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I’m struggling to see how your argument isn’t that people are born criminals.

If you pay people to commit crime, you get more crime. That’s irrespective of any bizarre immunity you personally think you have to the incentives.

Imagine being poor and having a child. You are such a law-abiding fellow that you are going to watch your child struggle every day and maybe go hungry some nights when you could do one simple crime to end that struggle forever and whose only negative consequence is having a black mark on an abstract “criminal record”? And you’re going to do this despite massive pressure from family, culture, any woman in your life, and the normalization of such actions?

I think I could make a strong argument that in the case being discussed not committing a crime is at best foolish and at worst deeply immoral.
I use SOFORT or Giropay where available, it cuts out the middleman between bank and merchant. I also prefer Stripe or my prepaid Credit Card over Paypal. Basically Paypal is my absolute last resort to payment if nothing else works.
I think it's easy to predict that Garuda is just trying to create some leverage to negotiate a discount with Boeing, and they will just re-affirm their order quietly in a few weeks or months. I expect more airlines doing the same. Boeing marketing and sales is probably working overtime to make sure most of this stays out of the news.
You referenced an article that blamed the crash on the fact that the control sticks weren't linked.
My point is that not that remembering things is hard, it's that it feels like a hack. Developers gravitate to solutions that feel elegant.
This is wrong.

What they're measuring isn't the number of websites that use a particular technology, but the number of websites that report they're using a technology. In the case of PHP that means expose_php is set to true in the ini file, and Apache is configured so use "ServerSignature On". Those are the defaults, and they're arguably bad defaults because gathering information about a target is Hacking 101. You definitely shouldn't be giving away version numbers unless you're really good at patching stuff on day 1.

What this survey means is that PHP gives away data about your web apps internal structure. Most other web technologies don't do this. The defaults are more sane. They're not adding x-headers to every request about what versions of which technologies the server is running.

If you dig a bit you'll see this line in the source data: "PHP is used by 79% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know." (https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_langua... under "How to read this diagram")

tl;dr PHP server admin need to get better at security.
I don't know enough about american prison system to have an informed opinion. My argument was about the principle and objectives I (or, generally speaking, a fiscal conservative) base my opinions on, not prisons in particular.
Or maybe emergency services got that much better
Webkit is pretty portable.
In Australia you buy em over the counter, no doctor required. So $0 for doctor and they cost $10 (~$7 USD).

Prescription requirements for ordinary inhalers is a time-wasting money-making scam run by doctors.
I love kotlin too, I forgot about Java to something simpler... With graalvm will compete with other runtime platforms in terms of speed and sizing
Oh hey, a fellow Weaver. Sorta.

Back then, I was Artanin and the drama is why I gave up the mud. I did put the Weave files I have on github, tho.
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> It costs £0 to see the doctor

Kind off, people do pay national insurance, also a part of the overall tax goes into the NHS as well.
I'd say your grasp of how taxes work is not great if you think you paid 500EUR for your use of healthcare that month.
It is a little bit more complicated:
The budget of the "gesetzliche Krankenkasse" is set by the gouvernment. So yes, it is not owned by the state, but in reality it is completely controlled by the state. There are, however, private insurance companies in germany which are free to do what they want. Everybody under a certain salary limit has to be insured by the "gesetzliche" and only if they earn more than a certain amount they can leave it and have a private insurance or none at all. There are many discussions whether this system should be changed to a state onwed only system, because it would be more efficient.

http://www.spiegel.de/thema/gesundheitsreform_deutschland/
>So the pilot knows what's happening and take corrective action

Except that now we have a plane that behaves differently compared to the plane the pilot actually is trained for (the whole reason to implement MCAS in the first place). So now the plane comes down because it stalls where it should not according to the training of the pilot. Gee, makes me confident to fly...
That'd be an interesting move, and perhaps a plausible one since the maintenance/training/spares providers all being based in China isn't such a big deal for an Indonesian company

(though the issue here appears to have been Boeing didn't recycle enough of the previous generation 737...)
"It costs £0 to see the doctor" yeah just like in France, but it certainly doesn't cost 0€. You're paying taxes to get "free" services
As a rule, people are pirating the most valuable art, not the best. This is an important distinction, because by conflating them, you are buying into the industry's point that the most expensive art is the best -- and as the monopoly cartel controls the price, that becomes self-fulfilling.
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The idea was that you can talk with a professional pharmacist, help you set dosage, etc.

Sometimes doctors write a recipe that has to be mixed, and so the pharmacist can do that.

Of course since pharmacies are also for profit shops, this aforementioned role is less and less important, and there's a pretty constant push to make the publicly available (so doesn't require prescription from a doctor) drugs free to sell at any other shop. (Eg. 0-24 petrol stations.) Eventually that push will go through.
We had been using different providers but sticked with Paddle. It's not more expensive if you think about benefits you get.

