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I like single payer, but I haven't had the luxury of living under either system of universal care.

I think in the US we have different issues than face Germany/Switzerland/France, and for the US to contain costs my opinion is we would have to rip private insurance out completely.

Our main Government provided system (Medicare for the elderly) is a combination of government and private, and to put that system in perspective, Germany spent 375B (not sure if $ or Euro) in healthcare total in 2017, and US Medicare spent $609B in 2017. Germany covered an entire country (82M people) Medicare covered 15% of the US (44M people).
Why would I bill based on the time I'm typing? Most of the time is spent thinking. Typing is just the minority of it.
Fair enough, but that's because China post is aggregating it. Part of the excess cost of your moderate volume shipping is because the USPS needs to sort your mail and doesn't need to sort China's mail.

I think using published rates for presorted mail is fair. It's not the cheapest the USPS charges - they give further, unpublished, discounts to Amazon, and they still make a profit there.
Top half measured how? Lifetime number of users? And, for whatever the metric is, what number defines the boundary between top half and bottom half? (I bet the boundary number is astonishingly low. Well over half the languages got very little traction.)
Coinsurance is paid only until the out of pocket maximum is met, no?

I have a plan on the state exchange for around $300/month and an out of pocket max around $8k (I'm 34 years old).

I just budget $12k/year for healthcare and move on. This seems reasonable for people who can afford to take the risk of potentially having to pay anywhere from $4-12k/year.
European countries mostly discourage this not through postal rates, but by applying VAT and customs charges even on small-scale individual importation. How uniformly this is done varies by country (some inspect and enforce more aggressively than others). In Denmark, for example, which is one of the more aggressive, you either need to have your package pre-cleared by arranging duties/VAT to be paid ahead of time, or the Danish post office will charge you a flat 160 DKK (about $23) for clearing it [1]. That makes it not cost-effective to order $20 items from China, even if the UPU rates are low.

[1] https://www.postnord.dk/modtag/spoergsmaal-og-svar
I hope this doesn't get entirely buried at this point, but I think you bring up something interesting with driving marginal costs down.

Ostensibly both Uber and Lyft are doing the same thing, but with the item that will bring the marginal cost down being self-driving cars. They've both bet big in order to capture the market, because it's likely that whoever owns the market before that transition will own it afterwards as well.

It does seem like there was probably more optimism that the technology would materialize sooner than it really has, but assuming it materializes some time in the near future it's likely that whatever company manages to hold onto the market until then will reap massive rewards.

It's clearly a risky bet, but at least from my view doesn't seem like a pump and dump type of scheme.
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What you’ve described is the self-insurance model for large companies. That doesn’t conflict with any of my earlier comments. Companies can decide whether they want to administer it internally or use a consultant.

You seem to believe that just because a company uses a consultant that no one in HR or Finance or management would be privy to viewing your claims history via the consultant? Not sure what would lead you to believe that. Just because your company is outsourcing the task doesn’t mean it is shielded from the data.
The top-rated comment on that post is agreeing with the hardball negotiation tactics (or at least is agreeing with the idea that the current state of things is unfair), so I don't think your point is well supported.
Thanks, sometimes I feel like I stumbled onto Mars.
On the other hand, it also does not mean that inefficiency to some degree is not acceptable.

And if it is not acceptable, you can still optimize the living excrements out of your GraphQL resolvers.

Also, the burden of doing more than one round trip usually moves to the client. So there's always some trade-off to be made.
Where can I find a manual on how to uninstall Keystone, Chrome etc. on Mac properly? Has anyone done it?
In a 5-why's sense it's almost always feasible for you to purchase a home within walking distance of your business, it's just not feasible for everyone to purchase a home within walking distance of their workplace. Home prices are over a million dollars for anything nearby? Get a job that can support a million-dollar home - $1M requires an annual income of about $200K to be affordable, which is easily doable at Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Boeing in the Seattle area. Can't get a job at one of those? Get a job at one of their smaller competitors, become a top contributor, get known in the field, and make some friends who work there. Lack the relevant skillset for that? Learn it - there's a wide open Internet searchable by Google and a lot of textbooks on Amazon where you can teach yourself the sort of theoretical CS that these companies desire. That's only 3 whys. You could also probably have substituted "rent an apartment" instead of "buy a house" and the number of employers that pay you enough to afford it would go up significantly.

A lot of people don't want it that much, and that's fine - that's why not everybody does live within walking distance of their employer. But if you want something enough, there are paths you can take that open up the possibility, you just need to be prepared to sacrifice in other areas.
Any look at the WP ecosystem from top hosts ( https://cloudconfusing.com/2019/09/16/wp-engine-review/ ) to investment like this, to adoption ( https://kinsta.com/wordpress-market-share/ ) will reveal how the platform is poised for even greater success.
That depends on the details. I'm sure to have missed a many important details below (I doubt anyone even knows them all).

