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"they never work nearly so long or hard as any janitor you encounter"

I remember thinking when I was cleaning up construction sites that cleaning the inside of a finished office building must be a job you needed connections or experience to get.
It should go further. End the in-network / out-of-network crap. One price per procedure that is the same for all customers. All providers should accept all insurances. The system we have is insane.
I don't think they have higher life expectancies, however.
It's generally called a "racket" rather than a "free market" in the absence of pricing information, free choice, and fair billing.
Group belonging is a fundamental part of the human condition. We are social, tribal animals. You may, of course, choose not to belong in groups that are defined by being male, but people are members of lots of groups with boundaries drawn for lots of reasons. Given that many men have similar experience by virtue of being men, it seems a reasonable attribute to base a group on.
Medical cartel (i.e. doctors) have successfully convinced the public to blame insurance, pharma, government, and whoever else for high prices of healthcare. The reality is that since the days of Flexner Report doctors are the supply side of healthcare by law, and a variety of medical associations and medical boards tightly control that supply on all levels of the system. Doctor is the one charging $1000 for a 10 minute consultation. There are enough leeches downstream too but the root issue is medical cartel.

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/10/25/doctors-sal...
It seemed like a pretty factual account, to me. What ideology do you think it reflects?
While I agree with you 100% for the general public I think if someone is manually decrypting a file (assumedly with gpg) they understand enough to get hashing. Now if you want to get into the realm of really "understood" by the public you should just send a Word doc or zip file with a password on it.
Yes, I had a similar experience with Europcar - screw those guys, I've never dealt with them again.
I hope in that case you buy it in refillable 5g water cooler jugs, rather than small disposable bottles.
All of the mapping programs are good at longer flows, they all suck in cities with lights and arbitrary delays.

I just did a drive from Tampa, FL to Albany, NY. Waze and Google calculated the drive time within 10 minutes.

My commute is about 12 minutes. Both Google and Waze will dump you on routes that will double or triple that.
Well..BV comes from a mixture of different flora. If you have sex with someone, you are certainly co mingling their bacteria with your own. All healthy girls from the onset of puberty ..due to estrogen..have vaginal discharge(about 1/2-1 tsp of discharge/day) and the vaginal environment is slightly acidic due to lactic acid.

The discharge makes our vagina a self cleaning tube. It is a flexible elastic tube. The walls are made of mucous membrane. Only part of it is visible genitalia. If we don’t have discharge, we can’t flush out harmful bacteria and other ickies. The discharge is also a lubricant.

Every time there is intercourse and co mingling of body fluids, there is a chance of BV. It’s not a sexually transmitted disease but more partners = more chance for BV. Or disruption of vaginal Ph. It is less likely to have BV if you have never had sex or you are abstaining. Altho’ it is possible. (Diff topic)

You can pick up BV even with condoms. Anything that alters the vaginal Ph has an effect on chances of BV flares.
Hey! New dev honestly trying to learn why PHP matters at all in 2019. Is PHP something I should stop learning JS for? In all my (very limited) experience, PHP does not solve any problem JavaScript can't, and JS is also far more in demand.
MKP has been around for 30+ years and as far as I know is the keystone organization of that movement.

You're right that the article would be better if it weren't so ahistorical.
The most frustrating thing about this is we're already paying for universal healthcare. You can't be denied care if you don't have the means to pay. We just somehow pay for it through the nose, and it's shitty beyond belief.

My wife traveled to Russia earlier this year and did a couple of MRI scans while there (neck and shoulder). Total cost for both was $100. This is all out of pocket and without insurance coverage. Here it'd be $2K+ _each_, _with_ insurance, _excluding_ the subsequent doctor visit to analyze the results. How the fuck does this happen? How is this justifiable? I don't know. The machine is the same. The doctor is far less expensive, sure, but it's not like the doctor is needed for more than 10 minutes to view the results and produce a diagnosis. Whoever untangles this multi-trillion ball of bullshit will forever be remembered as one of the greatest leaders this country ever had.
The medium comes with lower expectations of structure.
I've repeatedly run into issues when I comment on this, so I spent some time at some point searching for stuff on the web. Dolores French makes the exact distinction you are making: that legalization means regulation and decriminalization means just leave them the hell alone and make no law forbidding it.

But when I've searched, different sources use decriminalization to mean what you and she called legalization, iirc. So I have really been given a lot of nonsense over the years by people seemingly affronted by a woman and former homemaker who is for decriminalization as the term was used by Dolores French. If they understand the term differently from how I use it, they pounce on this as evidence that I'm an idiot rather than acknowledging that it gets used differently in different sources and it was simply a misunderstanding.

Yes, I think this is about the gut reaction many people have that sex work is flat out immoral and should not be done. Period.

