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Why is MicroG's fork better than this one?

Edit: getting downvoted so for clarity this is the part of your comment I'm referring to: MicroG already distributes a fork of LineageOS that includes MicroG
CDO assets were money losing for people who mispriced them. CDOs are a class of instrument similar to insurance in terms of payout. You collect very regular premium and occasionally have to pay out big when a claim cones in. This is a valuable investment vehicle for people who know what they are doing. They all come under the umbrella of negatively skewed investments, that is, the distribution of returns on these investments have a negative skew. They are fat tailed to infrequent but large drawdowns. Short selling options is another strategy with this profile for example.

In this respect, I'd argue that We is very much playing the CDO game. They enter into long term leases and sell short term leases, harvesting the spread. They take on the risk of finding enough short term tenants to pay for the long term commitments, and their profit is the premium for this risk.

This trade will make a reliable but small margin during good economic environments, but they have to leverage it up a lot to actually make money over fixed costs.

What happens when recession hits? Nobody knows, but it is fair to assume that people will cut high cost, easily broken contracts first - exactly We's revenue source. On the other end, We is on hook for all the long commitment contracts.

Sure, they can just atop honoring the leases and shutter the subsidiaries who actually signed the leases, but this is signing their own death warrant because who will do business with them afterwards?

So I'm seeing a lot of indications of a negatively skewed pnl profile, with not a peep about how We plans to hedge them.
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That's interesting. Seems like your ear canal might have an atypical shape. I use my airpods all the time for running, mountain biking, motorcycling. I am still too scared to use them snowboarding because there's no way that I'm going to find them on the off chance that the do fall out into the snow.
Open the market. Liberalize the selling and buying of healing goods and services. Abolish patents. You can even keep some certification of ability and quality, as long as they're on point (no 6 years training for stitches), specific, free and unlimited in number.

Put current psychopats behind the medical industry under death penalty as a warning for future generations. Seems harsh but they killed hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, and all for unjust profit. They deserve it.

80% cancers cured in max 20 years. No more threads on hacker news about people going around like dogs begging for a decent diagnosys. Stem cells for every need at costco, top quality. Problem solved.
Sounds like this could be solved, if the startup could offer a higher base salary, bonus, or a combination.
This episode of planet money talks about this
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/04/757645741/what-medicare-for-a...

Because of redundancies in the US system, there are like 5:1 administrators for each doctor. That’s a huge source of the costs.

Medicare for all will likely cut a lot of those jobs to gain the savings. This show talks about if that’s good or bad for society.
After Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles area, many freeway interchanges were rebuilt within months. But there was extreme urgency here.

General Leslie Groves was chosen to administer the Manhattan Project because he got the Pentagon built on time and on budget, and was viewed as someone of superior skill at these things.
Isn't Google subject to GDPR despite being based in the US practically?

And isn't Google technically a EU company since they use the double irish with a dutch sandwich tax scheme?
Headphones are dumb, single-purpose objects. The long term vision of airpods are that they are part of users' everyday interface with the world - with someone else in the middle harvesting data. Ditto with glasses.
Many of us who won the genetic lottery are sick of paying for those who didn't

Where do you draw this line ?

If someone cannot afford to eat or live a healthy lifestyle do you kick them while they are down ?
because there are way, way more ways of getting XSS than innerHTML. if innerHTML was the only way to get XSS, XSS would have been solved by React / Angular. Consider <a href=xx/> – if xx is `javascript:alert(1)` it executes code, even if you generate this DOM node without even touching HTML.
> And if we restore laws against predatory pricing and centralized financial control, the entire counterfeit capitalism model will go away.

What's something the average person can do to help make this a reality?
> between going to Newark Penn Station or New York Penn Station, which are in opposite directions from the airport.

They're in the same direction from the airport, and the train will stop in Newark Penn on the way to New York Penn. Some people will be confused and try to get off in Newark, although the conductors normally try to announce this really clearly.
This isn't universal and it's also not inclusive of those people who have spouses/partners or children/other dependents. Your employer may cover your premium (or most of it), but it won't always cover those of your dependents at the same percentage.

And I say this as a person who is, with few exceptions, healthy. But medications for common conditions and emergencies , can radically change the cost of all of this.
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> Now you can hear notifications and alerts, turn on compatible smart lights, or call a friend, all without pulling out your phone. They’re designed to keep you in the moment—so you never miss one.

wow, I just had to laugh at this marketing-speak... "designed to keep you in the moment with even more distractions"
This is actually a very cool demo! I did run some simulations similar to this one, but at some point I stopped trying so many different models for the same problem and started facing more difficult tasks (like multi-class, for example).
If it is to anyone's interest, the problem with escalation of this model lies on what would be the analogous to "activation functions" in classic neural networks. The cool thing about the sigmoid function is that it's monotonous, whereas every-day quantum gates are deeply rooted in periodic functions, so the chances of getting stuck inside a bad local minimum rise absurdly fast when deeper or wider circuits are considered.

