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> No RAII, so you have to explicitly handle cleanup at every point you may have to early-return an error (goto fail etc...).

I think RAII can be useful, but I've never found any use for it in systems level code that I write. Most of the time I'm dealing with resources that were allocated inside a systems library or an external component which just gives me a handle to the resource. I think this is a common enough scenario in systems code that I don't think its just me.

e.g.

1. X = CreateResource()
2. Y = TransformResource(X)
3. ProcessNewResource(Y)
4. Z = TransformResource(Y)
5. etc. etc.

And so as you transform that resource, you will have multiple ways to unwind the resource depending on where the failure occurs. Even if you wrap X in some RAII container, you don't know what your destructor is going to look like.

Another con to RAII, especially when paired with shared-ownership smart pointers, is you lose predictability over your resource deallocs. You never know when the last pointer is going go out of scope, and if its a 'heavy' resource with a complicated unwind, you're going to get a CPU spike at an indeterminate time. I deal primarily with industrial automation code and I much prefer to have a smooth/even CPU graph. I think this issue is more relevant to systems code which is the context of this thread.
In the UK I know there have been a few instances of people claiming to be minors, so they're less likely to be deported. I assume that 'age' would persist if they got leave to stay.
Talk to an immigration lawyer, a non-government immigration lawyer. The best strategy is to avoid triggering any sort of investigation. Even if there is zero evidence, even if you have done absolutely nothing, the investigation can make your life hell for years. As a private person I support freedom of speech. As an attorney, in this political climate, I advise not saying anything that might draw the attention of federal officials. They do trawl online forums for comments. They do investigate facebook posts. They do target individuals vindictively. I advise never saying anything about anyone's immigration history.
IANAL, but AFAIK it is a common misconception that cookies are a problem. They don't.

Closer to the truth is that tracking is a problem.

So as long as you don't use any tracking, you don't have to care about privacy consents. But be aware that simple things like assets hosted on 3rd party servers (e.g. web fonts) can be used to track your users by your partners. Furthermore, everything related to ads or social media is most likely being used to track users.

So if you want to avoid any trouble, host everything yourself and don't include any tracking/ads/social media. However, most likely you will still be required to have a privacy policy on your page if you have EU users.

EDIT: Btw. when I say 'tracking', I mean web tracking like Google Analytics, not time tracking (might be ambiguous in this context).
Yeah, but nobody with at least half a brain is gonna try and prosecute old Vietnamese couple who lied on a form so they could escape communism and spend more years working. That would go against basically every "traditional American value" and even if they did (federal law enforcement does not have a reputation for being reasonable) it would just be a political time bomb until the story got out.

Edit: I guess I was wrong and they are targeting these kinds of people.
As for your question, I for one would like _doctors_ to double-check doctors' orders. Not an actuary.

To be fair, with private insurers, it's usually BOTH a doctor and an actuary reviewing care. Which isn't to imply I like insurance - I'd much prefer an NHS-style system where my taxes fund the majority of care and I can buy a private policy if I want a "Cadillac" plan.
Google maps has definitely improved, but they are even worse than most review sites in the near worthlessness of their review scores. The vast majority of restaurants are rated between 4 and 5 stars, with the difference between a 4.1 and 4.6 being huge - the former being 50/50 that its good, the latter being the sort of place worth waiting in line for. The closest Michelin starred restaurant to me is rated 0.2 points higher than the forgettable greek restaurant across the parking lot from where I work, and less than 1 point better than taco bell.
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https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Programs-and-Initiatives/Health-In...

The ACA requires insurance companies to spend 80% of premiums on medical care. (Sometimes higher and state law can affect this too).

This means that letting prices drift upwards is one of the only ways an insurance company can improve profits, so at least they’re taking a percentage of a bigger pie.

They could also go the other direction and focus on reducing costs and going for more market share. But this is very difficult in practice, consolidation in the hospital industry has given many hospitals immense leverage. You can also save by identifying and rejecting unneeded care-but this is extraordinarily difficult
to do and makes the customer extremely unhappy even when you’re correct (more like dead or bankrupt if you’re incorrect) as the doctor is telling them otherwise.
> Who will double check a doctor’s orders? Voters clearly don’t want the government to do it.

