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I am indifferent to FB. They started with a promise, then they realized the money potential and went ahead abusing it. They were caught and faced some flak. They realized that people have started caring about privacy. Hence this new pitch. I don't say the Mark Zuckerberg is evil, he himself is helpless. He can't change the FB DNA overnight, it would risk the very existence of the company. In summary, don't expect things to change anytime soon.
>When you are in a medical emergency, and you need a treatment right there and right then - no time to shop around - why should an unregulated, shareholder value maximising business, not extract from you as much as you can afford?

In a free market, you'd also have choice via competition to drive that price down. Right now, hospitals can literally veto their competition by claiming "there isn't enough demand to justify another hospital in this area". So bing, no new hospital, no competition.

And of course, this assumes your provider is out to screw you at every turn. This turns out to not be the case for obvious reasons; your provider still wants your business in the future. In the case of a single hospital/provider (a la regulation) they've got your business no matter what.

Competition is a key force in markets, and regulation in the medical industry provides huge barriers to competition.
From the news guidlines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

I'd like to hear you out if feel this is a new or interesting phenomenon.
Craig Murray is a former British ambassador.
This article is part of a “bill of the month” series between NPR and Kaiser Health News:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/02/16/5855495...

Entire series:

https://www.npr.org/tags/585747919/bill-of-the-month

I think a handful of these have had significant HN discussion, but this is the only other one I can find at the moment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18328934
In my post-Soviet city that doesn't seem to be the case. I know of a shop that just sells car batteries - literally nothing else. They have maybe 30 products in stock, and can order it if you need something else. I don't think they have a web store.
>I think the most logical thing to do would be to put out pinpoint accurate predictions. When you do this you'd establish a substantial degree of reliability in the field

they DID, dude.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...
We were charged $9000 for epidural during our first child's delivery. After a lot of back and forth between me, the hospital and the insurance company I ended up paying $99.
I never tried to understand the logic.
Related previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15436943
To be fair, this seems like a dishonest account of the situation. My understanding is that being "charged" in Sweden normally happens later in the process than in the USA/UK, so the fact that he wasn't "charged" isn't meaningful.
Why the Labor Movement Has Failed – and How to Fix It
I also use a lot of macros. I just learned that macro registers are the same as regular registers, so you can actually paste the contents of a macro and examine it or save it to a file (e.g. "xp after recording your macro).
It actually is not if you follow a strict Least Privileged model as a basis for your security architecture...But nobody does...not because it is hard, but because they don't understand it. Security is still based around looking for all the bad; it seems this defunct model will never die.
Helpless? Facebook should probably change their leadership then.
This is not the US, so US legal customs are irrelevant.
Yes, but imagine what could have happened if Google had gone all-in on cloud instead of social in 2011. Instead of seeing some lackluster earnings from a still totally dominated-by-ads-revenue Google, we would have seen a roaring revenue engine fuelled by cloud growth. TBH that was really Google's market to win because they had all the infrastructure to do it in 2011, but didn't want to expand in cloud because it was perceived as low-profit-margin compared to ads.
They’re Haunted by ‘Ghost Warrants’ Years After Their Arrests
Discourse is open source forum/discussion software that you can host yourself. Youcan also find services that will host it for you for a price.
Can they somehow extract this back as a tax deduction? The parties are remarkably willing to negotiate, whereas your mortgage provider won’t move very far at all if things get sideways. If they aren’t, I’m certain there are ways to financially engineer things to recoup at least some of the “loss.”
I asked a lab how much it was to test for lead or other metal, apparently it's 30 euro per element.

Not sure if I'm going to do it, or if there is an ideal moment to do it so I can have a positive.
The one thing that I don't like about /e/ and similar services is that they ask you to leave your current walled garden, but it's not 100% (at least, not from their website) whether their solution allows you to actually own and manage your data, as in self-hosting as many services as you can and/or change service providers (the very same way you could move your phone number from one provider to another or change ISP for home connectivity or go to a different store for groceries if you want to).
This whole "if the accusation is real then why hasn't he been charged?" pseudo-fact relies on a rather stubborn misunderstanding of the difference between the Swedish legal system and the UK one. Assange can't be "charged" in the sense that the Anglosphere thinks of it until he is physically present for trail; that doesn't mean that the charges haven't been put to him or that Sweden isn't actively pursuing the investigation.

Much of the commentary around the legal aspects of Assange's case it misleading or outright false.

See:

1. (2012) https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/media/2012/09/legal-mytho...

2. (2019) https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/11165977611288453...
One of the problem IMHO is that the concept of "market" in a global economy is very blurry.

