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>Pagers are still used in some industries...

I never said that they weren't, yeah?

I suggested it being a difficult alternative because of the wide-spread use of cell phones. For example, in my country, the national paging system was taken down in August of 2011; so, there's no consumer paging services. B2B (which hospitals would be inclusive of) still exist, to be sure, but that means nothing in the overall scheme of a consumer trying to not buy a cell phone.
Interesting logical jump from "medical facilities overcharge" to "we desperately need single-payer healthcare in this country."

Single payer is certainly one possible solution, but it's not the only feasible solution, despite conclusions that availability bias might lead us to.

I'm curious: what was the final price after insurance negotiated on your behalf?
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Other people in this thread have already posted links to The Toxoplasma Of Rage by Slate Star Codex and This Video Will Make You Angry by CGP Grey, so I’ll just complete the set with You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you by The Oatmeal:

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
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No virtual machine, but maybe you‘re thinking about https://nim-lang.org ?
Some genius HN person reading this please port ZFS!
He is probably shitting in the street. Not good.
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Asking nicely goes a long way, and when it relates personal info I don't see why they wouldn't.
My feed is primarily ski videos, sports highlights, and memes. Facebook even explains exactly why this is happening with a message above each post saying I'm seeing this because it's "Similar to Posts You've Interacted With."

If you don't want to see Fox News articles, unfollow Fox News or stop interacting with them.
The images are high res, but you have to download them to view the larger image.
I can't think of anywhere in 'the North' where this is anything other than a random event.

Ironically, in 'the South' I believe a lot of card machines in cabs have a habit of being broken unless you're adamant that you don't have cash on you?
You need single payer because you can overcharge anyone who can't negotiate lower rates (i.e. individuals who's personal business with the healthcare system doesn't have much if any effect on it).

Compare that to a state bargaining on behalf of 10+ million customers.
“Angry” is the new “Dark”.
That's interesting, I consider myself more or less conservative, but really enjoy basic sciences/fields like physics, math, philosophy etc
From anthropological research people in subsistence farming societies do not tend to accumulate. If there is surplus (which is mainly crops) it is put towards accumulating social capital (fiesta, wedding, social gathering, gifts to neighbors and family). The safety network is not accumulated capital but social relations (social capital).

In urban societies relations become more money based and suddenly people tend to accumulate wealth and there is never enough.
> Second, every state covers at least parents, children, and pregnant women under Medicaid (the author of the article would be covered in any state)

I'm unaware of a nation-wide program that covers parents under Medicaid at either 100% or 138% of the FPL.

The numbers I can find paint a different picture, for example, parents in Alabama are only eligible if they make below 13% of the FPL[1].

If you have another source, I'm genuinely interested in it.

[1] https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/program-information/medica...
React itself can easily be used as a drop-in much like jQuery, but then you will be using plain Javascript syntax, which is a bit less readable than JSX.

If you're planning to use JSX, you'll need a JSX transpiler and before you know it you're down the Webpack/Babel rabbithole and you get a node_modules folder containing a zillion packages written by a thousand people, of which - statistically speaking - at least a handful will be clinically insane.

But yeah, in principle you can do it (and I have done it).
It's a continuum.

Some people rely on the 'free' resources more than others. The real question is where is the cutoff percentage at. Say someone got 95% of what they know only from free resources and passed boards swimmingly. That sure don't look good on the med-school.

Say 95% of the entire class got 95% of the learning through Youtube/Anki and 95% of them passed boards. At such a percentage, med-school is all but useless to the general public that they serve. May as well get rid of them.

Granted, I don't think it's anywhere near that kind of level of dereliction that the med-schools are at (Cadaver Lab is an obvious counterpoint). But, where is the cut-off point for the schools and society? It's not 5% of the material being learned outside of them, that's fine I think. But if 95% is 'learned' outside the lectures, then yeah, that's a real bad sign.

It's a complicated question and the answer will likely be more complex and will evolve from class to class and year to year.
This is like the couple's version of "I have nothing to hide so why shouldn't the government spy on every little part of my life.".

It's fine to have a joint account that you pool part of your income into. But there is no reason not to have a private account as well. And trusting someone doesn't mean having to completely expose everything to them. Just because I trust someone, I won't let them snoop through my phone, hand out all my passwords, or give them 100% access to my bank account.

Trust also means to trust someone enough to let them do their own thing.
A for Amazon is well-known for its terrible work env for the employees.
That's how the internet works ... and Apple is hosting the app only. It doesn't deal with the streaming
Good call! I just added an image showing 2 curves and their similarity scores to the readme.
> The question is, what alternatives currently available would do any better on the whole, for what you need?