Actually the problem shown on the demo was pretty much identical to the initial project for my bachelor's thesis, and some phd students took it and raised it to a whole new level (https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.02085). In order to understand the purpose of the cost functions and such, some notions of quantum mechanics come in handy, but if you believe that what we did just so happens to make some underlying sense, then the ultimate result is stunning: there is an implementation which circumvents the problem of local minima, and renders meaningful results at attainably small scales.
McD requires franchise holders to be involved in day to day operation, and the investment is quite large, well north of 1 million.
Yes, so 52% of Amazon's operating income came from AWS.

Which means, conversely, 48% came from Amazon retail and other services.

In other words, it's not true to say that AWS subsidizes the rest of Amazon, or that the rest of Amazon runs at a loss.
If I don't have what I want and can't get it then how could I possibly have an abundance mindset? That abundance mindset stuff is like telling depressed people to stop being depressed.
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It amuses me when people think that letting the government run something will make it more efficient. I do not disagree there is tremendous waste in the current system. I strongly believe that expanding the government's role will only make it worse.
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But in this case there is clear legislation and accountability. Not surveillance sure, but trust that everyone follows the law, and plenty of people willing to speak up internally and externally if the law is broken. That's exactly how most laws work after all: no proactive surveillance, but consequences if caught.
Incentives. There is no incentive for a doctor that sees a patient to provide a favorable outcome for the patient. Whether the patient stays sick or not, the doctor still gets paid. But here's the kicker: The doctor gets paid even more if the patient has to come back. The payments come from the insurance company.

Take this concept to the level of a very large health care network (but non-HMO). Patient has early signs of serious but uncommon condition, goes to doctor. Doctor checks for common, obvious things. Finds non-specific symptoms, refers patient to a specialist or three, and the patient is diagnosed with "Not-My-Problemitis".

Disease progresses and the patient is now able to tell the majority of the symptoms are vascular in nature, not muscle or bone as previously thought. More referrals are given. The specialist orders a battery of tests, but they yield false negatives as the symptoms are not occurring at the time of the test, and the patient was not advised that the symptoms needed to be occurring during the test for it to be valid. Patient is again diagnosed with "Not-My-Problemitis" and possibly referred to a research institute, where they'll have quite a long wait time.

By this point, the patient may have lost their employment due to the frequent sick time and time off for appointments, and generally being frustrated in general. They can qualify for Medicaid but will have to start the process over again, but much slower as providers have to tread carefully with care received under Medicaid supervision, as if they were treading on thin ice. But oops, the patient has now gone into critical condition and is sent to the ICU, which is statistically likely to be owned by the same health organization that had their hands involved in the patient's earlier care.

Due to the patient's hospital visit, regardless of whether the patient survives, a payout of Six or even Seven figures is rewarded. Ka-Ching! Insurance companies are hesitant to deny those kinds of claims now, if they involve life or death. Too much bad PR. Thanks, Michael Moore! Of course, it doesn't work out as well for the hospital if the patient had lost their job and is back on Medicare, as there isn't much profit to be made there, if any. That's just the collateral cost of doing business.
I'll pass for now, but keep me in the loop.
The title is an obvious reference to Diogenes, though his name isn't on the page. The story goes that he would walk around Athens with a lantern in the daytime, and when asked what he was doing he'd reply "searching for an honest man."

Another fun story about Diogenes has Alexander seeking him out (while the other great philosophers of Athens sought out Alexander), only to find him laying in the sun. Alexander supposedly told Diogenes to ask for anything he wanted, and Diogenes replied "stop blocking my sun."

According to a third fable of history, when Plato defined "man" as "a featherless biped" Diogenes burst into the academy holding a plucked chicken and declared "BEHOLD: A MAN!"

He also liked to eat and masturbate in the marketplace, as a defiance of social norms (and maybe because he liked masturbating in public, but that's revisionist history).
Really?
People post articles/pictures/links, people comment on it and discuss, you can show your like/dislike on the article with a single click. Am I describing Facebook or HN?
>When a hospital has an entire legal arm just for suing people in court, because they aren't making their payments, you know something is wrong.

A good example of this is the Ford Pinto and it’s exploding gas tanks after impact due to them being exposed. This resulted in multiple accidents and deaths. Ford later learned they could retrofit every Pinto sold for a total cost of $11 (in that years value) per Pinto. They decided not too because court costs per death would be less than the profit loss.

