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The US is the third-largest nation by population. It stands to reason its prison population should be in the top three.

China executes many of its prisoners.

India lacks infrastructure.

Most US prisoners are imprisoned at state jails -- not federal facilities. In fact the rate of incarceration at the state and local level combined is about 10x the federal incarceration rate. If you think it's too high, you've got to lobby your state government. The federal prison rate is actually much lower than that of other developed nations such as Switzerland, Germany, and France.
Wouldn't the same gravitational lensing that proved relativity also possibly reveal something hidden behind the sun, if it were massive enough?
Use a measurement device and show it in the video.

Like the 1000fps camera used in https://danluu.com/input-lag/
Has anyone checked the indoors CO2 levels of the White House?

This might explain why they don't seem to care or understand about the problem of rising outdoors CO2.
Seems like OP wants to add another qualifier on his CV which will help him pursue politics even further. I wouldn't want to hire a software engineer who has aspirations to run for office either.
"Personally I have had maybe one or two opportunities to interact with a transgender person because they make up a tiny percentage of the population."

That's super interesting to me, because in my experience in any social group I participate in greater than, say, 50 or 100(anything from gamer rooms to code-a-thons), chances are good that at least one person will not be cis. I may not know they aren't cis, but in spaces that ask for preferred pronouns, it's quite common for they/them to be taken up as an accepted pronoun.
How can context be a logical fallacy?

Context is just a set of commonly understood facts and arguments that aren’t stated under the assumption the audience is either already aware or can become so without too much trouble.
I don't know if they will ever succeed or not, but it sure is heart-warming to see people still pushing these ideas and trying to get something going. Competition is Good Thing and if we can come up with something better than nation-states, then we should. Personally I encourage these guys to keep experimenting, keep iterating, and keep pushing to break the mold.

Maybe "government" as we know it today is a just a "fashionable solution" - to riff on pg's earlier essay.
It’s not irrational. Europe spent decades in economic doldrums before the Thatchers and Merkels and Blairs forced reforms and liberalization. The US largely avoided that. (Though, we’re still stuck with the legacy of FDR, and in many respects Europe is overtaking is on economic liberalization and deregulation.)

As to ACA, it’s a step toward what’s basically the Dutch or Swiss healthcare model. We don’t need to socialize insurance or healthcare services to have a workable system.
Whenever you fill a prescription at your pharmacy, ask what that cash price for the drugs would be. Frequently at my local CVS, they have "coupons" available to cash buyers that makes the cost less than my copayment.
Ease of development is underestimation.

I’ve built a few user space Linux drivers for SPI and USB devices. Was easy, I have consumed stable APIs exposed by usbdevfs, libudev, and a few others. No need to recompile OS kernel. Because Linux kernel API is stable, not only OS kernel upgrades don’t break my stuff, they don’t even require me to recompile my code.

Creating a kernel mode Linux driver is much harder in comparison.

Merging a driver into the mainline Linux is borderline impossible. Even Google with all their corporate resources and platinum membership of Linux foundation was unable to do so, instead they are supporting many thousands lines of patches: https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/kernel/andro...

It’s safe to assume you won’t be able to push your custom driver either. You’ll have to do it the same way as everyone else — patch locally. This is not trivial either, but this time the challenge is technical, not political, as Linux kernel doesn’t have stable API nor ABI: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
This just sounds a lot like The Groundwork, which was the Eric Schmidt-funded company that did all of Hillary Clinton's campaign technology work. During the 2016 campaign, The Groundwork's site consisted solely of an Illuminati-esque logo, but today has a more informative/generic site offering their services to people that are not Hillary Clinton.

https://thegroundwork.com/

Presumably it's cool to start a company in this space solely to elect one person, because if you can say you got a President elected, it's going to be good business after that?
No way, this was totally deliberate fraud. The physician likely included all of the accompanying diagnostic codes for ultra rare/serious symptoms/history so it wouldn't get rejected by the insurer. Plus when asked for an explanation by the reporter they didn't opt to fessing up to a mistake or explain why the charge was necessary: they offered no comment whatsoever.

Their fraud relies on insured patients not reading EOBs (because many of us don't).
>There are plenty of planes that are aerodynamically unstable and require fly by wire/computers for satisfactory flight characteristics.

Not passenger aircraft. Only military.
I would guess unless someone actually agrees to help the NSA they cannot do much to defeat real E2E encryption schemes used in things like Wire/Telegram/Signal/Matrix/Tox - and with some of them that are open source such schemes to help the NSA will be very difficult. I don't think this quite the same as what UAE allegedly did with ToTok.
Yes, I tried tailwind few times but I'm 10x more productive with Tachyons: tailwind doesn't make sense from my point of view. It wants to be atomic css but has way too long class names, they're so long I could also use normal style declarations in object notation; then it's not as intuitive, the setup is cumbersome and then it's not a real design system like Tachyons is. E.g. Tachyons' chosen units are super thought-through--you can't make bad designs. So, after this, I got back to Tachyons and never looked back. Still I think it's good to see another contender because atomic css should be the standard and the more players the better.
Or magic.