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

(only for preorder, but the devkit already exists and looks fine)
You're right, I should not be so quickly dismissive. More knowledge is always good either way.
A lot more than just security-- albeit that is one of the primary focuses of OpenBSD, encompassing everything from researching new mitigations to secure coding practices.

https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html

If it helps to put things into perspective, NetBSD is closest relative to OpenBSD, the latter having forked over 23 years ago. The last time FreeBSD and OpenBSD shared the same tree was at Berkeley. In fact, NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD independently merged the final release from Berkeley, 4.4BSD-Lite2 in 1995.

Linux users generally don't understand what it means for each major BSD being fundamentally distinct operating systems, including separately developed kernels, drivers, userland utilities, with their own developer/user communities.
Because we're seekers of truth, not partisan sophists?

Edit to clarify: I want to know the truth, so the burden of proof is always on me. If someone doesn't have the time or energy to make a full argument, I still appreciate their input. I will try to learn from it if I can. I don't want to silence people who can't write a book on a given topic.
I mean (forgive my heresy) using kvm(-the-hypervisor) under GNU/Linux to run guest OpenBSD. That is at least a very fast way to get started, spin up €2 instance somewhere, qemu -cdrom openbsd.iso and that's it.
as a final bonus, about halfway through those slides about DTNs, there is a map showing an NSA "mobile wireless testbed."

you HN nerds outta recognize that map. look familiar? see the Lat/Long coords at the bottom. it's the Richmond district in SF. you'd think NSA would be careful to not use US locations as the examples in its surveillance programs, since NSA is not chartered for domestic spying. but you'd be wrong.

'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.
>Funny how the author thinks colored vinyls existed then

I'm confused, they did exist and there were shellac/78rpms which were red prior to that. The color was used to denote the genre.
I recently used jQuery to parse an XML file. Easier than vanilla JS
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Any idea what's a better system then? Over 80% is guaranteed? After the first attempt your chance of success doubles?

For example, you'd want it to be pretty much guaranteed a trooper can beat an alien at close quarters with a chain gun and an archer can't beat a helicopter. You want some degree of randomness but you want the rules to be easily understood as well.
You are wrong. There are no experts in agi because it doesn’t exist. My email is in my bio, please contact me if you want me to guide you through the whole thing and show that you’re wrong. It’s very tiring to repeat myself in comments all the time.

Your links boil down to “Hinton says agi is far away” which first of all isn’t even a refutation of what I’m saying really and second he’s a ML person. He’s not an agi person. He’s never built an agi. He doesn’t know.
> Why doesn't the community come together behind the few, really good, libraries but instead almost everyone goes out and does his own thing, the end result being an ocean of crap.

This is the Lisp Curse:

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html#mai...
Not only can they charge what they want, it's also almost impossible to compare prices or find out what something costs in advance. With no competition, medical providers may charge what they wish.
A cashless society would be a wet dream come true for intelligence agencies, Facebook/Google and other mass surveillance proponents or beneficiaries.
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And they don't charge for distribution per se but their cut more than makes up for it.
> I am from New Zealand. This was a terrible tragedy, and the appropriate response to this horrible video is to not watch, and not share. It's not only glorifying an awful act, but it's potentially traumatic.

The correct response is for the government to treat domestic terrorists, and preachers of hate the same way that they treat foreign ones.

Anwar Al-Awlaki, and his son were the targets of a US drone strikes for the same thing - radicalizing speech, and inciting terrorist attacks. Yet, here we have an entire ecosystem of alt-right radicalization, inciting terrorist attacks, and the government doesn't lift a single finger to deal with it.
Any other system is going to be written by lobbyist relying on complexity for cover.

If consumers had as much political strength on capitol hill as the medical industry, another system could be worked out. But they don't. The window was closed on that option with Citizens United.
Yes, but your popularity doesn't affect your experience of buying bread or your ability to reach a destination. In Mali you may get more expensive and shittier products for being disliked. You may have a hard time finding a good guide to accompany you somewhere.

You life literally depends on what others think about you.

It still true for us, but an order of magnitude less after high school.
Cf. the insurance company negotiating on the above poster's behalf, and my curiosity about the result of those negotiations.
> The next stage I'm thinking about is moving over to TypeScript for more productivity and safer development.

Check this out if you haven't already:

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Type-Checking-J...

