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Maybe, it'd be a fairly narrow window where they could consciously do that so most of the time we've just seen failed landings hit the pad but maybe this one was far enough out of bounds it could trigger behavior we haven't seen. They do intentionally come in off target which means an completely uncontrolled landing won't just crater into the ship. It's a pretty sturdy ship though and what we did see could have been it running out of the nitrogen for the cold gas thrusters that provide a lot of control close to landing.
>> One of the defendants, Masoud Soleimani, a prominent stem-cell researcher at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, has spent eight months in an Atlanta jail.

Utterly and positively shameful. It's the kind of conduct you'd expect from the Iranian Government, not the "shining beacon unto other nations".
I've no idea about the computer needed. (Graphics conflicts with my extreme cheapness.) But as for controls, you really should get a yoke (or possibly a joystick, but I've found them to be less enjoyable and/or realistic) and rudder pedals.

That's reasonably cheap; beyond that the sky's the limit.
I mean that you can hire developers who, due to their inexperience, know just enough to make one very specific kind of thing, and that thing is a certain type of SPA frontend (e.g. "React developers", sort of like "Java developers"). Because they only have this one skill, and because "web SPA frontend developer" is in-demand enough for a decent supply pipeline of them to have formed (of "code bootcamps" et al), the junior ones are relatively cheap to hire.

You can then have someone with more experience "box up" that web SPA frontend in an Electron wrapper, in a way that will generally last a good while.

(This is, AFAIK, precisely the approach taken by teams like Spotify, where the Electron app has no extra functionality beyond what you'd get from the web app.)

Of course, developers generally age out of only having one skill, so this is sort of the programming equivalent of an "intern job": not something anyone would stay in for more than the length of an internship, and something that you just constantly pump new people through.
Excuse me for being a little cynical... But I find the timing a little convenient that only after 2016 are people concerned about Executive Orders and presidential overreach.

I'm sure this comment will be followed up with someone saying "nah I've been concerned" and that may be true, but let's look at the common mode here.

It's like the people arguing for bigger government are many of the same people arguing against government when it's someone they don't like in power and can't see past their own noses on this.
All meat is just recycled plants and meat.
I believe the parent was referring to a change in Apple's guidelines that was making the rounds a couple of weeks ago, “Apps intended for kids may not include third-party advertising or analytics”

This was previously discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20108096
This app can help readers easily traverse the 130+ expert profiles showcased in Tim Ferriss' book Tribe Of Mentors, browse their bios, read their answers to Tim's infamous 11 questions, and even check links to their favourite books and gadgets.
Microsoft doesn’t even have a consistent look and feel within its operating system. Windows 8 forward has been an inconsistent mess of a half implemented tablet interface.
This is one of the reasons I dropped out of crypto for years, most of its supporters were completely delusional and tragically uninformed about actual banks.

I always considered two datapoints to be fulcral A) ease of use, which Bitcoin has never had and B) potential to be overtaken by an actual bank and twisted into whatever purposes it wanted due to the 51% error. That is, how hard would be it for JPMorgan or Deustche Bank to just buy 51% of Bitcoin and make it do whatever they wanted? I could never see the potential for either fact to be avoided, as much as the frothing Bitcoin-enthusiasts would like it to.
On a 8 hour day it's 70% reddit/hn/youtube, 30% work which may be actual coding or simply shuffling Trello cards around, rewriting the documentation, sending emails to acknowledge that I've received other emails and trying to look busy.
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Water is fairly heavily regulated as a utility in the United States to prevent such price gouging and prevent a corporation from getting an agree-or-suffer-and-die unequal negotiation. Medicine is not that.
What do you consider actual work?

I work for a bank, and internally, we refer to ourselves as the worst run software company possible. You could remove 80% of our staff and our clients would not notice at all - the remaining 20% are all that's needed to support the services and make quality updates.

I spend a lot of time keeping that 80% away from the 20% so that stuff actually gets done. I don't really do any work per se, but if I didn't do my job, nobody else would be able to do theirs. It's hard to quantify.
Is it worth your time?

I doubt I could cope with what you describe.
I throw all my notes out as soon as I finish writing them.

This is essentially what I always did, but instead of "as soon as I finish" replace "at some long-overdue future time". But the notion of write-only notes was largely identical, with very rare exceptions.

Hilariously, I only kept my notes so long out of poorly surfaced guilt that I was "doing it wrong", compared to some students who seemed to come out of lecture with fancy notes practically ready for prepress...
Sorry, I'm uncertain what you're trying to say -- do you actually think that the only two choices are browsers and home rolled rendering, or are you deliberately constructing a straw man?
There's no white collar job that I know of that doesn't require a lot of sitting. Even if it isn't programming, office jobs require you to sit a lot since almost everything is done by computer.
The key is to take regular breaks and walk around. Exercise regularly and eat a Mediterranean diet.
Note that your article cites at least 1 other study that says 5-6% or even as high as 10%. It would be interesting to see a breakdown here - does this include prescription medication? It seems like if you're talking about provider regulation, you shouldn't include that.