Which voters? Do you have any numbers to back up the 'clearly' statement?
>Who will double check a doctor’s orders?

last i checked, insurance companies do not do this to any extent that is beneficial to the patient. in fact, my experience with this is that the insurance companies get in the way of the doctor doing their job and the patient getting the care they need close to 100% of the time. they only check to make sure the doctor isn't trying to use medical resources which are "too" expensive or similar.

i would be fine with getting the government to do it -- provided that the insurance companies were forced out of business in the process. at this point, i don't see a future where american life expectancy improves with insurance companies still existing in any form.
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>Snap said it will use the proceeds to cover operating expenses associated with running the business.

Perhaps someone can explain to me why anyone would take them up on this "oh you need a billion dollars to keep running? Sure we'll bet a billion on you" is how I see it play out in my head, which I can't see any sane investors doing.

Perhaps if it was 1 million, or 10 million, but a billion? Isn't that a massive gamble?
Yea, I already know that my day would be a log of "still trying to get back into flow state since the last time you poked me" entries.
It's their anti-fraud system. Reviews get moved to Recommend after the user passes some minimum anti-fraud Activity threshold.

If that was your first review, it's almost always unrecommended at first. This stops a lot of the "ask your friends and families" for 5 stars sorts of reviews.
> Good luck with that. If there is no way to have a US court take ownership of a domain (or force someone to handover a bad faith registration), someone will either end up in jail for contempt, or it will just be banned.

This same argument applies to bitcoin and it has not (yet) been banned in much of the free world.
I think this is a great idea, like others said it's the first time I've seen it. The problem is that almost any use case where this is useful for, is almost surely data that people wouldn't want publicized. A self-hosted version of this is ideal (for businsesses). At the very least, allow for API tokens and require a login to see your output (for personal projects uses) instead of just relying on a short random string for security of output. (Understood that it wasn't meant to be secure)
Please explain how blaming Europe/US for all the problems non western countries face, is "empathy". Because it really looks like "ideology", not like "empathy".
No, I live in EU, not in US. This is why I ask questions, because I don't know the answers.
But some races were likely separated for longer than that, so these mutations are likely uneven across populations. Very disturbing if true.
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This article is stupid. Urban and suburban dwellers are not “the few”, they are the overwhelming majority of the population.
They work during the transition period and get jobs working for the single payer type system which will need to be expanded.

Those who don't, can find another job and(!) still have insurance.
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I remember we worked for a well established (no startup) EU bank on a completely new mobile banking (which later won several awards) and I always kind of wondered why they didn't want any 3rd party services like Google Analytics or Fabric. Well now I completely understand. Also, the PIN (which was a "password" to enter into the app) never left the app and the bank didn't know the PIN. A SRP (Secure Remote Password) protocol was used so that the passwords never left the device and actually even the communication could be done over HTTP (instead of SSL) and the attack would not gain the passwords/keys. I became a customer after working onsite for them and seeing the code and working with the devs at the bank :-).
I played it back in the day. It performed better and looked better than early Roblox. My first exposure to programming was actually thanks to Blockland as it inspired me to download the Torque game engine and mess around with it.
If scarcity was an actual issue, we could collectively decide what a fair distribution of that scarce resource would be. Few things beyond a lottery would be considered fair by most, but we can try.

However, we live under conditions of extreme supply for many things, including most factors that would inhibit healthcare. We rarely need to choose.
>If yelp has salespeople that can alter reviews or how they show in any way, and those salespeople are incentivized to hit sales numbers, some subset of them will use the tools at their disposal to facilitate their sales.

I've been threatened by SEO sales people that they can hurt my site's search rankings if I don't sign up for their service. There are robocallers[1] that pretend to be Google employees making these threats. Does that mean they have direct access into Google's database, or even the power to fulfill their threats? Do you think that local businesses, often run by much less technically-literate people, aren't hit by the same kind of scam for their online reviews?

[1]:https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-robocall-scam-were-suin...
That’s barely a blip in the US workforce and I think they could find other administrative jobs given enough time. Nobody objects to other jobs becoming technologically obsolete (except coal mining for some reason) so not sure what the issue is
> Public transit is publicly funded. For improvements in safety, cleanliness etc to happen, the systems need (public) money.

All you are admitting here is that the Government can't provide a compelling alternative to a more expensive form of transport.

> But you will never pay fares because you're scared to take transit, and you probably would never vote in favor of a ballot measure to allocate more tax money to transit because you happen have a car and don't believe improved transit would benefit you anyway.

Why vote to increase spending on something that doesn't benefit you? People won't and you won't convince anyone. This is an unrealistic standard you expect of other people, plus the high and mighty tone you are using won't win people over.

