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Maybe. We've seen hosting providers banning sites.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/08/14/1344239/godaddy-exp...

We've also seen registrars canceling domain registrations.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/08/14/1830223/google-canc...

Should they have this power? https://www.newsweek.com/it-legal-hosting-companies-ban-hate...

By analogy, what if the electric utilities started banning people from using electricity based on their speech? Or maybe gas stations refusing to sell you fuel? How far do we let that go? Boycotts are great and all, but the power of the internet is that it gives everyone a voice. So today, are we so dependent on that voice that the 1st amendment needs to apply to it? Or is it okay to limit politically incorrect opinions to meatspace and save the internet for only approved speech?
Well, he's dead, so there's that.
Wolfram and his ego at it again.

"Stephen Wolfram is extremely smart."
-Stephen Wolfram
Lol, you forgot to mention buying ones for family and friends, like Matt Carriker of offtheranch channel.

I agree free market (with certain safeguards) is usually the best path for a society to sustain itself and prosper.

But I feel private equity firms are definitely not good for a free market to sustain itself. And yet they and their lobbyists will insist free market is the best for our society, use that line to prevent any regulations over what they do.
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No he didn't what? Build these machines?
"Financial engineers" aren't interested in building a sustainable business; they want to play a game cleverly, make a cash-grab, jump ship, and leave thousands dealing with the fallout. It's a similar short-term strategy to that taken by many SV founders who build a company only to sell it, though obviously the latter don't cause nearly the same degree of harm to society. But they still pass on opportunities to create actual value and jobs, in favor of making a quick buck and moving on to the next exploit. It's the mindset of locusts.
Actually, that would an FSA. You can hold onto HSAs.
I thought if you have a HDHP you can open a HSA account. It didn't have to be through your employer.
Actually, I can see how this process actually solves the problem of extreme preferences, and does it in favor of those minorities who have the most to gain.

Suppose I belong to minority group X (say people with a rare disease, LGBT, immigrants...) whose life will literally change by approving or rejecting a bill.

On the other side, a similarly sized group Y strongly opposes the first group out of first principles from their ideology (reducing taxes, sanctity of heterosexual marriage, keeping the country "pure"). Usually this group will have strong opinions against several of those social issues, but none of them will really affect their lives directly. So, their votes will be divided among several issues.

Therefore, the votes of a small group will decide the outcome in their benefit on those issues that strongly affect them, unless:

1) an equal opposing group has the same extreme incentives (and in that case, the opinion of the overall population will decide), or

2) the opposing group is much larger than the small group.

I'd say that, in both cases, it is reasonable to think that the system is working as it should.
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Happily, the PG planner isn't thrown off by such things, at least in my experience. It has sample rows and uses them. (I really like the postgres planner, it's the best I've used.)

I've seen it be FAR wrong about memory, though, despite being right about column widths: When you join a few tables in a big select, the planner will look at some sample rows and guess the number of rows in each step of the possible plan, and if the sample is too small, that estimate can be wrong by a LARGE factor.
I think parent meant in programming languages generally.
Can you just open your own HSA account and do it yourself?
I don't understand that. Literally the only "benefit" of a HDHP is the HSA. Why do employers not offer one?
Conveniently, that mindset is one reason that makes higher-ups more comfortable approving initiatives like this!
What he did for Sandy Hook is just the most visible example of what he does for many things. He's pulled the same trick for the Parkland shooting and other attacks. He also promotes anti-vaccination conspiracy theories, arguably more damaging than any "crisis actor" claim he makes.

Most of the public does recognize this as horrible and ridiculous, and ignore him. Deplatforming is the corporate version of ignoring him.
If you spend a lot on healthcare (i.e. have a family) then a HSA works fine since you hit your maximums really quick and then only pay some small % of the sticker price after that.

For everyone who isn't gonna spend a few grand in healthcare every year it totally sucks and is a massive incentive not to have routine care done.
I’ve been shocked to the extent politicians haven’t focused on the lost tax revenue from the gig economy.

I’m certain it’s caused a drop in tax revenue from what would normally constitute middle class tax payers.
> The main gap in trust is that facebook does not disclose their source code

Nah, nobody gives a damn about the source code, or reproducible builds to ensure the binary they're executing was compiled with that source.