"Identity politics" -- ie details about who I happen to be -- seems to just make it a real hot button for a lot of people that I am willing to go on public record as being for the decriminalization of sex work. As a former homemaker, devoted military wife and full-time mom of special needs kids, I'm supposed to be some symbol of conservative goodness or something, it seems.

I've gotten more careful about how I talk about it. But my views remain the same.
You wouldn't ask for that information in that way.

Most places would say because it's faster or why would you use anything else? Not give you any company history.

Ask who makes technical decisions. Or what debt structure they have. Not why they choose aws over azure.
I own a restaurant in the SF bay area, and nearly all of my employees prefer cash or paper checks even if I offer direct deposit. (Not paying under the table - I still withhold and issue W-2s...)

Most major banks in the US require something if not a minimum balance to waive the monthly fee. Something like $x threshold for certain direct deposits, or you're a student/young adult, or you use your debit card x times a month.

Smaller banks and credit unions can have problems too: locations or lack of participating ATMs or the same problems as the big banks. There are absolutely scenarios where it can be easier (time and money-wise) to just go to the check cashing store.

Some unbanked people are undocumented and afraid to open accounts that might be closed/seized. Some have piss poor credit. Some of those folx won't be able to open new accounts because their chexsystems report has some negative item on it. A single issue like your car breaking down once can snowball into a much bigger situation.

> deny the transaction instead of overdrafting

Honestly, for paycheck to paycheck folx, this can still hurt. There won't be $200 in overdraft fees, but imagine, your PG&E bill is now past due because they couldn't charge your card. Now they want $20 for reconnection on top of the past due bill and 2x more in the form of a deposit due to bad credit. Welp, maybe the $200 in overdraft fees would have been easier to deal with.

Living paycheck to paycheck sucks for so many reasons, and so many of those reasons out of the individual's control.
Do any of them not have price controls and a “public option” of some sort? And sometimes prohibition on for-profit insurance (Switzerland, for example, IIRC)?
This is fascinating. As somebody who knows nothing at all about this.. are there any detailed books on the subject?
You're not the only person who thinks the way you do.
> something else like law school or business.

And then sometime after 2008 the bottom dropped out of the legal industry and the big corporate firms started laying people off.
Looks kind of dracula-esque with monokai syntax highlighting
Are you going to work? Are you reasonably content? Then you are handling your problems.

Some people really seem to want men to be very emotional and assume something is wrong if they don't appear to be showing strong emotions. Often, they're just fine, and there's no there there.

If you keep picking at them, you'll probably generate some emotions, however.
You may be right. Though, I recently ran across the concept of "aphantasia", e.g., [1]. Apparently not being able to visualize what my friends and family look like is not normal! Or being unable to recall colors.

There's even this [2] "test", which claims that most people when told to imagine a red star will "see" an actual image, which I'm still trying to understand.

I can think about control flow graphs in my head, but it's not exactly visual. (You could also represent any graph as a table, of course, but I don't think of it in tabular form, either.) The visual is more like the means of communication. Similarly, in math, equations and procedures aren't always how I do work, but they are often how I communicate what I've done. I wonder if that could be what other people mean when they speak of visualization. When I'm asked to compute 19*21, I'm not literally expanding (x-1)(x+1), but that's essentially what I'm doing, and if you asked me to explain, that's probably what I'd say. Thoughts are simply a different medium (than words or graphs or equations or music), and every serialization method I've tried so far is extremely lossy.

[1]: https://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/cant-visualize-you-m...
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/aioyga/simple_a...
Plenty of sequencing software start ups, platforms, etc that are doomed to fail in this over saturated space.
No doubt they did predict Zen, and planned to counter it with super chips from their new fab. Which didn't work. Not everything does.

Normally a well-run shop has several alternatives running, so when one flops, another is there to step in. They often did that with next-generation chip architecture. That's hard to do with your fab.

In principle they could have had a design ready to go on TSMC if their fab flopped, but scheduling fab capacity takes long-term commitments that they didn't plan to be able to honor.
Most doctors don't event have an idea of how much the patient will pay, even if you ask them directly and they wish they knew the answer
I didn't TLDR so can someone tell me: is 93% of the planet's fresh water contaminated with plastic? Or is there something about bottling water in plastic that adds plastic to the water?
I'm not familiar with US healthcare. As the customer in such a circumstance are you within your rights to refuse any such diagnosis tests when you reasonably believe they are unnecessary? e.g you have prior history of those symptoms.

I have heard stories of some doctors and consultants making biased recommendations that are ultimately to line their pockets not cure the patient.
I think "standard employment laws" may be an issue. Between sexual harrasment and bodily fluids, I cannot imagine most sex work being non criminal without some special carve out in the law. I can imagine a policy of non enforcement, but such policies have a tendency of getting reversed.