Even if without any annotations, type inferencing can catch some bugs for you.
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Looked up, thanks. Seems you can't grant or revoke that permission. I don't understand why having it at all if you cannot change it.
Ah, so then that's what this boils down to? The high cost of health care is a symptom of capitalism run a muck? We're being charged these exorbitant rates simply because they can get away with it? If only we had a single payer that was able to negotiate, these costs would evaporate over night? Not sure it's that simple...

Although, in a way it does kind of make sense. Unlike consumer goods (television, cars, etc.), one's health is something they're likely willing to break-the-bank for. So without any kind of restraint, I could see costs getting out of control. The hospital is focused on making as much money as they can, and the consumer is focused on preserving their health. If one doesn't have their health after all, what do they have?

Add an ever increasing demand (baby boomers are aging rapidly) and suddenly, things begin to look much worse for the demand side of the equation.
>>Don't fall for the 'yes, but countries that have cheap healthcare pay for it with taxes'. The US pays more than most from taxes[0].

Americans don't actually have an objection to paying more for healthcare.

What they do have an objection to is paying for other people's healthcare.

America is a deeply individualistic society, and the idea of one's tax dollars being spent to benefit others lies at the root of most people's objections to single-payer, or anything else that smells like "socialism".
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You trust each other to list what common items they've bought.

We have separate bank accounts and credit cards and we split the bills most things, like groceries. But we don't look into what personal purchases we make, for example me buying Lego.

It's pretty easy to decide if we should pay together or not. At least for us.
I think the final amount I had to pay was around $1,150.
tracking the sources of income for an individual, without exception, is also part of this story
I think that one of the under-rated aspects of having classmates is finding out how little they understand. From the professor it's easy to get an idea of what the perfect student would know, in week 5, but it's much more helpful to have some realistic benchmarks.

Besides, of course, getting to bounce ideas off each other, etc.
There is something more direct. When Bush signed the prescription drug add on for Medicare, it was made illegal for Medicare to negotiate rates - even though the VA can.
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> does HN have any advice for advocating for making the switch?

Maybe not precisely that, but https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/university.html
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It actually works in some cases, when they have an actual person to answer and it's more reactive than just popping in your face 2s after opening the website
That’s a pretty low blow. Regardless of how much it personally troubles one person or another, the logic of what I say is sound while that of your comment is not. If you want to discuss it further then please contact me via my bio. If I could get you on the phone it would hugely expedite the process of explaining it to you.
You’ll have closed black box plumbing systems which are meant to fix themselves, but in fact constantly fail. Then you’ll have a cadre of rogue plumbers, who will fix the problems illegally and off the books. These plumbers will all look like Robert De Niro:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)
Floors in F1 have been flat for a while with the exception of the FIA mandated plank down the middle.

The rear diffuser is sometimes blocked from cameras when the car is parked. For example 2009 with the double diffuser.
Every functional society regulates who can be a doctor and who can produce medical goods and services, that really isn’t a problem. It can probably be helpful to try and look for differences between countries as opposed to just going for a libertarian end-run. Problems with the US system are an out-of-control pricing structure due to fragmentation of bargaining power, insane patenting laws which allow evergreening strategies, ideological opposition to functional and prove reforms, and good old fashioned cronyism.

The need to regulate the healthcare space is unavoidable, but simply bending over in the name of a free market that isn’t free is quite avoidable. The nature of for example, pharmaceuticals as a natural monopoly is acknowledged and confronted in those countries which offer OTC or generic options where the US doesn’t. The need for a strong bargaining position to negotiate pricing has been consistently undermined in the US.
In the book study mentioned at the beginning of the article, how is causality proven such that politics guides scientific interest and not the other way around? Isn't it a more natural conclusion that your politics is formed by the media you consume?
Well. A for profit entity can hardly be regarded as bargaining on your behalf. They are bargaining on behalf of their revenue. The difference between what they negotiate and what they charge you is their entire business.
(American from New York state and currently in NYC.)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the general-purpose definition of "poor" in English is used when discussing things from a life perspective -- economic background, current salary, job prospects, ability to go to college, etc.

When the context is how much money is in your bank account right now (e.g. to shop or take a trip), the general word is "broke" or just "I don't have enough money." And to be honest, "broke" seems outdated and rarely used these days, since it's usually fairly easy to have a credit card or ability to overdraft... so it's often more about your financial discipline than ability. I hear a lot more "I'm already over budget for the month" or just "I can't spend anything until next week" or "no money" than "I'm broke".