The main gap in trust is that Facebook has a long history of lying and cheating to maximize for themselves so there's no basis to trust that their new moves are good for users.

But conspiracy theories about e2e being read by Facebook are probably bogus, and certainly a distraction.

Even though the source is closed, I'd bet they're doing a credible job of securing messages so that even Facebook can't read them.

That's not the issue, it's a distraction from what's really important.

What's really important is that Facebook has lost control of the monster it created. This is a way to let the monster loose and avoid accountability.

Their platform amplifies harmful content like incitement to violence, terrorist recruiting and coordination, and political propaganda.

By encrypting everything so even Facebook can't read it, Facebook escapes accountability for the harm their platform inflicts on people.

Very similar to a chemical company dumping toxic waste in public water, Facebook is dumping their pollution on the public by using strong encryption to make it physically impossible for Facebook to control the monster they created.
It's definitely region-dependent.

I grew up in an affluent suburb of Massachusetts, where guns were really uncommon.

I got stationed in Yuma, Arizona, where pretty much everyone owned guns.

Here in a suburb of Portland, OR, it's somewhere in the middle. Oregon is an interesting state.
Yeah, Unix was a terrible design. Composable architecture combined with standardized i/o and IPC models. I can't imagine anything worse, especially compared to today's proliferation of data formats and inscrutable APIs.

It's a good thing nobody uses it anymore.
This seems like a hard learned lesson. Any tips?
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Having been gainfully employed in corporate IT since I was 19 - and doing max contribution to my 401k every year since - I'm not "in touch" with the predicament of today's kids. Are they alright? Record employment numbers today. Wage growth up. We still have a talent shortage. Being (now) a business owner, my biggest complaint on the talent front isn't a lack of education in candidates, it's a lack of customer focus and inner curiosity (to be aggressively learning in one's spare time and on the job).
Would you care to elaborate why Unix, in your opinion, was never a good design?
Can you get a private HSA?
If it's an employer-provided plan, though, you don't generally see the premium savings. My employer provides the option (through one of the major payroll/HR providers) of a "regular" plan or a high-deductible plan, but neither choice affects my take-home pay. I still chose the HDHP though because I'm generally healthy and it lets you invest pre-tax money with no capital gains tax, which is nice.
I said nothing of the sort. The collusion between Vote Leave and BeLeave is a matter of undisputed fact. They dropped their appeal recently. Your attempt to mix up fair reporting of a crime by putting words in my mouth is fallacious.

But since you mention Aron Banks, he is accused of funneling foreign money into UK elections illegally, and is being investigated for it by the NCA. Is that hounding?
Totally agree. All “innovations” like HSA and 401k are designed to make life easier for employers but are sold as benefit for employees.
I am doubtful if hierarchical file systems have anything to do with slow disks. It a design pattern that you encounter all over in real life for human mind to manage large quantity of information. Using tags is another pattern but with its own pro and cons. Same goes for I/O steams, process hierarchy etc. There may be better designs patterns out there but I don’t see why these existing design patterns would become obsolete even if disks become as fast as RAM.
What a ridiculous statement. Yeah if it was possible to just jump to the best solution each time then we'd benefit massively, but that's not how any science works. The new awesome thing is always built on the back of what was done before. Electric cars have been around since the inception of the internal combustion engine but we didn't have electrical supplies with the energy density of gasoline to make electric cars possible until decades later, and modern life would've been (and remains, unfortunately) impossible without the energy density of fossil fuels. Hopefully someday we'll get past that, but when that happens, that doesn't then mean that fossil fuels were just a bad idea, they were the only stepping stone to what replaced them.
That's sad. The 870 used to be the AK of shotguns. I beat that that gun like it owed me money and it kept cycling and shooting fine. The 700 used to be weapon of choice for many snipers. Hard to imagine today.
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This is kinda like what they did in the graphics API world. Moving from OpenGL to Khronos in order to "cut the fat" between the user program and the hardware.
re table inheritance, don't confuse SQL Table Inheritance with PostgreSQL Table Inheritance. They are different things. SQL Table Inheritance is a good thing, and should be used when needed, such as for the Party Model

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/716549/what-are-the-prin...

