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Even with single payer, there's a large thriving market. Vendors, suppliers, manufacturers, contractors, auditors, etc. Bandages need to be made, hospitals need to be cleaned, nurses need to be trained, etc.
Papers probably easier - these NHS software projects always end up disasters
Population growth is a problem, not a competition. Even if you care about the people's rights and humanism, you should be concerned with how much other life each human displaces.
Long time ago when I was living with my parents, our family checklist was "Gas, light, water, cellphone, cat".

Check that the gas stove is off (important). Lights off. No running water (after a few, um, incidents). You didn't leave your phone, did you, and make sure the cat didn't run out (he'd always try).

I always wondered why "lights" were on the list, since nobody gave a damn about electricity bills.

Guess for the same reason that "testicles" are in the parent comment's list :)
Actually, I knew a guy who used to smuggle drugs into nightclubs in his afro, so targeting people on the basis of whether their hairstyle is physically capable of concealing contraband seems quite reasonable.

If you don't like it ... then you are free to change your hairstyle ...
Flying While Trans
The 2015 game SOMA[1] paints a far darker picture of precisely this topic: a brain donated to research. It really explores this in depth. If you're remotely interested in games I can only recommend it.

[1] https://www.somagame.com/
That depends on whether any actual allocations take place - looking at the C# code samples in the article, the only ones that would cause allocations would be the ones that used Linq. And Linq is kind of verboten in performance sensitive code; I assume the author used Linq in a few samples precisely because they would cause allocations to demonstrate the perf disadvantage.

With the advent of Span, stackalloc and the like, there has been something of a "war on allocations" in .NET recently - it's great to see some extra focus on performance!
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. For example, decades of fire suppression created unnatural forests, with more deadfall and closer, smaller trees, that burn more intensely than natural ones. Thanks to global warming, bark beetles have killed vast swathes of forest in the western United States. And people live near those forests, and expect the fire department to protect their houses.

It can't all be fixed and controlled, but "letting nature take its course" would have disastrous consequences at this point.
I don't think it's AMD's fault really, CUDA just as an insane amount of inertia in the space and there's a whole lot of incentive for anyone to do anything about it.

As much as I hate it I've been vendor locked to NV for years and as a result I don't really care anymore. I'll never buy a AMD card because I need to get work done and get paid. It sucks, but not enough for me to go through the pain of trying to work with the far far inferior OpenCL based software for rendering/photogrammetry etc. I don't even touch ML, but I assume the story is the same there.

What's the value proposition for writing software that works with OpenCL when your entire market already has NV cards? The price differential is tiny too, maybe if AMD came down like 30% for the equivalent computational power.
I think humor has an advantage of not needing to be correct. A joke can be blatantly wrong, but with that freedom it can point out a kernel of truth that would otherwise be rejected.

Every system of reasoning has intrinsic blindspots, while internally seeming consistent and all-knowing. Corrupting fallacies sneak in, each only off by a little bit, but self-consistent.

Attempting to directly argue any one conclusion looks wrong, as it disagrees with all the surrounding/supporting points. Only by completely shrugging off that strict logical-progression paradigm can the absurd conclusions be called out.
> owning it serves no practical purpose unless you constantly re-read it.

I disagree. I write a lot on the margins of the books I own - notes, personal observations, questions, criticism. I highlight interesting passages. It helps me understand the book deeper and retain its ideas.
The Linux Foundation is at this point the Megacorporations LUG. Members are not even required to comply with the GPL. So there is that.
After all, Pemex has a brand of fuel that's called "Nova," which should instantly debunk the story.

For those who are in the know, speak Spanish, etc.

I did qualify my remark to indicate as clearly as I could that I lack such credentials and there's room for error here when I led with "From what I've read."

There are good ways to add such knowledge to the discussion. Raking someone over the coals for trying to join in with people playing with language for light-hearted fun is probably not one of them.
That's not the purpose of deductibles though... it's to put people's skin in the game - if you use insurance, you also pay for it, so it's not free for you.

On the other hand, if a provider is charging too much, they shouldn't be included in the plan in the first place, as they're simply a bad option.
His lecture on style is entertaining and informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODzR1mjB99Q
I organized a quantum computing seminar back in school and two resources I thought were excellent

* https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/f16quantum.html

* https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computing-since-Democritus-Aa...

This reference also looks solid and I'm looking forward to reading it in more depth.
I don't think they'll back out of RF tech entirely. The best WiFi chipsets I've used in recent years have been Intel-vended, and they're broadly used.