At that point, if our physics models are that wrong, you might as well say a wizard could have done it.
>> So how does this cycle break. Where is Daenerys?

It stops when people get so used to recognizing it that they give up social media and the usual news sources.

Everyone needs to watch "they live" and realize that it's happening more than ever.
> And single payer will not solve this.

As demonstrated in every single-payer system where this… doesn't happen because the single-payer entity decides what they're going to pay for medical acts and if you don't like it tough tits, the gravy train of high-marging acts only works until the next revision where the single payer auditors realise you're making 90% on something and… just slash down what they're paying by 90%. That was pretty widely reported on with japanese neck MRIs a decade or so back, manufacturers created small cheap MRI machines, every doctor's office equipped themselves to feed at the through, review time arrived and neck/head MRI prices were slashed to $100 or so.

> 2) Stop subsidizing demand (Medicare for All = Use as much as you want).

This is the exact same lie as the voter fraud scare-mongering: not an actual issue. Most people have to be pushed to see their docs, the vast majority just want to get better and would rather be anywhere than an md’s office.
Anything paid for by the campaign is required to say so. Paid trolling does not work unless it is done illegally or by non-American entities who are not subject to those regulations.
> But similarly, if you're constantly being taken advantage of because nobody thinks you care strongly about anything, well, maybe consider becoming more judgemental

Being judgmental will do absolutely nothing to stop those people from taking advantage of you. only if you change your behavior can you change the situation. Looking at your situation fully and completely without fear and reactivity, that will save you. Judging all those people who are "doing this" to you, will do nothing but make you miserable. It is of course our nature to be judgmental but the work of Ramm Dass was to separate out those judgements to arrive at a state where you are truly not judging people. Has nothing to do with seeing what it is they do. an earthquake could level your town, and you see exactly what it is this earthquake did, and it was horrible. but you don't "judge" the earthquake, it just is. that's ultimately the state of all people too.
That's why Ford announced that at least in the US they're buying into the Tesla charging network[0].

https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-fordpass-charging-netwo...
Is it good for us to need more sleep in winter, or just lost time? Because we can fight this with bright lights and other means of advancing the circadian clock (anything that works for SAD).
Part of the problem that Cambridge Analytica ran in to was that it was a "foreign agent". A lot of what it did would be legal under an American entity, and I think many in politics know this.
I guess the word "theorem" is a little strong, since it depends on the real world. I stand by the statement that it's literally impossible to decide this in practice. If we are allowed to say in a few lines of code you could formally compare any chess engine to a theoretically optimal one, then obviously it is possible to decide by just comparing.

Without being allowed to compare a given engine to a theoretically optimal one which is based on brute forcing the full game tree, and being careful about the problem statement, I suspect it would be possible to prove something along these lines

I would argue something like: "Gods evaluation function" takes as input a chess position and returns whether the position is a forced win, lose, or draw. The rules of chess are so complicated that to go from a continuous evaluation function to a discrete one like that would require an infinite number of steps (this last statement is the one that needs to fleshed out)

I will stop calling it a theorem until I remember why I started calling it that. This situation exists in many non-linear optimization problems, a subject I find really interesting, and in many cases in practice there is no way to decide if a given solution is optimal. For some reason I thought there was a theorem in non-linear optimization theory that was directly relevant here
I've used the Swiss system as well as the NHS and private UK systems.

The Swiss seem to have something right. They have actual competition between insurers, though you are restricted to changing supplier at the annual window. Everyone is obliged to buy basic coverage from somewhere, but you can choose. And the obligatory level is fairly cheap, maybe a few hundred CHF per adult per month (kids cost fractions of an adult, basically nothing). You can then add on perks like guaranteed single rooms and such, costing as much as they can get you to pay.

In return you get a service that seems magical. My colleague crashed his bike and needed stiches. He was at work in the morning only slightly later than the normal time. The time I needed the emergency room I wondered how on earth that could be room, it was empty. When my wife gave birth it was like a hotel stay, they even fed me (the father) three meals a day for the best part of a week.

The NHS these days is super stressed. Everyone seems busy, the halls seem very old and crowded. If you're not bringing in a kid, be prepared to wait. And there's plenty of articles about waiting times and busy staff, which seem believable given I know some of those staff.

UK private seems to work nicely if you can pay for it. I had a couple of knee operations, and everything was very comfortable. Barely even saw another patient, and there were lots of people attending to me.
Put this way, it really makes me think you don't like safe spaces because they hinder your ability to hurt transgender people.

