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If the other players in the pharmaceutical supply weren't pushing regulatory capture, blind deals, collusion, and every other trick to keep ricing under their own control instead of by actual market forces, maybe this would work.
Well,anecdotally,I am friends with a family where one of the spouses grew up in Canada. Their advice when we were planning a trip to Canada was to make sure not to get seriously ill while we were there. Not the first time I have heard of this attitude from Canadians or people from UK.

I do not have anything good to say about our "system" (except that the doctors and nurses themselves are many times exceptional), but I also have seen enough of government run systems to know that that is not not an answer.
I vaguely remember Claire Stapleton from when I was there, as some sort of quirky marketing person. I think her comments are mostly pretty accurate. This one though jumped out as weird:

“He always said how much Google needs to be upfront and progressive in how it handles people and processes and HR,” Stapelton recalled. “He had such an optimistic view of technology and how Google could really transform how people live and free up humanity to pursue the arts.”

Was that really her interpretation of Larry Page? No wonder she's now publicly crying her disappointment. It seems like the total opposite of the Page I saw, a man who never cared about the arts at all and in fact had to be browbeaten into caring about visual design by Steve Jobs himself.

Page back then was a man who cared deeply about science and anything sci-fi. The more sci-fi the better. His vision for Google was a machine that converted ad clicks into flying cars, the computer from Star Trek and so on. Amazing tech wasn't a means to an end but rather, the end itself. I never heard or saw anything in Google's mission about "freeing up humanity to pursue the arts". I can imagine why a humanities person like Stapleton might have wanted to believe that as it would have given her own interests and background an anchor in what was back then a supremely engineering oriented culture. But it wasn't true. Nobody gave a stuff about the arts, as evidenced by hiring priorities.
Also brought to mind Vista and VistaPro scenery generation / terrain rendering programs. Used to play with them a lot to produce pictures. Terragen is the only program I know of in that space these days.
just curious, why did i get downvoted? my anti-bitcoin prediction?
Crazy to think that curl is in nearly every piece of tech sold today[0], and is used in a large amount of the software on those tech products, yet $10k is the biggest donation it's received.

0: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/09/17/the-worlds-biggest-cu...
I would argue most machine learning papers that use public datasets have code available and are often also reproduced independently (sometimes just because of somebody's need to port between PyTorch/TensorFlow). Reproducibility is still a big problem in reinforcement learning, however.

People are definitely thinking carefully about issues of noise and quantization error. Low-precision or quantized neural networks are increasingly popular at both train and test time. And people deliberately introduce noise into neural networks for various reasons (dropout, robustness certificates) and then have to think about the effect on performance. Typically things are quite reproducible in these situations btw, for a given noise distribution.

Re: canonicalization, the theoretical work on "neural tangent kernels" might be relevant.
I've cracked a screen exactly once. I was at a beer festival. I bought a new phone and a Spigen case the following day.
The two best healthcare systems in Europe are in Switzerland and the Netherlands. They went from nationalised to privatised. Nationalised healthcare systems tend to rank lower on the quality index.

And while the Swiss system is expensive, can you really put a price on your health? I'd rather have a good system (Switzerland) than a cheap system (UK).
Then they better just not like insurance in general, since that is literally "paying into a health care pool for the benefit of other people".

Yet I've never once seen a "we should just pay costs" argument, since it would invariably lead to large scale preventable suffering and death.
In the US you can get a $40k model from stock right now.

Their website claims "$6,300 potential incentives and gas savings" to argue it's really more like a $35k car. Whether you find that convincing is up to you.
Nobody is saying to "blame" all engineers for these scams. But you make it seem like that URL would be immediately obvious for everyone, and that clearly isn't true.
Is it really? Got no exposure to C++ but the rabbit hole goes pretty deep with Haskell.
You were using the simulator, which is not an emulator
The real question is why did the maker of the original (priced at $2800) hold strong when a generic existed at $500. Who was purchasing this highly marked up "premium" antibiotic for UTIs?

In a free market the rational way this would play out is original manufacturer runs wild with their monopoly until a generic is made and undercuts them, they then in turn lower their prices to compete.

The only way I see the current situation playing out is with some kind of pricing collusion between the two manufacturers.
I personally like the Chromebook, but it's relegated to fun, not work. It worked well to help me establish a boundary b/t work and home life, as I'd have to pull out my MacBook to do any actual work. I played around with Crostini Linux, but I've had it die on me twice and been forced to do a clean install of Crostini, which would be awful had I used it for anything important.

The Chromebook is also a great way to get out of supporting friends and family with technical issues. It's an affordable device and my tech support has been limited to getting it setup with the printer. (Though cloud printing is being killed later this year IIRC.)
This is impressive, but the most impressive part is that Tesla will likely grow another 50% in the coming year given their guidance.

Tesla China can now produce 3k cars a week, let’s extrapolate that to the year at a really conservative 2k, which results in about 100k extra cars annually. The same can be expected from the model Y ramp which according to Tesla rumors is already well under way, given that it’s effectively the same process as the model 3.

