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The simplest and most common sense medical reform I can think of would be to make it illegal to charge a different price to two different patients, regardless of insurance carrier or self-insured, for the same medicine, procedure, or equipment at the same facility.

There should be the Price. The amount that insurance Covers. And the remainder is the Patient Responsibility.

Either that, or a cash patient cannot be charged more than the Medicare allowed amount for the same procedure.

Insurers should not be horse trading to pay more or less for one procedure or another. And if you happen to be treated by someone who is out of network, you shouldn’t be paying an exhorbinant price on top of that higher copay or deductible.

The entire concept of negotiated rates is a fraud IMO, and could be reformed with a simple regulation that would I think be supported by a vast majority of Americans.

Price changes should have to go into effect for all patients at once, and be published in some ledger at least some number of days ahead of time.
That’s mostly because we started two wars without costing in the trillions it would cost to care for battle vets.

Then we continued to underfund the VA.

It’s only logical that it’s where it is.

Some of us foretold this from before the wars.
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Socialists... Always willing to sacrifice people for the "greater good".

Yes, the US healthcare system is horrible. Courtesy of state regulations, barriers to affordable medical care, big pharma influence on state actors (like, patents on medicine), etc.

Instead, what we need is more transparency and respect on this field.
Yes it is: https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/arctic-meteorology/climate_chan...

"Over the past 30 years, it has warmed more than any other region on earth"
Regardless of how people feel about Facebook in general, I think this is a step forward. Groups and messenger are what I primarily use, and both of those are completely in my control with no mysterious recommender algorithm deciding what I get to look at today. I bookmark my Facebook to go straight into Messenger and get notifications from groups that I care about.
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Assuming the exfiltration can be differentiated from normal behavior!
>The current cost of carbon capture is about $120 per ton

I don't know where you got this from (citation?), but I am sure this is not the cost of capturing CO2 from the atmosphere via "technology" (trees - arguably yes).
If you have multiple monitors, you don’t have to lose keyboard focus to see a change visually.
> If I went to a bank with a billion dollars I could likely negotiate an even higher rate for such a savings account.

I don't think that's how it works. As others have mentioned, FDIC insurance only covers 250k per depositor per bank. Typically when entities have that amount of cash (think Apple, Google, etc.), they put them into US government bonds, which are effectively equivalent to deposit accounts.

Edit: this is an interesting point, though. Ignoring the insurance issue, what would a bank do if you asked to open a deposit account with a billion dollars (paying, say 2%/year)? My uninformed layman's speculation would be that they would reject you because they wouldn't know what to do with that much money: they have to somehow lend out enough of it to at least break even on the 20 million/year that they're paying you for interest, but at the same time they have to be able to give you back your 1 billion at any time you ask for it.
Meanwhile the sentient maniacs who realize they're a threat to society often turn themselves in and get turned away only to go on to commit senseless massacres of innocent citizens.
If FB was a problem, Google could ban FB, and allow federation with those who federate back. They didn't and instead killed the whole thing.

It was a pretty bad response in the terms of actually fixing the messed up IM situation. It only made it worse, basically axing XMPP adoption. Game theory doesn't advise doing that. Compare it to one ally defecting. Others defecting in response (instead of looking for more allies) means losing the whole campaign right away, which is exactly what happened.

I don't use XMPP at all today and naturally none of my IM contacts are from Google or FB. Good thing something like Matrix is gaining traction. But I have little respect for Google today because of the above.
I'm more interested in the fact that someone is fishing for halibut in a 103 year old wooden schooner in 2019. The rest of this article is in my opinion, not news.
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"Those deals between PBMs and pharma companies are secret."

In some cases pharma co.'s created their own PBMs.

There is a long and storied history of litigation on American drug pricing. If you want to understand the Rube Goldberg machine, I recommend searching the keywords "Average Wholesale Price" or "AWP".

In terms of consumer protection, some states are better than others. Maine was a leader in this area. However it looks
like the pharma industry has prevailed.

https://www.policymed.com/2011/06/maine-set-to-repeal-unfair...
2,000,000,000 * 0.01 = 20,000,000 in net profit
Thats the belief but was it truly ever confirmed? I dont doubt it it sounds like a meme worthy of belief and I lean towards it but I dont recall ever finding a confirmation. Also saying they were caught implies the law caught them and arrested them.
Of course it is a calculated risk, however as a T1D myself, you can't ignore the fact that the current FDA approved pumps are also very dangerous. Pumps that don't respond to dropping blood sugars (most of them on the market today) and keep delivering insulin when you don't need it, compound low blood sugars, which has personally got me into serious trouble many times. Picking between a FDA approved "dumb" pump running on 10 year old software versus an open source option that explicitly has code to stop insulin delivery when blood sugars fall, seems to be an obvious choice. I've had diabetes for 31 years and this is by far, hands down, the greatest advancement I've experienced.
There is no legitimate way to regulate tech, it's an optional thing that people can use or not use. Right now there are people who go out of their way to avoid using Google and they manage to keep their jobs and even get to work using less attractive open source map apps. The practice of regulating tech exists right now in China and unlike communism there's a real possibility of it spreading.
It depends on the alternative state of the universe. If the alternative state of the universe is you never drove the car, then you're right, this is not clearly better.

