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win10 really messed things up with the SAAS and telemetry, and integrated update rollups.

the thing is microsoft really painted themselves into a corner. ya see windows was made for all sorts of skullduggery to occur , this was supposed to be a boon for MS but they punched so many holes in W32 that it was secure as a sieve, I know this first hand as i have spent a major amount of time decompiling and snooping through the binaries. the file structures in a windows OS has big voids of zeros for padding, leaves lots of room to insert malcode and fix the file headers, Thread Local Storage is neat, a thread can move data packets through its kernel objects to other objects or static files on swap. And the alternate data paging that win executable files may have is just mindblowing. a file {any W32/W64 file} that every one expects to do one thing can be trojaned by the system as a feature using alternate data streams in a file! IT GOES ON AND ON
this and win10 is why i left windows and gave linux a serious try and never looked back. Linux runs games and keeps getting better at it with no cat and mouse game of you modding system files so things work and having MS updates demodd them and then prevent you from making thing workable without major klugeing around.
Volume is pretty much fixed for all health related drugs, particularly since your health insurance will foot the bill most of the time. As a patient, you don't care if the drug costs $100 or $1,000 to the insurance company – you want the best treatment available.

Viagra is a different ball of wax since you not taking it will never reduce how many years you'll live.
What if the town hall is in a nonblacksallowed site? If you're banned from a shopping mall that has the only town hall it is going to have the same affect on your life.
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The "pot" was just a segment ("cell"?) of bamboo with the top lopped off. I was surprised to see this as well, but I presume the water within kept the bamboo from catching fire.
> The alternatives are sending them home - or - giving them citizenship

No, neither of those are things California can do instead of providing healthcare.

> More medicare just means more '$100 aspirin' unless it's combined with some other, heavier kind of action.

No, it doesn't. Moreover, this is more Medi-Cal (i.e., Medicaid) not more Medicare. Which also doesn't mean that, but it's a completely different program with different policies.
New drugs and their acceptance by insurance companies is much more important to me, than price gauging. I invest in pharma companies.

The ability to raise the price for a single drug is really the last thing I want in a company I invest. I want long lasting customer base or high impact justifiable expenses, that US HMOs and EU governments will gladly pay(reason why I bought Gilead when I heard about their HepC cure).
And Gilead's Truvada strategy, why I divested as a result.
It's not that it's more expensive at one place or another for the most part. When you go in-network you are seeing providers that your insurance has a contract with. This contract includes agreed amounts for procedures. Providers will often grossly overbill (mostly because it's easier to let the billing backend resolve these limits than bill accurately in the first place) and your insurance will respond with the amount covered. The remaining amount of the bill is written off because it was in-network so the provider is not allowed (by the contract with your insurance) to bill the balance not covered to the patient.

Out-of-network does not have this protection. Your insurance will possibly cover some of the bill, normally up to some percentage of what they consider a normal amount for the procedure in the area, and then you will be billed for the entire balance. Say your provider bills $100k and your insurance says they think that procedure normally only costs $50k and you have 80% out of network coverage. You would be billed for 20% of the $50k covered as coinsurance, plus the remaining $50k that would've been written off if you were in-network.

This is generally how people get surprise bills.

For a real world example: last year my insurance got billed ~$3k for a routine blood test for my wife as part of an annual checkup. It was in-network and the insurance paid $27 and the provider wrote off the rest.
As someone who works in the industry, you are somewhat correct. Once a drug is approved, it is priced independently of the R&D cost.

However, the decision to bring a drug through clinical trials (the "D" in "R&D") is gated. The potential price of the drug is estimated and the financial costs and potential return are calculated. If the return isn't that great because you can't get the volume or price, the R&D investment isn't made and the drug "dies".

So in other words, price controls on drugs would lower the prices of drugs already approved, but it would likely also kill a number of drugs currently in development.
From the google Shell Style Guide: "If you are writing a script that is more than 100 lines long, you should probably be writing it in Python instead. "

https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml
It’s late to the party but it is a shame you are getting down votes. Firewalls will still be all sealed up to where inbound connections are strictly limited. You’ll still need something like upnp to request a hole punched through the firewall.
Can you still run UT2004 on the current version of, say, Ubuntu?
In action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAZavOcEnLg
I recommend reading and memorizing all 30-ish of the readline shortcuts

https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html#SEC1...

Readline is the library bash uses for editing the input line, and it has some nice movement keys. For example Alt-b moves the cursor back a word, Ctrl-u deletes to the beginning of the line, Ctrl-w removes one word behind the cursor.

