. This matters on spinning media and is a factor in why ZFS requires large caches to perform acceptably.

(3) Journaling. ZFS intent log essentially duplicates the number of bytes written to media. This definitely has benefits (powerfail consistency) but also is an obvious cost.

(Also, that same UFS author continues to work on adding UFS features, because Netflix pays him to. Netflix isn't a charity; they've pretty clearly determined that UFS provides better value to them than ZFS. And they have a phenomenal engineering organization, so I'd tend to trust them on that. YMMV, of course; unless you run a CDN, your workload likely isn't anything like Netflix's.)
It was China's reality for about a century, not merely an excuse.
> During their training, they earned the nickname “Swine Flight” from the astronaut office secretaries, and were even given novelty pigs’ snouts, as a result of Gibson’s penchant for making animal-like snorts whenever attractive women were in the vicinity.

Gross. I'm glad culture, as well as technology, has evolved since the 80's.
The open source world isn't prepared for large-scale software delivery either.

It works with the core software of Linux distributions, who deliver to administrators around the world. But userland software and dependencies are a mess. Distributions ship old software, developers don't know the target their application will run on, and we all know what's going on with the PIP/NPM/... package managers.

Moreover, we have pretty much no sandboxing and userland permission management (camera access for browser? file access for your instant messenger application? calendar access?) on any Linux Desktop.

While lawmaking and IT-security must grow up and open source is indeed a nice third player - it does not solve the immediate issues we have.
No, you can't know that. The Trump rule, when it comes, doesn't have to correspond to any prior content.

Note that the Times never criticized the existing rule until after Obama changed it late in his tenure, giving him political cover.
What do you consider the "literal default installation"?
As a developer do you have to use the Windows GUI or can you use eg the Ubuntu Windows Subsystem for Linux? I highly recommend it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux
We are heavy users of GCP and AWS, but still use DO for bandwidth-heavy workloads.
Kuberneted is designed in a way where stateless pods (collection of containers sharing the same ip and identity) are decoupled from stateful ones. There are concepts designed into K8S that allows components to attempt to self-heal.

For example, a pod that requires a postgresql pod to connect to will fail and crash out. The scheduler will start a new one. If the postgresql pod is up by that point, then the rescheduled pod will no longer crash.

As far as the network paths, one of the really cool things about pods running inside a k8s cluster is that they can access any of the other pods, even if they are on a different node. However, pods typically reference services (such as postgresql) by dns name. You specify the set of pods that belong to the service by label selector. This allows the pods to come up, tear down, crash, moved to another node, while the service maintains a stable point of contact. It is quite brilliant, and other orchestrators quickly tried to copy it.

Stateful workloads are still difficult. Each distributed stateful system has its own way of setup and teardown. What we will probably see are custom Operators designed for each distributed stateful system, coming out over the years.
That's a really confused way to look at policy.
what is it about China and Marriott hotels?

there was also that time they made the company fire that employee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16515274
There was a reason to unseat Saddam? What reason would that have been? Him belonging to the "axis of evil"? By that same logic, would you also be okay with invading Iran? Or are you fine with some good old covert regime-change action like it's been going on in Syria?

The US had no justification for doing what it did in Iraq, literally the whole world said "No" resulting in the biggest global peace protests in human history, the UN said "No", yet the US went straight ahead with it's "coalition of the willing".

Framing this like the "US just wanted to spread democracy out of the goodness of her heart" is not only dishonest, it's extremely cynical. The US isn't some "nice good guy", it didn't go into Iraq because it cared so deeply about the Iraqi people, it went in there for its own geopolitical interests.
Interesting - a functionality test!
GitLab can be self-hosted for free and provides a complete DevOps platform.
By this logic everything passed during the last year or two of Obama’s (and I guess any president’s) 2nd term is political chits?

Just because they didn’t pass the law for a few years doesn’t mean they didn’t care. There’s only so much any body of people can do at once.
I'm confused: wasn't it already mainlined?