If the alternative state of the universe is you drove the same car but burned gasoline that was drilled out of the ground, then this is much better.
It seems like Alzheimer’s but peek into brain shows a mimic
Nix hashes your development environment along with the sources to generate a version hash of the build process result.
That's a great way of looking at it! I've never thought of it like that.
And "seized and safeguarded" itself sounds suspiciously like a polite way of saying "our accounts are frozen on suspicion of financial regulations (and/or money laundering), and we hope to be able to successfully defend ourselves in court."
I don’t think the grandparent says that everyone is owned, but that if your data is interesting enough, your threat model must include employees that are willingly exhilarating data, sometimes for nation states. That your first barriers are therefore assumed to be breached to those attackers.

This of course does not apply if you are not holding on to anything interesting, but it’s very easy to become interesting at a certain size, or if you have interesting customers. Still, not everybody.
You could trigger that sync script from a git hook.
I looked into tethers withdrawal process, and the barriers to withdrawal are high enough that a run on tether is quite unlikely.

It really only makes sense if you hold over a million tether, and even then you'd probably be better off selling on a USD exchange and converting for withdrawal there.

It's a nice racket they have there.
I share a hatred for this sort of thing that happens all too often the closer you get to hardware, mainly as a byproduct of the culture. However, refusing to adhere to a proprietary license damages respect for all software licenses, especially the GPL, in the global software community. Depending on where you fall on the anarchy vs rule-of-law scale that may or may not be a good thing.

Flip side of the argument: "Someone wrote a GPL library I want to use but I don't want to release my source. Is anyone really going to notice, care, or bother to bring the hammer down on my company?"
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You are missing the point; this is a fuel production system that effectively removes the need to capture carbon: i.e. the notion of turning air into something you put in the ground too offset the carbon we are removing from it to burn. I agree that is not a valid economical proposition other than making people feel slightly less guilty about burning fossil fuels. It's actually a rather dumb idea since you are taking something that is expensive and wasteful and spend yet more to offset somewhat just how wasteful it is.

Producing fuel from the captured carbon, sidesteps the whole problem of needing fossil fuels at all. So, you are not offsetting anything; you are simply producing the fuel that you need in a way that is clean.

You seem to be arguing that it can't be done because 'numbers'. 1) those numbers lack citations 2) they are not set in stone. The question you should be asking yourself is how badly wrong your numbers are and what it would take to make the numbers right.

Turns out that this whole game of producing fuels from thin air is mostly a function of clean energy cost per kwh. Simply put, this is not constant. It varies wildly geographically. And it's also not constant over time. It's been dropping for decades at a rather impressive pace and projected to continue to do so. So, the only question is when will it become completely uneconomical to mine fossil fuels as opposed to simply converting co2 into whatever carbohydrates we need.

I'm guessing the persons behind Prometheus might be a bit optimistic here (i.e. suggesting it could be economical right now) but I wouldn't see that as a fundamental issue. If the answer is that those cost lines cross anywhere in the next decades, this would be still be an extremely lucrative investment. The mere possibility that this could be economical right now or in the very near term, makes this quite exciting.
It's so ingenuous for people to compare crypto to a sovereign government backed currency that has remained stable and solvent for nearly 250 years
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I want to set up for local news feeds similar to ycombinator. does anyone knows if we can get the source code available or any similar clones? Please advise.
Multiple people at work have an Apple Watch and I'm starting to see it more and more around the city. Definitely has some market penetration.

