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> It is hoped that this information generates further research by others within the field of hearing / vestibular dysfunction. I have finished the research for my PhD, this however I feel should be continued with active tinnitus researchers (over to you).

I, in contrast, think this is perfectly reasonable. The title promises nothing, the article describes the methodology in detail, and they give it over to others to study since they can't.
This is a thing that happens, actually! Just not with naval vessels...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/14/max-hardberger...
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The episode 3 plot summary by former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw that this article links to is a great read for those that want to see where the story was headed.

http://www.marclaidlaw.com/epistle-3/
In Singapore, the government forces you to deposit a percentage of your income into an HSA, and then they tell you what you can and cannot spend that money on. You're only allowed to use that money to buy government-approved drugs, for example, and it's not like the FDA where they're just testing for effectiveness and safety. Also, most hospitals are owned by the government, most doctors are government employees, and most hospital visits are mostly paid for by the government.

Price transparency is a relatively minor part of what makes the Singapore health system work.
I completely agree. Legitimacy and funding go hand in hand. What I'm wondering is how to design a democratic system capable of running such a cooperative, not just in theory, but in practice? There are many ways to implement democracy, and a lot of research on the topic. I'm not an expert so I don't know if there's a canonical "good answer".

For example:

- Would members vote directly on issues, or elect representatives to decide on their behalf? Or perhaps a combination of both? If so, what is the threshold?

- How would voting be implemented? Rank-choice? Quadratic voting? Some other system I'm not aware of?
On one hand, yes, you're entirely right about the eventual outcome, but on the other hand, let's get there gracefully. The article describes an event akin to commercial light pollution or commercial aviation, with the similar cause of private industry charging ahead of regulation and standards. It could be that the only solution is to quickly act to regulate space more completely, but we don't have a healthy international political climate for such regulation right now.

Also, in terms of quality of evidence, there is sadly a relatively strong pseudoscientific strain of thought that denies any astronomy done from space. If we stop taking high-quality photos from the surface of the Earth using relatively mundane methods, then the flat-Earthers win.

Finally, what if Kessler Syndrome sets in? In that case, it would not be cheaper to launch a telescope into space, even if the telescope is destined for a relatively distant place like a Lagrange point, since it first must run a gauntlet of debris. Meanwhile, observations from the ground would certainly be twinklier and noisier but not especially more expensive.
It depends on if you see "Dynamicland" as a generic word/phrase like compiler or video game, or as a proper noun, like Xcode or Nintendo Switch?
What do you mean "Scuttle Butt" is a perfect name for a dating service, "Christian Minglë" is also awesome name, I hope someone start a service like that /s
Came here to ask this.

I'm trying think of anything weird that ML may be able to pick up like correcting for local atmospheric conditions, more even heating over the surface of the collector target, adaptive calibration for better aiming or ability to use cheaper components, etc.
I think the fundamental misunderstanding that westerns have is that propaganda is separate from personal opinion, that posts supporting the CCP or astroturfing for China is part of a larger structure, there is a centralized intelligence and that people somehow contain hidden sympathy for western ideas but are afraid to voice them or mask it under the party line.

That may be so in some cases, but my experience is that the propaganda is a reflection of the zeitgeist of Chinese people. Propaganda works because it taps into fundamental beliefs and grievances of the masses. It may distort or channel it into certain directions but it is actually quite aligned with prevailing schools of thought in China and Chinese historiography.

Some of these include:

- The west is hypocritical, the goal of western human rights and democratization is to weaken or subvert China's rise with the goal of ultimately replacing a strong centralized Chinese state that encompasses its present borders for several independent states along ethnic lines and geographic lines that would be easier to manage from a western perspective.

- The fundamental strength of the west up to now is due to superiority capacity for warfare, subjugation of foreign lands through brutal colonialism and exploitation of their natural resources. Now the west in criticizing China in Africa and one belt and road initiatives is simply a cynical maneuver to kick down the ladder after one has already climbed up it.

I could go on, but from these two points stem all subsequent arguments and I think they provide the fundamental rationale for argument over all points of conflict between China and the west.
Did the MPM simulator get used in practice for Frozen? I talked to a few sim TDs (or whatever the equivalent Disney title is) and they said it was too slow at the start for practical use!
When people are asked whether they want insurance, or free at point of service health care, the numbers favor the latter.
A ton of cheap low-quality instruments does not always equal a single expensive instrument. For optical astronomy the only currently reliable way to get higher resolution is to get larger mirrors. And we are not even mentioning the importance of a well calibrated cooled sensor.
Obligatory reminder socialized medicine exists, is cheaper [1], controls costs better [2] has better health outcomes [3], complete price transparency (for instance [4]) and no surprise billing. Also, a reminder that a majority of Americans want it [5].