On the other hand, I've been bitten by Broadcom WiFi chipsets too much recently -- two different laptops with different Broadcom chips having a variety of different connectivity problems. One of them would spontaneously drop the WiFi connection when doing a TCP streaming workload (downloading a large file via HTTP/HTTPS). Admittedly this was probably some kind of driver issue, but I wasn't excited about the prospect of using an out-of-tree driver on Linux to solve the problem (and that didn't help my Windows install either). I swapped the mini-PCIe boards out with some Intel wireless cards and they've been running perfectly since.

But of course, if the rest of the business suffers, they may have to make cuts all over the place. I just hope the WiFi stuff doesn't end up on the chopping block or the competition improves.
if I understand correctly, the out of pocket maximum might only apply to in network providers. I think if you end up getting a non-covered procedure or get service from an out of network provider, you can be on the hook for way more than the out of pocket maximum. if so, it would be hard to ensure that this doesn't happen in an emergency.
And remember, boys and girls, that the correct sequence is CR LF, and not LF CR. If I see LF CR in your C code I will slap you with a review comment, just out of nostalgia, even though modern printers rarely drip oil. CR can take more than a single character time for the carriage to move to the left and settle, so to avoid print corruption, issue CR first, and then LF so that the carriage also has LF time to settle.

Back many moons ago I used to operate RTTY on ham radio. On the air, since characters can be easily lost, the standard end-of-line sequence was often CR CR LF LF NUL NUL in case a CR or LF got clobbered by a static crash or such, and the NULs are extra settling time. (Usually we also configured "unshift-on-space" because a lost LTRS in Murray code is annoying. We all assumed the other end was running U.S.O.S. so always assumed SPACE took the receiver out of FIGS mode and therefore sent a redundant FIGS after SPACE.)

If you are wondering why UARTs can be configured for 5 data bits and 1.5 stop bits.... Murray code as used in Model 15's is why. Once upon a time I did a Apple II program in 6502 assembly that gave me a "glass TTY", split screen, received text on the top 2/3's of screen, sent on the bottom. Interfaced to a HAL ST-6000 (I loved that box. I still have it collecting dust somewhere). Eventually I ported the glass TTY to a Macintosh I.

Now... where did I leave my cane? And get off my lawn.
Assume you’re simply melting plastic into more boats, not the instruments on the boats?
I guess that's changed since 2016?

https://www.engadget.com/2015/12/28/us-air-force-allows-enli...
Theirs is a system that “funnels” people without giving them much choice. I can see the issue in that.

But how about this: an objective test that anyone can take however many times they want, as long as they have a high school diploma.

That’s essentially the Brazilian system. There are arguments to be made about well off kids still getting an advantage because their parents can afford prep schools, but the government counters (at least partially) that by introducing quotas for certain disadvantaged groups.

I have many misgivings about many things in Brazil, but I do think the university admissions process down there is the fairest I’ve seen in my life.
You fact checked she doesn't carry a insta-hubby on the side?
I use Firefox, DuckDuckGo and Redirect AMP to HTML https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/amp2html/ everywhere I can, including mobile.
Yeah... we have only one life. Gotta do the important stuff and not fill it with only distractions.
"Job dissatisfaction, career dissatisfaction, frequent and long deployments, poor quality of life, non-competitive pay and lack of personal and professional development are among the reasons cited"

It sounds to me like "fly jets" is the only upside, and every other part of the job is pretty lousy.

> They make video games of that.

Video game design is constrained by what is feasible to program, and what makes a decent game. Tetris and Minecraft are incredibly popular, but that wasn't because brick laying was ever an aspirational job.

Apparently fighter pilots only fly ~16 hours a month [1]. Against a typical 40-hour work week, that's less than 10%. No matter how much I love flying, it's tough to sell me on a career where I'll spend more than 90% of it doing the parts I hate.

For techies, working at a startup is cool ("aspirational"!) these days. How many programmers would you still get if they earned less than $50K, would spend less than 10% of their workday writing code, and had to basically retire from coding altogether by 45?

[1]: https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/03/01...
I suspect CS is very different, but I don't know. When the dotcom boom started, many CS departments and universities seemed to start falling all over themselves, to get pieces of the action. (Whether for technology transfer or impact, or simply money.) I don't know whether Mathematics departments have had that kind of cultural upheaval.
Is this satire, or...?
Ha!