Also, it was mentioned in the article, but the porn industry's STD situation should be harold by free market conservatives as a triumph of self regulation.
YES! MFN pricing would be a huge social benefit.
Dedup was rushed and the original developers admit it. They ask you to please not use it unless you absolutely know what you're doing
Good points. When I was taken by ambulance to an out of network trauma center, I had no choice.
Price discrimination can be even more flexible than that - for example someone who sells things in a flea market. The ideal seller would price their goods at exactly the highest rate each buyer is prepared to pay. They try to do this by judging if the person looks well off, or is a tourist, willingness to haggle etc.
Do you have any official sources to support anything you're saying? It seems unbelievable to me that Boeing would introduce MCAS, a complete flight characteristics "augmentation" system and pass it off as a standard 737 without any special training, but would only offer AoA indication as an option due to training.
That also only works if the patient can choose a different provider. If the only anesthesiologist authorized to assist in the only in-network hospital in the area equipped to do a particular urgent surgery charges an arm and a leg, there's not much knowing the price will do
Oh nothing fancy just the base level tea - bushels, twinings, nerada and so on, you can see here if you can access the site outside Aus. https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/search/products?searchTer...

Most of the green and herbal teas are in tea bags, but I've seen loose leaf of these available sometimes, not something I look for I must admit.
Yep, 5 gallon water jugs.
It took me a couple of readings to finally accept that I wasn't missing something. That this "novel" had no real plot or characters at all. It's just a wish-fulfillment thought experiment. A techno-utopian version of "Atlas Shrugged", only a thousand or so pages shorter.
> I settled on the 4KB part purely based on cost. Even at this measly 4KB size, this one RAM is by far the most expensive component on the board at $25. Given that the costs of putting in a 64KB part (my preferred size) were beyond my imagination (and beyond my wallet's abilities), I decided to invent a complex messaging protocol and make it work over a 4KB RAM used as a bidirectional mailbox.

Is this not the sort of memory you'd need?

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/cypress-semiconduc...

or

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/idt-integrated-dev...

just trying to understand the details here.
Yes, you can deny any treatment, as long as you are able to comprehend reality and express your denial, which the parent suggests they weren’t able due to their illness.
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I don't necessarily disagree, but:

>This article seem to be written by an ideologically inclined woman.

If you are calling out someone as being ideological and then recommending books that are based in a religious ideology, it seems relevant to make note of it.
Another deep black is a small opening (the only one) into a large, hollow object.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohlraum
But wait! Where does my budget or authority come from? Andy Grove does not answer the question that underpins corporate life. How are resources allocated?
You're relying on literal freeman-of-the-land nonsense at this point. For a judge to conclude that you-in-a-decade is a different person than you-now, the law would have to allow that possibility. Our current laws don't. Your proposed legal system would.

In other words, your proposed legal system would prevent someone from signing over some rights to their future self. Your ethical reasoning behind this choice is irrelevant. The mechanics of your proposed laws would make certain contracts void.

As I've said before, courts cannot make decisions in a vacuum. They need laws to rule based on. The laws that would need to exist to enable the system you want in practice restrict the freedom to contract that you claim to leave unrestricted.

You try to avoid this contradiction by wrapping it up in the idea that you can be a different person in ten years, but current laws don't recognize that, and the only reason you'd need such a law is to resolve this contradiction without explicitly limiting the contract. It's transparent. I expect I could find more contradictions, but you'd similarly attempt special pleading for those cases.
The lesson I think is to be learned here, is that without passion, even money cannot help.

If CEO and top executives really cared about a startup for dogs, they would have come up with solutions for the most recurring problems (e.g. dogs getting lost, or mistreated). How hard is to make a leash with GPS in it and track it in an app? Or to give mandatory basic training to any new contractor?

Also the way they treated the customer service employees is disgusting.
So I studied control theory after I left Reddit and you’re indeed right, it’s a PID issue.

Picking a metric that reacts to changes quickly is neither necessary nor sufficient, but it certainly helps reduce the error on your calculation. You need to know how far off your set point you are and so you need as accurate a measurement as possible.

