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i probably don't agree with GP, but the credit you have is in no small part due to the cheap cost of food and services that illegal immigrants provide. if you had to pay the full cost of legal labor for those products and services, you'd have much less "credit" to show for it.

you may even say you would rather have it that way. but that's not the world we live in.
If you want to read more on this topic, I highly recommend An American Sickness (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31253737-an-american-sic...). It's written by the current Editor in Chief of Kaiser Health News.
I ran “Cat6” in my house, and followed the Cat6 guidelines. It's not because I realistically expect Cat6 performance — it's because I want Cat5e performance, and expect that vendors lie out of their ass, and hope that going ‘one better’ is enough.
It absolutely would be easy to compare both chains and see exactly which coins were double spent, and you'd obviously be the perpetrator. Not that I advocate it, but if you wanted to carry out an attack, you'd likely target an exchange that didn't require verification, and you might exchange and withdraw under another coin (ex: trade ETC for ETH).

Then spend and/or clean your ill-gotten gains.
Yes, lets fault the shoeless refugees with kids for not single-handedly fixing the complex problems in their countries, some of which are caused by US Government actions going back over 40 years. That sounds like a winning solution.

Or maybe California is dealing with their domestic problems as best they can, and the Federal government should start helping Central America rather than starting pointless trade wars.
> I do think create-react-app is a good innovation in the JS world. However, I've never found a good equivalent on the back end. Setting up even the most basic CRUD REST API requires a whole lot of typing for very little reward.

This is where services like Google Firebase Functions become useful.

I went from having never written a REST API in my life, to up and running in under 20 minutes.

First time I went to create some endpoints on my own server, wow, that was a pain.
The book The Healing of America by T.R. Reid, 2010 was a phenomenal look at this subject and the conclusion was this: we are the only developed nation whose government allows for-profit health insurance companies to exist with ZERO regulation to cap healthcare prices. Because of this, we spend 20% of every dollar on "administrative" costs compared to 3%-7% in the European and Asian countries. The goal for American healthcare companies is increasing shareholder value, not reducing costs. IMO healthcare is an obvious example of where a "free market" approach has failed and government oversight is critical.

https://www.amazon.com/Healing-America-Global-Better-Cheaper...
> Hard to judge overlap with HN readership,

Low. Very low. Think about the Hispanic population a little.

> but it's probably fair to think that 4-5% of your sites readers can read Spanish.

If they are, they aren't setting their OSes or browsers to use Spanish rather than English... An 'es' language code doesn't even show up in my GA language headers until #13 (consistent with the geoip), putting them at ~0.5% of all hits. I have more German, French, and Russian-preferring readers than Spanish (which is only slightly more popular than Portuguese). HN is cosmopolitan, but all the evidence I have is that it's not in a Spanish sort of way.
Yep. This needs to be repeated more.
Free markets and regulations can co-exist. It doesn't have to be one or the other.

The most successful markets are a careful balance of well crafted regulations.

Healthcare in the US is not carefully balanced.

BTW, hospitals in the US begin publishing their pricing data online this year. By law.
An expected physiological result can be just something like dry mouth or temporary diuresis. It doesn't have to go all the way to making a person e.g., nauseated.
They definitely ship code, and people seem to like them. I really like their model, the hacker culture, the holy crap we built a self driving car for <1k, but I don't know if they'll be a real contender in industry.
This slippery slope argument is valueless. It's perfectly possible to have socialized healthcare without communism.
"we see that the A12 outperforms a moderately-clocked Skylake CPU in single-threaded performance"

moderately clocked skylake != "best desktop processors"

There is a good 2x perf difference between a 2 something Ghz skylake and a 4.5Ghz skylake, particularly on L2 cache bound single thread benchmarks (which is what specint2006 is these days, its more a cache benchmark except for libquantum which is "broken" and more accurately reflects clockrate*cores). A moderately clocked skylake is a laptop.

But you say, IPC matters!!! Sure it does, but a microarch with the same IPC and the ability to clock 2x faster is generally a 2x faster CPU.

Nor is apple shipping a phone with 16+ cores...