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-...
Sorry, good point. its a modification to how TCP backs off under loss, and then re-approaches the prior rate. Traditional TCP does an exponential back-off and recovery model. This takes a long time to get back to the fastest achieved rate. Its a very jaggy sawtooth. BBR gets back to the prior rate faster.

BBR is a very fast recovery algorithm. Its not always very "fair" to other forms of TCP. BSD and Linux both have kernels which allow selection of different methods of backoff. BSD has cubic, and some other choices, at this point only Linux appears to have the BBR method integrated. It is in test in the BSD stack (I believe)

If you have sole use of a host, and want to do long-distance file transfer, with loss, BBR can sometimes get you things faster. If you're in a Data Center (DC) BBR can cope really well with dumb switch packetloss, getting you significantly faster recovery.
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> Wouldn't you then get to a situation where x gets a bird, takes it home, charges it, uses it the next day, essentially creating a rental model where each scooter is used by one person a day?

As I recall, Bird uses Xiaomi Mi scooters, which cost ~$500 retail. Even if the credit is high enough that Bird only makes $1 / weekday off the person "renting" the scooter like that, it would still only take 2 years to pay the cost of the scooter, so that "rental" model would probably work fine.
Text of the Obama administration rule:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/06/29/2015-13...
what happens if you refuse to pay?
I didn't say I thought the hawks were nice. I'm saying what they wanted to believe they were doing.

Saddam was a dictator and an all around bad guy [he gassed, he killed indiscriminately], he also, like Marshall Tito, kept a lid on the pressure cooker.
But, yes, there was reason to get rid of him. If I take your claim at face value, Democrats claiming Trump should be impeached is the height of folly because they have no reason to want to unseat him.
When is this coming to Firefox?
Library for fast text representation and classification
> but work on Compiz started AFTER Aero was shown.

I'm not sure it's necessarily true they started development after Aero. They released it 8 months later. Did it only take 8 months for the first release?
It's not a reflection on policy so much as on media coverage of policy changes.
I honestly find it quite concerning how much pro-chinese-government support bubbles up on platforms like HN, etc. Nothing against individuals in China, but as an entity the government (as with all governments) should be heavily scrutinized.

It's definitely the government's SOP to try and exfiltrate data from the west, and it's no small secret. I feel everyone is getting pretty nonchalant about it.
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> If Kubrick, Gates, or Bezos hadn't made 2001, MS, or AMZ - someone else would have. Not _exactly_ the same thing of course, but something so similar as to fill the same spot in history.

I'm willing to grant that this is true in one sense: having the right surrounding environment is necessary for the creation of some "great work". What I question is whether it's sufficient.

If some other filmmaker made the zeitgeist-equivalent to 2001, or some other entrepreneur made the zeitgeist-equivalent to Microsoft or Amazon, they would have done it differently, and differently enough that those differences, in and of themselves, would have had tremendous impact.
If we see cyber warfare "letters of marque" imagine if they allow for the takedown of internet pirates without allegiance to any particular country.
I upgraded and instantly regretted it, as usual.
The PSP was also bad. I think that piracy becomes a problem when it gives consumers a superior product for free.
Isn’t the justice department under the executive branch? With head appointed by the president? Or are they the judicial branch and have independence?
Do you require a scientific study for any fact? If you bothered to do any googling, or whatever Mozilla equivalent of google is - this is in the top 3 results. https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/02/15-inch-macbook-pro-screen-re... Scaled resolution is defaulted on a huge amount of Macs.
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If you're so confident, go survey Plaid users and find what percentage are aware that Plaid makes money selling their financial transaction history to developers.

Then ask yourself why the founding team goes around and tells people they don't do that.
If you took the doubling of productivity since 1975 and inflation adjusted the median income from then ($7750) you would get about $68,000. In practice wages haven't risen against productivity and GDP so the real figure is $45,000.