What is a monopoly in this context ? does having 99% market share in the US constitutes a monopoly if a chineese competitor has twice the number of users ? Are you going to dismantle google and amazon, only to see baidu and alibaba reap the market ?
I keep a text file with that type of stuff, because "I know what to do" but I cannot remember "how to do it" step by step. Automation is a great thing, but having a "this does this" text file is a nice thing.

At a previous job we had a wiki with all that stuff. I was quite nice.
Did Uber let local laws strangle its business? NO!

Did Airbnb let local laws strangle its business? NO!

Did PayPal let money transmitter licenses and rampant fraud strangle its business? NO!

Did YouTube let rampant piracy strangle its business? NO!

Now go start your residential hot-desking business!!’
Right. So OP may kindly cite Swedish legal process or refrain from expressing an opinion.
This isn't in the US.

There are many differences between the US and EU/UK.
> If Tether worked as it was advertised there would be no profit opportunity.

Everyone gave multiple good profit opportunity already, but what about having a transaction fees? They still have a cost related to operating this business, you put that cost toward a transaction fee and you put a small profit on top.

That's how credit card works, though their fees apply much more often than it would for a stablecoin, where most transations aren't from the coin to fiat money.

> you accepting $100 USD from your friend and giving them $100 of Monopoly money

That's pretty much the definition of a bank. Banks does it for free ALL the time and has actual physical locations on top of that and has to operate locally too.
Teens avoid finding sexual health information online due to fear of 'being seen'
A warrant was issued, but while he was in the embassy the Swedish government couldn't serve him with a notification of it.

Top prosecutor Marianne Ny said his arrest warrant was being revoked as it was impossible to serve him notice.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39973864

You are unlikely to come to sound conclusions if you reason on the basis of your knowledge of US law. Sweden is not the US.
Actually they are. They are all "awkward."
> an incubator for bit rot

Genius phrase. Overall, that might be one of the best comments I've ever read on HN. The DIY furniture analogy is a good one. There's so much focus on what seems to work today, and so little awareness of what affects long-term maintainability. I see this at work too, everyone chasing "impact" for the half even when it screws us over any longer time scale. Understanding how code evolves over time is an essential part of being a competent developer. It's much more important than any in-the-moment coding test.
For that example I would open the document in Sublime Text, select all, and split selection into lines so that I have an independent caret on every line. Then I'd just type the quote at the beginning and end of each line - the home/end keys will put each caret at the beginning or end of its respective line.
To imply he was responsible or even warranted such an expensive operation is ludicrous. Second, it's bad - but not unexpected - that the US' secret arrest warrant, which it turns out did exist, was not factored in.
Not everyone can be the protagonist in real life, but they can imitate a prominent person and thereby associate themselves with that person's success and prestige. It's a variety of narcissism in which less successful people deal with their narcissistic urges by becoming "followers".

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_narcissism#The_char...
They don't call it that and don't behave like that, so no. They have anti-NATO, anti-USA and pro-Russia banners (and one pro-China). But there was a march earlier, at another place. I believe the anti-communists were there as well.
To be fair, you've nitpicked one minor detail in the above quote. The subtantive point still hands. Why is Assange not now wanted for questioning in Sweden?
My favorite newish-to-me macro trick is to use "recursive macros" -- macros that call themselves at the end, eg `qa[do something]@aq`. The idea (at least for me so far) is to record a line-wise action that goes to the next line before calling itself and will fail on the first non-matching line. For example, if you need to put some text after the first `0`, using commands like `t` or `f` to get there will fail if there is no `0`, but `/` will go to the next `0` on any line.

A macro like this will just keep calling itself until it fails, which is nice for files with thousands of lines and you want to make a change that is not conducive to a regex.

As a tip that took me a while to figure out, you can search within a visual selection using `\%V`, which may make it easier to reliably go to a specific part of the current line (compared to t or f like I mention above).

Also wanted to point out that iVim for iOS is pretty good, for those rare cases you want to do some text processing on the move that makes you miss Vim: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ivim/id1266544660?mt=8

A decent post on recursive macros:
https://jovicailic.org/2018/06/recursive-macros-in-vim/
We are typing about converting multiple languages of expression (say, iptables rules and sshd config) into one (say, yaml or json) right? The whole point is to homogenize those languages into a single one so the configurations can be managed via a single program. (say chef, ansible)

And in the process of doing this, people stop remembering the original languages and you are now stuck in config language land where you still have to look up syntax on how to do things anyway.

