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This came up last year when it was discovered that Leon Lederman had to sell his Nobel Prize to pay for cancer treatments. But there is more moral complexity to this issue than people appreciate. Cancer treatment is inherently expensive; it just doesn't seem that way in some other countries because the government pays from the outset.

But I don't think that's necessarily moral, compared to something like Medicaid, which requires people to spend down their assets first before the government will pay. The median net worth for someone between 65-74 is $225,000. Why should the government spend tax dollars to protect those savings for people unfortunate enough to get cancer, when there are many people unfortunate enough to never enter the middle class and be in a position to save that kind of money in the first place? Isn't it unfair to spend tax dollars protecting the inheritance of an upper-middle-class kid when that money could be given to a kid that never had a hope of an inheritance?

Put differently, there is a huge moral difference between the government ensuring that everyone can get cancer treatment, and the government intervening to protect the financial and social status of people fortunate enough to have significant assets.
> The company’s focus gradually shifted towards transforming their browser dominance into business growth

It hasn’t shifted. It’s always been there.
That was actually one of the cornerstones of the HSA for everyone plan that Ben Carson was pushing. The government would pay into your HSA and when you got a diagnosis like that, you’d have the option of not continuing treatment and passing the balance of the HSA to your family.
Yes, it's crazy how difficult these little things are.

During birth, should one stand outside their wife's delivery room and ask each provider to wait outside while you look up if they are in network or not on your insurance company's app? At least we have apps to do that nowadays.
It's most likely because the people behind Vivaldi are the same people who created Opera.
Ok, so basically the article says most ppl don’t have 20k in savings?
> "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."

The article mentions a variety of causes but I'm having a hard time figuring out which ones are most important. In the example above with a $10k out-of-pocket maximum, how much money did these patients actually end up paying? Is that the main reason for their bankruptcy, or is it their loss of income? Does disability insurance cover things like cancer, and if not, are there similar programs that do?
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safari is the new IE.
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Do we know why Google grew dissatisfied with Apple and forked Webkit?
> At least with TLS1.3 and QUIC we can pad encrypted data and get a measure of length-hiding back; enough to at least raise costs for passive fingerprinting attacks (and raise those costs more than CBC ever could on its own).

I have to say this feels like both the more actionable and more insightful output of your... heresy.

We are not going back to CBC. You say that some CBC attacks don't seem practical. The trouble with the Web is it's like some lunatic deliberately designed a system to be attacked. Oh you have a chosen plaintext attack that needs 1 million repetitions? Impractical. Wait, Javascript exists. OK, but even with Javascript who'd ever have a system that terminates HTTPS for completely unrelated parties on the same physical hardware - there's no way we'll get to exploit that? Oh, bulk hosting exists. OK. Still nobody would build a crypto system in which one party is just completely anonymous all the... oh wait, that's exactly how Tim's system was designed. Eric Rescorla has some great slides about this.

Whereas "Hey, let's pad every message to hit the path MTU size for packets" totally feels like something vendors could do next week and make a huge impact with no real cost. A lot of network devices can't hit their target speeds for small packets anyway, so the impact may be not merely negligible but literally non-existent.

I have to say though, I'm not actually clear on why we couldn't pad TLS 1.2's AEAD modes to the same effect?

The TLS 1.3 padding is _clever_ but what does it do here that makes it more important for your passive fingerprinting attack than the older padding scheme (with an AEAD cipher)?
>off myself to prevent using up my family's assets

I'd give 90% of my income if it meant my friend that "offed herself" could still be alive.

Decisions like that have consequences beyond you...
> (usually Firefox has the truest implementation of which).

Is there an "objective" test for standards compliance these days, like the good ol' acid test was for the box model? I agree with this sentiment, but only anecdotally - I'd like to see something concrete to back it up.
Aha! Looking at the ground is difficult in 16 pixels, but i get it.
> too difficult

> impossible

These words are funny to me. It's not literally "too difficult" or "impossible" for people to sort their recyclables. I think they essentially mean, we don't know how to make people do this, or we think we'll be voted out if we ask people to do it. And what it boils down to is that, it's not a socially accepted/expected practice to sort your recyclables. But, you know what? That is a completely different thing from being "too difficult" or "impossible". And by conflating those two things, we as a society are operating with blinders on.

As a thought experiment, imagine everybody else was making the needed compromises (to their time, space, etc.) to properly sort recyclables. Is it still impossible for you?
How about if we have a single entity who pays doctors and hospitals fair and reasonable rates, we fire hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats we don't need, and we fund it all out of general revenues, saving roughly 2 trillion dollars per year, while at the same time improving life expectancy and other health outcomes?
I find posts like this kind of interesting. Chrome gained prominence because it had great performance improvements over the competition -- IE and Firefox. IE in particular was dog slow at all times, and Chrome ran everything at least as well and almost always better. Firefox didn't have process isolation when Chrome came onto the scene, and that kind of knocked it for security and stability.