That being said, I've definitely heard "poor" used as a synonym for "broke", I'm pretty sure in the UK... but it does strike me as a regionalism.
* I've rarely been asked about my GPA either, which is good because I sucked. On the other hand, A good GPA would have made some things I wanted to do easier.

* Most technical questions are basic because most "technical" jobs are very basic. However, there are people out there building operating systems kernels, secured software, and life-critical systems; I'm reasonably assured that you would have to demonstrate more than competence with a hash map.

* I too have never been asked to write a proof. But, thanks to my education, the techniques needed to write a proof are rather ingrained with how I understand writing code.

* I, too, ask people where they went to college, because if they went to the U. of Washington or Carnegie Mellon or someplace like that, I can't assume they'll know Kantian ethics but I can assume they'll have learned something; I can't make that assumption if they went to the U. of Phoenix, ITT Tech, or EPRI.

* Positions at the level of director do seem to be assigned by luck/politics/privilege. Positions at the level of internal medicine specialist, structural engineer, and the like tend not to be.
Wouldn't that be visible?
Something that isn't easily learned in the wild is precision in communications. For example the few interviews I've had, each time they asked me to implement a solution to some problem, then continue to refine the solution to be more efficient while talking through my solution(s). At any moment when I mentioned some jargon like 'invariant' or 'accumulator' they would ask me to precisely define it, something which for me would be difficult to do without some academic background, just because I would be likely to give a weak definition or inaccurate methaphor and be corrected as the interviewers I had all had degrees and it showed, they were very precise with their communications. The more courses I complete, the more I realize how imprecise I (still) communicate. I learned later after being hired what they wanted was somebody who would not bluff their way through meetings, and had the ability to precisely explain solutions or have the ability to admit 'I'm not sure' since these outfits handled a lot of money and apparently, there are a lot of bluffers around in that industry that sink companies.

".. and here is a boolean condition that is true immediately before every evaluation of the loop guard, and due to preservation..."

"Stop there and define preservation for us". "Stop there and define what an undecidable problem is".

If you want a crash course in various undergrad theoretical compsci topics to help refine your communications like how to state something is true and then justify it, there is this good YouTube playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm3J0oaFux3aafQm568bl...
You just need more competition and regulations to make prices public and stated before the procedure.
I live in a country with single payer healthcare. It sucks tremendously. Instead of paying there is waiting, sometimes for long months for absolutely crucial procedures.
Fortunately I also live in a country with reasonable regulations and sizeable private healthcare facilities. I pay reasonable prices (which means often 5x-20x less than in US) if I need treatment and I can get it in timely manner.

It's not single payer that makes our system better. It's competition and reasonable regulation that makes it possible to have cheap services available.
I suspect this trick is already harder to pull off at a university in a big city, compared to one in a little college town.
What he think was going to happen when he sold to a company that made its money by advertising based on user’s personal information?

He’s either naive or disingenuous.
> these things seem not to apply to Google?

So first show that Google spies, then show that spying is harmful, then show that Google's spying has done specific harms? You sure have high standards.

Now could you explain how the risks and dangers of surveillance don't apply to the surveillance done by Google? Are they somehow immune to government warrants? Are you privy to all of their business decisions, to know that they never abused their vast access to data to enrich themselves at the expense of others? Should we keep handing over all our data to them, and just hope that they'll stay benevolent indefinitely?

It looks to me like you don't want to understand.
It is true that their are gaps between the truly poor/broke that qualify for medicaid and those (like your friend apparently) who have some money but do not purchase private health insurance. This is, indeed, a problem.

It's worth noting that these gaps closed significantly with the passage of the ACA (ObamaCare).
This is one of the reasons I keep my speakers muted by default. Poorly behaved websites and software will be poorly behaved regardless of your wishes. Having your speakers off prevents in-page scripts and ads from annoying you. If you can't keep your computer/speakers muted, then you can still mute the browser itself, at least on desktop.
Never is a pretty strong word.

You're asserting that robots will never reach human level performance for everyday tasks?
> Not sure it's that simple...

There aren't that many countries that pay as much as the us from public funds (two, see my previous link) or out of pocket (none).

The problem is localized to the US.
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It's interesting you say that, I've heard that line of argument before but it is quite puzzling.

Are you suggesting that a person on Low income in the US doesn't object to paying more than they have for their own healthcare (i.e. that they wouldn't like that healthcare to be cheaper)

That seems a bit counter-intuitive, as usually people don't like being bankrupt.
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Fictional machine generating poems, and real people who had to translate them
Because selling loot boxes and other in app consumables is so much more ethical....