People have been saying their phones were as fast as their desktops for years, and its not anymore true today than it was 5 years ago. Its questionable whether it will really ever happen as there is this heat/power dissipation problem in phones that desktops don't have. Not to mention desktops don't have nearly the physical constraints on RAM/storage/IO capacity you find in a phone/laptop.
Canada has equivalent of Medicare for all. And Canada has at least some of these problems, for example longer wait times. These long wait times don’t ultimately affect average outcomes.
That's the magic of pizza, inexhaustible combinations.
Some cloud providers got this right; some didn't exactly...

Had a few Hetzner baremetal dell servers with iDrac/IPMI exposed to the world. It did have a good password.

Softlayer/IBM makes me login to a VPN to get into IPMI

(at least for me)

Exposing IPMI on the internet is stupid easy; just as it is stupid. It's the lazyness of hey I need to be able to get into the KVM console and i'm working at home today...

For example.
>It's worth noting that the U.S. market does pay for the lion's share of patented drugs...

And even in doing so, we're getting contaminated meds. See the article at Ars,[1] which is based on a recent study from Kaiser.[2]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/scary-reality-meds-t...

[2] https://khn.org/news/how-tainted-drugs-reach-market-make-pat...
Yes. Yes it would. But comparing against baby aspirin might be worthwhile. There is some (safe?) effect beyond sugar pills.

Remember, the patients don’t know each other, and don’t compare symptoms. Hopefully.
Funny you mention the mouse support because in the blog post here you cannot scroll through it using a mouse which is pretty annoying.
> Most technological breakthroughs are first perceived as toys and hobbies of the rich: personal computers, cellphones, mechanical carriages, Facebook. In this context, sour-grape reactionism is unfortunate but not surprising.

But not every technology ends up being the next personal computer, cellphone, or Facebook. Someone probably once thought that hosting sites like GeoCities were the future before blogs/Facebook made it clear that the average user doesn't want to design their own website. It took something more approachable to come along.
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Am I the only person who thinks this isn't a big deal? Honestly get is not a personal storage space, it's capped at 1GB.

As a service anything I build privately will need more than three collaborators. Especially for things which are traditionally kept secret like academic software.

Maybe this might help freelancers but proliferationf private repos with very few contributors is an anti pattern.

Gitlab is still the clear winner for private use while Github remains the most active for public repos.

Nothing has changed.
Are they though? I'm honestly curious as to what those things could be. A lot of people talk about good uses of blockchains, but all examples I've seen are either not actually good uses, or they have some flaw that makes practical implementation impossible (or at least highly unlikely).

What examples of good use of blockchains are you thinking of?
>I'm not saying this model is right. I'm just saying that doing away with it will have fundamental consequences to healthcare R&D.

Might not be a bad thing to try it out and see what the consequences can be.
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I share your sympathy towards hacker culture but I would like to hear actual experience rather than wishful thinking.
Yes, but, again, this article is about standard headers. Since it is impossible for STL library authors to decide that they are or are not writing for a performance-sensitive audience, it behooves them to provide completely visible header-only implementations of everything.
That's not how it works. Never has been.

If you are a politician, you are perfectly free to speak at the local Klan rally. (David Duke does it all the time.) The fact that blacks are not allowed at the Klan rally is a problem for blacks, but not for David Duke. He is free, and I would think even encouraged, to engage with as many constituents as possible. Wherever he can find them.

So for instance, if David Duke had a noblacksallowed.com page, BUT he also had an office in a non-restricted area, he's good. You or I may not like that, but there is no Constitutional restriction against what he's doing. Blacks are perfectly free to go to his office for the purposes of making comments or lodging complaints.

Being black is completely non-criminal, but, unfortunately, there exists a group of people for whom being black is also completely non-acceptable. And that group of people are absolutely free to set up exclusionary areas on their own private property. David Duke may even happen to speak in some of those exclusionary areas. Again, you or I may not like that fact, but that's just reality. Nothing's really changed with this ruling, it always has been like this.
Regardless of the usefulness to you, it would show Apple's commitment to making the iPad a serious tool instead of just a consumption device.

It would also be a huge win for schools with large iPad deployments.
> Does this make us immoral for "freeloading", because we prefer putting our limited money into cost effective treatments?

It doesn't make you immoral, but it is important in understanding the tradeoffs of suggesting that the US switch to an NHS-style system.

