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> Or the fact that in pull based financial systems like the US, someone who got your debit card number when buying a coffee can charge you again in the future, so you need to be eternally vigilant with your statements.

Which is why banks analyze your transaction history, and call you when they observe suspicious patterns of use of your credit card.
> These things exist for languages like C.

Isn't that at the compiler level rather than binary though? It's definitely a lot easier when you're compiling, yes!
Electricity production in winter can definitely be lower, but it depends on latitude. As you might guess, near the equator there's almost no difference in season.

According to the US Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy:

"Countries such as the United States, which lie in the middle latitudes, receive more solar energy in the summer not only because days are longer, but also because the sun is nearly overhead.

The sun's rays are far more slanted during the shorter days of the winter months. Cities such as Denver, Colorado, (near 40° latitude) receive nearly three times more solar energy in June than they do in December." [1]

Looking at these maps [2][3] for solar production in January and July, it seems like a lot of places drop by around 50% summer to winter. So it's a significant drop, but unless you're extremely far north, there's still energy to be harvested.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/articles/solar-radiation-b...

[2] January: https://www.nrel.gov/gis/images/map_pv_us_january_dec2008.jp...

[3] July: https://www.nrel.gov/gis/images/map_pv_us_july_dec2008.jpg
I think it's so interesting that the best oscillators we can use in electronic circuits, atomic clocks excluded, all operate in the mechanical domain. If I knew nothing, I would assume we could build good RC oscillators, which are purely electrical.
You can't figure out whether your provider is in or out. Just yesterday I got a bill from someone I've never heard of who turns out to be a "Medication Safety Specialist" who allegedly rendered services to me worth $392. You'd think such a person would just be a functionary of the hospital who in any case bill me $27k every day, but actually they are some kind of mercenary who bill patients directly.
Why not just make it so that you always qualify for Medicare?
This is correct we shortened it to "kates" -> k3s
(Rancher employee)
Ha, after working on building Uber’s chaos monkey (which was hard and took a while to build) and working with Netflix’s chaos monkey — it’s super nice to see Gremlin release this service so anyone can see the benefits of chaos engineering. I hope they add a “random chaos” feature to keep engineers on their feet. ;-)
I think the current friction in free flow of medication across borders is not unwarranted. I'm thinking of Thalidomide as an example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Oldham_Kelsey
Doctors? You should be angry at the politicians who convince people that pooling our collective money together and offering decent medical benefits to everyone is a bad thing. They convince people that anyone who isn't hard working and able bodied is a burden and isn't deserving of being treated humanely.
cancer treatments in USA are several orders of magnitude more expensive than $500. I know a breast cancer survivor with $100k of medical debt.
I think it depends on cost. Maybe if the cost is 5x my yearly income, then it's probably not worth it for me to continue going on.
When I read this I thought it was sarcastically “proving the point” of the root comment.

MSNBC’s programming in the US evenings is largely opinion/political talk, and isn’t presented as news but as editorial. One can object to opinions, but it is unfair to criticize journalists for op/ed content—just like with newspapers. Very often the journalists personally disagree with opinion/editorial page content, but everyone understands that content isn’t bound by journalism’s standards.
Extensions. I am now locked into Chrome because several services I use require Chrome extensions that aren't available elsewhere. The idea that Chrome can be unseated, or isn't needed, is unrealistic for the many users who rely on Chrome-exclusive extensions.
Partial pressure of atmospheric CO2 is not the limiting factor in growth for most plants. Increasing CO2 concentration will therefore not have a linear effect.

CO2 is a gaseous fertilizer, providing carbon to plants. But anyone that has ever kept a garden, or even a potted plant, knows that plants also need water, plus nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium (N-P-K). Hydroponics growers can add to that list [Mg++], [Ca++], [SO4--], [Fe++], [Mn++], [Zn++], [Cu++], [BO3---], [MoO4--], and [Cl-] ions, usually present in the soil that is not used in a hydroponics system.

So increasing CO2 has diminishing returns, until further increase results in no further plant growth.
Yes, but bankruptcy due to health reasons is actually quite common in Canada as well.

Why? If you’re sick enough you can’t work or pay your bills so you go bankrupt.

It’s not just healthcare costs.

