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>Hospitals don't want you to visit more often. At least not in any healthy society

"Healthy" society is a weasel word here though: a qualifier that turns this into a "no true scotsman".

In this one, and most real societies, hospitals do want people to visit more often. Their incentives are geared towards that.

And not just "visit more often" -- hospitals (well, hospital execs, doctors, etc) want (and do) all kinds of things detrimental to society:

- to charge more for healthcare

- to add hidden charges

- to perform unneeded operations and treatments to make profit (even if the patient not only doesn't need them, but can be in danger from them)

- to prescribe drugs that the drug companies wine and dine them to promote, whether they're needed or not

And whole more besides.

E.g.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unnecessary-tests...

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/18/unneces...

http://discovermagazine.com/2018/apr/doctors-wined-and-dined

https://theconversation.com/whos-paying-for-lunch-heres-exac...
Lol, if it makes them feel good then why deny them the pleasure
...by someone with a mental illness.
Couldn't the residents paint the houses more boring colors, reducing demand to visit the street?
Only during campaigns.

This sword cuts both ways. The Remain campaign completely blew the legally mandated spending limits for campaigning in a single mailshot to every home in Britain, let alone things like unbilled time of the civil service. They spent far, far more money than the Leave campaign did.

This, we are told, is OK, because the spending happened a few weeks before the official campaigning period began, and thus the usual rules about political advertising did not apply.

Well, if these rules being applied to the letter can let the Remain campaigners flout the spirit of the spending rules (which is fine by me - that's the point of written rules) then for sure, this campaign also doesn't have to follow any of those rules, as it's outside the election / referendum controlled periods.
Implied by context: German media.
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It is funny to read that comment. It reminds me of that time Dennis Rodman tweeted out for the Kim Jong Un to "do me a solid" and release an American prisoner.

But then didn't the prisoner get released?
my favourite example of this is;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-45146681

rock stacking, used in the mountains to mark a safe path, and used by idiots to be ~hip~ on IG.

it causes a real stress on local resources and causes aggravated erosion.

i have travelled alot, but dear god i hate the american/western style of doing it.
People typically have fewer kids as their society develops. Average age in the developed world is almost double of places like Africa. There is some evidence that slowing or decline in population is a reasonable expectation.

Also, from Wikipedia:

Low estimates suggest a decline

Moderate estimates suggest a plateau

High estimates suggest constant increase

Time will tell, and estimates suggest that the earth can comfortably support ~10bn

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I don't think housing prices have much to do with population increase, but more to do with urbanization (as well as increasing wage gaps).

People are flocking to existing cities, and the more center you are the higher prices are.

This pushes people to the outskirts, which become more urbanized, which spreads urbanization through the same cycle.
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Is this speculation or is there a source for his thinking behind this? It's very unlike a good portion of his investments.
Yes, but we are not talking about the mixing/mastering sample rate, but the distribution sample rate/resolution.

High resolution is absolutely important in some mixing scenarios to prevent pre-ringing and aliasing in the effects chain (distortion effects or otherwise). But once you have your hi-res master, there is zero advantage to distribute it that way. At that point, a 48Khz/16-bit FLAC is as good as it gets.
While your post is informative and I agree with it I can't see an argument that showcases why Oracle would not have the same exact jumpin the next few years like Microsoft and Adobe had.
Defense contractors, construction occasionally. It's pretty nuts. The east span of the bay bridge was something like 5x the original cost estimate. I think some of this ends up being because of the same reasons that home general contractors end up charging far more than the estimate: modifications cost extra. "Oh you wanted this feature? It wasn't in the contract, we can do it but that'll be $X. Oh you need to include this other system? That's out of scope but for $Y we can solve it." Million here, a million there and pretty soon you're talking real money ;)

https://www.wnyc.org/story/316201-brief-history-64-billion-b...
Do they have any data/experiments to support this elegant-sounding theory?
That initial animation induced motion sickness for me and very rarely get motion sickness from video games, VR, movies, driving, flying, etc.
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I have been offered a role as a developer in a UK based, privately owned company. It's a fairly big company with ~2k employees. I will be working from their Indian location. Is there any website which could help me understand more about the company, other than glassdoor, their official website? I am looking for how healthy is their position is in the market, general outlook about how the company is doing etc
Please consult public health experts before making any decision like this. I have a feeling that suicide rates in the US northern states might go up if they stay on a permanent DST.
Parent is talking on a profit-per-patient driven environment. Now where (e.g. due to welfare) a patient is a cost.