> The population using public transit generally reflects the fact that our culture encourages anyone with enough money/resources to purchase and use a car -- leaving behind everyone who can't (e.g. cash poor, disabled). This scares off the more sensitive potential transit users who'd rather pretend these folks don't exist.

This is such a biased representation of what the real problem is and you conveniently ignore things like violent thugs on public transport (I've experienced this several times in the UK), rowdy teenagers, drunks and the mentally ill.

I used to have a guy who stank and wore a soccer ball on his head catch the same bus, large groups of teenage boys vandalising the train coaches or playing loud music on a quiet carriage and they are far from the worst I've encountered.

No I don't want to have to deal with possibility of violence, nutcases and other general unpleasantness so I won't take the train (I am in the UK).

> The jarring reality is that most Americans (and their political leadership) are classist, sheltered, and have a "fuck you, I got mine" attitude.

I doubt they are. What they want to do is get on with their life with as little hassle as possible, like most people do.

> Source: US lifelong resident of various large cities, no driver's license at the age of 31.

So no real evidence what-so-ever other than your very biased opinion.
Speaking as a biologist, the IARC made a huge bungle here deciding policy on incredibly limited data.
Its hard for humans today to visualize higher dimensional physical spaces, even though after study, we can easily reason about them mathematically.

I wonder if that's analogous to the barrier that was crossed 70k years ago according to the theory in the article.

However, we routinely visualize high dimensional information spaces without even realizing it (though probably through some heavy dimensionality reduction). It's almost like we have the hardware for high dimensional reasoning, and some software to apply it to physical dimensions (the language of math), but no drivers to accelerate the latter with the former.
Right, so they will encourage providers to raise prices.
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They are quite literally, the death panels republicans were screaming about during the effort to pass the ACA.
I don't agree with your sentiment. There are many possible ways to make this work in a useful way. Let me try with just the first example that comes to mind. I live in the Bay area and I'll use it as the environment.

Imagine a dozen or so "carports" for these flying cars, conveniently located close to where people need to commute to/from. Trace routes between these, and setup scheduled travels between them with a high enough frequency. Now all of a sudden you can commute from Marin county to downtown SF, or from SF to Oakland, in just a few minutes, while at the same time removing cars from the existing road infrastructure.

Yes, there's the problem of noise. Cities are already very noisy, what if you limit these flying cars to a time window where it doesn't annoy people too much, e.g. 8am to 7pm.

Still on noise: what if you devise a way to limit the noise when close to the actual carport, e.g. with sound barriers that mitigate the noise for the first 50-60 feet of take-off or landing.

What if the first 300 feet of take-off and landing are assisted with a different vehicle, built on purpose to make less noise than a flying car?

Or, what if noise is too bad, and you limit this to placing carports in areas where you won't disturb neighbors too much, and where the path between two carports is over the ocean, e.g. Santa Cruz to San Francisco, or Miur Beach to Ocean Beach.

On the driver: I wouldn't want a human being to be in control. These routes should be taken by completely automated vehicles. It's easier to accomplish than a level-5 autonomous car, because you don't have obstacles - especially if these route corridors become a no-fly zone for other things like drones, etc.

Here you are, it's a poorly designed plan, but it's a start.

And I'm sure that by iterating more and more the plan can become acceptable, then viable, then a good idea.
Sure we could ban child labor, but then millions of children would be out of a job.

I'm only half joking – the problem with this argument is that it can be used to justify almost any injustice or inefficiency if there is a cost to fixing it.

You are right to flag the issue, and most serious proposals to introduce single payer healthcare in the United States also lay out a transition plan for health care workers to move from the private to public sector.
I suppose if the app provided a better experience, then it wouldn't be user-hostile.
> “I don’t think in ideological terms. I never have,” Obama said, continuing on the healthcare theme. “Everybody who supports single-payer healthcare says, ‘Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork.’ That represents 1 million, 2 million, 3 million jobs of people who are working at Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What are we doing with them? Where are we employing them?”

— Then-Senator Obama, 2006

So they do talk about it, and it's one of several drag-on-the-economy stealth (useless—one of the categories of the "bullshit" classification, in Graeber's taxonomy) jobs programs we have, because we can't have better-run more-beneficial actual jobs programs since those would be socialist.

[EDIT] source of the quote: https://www.thenation.com/article/mr-obama-goes-washington/
I am really regretting my decision many years ago to go all-in on GV and make it my primary phone number.
Updated, but seriously, the Steve Jobs quote is tired. Dropbox is a legit company with a good product. They are as much of a company as Apple was with just a niche computer product.