This is a silly talking point that lots of companies bounce around - you know how insulin costs money because it was so expensive to develop... Except no, it was invented in Canada and the researchers released the formula for free[1] as a "benefit to humanity" thing... then a few US companies acquired rights to produce it and proceeded to establish market control in the US - the fact that insulin isn't being sold at cost is just pure greed.

And this happens a lot, very often drugs are innovated using public funds and then sold to private companies to produce which milk the consumers for profit - this whole "it pays for R&D" is a pharmaceutical PR line, just like when McDonalds buried their hot coffee lawsuit under "well, if people weren't such klutzes". The US isn't the great innovator here to save us all and a huge proportion of your drug prices cycles back into marketing to sell more of the drug.

[1] Technically, they sold it for a dollar to the University of Toronto
Frequently asked questions about the Lua VM work we (Roblox) are doing
This is exactly the kind of thing Mozilla should be working on, in my opinion. It's enabling something new to work in a browser, and if Mozilla didn't do this Google would have, only it would be locked into Google Sheets or something.
I am reminded of the issues the Air Force had due to cockpits being designed for the average pilot size. They did a study and found that the majority of pilots were not near the average size and had difficulty reaching for switches and pedals and such. [1]

1. https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
That’s what an advanced directive is for. We just need to extend it beyond CPR/no CPR and heroic measures vs no heroic measures, etc. Kinda how like insurance companies negotiate prices for everything in advance of you showing up.

Let users watch a series of videos and choose what kind of risk and benefit they tolerate/want and how much they’re willing to spend.

It’s morbid, but we do such assessments constantly. Do I come to a complete stop and waste a few seconds and ml of gas, or roll through it and be really careful about it?
Given enough time, anything with a non-zero probability of happening will eventually happen, and when you're dealing with the prospect of immortality, "enough time" is a given.

Even if the optimistic scenario is true for your first 100 "rezzes", the 101st civilization that takes over after the 100th collapses might not be so nice.

EDITED TO ADD: Moreover "the kinds of irrationalities that lead a civilization to do that kind of thing" is confusing a value judgment with rationality. An extremely predatory civilization might maintain its edge through cruelty, the same way that cats seem to play with mice before killing them. That would be evil, but rational.
>> 2006 estimate for Nigeria was about 240M, and the 2019 estimate puts them at about 199M, or +59M in 13 years.

This sentence doesn’t make sense even if you move the numbers around.
I'm not sure it is a good idea, performance wise. A database application can use differently optimised strategies (data structures, etc.) for memory or disk access. It can't if it doesn't know what's in memory, or on disk.
How is xenophobia part of having a responsible and informed dialogue. He dug through, found out the person is a different nationality and is not American. Then assumed they are not informed enough (in the best case) to make a valid argument. Which turned out to be wrong because they actually lived and worked in the area and other parts of the US.

I failed to see how this was an informed and responsible dialogue. I think we might have a different perception of those terms.
That's the same as:

(chain somedata (tostring) (trim))

It's a macro away in Lisp. But I would not use it much, since it kind of defeats the advantage of using nested expressions -> they are actually nested.
This should be fixed as of early March. If it's not, and you still see issues, please drop me a line at support@pinboard.in.
The most effective way to tackle climate change? Plant 1T trees
A new type of HTTP client attacks is around the corner, and it's really sneaky
> Usually I tell them that most likely the runtime of their language is written in C so you can always do as well in C.

The point is that with a JIT the runtime is executing as little as possible, with the rest being dynamically optimized machine code. So this isn’t really a fair thing to say…
There are three pillars of western civilization in the modern age: Greco-Roman philosophy and government, Christianity, and European nation-states.

I don't believe in the concept of "Judeo-Christian" because other than theological genealogy, the two systems are radically different, and historically opposed to one another.
Apologies for being a bit snarky, but I found your comment to not really add much to the conversation because it just pointed out that you do not personally suffer from the problems that the person you responded to does.

That, combined with the fact that you don't seem to care how your open-office talk might affect others, reminded me of the various "that guys/gals" that I've encountered in my open-office experiences. They'd regularly annoy or interrupt everyone else in the room by having no consideration, self-awareness and/or sensitivity, and usually they'd do so for the worst reason: talking about themselves. The inane shit they were up to in the weekend, or the funny YouTube video that you just have to watch awkwardly.

But again, my apologies for projecting that on you, because obviously I have no idea if any of this applies. It just reminded me of something that ruined open-offices for me.
Bloomberg and CNBC's reviewers are reporting similar issues.