And yet here we are, once again.

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

[2] https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20110920.01339...

[3] https://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/Health-at-a-Glance-2017-Ke...

[4] http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/pro/programs/ohip/sob/physser...

[5] https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/02/people-dont-ins...
>Hard to grasp how a huge power like the US can't get itself around decently-priced healthcare.

To be honest, it's not that hard to figure out.

The US gov't largely believes itself is ineffective and needs to be privatized and ran like a business. Private businesses are held up as beacons of innovation and efficiency without the "red tape" the gov't has due to purposefully created checks, balances and regulations.

Hence why we elected a CEO, albeit a massive failure of one, but a CEO regardless.
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If they are on an H1B that’s a pretty risky move.
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No, no, it's already over 9000!
I think it’s to prevent people from shopping around. There’s no reason they can’t tell you what codes they will bill for a physical and routine blood draw or ultrasound so that you can ask your insurance company how much it will cost.
I have a double hit of tinnitus.

The first hit started in 2010, a neurological "gift" from the swine flu.

The second hit happened in 2013 while mounting a new tubeless mountain bike tire. The tire blew off the rim and caused permanent hearing damage in my right ear.

I have to sleep with a fan or white noise machine now -- the "sound" I hear in a silent room is enough to keep me awake.
"Thousands flock"...
This misses the point of Marvel movies, though. There is an entire universe of characters and stories. Iron Man's success paved the way for putting those stories on the big screen. Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Panther, Dr. Strange, the Infinity Saga, and so on. That's what Keven Feige, and many of the Marvel people have been trying to do. Setup a universe to tell these stories instead of just having one-off superhero movies.

So instead of Spider-Man or Iron Man just being in their own movies, they can fight alongside (or even against) Captain America, Thanos, etc.
Not familiar with the local law, but it's most likely some BS law that's there due to some BS religious reasoning.

If that's the case, campaign (hard but peaceful/non-violent) to introduce laws compatible with intelligent human life and expunge the records of/pardon those imprisoned due to laws reminicent of the dark ages.

Being (one of hundreds of people) massacred by terrorists is not a fate anyone deserves.
Anecdotal, but a close friend told me that during a moderately high dose mushroom experience his tinnitus was gone for the duration (~4 hours). I was there with him while he was experiencing this.
People vote with their attendance and requisite dollars. Terminator Dark Fate and Charlie's Angels have bombed at the box office. Studios are about making money. They always have been and always will be. I would suspect Mr Scorcese would find the same thing in Bollywood as well.

All genres go through cycles in film in terms of popularity. Marvel will have a down cycle at some point. Disney movies lost their way when Disney himself died. It takes leadership, a great script,great acting and creativity, to build successful movies that can grow into franchises. or be even something people enjoy watching more that once on it's own.
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There is no simple solution to healthcare. This will have a minor effect, if any effect at all.
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> complaints of anti-China bias

Zuckerberg is quite clearly being critical of the Chinese Communist Party, who by nature of being authoritarian, have no mandate from the people of the PRC. There is no bias against China as a country, or Chinese people. Zuck is merely judging an authoritarian government for it's own actions. Shame on those who would wish to conflate the two.
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If a nurse comes into your hospital room with a bag of saline you're going to check the price tag and argue with him about whether it's the right brand?
Note that although this sort of event would make LEO unusable, which isn't good - it would _not_ actually do several things commonly portrayed in fiction alongside that.

It wouldn't prevent leaving the Earth, passing through LEO after a Kessler event wouldn't be unreasonably dangerous because you're not there for long. This means you could still go to the Moon, or to Mars, if you've got any reason to do so.

It wouldn't prevent us putting satellites into higher orbits, in particular the GEO communications satellites are so ludicrously much further up than LEO that to say Kessler would inhibit GEO is as if you imagined that a blocked storm drain in your street might lead to Mount Everest being covered by the rising water.
Not since the advent of modern adaptive optics[1]. Ground-based telescopes now outperform space telescopes in the visible spectrum[2]. For as long as the cost per kilo to orbit is higher than the cost per kilo to the Atacama desert, ground-based astronomy is going to be superior.

The other great advantage of ground-based telescopes is that _they're easy to fix and improve_. The iteration loop is that you walk into the dome and you fiddle with things. You don't need multiple years of planning to polish a mirror. There's an excellent Twitter thread on this issue here[3].