Steve Jobs made the comment because he probably realized that storage was a big business and he also realized that Dropbox is a direct competitor with iCloud.

Apple out performed Dropbox, but Dropbox is certainly a real company.
Long-term viability is a funny thing financially. If a company is worth their discounted future earnings, then a long lasting low number and a quickly dying high number might be the same. As far as investors are concerned, being a long-term viable business (in the usual sense) might not matter, even with the big-picture view.
The half life of Carbon 14 is 5,730 years. So all it would be able to do is tell you the person is between 0 and 5,730 anyway right?

That wouldn’t help solve these cases.
A majority of voters of both parties support Medicare for All policy proposals.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/403248-poll-seventy-pe...

Voters were split on the ACA mandated carriage of private insurance.
> or are you suggesting they're getting away with lying on official communication?

They've probably carefully avoided lying while still being as misleading as possible.

> If yelp is altering reviews for paying clients, please show the evidence

yelp may not alter the reviews themselves, but it does change the sorting of reviews and images for paying customers.

Also the willingness/capability to carry through on the threat used in extortion isn't directly required, just the threat itself. The execution of the threat is only important when you want the consequences of non-compliance broadly known.

> I suspect, at worst, that they either misunderstood the sales pitch or were contacted by a scummy SEO-like company.

Really? Yelp is a business which provides little to no customer support bandwidth. Sales is easiest point of contact for Businesses with questions about reviews. Do you really think none of those sales people might have deliberately mislead businesses about impact of purchasing advertising on reviews? It may or may not have been condoned by Yelp, but it almost certainly happened.

For specific a specific claim that seems to provide evidence that something weird is going on:

> And what is indisputably clear is that Yelp’s claim that 75 percent of the reviews that get posted by Yelp users become recommended reviews is wildly inaccurate in the case of Baraka Café. When Yelp was only displaying 16 reviews and filtering out 30, it was displaying roughly 35% of all the reviews of Baraka Café, and suppressing 65% of them. It recommended less than half the claimed figure of 75%. Most importantly, none of the suppressed views were negative, only positive reviews were suppressed.[1]

[1] https://thetechnoskeptic.com/yelp-extortion-starring-role/
I'm also a biologist and I believe IARC was right based upon the available evidence.
Strongly supported because they love it, or strongly supported because they have exactly zero other options?
Piping output from shell into HTTP response bodies is exactly what CGI programming is about. What am I missing that this is considered innovative?
It's odd you're down voted when other comments in this page say they did exactly what you're implying.
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I'm 67 and did not take offense at the comment.
Do you have citations for this?

They are specifically pointing out the "blue zones" where a high percentage of supercentenarians live. It's possible that the average literacy of Sardinia is separate from these pockets.

I mean I'm guessing the authors didn't just sit around and say, "hmm, I wonder what the literacy rates are in Sardinia? Let's say low." I guess it's possible though.
> We wouldn't tolerate the existence of an Islamist site that glorified and helped perpetrate mass incidents of terror against our society.

I completely disagree. I've read Dabiq[1] and similar publications because I want to know why people believe the things they believe. It is a good thing that such horrible ideas are available to the public, and for the same reason that it's good that flat earth sites are available to the public. JS Mill puts it best[2]:

> But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.

> If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

It is for these same reasons that I also read /pol/ and /leftypol/ on 8chan.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabiq_(magazine)

2. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Liberty/Chapter_2
Amazing how good people are at finding loopholes in government regulations.
An interesting outcome.

Kudos to the authors for publishing a (kind of) null result, especially one that goes against the grain of popular thinking.
If your profit is limited to a max percentile by law, the only way you can possibly increase profits is to increase expenditures. Insurance companies have every incentive to increase costs so they can increase premiums, their only path to increased profits.
It is entirely possible the capacity for this existed but was not being used. That would explain why it spread so rapidly... perhaps most humans already had the capacity?
huh? where is this news? texts have been free for like ~15 years (where as they used to be pay per text)
I can't remember it but there was a group of people in Oregon trying to start their own health insurance company. They figured out how to do it like a billion times cheaper than the big companies. Eventually they got blasted by a government agency that didn't allow them to operate at those rates because it would be untenable. Unfortunately I think the government doesn't realize it but they have been bending over backwards for the insurance companies to regulate that way.

If you take out the rent seeking apparently healthcare and health insurance may actually be cheap. We just have a ton of laws preventing us from having that. If anyone heard about this group on NPR/OPB let me know I can't seem to find them.