It always seem that the only people complaining about systems designed to respect others is the people that are doing the dis-respecting, haven't seen much proof of the contrary so far.
https://www.manhattanspecialtycare.com/doctors/internist/

Roya Fathollahi, MD

Report her to the NY Medical Board and Department of Financial Services

https://www.health.ny.gov/professionals/doctors/conduct/file...

https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumers/health_insurance/surprise_m...
I cannot believe that the significance of the $420/share price just now occurred to me.
You can have finite sum of infinite dimensional vectors, this still works...
I thought about periodically asking what you're doing too but I'm not sure I like the intrusion of it? Time tracking is definitely something people forget about though and just let go from time to time.
It's a good point but the amount and payer for coverage is independent of the fraud that happened here.
Giving up things like modern medicine would not be reasonable. Giving up air travel, or at least reducing it vastly, would be merely an inconvenience. Well yeah, giving up air travel entirely would be somehow a mess, but even there it is completely sure we can make it work.

In France the train is ~50 x more carbon efficient. We will not be able to keep emitting like crazy forever (we actually should have stopped completely already :/ ) , especially when reasonable alternatives exist (the train if going not too far, teleconferences, ...). If we believe in the markets, the price of an air ticket should be maybe 50x higher than what it is today, in order to stop the insane emissions. Alternatively there could be an authority who decide if we have a good reason to take the plane.
Do you understand what they were like when they were public? Costs have fallen dramatically, prices are actually way down, the govt subsidy is down (although will rise again with HS2), and service quality/output is up.

We know this doesn't work because we tried it and it didn't work.
That's a pretty cool hack, would love to see some kind of write up on it!
I think quite a few people on here think this.

Funny enough - I'm pretty sure the article would have garnered a lot of criticism if it were authored by someone else.
Tesla already sells cars in the Chinese market, especially since there is really no other EV luxury alternative and Beijing ICE plate lottery allocations are lower than the EV ones. The factory means Model3s no longer need to be imported, so should be cheaper.
Tesla puts 20-30% of their gross profits into R&D. https://q10k.com/financials/TSLA

Ford/GM don't even have an R&D row on their income statements.
For three weeks this month I either have 3 day weekends or a significant part of the week as time off. It has made me much happier
Writing good rules to prevent this stuff is hard.

Insurers have to create networks so they can negotiate fair rates with doctors and hospitals. These rates often end up being more than medicare would have paid, but not wildly more. Sounds pretty fair. But what to do if the patient goes to an out-of-network doctor? Insurance might say "we won't pay unless it was an emergency," but then the patient gets stuck with a $30k bill. He'll get angry, tell the media, write his Congressman, etc. Somehow the blame will always fall on the insurer (who had no way to prevent this from happening) and not the doctor (who was engaged in price gouging.)

Or maybe the insurer can say "we'll only pay the same rate we would have paid an in-network provider." No problem, says the doctor-- we have the patient's signature on this huge contract that says we can bill them for the remainder. Now the patient gets a $29.5k bill instead of a $30k bill. Still no good.

I'd love to say "just socialize medicine and be done with it", but this worries me too. The US already runs two 100% socialized healthcare systems: the VA for veterans, and IHS for Native Americans. Both are absolute nightmares where people sometimes wait years to see a barely-competent doctor. Many IHS doctors only work there because no private hospital would hire them[1].

I'm not sure what a good solution looks like.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/u-s-indian-health...
Actually it's based on this data on mobile services cost: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/ipb/

I included the data from 2011 because it includes mobile services cost whereas the other is newer but on data costs.

Not sure what your point is at all other than to be pedantic and obfuscate the general point to be honest. The point being that african telecom costs are some of the highest in the world and this would be one use for a satellite...
Yes, they will. The only place you can put a geostationary satellite is on the equator. In theory, they stay in position above the selected point on the equator. In practice, they aren't perfectly stationary, and they will move around the designated point, which will, of necessity, cross the equator.
Joining a startup and missing out on entry-level wages seems like an appropriate trade-off. It's the same reason most people go to college after high school - the opportunity cost is quite low and you can learn a lot of things quickly.
We don't have massive shortages of Doctors, we have shortages in locality. The same places where there is joblessness (think Apalachian Mining towns), you find a lack of doctors.

There's no shortages of doctors, or nurses in major cities.

https://www.google.com/search?q=doctor+shortages+usa+appalac... provides a bunch of links if you want to dive into this topic further.
> there is not a single thing in the economy that is immune from the laws of supply and demand

As a sibling comment noted, this doesn't happen in countries where there are existing single payer systems, so your analysis is trivially disproven by example.