For an instant raise to happen: companies must not only lose their tax deductions on what they contribute to insurance, they also need to count that contribution to employee's wages even if the employee doesn't take it. As soon as young childless employees realize that they are paying taxes on what amounts to the insurance payments to their co-worker who has a lot of kids they will demand they get the cash.
Check out "Air stills". Distilling your own alcohol is illegal (in US), but it's now about as easy as operating a coffee maker.
The author seemed to be more pointing out opportunity costs and the inability to build a long-term employment structure as consequences.

Lower workforce participation, 'underemployed' workers, the rise of the gig economy (essentially just independent contractors with no insurance) and a concentration of wealth without community investment are others.

Some of that is countered by going for illegal labor practices specifically, but mostly it's countered by restructuring the incentives companies work with and constraining their freedom to act generally.
“Google-free” in that the name is impossible to google? /s

I had not heard of Qwant before this. How does it compare to other privacy-focused search engines e.g. Duck Duck Go?
The difference between Switzerland and the US is that in Switzerland pricing is regulated. The free market does not work when your life is at stake. You can shop around as much as you like for a butt enlargement and skip it if it's too expensive, but if you find a bat in the bedroom you need a physician straightaway, and then he will overcharge you.
From my perspective, I am unlikely to hit the out of pocket maximum but quite likely to spend more than $1k/year. All the high deductible does is discourage you from seeking care for things before they become serious. Not sure how it worked from the employer’s end, but $5k/year will get taxed at roughly 50% before I see it so it’s not clear whether that will be greater than my out of pocket costs
That might be fine if they can produce them cheap enough... I’m sure the same arguments were said when the CPU switched to having non-repairable transistors
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by competent i mean, enough to fundraise and build a team. i think the thing im most looking to get out of it is experience building a team from scratch around me while also creating a tech culture, but none of that can happen without the founder first raising money.
I have either of the 3:

1. Wake up super early (5:45), get a workout in, eat some breakfast. Cuddle. Shower. Drive to work around 9:30.

2. Wake up around 7, read something positive. Eat some breakfast. Head to work around 9:30.

3. Wake up at 9, shower. Head to work at 9:30.
I've been doing this a while. At the big stores, cashiers are always happy to do it, it's just a mild inconvenience because they rarely know how to tare on their machines–they always have to call over a manager and figure it out together. I figure if enough people do it, they'll get used to it, but I don't hold hope for that, judging by the stares we get from everyone waiting in line behind us. It feels like the average person feels more averse to what we're trying to accomplish.

Our local co-op is a lot more streamlined for this, they even do periodical sales for people who bring reusable containers.

Our next goal is to bring our own containers when we eat out, in case we don't finish the food and want to bring the rest home. Often times we purposely order more than we can finish so we get a greater variety of things to share and a whole extra meal the next day.
It starts out with that title trying to piggyback on Marc Andressen's famous article. Then by 1/3 of the way through, it's full on "Apache Kafka® and its uses".

I feel cheated. I was ready to defend the non-software companies of the world, but the article has very little to do with the title. It seems like just an ad.
So, say a guy learns that a man has been repeatedly beating his child. Then takes his car, and runs over the man, killing him.

Should this person not be allowed to work with children?
>>Bose Active Noise Reduction Technology
Interesting that Bose would license this out. Seems like Amazon would be a major threat to them.
I guess it's all relative! I'm not home much of the day, live in a newish condo with LED lights, and heat and cooking use natural gas. 8 KWh feels like a lot to me as it's enough electricity to power an oven for several hours each day.
Because a university isn't investigating to determine whether a crime, per se, has occurred, but to determine whether allegations of discriminatory (racial, sexual, etc) harassment are credible. If such harassment is occurring, or something equivalent which creates a discriminatory hostile environment for the student, a university has an obligation under these laws to end it.

A rape is a crime, but a rape followed by the ongoing presence of the rapist also equates (under legal precedent) to a hostile environment for the student victim, which is how Title IX comes into play.

The question was why are universities conducting these investigations. Rape plus ongoing presence of the rapist is considered a form of sexual discrimination by the university, in so far as the university willfully permits the rapist's ongoing presence. Thus the university is put into the position of judging the credibility of any allegations.

In this way it's also identical to the racial epithet scenario. Shouting racial epithets isn't a crime or even illegal, but a university that doesn't stop such ongoing behavior among its students is considered to be illegally racially discriminatory against the target of the epithets.
> Then you arrive early, and then what

Yes, being a bit early sometimes is a natural consequence of leaving enough time so that you're not late. Being late is much worse than being early because it is disrespectful of other peoples time.

