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> Unless you know what you are doing, don't touch tools you don't understand.

I'm sorry but this is an absurd comment, and a fairly miserable reply to make to an engineer who is sharing a mistake in hopes of helping others to learn. We all touch tools we don't understand, and hopefully we learn something and come to understand them better. FWIW I have been running prod. workloads on GKE since 2016, and I think any engineer who is familiar with managing and deploying to cloud infrastructure can readily learn to run a GKE cluster.
Agree on that - things sourced from Amazon are increasingly likely to be suspect quality these days.
Depends on whether hospitals execute efficiently on the capital they raise from bad billing practices. If they are, regulating billing either won't change the final costs, or degrade service.
Thanks for these. Got a couple of interesting evenings' reading ahead.
Thank you so much for bringing this up! This is one point that has really irked me in the current discussions. It should be about common sense access and lowered, transparent costs.

In the UK, I could walk into a Boots (pharmacy), speak to someone there and get prescription eyedrops for cheap for an infection vs the crap you have to wade through in the US. Same for other doctor/healthcare visits I've had around the rest of the world.
> If you're unhappy with NYT, consider their mainstream-educated-conservative counterpart, WSJ.

As if there's a major difference between the two papers. They both hire from exactly the same schools and cocktail parties and there's not much tangible difference between the two papers—maybe slightly different opinion column headlines.
CVE-2019-8014: The Vulnerability Ignored 6 Years Ago
>in California, hospitals may not legally employ physicians to practice medicine

...why?
ibuprofen also costs $80 a pill at a hospital ..this was 7 years ago, no idea what it costs now!
Note that this is not really replacement for most Makefiles - it does not do dependency tracking, parallel building, integrated rules, or any bulding at all.

This is a wrapper for go files which allows you call functions easier. With it, one can type “mage Something” instead of “go run Something.go”.
Young and middle-aged people need to vote. I've been in and out of hospitals for the last few years, months, days, hours with relatives, and guess what they don't ever worry about: medical bills. Like never.

And guess what they won't ever vote for: Those of us younger than 65 ever having the same luxury. We may be visiting them in the hospital every day, but they don't really see us.

And it's hard, because our generation loves them and wants the best for them, but most of us know we won't ever get the same quality of care for ourselves unless something changes...and as a human, well, you know, you get kinda bitter counting up "Wow, this is awesome, but what would it cost if I had this happen to me?"

Vote, people, because if our elderly are getting state-of-the-art amazing life-saving care, why shouldn't our young people, upon which our economy depends, be getting the same great service?
Maybe, but this scheme still discourages casual spur-of-the-moment fraud.
This is all very interesting, but one thing that occurs to me is: why are there so many idle pods? Is there any way to fold the work that is currently being done in multiple different pods into one pod? Perhaps via multiple threads, or even just plain single-threaded concurrency? Unless there is some special tenancy requirement, that might be the most efficient way to deal with this situation.
I highly recommend Firefox with the uBlock Origin add-on.
> People rationalize it by saying that voting for a 3rd party is "wasting" their vote

It's actually worse than what people say. First past the post voting systems have a lot of problems, one of which is called the spoiler effect. By not voting for the major party you prefer you are actually voting against said major party.

Take this simple example: Major party A has 51% of the votes, while major party B hast 49%. Party A wins the election. Next election party C makes a big campaign at party A voters and convinces 3% to vote for them. Now we have A 48%, B 49% and C 3%. Party B wins the election. And if we look at the paper trails it probably doesn't surprise who funded party C's campaign.

Assigning this well studied behaviour of rational voters to simple tribalism is trivialising the core issue in the US: Elected officials are not representing the people. The way to fix this issue is to fix their voting system.
I do not, actually. But I totally sympathize with your concern and also totally agree with moksly, 8 hours ago. I personally never gone through anything like that, one side or another, but I strongly believe in people's capacity, no matter how hard they insist on the contrary.
There are things we do for the reward. And then there are things we do just for their own sake, driven purely by internal motivation. It looks like the latter is the case for Julia when it comes to teaching computer things. Being able to choose a lifestyle where you can pursue things that intrinsically motivate you is probably the ultimate form of professional satisfaction. Congrats Julia! I'm really looking forward to see what comes out of this.
i think that's fine. you can use 'saving your progress' as an incentive to get people to register.
There's a big difference willpowering yourself to stay at your natural state of skinnyness and willpowering through hunger-regulating systems in your body being permanently broken. Here's another reference if you didn't like the other study. https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-weight-...
I am that kind of lazy. It works fine for me, but I have doubts about how valuable it is to my employer. The first bad case is that other, non-lazy developers don't feel any resistance to the repetitive tasks in the first place. When I make a script to parse help desk tickets, it only helps me because they don't adopt. The second case is when they don't trust scripts, and prefer to work from their own understanding. The third case is when they have ways of doing things (mostly reading code directly) that I would approach with a tool to make finding the problem easy.