Without boring you with unnecessary details, it can be summed up as this: Does B < PL?

B = Burden of adequate precautions

P = probability that the defendants actions will result in an accident

L = Loss/Cost of accident if it occurred

When looking at hospitals, they understand the costs of hospitalizing someone for 3 days, 3 hours, or 3 years. They also know the costs of providing care to all of their patients without the thought of insurance companies reemburssing them. For them, the idea of shrinking profits in order to maximize care is not ideal. So, in this case, they will often charge insurance companies the maximum allowed, charged uninsuranced patients the maximum, etc. Why do they do this? Because for them, B<PL. The total cost of employing 10 lawyers to fight 100+ cases of defaulted medical bills or lobby for a new policy, that will still be less than the amount of profit they would lose if the hospital paid for all that care to begin with.
I am amazed that this got green lighted.

you know - who is out there saying - what i am missing in my life is a really ugly ring, that i have to charge daily.
You don't have a smartphone?
What is the advantage of this over a smart watch?
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Transparent shuffling of money and legal responsibilities don't have to be an effective shield if we follow the money.

Plus if you toss lawyer in jail and disbar them you will run out of lawyers to sac pretty quickly.
? Your energy units are weird. 109 Gigawatt-hours per year is just 12.4 Megawatts. Worldwide average primary energy consumption is 18 Terawatts, or 157,000,000 Gigawatt-hours/year (GWh/year). Electricity (which is higher usable energy than "primary energy) is about 3 Terawatts average globally, a lot more than 4%.

US average electricity is ~475 Gigawatts. But there's a huge difference between average electricity and nameplate capacity. Natural gas peaker plants have about a 200GW nameplate capacity in the US but only produce about 25GW average. If we ran just the peaker plants all-out, we'd generate an additional 175Gigawatts.

US gasoline consumption is about 400 million gallons per day. I drive a Volt, and typically I get about the same range in 10 kWh that I would in a single gallon (Model 3s do even better, however). So roughly speaking, We'd need about 4 TWh per day, or about 167 Gigawatts average extra. Technically, averaged over the year, then, our peaker plants would have enough extra capacity to produce enough electricity. But natural gas combined cycle plants would also generate about another 100GW if ran all-out. (None of this is terribly realistic as there will be local transmission constraints and weather-related demand spikes which the peaker plants are needed for, but it is instructive.)

However, it'd take a good 10-15 years to mostly turnover the whole gas car market in the US even with a revived "cash for clunkers" program, so the capacity expansion would have plenty of time to sort these things out. We can expand solar and wind over this time even while phasing out gas.

The main thing, however, is the battery production.
>One thing that will not make healthcare less expensive is "Medicare For All". It will just shift the bill to different people. Now, you can argue it's the morally correct course of action, or those people who will be forced to foot the bill (upper middle class taxpayers) are more capable of doing so, but you cannot credibly claim with a straight face that it will make anything cheaper. In fact, the opposite will occur.

Isn't the NHS or Canada's system better? How are they different from 'Medicare for all' ?
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Wind particularly. There are nine licences agreed for farms as large or larger than Hornsea One, including Hornsea 2 and 3. Another licence round due in a couple of years, and a lot of coastline to go...
This is why I indicated that the United States needs a single payor natinoal insurance.
Having just visited the EU I can tell you the working folks in those socialist countries are pissed they have to support immigrants who arent contributing.

Its not all roses over there
That's ridiculous. Your life would be better without those hardships. You don't know that forgoing those hardships would leave you with other, more difficult hardships; and in any case, if you went without the hardships that limited your access to school you'd be making more money and could deal with your new problems with money.

You've been brainwashed and deluded into accepting mediocrity.
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The medical insurance industry is a free market. That's why it's such a disaster.

"Free markets" are certainly not free in any meaningful sense of the word. In practice they make no distinction between activities that provide customer value for a competitive price, and activities that are institutionalised economic extortion maintained by political lobbying and regulatory capture leveraged by plentiful access to capital.

The whole point of "free market" rhetoric in the US is to promote the latter while pretending to promote the former.
A few years ago when the Apple Watch was still new, a guy in my team bought the watch. I always thought he was talking to me when he brew his press coffee in the kitchen and I was standing near refilling my water bottle. He would say "Siri, remind me in 4 minutes" and I looked over asking "pardon me?", 100% of the time.
Isn't this exactly what DDG does? Closed-source, aggregating/proxying other search engines like Yandex.
If you run your own business you often have a much easier pathway to living close to work: move your business. Commercial real estate rents often fall off even faster than residential ones do as you move away from the city center, and the competition from other local businesses tends to thin out. If it's a desirable and affordable place for you to live, it's likely a desirable and affordable place for your customers to live, which makes it an ideal place to situate a local business.