If you're a bit early, then you get a few stress free minutes to hang out with your kid: sit in the car and sing songs together, run around the school yard, take a walk, talk about whats been on their mind lately etc.
Performance is really good (not that we’re using it at scale - but apparently even there it shines).

They use a really clever technique for loading where not only do they. pull all the child data for multiple parent records as a single hit, they actually run a single query for multiple connected clients.

So if you have 10,000 connected clients subscribed to the same graphql queries, they build a temp table with 10k rows (one per client) and add all the environment variables. Then they execute the queries once to get all the data for everyone at once (joining to the temp table and also joining to all the tables for access rules you set up in Hasura). Then they split it up and send back the relevant chunks to each client. It’s much more performant than Postgres RSL because the rules can be executed in the joins in a way that works for every client at the same time.

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There are many ways to argue for something like "this is weak methodology" and some of them are fallacies. Some of them aren't.

A good argument against a study's methodology would probably talk a lot more about the methodology, and a lot less about a believable alternative narrative that is supported by the study. The latter strategy is accepting of the methodology because it is granting that the observed effect is real and deserving of explanation. In a different light, the earlier comment ("As an example of how the observed differences could still be due to nurture rather than nature...") is kind of weird because it is as though the effect might as well be due to nature -- it would present the same way and be as consistent and robust -- even if it were due to socialisation.
Our economy and financial systems are built on trust. Fraud makes it hard to have productive transactions. Fraud also has a massive detriment to society. It's not that private investors needs protection. It's that people who commit fraud needs to be punished.

It is the SEC's job to build trust and prevent fraud, which it looks like it's doing a great job.
One of those is a fundamental condition of a game-theoretic scenario, independent of environment. The other is a marketing trend.
For me, it’s a trust issue: it’s quite hard to evaluate VPN providers so many people might prefer to use a company with substantial visibility and other businesses at risk if they break their privacy guarantees.
All evolution ultimately is, is the result of factors favorable to reproduction staying the gene pool, since those with them quite tautologically tend to reproduce more, while factors unfavorable to reproduction get culled vice versa.

For a recent example of evolution on a practically real time scale see this [1]. Scientists released millions of genetically engineered mosquitoes into the wild. The genetically engineered mosquitoes were all male and engineered to produce infertile offspring. However, rare abnormalities allowed some mosquitoes to end up producing fertile offspring. The entire target population (in the wild) then began to adopt these characteristics and ended up rebounding from near extermination to near pre-release numbers.

That is evolution in fast forward due to a rapid reproduction rate, but even on a generational level this would have been an extremely rapid evolutionary adaptation.

And the same applies to humans. A seemingly ever larger number of things have major genetic factors -- alcoholism being one we've known about for quite some time. Alcoholics are less likely to live to successfully reproduce, and even when producing may produce defective offspring as a result of their alcoholism. So it creates an evolutionary imperative against susceptibility to alcoholism.

[1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49660-6
We're on a slippery slope.

These buds have microphones, obviously.

I do not want my voice captured by random folks on the street without my consent and sent to Alexa.

How will opt-in looks like for such systems?
It's interesting to me that so many people are picking up the clothing thing as mean - he literally said: "The new business model will be to beg investors to give money to the new co-CEOs, who will radically change the company by wearing suits to investor presentations instead of ill-fitting t-shirts."

That's not really saying 'look at this idiot in his ill-fitting t-shirt' it's saying 'this system supports snakes, and whether they wear suits or an ill-fitting t-shirt, they are still snakes.'
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There are a lot of per-query optimizations that can be done, and I think I have read somewhere that Hasura does them very aggressively, ensuring performance even on complicated queries.

In any case, you won't have to worry about N+1 Query problems with Hasura.
Fair enough, but DDU is a good response when someone is claiming their cost to ship across the street is insanely high.

If you set up an apples to apples comparison, I think China would end up slightly cheaper much of the time, but nowhere near the hyperbolic numbers that get thrown around. Maybe they pay $2 for something that costs $2.25 or something. It's difficult to point to specific comparable shipments where they're actually cheaper, though.
19 months is still a pretty reasonable timeframe for modifying a huge international treaty that around 200 countries are party to.

Regardless, I don't think it's fair to include the preceding 12 months; there was nothing actionable for any country to do to prepare for the changes until now. I would actually consider seven months to be impressively fast.
I'm fairly sure I was accurate. What exactly are you referring to?
What is strange about these images is that i can't interpret them as real. I have seen so much scifi stuff like this that i just assume it can't possibly be real.
Hmm. A friend took a $20 budget to Aliexpress and bought us everything matching the keyword "panda" priced under $1 with free shipping.