Unfortunately the article doesn't make it easy to figure this out.
Libra is a centralized system, sponsored by payment processors, masquerading as a decentralized system.
> "Okay so ask my doctor about Poopathome for my rectal bashfulness... Well let's see first. It says $890/month average dose. My insurance covers 80% so that would cost me something like $180 a month. Yeah sorry Pfizer you'll have to do better."

..."but (hehe) maybe I'll check GoodRx too. Hmmm...they have discount coupons that bring it down to anywhere from $20/month to $100/month, depending on the pharmacy. Hmmm...it's $40/month at the pharmacy I have all my other prescriptions, but $20/month at the Safeway that is a bit out of the way for me. Ooh...look at this! It's also $40/month with GoodRx at my pharmacy for pills with twice the dosage I'd need. If I get that and cut the pills in half, it's effectively $20/month at my pharmacy! Maybe I'll talk to my doctor about it after all!"

It's ridiculous currently, and some of it makes no sense whatsoever. Here's a recent illustration of the absurdity which I experienced last month. (For those in Europe reading this--I swear I'm not making this up! This is really how we do prescription drugs over here).

There's a drug I take twice a day, 150 mg each dose. I had a monthly prescription for 30 x 300 mg, with directions to take half a pill in the morning and half a pill in the evening. That costs $9 cash at Walmart.

The cash price at Walmart for 30 x 150 mg is also $9.

The 300 mg pills were back ordered last time I needed a refill, and Walmart said they could change it to 60 x 150 mg. I said to go ahead.

Turns out they actually changed it to a 3 month supply, 180 x 150 mg...and the price was $400. WTF? I pointed out that this was rather absurd, and they redid it as 60 x 150 mg for one month...that was $300. Huh?

According to GoodRx the cash price at Walmart should be $24 for 60 x 150 mg (which still doesn't make much sense, because it is the exact same freaking pill used for 30 x 150 mg, which is $9. Filling a bottle with 60 pills instead of 30 pills should not add $6 to the cost!). They agreed to redo it yet again, as 60 x 150 mg, for the $24 cash price listed by GoodRx. (And I do mean "redo it". They could not just sell me the 60 x 150 mg bottle that they had just filled for $24. Nope. They had to count out another 60 x 150 mg into a new bottle and sell me that for $24. Presumably the first 60 x 150 mg bottle, the $300 one, got treated as a prescription that was never picked up).

When it is time to renew that, I'll be moving it to Safeway. 60 x 150 mg there is $13.99 with a GoodRx coupon.
In fact you may be understating it a bit. If the doctor uses cash accounting, then it's not that the $300 deduction is of no value, there is no $300 tax deduction.

As you point out, a cash basis taxpayer pays taxes on actual income received. Money you may have hoped to receive but didn't isn't income, so there is no tax and no deduction related to it.

If the doctor filed taxes using the accrual accounting method it would be different.
Some of the meetings I've had have had 10x impact on what any individual contributor would have done during that time, if the meeting didn't happen.

I think it's a fallacy to think of work this way. It doesn't really matter what % of your time you spend "working". What matters is the results you achieve. These can only be measured in periods longer than 1 day, so I wouldn't trust any recommendation or finding based on the answers of this question.
Let's hope you don't die in the extra 10 minutes it takes for the ambulance to drive you to your preferred hospital.
You don't need that long of a list of things that cost 2% before you've explained quite a lot.
> We can easily simulate it.

To my knowledge, this is nowhere near truth. They got it to wiggle by basically scripting muscle contractions, no neural networks are involved in the process. When you turn on the network, it does nothing. (And I love project, the idea and community behind it.)
Doesn’t coinbase have something like this?

Edit: oh nvm. It’s cheaper
> gets their 80% waived by the provider effectively shifting 100% of the cost to the patient while still being able to account for the 80/20 split on the books

I'm fairly certain this loophole doesn't exist.
average monthly revenue back in 2012 was 2k. Nothing to scoff at for a side hustle while working full time. This guy is killing it..
I agree with your sentiment, and there is a large program doing that right now. In May the current administration got Gilead to agree to give 200,000 uninsured people Truvada per year for free. It's not enough, although it is a start.