It's not as if people switched just because it had Google branding. Everyone switched because it was quantifiably better. From benchmarks to design, Chrome was a winner, and has enjoyed its success.

Now, Chrome is doing things that could be seen as "IE-like." Manifest v3 -- even with relaxed changes towards ad blocking -- will not necessarily enable uBlock Origin to continue exactly as it does today. The forced user system is another move in the direction of anti-consumer behavior.

I've tried to switch back to the competition. I'm using Firefox right now. Pages render faster and compact mode is great. But Handoff myseteriously doesn't work on my Mac when it does with Chrome (added in Firefox 65). I had to enable U2F support with an about:config flag. I had to turn off the spell checker to fight mysterious input latency in average textboxes.

I'm reluctantly staying because I ultimately like what I see, but there's an undeniable truth somewhere in here. It's really hard for Firefox to match Chrome simply based on resources. Google can drop millions of dollars on a browser -- and few other companies can afford to do that. Certainly not Mozilla.
My mom fought cancer at great expense and with everyone's support, and just ended up prolonging her suffering. When my dad was diagnosed with cancer a few years later, remembering that experience, he fought pretty much everyone and declined treatment, and died swiftly. If my turn comes and my odds are about as bad as theirs, I may well prefer to follow his example.
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Wow, is that even true?

I do believe the "technical" layer in a recruiter is the most important thing. Amarraja, how do you go about vetting your recruiter? Have you had any set of criteria to identify a solid talent acquisition partner?
>My family would be taken care of.

And possibly traumatized that you killed yourself so they could have money.
Because you're paying for it with your money. They can afford to take a hit (and can afford the insurance for such losses) because of the fees they charge you directly, and the money they make utilizing your principle for other purposes while it's there.
Tried it a few days ago and it made a quite polished impression. I hope COI and Delta.chat will join forces and define a standard algorithm to convert e-mails to instant messages (and e2e encryption).

Otherwise, we might end up with incompatible clients within the same protocol.
May not need to worry about that, the interference can be in other bands if it's strong enough to blind the other receivers (There's no such thing as a perfect filter). That said I'd expect that it's going to be someone's microwave, or similar device, that's just flooding the spectrum around 2Ghz also.
I thought that at first too. But the reality is (most) Americans prefer quantity over quality and it’s cheaper to cut down on cacao and fill with sugar. Less about actual flavor profile here.

A region with very different preferences on chocolate is Japan. All milk chocolate I’ve had from there is much less sweet than European or American chocolate.
That sounds horrifying
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Anyone running a tech. team or company out of Canada? Wondering what the tech scene there is in general. I know Canada is a huge country but specifically places like Toronto etc. are of interest. I am asking because we are considering setting up a small office in Canada (for our US based company). Any insight is appreciated.
> How? It never stops puzzling me why anyone thoght Chrome would be any different.

It is different! Microsoft never released even a single line of IE. Chromium on the other hand is completely open source, and we have that to thank for all the fun things that came of it from VSCode, to Brave browser, to Puppeteer. Things are WAY better now than in the dark IE days.
Fair question.

At least in the above scenario, it was Andres doing the work of initially getting someone up to speed and then pairing the coworkers on an appropriate level feature/bug. He'd stop by and check in to see where they were stuck and would genuinely try and solve the problem.

So, it has to be someone who is a great coder for that stack and enjoys teaching.

If it's done right, other members of the team become good teachers as well, so the initial burden of teaching is lightened.
Of the dozen-or-so companies that I've been through at this point, there were only three where I would say they put a decent effort into trying to retain the talent they ALREADY HAD. So if finding "fresh meat" is becoming more difficult, maybe there is some good in that, if it incentivizes more to adequately value the talent they already have and put a decent effort into trying to retain them.
Would need to be pretty fucking robust
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It's amazing that you got down voted so much. Do people not like facing reality or something?
> How would you disagree with this? There was nothing serious before Tesla.

