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I agree with what you say; I think those downvoting don't understand important things.

My take on these questions:

> How much governmental intervention is helpful?

Climate crisis is similar to slowly unfolding war with a powerful, but slow adversary. A world war. So our good experiences and lessons from how to win a war could be helpful, including questions regarding government.

How much government intervention is helpful in WWII?

> How accurate are predictions of what is coming?

Nice question, but sort of beside the point. Can be answered, but it leads away from the problem.

Suppose our predictions are not too accurate. Given the stakes, we still have to do a lot of efforts, since in case we overestimated the problem the downside isn't big - comparing to potential downside of doing nothing.

The truth is that we don't really know the certainty of predictions. Last time I've heard the climatologists were trying to be conservative - they reported about problems they were fairly sure to see, to avoid being called alarmists. Now we see that predictions were rather rosy comparing to actual - more grim - situation. But that's what I've heard.

> What is the most efficient way to prevent climate change and how effective will those actions be?

Start running right now. Otherwise - imagine similar question asked to JFK, when he announced the Moon race. How long would you think people can debate rather silly and theoretical topic at the time of flying to the Moon? Given that USSR wasn't that keen to fly there in the first place, there were plenty of reasons to be reasonable and save a lot of efforts and money. Didn't USA have better things to do?

We can debate about effectiveness, but only if we're already running. Before that we first need to start running, however counterintuitive it could sound.
Why medical tourism not a big thing ? All incidents mention could be cure in India at nice competent hospitals at fraction of this bill including air travel. What is the biggest problem in this space ?
There's absolutely no reason to pay for scientific journals.

None of the money paid for journals supports research, it all goes to the publishers, who do not share with the scientists.
> "900% more expensive" is literally just another way of writing "ten times as expensive".

No, it is not.

Same way as "ten times more expensive" is not the same as "10.000000 times more expensive".

Using percentages here implies high precision.

> Would you rather they went with "1000% more expensive"

"10 times more expensive" sound just right.

> I really don't know what kind of editorial sensationalism conspiracy you are trying to posit here.

Sorry, no sensation here. Just false precision which is a bad sign.
procrastination > concrastination
> As a disclaimer, I will add that this is a really stupid mistake and shows my lack of experience managing auto-scaling deployments.

There is a reason why these DevOps certifications exist in the first place and why it is a huge risk for a company to spend lots of time and money on training to learn such a complex tool like Kubernetes (Unless they are preparing for a certification). Perhaps it would be better to hire a consultant skilled in the field rather than using it blind and creating these mistakes later.

When mistakes like this occur and go unnoticed for a long time, it racks up and creates unnecessary costs which amount as much as $10k/month which depending on the company budget can be very expensive and can make or break a company.

Unless you know what you are doing, don't touch tools you don't understand.
i.e. play the same game that insurance company play with us.
What the title of article should be: "The Myth of the Freelance Wealthy Welder in Nowheresville, Anystate USA".

Welding, and trades in general, pay big money in the big cities along the coasts. I bet the union welders putting up sky scrapers and fixing public works are making six figures, minimum.
Is there any way to get this sort of advice for ordinary people easily? I remember when I was an exchange student to the US from Hong Kong and I got a flu, I thought I'd get it checked out just in case. I went to a clinic and they told me to get into a medical robe for a checkup and I thought wtf. I also remembered about reading all these horror stories. Of course it might not have been that bad since I didn't go through with the checkup but it's very different from what we have in hk and China where the doctor just takes a look at you, blood test at most, and gives you some pills, usually for no more than 40usd max
People can think our system is awful and still not want the European one.
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You don't have to engage politically, but there is some reason to believe that broad civil society participation is important. This encompasses everything from programming meetups, to sports clubs, to churches, to charity, to a PTA.

There is also a lot of evidence that finding a civil society group of some kind is very good emotionally for individuals, so it's a win win
I'm getting "burned out" of these nihilistic work life balance articles.

Show me anything revolutionary that was done by a group of people that weren't obsessed to the point of neglecting the rest of their life. 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.

People literally worked to death during The Apollo program to get to the moon. Same with every major Infrastructure project like the Hoover dam, disease eradicating efforts like the Salk polio project etc. Do you think spacex is launching space internet satellites built by people who have plenty of time for their hobbies?

It's ok to be obsessed. Find something you actually believe in and if you're being worked to death on something you don't care about well, quit. Can't "afford" to quit? Then reevaluate your life to figure out what's worth risking being homeless to do.

Or continue to work towards some milquetoast weekend hedonism, but stop shaming the idea of being obsessed.
> Unless you know what you are doing, don't touch tools you don't understand.