Imagine a cruise control for a car where the speedometer had a five second delay. You’d still stay at your desired speed on average but it would vary a lot more and require more work to get back to the desired speed. It would have to accelerate harder and brake harder.
Peloton ipo'd at 8 billion.... literally a bike and a tablet app

I wasn't around during dotcom but plenty of people my age can tell this market is absurd
If there is no competition, markets cannot work as intended.
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No, it's not because of that. The reason I think - F# and Clojure are two main FP languages being used in Finance. Fintech companies are known for paying above average salary. Both F# and Clojure are the most paid languages (according to SO surveys of the last few years)
https://github.com/igushev/fase_lib — Fase library to develop the server of a Fase Service;

https://github.com/igushev/fase_ios — iOS client for a Fase Service;

https://github.com/igushev/fase_android — Android client for a Fase Service;

Examples of Fase Services:

https://github.com/igushev/notes_fase — Saves and synchronizes notes.
Absolutely right. If we had transparent prices and the customer was also the payer and the drug companies weren't colluding then the invisible hand could work for healthcare.
If someone interested to learn more or collaborate, happy to chat!
Ironizing?
This is kind of disrespectful to Aaron Swartz:

>Headlines reduced her to a female Aaron Swartz
It can also be worse. I'd guess for almost everybody the difference in taste is dominated by the placebo effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIJEw5aDzOo
What in god's good name were you guys hosting that required 5,000 quad-socket physical hosts!?
Nonsense. Exec comp is tied to backscratching with the Board, to the detriment of shareholders, who cannot generally exercise effective control under the rules cooked up by the Board and the execs for their own benefit.

Companies that earn profits for shareholders commensurate with market success are companies that the execs have not got their hooks securely into.
Cool idea. I would put the extended error information in a separate variable, like errno.
A cashiers check is cut by the bank and not you. You pay the bank, bank writes the check, landlord gets a check they draw from the bank, not your account. It’s very hard to reverse cashiers check so the chance of it bouncing is extremely low.
Only if you can stay awake in the meetings. For me, meetings where I don't participate and nothing concerns me are like a soporific.
Yeah I’m just gonna need you to figure out how to get our sales guy between all these sales hubs for the lowest cost... if you could get that done by next week that’d be great.

I’ve heard this distinction arose partly because most/many early programmers were women, a relic from the days of the human computer
Messy is right. It's as if competently running a business people want to continue patronizing keeps slipping everybody's minds. No bootstrapped business thinks they can get away with this many gaffes in a row. Because on the very first screw-up, you lose some amount of money, and it's your own money, and it hurts, and you learn. In a startup funded like this, money is just the stuff you throw at stuff, and there's always more where that came from. Obviously the whole VC-funded hyper-growth thing doesn't guarantee success, has a low success rate in fact, but I'm starting to wonder whether those investments actively prevent success in some cases.
everything for kids is plastic. it's sad.
Healthcare in the US has little that is really socialized, at least for the middle class. The ACA had NO public option, despite efforts to include it. So unless you're poor (Medicaid) or elderly (Medicare), you have no hope of anything "socialized".

Healthcare in the US is a racket -- pure and simple. It puts our health into the hands of middlemen, the insurance companies. And the funny thing is, they don't insure a damn thing. They make you pay thousands of dollars, typically, before even attempting to do their part, and even then, they will charge for preventive visits and other things that are supposed to be 100% covered irrespective of deductibles/etc. They rely on the bureaucracy of the system to force people into the path of least resistance which is to pay the bill.

The simple fact is insurance providers, hospitals, and now doctors, do not care at all about patients. They care only about money. Until we, as a people, take back control, nothing will change. I would ask doctors, what happened to "do no harm"? Financial harm is harm.

And I agree with you. It either MUST be fully capitalistic (get rid of the state boundary crap, make it easier to get affordable individual insurance, etc) or it MUST be fully socialized (single payer). There is no in between that will ever work for patients. And I'm skeptical of the fully capitalistic approach simply because it can still become a racket with price-fixing.

As an aside, part of the problem lands solely on the doctors. Far too often they roll people through like it's an assembly line. Far too often they don't even listen to the patients, especially women, and just think people are hypochondriacs. Far too often they prescribe needless medicine to treat symptoms and never try to find root cause and treat _just_ that. Of course, we have no choice but to "trust" doctors when the time comes, and that's what they and pharma banks on. The family doctor truly is a relic of the past.

EDIT> Bring on the downvotes, it's always a pleasure, Internet.
Good luck with this.

Those insurance contracts can keep you from paying cash for services. If they can do that the in and out of network is much simpler to defend in court.

Recently had a situation where we were pressed for time and was waiting on insurance approval. I offered to pay cash and the Dr had to ask permission from the insurance company.
It's almost as if Journalists are under amazing pressure to deliver articles that are basically skin and bone.
I think there is genuinely a libertarian argument that healthcare is partly expensive due to government over-regulation.

A lot of what you said also applies to car mechanics. But they are less regulated, and there's unregulated alternatives, which makes things cheaper and more competitive.

But since the US does have a high amount of government interference (apparently it's a big deal when a child dies, while a dodgy mechanic is something we just deal with), maybe it's best to just create a public system rather than a highly compromised hybrid with most of the cons of both public and private systems (the US actually has a higher tax burden due to healthcare than Canada, since the people who get it free on Medicare and Medicaid end up costing a fortune - the private sector can be way smarter than the government at the subsidies and incentives game).