But also Apple is a premium products company so not everyone needs to have one, just a decent sized niche. At $400-500 they make a killing off each sale. Same with AirPods at $200 too... other similar bluetooth pod earphones sell for $40-60 on Amazon and they're pretty good products, so it can't be too expensive to produce.
Five years ago I was coding Java EE (JSF, EJB, JPA) on NetBeans, which comes bundled with GlassFish. The hot reload development experience back then was extremely fast (sub-second for what I was doing) and a lot more reliable than JRebel. It didn't need any special configuration. The whole thing worked right out of the box. I got the feeling back then that JRebel's days were numbered if developers caught on. Sadly, the trend was more towards a build-your-own stack approach, typically using Spring, and so JRebel continued to have a market. It's a pity, because Java EE 6 onwards seemed to be quite well thought out with numerous open source implementations and a good reference implementation.
I made a similar comment on HN last week and was downvoted, for reasons I can't fathom. I agree, it would be a valuable trove of info, an "objective history."
Medicare would be fixed by having all the healthy folks in the same risk pool. Right now privatized medicine are like charter schools - they can pick and choose their subscribers leading to lower costs and an obscene profit while Medicare gets the old folks who have multiple ER visits a year.
These are fun insights into the hit and miss tastes of the publishing biz. For example, from the article, "A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond, 28 August 1957":

I think the author has missed his mark in this story of a bear adopted by a middle-class family called Brown. Unless I mistake him he means it to be funny but the jokes are all on the bear; the Browns treat him very much as I imagine they would treat a "foreigner" and as one’s sympathies and affections are all with the bear it is difficult to laugh with the author. Moreover the Brown family are perfect fools, they leave him alone to bath and nearly to drown; they twice lose him, once on the Underground and once in a large store simply through inattention. No – frankly the best of the book lies in its title.

I kinda feel F&F's department of humour kinda had a very rigid pole up its ass. I bet they were kicking themselves after this went on to be published initially by Collins in '58.
This is a great point. For small to medium, read-only, slowly changing datasets, this is the ultimate serverless database model, especially for lots of queries.

Although I think this approach would benefit more from Cloud Run’s request multiplexing per function.
This scheme is legal based on a custom of quantity price discount. The insurance company negotiates a price schedule with healthcare provider and if you buy their policy, you will get the discount. It is analogous to purchasing from a retailer where the price is the same for all customers vs. buying a large quantity from the distributor and paying much less per unit.

This mechanism may be a foundation of legality of health industry pricing practices, but it is grossly abused. Contrary to what is advertised, U.S. health care is not a free market. The pricing is made opaque by insurance industry and other middle man. This is the main reason why price gauging of that magnitude is possible. It is a cash cow that just keeps on giving and trying to change that will be extremely difficult.
10 years ago my mom died and I can't bring myself to remove her from my contacts.
I wish I could downvote this 100 times. I wonder how future generations will explain our decision to just stand in front of an oncoming freight train.

I remember growing up as a kid watching the intro sequence to the road warrior and thinking it was entertaining but pretty unlikely that we’d screw up that badly. But now it seems pretty prophetic.
I mean these changes make sense to me; anyone who uses facebook actively can tell how much people gravitate to groups and events (and little else). Since groups have really picked up I've found myself using Facebook more than ever before.

I think the main benefit is that a lot of people have a facebook account, including those who would never have thought or bothered to join forums in the pre facebook era, so now we're seeing a ton of really great communities. Then again, I wasn't on the internet for all that much of the pre-facebook era, so maybe I don't really know how things were before.
You could copy my sorry but I'm dead message, it really is like this:

Hi <insert names>, I loved you all very much but I guess I died. Don't worry about me. I set this up before I died so you could get into my accounts and settle things. Enjoy your lives while you can!

Love <me>
What program are you referring to? AFAIK, This is only in states that expanded Medicaid so it's a real situation for millions in states that didn't. Or are you talking about some other program?
Here's a question: What if I don't care about "future generations"?
Because if Amazon can beat out the competition, if they become a monopoly they might not keep the prices low.
whats the USD price showing in the store?

can't see it from here: "Not Available In Your Country"
This is kind of what we have in The Netherlands. Insurers make standard prices in collaboration with a large part of the healthcare providers. Healthcare providers have to bill using the exact code of the treatment and that amount cannot be more than the agreed amount.

This leads to funny things like there being Treatment X variant A-E for getting a different price for the same treatment based on some arbitrary thing. It also means that now the insurer knows exactly what has been done because the bill says replaced filling on 3rd upper molar with this and that material etc. Before it was just “filling”.

Also if you want to provide better care and need more time or better materials to do that you can only do it within the determined budget and they are quite tight.
"A Tether USD is backed by 74 cents" is a fun quote seen on twitter
Hopefully if there's ever a global fallout we'll have the entirety of human knowledge store deep in the ground for future generations lol. This project is amazing though.
Not a problem at all. Just admit it so we can be honest about where your arguments come from.
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I have a thinkpad X1 carbon and been running Fedora 30 beta for a month now. I am yet to see any issues in touchpad or stability. Gnome shell crashes every now and then but if they didn't notify me about it, I won't even know about it. S3 suspend works great and flicker free boot is a nice icing on the cake. I switched over from 2014 macbook pro and love the weight, keyboard and overall black finish with matte screen. I dual boot F30 and Windows 10. I don't boot up windows unless I have to do something in MS Office. The app ecosystem is worse than the hardware support for me. I don't have outlook or any of the MS products as native app (I use web version of O365 which works well). I miss a native app for Notion. Other than these, F30 has been amazing. I won't ever go back to Ubuntu on a laptop. Against, OS X, app ecosystem still lags but tolerable.
Remember that for commercial use you still need a model release in the USA when faces are identifiable. It is totally separate from the licensing of the image.
I disagree. Apple is a very capital efficient company and already spends a tremendous amount on R&D.