1) We started with Braintree. We had to implement their SDK, and then we were charging PayPal and Credit Cards. Each transaction had to be accounted by us, we had to specify how much VAT. In Europe it's tricky because you have to charge VAT-MOSS based on which country customer is from (eg. 20% for UK, 23% for Poland). So accounting was a nightmare.
2) Then we switched to Stripe (new sdk to implement) and PayPal separatelly (another integration to support). Same crap as with Braintree. We only switched because Braintree kicked us out. A lot of developer work wasted to support paypal separatelly etc. Even more work for fixing PayPal's constant CSV changes and API changes to integrate with accounting. Then there was still some issue which I had to manually fix in accounting. Again: nightmare.

3) Then comes our saviour Paddle. One SDK to implement (so like implementing only Stripe) but you get all different features, like nationalized prices, one big invoice at the end of the month with VAT calculated by them, abandon baskets recovery etc and much more.

5% but hours saved in productivity and accouning. It was and still is worth it and I don't want to ever switch back.

Thanks to Paddle for keeping my mind sane :)

PS. If anyone is interested we use it at FreeYourMusic.com
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Why don't they just buy it in Germany, then? Shipping can't be 80$?

In fact I just checked, DHL ships a parcel of 2kg from Germany to the USA for 18$, A 5kg parcel is 42$.
I pay a couple thousand a year in medicare levy and I rarely see the doctor and don't use regular medication. Someone is fitting the doctors bill.
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*only in Enlgand.. in Scotland perscriptions are free.. so in what seems like the most obvious thing ever, people are not punished for being ill.

I hope you guys get back free prescriptions and higher education soon, but the way things are going... well, good luck.
they don't have a reason though it functions as protectionism for their native IT industry. They have there own set of large tech companies in googles place. They have their own version of all these apps/webservices ect.
Agreed; the US has a healthcare system with terrible deficiencies for the prices you pay, but preventative measures seem to rarely be discussed when these issues are raised.

If the article meant to be impartial it should also have included the rates of obesity and morbid obesity of germans VS americans, as this is one of the causes for adult-onset diabetes.
"first rule?"
> The way to get the most value out of flawed people is to find the best version of their argument and then argue with that. The person isn't all that relevant.

I disagree. Human beings want to have their views recognized. Dismissing their views because there's a better position they could take is extremely presumptuous and doesn't generally make the conversation constructive. Because the other person will recognize their views aren't being heard, and won't necessarily care whether it's because of a misguided altruistic sense of bettering their argument for them.
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It’s not tax, we pay to a “Krankenkasse” (roughly a not-for-Profit health insurer), so we see exactly what it costs.

The premium is based on your monthly salary.
Oh come on, this is dishonest. Your doctor doesn't work for free. Someone else is paying them if not you. Possibly the inhaler is also subsidized.

When healthcare cost is being discussed, the cost on society should be what's being discussed, not to what extent it's paid for by tax money. Those are two different things and they're only slightly related (in that if healthcare is perceived to be cheaper, people might use it more, which may drive up total cost) (or drive it down through better prevention).
> Americans pay way too much for healthcare.

But they want it that way.

They see us over here in Europe as some kind of "socialism" because our taxes will also go into public healthcare, so you don't have to worry about whether you can pay the bill if you have to see a doctor or go to the hospital.

Call it "ease of mind" or whatever you want, but I prefer paying monthly, although if not using it, over anything else.

edit: As someone pointed out, this might even come out to 0 once you get older and probably get ill more often or need more expensive services. So, it looks unfair when you're young and healthy but it will help you once this changes.
I read quite a lot of Linus emails, and honestly, he was harsh, but he was always constructive.

As a younger developer - what matters to me most is the constructive criticism. I don't want to have it phrased nicer(nor harsher) than needed - i just want it to be down to earth and constructive.
And the doctors are paid less than an average accountant in the UK.
In Norway I think it's ~30 USD per 10ml vial of the brand in the article. But once your yearly medical expenses (any) reach above ~300 USD, you stop paying and the rest is free ("freecard").
Even though ibuprofen is considered a basic medicine, it's still a medicine. Ibuprofen is not totally risk free and therefore needs to be sold by "professionals". Either way, Americans tend to overuse this drug as a pain killer for every little bit of ache they may have, which is dangerous. The first time I took ibuprofen was when I broke my arm with 12-13 for the first day. The next time was with 24 after I got a root canal removed.
> and for the inhaler now is £8.80

Also, if you don't have a job or if you don't earn over a certain amount it won't cost anything at all.
Assuming most are running WordPress, Drupal, etc, hiding the fact that you're running PHP is a bit fruitless. Those platforms are dead simple to identify by the URL paths of components, like /wp-content/whatever and other similar clues.