Survey research commissioned by the Canadian government found that despite having a government-run health system, medical reasons (including uninsured expenses), were cited as the primary cause of bankruptcy by approximately 15 percent of bankrupt Canadian seniors (55 years of age and older).
Not with cancer. I know people who had cancer and there was a never ending inflow of bills for 5000 here, 10000 there until they were wiped out. Add to that the fact it’s very hard to fight your insurance while you are very sick.
But as a web developer I don't necessarily care about standards. I want the page to work for as many users as possible. For the longest time this meant to support IE's way of doing things, now it means to support Chrome (unless you target Enterprise users).

Even if you develop for Chrome, Firefox and Edge you'll just end up building workarounds for all 3, not adhering strictly to the standard.
Cable news is especially bad, and the entire enterprise seems to be editorial via facial-expression, tone of voice, rhetorical question.

It's especially bad in the Trump era, where a compulsive liar holds the office, but part of the media are poor enough that they can quite successfully be called out.
"Researchers from Britain's University of Liverpool also found U.S. prices were consistently higher than in other European markets. Elsewhere, U.S. prices were six times higher than in Brazil and 16 times higher than the average in the lowest-price country, which was usually India."

"Manufacturers say decent returns are needed to reward high-risk research and prices reflect the economic value provided by medicines. They also point to higher U.S. survival rates for diseases such as cancer and the availability of industry-backed access schemes for poorer citizens."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-u-s-pays-...
> Also the fact that over zealous prosecutors go after industrialists won't exactly motivate(more like scare away) people wanting to start companies.

Strange how the invisible hand of the market gets paralyzed when it comes to "job creators". If every industrialist relocates to the Bahamas or Panama but the opportunity for new companies is still there - new people you've never heard of will crop up to start them!
No, it is definitely not. Whoever tells you that is either lying, ignorant, or in denial.
Ok, I think I understand your position better, and if so I agree.

> The Carnegie approach thus described makes it very easy for devs to notice the encouragement and ignore the suggestions of criticism.

This is definitely true, I've seen it too. Definitely something to watch out for.

I guess at the end of the day I think it comes down to "know your audience." Similar to the Principle of Least Privilege I like to follow (what I call) the Principle of Least Criticism. Don't use any more criticism than what is necessary, but (and I suspect this is where we will both agree) you need to use enough criticism that the person understands your point.
What you're describing is basically an insurance mechanism. There is no reason you couldn't implement the same for cryptos. But at least under that explicit framework, those who had not participated in that scheme would not have to pay the risk premium associated with it which is currently incurred by fiat holders whether they like it or not (under your scenario).
There is an important difference between Google and Microsoft. Google is using their market dominance to push their opinions on the open standards bodies; Microsoft used their market dominance to ignore standards bodies completely.
I would consider this seriously for myself.

I've been thinking about my own death since ~2003. I have established what I want to happen to my body; I have yet to determine an official will, medical attorney, &c and that great fault is on me.

I recommend following "Order Of The Good Death" for the "US alternatives on Death". It is good times. Yes, talking about Death counts as "good times"; it is not difficult to imagine your survivors arguing over your body... about your body... about your assets... about your legacy... about your estate... and so forth.
I'd like to talk more about (1). We do a homework assignment that in fact does takes a few hours, but only for candidates who don't have experience developing in our core stack. If you can code in the languages and frameworks we use, it's a step we bypass. It tells us if they can solve a problem well using the tools and setup of their choice. If we clearly see they did well at this, the on-site can then focus on the more non-coding aspect.

Our on-site interviews are highly contextual and rooted in the real-world where candidates work directly in our codebase. They are reasonable in the things we ask candidates to do (re-factor something, review PRs, implement a small enhancement).

If someone can't code in one of our core languages, it's a tougher assessment since we would have to resort to hypothetical/whiteboard crap (which we hate). How do you assess someone then? We recently had a candidate do a take-home where they didn't do well, and it did save 5-6h of everyone's time and their effort of coming in and being subject to the pressure of the interview.

I'd love to hear counter-opinions on this.
Are you proposing some sort of chain, belt or shaft drive, such that the brake is actually housed inside the building?
The assertion that "most" treatments aren't available outside of the US is nonsense. Here in the UK some expensive and experimental treatments aren't provided, but things with proven efficacy usually are available to all, and if you have money you can pay privately for most other treatments (just like the US).
You can do it right away.

https://dragan.rocks/articles/18/CUDA-10-in-Clojure
When I look for a job, I spend time investigating companies who align with my experience, goals, etc - regardless of whether or not they're actively hiring. Consider doing the inverse: Contact developers who may not be looking, but who align with your company well.