To make it look even worse, the GDP tripled but population only rose 50%, so if you adjusted wages against total economic growth instead of productivity median should be around $110,000. Median.

So yes, $90k is pretty much peanuts for how much money an embedded engineer would be on average making for their employer.
I think it's a issue related to the visibility of the quality of the work. If the product is even 20% more reliable (whatever that exactly means), hardly anyone will actually notice. Nobody notices the absence of an error. That's although it probably took a huge effort to achieve this. Making a user flow just a little bit nicer is very visible and gets attention.

I always felt that ISPs suffer a similar problem. Nobody cares if everything works as expected, but we'll get upset of it doesn't. However, there is hardly anything outside of what we take for granted they can do that we will actively appreciate. What could a embedded engineer working on SSDs do that will be noticed, appreciated and not taking for granted by customers?
Economically speaking, the problem is. It isn't necessarily complex or simple. Whether, or not, you are willing to accept that there is are risks and possibly second or third order consequences to your approach is the true complexity.

Exposing the fullness of the problem isn't a creation of complexity. The same amount of complexity is already there unchanged. Are your juniors willing and capable to account for this to devise a simplistic resolution that actually lowers risk and with the smallest amount of code? Conversely are they imposing unnecessary layers of abstractions to remove themselves from the directness of the problem?

Another way to think about it in "junior" terms is whether its simple or easy. Those aren't the same.
I made something similar and turned it into a service [1] focused on WordPress, but unfortunately there hasn't been much interest from people as I thought there would be, though that could be due to my lack of marketing.

My goal was the same, to make hosting more portable with features like snapshotting and restoration of WP sites across servers and to even eventually expand beyond just servers, to bring in domain registrars and cloud storage to be able to move things around easier. For example: you have a site hosted on AWS EC2 with DNS at Namecheap and nightly backups at Dropbox and let's say the AWS Virginia region goes down. You create a new server in Digital Ocean and restore the snapshot from Dropbox and the linked DNS at Namecheap is auto updated.

The more I thought about this though, I began to realize that maybe these features wouldn't be useful to the audience I wanted to target, which was people who wanted to grow from shared hosting and have something reliable and less noisy neighbors, but still more affordable than managed WP hosts and lastly more control (bring your cloud/server provider).

[1]: http://pagefog.com
Fair enough.

I do know that extraction and pipelines also require prodigious amounts of power. Obviously not so much that it’s uneconomical, but seeing the electric bill for one oil well in the Permian was eye-opening, particularly at the 3c/kWh rate they somehow got. It’d be nice to know the range for different kinds of oil wells. Maybe that’s the source of the electrical use.
Yes! How do you think you bring new people in to the Linux community? Everyone starts somewhere, and no one is teaching Linux desktop to primary school students.

Anecdotally, the first Linux experience that I was able to install and operate myself, after a handful of prior failed attempts, was Ubuntu (2005). And a big part of that was that it was friendly to absolute beginners like myself.

Now I am a FreeBSD developer and have patches in a plethora of open source projects, including Linux. Everybody starts somewhere!
I'd love to see this animated over time
You can use the Twitter API. Get a list of all tweets, store them to a database/flat file, then randomly tweet each one using a SQL select. That's how I'd do it. The reason for the database/flat file is because sometimes you may have more tweets than the API can pull.
I've noticed that too. Some of it might be suspicious but I suspect there's just a lot of misinformation, disinformation, and feelings floating around.
I was a senior VP of tech at Starwood: here’s my take on the guest data breach
It may be a case of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, or more recently the Vista security alerts. People tune out warnings, or even disable them, if they are constant.
to nitpick, you probably WERE taught how to react by countless books, movies, stories in which people don't even think of eating corpses
Wasn't a lot of the work for Barry Lyndon borrowed from Kubrick's abortive project to make a biopic about Napoleon?

(One of the more obsessive notes about Kubrick: his notes included a daily breakdown of every documented event in Napoleon's life.)