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

[2] https://astronomynow.com/2018/07/19/adaptive-optics-tomograp...

[3] https://twitter.com/cynosurae/status/1196567663977230336
I have an old wired Bose QC25 which still works great.

Although I have taken it to many flights, I recently bought the Bose QC20 wired because headphones are harder to sleep in especially if you sleep on the side. I would recommend the old Bose QC20. I wish Bose would update this and still keep it wired, it's great.
Seems like promising technology that I will be following, but I will remain cautious with my expectations. It seems like every week or so a new, revolutionary technology pops up and completely loses steam.
> Hell, just think of how many excessive deaths have been caused around the globe by the USSR's push of socialism, retarding growth by decades everywhere it won.

Hell, just think of the violence, misery and excessive deaths that have occurred across Latin America and the Middle East because of the USA's interventions.

My point is that just because the USSR did worse, doesn't excuse the USA's actions, which still have an impact to this day.
That's a case by case distinction anyway. But as far as I can hear, "Dreams" does not use one short quote, but basically the entire melody of "Dreams" consists of snippets of "Weaver of Dream" looped over and over again.

If you believe in music copyrights at all, this looks like an open and shut case of infringement to me. Plus "Dreams" is a godawful piece of music.

That said, YouTube represented this as safe to use, so it seems to me that the onus should be on them to work out a license and pay the associated costs. I'm sure Google can find enough change in their couch pillows to pay off the rightsholders.
Great feedback ! From your first sentence, i assume you are american ? Would you recommend it to non americans that wish to enter us soil within the decade ?
I’m curious, have you actually spoken with this person? Why does he do this?

Some engineers do this because they lack confidence. They’ll optimize the shit out of a solution because code reviews are a form of work inflicted torture. If this is the case, you need to think about your culture and whether this person has a reason to dread code reviews. This is not meant to insult you, but as someone who worked through his own self esteem issues decades ago, I’ve got to tell you, I didn’t appreciate the way you’ve disparaged him in this question. For example, ‘it turns out he’s been working nights at home...’ is not appropriate if you want to help someone through self esteem issues. The appropriate way to bridge that is to start with a compliment - the cat is working on his own time to help you...

Other engineers do it because they’re obsessed with learning and understanding. I see this a lot with young engineers - they have this idea that they can’t just use a library, they have to be able to build it from scratch if you give them a pile of sand.

In this case, we’ve all been there. For the love of all that’s holy, if you’re on Hacker News, you’ve gone down rabbit holes like this. Those rabbit holes make us hackers...

If this is the issue, it’s time for real talk. I wish that I understood everything but I don’t have enough time to understand everything and keep a roof over my head. At some point, you’ve got to trust in your team, your tests and your instincts. Fuck, I just resisted the urge to learn about trinary because there’s no way trinary will pay my bills this lifetime. But 21 year old Greg would have spent three years in that rabbit hole.
It's not a "service." They owe you nothing, and they don't need you to use it for them to keep using it. Especially given you aren't the target audience, all that really happens is you become a waste of bandwidth for anyone hosting a public peer.
It's fine to check the ticket before letting people in. However, movie theater employees can also interrupt people in the middle of the film to check their tickets. People pay money to see a movie and are interrupted because the theater staff can't determine who has or hasn't paid.

I think that's wrong on principle but they don't see anything wrong with it.
I haven't tried with a Vivosmart 4 but most Garmin devices can be directly mounted as a USB drive and then you can copy the FIT files. There is an SDK available for parsing the files.

https://www.thisisant.com/developer/
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Why? What would they do?
I imagine the DPRK classifies all Americans and Europeans as simply "Western imperialist dogs", or something like that. The last thing I'd be worried about when planning a trip to Pyongyang is whether the US is cool with it. I would go to nearly any other country than go to North Korea. Just doesn't seem worth it. Wouldn't feel right putting my tourist $$$ directly in the pocket of the fascist Kim regime, for that.
That is not the simplest scenario for the people you were asking for information. Their process isn't optimized for that because almost no one does it.
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I think the "Availability" note means how long they plan to support it and/or sell it.
My uncle wrecked his motorcycle once. He ended up in a ditch unconscious.

Someone called 911. For what ever reason a life flight helicopter was then called and picked him up and took him to a local county hospital. He woke up there a few hours later. After they had already ran all kinds of tests. They had a large list of all the problems from busted spleen, broken bones, head concussion, etc.

After a day of rest in the bed, the only thing wrong was a sore ankle and some deep scratches on his face. He checked himself out and we went and drove him home. They sent a bill of $16,000 the next month to him. He asked why it was so high since the only thing they did was give him a helicopter ride and a bed to sleep in (none of which he consented to but of course hard to consent when you are unconscious).