I do agree that exposing the version isn't a great idea.
Seems a non starter. If your costs are $75K per inmate you'll never make that up in prisoner labor productivity. Even if your costs are half that. And if you do get profitable labor, regular citizens will rightly complain that good paying jobs are being taken by criminals.
It's just called socialism.
The £8.80 prescription cost is not what the NHS pays the pharmaceutical company — it is probably more, although it's also possible that it's less.
I doubt there's much market demand for 1000 quantity bottles of Ibuprofen in Germany. If you need daily pain killers I would expect the insurance to pay for (most of) them.
Drug production does not equal drug development. The later is much more expensive and not guaranteed to go to market.
Insulin in Belgium is 48€, I dare you to find something cheaper in the US than in Belgium.

Good luck
I don’t see a reason the landlord should care about eating with your hands, it doesn’t affect the state of the apartment.
There will always be an activist group which will tell you that forcing people work is inhumane and violates their freedom of expression.
For sure. But the pilots exist for a reason. It sounds like we are making it impossible for them to do their job properly when their intervention is needed.
Removed a stream of 5+ daily "move my unix environment" requests and saved the linux team a lot of interruptions. Basically turned the "VMs mean slow environments" user problem into VMs just work.
I think ultimately this boils down to the "diry hands" problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_hands). As long as the general public isn't equipped to identify an intentionally uncharitable interpretation (and punish bad actors for it), you will find yourself on the losing end of the argument. I do think you should generally interpret opposing arguments charitably, but you should also be able to quickly switch gears if necessary. Otherwise you will be outplayed by your opponents.
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Use some lib like vavr (ex javaslang) for catching exceptions into a Try object, a simple functional solution
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Definitely seems worth it in the long run... but just don't see myself forking out a couple hundred USD when I just wanna validate a little app I built.
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I really applaud your efforts, I'm afraid I just ran out of energy trying to be positive on reddit. The world needs more people like you.

I do feel like it's going to be realy important to teach my kids as they grow up, how to have good conversations online,and how these sort of mediums often twist the perseption of what they say without them realising.
So does plethora of today's AAA titles for subtle details like particle effects, grass and others.
In Europe, a lot is preventative and cheap ( so people don't have to worry about getting a routine check-up)
There's just an enormous supply of Java developers and consultants around, which makes it an easy business decision when deciding the technology to base your projects on. I would not be surprised if a very significant majority of Java code being written today is boring business logic and dime-a-dozen web services.

For new OSS or hobby/pet projects I can also not come up with a single reason to use Java, except "I don't know anything else and don't want to invest time learning"
That doesn't seem to be the declared aim of the article. Its first sentence reads:

'Simply put, the principle of charity is the idea that when criticizing someone’s argument, you should criticize the best possible interpretation of that argument.'

Later:

'Essentially, the principle of charity embodies the idea that when you interpret what other people say, you should select the best possible interpretation for their statements.'

What is at question in both these statements is the position of an interlocutor. It is a guide to conversation.

You say:

'The way to get the most value out of flawed people is to find the best version of their argument and then argue with that.'

That seems like a highly narcissistic way of conducting a conversation. You would in effect be having an argument with yourself.

As I said above, I think imposing a view on an interlocutor that they do not actually hold is a recipe for confusion, will almost certainly make the conversation unproductive, and might prevent you from understanding their position in the first place.
"helpful (and honest) if the article discussed the rate of demand"

Why would it make a difference?

I would expect the US to have higher levels of obesity and thus diabetes.

I would expect larger markets to benefit from economies of scale, so would expect to costs in the US to be lower.

You seems to be driving at something else though?
The parent comment said:

> I paid 500€ per month for healthcare

You misquoted that as:

> 500EUR for your use of healthcare that month

(Emphasis mine.) Their original statement was correct (assuming that is what they paid!) and didn't sound like a complaint to me, just a factual correction.
IIRC incarceration was a method started by christian monks, and the intention was that the incarcerated would use the time to reflect and contemplate his crimes - a form of rehabilitation.
As you say, that certainly isn't what's happening today. Instead it gives criminals a broader network, and my impression is that it works sort of like a "crime school".
But the US method of privatizing and profiteering off of imprisonment surely must skew the incentives as well.
I don't want to give any tips here lol.
Who would need 1000 Ibuprofen? Just take the good ones (800 or more) and one is enough if you go to bed after taking it.

edit: I mean, do you take those regularly? That might be the problem at all.
you mean you arent paying for it ? ...society as a whole isnt ?