But how do I know I’m an idiot?
Thanks for asking.

This was a weird week at work. I've been at this place for a year and a half. I wasn't excited about the work but was in a bad spot financially so took the job. It's nothing like the fancy folks here, only internal help desk in a healthcare org. I've had lots of ups and downs over that time as the nature of the work directly has stressed me out physically and mentally. The amount of calls, the tedium and sameness, the attempts to get management to solve problems and help us be more efficient falling on deaf ears, etc etc. I really broke down over a call and getting into a meaningless argument with a colleague and had to leave. I told my boss I thought I was finished. He said take the day and relax.

The next day, we talked, and worked out the issue. He's been very supportive despite some of my behavior and we're working on adjusting my role away from what I'm doing now and towards things that better fit my personality. The other guys are having some fun and jokes about it at my expense (as if a mental breakdown is just a 'fun happy sick day') but I'm doing my best to ignore the jibes.

I've been in therapy since February, working on a lot of other issues plus this and my therapist had some interesting insights as well. We both think this is a good change. The biggest thing is trying to find some meaningful things in life to balance out the inevitable stresses of work.

It's difficult in the US to find a good therapist, either because of shady insurance companies or, now that things are somewhat less stigmatized, great demand, but I highly recommend it. Your friends may be great but there's nothing like an objective perspective with years of training. Ask for sliding scale if you need some financial help.

Also, I learned through this process, it's entirely possible to have mild or moderate depression and not really know it until those down times really hit hard. I used to think "oh, it's just melancholy", etc. A small pill every day and therapy have made what could've been a difficult past two months much more bearable.

Anyway, that's my story for this week. Hope everyone out there is OK and has a great weekend.
Except that the article has mischaracterized the BLS data. The data is actually for "Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers" which is not the same as "Welders". [1]

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/production/welders-cutters-solderers...
One thing missing from this narrative is that Trump lost the popular vote and that barely half of eligible voters even participated. That said, the seven faithless electoral votes do underscore a theme of disapproval during the 2016 election.
I strongly support the Warren/Sanders universal healthcare plan, but in terms of optics, I don't actually see what the point is to making “duplicate coverage” private insurance illegal. It invites FUD and provides a convenient bogeyman while being entirely irrelevant in practical terms. If the government is providing comprehensive free healthcare to all, why would anyone need duplicate private health insurance? There's no reason to make it illegal, because there's no reason anyone would continue to pay for it. It will shrivel up and die on its own.
Also seemingly involved is a species of Clostridium, which does have a wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium_perfringens

It's mentioned that some dogs showed a presence of both microbes. Maybe it's a harmful interaction between two different bacterial loads, that evolves into a toxic conflict, as each organism tries to kill off the rival population and colonize the environment for themselves?

That the toxin is canine specific is interesting. The contagion incubates for maybe three days before the dog is incapacitated by digestive problems, so you get the sense that after crossing the fecal/oral disease vector (spoiled food, sniffing and licking biofilm surfaces, tracking in vomit/feces contaminated soil after walking dog paths mutually shared by infected animals or carriers) the foreign bacteria might react to quorum sensing once it's gained a foothold in the hospitable gut environment that meets it's needs as a microbe.

Some signal in the canine metabolism sends it into overdrive and it blows up causing tissue damage, and then the animal's body tries to evict everything by retching and dumping out both ends.
Hasn't the US always been flip the table over. Or at least muscle other countries into things. I don't really remember many times it used principle approaches.
Not intentional.

Point being, it's an almost impossible problem - I'd want to support them, but try and minimise harm. If that meant going along and trying to keep the worst of the media out of their face, so be it. I'd also want to make damn sure they knew what they were getting into. You know teenagers - trying to advise against something, or even giving pros and cons, can end up encouraging. Sometimes it feels like it guarantees it. :)

There's no chance Greta or her parents expected or could have predicted the extent to which it has escalated. Yet somehow she has been almost uniquely successful in having apparent influence on climate. There must have been discussions of whether she wants to keep going in the crazy escalation that sprang up, or whether it's getting out of control. Least I bloody hope so.

I just hope the world, and media, plays along when or if she decides to withdraw from a life in public, or has had enough, and the ending doesn't involve having to pick up the pieces. The world's media isn't very good at that bit.

Peace. :)
I had epic total annihilation LAN parties that would last all day.
That's what Varjo is betting on:
https://varjo.com/xr-1/
Meaningfulness of work is not transitive.

Typically person A pays _someone else's money_ to person B, and the someone else (person C) isn't around to pay attention to the details.