The Preventive Services Task Force also just put new obligations on insurers in the past two weeks - through an A rating on PrEPs - to provide people with private insurance the drugs at no cost (a mechanism the ACA put into place).
Surprisingly, unlike the pennies-per-diskette garbage of the late 90s, Sony 3.5 disks from the 80s were stiffer, heavier, and massively more reliable. I have some 800k Mac disks that still read perfectly well. Probably other brands as well, but I was always impressed with Sony media from that era.
So what’s your mrr?
"Such data don’t necessarily mean hedge funds are placing outright bets that bitcoin will drop. The short bets could also be part of hedging strategies: for instance, a fund with a portfolio of bitcoins might go short at CME as insurance against the value of bitcoin dropping."
Good call! Thank you very much!
Not directly related to the apps mentioned in this article, but one key permission that iOS lacks that Android has is the network access permission. There are many apps that I just don't want accessing the network or the Internet at all. I want them to run as local pieces of software with whatever other permissions I choose to grant them.

Even in our connected world, there is no reason to provide blanket network access to every app on the device.
> Government's grasp on what money should mean is one of the primary ways democratic governments exercise power.

Could you explain that statement? I can’t help but counter that isn’t often the government’s control of money that enables the rise of authoritarian governments! Perhaps privatization of currency might strengthen democracy not undermine it.
That's why we need tech that doesn't emit net CO2 at all, not just Priuses and improved combustion efficiency.

The analogy would be the development of non-ozone-depleting refrigerants. Technology which emits greenhouse gases should simply be replaced with that which doesn't OR the greenhouse gases must be captured after-the-fact (and the emitters must fully pay for it).
A 50 pack of 4 GB flash drives is over $100 on Amazon[0].

A 50 pack of DVD-RW is under $50.[1]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/TOPSELL-Swivel-Memory-Drives-50/dp/B0...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-95213-Optical-Disc-White/dp/...
> There's lots of regulation on health services (obviously, as there should be, because safety is important), but more importantly, when a person is sick or injured, they usually are not able to comparison shop.

this is absurd. there's plenty of spending that isn't in any hurry, and doesn't need to be. a couple of things off the top of my head; opthalmalogical checkups, having funny moles inspected/removed, annual exams of all varieties, vaccinations... the list is enormous.

> but even a relatively common illness makes comparison shopping unrealistic

take your GP's rates for the services you expect to need over the near year or two into consideration in advance when choosing them.

> Has anyone else had a doctor or nurse filed the wrong paperwork for a blood test...

maybe if you could check the price ahead of time, you could've checked that they wrote down the correct test?
>Not being able to control the supply of currency your goods (or others' goods, i.e. petrodollars) are valued in is a huge disadvantage.

Ask the poor countries of the EU, which have been ripped off by the rich countries for decades now.
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Also: COM support. This can be incredibly useful for interop.
Very perceptive!

Just today, Nick Clegg,
former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and currently Vice-President for Global Affairs and Communications at Facebook, explicitly asks for FB to be regulated [1]: "We need governments and policymakers to engage with issues like these and help set the parameters for us".

[1] https://news.sky.com/story/sir-nick-clegg-link-between-socia...
I don't know if the parent comment is correct and that the difference is tax deductible... but if so it is real money.

If the marginal tax rate for the Dr. is 50% (like it probably is in CA) then a $300 deduction is $150 in tax savings.
Lots of people use our DNS and update via the API to make dynamic DNS. https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/36002052451...
> The Obamacare push is the most powerful and organized push that we will likely ever get.

No, it's not too even the most powerful and organized push we have gotten, so far, but, even assuming it was:

> It failed to reach that mark.

Yeah, but it moved the starting point quite a lot. Just like the adoption of Medicare and Medicaid before it moved the starting point that it started from. Just like the adoption of Veterans health care before that...

We’re not resetting to zero before each push.
> or they can use an actual method of accounting and carry the loss forward

Yep, it's been 7 years since I took an accounting class (and it shows). Thanks for adding that.
They also didn't mention Ethereum 2.0's scaling abilities or any of the other cryptocurrency scaling techniques that are already available.
> With HDHPs being so common the 'disconnect' between providers and patients is already not a real thing.

Long way to go for HDHP to take over the market. But its definitely the way to go. It will however attack mostly the primary care market, not the hospitals which are 40% of the national health spending.

> At any rate, entrusting laymen to understand when they should and should not seek emergency medical attention means that people will die through entirely preventable causes in an attempt to ration their health care spending. Your cure sounds worse than the disease.

Not my "cure" thats the economic reality. Unfettered access to healthcare will give you skyrocketing costs. You cant complain about both at the same time, they are a trade-off. I do think that cost is the single most important thing to attack, and the policies to do so are very easy to enact. They are just very unpopular, because the democratic party wants to increase the state, not make healthcare cheaper, and because republicas have their head up their ass on this topic for reasons I dont understand.
Yes, this is Office 365 on macOS. Neither the computer nor Outlook have been restarted in weeks, which is surely contributing to its current RAM footprint.
That’s insurance based healthcare in a nutshell. Insurance doesn’t negotiate just rates but the actual reimbursements.