For money amounts, use NUMERIC(19,4)
I created a new IG account when I went to Singapore & Japan this year to chronicle my journey through photos that my friends & family can see.

But between a few of them giving me “I get to live vicariously through you now” vibes, the societal pressure to follow them back even if I don’t find their feeds interesting, and the ads, it felt like the whole thing was a net-negative for me and people close to me.

I’ve gone back to just sharing my travel photos in-person.
The trend of higher and higher medical costs, employer plans trending down as far as benefits and up as far as costs was established long before the ACA.
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Well 4 if you count PBS.
Every system is driven by user adoption. At this point, it will be nearly impossible to dethrone the current methodologies.

Not saying it shouldn't be done, just that it might fail.
In my company the HSA premiums are not much lower.
It could have been the Realistic Pocketvision 22, which I have. Neat aside, it uses the right side of the screen to show which channel is tuned, and you need to scan to find one.

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We should probably just strip all societal assets that might potentially fail and give the money to the richest guy we can find, they're going to acquire all that money and we're going to die poor anyway, indeed we could just round up the poor people and shoot them and give the proceeds of the sale of any assets to that same guy; optimisation, it's what makes capitalism great, huh.
While I am satisfied with my HDHP + HSA, I'd be a lot more worried if it were my only option (I'm only young for now) or if I didn't make/save as much.

People are getting hit with HDHP only and no HSA? That's rough.
So you're saying these firms are just being rewarded for putting the beast out of is misery and being the one to fire the gun?

The other way is absolutely better. The "bang" you hear is the bursting vacuum of PE sucking all the value out of the company, depositing it in their bank account, and leaving others holding the bag, a bag that's now far bigger because the company now has less to no ability to satisfy its obligations.

But the PE firm made billions for (sometimes, less than a year of) "management and consulting fees".

These kind of leveraged buyouts are perilously close to what Tony Soprano does to Ramsey Sports and Outdoors - take a controlling interest (albeit by a different method), utilize the business' credit lines, assets and collateral to bring in a lot of (temporary) value, transfer it out of the company, and leave the smoldering ashes of a company massively bankrupt with bad debts all over town, including many it didn't have before the buyout happened.
Politicians are not shocked by anything except when they lose in elections...

Edit: In fact, what they say/act that they are shocked about is often a projection they put up to make sure they get reelected.
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I'm self-employed, so I get insurance through the marketplace. The plans that qualify for use with an HSA are more expensive than plans that are not legally HDHPs, but just happen to have a $6000 deductible and $7900 max out of pocket. They are so much more expensive, in fact, that they completely negate the tax advantages (which are significant.) As a result, I contribute to a basic savings account instead of an HSA, but I could see many people hoping for the best and not saving at all.
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Do they really buy the whole company, or do they just buy enough to control it?
Short answer: generally, yes
I think the value of this really depends on the employer. At a previous role they started switching to an HDHP with an HSA and did a great job (initially) making that fairly attractive versus the low deductible plan with higher premiums.

At my current employer, the deductible per person is close to $4000 and the family limit is ~$10K. The employer provides some money if you have an HRA, but very little if you take the HSA. The premium savings from the low deductible plan (which isn't available any longer) really doesn't make up for the higher deductibles. All it takes is one small series of events (e.g. a complicated pregnancy) for $10K to go out the window. If these series of events happens from December - January, that's 2 years of deductibles out of your pocket.

I work for a huge company and I'm surprised the insurance is so expensive. For the first time in my life I think one of major criteria of my next job will be the healthcare benefits. Previously I was just happy to have insurance - no longer.
Wait what? I thought f(x) = 1 / x is continuous iff x != 0 since 1/0 == undefined.
While "perf" is great (especially for something like optimizing a shared library loaded into Python) I had a hard time using any other counter than the instruction retirement for anything meaningful.

"perf list" list 1300 things, and it seems those counters come and go between architectures.

Intel's tools are free now, and give you a very nice graphical analysis tool. You don't need to buy/use the Intel compiler, just have a 1-2 gigs of free disk space.