And being flexible with your lifestyle and assumptions so that you can get what you really want in life is exactly what is being discussed here.
The easiest way to tell if a founder will be able to raise money is to see if he's done it before successfully. If he hasn't, I wouldn't count on it happening in the near term.

I'd be very wary of joining a startup that needs to raise money (i.e. can't bootstrap itself to profitability/exit for some reason) before it has raised money without a substantial equity position and a clear leadership position.

It sounds to me like this company is early enough that it's going to be very hard to evaluate the likelihood of success, so you want to make sure you're prepared for the personal financial risk that entails and that you're compensated for it in some form.

It also sounds to me like you're putting a lot of faith in the CEO to make the company a success and bring you along for the ride, while in reality a lot of responsibility will lie on your shoulders as a very early employee.

Having a conversation with the CEO about these issues should help you decide whether this startup is a good fit for you, but I still think you need to determine if the position is a good fit for you personally.
Time to change that! :)
The common advice (in Denmark) is to buy energy efficient electrical appliances. Fridges, washing machines, dishwashers, and led lights are labelled[1] so consumers can decide for themselves.

School kids are taught (well, at least I was) small habits such as boiling just the amount of water that you need, cooking with the lid on, turning off the oven 5 minutes before the meal is done, etc.

These energy saving habits are motivated by taxes on energy consumption.

The average household in Denmark use 4.4kWh/day per person (1600kWh a year) and the current recommendation is to be aiming at 1000kWh/year[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_energy_label

[2] https://sparenergi.dk/forbruger/el/dit-elforbrug (in Danish)
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It is not, because at least 3 factors of the equation are incredibly difficult to estimate. About as difficult as estimating the probability of an alien encounter. So the equation is basically useless.
Unity is not necessarily doing something wrong. As a library/platform-wrapper, it is their job to provide stuff like that. If such syscalls are meant to be forbidden, the OS has to prevent them.

(I'm not from unity)
I'm two paragraphs in, it feel like this dude wants to sell me something. Edit: Yeah it was a pitch, sneaky sneaky ;)
On my network's (both home and work) I definitively want to block, any other DNS than the ones I set up.

It was easy and effective way, to block sites, ads, and make sure that internal sites resolved correctly.

Trying to play whack a mole with DOH servers blacklists, sounds like a loosing game.

Not exactly sure what solution there will be. Because in combination with ESNI, you will essentially have to block whole cloud flare, if you just want to block a single site.
And since a lot of ad networks use cloud flare ...

This gives more power to individual clients (both good ones like firefox, and chrome and bad ones like malware, trackers, other crap), but takes away power from centrally managing your own network.

I definitively see reasons on both sides, why this is good or bad.

Sorry for tangential rant :)
But you eliminate negotiation as one of those factors using other countries as a reasoning. I've never heard that this is debunked (though I don't expect that it is the sole factor). Do you have sources?

Or did I misunderstand and you are just saying that negotiation (or lack thereof) alone isn't responsible for all the cost headaches?
> maybe it only returns a promise on Tuesdays, or at random like some other commenter wrote

But async/await makes this better, because a function marked async always returns a promise.
I'd be much more inclined to, yes. The "Tony Stark" fantasy is a neat one - it's just heavily tempered by the reality of how much data and control we're letting out of our control.
Nice whataboutism

edit: I guess the HN hive mind disagrees with my point. Just FYI if someone says they care about their privacy and don't want to use a product because of privacy concerns, and your counter argument is that they use some other product that has privacy concerns, that is a textbook example of a whataboutism
I have a different understanding of Bose products, and do not consider them to be "good" in any sense, except marketing and resulting "snob value". For example, I haven't seen Bose publish any measurement data for their products, which is important for comparisons.

A funny quote: "No highs, no lows, must be Bose." And here is a link for further reading: http://web.archive.org/web/20130121081646/http://www.intelle...
Fat is more calorically dense than sugar, and your examples are all low in fat as well - vegetables and fruits have more carbs than either protein or fats - and the high calorie examples (ie. Avacado) of those categories are high in fat. Fish has few fats and no sugars. The most calorific cuts of meat aren't that way because they are sugary, it's because they are fatty. It's just that fats lead to satiety quicker than carbs, but I'll bet if you ate pork belly for every meal you'd find that you could and would get fat on that.
It is clear to me that Amazon has doubled down on the only foothold they have, after missing mobile.

I think that Voice Assistants will always be a feature, though, and not a product. And as a feature, first-party ones will always have an inherent advantage.

Especially with this event, it seems that Amazon is going with a feature and trying to back into products, which to me seems like the opposite way to approach a market.