I would disagree with this by saying he wasn't with Tesla at the start. He saw the potential of the industry early - but he didn't start it.
We have mild, normal, Greek and Turkish yoghurt in Dutch supermarkets, but no hangop, and it tastes distinctly different from Greek yoghurt. If I had to compare it I'd say it has the consistency of Greek yoghurt but the taste of mild yoghurt. I know I know, that sounds pretty much like Greek yoghurt but as a dairy lover there is enough of a difference to matter :p

Pull this page through DeepL or Google translate if you're curious: https://www.womenshealthmag.com/nl/voeding/feiten-fabels/a23...
Here's hoping. The proliferation of browser standards has made this appear a more daunting task as time has gone by. There was a point where if you built a good DOM, javascript engine, and a layout engine and had a reasonable ability to fetch resources, you could bootstrap a browser. That's how Konquerer got there.

But now, I think we're past that point -- if your browser can't do native video conferencing and opengl and music apis and SVG animations and canvas support it might as well be a steaming turd.

I'd love to see someone try; to build a browser with third-party cookies excluded by design rather than policy (so that all off-domain fetches come from a blank "incognito" context), to build a React-style shadow DOM as the primary DOM and have the W3C DOM implemented as a polyfill, with client certificates integrated more naturally, completely killing the notion of allowing windows to open programmatically (I mean, how can pop-ups still be a problem? Any sane site is now using on-page popups if they need the UX), and some sort of model for integrating new web APIs and content handlers.

But combining all of that with a smooth and well-polished UI that works on multiple platforms is rapidly becoming something that only a large software corporation can pull off, and even there, mostly pull off badly. For now, I think Chrome is here to stay.
umatrix takes care of a lot more than just this.

I block cookies on any site I dont log into, and scripts on any site I dont need scripts. The granularity of easily enabling just the one script or cookie or frame I might need is great.
See meta discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19251903
All of the terms you listed are easily understandable concepts clearly explained on healthcare.gov or any health insurance company's website, and they've been a thing for decades.

How much clearer can maximum out of pocket be?

Edit: I do think in network and out of network should be easier/faster to figure out though.
We've got private MRI clinics in Canada, and Googling prices for my city gives a number of clinics with prices in the 700 CAD range.
Did he proactively disclose that to you or did it just come up in conversation? Attorneys in many states aren't required to have malpractice insurance but must disclose to clients if their malpractice insurance doesn't meet some minimum standard.

Edit to add that I also suspect the health insurance companies are a big part of driving up the malpractice insurance costs. For example, if there's some sort of error in a routine surgery where the patient is left permanently disabled the patient won't necessarily be the one suing the doctor but the insurance company might go after the doctor's malpractice insurance to "soften the blow" of the additional cost of caring for/insuring the patient.
It's not political bias. People's faith in journalism is being destroyed by the journalists themselves.
Socialist!! /s
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There is none. People just like to parrot that Big Pharma line because it "sounds like it makes sense, so I guess it does?!"

Big Pharma already abuses the patent system so much, like inventing something and then when the 20 year monopoly has passed they create a new patent that says "this same drug can be used for Y purpose, too" - and bam, another 20 year monopoly on the exact same or very slightly tweaked recipe.

Tens of thousands are already dying every year in the US because they can't afford healthcare. If the argument is that "if we reduce the Big Pharma profits then it would be even worse!", I'm sorry, I just don't buy it. If drugs were cheaper, a large portion of those people could be saved (yes, I realize there are problems with the healthcare system, too, but those would also be fixed by Medicare for all).
>What do the rules look like for this in other nations?

In Austria we pay a "Sozialversicherungsbeitrag"/social security with each month's pay. Your employer also chips in part of it. I don't even know how much it is percent-wise.

It is really not that hard. You just go the doctor / hospital when you NEED it. Because that's the important thing: health care is a need, nobody likes being sick or injured and having a system where people end up bankrupt to pay for their medical bills ist just stupid.

No matter the philosophical arguments against taxes and state-power, it's cruel and stupid and it's astonishing that a country that considers itself "the greatest nation" is actually run like this in the 21st century.
> ATTRACT decent people

This reminds me of a recent post that rings pretty true: "When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re selling"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18955731
These devices have vulnerabilities, sure, but how exploitable? Any device on my network has a non-routable IP address it gets via DHCP, and the only port I have open on my public network is SSH which is forwarded to one specific internal IP address.
I'm personally curious to see what will happen in 30 years. Its one thing to keep computers from 20-30 years ago running because generally the components are fairly simple, but not anymore.
I am aware that Israel performs many studies that are banned in the US for various political and moral reasons. There's innovation outside the US. Sure.

I am also aware that almost every drug advertised on TV (and available as a treatment) is now narrowly targeted to specific conditions of specific diseases rather than broadly. Yet, even when we were seeing Tylenol and Ibuprofen developed, the arguments for the "expenses of innovation" were the same.