So from your perspective, the problem is not "not remembering how" or "not knowing how" it is "not organising processes" am I getting it correct here?
That makes sense because originally it wasn't a book but a live performance by Michael Faraday (who was a pioneer of scientific popularization besides being a great original researcher).
And yet there are political posts (as well as the other things I mentioned) all the time and they rarely get downvoted to oblivion or flagged.

shrug, I personally have very little interest in politics, so I'm with you on this, but the fact is that, against the guidelines or not, these posts happen all the time, get upvoted and generate lots of discussion (and in this particular case, I found nthompson's comment interesting enough that it was worth checking the comments)

Besides, the guidelines also say "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate."
The problem is that it’s not presented as a negotiation to consumers. Negotiation/bartering are far from the norm in our culture.
And one would lose their argument because having quotas on emissions doesn't eliminate the impact (because otherwise they won't be quotas, they'd be a prohibition).
They missed a great opportunity to stick a porta power on the wall and let the customer choose to apply the test pressure themselves. That says "we're so confident it will work you can test it yourself."
Not in London, but GP linked two examples (one in Macedonia and one in Italy). There are also many other examples of CIA-run extraordinary rendition[1].

However in these cases they were both done with co-operation from the local police (or military) and government as part of the US "war on terror" (abductions without local government approval have also happened in the past -- Mossad did this in the 1960s[2] -- but I don't recall a US example).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann#Capture
Not OP, but if you put on an exclusively technical hat, nearly everything boils down into some combination of energy, manufacture and telecoms.
I think we're kind of on the same line.

> It was designed to solve the problems people were having cashing out from exchanges.

Tether technically predates the legal trouble between Wells Fargo and Bitfinex, but imo Tether as we know it got to it's current size specifically to allow American residents to get their non crypto money out of Bitfinex after no American bank wanted to work with Bitfinex.

> The idea was that you sold your bitcoin on poleniex or wherever for USDT the then took that to the tether website and got your USD. Safe in the knowledge that your USDT would be exchanged exactly 1-1, with no bid/offer spread or moving price.

Whose idea was this? Most big exchanges that trade tether don't support any fiat. Only recently most added support for competing stablecoins and Binance is playing with fiat. But it was never the idea from the beginning.

> In reality, you could never really do that.

I really don't agree that the plan was all along that everyone could do that. Tether would simply face exactly the same problems as Bitfinex. Instead Tether allows you to trade on many different exchanges and big traders can directly convert tether into dollar. But definitely not everyone, in the beginning retailers could create a tether account but that's about it.

> As others have mentioned, the likely reason they never have is that they would hit exactly the same challenge all the exchanges did with their bank and the KYC rules.

Yes exactly, as such it was never (or since the Wells Fargo suit) supposed to work like this. I'm not sure why you think this was the plan or design?

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To sum up:

- We both agree it's hard for every day traders to convert tether into USD. They have to use public crypto markets to achieve this. Though I don't agree this is against any design or plan (ever since Wells Fargo anyway).

- This has worked fine for years since the biggest traders are able to convert tether into USD (and the other way around). The second they can't you'll see price divergence (a lot bigger than what we see right now - since firms will be trading out of millions in tether exposure).

- The risks of Tether are well documented, most retail is aware of the danger.
I was just going to say the same - and $18 / day * 21-ish working days per month is...$400 / month.

Hey, that's roughly what a coworking office space costs! Except sitting in a parking spot, you don't get free wifi, coffee / tea, bathrooms, networking events, shelter from the elements, facilities security / maintenance...

So: I'm not sure how coworking fits into the larger point they're trying to make. Yes, residential rent is insane in San Francisco - no argument there. Yes, parking spaces that sit unused throughout most of the day are an unfortunate legacy of car-centric urban design. Both of these are solid and reasonable points to make.

But $400 / month for an office space that comes with a slew of amenities? That seems entirely reasonable to me, and definitely in keeping with permanent desk costs in other, less extravagantly priced cities.
If you don’t need tests urgently, you can shop around online and order most tests yourself (in almost all states)
Your comment seems well made, and to make a good point.

We waste a lot of productivity on providing choice.

I don't think pure utilitarianism is the answer, but it seems we could do better.

But then, noone needs party balloons at all ...
The obvious counter-argument is that circles are an invention.
I haven't ever seem a storage unit with plumbing before...
It's a common term in UK politics—he's not coining.
As I recall, a few years ago when one of their rockets exploded during a test they were similarly close lipped until they were able to determine the root cause. And it took quite a long time.

In a situation like this, there's not much point in talking until you have something definitive to say.
Sounds like you need/could split it up into core/engine functionality, and then implementation of that core in different environments (i.e. a ios and android one).