Hence the other arguments he made, about gas stations want you to burn more fuel, etc.

It's about how for-profit incentives of companies can be detrimental to society.
but is this really a surprise to anyone?

Please don't do this.
I don't see this as an incentive specific to FOSS. Most customers of any software tend to demand increasingly complex featuresets as time goes on.
about 1/3rd of sprints network is now Samsung hardware - its very well made, and the software is pretty good too.
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Bought a new laptop and am going to do a simple experiment - if I can manage to stay on Windows and not install linux on it. Towards that end am going to try using Visual Studio for my C++ coding needs. (I am aware of VS Code and even use it occasionally but would like to try Visual Studio here). What settings do people change out of the box? Any plugins / power features that you think are great?
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Reading this gave me a mild panic attack. That just seems mad. I'm very glad there are people who are not affected by or have overcome fears to go and do these things though :)
Must be something weird with your browser configuration. My phone doesn't break a sweat at 60fps.
So where do you store these files that you'll never lose access?

CDs? People with a room full of 8 tracks or cassettes would like to have a word.

HDDs? Those fail all the time, plus any sort of natural disaster could wipe out your collection.

Online backup? This seems like the only real option, but for me the risk/reward just doesn't fit.

At least for now, the record companies and the service providers are both incentivized to have as much of their catalogs as possible on streaming services. Until that changes, streaming works for many.
> Autistic burnout is partially a result of pretending to be "normal" around other people (those who don't understand and judge autistic behaviour like stimming). "Normal" people can also experience this burnout if they're also pretending to be someone they are not (day in, day out).

Wait, so autistic burnout is just regular burnout, but from general social interactions? I get that we're all on this autistic spectrum[0], but I think we all just get burnt out from time to time when dealing with jerks and other people in general. Is it just that autistic people get more tired from the standard social guessing game? If this is a spectrum, then where is the cut-off? Is it all self-diagnosis then?

Also, what is stimming?

Sorry for all the questions. Feel free to answer any/none of them. Thanks for the answers thus far!

[0] Also, how is the spectrum any different than just the normal range of being a human? It sounds like we've just got a new word for another normally distributed human thing, like height or hearing ranges.
Why would you do that? Do you hate privacy?

Moreover why do you think it'd matter. What would you do with that name? You can find people saying "Chuck Chequers" all over the place, including senior politicians in op-eds in national newspapers. It's hardly an extreme opinion, it's the opinion held by large chunks of the country already.

Whoever paid for it has nothing to hide, but they also have no reason to expose themselves to retaliation by the wildly over the top hatred and backstabbing that has been seen by EU supporters in the past couple of years.
The Reddit app I use interprets it as a spoiler tag and obscured the titles of all posts about this
> more hours than what was required to have the store functioning properly

Most likely, yes. Beyond the minimum amount of work needed to keep the store functioning there are other tasks which offer some benefit, but not enough to justify the increased wages they would be paying employees to perform those tasks. Which is unfortunate for those employees who preferred longer hours and more total revenue over a higher hourly rate...
We were attempting something similar last year but with ML (training from error messages to patchfiles to fix the given bug) but found it didn't scale well beyond simple scripts. This is very interesting though. There's a large potential market for this with continuous integration platforms.
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Whatever the proper word is, Lyft and Uber (and the others) are affirmative action for bad drivers.
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I could help explain it for him.

Take something like RAC.

Call it "Cloud On-premises."

Viola! Cloud sales are up.
I don’t like paywalls, but in what way are they evil? To be specific, a paywall in front of privately funded content is annoying but fair. Elsevier-style paywalls are another matter.
Seems to work with the latest Firefox, but I experienced this as well. I got the redirects to stop by clicking on the lock symbol in the address bar and disabling Firefox's content blocking mechanism for Behance.
I agree it _sounds_ like an armchair critic, but I prefer to give the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they had a bad experience involving Lisp?

The actively hostile to collaborative programming seems particularly misguided. Even an extreme case like the code from hu.dwim, which is written in practically a new language they built on top of CL and has barely any documentation is still fairly easy to understand.
Built-in testing would be fantastic. Being able to tell if you designed a model wrong or just made an error setting up the code would reduce frustration a ton!
It's not only ads, every AB test you run needs tracking user data
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> The nightmare scenario for a financial institution is someone getting a mortgage, paying it off early, and not getting another mortgage.

This is only true provided that the mortgage rate for this person is below or at the federal funds rate, right? Given how low it is, even in the nightmare scenario they're making good money.
This is a really cool idea...
Not overly complicated or anything, really clean display.