I suspect that if I spent my time 100% on things that go into the codebase, the end users would be forced to use them so my efforts would be more fruitful for the company. I'm not going to expect to be able to persuade people to try Cygwin in my next job. If there's not an institution supporting my scripts they're not going to scale. So I guess don't hire a lazy developer if everyone else is happy doing it the hard way.
> you can't address the full 4GB with 32 bits

Sure you can, you use page tables.
I have been writing Scala professionally for 6 years now. I must say this is a problem I have never seen anybody face or discuss anywhere whatsoever.
Reminds me of the brief hospital visit I had in Paraguay where I needed to have a friend or relative always with me because the hospital didn't stock anything. If ibuprofen, bandages, syringes, antibiotics, etc were needed, the hospital staff would tell me and I would have my friend or relative run across the street to buy the necessary supplies from one of the pharmacies so the doctor or nurse could treat me.

Cheap hospital bill, cheap pharmacy bill, pain in the butt for my friends and relatives.
And yet, Canadians and others come into these discussions talking about how sane and reasonable our system is, and invariably someone immediately jumps in with "yeah but at least we have CHOICE here instead of having to appear before DEATH TRIBUNALS and then going on INFINITY WAIT LISTS."

Oh, America, you will never change.
There's an ideal world we want (that might never happen) and there's the real world. We live in the latter. Voting for the 3rd party is effectively voting one of the big 2.

Also, I find it curious that while our community has generally settled on "incremental improvement" approach, we expect different from our governments and want the "big bang" changes. Then we are surprised when things get worse.
California really makes it hard to have everything on one bill because no hospital can hire a doctor.

But businesses and some consumers do want things to be under one roof - no surprises on in vs out of network, they don't like separate bills from each doctor that sees them, easy referrals, etc.

Kaiser is sort of a funny workaround.

The Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, the Kaiser Foundation of Hospitals and The Permanente Medical Group = Kaiser Permanente

The win for the patient is everything in-network and under one roof. If you are in a Kaiser facility EVERYONE is basically in network (with the exception of some state mandated providers that have to go through their own state flows - yes, that's why sometimes you need to repeat info on forms even at Kaiser)

The win for doctors is you really don't have denied claims or the billing pain you might in private practice.

CMA I think has really fought these setups before, but now oddly (in part because of medical malpractice and EHR overheads etc) working for Kaiser isn't considered a dump job anymore.

Bad news, obamacare put demand through the roof at Kaiser (even though they are not the cheapest plan) so they are shortstaffed I think.

If you do or know anything about medical billing - medical providers probably hate it as much as you do. A patient with primary coverage through Kaiser and secondary through Medi-cal - just to bill Medi-cal for $40 - you could spend hours on that as you hoop jump.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_hexafluoride#Greenhouse... It was reported in 2013 that a three-year effort by the United States Department of Energy to identify and fix leaks at its laboratories... had been productive, cutting annual leaks by 35,000 pounds. Maybe they should add some kind of smell and/or color so leaks are more noticeable.
What is that BEGIN{...} and END{...} syntax? I've seen a good amount of Ruby, but haven't encountered that yet.
And they teach classes in it (and just about every other industrial art), too! It's an amazing place.
The hill I choose to die on is that Die Hard 2 is better than the original Die Hard.
No taxis charged you as a monopoly. Uber charges you on many many more drivers + VC money
10,000 production changes per week, but no person-hours available to backport security patches for three months while the transition wraps up.
For full years after we had a baby we’d get 1-2 $20 bills a month. And they could always be traced back to a specific appointment or procedure, so we didn’t argue. But yeah, it’s loco.
>Newton invented calculus in a few months goofing off

I'm not disputing your overall point, but I don't think the example of Newton helps your case.

Newton accumulated writings at the time of his death run to about ten million words:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Alchemy

10 million words on science, philosophy, religion and combating counterfeiting during his 33-year tenure with the Royal Mint is a lot even for a long life. (Newton lived to 84.)

And Newton never had sex. (He boasted of the fact on his death bed.)

And look at all the serious things he pursued after he invented calculus (intro to the same Wikipedia page):

>Beyond his work on the mathematical sciences, Newton dedicated much of his time to the study of alchemy and biblical chronology, but most of his work in those areas remained unpublished until long after his death. . . . Newton served two brief terms as Member of Parliament for the University of Cambridge, in 1689–90 and 1701–02. He . . . spent the last three decades of his life in London, serving as Warden (1696–1700) and Master (1700–1727) of the Royal Mint, as well as president of the Royal Society (1703–1727).