I think that makes all the difference, especially when it's iterated over many layers of indirection.

A is in some sense a custodian of what person C values, but that indirection means A is also optimising to keep A in a job without distracting too much from the joy of running a fiefdom, hiding the fact they don't really know what they are doing, etc. So A is paying B for what A thinks looks good enough to C, not necessarily what C would actually value if they understood what was going on.

Let's suppose that indirection only adds a tiny amount of BS, say B is doing 10% BS work to satisfy A's misguided impulses (using C's money not A's), and 90% what C values.

Then add a full economy. Now B is paying D using money they got from A, who got it from C. B is optimising to keep B in a job, so they try to do things that look good to A, while avoiding too much effort for B. To keep ths model simple, let's say the BS adds up and C's money ends up paying for D to do 20% BS work and 80% what C values. But it's all in a good cause, as far as C knows, this is great stuff - literally, the best money can buy.

Throw in a few more layers of indirection and the BS compounds.

Of course the world isn't that simple. By your definition, D's work is all meaningfully valuable to B, B's work is all meaninfully valuable to A, and A's work is all meaningfully valuable to C.

So this does not mean people pay other people for no _local_ reason.

But it's not transitive. C's money may be paying for D to do work that is not meaningfully valuable to C, despite everyone in the chain providing value to each other.

So is it BS work or isn't it? My take is that a significant fraction of work is BS when viewed from a wider perspective: what does this work do for society, people more broadly; yet at the same time, it is much more useful when viewed looking at neighbouring relationships, close up. After all, a job helping someone else keep their job is of immense personal value to the latter person, so that's a factor in how they allocate their ability to spend other people's money.

Since "helping someone else keep a job" is highly valued by those people whose jobs are kept, it's almost inevitable that a big feedback system emerges in which a significant fraction of all work paid for is for the purpose of keeping people in jobs.
> People rationalize it by saying that voting for a 3rd party is "wasting" their vote

In reality, voting for someone who didn't win the election is a "wasted" vote. But people will say that a particular candidate has no chance of winning the election, so voting for them is "wasting" your vote. Unfortunately, because most people follow this line of reasoning, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
> price increases for labor will always lag price increases of capital

Let's also keep in mind that that is a policy choice, because it's necessary to dislodge workers off their sticky wages and some sort of mumbo jumbo about the Phillips curve.
You should read the original waterfall paper as it is basically agile in spirit: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci201/lectures/Lecture11/royce1970...
One of the all-time great investors, Jack Bogle, often said not doing anything is intelligent investing activity.

He had a saying, "Don't just do something, stand there!"
They just like other situation with china other countries are afraid of their wrath
This is bait but whatever. Keeping some properties of C is very hard if you go this route. It also seems you'll end up playing lanaguage design whack-a-mole problems which manifests its self in C++ and co.
From the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Nitrosodimethylamine

"NDMA is a yellow, oily liquid with a faint, characteristic odor and a sweet taste."

"characteristic" doesn't say much, but I often wonder how we know about the taste of a highly toxic chemical like this one --- and if someone died for it.
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Trust. People here are conditioned to not trust socialized medicine or medicine from less wealthy countries.
"if you choose not to decide you still have made a choice" -descartes
Awesome! Sorry if my comment came across as dismissive.
Even if you are just a noob, how will you ever learn if you don't get in there and have a try? Very un hacker sentiment for hacker news!
> OTOH, healthcare isn't the only place where you might pay a fee to a facility for use of the facility and a fee to a service providers associated with the facility for services they provide in the facility.

Where else does this occur?
> Unless you know what you are doing, don't touch tools you don't understand.

That approach makes sense for businesses that need to be risk-averse, e.g. self-driving cars.

But in a "move fast/break things" operation, wasting some money might be preferable to taking the time to do things right the first time around.
Thanks! Learned something new today (even though I’m mostly on Python now)
You're right. 1990-92 is "about the time I quit" building vans for quadriplegics to drive and that's what I was referring to in regards to the $5-$7 per hour those companies I sub-contracted from were paying. And that was at most and it was not a "living" wage in Los Angeles back then.
My son broke his femur at school. He was transported to hospital where he underwent surgery to insert rods. He stayed for four nights in a state of the art, brand new children’s hospital, brimming with wireless tech. The nursing care was top notch.

I had to pay for parking.

Once he was back at school, the school district brought out occupational therapists who assessed his new disability and provided extra assistance while he was wheeling around.

He has had four follow-up visits with the orthopedic specialist. In a month or two he will have another surgery to have the rods removed.

I will then have to pay for parking again.