The real fraud is the fact that insurance companies have been buying up health care practices/hospital systems and dropping all other providers from their networks and forcing the patients to go to the insurance owned providers (often times unbeknownst to the patients). Although there have been a couple successful large class actions by both doctors (who got dropped) and patients as well, but this hasn’t changed anything in practice just provided a little hush money.
Governments can easily ban and pursue anti-crypto measures to prevent anything such as money they can't control.

Yannis Varoufakis said it best: the idea of apolitical money is a fiction and a dream. Money has always been associated to and controlled by governments. Bitcoin currently is actually heavily manipulated/moved by Tether which is controlled by Bitfinex.
I agree with you, but I don't think this is great advice. If you tell people that aren't already physically fit that they have to do high intensity training five days per week to be healthy, they'll think it's too difficult and they won't be able/have time to do it. The best advice you can give is to start with a light 20 minutes of cardio three times per week. After getting into a routine of regular exercise they may progress to more challenging workouts.
In my first 31 years, I lived in a socialist Panelház / Platten Bau buildings. These have such a poor wall insulation (windows are usually double-glazed), on Summer nights even in night you have 25-28C, 33-35 in daytime. Most of my neighbours use their balcony to host the external unit of an AC, so they can maintain a nice 20-25 depending on the time of the day. Because there are no sliding windows because of the poor insulation, mobile ACs are not an option.
Apparently, if the dishwasher at a fast casual restaurant can afford this yet you cannot.
It's mostly the windows phone and app store. Bing except the malware and shutting down part.
A mild correction: it was an effective 10% bump. Google used to have an individual and company multiplier to the bonus which could top out to 25%. The company had repeatedly hit the 25% company multiplier and had strong feedback that the employees preferred predictability in pay. So, they gave a 35% pay raise and phased out the company multiplier.

It also happened in October 2010, which I think was before the wage fixing was discovered (I know the dates because it was after I signed and before I started. Any time I tried to negotiate on salary they countered on stock because they knew salary was going to multiply by a third)
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The fact that this data has to be published means any one person with medical knowledge and their techie friend can now build a "what's the cheapest hospital near me?" website, which is something we couldn't do yesterday.

This is an enormous problem, and the way you eat an elephant is one bite at a time.
Yes, there are many Bitcoiners who believe that everyone will become their own bank but I believe a more common sentiment is the idea off full backed reserved. But a great I feel that a more common belief held by Bitcoiners is that the "inherent" issues with capitalism come from fractional reserve banking. Now for the first time in history there is a form of money that you can prove in a matter of seconds that your money didn't move when you gave custody to the bank. In fact with multisignature transactions banks would simply act as a escrow service for those, I imagine a most people, who do not feel comfortable managing their own keys.
People on HN in the middle of the workday (in the timezones where HN is most popular) are probably not the best people to ask if you want answers that are representative of the tech industry in general.
Most side projects earn negative dollars over 11 years so that growth over 11 years is probably in the top 0.1% of side project earnings. Very few people can say they grew a side project business into a $200k+ a year business.
HMO's are very successful in terms of providing cost/care solutions. The fact that they are so unpopular reveals the american preference: they want to see any doctor, at any time, with as much access as possible.
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Is it? Google Chrome and its associated process are using 5.1 GB of RAM. That's why it's tough for me personally to get worked up about 300 MB.
Well being a software contractor, I only get to bill for the time I actually do my job. I don't keep the clock running while I'm on HN for example.

On a good day I can work a full 8-10 hours of billable time (which includes not only writing code but researching APIs, documenting infrastructure, etc).

But on a day when there's a lot more unknowns that have to be waded through (when it feels like running through molasses), I end up getting distracted more easily and have a harder time hitting 8 hours. Still doable, but I need to do things like work from home (where there's no internet to be distracted by) instead of at the library, and lock myself in my home office so I can focus.

Speaking of which, have to get back to this configuration task [1] [2]. I have half a mind to write a blog post about it, in the hopes of inspiring others to help move this front-end JS ecosystem forward, which it still needs.

[1] https://github.com/pikapkg/web/issues/62

[2] https://github.com/pikapkg/web/issues/68
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But a lot of lawsuits have depended on these phone records.
"You could drop the cost of care just de-regulating"

That's a huge oversimplification and isn't true in many cases, for example when a single drug company owns the patent on a life saving drug. The laws of supply and demand are not in favor of those who require that drug to live.
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also June 2019 - Dec 2009 != 11 years
I feel like the key idea here is somewhat unrelated to writing Electron apps. It's that you can set up any Node server app to run inside an Electron window during development and then you get cmd+r and all the devtools for free. Kind of like a node inspector on steroids. Pretty nifty!
Thanks. Your support department has been quite active in responding to the issues I've had. But thanks for reaching out :)