Additionally, this presumes the content of "the laws of supply and demand" -- what's the nature of supply when consumers cannot choose between competing providers? What's the nature of demand for a product that people require to survive? These are not standard parameters, and to assert that they can be understood with simple demand curves is disingenuous at best.
Markets are not responsible for insane health care regulation that restrict competition. Those exist locally and by state for insurances and providers. I could go on a whole list of all of these insane regulation that exist in the US. The US law going back to World War 2 that essentially forces people to get health insurance threw your employer is one one example of one of the dumbest ever laws and incredibly harmful to people.

The point is that everything that's outside of the regulated insurance market, such as plastic or lasik surgery and a whole list of other things are actually getting consistently cheaper while operations that are captured in a totally degenerate insurance market go the opposite direction.

We don't have many western countries that have ever even tried a more market style of health care. Singapore is the most market oriented system in the world and its by far the cheapest when looking at % of GDP.
> The real substance is — how the fuck did he meet Peter Thiel at 23, and how can somebody recreate that?

I think things like this seem impossible when you’re thousands of miles away, but I believe the answer is to move to SF. It really works! Move here and rub shoulders with startup people and eventually you’ll be 1 degree of separation from Mark Zuckerberg.

I think I met Peter Thiel when I was around 21? And I sometimes play PUBG with the founder of del.icio.us, and Alexis Ohanian is a frequent customer of my business. I started out as a mediocre college drop out in Michigan. But to be honest while this is what a lot of people who move here chase for, they’re not really needed to make a business successful.
Very good point here, that's definitely bad design on my part, I'll fix it.
I joined a startup right out of school, I wouldn't do it any other way even now but the picture he paints is far from reality for most.

I learned a lot, had a lot of ownership and was involved with the product from a user level itself which I loved and even made my skill set very diverse.

But the 200 million line is just outright rare. The equity I was given was pretty low and even though the startup is a leader in its space the equity growth hasn't materialized to any noteworthy level and I can't exit right now. I would have made much more at any FAANG level of companies in RSUs by now like my friends over there have done.

This is why even now while discussing offers with companies I am interested in, I don't give ESOPs much value in the package.
I’ve had my Model 3 just over a week. It’s great. I love it. But I can’t wait to get an EV in a few years from a mature manufacturer. I hope that mature manufacturer will be Tesla.

Right now, though, after sales care is pretty much non-existant, I have rattles that I didn’t have in a car with over 100k on the clock, the handover was chaotic and rushed, the interior is cheap.

Even so, I have no regrets. And I’ll recommend the car because it is such a game changer. It drives brilliantly and, of course, it’s great to know that I’m not pumping out diesel fumes. But if there was a EV BMW 3 series with the same range and performance I don’t see how the Model 3 could compete.
Fraud on the part of the practice, yes possible.

The parent comment seems to imply the payer is at fault or committing fraud.
All that stuff is still optional. I don't think there are any cases where removing type annotations from a working Crystal program will change behavior.
The comparison is meaningless: the patient did not pay anything in this case, but the cost is astronomical, the problem is with the cost not with who is paying.
By the way of comparison, I just paid approximately $25 for a bit simple test (bacteria, not virii, but it included sensibility to antibiotics) in Europe last week. Out of the pocket, waiting weeks for the free public system was too much to be effective.
Please don't cherry pick quotes. The full quote with the bit you left out is as follows:

> Amazon EC2 and RDS - count two vCPUs as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license if hyper-threading is enabled, and one vCPU as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license if hyper-threading is not enabled.

As you see, your own quote confirms that yes the rumors are true: Oracle does charge per CPU.
thank you, this was the comment I was looking for
for the practical purposes outlined in the context of this thread, they do not cross the equator
> ... or you figure out how to deal with conflict like an adult. If your way of handling conflict is firing people or taking your ball and going home, your long-term outlook is not so good.

Its the nuclear option, and it is commonly executed. Ex: Internet forums, Dungeon Mastering, various social events, etc. etc.

* The group-leader of most social groups can effectively say "We're not hanging out with you anymore" by refusing invitations.

* Bosses at jobs can fire people.

* Dungeon Masters can outright refuse play against problematic players.

* Moderators of forums (ex: even YCombinator) can silence any party and ban them.

Etc. etc. etc. The "real world" dynamics have the implicit threat of excommunication from any group. The threat of excommunication is the fundamental political weapon of most social groups.

Is this tool used often? No, of course not. But the tool is available in every realistic social setting for a reason. We humans are social animals, and humans who refuse to play ball socially deserve to be ostracized from the group.

Not all groups are worthwhile, and many groups are toxic. So the alternative here is also keeping the ability to change groups (move sideways within a company, or find new dungeon masters or basketball friends, or whatever).

The first tool exists in schools (the "boss", the school principle and teachers, have the ability to suspend or expel students). The second tool: the ability to move schools, doesn't really exist for most people.
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