> Also, is it not worth looking at why pharma R&D costs so much? The pharma industry seems to run at a very healthy profit margin compared to most other industries. Maybe the lack of market pressure is allowing the pharma industry to remain fatty? Obviously there's a fear that cutting US pharma revenue would hurt global medical R&D, but I don't see this as being a foregone conclusion. It could just as possibly be market failure and regulatory capture keeping pharma R&D expensive.

They may be doing well, but you may not be seeing all the little pharma companies that die trying. At the end of the day, investors are allocating capital where they think they can get returns. If you reduce the returns of pharma, you reduce the attractiveness of investing there.
I would call it a weakness of JS's ecosystem, not an ergonomic problem. I believe JS could allow nearly the same code. Haven't tried it, though:

const fs = require("fs");
const csv = require("some-csv-package");
const incsv = csv.reader(fs.createReadStream("file1.csv"));
const outcsv = csv.writer(fs.createWriteStream("file2.csv"));

for await (row of incsv) {
await outcsv.writeRow([ row[0], `${row[1]} blah` ]);
}

Granted, that package doesn't exist, and the popular CSV package for Node [1] makes my eyes cross.

As for me, none of the scripting I do with Node involves files that exceed Node's 1GB memory limit, so I take the cheap and easy way out and just readFile(). Which I suppose proves your point, although, again, I would argue it's an ecosystem problem, not a ergonomic problem.

[1] https://csv.js.org/project/examples/
For our projects, we always sourced directly from big names in the industry like Nexans and LeGrand. With a hefty price, of course. But I always wondered whether their cables are worth the price. Of course, we have let our system integrators tested and reported diligently but yeah for big money, rigging is not so far fetched!
That's an observation one could make by strictly looking at numbers, but it is not cause and effect.
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> At a "real" restaurant I want the lighting, the waiter, the wine glasses, the atmosphere.

At such a "restaurant" I'd want all that, but also with a button I can hit to call a waiter over. And clearing my payment from the table (credit card chip reader on the table) without needing the waiter to be available.
From my perspective it looks like a good amount of teachers decided to give up a portion of the compensation earlier (i.e. they gave up good pay not when they're looking for another job in an industry they're already in, but they decided to give up good pay upon joining the industry).

It's like how artists/writers/game developers/etc. decide to go into their field even though they know that they could be making much more money in any other field.
Oh come on. They’re just doing the traditional American thing of dividing everybody into two groups and acting as if that’s all the important diversity politically. Before the groups were white and black. Now they’re black and not black. NYT reporters read Asians as white in every important sense.

http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/asian.htm

> Asians are now white.

> Don't believe me? A recent MSNBC news headline announced a "Plunge in Minority University Enrollment" at the University of California, with UC Berkeley reporting that "minority admissions had declined 61 percent." Actually, the total percentage of racial minority students at Berkeley, Asians included, fell from 57% to 49%. If you exclude the burgeoning group of people who decline to state their race, the minority percentage fell only three percentage points, from 61% to 58%.
There is a pretty significant systems engineeing effort to integrate the battery performance with the motor and power electronics. Tesla does a fantastic job in this regard and that is likely responsible for their high efficiency. You lose a lot of ability to do the integration in an optimized way if you have to design around different batteries.

All that to say there is a lot to be gained by not doing a battery swap system.
Ok, so take away all those risks that you talk about. Is that a "black swan" type of improvement?
Majority rule is not “the basic ethical grounds for representative democracy”. US was set up as a constitutional republic specifically to limit the simple majority mob rule.
The alternatives you mention are things that could happen in the future. The alternative 'p1necone brought up is the status quo.
Here's an article about when he was released on bail:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-12005930

And here's how the people who posted the bail were ordered to pay the remainder when he breached the terms:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/08/julian-assange...

Absconded: To leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution.

He left his house arrest location quickly and secretly to avoid arrest and prosecution.
Sorta. It’s not like every other country waits for a generic to come out before paying for IP-protected drugs.

E.g. my health region in Canada will pay up to $50k or so per year of additional life provided.
Looks like there's a lot of McGraw-Hill Book Company (now McGraw-Hill Education, not sure if that has something to do with it) books on archive.org, particularly from the "Public Library of India." I'm wondering if these came through some digitization effort that slipped through copyright, or maybe the original digitizer had obtained specific permission for these volumes? Definitely not obvious to me.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22McGraw-Hil...
This is common PhRMA talking point that needs perspective. Large pharmaceutical companies spend twice the their readers h budget on marketing, a good percentage of now is that is spent on patient oriented marketing. (e.g. “Talk your doctor about Xyzzy!”)