They work in a bunch of other programs, like the Python interpreter's interactive mode for example.
In a hospital you'll likely be seen by a variety of providers some, or even many of whom are not in your network. You insurer will pay some amount out and then the provider will bill you for the rest...which can be huge. This bill is unrelated to your insurance and is unrelated to any out of pocket maximum. That maximum only relates to copays etc as part of your insurance.
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I've been drawing digitally for around 15 years, starting with the original Wacom tablets. For drawing, my iPad Pro (2018) with the Pencil 2 feels like magic. In my experience, its latency is much better than the Cintiq or the Surface. It feels so much like drawing on paper, especially with a matte screen cover. Every time I use it to draw, I feel like I'm living in the future. No piece of technology has impressed me to this degree.

That being said, outside of digital art, it's pretty clunky. The lack of a mouse pointer and proper multitasking makes it less than ideal for business uses.

But when I'm drawing on it though, man, I feel like Tom Cruise in Minority Report
From that WP page: “Winer et al. (2002) have found evidence that as many as 50% of adults believe in emission theory,” sourced from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12094435?dopt=Abstract
What makes you think it has a link to GF? Just wondering.
dailybeast? erm ah ya
That was kind of the idea of Unix. C was just a nicer from Assembly. You might write a performance-sensitive or low-level routine in C, much like you might drop to C when writing a Python library. But the high-level language of the system was the shell. The `dc` executable wasn't just meant to be a user-facing calculator program, it was also meant to be the system's "bignum" library. That was big-picture Unix. The syscalls and C were little-picture Unix.

This 2013 thread shaped a lot of the way I think about Unix: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6530180
That’s not that gross. There are types in Abseil that do it.
I've encountered many reports of issues with safety regarding autopilot or breakdown/less repairability of the vehicles due to lack of experience in design, but what evidence is there for Tesla cutting corners regarding battery safety specifically?
Any those margins only look great if you ignore the billions of investment that failed to produce $1 of revenue.
This sounds like reCAPTCHA v2
I assume it’s not a coincidence that this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18846599 arrived on HN a couple of hours apart.
Or just stick it in publicly traded cloud companies: https://www.bvp.com/strategy/cloud-computing/index
You can indeed use plain markdown and get all the features you are thinking of. You can color with html, since you could add that to markdown and support it reasonably well. Performance takes some thinking but is not a major issue. This also simplifies versioning, since you could e.g. just use git. I've been working on a notes app that does these things -- not ready yet, but these are all doable. Comments like these remind me its worthwhile (beyond my personal use).
My gaming box is still Xenial while all my work machines are at least bionic. While btrfs and my personal system setup practices make it easy to test and also port setups from machine to machine, I'm not relishing the moment when I'll have to bite the bullet and upgrade.
This depends on the investor.
Stock market investor, the one who's purchase of stock doesn't provide the company with any funds, cares not how income is delivered.
But you're right on one thing - investors want better future prospects, however those are achieved.
Why couldn't that be deferred to the linker?
That's missing the point. You can't get the same deal as an investor, true, but you can still do the due diligence they do. Or at least you should try to as much as you can.
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That's basically how modules would work, at least if you ignore LTCG.
I believe there is an economic analysis I saw mentioned by Scott Alexander that basically the cost of healthcare can be predicted as a function of the quality of care and the wealth of the country.

Allegedly healthcare in the United States costs exactly as much as that formula would predict.

I don’t have a citation here, and if anyone has one that would be great.

But if it is true, we might be trying to fix something that isn’t broken in any of the ways people intuitively conclude.
When I first learned one could write programs in Bash, I got very excited. It didn't take long for that to where off :) My Bash got a lot better though!
Any process can write into the argv they get from the kernel.

The kernel doesn’t need to monitor for reads - when proc reads it it’s read from the process.

It doesn’t need to be specially ‘shared’ with the kernel. The kernel can of course ready any memory it wants to from the process at any time.

I’ve implemented setting argv[0] in another language myself.
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I don't know that the graph tells this story.

It could be that the very slight decline in spending for the lower quintiles is from getting help that isn't counted (free preschool for example) or from products being more affordable (measuring money is not equivalent to measuring the value gotten) or from more people being able to avoid childcare expenses by being home.

It could be that the major increase in spending for the top quintile is wasted. Maybe the kid wants to own a horse. All sorts electronic things eat up money while delivering little value.
> First, wasn't Infineon always on the 3G/4G scene?

No, plainly speaking. There was never was a real SoC from them. Intel bought an already dead business from Infineon.

> Qualcomm, or wireless patent holders in general, never go after component makers; as a long-held industry practice, they always go after the handset makers for maximum royalty.