I suspect it's hand waving away corruption. The number of large pharma companies going out of business is very small, meaning they aren't assuming risk that would justify the "expense of innovation" reasoning, in the US.
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Studying an emerging sign language wont kill it so what are linguists scared of?
I think that route is unpopular because we no longer have a sane relationship with death as a society. Religion, at least in theory, should help, but rates are declining there too. We'll pay any price to avoid the inevitable. We'll spend hundreds of thousands to get one more year of poor quality time with family, yet neglect to spend that time in better quality when health is taken for granted.

If you had no family, you could save many more lives for cheaper and easier to treat sicknesses, plus donating your healthy organs.
Exactly. You gotta stay with the crowd on Arm SBC's or you'll vastly increase the risk of being the first person who is doing something with the non-Pi platform and then hitting bugs and configuration issues. I hope pi teams will eventually upgrade their hardware platform.
You're assuming that the costs are fixed, and that the only issue is when we decide to stop spending.

An alternative is that the costs AREN'T fixed - that a significant portion of the money involved goes to costs that aren't actually costs of the heath care itself. This could be insurance overhead (all the people to manage the paperwork to get approval for the work ultimately adds to bill I have to pay), inflated costs (for those without insurance, or dealing with things insurance won't/has stopped covering, the habit of hospitals to raise their base rates so they can then offer a discount to insurance companies hits them full on), market weaknesses (A lot has been written about how non-transparent the market is, meaning it's basically impossible to shop for good care at a good price), etc.

If a new splanch transplant (made up numbers here) ultimately costs $10,000 in the UK and $100,000 in the US (regardless of whether that is paid directly by me or indirectly via taxes), then the issue is different than what you've highlighted.
Never liked Chrome, but I liked Google as an idea once upon a time.
It's funny because people keep saying this yet I've noticed something... The interview process for developers is about 10X harder than it used to be a decade ago. It used to be that you'd chat with a couple of people about tech, projects you'd worked on... then get a job offer. Now there are multiple rounds spread out over weeks with a massive number of team members, live coding challenges galore, non-tech screening for all manner of sketchy things (culture fit, dedication to diversity...).

I think a lot of this is based on they myth of: A bad hire causes tons more damage than not hiring a good person.

I call BS. To me this is just weak management. It's actually not that difficult to fire someone. If you're in doubt, put an explicit probation period in the contract. I think being able to effectively fire is management 101 but looks like it's becoming a lost art. I'm not sure if this is because people are afraid of confrontation or they're just cargo culting the story they've heard about bad hires.

Easy in, easy out and you'll see your dev shortage problem start to solve itself.
There's a huge spectrum of what's covered under US insurance plans. Mine, for example, is a "good" plan for the size of company we are, but if I was rushed to a hospital that wasn't in-network in an emergency, or a hospital visit was later deemed "unnecessary" by the insurance company, I could be subject to huge bills.
Ironically? I assumed your grand-parent was joking. A top-end PC in 1990 was a 33MHz i486 with 4Mb of RAM and a 9600 bit/s modem.
So, does it clutter up my inbox when I use it? Or does it delete the messages on arrival? Or does it file them in a special IMAP folder?

This was also apparently asked the last time this was posted to HN and still isn't answered in their FAQ :(
People say this, and it certainly seems true on it's face --but software change is still without a doubt one of the most expensive parts of software development, and in fact we engineers spend a lot of time trying to learn how to design software to support change and how to make changes reliably.

To bring it back to the OP, redis is notable for being developed _very carefully and slowly and intentionally_, compared to much software. You won't get a feature in as quickly as you might want, but redis is comparatively rock-solid and backwards-compatibility-reliable software. These things are related. It takes time and effort and skill to make software that can change in backwards compat and reliable ways, takes lots of concern for writing it carefully in the first place.

Change of software is _not_ in fact easy. It might be easier than a bridge. But of course people just _don't change_ bridges, generally. We understand much better how to make requirements for a bridge that won't need to be changed for decades. Software might be easier to change than a bridge, but dealing with change is nonetheless without a doubt the most expensive and hardest part of producing software that will be used over a long term, and quality software is not cheap. And we haven't learned (and some think it may not be feasible ever) to make software that can last as a long as a bridge without changes.
This is offtopic, but do neutrons and protons have a similar dual wave / particle nature like photons do? What about quarks and all the sub-particles?
It's not the UK, but...

"It's crazy that I live in Canada, but now I'm looking at having to sell my house for coverage of my medication."

"Then I found out that this other country — which I thought had a healthcare system that was so superior to the U.S. — doesn't test for the tumour marker that saved my life, and doesn't cover this drug that is responsible for pushing my cancer into remission after traditional chemotherapy failed to do that."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/a-tale-of-2-...