Here's a page describing analysis if you want to go beyond why some section of your code spends 40% CPU: https://software.intel.com/en-us/vtune-amplifier-cookbook-to...
Ok, so then, the nut of this story is that employers are adopting HDHPs as a way of reducing their own costs, but not passing the savings to employees, which defeats the purpose of HDHPs and just amounts to screwing employees over?
What would keep people in line is that this would be illegal. A lottery-based system is also problematic for lobbyists because they have to bribe many more people and they can't help elect the people they have already bribed. If they try to bribe the wrong person, they are in big trouble, because they will get investigated, and even if they succeed, they will have to do it all over again the next year (assuming yearly terms). It's also worth pointing out that a lot of what we call "corruption" is the result of politicians, CEOs and lobbyists going to the same schools, working in the same offices, and just generally being friends. They don't even need to bribe each other. They like each other. Lottery eliminates this aspect almost entirely.

I would say the biggest vulnerability of lottery, with respect to bribery, is debt: if a representative owes a lot of money, they are particularly at risk. Which is why I think the state should pay off all debts owed by all representatives (conditional to not peddling their influence, of course). We can disqualify people who owe excessive amounts so that this doesn't cost too much.
The initial comment was about the misguided idea that cities are filled with "elites" who are trying to "protect" our jobs. That is nonsense and not supported by any evidence whatsoever.
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They sell it to another sponsor who thinks they can do more with it.

But by and large most private equity shops are not in the business of asset stripping. Those deals just don't make the news and the average reader is oblivious to them
That’s the insanity of employer health insurance. Things like this should never be a decision of the employer. It’s the same stupidity with 401k.
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I don't see the market not sustaining itself, though. As a consumer, if I'm not satisfied with Remington, I just buy a Mossberg instead of an 870, or a Bergara instead of a 700, or literally anything but an XD. There's a lesson to be learned that if you open your investment to the public or get in bed with a private equity firm, you may now be pressured or forced into short-term thinking that isn't aligned with your long-term vision. But I don't see this as a failure of the market. In a free market, losers lose.
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inb4 private equity is evil and we should kill all financiers

Please don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
If we are able to reduce the question of no reelections to the question of whether we should have term limits, I believe we will find that no reelections will have the same drawbacks as term limits[0].

Lawmaking is a profession, and needs to be done by professionals. If it is not, studies show that power shifts towards other existing power structures, such as the head of state and to lobbyists[1], which would make a lottery based appointments counterproductive on the issue of corruption.

[0]: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/01/18/five-reason...

[1]: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/153244000100100...
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Obamacare also added an extra tax on the best health insurance. The problem when no one has to pay anything is that people don't care about price.

> an annual 40% excise tax on plans with annual premiums exceeding $10,800 for individuals or $29,500 for a family starting in 2020 (delayed further)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_insurance_plan
A limit system based just on non-consecutiveness is gamed pretty easily: look at Dmitry Medvedev's term as Russian president.
Media platforms are the inherent venue for this content. Utility companies are not. There's a strong difference between a media platform denying him access and a basic utility doing the same. In fact their are laws (in the US at least) governing this sort of thing with respect to Utilities.

If you want to pull in something like the electric utility, you need to change the example from a trollish media figure to someone messing with the power grid via their utility hookup. Doing that might very well get you banned.
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It's not really intriguing when you consider that non-hispanic whites are the most likely to own firearms, and that that group's size has been essentially stagnant for the past few decades and is currently in decline.
It's more extreme than your example. The parent is ignoring the fact his great healthcare experience is predicated on them being able to drop him the moment they could, when his illness became too expensive.

Ending pre-existing conditions was the game changer in the AMA. Treating people is obviously more expensive than not treating them.
Ask HN: Is there a good internal search product?
A lot of friends indicate to me that the organizations they work at have siloed sources of data and often find it difficult to find the specific information they're looking for internally.

My friends at VMware, for example, often use Google search to find their own documentation. Is there a service that provides integrations and a search tool, and perhaps even a virtual assistant for enterprise? I imagine the work is fairly scoped down as compared to general usecases and something impressive could be built.

I'm aware of tools like butter.ai, but they were acquired.
One idea I've been throwing around is to replace files with HTTP resources; everything is a resource. Effectively Plan9s idea, but the time might be right.
its the wumao coming out of the woodwork.
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