No, anybody with a real business, and not living off patent trolling will not do that, and did not do that. Only QCM really have no head on their shoulders there to risk everything in a retaliatory lawsuit every time.

> That practice has been upheld by regulators around the world

No, completely not the case. I worked in electronics business for close to 12 years now, and I know few things about how patent law actually works in real world.

Qualcomm was show to the door great many times by courts during their peak patent trolling a decade ago, in I think more than 10 countries.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18849961
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we're getting contaminated meds

... from overseas. All the examples in that article were non-US manufacturers.
As the big iPad Pro yes; I like the small iPad Pro a lot more though. A lot of people I know, including me, find it incredible Apple stopped making the small MacBook air. Besides the worthless screen, I thought that was a perfect on the road dev laptop. I got great battery life out of it (unlike my current MBP) and it was fast enough to do dev. The current 12 inch MB is not really nice for dev and too big for me, so a lot of times when I have to travel short times, I bring my iPad Pro only. It is definitely not perfect but it works for most things I have to do on the road.
By September 2022:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/03/17/automat...

So actually less than four years, I thought it was for the 2022 models which would be released in late 2021.
The american healthcare market is possibly the most 'free' one in the world. Yet we're still failing with regards to countries that have far more regulations and restrictions.

It's time to stop perpetuating this myth. Especially in a thread directly about how the US overpays for everything compared to literally every other developed country on the planet.
The entire premise of VC investment is predicated on diversification. VCs wouldn’t do diligence if they could only invest in one startup. They wouldn’t exist.
I think part of it's due to the perceived privacy i.e you can 'text' at anytime without bringing any attention from surroundings, but that's not possible with 'calls' when you are in the office or when surrounded with friends/parents/relatives etc.
We developed it and sold it initially to the government - using that revenue to make it stable. It was Lyrix word processor and a spreadsheet and graphics program (the graphics program was pretty bad, but the spreadsheet had gone through a few major revisions and was getting competetitive with Lotus 123 (the major spreadsheet at the time.) So sure we had printer drivers and WYSIWIG, kind of like WordPerfect which was the major competitor at the time. Microsoft was still trying to assemble all the pieces of an Office Suite and get users from MSDOS to Windows. After meeting with Bill, and promises to break Windows networking so that UNIX could have the TCP/IP-based back-office business, we killed it. (So people who can't figure out why networking was broken for so long in Apple and Windows products just don't know the trades which were made.)
Seems to work pretty well for vision correction and cosmetic surgery though. So Kenneth Arrow's hypothesis can't be correct.
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Google has indeed been much more successful at shipping vaporware.
It's like taking issue with the fact that a car doesn't come equipped with skis.

To draw out that analogy... we live in Greenland. Cars with skis are surprisingly useful.
> Ancient wisdom about C used to be that more than 50% of the compilation time is spent on preprocessing.

Ancient wisdom was that more than 50% of the time is spent compiling the headers, after they become a part of your translation unit after preprocessing. I don't see why preprocessing itself would ever be singled out, given that it's comparatively much simpler than actual compilation.
> The following table shows the amount of CO2 (in grams) emitted per metric ton of freight and per km of transportation

Something shipped on truck from nearby will be doing a lot less kilometers total and produce much less total emissions. Usually shipping something around the world will use those less efficient transport methods to complete the trip anyway, so it's an addition and not a replacement.
Huawei also has their own Cloud solution in China, even though it is not anywhere near as big a Tencent and Alibaba's cloud. So I guess they could use those as testbed. Along with 5G Infrastructure, directly competing against Intel. And this is only the first Gen, I am sure they have more to come.

Intel should never have wasted billions into McAfee. May be its next acquisition target would be Nokia or Ericsson, both at around ~30B, likely need 40B.

Competition is good.
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This sounds very bad.

It should be all or nothing control, at least that way people will not become marginally complacent, just out of practice (although most drivers can not drive for a month and drive again no problem).
This is not an explanation. The amount of money spent on actual drug R&D in the US is a tiny blip compared to the excess costs in the whole system.
That's a good idea, but it's not a complete solution. See http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105
This is correct. Canada's single payer system means doctors can't work in both the public and private systems. They have to choose one over the other.

There has been plenty of efforts put into allowing private clinics outside of the public system, but they have all been shutdown.
Yes, you are correct. There are also a number of circumstances in which you can get generic type info - it isn't erased, for example, if you create a concrete subclass of a generic type.
Puts me in mind of MONIAC that used tanks, floats and fluid valves to model the UK economy. Created by an NZ economics student, in the 50s, part time in his garage, from war surplus bits. At this point it sounds far too Heath Robinson to be real, but it was and several were sold worldwide. It could be adjusted to run within 2% of reality - to the surprise of its creator.