He sent them a check for $16 which was the minimum amount required. He fully expected to pay $16 per month for the rest of his life, but they never sent another bill and he never asked... That was 15 years ago.
Thanks for the suggestion. No add ons / extensions. Just one theme that changes the color scheme called "Default 1.0 - A theme with the operating system color scheme" which I think is just a normal default.
I don't think it's your level of abstraction, I think it's that you are treating as unrelated two sides of the same coin. This sum type / variant / disjoint union / coproduct construction operates both at the level of types and the level of values. After all, we only care about types insofar as they tell us about values.
They denied this. Why would liberal Sweden tarnish their reputation? What makes Sweden more likely to extradite him than the UK?
While publishing the negotiated prices for each procedure code would be interesting, I don't see how it would change much since it wouldn't necessarily be the price they would actually charge me, and it wouldn't help me know beforehand what sort of add-on procedure codes/bills were going to be part of my care.

The policy I would like to see is that patients should only be legally liable for costs that they sign off on up front (at least for most elective care). It never ceases to bother me that every time I go to the doctor I have no option but to give the hospital a blank check and have to cross fingers that they will not hit me a month later with ridiculous charges.
> and we're going to have capitalism, then we should have capitalism and engage in transactions where both parties have complete knowledge

That's not capitalism, that's free market. You can have a free market by bartering chickens, you don't need capital for that.
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A disturbing trend of the internet age.

Humans are terrible at quantifying these 'movements'. Even 50 people complaining about something can SEEM like a lot.

Our brains just aren't wired to do proper statistics first analysis on incoming data. Everyone is susceptible to this default mode of thinking, including journalists. I believe it's the cause of some of the crazy, anti-science movements that we're seeing in the last 10 years.
I can accept that that's part of the reason. Back in the day bullied kids watched Karate Kid to watch the underdog emerge victorious against all odds. But even the most die hard fan will tell you that Karate Kid 3 did not need to be made, it was a cheap cash-in on a successful franchise.

What explains the desire to make a mini-series or spinoff franchise about every single character, if not the desire to cash in? A couple of years ago Netflix had Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage as standalone shows, and The Defenders as its own show. The Defenders had the exact same cast playing the same characters as on the standalone shows. What is the point of that? Certainly not to put traumatized adults at ease I imagine.
I guess having a closed control loop makes it way easier to set up the mirrors. You don’t have to know precisely where they are (location and orientation), and don’t have to keep checking for ground subsidence.

The article mentions seamlessly switching to solar when the sun comes out, and hints at having more precise temperature control. I wouldn’t know whether either makes much of a difference.
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Yes but that was 15 years ago, and they are referring to Valve's VR strategy. Valve has made an effort to have SDKs available to anyone and have developed a generic VR input system that allows you to play any SteamVR game with any brand of device, Oculus, Microsoft, Valve, whatever. They've also stated in response to the Oculus store offering hardware exclusive titles that they would never create or publish a VR game specific to one platform.

Going back on those claims would ruin so much goodwill towards Valve among the VR community.
You can't counter a statistics statement with "a counter example". The statement was not "there is not a single example where...", it was about what you can expect on average.
Unless you're a chipmunk that's an impressively and worryingly high rate.
I fantasize about a product like that sometimes. A private, pay social site geared towards families. Your family pays a yearly subscription. Photo/video sharing. Event planning. Family news timeline. Everything purely linear. No manipulation to maximize engagement. No ads. Just real information about your family that you care about.

One side of my family has about 30 people that are all willing to travel to meet somewhere every few years. Compared to that expense, it would be trivial for us to share the cost of such a service, even if it were a few hundreds dollars a year.
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Yes, it is illegal to send that information to your email account or your mailbox. These days most providers have services that enable them to communicate with patients electronically, but it's a totally separate system that you have to login to. Your private health information will never show up in your email inbox.
You don't need innovation for the usual complaints that you see a primary care physician for - broken arm, throat infection &c. That stuff lends itself to standardization and following of protocols.
They should probably send a GDPA request to delete all their data as well.
With all the news of vulnerabilities in Android recently, as well as the fact that most Android phones come with spyware from the manufacturer preinstalled, it is clear that Android is pure garbage. I hope Microsoft takes note and decides to get back in the game with Windows mobile very soon.
This brings back memories. I ran a UUCP node when I was in high school, back in the early 90's. I had a feed from another local, who connected to a system somewhere on the west coast. This gave me internet email and about a dozen newsgroups...