It's flattering to hear from someone who is genuinely interested in hiring me - if you're interested in _me_, I might consider you even if I wasn't planning on leaving where I'm at.

Admittedly, it's time-consuming. But it's also "doing things that don't scale".
From the article:

"Their high-deductible insurance policy meant they had to spend $6,000 before their insurance started covering her treatment expenses. They hit their annual out-of-pocket maximum of $10,000 well before the year was over."

Even with a lower deductible, many plans have annual and lifetime limits.
My father fought cancer for the last 8 years of his life, and was on 2 boxes of Glivec a month for all those years(in US Glivec treatment costs about $146,000/year[0]). He also had 2 operations to remove some tumors, plus bi-monthly MRI to check if the cancer came back. He has never paid a single penny towards the treatment. In fact, the hospital would always reimburse him for taking the train every month to get his drugs and check-ups done. There were no bills to pay, I think he only had to sign one piece of paper every month to say that he picked up his medicine and we could go home. There were never any calls to any insurers or medical providers, simply because as patient over here you don't care who is paying for the treatment. You turn up to the hospital for whatever treatment is planned and that's about it. You don't even know how much the hospital is paying and to whom. It doesn't even matter if you are currently employed/unemployed and if you're paying towards the national health service - if you are not employed(say as a result of your illness) you are still 100% covered anyway.

After he passed away(the cancer unfortunately came back and not much could have been done at that point) his savings account was definitely not affected by 8 years of illness.

That's in Poland btw.

[0] http://www.ascopost.com/issues/may-25-2016/the-arrival-of-ge...
You could ask the same question about coffee makers in an office, but we don't have coffee makers on every workers desk.
Where we are now, it's not hard to look at Chrome in a negative light, for all the reasons the article states. However, I still remember where I was when I first saw the Chrome "speed test" ad, and thought "wow, this is what a browser should be! https://www.adsoftheworld.com/media/film/google_chrome_speed...
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescription_costs

“A study has placed the amount spent on drug marketing at 2-19 times that on drug research”

Maybe this should be reduced first?
If good developers want to level up their skills, how do you keep the senior developer who you've turned into a tutor happy?
I would say both your comments are true.
Chrome is the new IE?
That was all done in software on the MIT/LMI/TI machines.

I don't know of any papers on the Symbolics hardware that are not behind the ACM paywall, how much did it really differ from the other Lisp Machines ?
> There are tons of developers who are good at coding solutions to real world problems in real world situations but simply don't perform well in this type of situation.

What do you propose instead to see whether one can do real world problems in real world situations?
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So you're against doctors for "monopolizing" medical knowledge but for drug patents that... monopolize medical knowledge?
The unofficial doctors union restricts funding for residency spots, thereby restricting supply of doctors, and keeping their prices high.

You can be a doctor in the UK at 24, and in the US, you're at least 30.

Insurance companies' profit margins are capped by law, so only reason they would be making more money is if the providers are charging more money.
They'll do just fine. The money doesn't all go to R&D, it goes to execs and shareholders. If you force them to compete then you streamline cashflows.
Docker swarm, Consul+Nomad, AWS Fargate, Azure ACS, Google GCP, etc. Even DC/OS+Marathon is probably simpler. If you really think you need K8s, use a managed service provider like GKE, AKS, or a platform manager like Rancher. You need to pay a specialized company to build and operate it for you, or you aren't going to have a fun time.

I highly recommend leveraging AWS, Google, Azure, etc services. Especially if you're a small business, spending a little for off the shelf tools that someone else operates and supports is going to help you big time.
For the remaining users I reckon tech-literate family members set it as their search engine for them. I certainly switched over A LOT of people this way.
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Does disability insurance not exist in the Netherlands?
I guess I'm supposed to have faith that whoever came up with this thought it through.

It probably depends on which recyclables are going, but this seems a lot like the geologic analogue to "let's just throw all this crap in the storm drain"...
This is not true. What happens in the real world is that the communal mower will be hogged by the committee members put in charge of managing the mower. They need to do this for the good of the community. Pretty soon they will need to manage other community resources. Some animals are just more equal than others after all.
If the bar to posting to HN was "I am finally confident this project is mature", rather than "I can post any link I want and if people thing it's cool, it'll get upvoted", HN would have a hell of a lot less cool shit on the front page on a daily basis.