Just like the concept of the mythical man-month, the marginal utility of investing additional money in r&d goes down as r&d spend goes up. Or to put it a simpler way, Apple is running out of effective avenues to invest their money.

The correct move in that situation is to return the capital to shareholders, and stock buybacks are the most tax-efficient way to do so, with the added benefit that if the stock is undervalued (and Apple's certainly has been in the last few years relative to free cash flow), then the shareholders get an "extra" return on top of that.

Don't get me wrong, Apple should absolutely invest in R&D...which they do. They're not pinching pennies, except in situations like the keyboard fiasco, not including adapters etc - but that's a separate issue.

Absolutely the worst thing they could do is just go acquiring companies that don't actually fit with their business model. Remember that it takes human effort (meaning cognitive expenditure) to run a business, and getting side-tracked with non-critical businesses is absolutely antithetical to that. If/when Apple does find a company that has something unique for their situation, then they do acquire them.
It’s like the PayPal and EBay dispute process. Lots of unnecessary manual lookups, waiting periods and then an arbitrary deadline, and my favourite: waiting for them to make an automated decision. Like, why not stall when they already have my money.
Even if you consider 10% sales tax to be their payment, that still leaves an overall % that's sickeningly lower than what people below poverty line pay. I don't see why billion dollar corporations pay so much smaller %.
The costs of giving birth is another interesting example. BBC journalist recently said that even though it costs 4x as much under America's privatised system versus a socialised one (Finland), America has a worse record overall in terms of outcomes.

https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2....
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Mark Zuckerberg's cringey laugh was a slap in the face of Facebook's victims
But their EPS is still doing great to do well-executed share repurchases (stock buybacks).

They've been diversifying their revenue/profit stream with their services push for quite some time now, and continue to do so.
Summary: both liberal and conservative elites are doing things to destroy themselves. Some things it points out seem obvious, like concentrating wealth so much in the top 1% that the masses are starving leading to something like resistance or armed revolt. The article also seems to get to the point of saying that liberal actions are destructive too (I'm liberal but I can see some ideas on this side can bad ideas too), but they almost say everything anyone does hurts the elites. I found it very unpersuasive.
> I think Google would have been better aiming for something closer to Twitter instead of trying to copy and mimic Facebook with Google+.

Google Buzz was closer to Twitter, and came and failed before G+ was a thing.
In electronics, the success of areas like Shenzhen and the relative expense of engineering in the US has decimated non-defense industry.
In 2002, there were 385,000 electrical engineers in the US. In 2014, there were only 300,000. (https://www.computerworld.com/article/2487847/what-stem-shor...)
Why should foreign students expect to work in relatively expensive industries that are losing employees in the US?
The idea that electric vehicles will completely replace ICE vehicles is a hopeful one but faces a lot of roadblocks to get to 100% (or even 80%) and may ultimately be unrealistic. As such, it is dangerous to bank utterly on that goal in efforts to curb net CO2 emissions. So this is not just a stop gap but a backup plan, and more.

Additionally, as a replacement for "drilling oil out of the ground" as the first step in everything that makes use of gasoline and similar products (so jet fuel, heating oil, diesel, gasoline, lubricants, plastics, etc.) this is a good thing, not just from an emissions standpoint but also from a pollution and environmental impact (drilling, crude oil transport, etc.) aspect.

Even more importantly, this is a way to bridge the "energy storage" gap for green energy sources like wind and solar. Base electric power generation is a very second by second thing, hydrocarbon production can easily be an "average output over a week or a month" sort of thing, which is where wind and solar do well.
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The main question that I do not see addressed, is how many Joules of energy does the process need to make 1 Joule worth of liquid fuel.

If we need for example 2J of energy to make 1J worth of gasoline, then it means that we need to double the installation rate of renewable production facilities (wind, solar, biofuels), while the global energy demand increases. This makes it completely infeasible (and I did not consider cost at all in my analysis yet).

Edit: I just saw that the founder mentioned in the comments that they expect 50% efficiency at best. This unfortunately means that the liquid fuel product of this process will have at least double the cost of renewable energy.