Check the healthcare costs once more
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Does this mean for loops would now be slower than vectorized ops? Excuse me if that’s a stupid question
Between players, ad network wrappers, third party service wrappers, creative teams getting the spec wrong, more requests for ad blockers to block etc., VPAID is a mess in terms of successful playback though. It's like developer for early 2000s browsers when you have to test in multiple tools and work around multiple quirks. I can see why advertisers might not want to bother.
What absolute bullshit. All congenital disease is natural. That doesn't mean patients should suffer. We treat children for mental illness, because we have comprehensive studies that shows it improves their life.
They used to - you needed an extra person and a bigger cockpit. Computers handle things like the pressurisation of the cabin, power systems, etc. that all used to be managed and controlled by the flight engineer. They used to have a huge panel covered with gauges and controls.

Generally for a lot of those tasks the computer is better at it than people...

At the end of the day, this is more to do with bad system design, certification problems and lack of documentation and training about a critical system than computer control.
The pharma industry successfully lobbied for this outcome in 2005: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/10/heres-why-you...
It's an illustrative example. An article covering every drug sold in every country would be rather long and difficult to understand! They may have chosen Germany because it presents a similar population in terms of demographics, income, spending parity, etc...

The article fails to mention the average price to the end patient in both countries, but this would still show a gap as in Germany the cost to the patient for their prescription insulin is, I think, about 10 euros.

Rate of demand per country makes little difference due to global distribution but apparently Germany has 8.31% of adults with diabetes and USA has 10.79%. Many economists will tell you a larger market should equal more competition and cheaper prices, and not having those is a sign of unhealthy anticompetitive practises.

The exercise comment would only apply to some diabetes patients. It is possible to spontaneously develop diabetes whilst being in peak physical health and diet.

But, more importantly, the cause of a disease does not effect the price of the drugs to treat it.
To me it demonstrates that the trick to have a crime-free society is social and racial homogeneity. Which the US doesn't have.
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The American lifestyle/diet and healthcare costs are two separate issues that both desperately need to be solved. What a lot of people don't know outside the U.S., is that the obesity crisis exists in upper class and upper-middle class, but is a completely different animal among the poor and working poor. I grew up in a working-poor family, and kept that same social group until about 10 years ago.

The culture around food is completely destroyed. Social gatherings revolve around unhealthy food. There is generally not the understanding that the choices for what you eat is the major reason for obesity. The poor are lied to so much, they don't know what to believe, and the prevailing opinion tends to be that it is mostly due to genetics (how could that be, we have the same genes as 1-2 generations ago) or character (laziness, but I was obese in the past and worked a full time job and two part time jobs). In the past, the poor would get info from cable news, or not at all. Today, they get their news from Dr. Oz feeds on Facebook telling them to lose weight with various forms of snake oil.

While there is quite the gym culture in the U.S. in upper middle class, lower class does not have money for the gym, but mainly their metabolism is so shot from the foods they eat that they don't have the energy to go to the gym.

The government and the medical field in general could do a lot to move the needle on the terrible food culture, but they don't. They in fact made the terrible food pyramid, that tells people to eat grains above all else, and says nothing about the processing of the foods that they eat. And the foods they eat are processed to the nth degree. When I eat with some of my old friends or family that are still a part of my old culture, I am always amazed by how terrible the cheap food is here. It really doesn't even taste like food. Potato chips, rubbery chicken nuggets, soda, Totinos pizza, TV dinners, Hamburger Helper, I could go on...
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So, you pay for others when you are young and healthy and reap the benefits when you are plder and more prone to illnesses.
I have a few domains with them and I totally agree that the UI needs some love.
Would you charge difference prices for insulin based on the cause of their diabetes?
>I work in this field and I flatly reject that the purpose of a ‘business intelligence’ team

Good job the article is about data science and not business intelligence then. Cool the feigned indignant outrage please.
Everyone in society is paying increased healthcare costs which can be traced directly to insurance overhead.

Check out the doctors who take cash only

https://www.moneycrashers.com/cash-only-doctors-no-insurance...
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There's an even more insidious form of argument that's even present here on HN:

1: Take someone's position that one doesn't like

2: Extend it to a reasonable analogue (aka apply 1st formulation of Kant's Categorical Imperative)

3: Show how absurd it is and try to get the original person to defend it.

4: Never provide constructive criticism nor an alternative viewpoint.

It's a toxic way to entrap others and degrade the quality of a conversation. So much so that I had to write a satirical post about it[0]

[0] https://cjslep.com/c/blog/winning-internet-arguments
Why do psychologist think they are in any way qualified to discuss medical matters?

These quacks are threatened by treatment that actually works.