All while not being legally allowed to sell in half of the USA due to outdated car dealership rules, I’d expect this trend to continue given their product roadmap. If they can keep this trend going for 10 years, they’ll be the largest car manufacture in the world. Hah kidding, that would just be impossible to keep up for so long.
Negotiation does not cause costs to rise, it’s because of lack of price transparency that let’s insiders play games.

Make all the prices public, and watch all the excuses disappear. No insurance company will be able to answer the government or employer when they find out another insurance company was able to obtain the same medicine or healthcare for a lower price.
I can see the seller is from the UK, according to hocuspocus it's one of the countries where it's officially sold. I'd expect some markup from them, maybe higher shipping fees, but since it's still within the EU there shouldn't be anything else. I forgot to mention that in Italy prices already include taxes, so 1999€ is exactly how much I would pay.
Yeah certainly seems as far as that whole thing is concerned no one cares to check / reinforce on the SEC side :) not that we can know for sure tbh. Bit of a super grey area all this imho. But like, if you're a potential TSLA investor and you can't be bothered to do two minutes of homework to figure out Musk's communcation "style", i don't know, like, should the SEC protect you? Maybe? Maybe not... And all things considered, there are plenty of CEO's doing worse by their shareholders than Elon so far...
Re: Africa, keep in mind that a lot of fires are natural and / or controlled; natural fires should not be interfered with, because that'll cause a buildup of shrubs and other easily flammable material that will only burn more and harder the next year.
Do you think browser makers should do more to distinguish the host part from the path part of a URL? Right now Firefox uses a darker color for the domain and Chrome uses a darker color for the full hostname.
It's amazing what credible competition can do. If only C had the same kind of pressure.
> with a car the "bleeding edge" can literally be a bleeding edge.

And that's precisely why I used the term "bleeding edge" :) But more with regards to the support/repair experience, and less with regards to safety.

I think Teslas on the road today are relatively safe. You have idiots using Autopilot incorrectly, but you have to go through a fair amount of effort to abuse Autopilot. The car handles phenomenally and performs well in crash tests. I haven't really seen cases of "out of control Teslas" - at least, nothing suggesting an anomaly compared to other manufacturers.
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> Those that think they can manage on their own don't see why that should happen. And as a protestant inspired culture that took it even further than the original protestants, they find this appalling.

> They'd rather see people die in the streets and step over them on the way to brunch, than have themselves, hardworking "good" persons that they are, contribute for the health of the poor and the "losers". Even more so if it's mandatory. Charity from their magnanimous heart, they can consider.

This is a great summary of the issue.
> Exactly the point. K-12 public education is a huge waste of money and that nets poor results. Nobody wants to pay for private healthcare on top of private education that is near-mandatory in some parts of the country

Having children is a choice at a different level than the need for healthcare. If I had to pick between public education and public healthcare, I'd pick public healthcare every time.

I haven't verified it but a quick Google search shows "American taxpayers spent close to $649 billion on its K-12 schools in 2015".

I don't know how much the US spends on healthcare. iirc it is about 18% of GDP or roughly a fifth. If our GDP is USD 20T, then we already spend almost $4T on healthcare. We don't know if adopting a system similar to Germany's will allow us to get it down to what Germany has (11% of GDP) but we have to try.
Bollocks. Vaping is incredibly popular, to the point where Juul was taken to task for marketing incredably hard at high schoolers.

It's a nicotine ban, not a smoking ban. That means vapes too, which means plenty of younger workers tossed into the mix as well.
As someone who works for a small company (~10-15 people), it's possible we're missing out on something obvious, but two years ago we (my employer) looked pretty extensively into our different options and settled on our current plan as the best option.

I have a 1500/3000 family plan with a sticker price of $32,000 / year. I pay a third of that and my employer picks up the rest. I guess it's possible that this is about the going rate and most employers just pick up more of the cost than mine.

Either way, that seems like an unsustainable amount of money to be paying each year.
I wonder if the new factory in Germany will lower the costs for the European market. Currently it's pricey to fully own (not lease) a Tesla in Europe.
If it quacks like a duck...

There are crackpot ideas tightly knit to a group identity like anti-vaccinations, flatearth, and so on. One way to identify crackpots is to look at the idea and figure out is it's presentation more like your CS 101 / physics 101 etc course or some nice respected physics paper, or more like one of the known looney scenes - flatearth, antivaxx, Meyers Briggs, Scientology etc.

Then there are the lone looneys.

If you don't know what they are talking about - at all - it's best to do some cursory education in the field using some or the other open university resources.

So, rule of thumb - look what an anti-vaxx scene looks like, look what a physics basic course looks like, and figure out is it more like one or the other.

Stuff that looks like some other looney stuff usually is looney stuff as well.

Saying looney for a looney is completely different from disregarding new valid ideas.

An example of a borderline case is the 'reactionleas thruster' they've been testing around the world. It would be awesome if it worked. It's a new idea, goes completely against physics. But it's has sufficient testing data to at least merit a second look by third parties.
How is it 'crazy to think'? To me it seems entirely expected that many are happy to leech off free work. Unfortunate, but expected.
Restated, nobody under the sun can write "The last, final language anyone could ever need."