If there would be a loss of revenue, any reduction in R & D costs lies purely with c-suite’s priorities.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...
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that's probably a more logical explanation than "people envision an imaginary beam of force". First, they 'd have to control for that by including people who had no cultural knowledge of a laser beam.
Terrific post. Thanks for taking the time to write it.
Free private repos are important for experimental development.
it's not a feature, it's the current state, as someone above mentioned the market isn't paying minimum wage and has to rely on lots of migrant laborers to pick the food. Yes we can do better. One incremental step is to give them free or affordable healthcare
You are looking at a biased data set is why. You are looking at the biggest drug manufacturers in the world which most likely own the most lucrative drugs. If you want a more unbiased sample then you need to look at the entire industry. For small drug companies most of the time their drugs do not get FDA approval or doesn't pass some regulatory approval and the whole company folds. For the bigger drug companies, the trend isn't to increase R&D spending but rather to simply buy up smaller companies that have patented drugs. This makes sense though because of eroom's law which states that even with advanced technology...creating new drugs or discovering new treatments is getting harder (more expensive) which means that the rate of return for drug R&D is declining.
Consider Green Day, a band made up of Californians who sing in a working class British accent. The British bands of the 60s sounded semi-American when singing because they were trying to, and the British Invasion bands were trying to sound more American because it was where the market was. The British punk and Britpop bands didn't try to sound American or even mid-Atlantic.
Many are not going to trust such studies any more than they trust climate-change research, and would rather the market "fix" the problems than a gov't-centric approach.
Yeah yeah yeah, how can you be on an a crypto exchange and not be a gambling asset? And what is this "temporary" remark? As I said - it is a pipe dream.
It's not just about pure R&D, it's about all the financial incentive for all the wheels that will be greased by it all throughout the industry. On the outside we don't like it, but we can't pretend the drive for research isn't also built on the back of the drive for profits outside of research.
It's actually easier to "invest" as an employee than as a VC. VC's have to wait until the next round, and have to compete with other VCs.

As a potential employee, you can see a company wildly succeeding (twitter in 2009, uber in 2012-13, slack, github, etc) and yet they will have <200 employees and their stock options will be granted at a 409a valuation around ~100million. Its a pretty reasonable bet at that point.

You will hit some underperformers/duds (coinbase? bird?), but you will have worthwhile stock options a good chunk of the time.
Which part is not a fact? That it costs $10k per illegal kid in California schools which are ranked 49th in the country? Down from near the top 20 years ago? That our schools are overflowing and getting worse in Los Angeles County, the epicenter of the problems, the schools are so bad that everyone is moving to charters.

That illegal kids are covered by medi-cal until they come of age? That we fund health clinics? That if you have a citizen baby, organizations aid you to get low income housing which then you use for the entire family? Please tell me a non fact into any of this.

Please learn to read and critically think. Anecdotes in conjunction with facts help make compelling arguments. You have brought neither. “The people who deal with the problems think this plan is a good idea”. This statement is downright moronic. Obviously the leftists who created this policy think it’s a good idea...those who disagree and create other policies such as harsher border security also think their plan is a good idea. Does that mean you will concede your critical thinking to those you disagree with?
If anyone has rsi issues, I've found the ipad very helpful. The apple pencil is a great input device, and I use anker bluetooth ipad keyboard that I find very comfortable and ergonomic. I have a stand I can put my ipad in to raise it up in desk mode, but it's often just in my lap.

Got me through a rough period of rsi, and the 120 hz screen was a joy. I didn't do all my work on it, but it let me heavily reduce my computer usage.

Now that I've fixed the rsi and got a better mouse, I'm going to go back to a mac for most stuff. All the little frictions in safari on ios are starting to annoy me: it's hard to manage webapps for my business there.

But I'm going to keep using the ipad pro. I have a few drawing/video recording workflows where it is the main device, and it is a good admin device when I'm not at the computer.

Will also be getting a better computer monitor and computer. The ipad's screen, 120 hz refresh rate, and fast, fanless performance have spoiled me. Those factors are part of why I kept using the ipad even though it was worse at some tasks.

(It's also better at others, to be clear)