Honestly, I was a little skeptical about it having any real utility (I'm sorry).. but as it turns out, I could see how it'd be helpful right away.

Just a couple of really honest and transparent posts right up top... You can see how that would be reassuring against any sort of insecurity that one might feel about their own emotions/thoughts. Nice concept.
Exactly if it’s mastered wrong the nitrate has nothing to do with the issue this music would sound just as awful cut to vinyl from a bad master. Now you just can’t hear beyond 22050 so 192 is insanely wasteful. But poor mastering is absolutely the core issue not encoding algorithms
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There was an article on HN yesterday that quoted about the SF Bay tunnel where the original bid was a fraction of the final cost and the legislators basically said, people wouldn't vote for it if they knew the 'real' cost. Of course schedule slips and overtime are abused.
The problem is that natural investment opportunities with a given risk profile are a limited resource.

A healthy economy would make investors compete over those investment opportunities. If a lot of investors want to put their money into residential single-family mortgage loans, and only N families seek to borrow with that type of loan per year, the investors would have to offer lower interest rates for every level of default risk. This limits the amount of money the investors can make by lending, so some go off to look at different types of investment. The rate of return naturally sorts itself out such that it increases with increasing risk.

When rates of return are low, entrepreneurs generate more investment opportunities at all levels of risk. But housing starts and transfers are more closely associated with employment opportunities, which tend to trail new business starts. People don't buy houses unless they have jobs that pay enough to buy houses, and they don't have better jobs unless businesses are expanding and labor is getting more scarce.

What seems to be happening is that middlemen are assembling artificial investment opportunities with a falsified risk profile, in order to capture investment dollars that would otherwise leave to find other opportunities with a better return/risk ratio. Some of those investments would have eventually sloshed back into mortgages, filtered through new employees or promoted employees, to replenish the pool of available investment opportunities. So the risk fraud is self reinforcing; the more it happens, the more it has to happen in order to maintain the status quo.

If the financial institutions are completely serving the mortgage market, that excess money has to go into other investments, or it loses its value. They won't be mortgage investments, but there are only so many of those around to pick up. The "nightmare scenario" is "OMG! We need to find another parking spot for our colossal pile of money! And the available ones are SOOOO FAR--like 50m away!"
> I check every time some tech outlet posts the usual, dumb, silly FB post about how presumably FB leaks or ingests your data...and they're always leaking your data to FB, among other, far sketchier players.

Newflash: the developers that make technology choices for the website and the journalists writing the articles for it are in entirely different organizations. It's usually dysfunctional when business users have the power to dictate technology choices to the tech team.
I feel the same, and I just don't understand it. Even my wife just doesn't care, even though she understands what Facebook are doing.
Have you tried changing timezone?
Two hours forward and it becomes 12-6 which is kinda normal.
Or maybe it's a neat, built-in, self-destruct sequence for the law. i.e. The law is only valid if we're confident it's his signature. As soon as digital signatures are proven insecure, we can no longer be certain the act was signed, therefore it's not law.

Probably not the case, and just a PR gimmick, but still. I like to dream. :)
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The real per capita income in my area is $60k, up 1.6% from 10 years earlier. Inflation is about 1.6% per year
I would also add that they don't properly understand why privacy is important and how its being violated.
Also Leonardo (Agusta-Westland) -https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/20...
I was agreeing that shared rentals are fine. Well, they can have problems too but people mostly manage. As you say shared mortgages seem very risky in general.
we don't know what it is, we don't know why it is. All we know is that it's there and may have an end. So enjoy the present, forget the past, and live each second as if it was the last.
Do you know what frequency is typically for the resampling? Anything like 192kHz?
Buffet used to be very averse to investing in technology companies because of that very reason. He has evidently educated himself since he is very heavy into both IBM and Apple, less so into Red Hat and Sirius. His investment into Oracle and subsequent dumping is very unique in the annals of BH since his other tenet has always been to buy something and then hold on to it. To sell such a large investment so quickly screams that he found something he was very uncomfortable with in Oracle.
From the front of the book, in a big red box:

> This textbook contains information on specialized rescue techniques
> and is intended for use as a part of a training course involving closely
> supervised field training with qualified instructors. A person cannot
> become proficient in technical rope rescue by simply reading this
> handbook. Every rescue situation is unique, requiring size-up and
> decision-making skills gained through personal experience.

It's a textbook, and confusingly is called both a textbook and handbook. I suppose it's probably worth tossing in your gear bag before going out on a rescue, which would make it also a "handbook".