Small packages, generally about 6" x 6" and weighing under 4oz, trickled in over the following few months. They came from China, Estonia, and Slovenia.

We got one really nice panda hand puppet, several charming small stuffed animals, a bunch of bookmarks, and some magnets.

Now that you mention it, it would be interesting to try the experiment again and see what is the cheapest price I could get to remail each package back to my friend elsewhere in the US.
I am not sure about these. I think I would rather be plugged into my phone where I can do things like ask to make a phone call or ask for directions, plus everything Alexa can do too. Unless these can pair with your phone for that purpose?
Indeed. That is true for people with or without kids. If you are consistently late, you are doing something wrong. Might be not enough time, could be an unrealistic start time, who knows. But if you are always late... as they say, brother that is on you.
I don't understand how "Warp" would help you in the long run - wouldn't we expect Verizon et. al to treat cloudflare endpoints as "suspect" or "throttle-worthy" ?

TOR endpoints are discriminated against by many endpoints and providers - why not Warp endpoints ?
Looks like this is basically a Bose product with Amazon branding so it should be pretty good.

That being said, as an owner of both the Bose QC35 and the Apple Airpods, I'm curious to see how this fits a use case. The over-ear Bose headphones have just enough comfort for its noise-canceling that I can use it for work and flights, and the Airpods I use for workouts - and intentionally don't want it to block out too much noise so when I'm running/biking I can be situationally aware. Am curious what upsides and downsides of these two niches it'll hit.
Fantastic over view of current trends in academia. There is truly a huge bias in the research publications. I think blogging is a better way to put forth your ideas and research rather than getting a publication in some cases.
“You are not the target audience” is not an universal escape hatch in every Apple discussion. It’s perfectly okay if Apple is targeting users that care more about aesthetics. What’s not okay is that basic functionality is being lost — namely typing reliably and predictably on your keyboard.

They went too far and the rumours that the upcoming 16” MacBook will not have the type of keyboard that has been around ever since 2016 support the theory that they realised that their idea sucked and it’s time for putting more reliable keyboards in their laptops.
So the problem is active record is no good at joins?

(That is, it's hard/impossible via the active record DSL to make the correct nested join?)

By the way (you may know this) when staying within active record convention, you should never need to single out the ".id" and ".foreign_model_id" fields:

User.joins(:comments, :likes).where(user: some_user)

(where some_user is an instance of User).

I'm still not quite comfortable enough with AR, but I think, leaning on this:
https://www.learneroo.com/modules/137/nodes/768

I think what you want in your second case is simply?:

User.joins(:comments, :likes).where(user: some_user).uniq

(I'd have to create some models and watch what ".to_sql" creates to be certain, though)
Insurance companies are mainly trying to combat fraud. They kick back claims if they are formatted wrong (why did you code an operation on the left knee when the right knee was the problem), or they deem that the work done was improper, unnecessary or does not fit the standard of care. Billing staff also handle accounts receivable and collections.

The biggest problem IMO is how we structure payment for health services in the USA. The fee for service model is highly inefficient and disincentivizes preventative care. All of the current proposals for universal healthcare do not address this fundamental problem, and so long as this remains in place we will continue to have the highest costs in the world. (disclosure, I am working to try and solve this problem)

If you were to pick countries to emulate, I would pick Singapore, Japan, the Netherlands, and Switzerland instead of Canada and the U.K.
There is this section, which acknowledges the problem of replacing components:

"We also need to consider system reliability. If a dielet is found to be faulty after bonding or fails during operation, it will be very difficult to replace."

Their proposed solution (which is not repair):

"Therefore, SoIFs, especially large ones, need to have fault tolerance built in. Fault tolerance could be implemented at the network level or at the dielet level. At the network level, interdielet routing will need to be able to bypass faulty dielets. At the dielet level, we can consider physical redundancy tricks like using multiple copper pillars for each I/O port."

Your point is still valid, just wanted to call out their their thoughts on the issue.
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More importantly I'd think one would want their child to be well-rested!
I think it's common to use the Fibonacci sequence as the difference between each valid weight increases pretty fast.
The back of the lot is usually where the shade is.
If I were a retailer I'd love to know what my potential customers are talking about in their day-to-day so I can give them a great deal on exactly that.
I'm not sure if there was any thought beyond "make it really big and figure out details later".

It's certainly interesting. But I am doubtful about the self-driving cars being a factor. There are at least 4 companies developing the technology and there is really no indication that it will prove a barrier to entry at this point.
Why not both? Berkeley AI Blog, Stanford AI Blog, CMU ML blog... all show that you can do both. Reviews (part of paper submission process) are legitimately useful, if done well. As a researcher, having Arxiv as a standard medium and conferences to help filter interesting papers (if imperfectly) is also useful.