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/04/17/samsung-broken-galaxy-f...

edit: Up to five review units now. https://twitter.com/mcwm/status/1118583120759013376
> Judeo-christian is a very modern term design specifically to try and claim that there has been a long standing positive relationship between Christianity and Judaism

Points of view :) For me, it designed specifically to claim that there have been profound and positive cultural influxes from Judaism in the Western culture- a claim I find very suspicious (not that I deny any influence, but there are absolutely fundamental contributors that are excluded from the definition- Greek and Roman culture).

It's also possibly correlated with what- very intuitively- I see as a progressive Judaization of American evangelical Christians.
I think it's more weird to have enemies.
It's very weird to think that people would even care enough about a dead person to single out your brain for "payback". Even weirder to think that these people would somehow be in power.
This post resonated with me strongly. Yes, resigning sounds like the obvious best choice. I hope it works out well!

I can certainly understand why Prof. Stein doesn't want to trash his colleagues, but I'll come out and say it: if academia wasn't completely dysfunctional, it would find a way to support this work.

For my own work (which is nowhere nearly as academically relevant as CoCalc and Sage) I'm planning on doing it myself without worrying too much about funding. I can use a combination of savings, random consulting gigs, Patreon, etc. I can imagine doing more "company" kinds of things, but only to the extent it supports the work. This is not an easy problem, and again I wish Prof. Stein well.
Android Studio 3.4
If you go to the bottom of the linked article to the source reference and click article it takes you to the original work. The data sources are linked at the end of that work.
> diehard libertarians

They bark and complain and then get on their knees and lick the boot.
In an old apartment I had a lot of stuff on the same extension plug. I had to turn on the devices one by one to prevent power loss ... There's also the same problem/solution when boarding airplanes. Even if it feels backwards, it's actually faster to let one third of the requests go through first, then to let all requests go through at once.
My favorite bit of commentary was this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka9mfZbTFbk

I was raised protestant and my girlfriend Jewish; after this scene I leaned over and whispered, "this is why there are too many denominations to keep track of".
So does that one bad experience cancel out all the good ones?
I must be tired and reading this incorrectly.

1992-2001: +112 b tons / year
2003-2008: +82 b tons / year
Prior to 2012: -84 b tons / year
2012-2018: -241 b tons / year

It flipped from positive to negative somewhere between 2008 and 2012, correct?

2015 article: the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008.

2018 article: Prior to 2012, ice was lost at a steady rate of about 83.8 billion tons (76 billion metric tons) per year... Since 2012, the amount of ice loss per year has tripled to 241.4 billion tons (219 billion metric tonnes)
>> You cant come to reasonable arguments for human rights without faith in some belief in natural good, dignity or humanity.

> We can, and we did.

> The US constitution for example, is explicitly secular.

The US Constitution is a plan of government amended with a listing of human rights. In its original form it left those rights entirely unenumerated. It's an odd argument to claim that it forms any kind of basis for those rights when that basis is clearly elsewhere.
Food production is predictable. Finding a safe, effective treatment for Alzheimer’s is not.

If you want thin margins, maybe government research wing can take its findings from idea to market (imagine waiting on a cure and that’s your only hope?)

But you can’t force a private company to operate on low margins by way of capping prices, you’ll kill them. You can’t taje away their ability to control their risks (cash flow). Drug R&D already has a huge failure rate and now the company can only take a 5% profit on the slight chance they’ve found something effective?
As lead developer on Axiom, an open source computer algebra system, I can fully appreciate his funding problem.

One problem is that open source software can't really handle grants. Government grants require accounting to
handle receipts, and follow all of the rules. We need a couple "open source accounting" people who can handle
managing grants (just like a school's bursar's office).

I have tried to find a funding stream for nearly 20 years, without success.

I am currently doing computer algebra research as a visiting scholar. That is an unpaid position.
Perhaps you can remain connected to the department as a visiting scholar.

If there is some way I can help, please let me know.
Thanks, can confirm.
199 is a typo. It should be 299 because 240 + 59 = 299.
It's not "less than 100 ending in 2, 3, 4". It's "2, 3, or 4 mod 10, but not 12, 13, 14 mod 100".

So for example "1002" is "few" in this sense (even though it's bigger than 100) but "14" is not, even though it's less than 100 and ends in 4.
Looks like they meant 299M rather than 199M.
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Simple fix.. Get rid of the Nazis, and stop trying to be like facebook.
That was fixed long ago by ACA. Emergency services are treated as in-network regardless of whether they were actually in-network.
List.sort() vs. Sorted(list) – Florian Dahlitz – Medium
The world's economies depend on steady population growth, either through births or immigration.