BTW this is a great example of government in action, far far from the cartoonish invective of popular speech.
Seems to be a strange issue with transparent images on certain devices. I've corrected this and also added an optional "bkg" param to set the background color.
> one has to recompile drivers for new kernel versions.

dkms requires compilation, but it happens automatically with kernel upgrade. Read more about its design:

* https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_S...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support

* https://github.com/dell/dkms

So not sure where you saw "frequent complaints", those are likely from people who have no clue what they are talking about.
The study authors, at least, are on the level.

They've done some previous work on catch-up sleep and demonstrated that insulin sensitivity recovers to baseline, though not necessarily fast. Their claim here is that catch-up sleep doesn't seem to offset prior effects (e.g. by overcorrecting) or buffer against new deprivation (that is, you fall off abruptly to where the no-weekend people are). They didn't have anybody do 8 hours, no recovery on weekends, which is a shame, but they also didn't claim anything beyond "recovery sleep doesn't counteract/prevent the damage".

The person who wrote the WP article, on the other hand, has an awful lot to answer for... That garbage title is only the start of the horrible misrepresentation.
>[interviwer] What two industries are the first you should learn when developing your circle of competence?

>[Buffett] Look for simple businesses. If I gave you $10M to invest right now and you only had three weeks to spend it and you could only spend it in Omaha, you’d look for simple, understandable, strong businesses. You look at the Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM). You wouldn’t look at the third best fast food chain. You might look at McDonald’s, because it is number one and will probably always been number one. They have share of mind. What about Oracle? Too hard. GM? Too hard. You can’t predict the future for these two companies. Too many variables.

That was 2009. Looks like he's decided that was still the case.

Also going by the top comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19289583 three days ago:

... "I probably met nearly 100 developers, and when I asked all of them what they use Oracle for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM openly told me that their companies use Oracle right now but they hate it and they were all in the process of transitioning to other providers or open source solutions."...

I'd guess shorting Oracle might be more the thing to do. Typically customer reaction proceeds the financial numbers moving.
Keep in mind, that vast swathes of Earth were uninhabitable even before global warming was even a concept.

To illustrate this - look at Egypt and the earliest civilizations. The only place where life existed permanently was in a narrow band alongside a river. Life will still exist after a 4C warming, but in much narrower bands than it currently does.

The global population of people will be reduced probably by a factor of 10, eventually, settling on a sustainable level of around maybe 800-900 million. This, in turn, should reduce the burn rate of unsustainable resources by a lot, letting us coast for another couple of centuries.

The only question is - how violently will we go down from 8 billion to 800 million?

Disclaimer: this is all wild speculation and my personal opinion.
Thanks Rushabh - do check out our articles tab, which has a lot more information (www.thejuggernaut.com/articles). Say more about what you mean by influential? And tell me more about why you think it should be free?

Recently, the likes of BuzzFeed and HuffPo have all been having layoffs because the ad model has become broken in media. What other business models have you seen that you find interesting?
> the entirety of hi-fi industry would not exist.

An industry which is known to sell an enormous amount of snake oil...
I'd like to keep information about me and my family safe from prying eyes

What have these prying eyes done to them directly? Yes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but realistically, you only truly learn never to touch the stove again until you get burned. If they never get burned, then maybe they are safer than you think.
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Where is the mystery? The answer is completely obvious.

And what makes you think that "these governments ... expect a different result"? Isn't is possible that the governments expect (and welcome) exactly this result?
That's an interesting, but unusual perspective.

It's commonly understood that not all prices change in lock step, but "inflation" is the general or aggregate change in prices, usually based on the change in the purchasing power of money. Choosing to finance or pay cash for a car or a house doesn't change the price of the item, just your cost of acquiring it - it exposes you to expected future inflation, in addition to the current price, because you will be paying back the incurred debt with less-valuable future dollars. The interest you pay also pays for the use of someone else's money for the period of the debt.

Note, too, that inflationary monetary policy is also implemented by creating money in other ways, like a printing press, and inflation can also be caused by supply/demand shocks, like changes in supply/demand of fundamental commodities, like oil.
I left a comment on the article asking for a "safe overestimate". Should at least be able to say it will be under $N.
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Actually, no, it might sound better cut to vinyl. Remember, vinyl doesn't have the frequency range or dynamic range that digital audio does, and it has to be mastered using the RIAA Curve because of the properties of the medium. One factor here is that the stereo separation on vinyl can't be too large, or else the needle will literally jump out of the groove! In short, you can't just take CD music (no matter how well or poorly mastered) and cut it to vinyl as-is.