It was the inspiration for Terry Pratchett's Making Money, just without the magic ability to control the economy. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC_Computer
I said “it’s on the way of becoming one”, not that it’s currently a monopoly.
Why do I get that information from my doctor when I'm outside of US?
Why do American doctors just throw antibiotics at you, as soon as you sneeze in their office?(Getting a test for bacterial infection is cheap and fast. No bacteria - no effect by antibiotics.)

There's a lot of issues with drug awareness and appropriateness in US.
At the same time, VR still gives me a splitting headache in ~15 minutes at every exposure. So the "Oh Cool" is still supplanted by blinding pain and nausea.

It's sort of a smell-o-vision situation.
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> "But the biggest risk is staying home and not trying."

Hope NASA understands that well as organization.

Yes, we're right to expect - and work for - much safer spaceflights environments than e.g. 1960-s. At the same time after setting safety goal and achieving that, we ought to fly.
Can you show an example of how this would work with BASH_ARGV0?
I don't give a shit even if we ultimately have to pay more than we are now on healthcare (spoilers, we won't) as long as we can have universal coverage.
Apple doesn’t support it because GPLv3 requires that you are actually able to run the modified source code (not just see, change and distribute). While they probably could do that on macOS, macos and iOS share the same kernel and many common source trees. So by providing macOS software with GPLv3 code, some of that code could potentially be shipped with iOS which would land them in hot water because you are not able to just execute code on iOS. Even with a developer license, you couldn’t just recompile the kernel (or even Library) and replace it with the default one.

Edit:

Here is more information about that:

> Protecting Your Right to Tinker

> Tivoization is a dangerous attempt to curtail users' freedom: the right to modify your software will become meaningless if none of your computers let you do it. GPLv3 stops tivoization by requiring the distributor to provide you with whatever information or data is necessary to install modified software on the device. This may be as simple as a set of instructions, or it may include special data such as cryptographic keys or information about how to bypass an integrity check in the hardware. It will depend on how the hardware was designed—but no matter what information you need, you must be able to get it.

Source: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.en.html

That means if there was GPLv3 code in iOS, Apple would have to send you their private keys to sign any source code so you can run it on iOS.
While HN does not have a great appetite for jokes, this sort of anti-chucknorris list could go far. That said, I also think much is lost between the journalistic climate between common / civil law jurisdictions, especially as it pertains to libel law. Wikileaks, as an organisation, and independent of any particular motivational bias has a clear and present interest in maintaining and pursuing a list such as this. I'm pretty sure pretty much any journalistic or advocational/lobbyist organanisation in any jurisdiction with a libel clause has a clear and present interest in maintaining this sort of stance, even if as an American you think it shouldn't be necessary.

That doesn't mean I agree with it, but if you operate in a commonwealth country and do anything controversial, I'd say it's pretty much mandatory.
What would failure look like?
He's right that their value-add is the fully integrated devops cycle. That's what's been appealing to us with Gitlab (even though it is sometimes not as polished as other offerings). Having one SaaS subscription for most of your dev process needs as a startup is nice.
That negative MRI result can be just as informative as a positive one. Maybe your XRay gave the doc only 80% confidence in the diagnosis, and the MRI was to rule out a larger issue. Like an engineer, doctors work deductively to rule out potential diagnoses, so all that is left is the correct one. Inductive logic brings in subconscious bias and assumptions.
Glad to set minds buzzing, it made me smile real wide to read that. I'll have to check out that book you mentioned sometime :)
RIP Gitlab.
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ok, for my $84 a year I'm now on "Github pro". What does "pro" get me beyond private repositories? Anything a solo developer would want?
There's no need for black arts for most. For most code out there, the headers that really blow up compilation times come from either the standard library, or from large third party libraries. A simple rule of thumb, therefore, is to simply shove all such headers into your precompiled header, and only ever #include the latter in your code.

Simply put - if it's #include <...>, it goes into the precompiled header. Otherwise, it goes directly into the source.

The downside of this is that every time you add a new dependency, the entire project is rebuilt, since the change in your precompiled header affects all translation units. But adding dependencies is rare, and changing code and rebuilding is far more common.
for those who arent aware of some of the differences, a factual defense -- i.e. you're only speaking provable truth -- is not a defense against a libel suit in say the UK.
Can they?

Mr Meschemberg’s cancer is HER 2-positive (HER 2 is a protein found on the surface of some cancer cells). HER 2-positive cancer cells tend to be far more aggressive, as they divide and grow faster than normal. “That makes [my cancer] a bit different,” he said. “There are drugs that are available to help but they’re not on the PBS.”

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/mee...