Given all he did after inventing calculus combined with the fact that he was ambitious and from a poor family, I'm inclined to think he worked his ass off when he was a student unless you can present strong evidence to the contrary.
They can (eventually) garnish your wages. I wonder at what point they do that.
Never put off 'til tomorrow that which can be forgotten about entirely.

In the workplace, priorities shift, projects get cancelled... procrastination can be an effective strategy for minimizing wasted effort.
To me the main takeaway was, if you put your kids in a school that doesn’t market itself as focused on the kids’ education, you will get a school that isn’t focused on your kids’ education.
Last time I went to the ER I got an itemized bill in a week for $300 or so.

All medical imaging I've had done has had pricing given up front showing what they where going to bill the insurance company and what the insurance company was going to pay and what I'd have to pay.

My non-emergency visits have a $40 copay up front.

Only the nightmare cases get talked about.
I have blank t-shirt, are you interesting?
It's missing something crucial not mentioned, 100x nodes vs 1 means you have the overhead of running Kubernetes on those 100x nodes which is actually high ( kubelets ect ... ) on one node you just have 1core used by kube, the rest is available for your app.
Company provided insurance, only cost us $5k to have a healthy pregnancy followed by a healthy baby, with no special circumstances. This was the usual “negotiated” cost. Why not print $2mil for a yearly wellness check while you’re at it, and then give a generous 1.9mil discount? The whole system is absolutely positively bonkers. How much of my premium is going to professional negotiators for insurance, and how much of my hospital costs are going to professional negotiators for hospitals?
> Trump's election was in fact also a massive populist backlash

Trump lost the popular vote. It wasn't a populist backlash, it was a broken system.
I think people that give that "prize" do not quite understand what research and science is.
For our own sake. Can't beat it.
That’s not necessarily true. They would rather get something than nothing.
Congrats and these steps will help redefine who we are. Will keep buying your zines to support you. Least I can do
This already kind of happens. You declare a starting material and then test it to make sure it’s pure. You do the same for the next step all the way to the finished product.

In this particular instance, the process caused the impurity, so it wouldn’t be reasonable to punish the company that sent them starting materials.
But that's not the real cost. The real cost is that your new development has to be in Python 2.7. You don't get any of the new features, but more importantly you can't use any new libraries that are Python 3 only.

You lose a huge amount of the value of Python if you can't participate in the ecosystem. You're effectively left with 35M lines of Pascal or COBOL - on the one hand, a perfectly adequate and workable language for running a company like JPMorgan, it's been done before, and one which any skilled programmer ought to be able to pick up and work with for at least incremental changes. On the other hand, your new software development won't be in this codebase at all - developers won't want to use a dead language. They'll interoperate with the legacy code by treating it like legacy code. All your incremental changes will just be building APIs to call it from some other language (perhaps Python 3, perhaps something else entirely), which will work, it's just probably not what you expected to have when you wrote those 35M lines of Python.
Such a long article, and the reporter never bothered to talk to a doctor and get reassurance that indeed the hefty price of the sling is unjustified. This isn't journalism, it's gossip. Sling may or may not be overpriced. Amazingly, you can't tell from this 1000 worder
or make you view all the ads that appear in the page :)
> Why people aren’t marching through the streets right now is beyond me.

You answered your own question. They’re too fat, lazy, and sick to get up and walk 5 feet, let alone march in the street.
“We live in the latter. Voting for the 3rd party is effectively voting one of the big 2.”

It’s not. It sends a signal that there is a desire for something else.
Because the public market is clearly being used as a greater fool pool for bad investments.
Really? Back when the FDA was underfunded in the 80s, there was a massive backlog in drug approvals that cost drug makers billions. They happily coughed up fees to better find the FDA.
>50km a day in charge capacity is the absolute best-case scenario. In reality you should count on half of that.

I'd count on even less than that. Industrial solar farms average a capacity factor of around 20-25%, dropping as low as 10%. And that's with farms built for maximizing sunlight. A car is likely to do far worse, especially when you consider imperfect conditions, and how frequently people park indoors. If it's a tossup between protecting my car from the elements, and getting a few miles a day of charge, I'm going to choose the former.
> True, productivity drops after 40 hours. But not to zero. You are 2/3 as productive at 60 hours a week. That's still more productive than not working at all.

Sounds to me like you're equally productive working 40 hours, so you'd have 20 more hours to yourself with equal output. I've burned out before. Productivity fell to nearly zero for several years. If I was employed, not in grad school, I'd have been homeless. I succeeded by changing gears and finding something else to work on, which evolved into a job doing something I love. At my job, I avoid burnout by working reasonable hours and tackling problems before they get deadlines attached to them.