That makes sense to me, to have 3 repositories. Common code, perhaps even in your own dsl. And then implementations done in the various platforms.
They switched from a T-rex to a hat. Makes sense.
> The president has an embarrassing YouTube reel where he "loves WikiLeaks" 50 times. It'll drag the contents of contentious leaks back into the spotlight. It could be more convenient to let it go.

But America isn't a dictatorship so the decision isn't exactly up to him. There's a whole legal system operating under their own framework that the president doesn't have much control over.
Won't the healthcare market fail at some point if this keeps going on? I mean there might be some big loan somewhere that will default one day. No idea what will happen then.
> A metals manufacturer faked test results and provided faulty materials to NASA, causing more than $700 million in losses

...

> the current parent company of Sapa, agreed to pay $46 million to NASA, the Department of Defense and others to resolve criminal charges and civil claims related to the fraud
Yea, £16m for a lucrative posting for a bobby just to stand around.

The courts could have been forward thinking and left his bail-skipping as a misdemeanor.
> Nobody manages their own email or DNS servers anymore

Thankfully you are quite wrong there; lots of us keep running the services that were designed to be decentralized.
If you do not get approved by adsense, it is not an viable option.

I have a site with views in the millions, but no adsense. Adding any other ad delivery service creates a lot of spam and makes the website yuck. And the payout is orders of magnitude less than adsense. So i have just foregone ads and host on my own cost.

Getting into Adsense is becoming difficult and there are lots of horror stories of them randomly suspending accounts without payouts.
You can get a hot desk for $30/person/day. This parking spot is only $2.25 for as many people as you can fit in it.
Again...it was a stunt. These were pro-housing folks but no one is suggesting directly turning parking into makeshift long term office space or housing. Human centric uses might include — protected bike lanes, trees so that the sidewalks feel further removed from cars, food trucks, outdoor cafe seating, etc.

Also, sure, not everyone needs to live in SF. But that’s a completely unrelated point. There are still people who do choose to live here and want to make the city a nicer place to live.
Depends on the details of the situations. The dude who tried to sneak coke past border security has poor judgement. The dude who rubber stamped the Friday at 4:55 test after every test that week passed is just human.
This company does that with extra office space: https://liquidspace.com/share-office-meeting-space

They have a Slack integration that can ping you when somebody places a request that matches your availability.
I suspect that the USA isn't keen to make him a martyr, and that key players recognize the minimal value in prosecuting him now. It will be interesting to see how they utilize this nearly year-long reprieve from Assange's political posturing.
70 to 90% of mergers and acquisitions fail (http://europe.businesschief.com/finance/390/Why-do-up-to-90-...)

Apple acquires small companies all of the time to integrate technologies into their core products and as acquihires.

How would acquiring companies like Netflix or Disney add any goodwill value - the sum is greater than its parts?

If they acquired Qualcomm, not only would they run into possible antitrust concerns, they would either continue selling to competitors (not likely) or lose a large amount of the value of the company

As far as the next big thing. The mobile phone market was already on a trajectory to have worldwide ubiquity before the iPhone was introduced and now has 66% world wide penetration. There is no amount of R&D that has any hope of achieving more worldwide penetration than the “computer in your pocket” market - except maybe social media. Do you really think that Apple should jump into that market?
See also https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...
Frome a game theory perspective, the ongoing price gouging in US healthcare is certainly an interesting phenomena.
I do agree; it's taken me years to overcome my aversion to negotiation. It wasn't until I saved a million dollars on a contract just by asking(!) that I appreciated the process and how many transactions can be negotiated.
"Aye, that's the rub" thought the audience while contemplating escaping their life to escape the boredom.
I get that people would try anything to help their loved ones. This in itself is admirable and goes to show the guy was truly loved.

We are beyond discussing the scientific value of your approach, so I'll try to communicate what you say conveys for a professional.

This is the typical american cancer story. The guy did not want to die, and his family and himself forced him through loads of invasive/experimental procedures because the success of treatment was viewed as a meritocratic achievement, which it is within the bounds of established treatment. I've seen this too many times to count and it saddens me greatly that already sick people get a substantially added dose of suffering on the basis of wishful thinking.

If the guy wanted to help OTHERS through his participation in trials, then that's really nice. His family, although very nice people I am sure, should not have had anything to do with his decision.

PS: the "best" surgeon wanting to operate on someone most of his colleagues would not touch with a 10-foot pole should have you start running.
> Assume that “the bank” in question represents all banks.

"The bank" can't simultaneously be "all banks". Sure, if we consider "all banks" then $1 paid into the system can "magically" turn into $1.90 (and far more) without even considering interest. That's my original point! Money is being created by fractional reserve banking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_multiplier
Same goes for John Deere tractors. Still a mess to get data, schematics or parts for.