Welcome to Canada.
You are far from alone. And people wonder why hospitals try to squeeze patients so much. Medical debt is extremely hard to recover.
I found the term "deterministic" confusing too, probably because I'm more familiar with it being used in a different context.

He uses the phrase "inappropriate discretization", which fits better with what he's describing as a problem in how we think.

To me it seems to boil down to "duality" being a fundamental property/strategy of thinking. Buddhist philosophy points this out in numerous ways, and the paradox/contradiction inherent in it.

From the article's conclusion:

> ..When we’re talking about the problems of deterministic thinking, or premature collapse of the “wave function” of inferential uncertainty, we really are talking about a failure to incorporate enough of a continuous view of the world in our mental model.

I think the point is that we should be more willing to accept uncertainty and probabilities in thinking about the world, rather than build mental models on "false certainties" and "dichotomania" that reduces the world to what we think we know and understand.
Do not make money in the sick room - Hippocrates
East Coast is much more heavily skewed female than the West Coast. It's something I'm definitely thinking about as I'm having the same issues in LA (though it's better than how I've heard SF is).
Is there a way to learn about or try the language without signing up for an account? I understand it being necessary to save and publish games, but not being able to try the tutorial without signing up isn't a great experience.
Well, I wouldn't exactly call Dev Ops a productive career path. Most senior engineers I know seem to think it's a surefire way to drive your career into a dead end.
> There is a reason why these DevOps certifications exist in the first place and why it is a huge risk for a company to spend lots of time and money on training to learn such a complex tool like Kubernetes (Unless they are preparing for a certification). Perhaps it would be better to either hired a consultant skilled in the field rather than using it blind and creating these mistakes later.

That's laughable but I will play:

I will pay anyone with a devops cert $0.01 for a right to 10% of my savings over a year period. If I end up paying more for the service after hiring such person, that person will pay me 110% of the excess that I paid for the service as a result of hiring them. If a devops cert is actually any good then this would be a license to print money for anyone with a devops cert.

OP's problem is that his organization did not engage in any sort of risk management which is why they had

a) K8s as something magical that makes things work

b) Someone who did not know how K8s works being allowed to re-engineers K8s

c) No alert on a change of the usage data exported by Google

P.S. If you are on a cloud, drop everyting and implement the (c). It will save your shirt donzens if not hundreds of times a year.
> When mistakes like this occur and go unnoticed for a long time, it racks up and creates unnecessary costs which amount as much as $10k/month which depending on the company budget can be very expensive and can make or break a company.

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

I think it might be better to say "don't take risks you can't afford". You should experiment with new tools to see if they're better than what you're using now. Just don't deploy systems to prod before you really understand them.
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That quote sounds much like the Gervais principle with the stupid and diligent being "clueless".
Simple way to put most hospitals out of business overnight.

Or, more likely, simple way to force hospitals to make drastic cuts to services.
It would be helpful if the author specified what the price difference actually was here at the end of the day - their initial cost was $3,500/mo but they don't mention how much they pay now after changing instance types.
No doubt, but they are all non standard which is irritating for people who expect that out of the box.
First sentence of the article:

> Cathy Birker-Hake tripped over a hose in her Valley Village backyard not long ago, dislocated her shoulder and made a beeline for the emergency room.

Nobody’s hopping on a plane to India with a dislocated shoulder.
Why is awk one of the "worst programming languages ever created"?
BLUF is for communication between military personnel. Sensitive people who join the military "get over it" pretty quickly.

As in all communications, knowing your audience and their norms is of utmost importance to avoid miscommunication or giving offence.
Come to think of it that is a strangely poetic name for a military standard
>Of course they eat too much. The question is why?

Because they are gluttons and lack self-control. Why coddle them?
By that standard, everything with respect to a shader ISA for the web is "new and immature." The point is finding a suitable common ground for all vendors to agree on working on. Not everyone going every which way to work on uncoordinated efforts.
Remember that not everyone here is a hacker. Some are specialized consultants who have vested interests in speaking out against DIY. (And that’s not to say that they are wrong)
This is pretty common. Uninsured patients are such a small percentage of revenue (and many aren't going to pay anyway) that hospitals don't put much effort into setting prices. Negotiating with insurers and navigating billing them is a big operation as it is.
I haven't read the book but I struggle to take anyone behind LinkedIn particularly seriously... as someone who uses their recruiter product heavily, I'm not sure you could have designed a worse product from a functionality point of view.
Please share with us what countries you think it's safe to be in when you are the #1 target of the US government. El Chapo's hundreds of millions/billions? in payoffs couldn't protect him so you must have some really amazing places in mind.