And yeah. Occasionally I BURN with passion to solve a problem. I can't turn off until I've achieved perfection or proven that I've achieved the upper bound on perfection. I burn the midnight oil. Give my kid as much love as I can but all else falls by the wayside until I SOLVE THAT PROBLEM. But I only do that with passion. Never for the wage
I think by knowledge they meant information asymmetry.
Glad someone understands me.... nice summary.
Great for 'red' type personalities. But for a green/yellow like me this is horrific
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So how do you justify to your family that you are voting for someone who will reduce availability of very specialized treatment for them (those boutique doctors), so some random people you've never heard of can have better care "on average"?

Becuase that's where I get stuck.
Derek from Vertasium on YouTbe has a nice explanation. Even showing how the nutrient levels in weed specimens are also falling. The weeds were collected by researchers over the last 100 or more years. The weeds were vital because it showed it wasn't limited to farming practices it's all plants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl_K2Ata6XY
That lawyer's name is Sue Null!?!?
Yup. There have been a handful of approved generics that didn’t have bioequivalence to the branded.

It’s not a perfect process, but it works in nearly all the cases.
It's okay to be indifferent too. I think it's important to ask "At what point will the value I provide be returned to me?" If that value is not coming back, is it at least being paid forward? Or is it just being stashed away in an off-shore tax-haven? No one has ever offered to pay me with a second life; so I'm not just going to hand over the one I have now for some job.
The author is writing about advertising and bulk mail copy, not "communication". This is the classic advertising concept that ads should include a call to action.[1] Also, this came from Harvard Business Review in 2016.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_to_action_(marketing)
[2] https://hbr.org/2016/11/how-to-write-email-with-military-pre...
It's basically there to make Ruby an equivalent to AWK. It only makes sense if you are looping over the lines with -n. The BEGIN block runs at the start of the run, and the END block at the end. They are useful for things like initializing a sum variable to zero at the start and printing it out at the end.
> Animal foods have a lot of calcium. Plants not so much

Broccoli has plenty of calcium.[1] B12 is easily supplemented and also present in dairy (which vegetarians consume) and eggs (which also many vegetarians consume). I'd never heard of vitamin K2 but it also is apparently present in eggs, butter, cheese and natto (fermented soy).[2] I love meat but let's not state with complete confidence that eating animals is mandatory for good health. India has more lacto-ovo vegetarians than the rest of the world put together and they're doing fine.

1. https://www.iofbonehealth.org/osteoporosis-musculoskeletal-d...

2. https://kresserinstitute.com/vitamin-k2-consuming-enough/
> the max dosage you can get over the counter is 99mg

Most people get enough potassium from their diet. It's easily available in larger quantities but safety is the main concern:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1364/can-salt-subst...

Nu-Salt salt substitute is 100% potassium chloride in a 3-oz container. Morton Lite Salt is a 50-50% mix of potassium and sodium salt. Both are available in grocery stores. But use with caution and usually with the advice of a physician.
This is actually an interesting question. I suspect it has to do with a combination of factors. For example:

- Design alone won't get you very far in a service business (unless the service is design, in which case you're competing in a crowded market), so you're eliminating a large amount of potential businesses off the bat

- Design isn't often the foundation of a tech business, the technology is. It makes sense then that design is an additional function rather than a foundational role. What I mean here is that a designer can slap together slideware that looks nice, but a tech person can put together an MVP and a sales person can turn it into money

- Unless something has changed, design doesn't really pay very well as a career unless you go the agency executive route. As a result, you're not going to have many designers floating around with "startup ramen" cash to burn in their 20s/30s in comparison to big-tech engineers

- I suspect (but have absolutely no evidence) that there is a mindset difference between designers and founders with traditional backgrounds that plays a role, but I'm not sure what it is

Of course, none of this is to say that designers can't be amazing founders (they absolutely can) or that design isn't important in the business world (it absolutely is), but rather that design doesn't really give you a boost in a modern business founding setting like other skill sets do.
I too don't understand this attitude. Vegans exist and are not all ill. Clearly animal products are not required for good health.
It's certainly possible that meat makes getting all necessary vitamins easier and it takes great diligence as a vegan.
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The burden of proof is on me to support what "false" claim? That I read the book? That I summarized my recollections accurately? That it's the only book on the topic I've read?

To clarify, I am not Jason Fung, the author of the book that I summarized, and I specifically said I don't endorse the content. I only recounted it because ancestor comments seemed confused about the book's central tenant, which I happen to have read.
Has anyone around here set up a GPS Simulator / spoofer with an SDR with any success?