People are allowed to screw up: it's how we learn. They got comments that pointed out flaws, they fixed them and posted a follow-up regarding that fix, why the hate? This person tried to make something cool, they learned important security lessons, and now have a deeper insight into what they made, and the world it operates in. How is this possibly a bad thing we don't want to have happen on HN?
It has been formally verified: http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/canth2.html

So, if you don't accept the proof, you have to reject some axiom used. Which one do you have a problem with?
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The deductible might be huge, and there's also this magic new thing I've just discovered (or United invented out of nowhere) called "co-insurance" and "maximum out of pocket" which I call "deductible #2."

Then when you actually try to use the insurance you pay monthly for (but don't get to use until you reach the deductible #1 and #2?) they may just send the bill to you with a lot of legalese that amounts to "we don't cover this, or we do but we have better lawyers, get fucked peasant."

Luckily the debt collection industry is incompetent so all you gotta do is keep replying with "please mail proof of debt" and you're golden!
Ummm...maybe buy Aflac instead (cancer insurance).
The political system in the US biases area over population. The Senate will remain conservative as long as rural states remain conservative, and that will never change.
I would be curious how many of those extensions aren't an extreme compromise of your security. (Most extensions are.)

You should be using as few extensions as humanly possible, and looking to remove extensions whenever you can.

(I currently use one, the EFF's Privacy Badger, though Firefox's new Tracking Protection makes it somewhat redundant, and I may not keep it forever.)
I got it!

We will hire anyone who sounds good, and fire them within a month if it turns out they're not up to our standards. Then, we will ensure we never get anyone who isn't already employed and anyone just looking for a paycheck or three.

If you heard that even 20% of people were fired within the first month, how likely would you be to take that job?

Note: It's usually called contract to hire. And it just takes the interview stress and pushes it out to 1-6 months.
I have good healthcare through employer, but god forbid - i have no idea what'd happen even with the insurance.

Unexpected health problems are the only reasons i'd go back to my home country to get treatment. US healthcare is nuts.
Could you recommend some? From a quick search all I could find were things like Opera, Torch, Epic etc, which do not seem to be open source.

I must I am quite happy with Vivaldi at the moment, but a true open source browser would make me even happier.

I did try to use Firefox Developer Edition for a while, but despite being a step in the right direction, I must say I prefer the chromium developer tools.
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Other browsers need to catch up to Chrome with their development tools. I'd be happy to use Safari or Firefox for development, but...

- I can't disable CORS in Firefox (yes, sometimes you have to disable CORS rather than modify the Allow-Origin header response, for example if you need to test against a production backend) (and, no, CORS Everywhere is not a sufficient solution).

- I can't inspect WebSocket frames in anything except Chrome.

- Safari does not allow self-signed certs over WSS (and there's no way to override it).

- Safari does not respect System-wide APC Config for Proxies.

There's a handful of other issues. Both Safari and Firefox do do things well, and often better than Chrome. For example, Firefox tends to actually handle standards correctly, whereas Chrome tries to be overly forgiving. And Safari's Develop and Debug menus are easily the best and quickest way to disable CORS or JavaScript, and examine service workers.

Unfortunately, some of the above issues are blockers.

I can test with Firefox on staging or in production, but not being able to test up front during development really impacts compatibility testing.

If another browser was as good or better for development, I'd be happy to use it.
Pay them a lot.
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This is a big lie perpetuated by big pharma. Most of the expensive parts of doing research are done by public universities. Big pharma just purchases the research and produces the drug at a huge markup.

The real fix to this is to nationalize the pharm industry, so that there is no profit motive, and drugs can be produced at the lowest cost possible.
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Curious to hear opinions from people in different roles and circumstances.
Back in the 90s and early 2000s there was a good market for desktop apps based mainly on glue languages and an RDB + interface. Most of these were utter crap. From looking at this offering and other (P|S)aaS nothing has changed except the venue.
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Chrome's main appeal was that it was much faster than firefox and IE. At everything. I had no technical knowledge when chrome came out, was using firefox, tried chrome, never looked back.

It's not really possible to separate out the effects of advertising from the effects of the product actually being better. Maybe I installed chrome because I saw an ad, but I stopped using firefox because it was clear that chrome was better. The fact that you're emphasizing ads over the very real performance advantages just means you've got an axe to grind.
It seems to me that there is more talent going to software than ever and the Junior dev starting salary has been steadily declining over the past decade.
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