Think of programming languages as a seminar where designers are crafting that Ur-language between themselves, and folks like me in the peanut gallery look on.
Most crops are consumed by livestock, not humans. So by eating crops directly you save more animals than just the ones you don't consume.
To stay under +2°C in 2100 we need to reduce our CO² emission to ~2T/year of CO² per human. We are at 15T/year in the US and ~10T/year at the OECD. We are currently aiming at +4°C or more.

Doind a Paris-NewYork (one way) is 1.3T of CO² emitted.

The effort that we all have to do is huge. And we need to to it NOW (CO² stay ~2 century in the atmosphere, everything emitted only add-up).

We can't do business as usual, that's over.

Let's talk, let's act.
Maybe I sell marijuana in a US state where it's legal, but still have reservations about the Federal government. Or maybe it was just an example and I happen to find the topic interesting.
While rating emoji ants:

> This is a termite. 10/10
> I often see price being cited as a selling point for Chromebooks, but I have never found them to be really cheap.

Around 2014, cheap ($200) chromebooks seemed impressive compared to low end windows laptops (which didn't have SSDs, enough ram for windows, or good battery life).

After that, the cheap chromebooks completely stagnated, though (in 5 years they have only gone to slightly faster celeron processors and 4 rather than 2 gigs of ram) while cheap windows laptops have gotten much better, and as you have mentioned, the expensive chromebooks certainly aren't competitive, either. I think that somehow the idea that chromebooks are cheap seems to have remained despite the fact that it isn't true anymore.
Are they even similar to JavaScript or PHP?
> Apple even agrees because they tried to BUY the company and when they said no they want to take their ball and go home.

I think this was gonna be a case of buy and shut down. there's nothing stopping Apple from releasing something like this themselves and undercutting Corellium. instead they're doing the opposite and have removed emulation from XCode.

Clearly someone at Apple has decided an emulated iOS is too much of a threat.
Wow, Andrew Yang tweeted that just yesterday. Prescient. I like him more and more.
Thank you, Indeed. It's easy to get bogged down and do nothing but cynically watch assets at the core of your business fail in slow motion, because they're in the commons; so acting anyway is laudable.
From result standpoint, it's small difference, not a big one.
I knew what I was getting into with my Pixelbook when I bought one in 2015, they are a lot more than every other Chromebook. But I thought it would be fun, and the $900 was less than I'd spend on some of my other devices.

All I would say is that thing still still runs and looks like it did the day I bought it. It's a solid device that runs everything through the usb-c port (which was still new back then). The specs are overboard for what a Chromebook needs. But like most things, I guess it just comes down to what you use it for.

Now that it has a built-in Linux support, I could do things that might push it. I was surprised when it got Crostini support, you run the Linux apps inside the Chrome OS and not some buggy sandbox.
Vanguard index funds mostly.
> declaring that structure with type annotations wouldn’t add any value over examples and/or unit tests

Types can be exported, which means that consumers of your library have an actual guarantee of what you are returning, rather than just hoping that the docs are up to date. Javascript is the ultimate duck-typed language given that everything is really just an object, and TypeScript is extremely effective at managing it. I can't see why Python would be any different.
Other cars get software updates too, just you need to go to the dealership to get them. And they are not exempt of bugs either, but its just more trouble to have them fixed.
Believe me, they don't want to pay for these. We, in Fl, have people move into the state and fight their property tax because "our kids are not in school anymore".
1. Hardware: The only way to get more performance will be to adapting it to the workload. We're going to see a lot more special purpose chips. "Managed Language Chips" with hw accelerated garbage collection. The Map operation of BigData's MapReduce will be executed in-place in RAM with vast parallelism. RISC-V will have picked up steam and start chipping away in open-source mode at the Intels and NVIDIAs. Stacked computing will be a thing. There will be a lot of new letters in front of 'PU' (CPU, GPU, TPU, ?PU). New kinds of jobs will be created to help people navigate this jungle. Compiler infrastructures will get messy. It will be a Cambrian explosion of new architectures.

2. Software: All languages alive now will stay that way. PHP still feeds the family now, it will continue to do so. FORTRAN will still exist. Some new languages might come mainstream, but only because driven by external factors (Hyperscaler behind it, or the only language for a specific piece of hardware)

3. Money: Globalization will deepen. It will get better for the very poor and the very rich. It will be getting worse between the 5th an 95th percentiles in developed countries.

4. Quantum computing will still be 10 years away.

5. There will be a 2008-like crash before 2025. It will come from excessive corporate debt; and will lead to massive consolidation and monopolies, as neither US nor EU nor China want to be the first to crack down on their champions.

6. There will be two 2017-like speculation bubbles on Bitcoin.

7. Still no AGI, but increasingly pervasive machine learning presence in every bit of every system. People will understand and interact better with ML models.

8. SpaceX crash-lands something on the Moon (before the first half) and Mars (after the first half).

9. No major blockchain-based success, but some industries will have been helped and transformed by starting to operate with automated contracts defined in publicly available code. (ex: parametric insurance)

10. Large scale video games will appear. 100k users will be able to play closely to each other in realtime fashion (unlike in WoW where they can be at most a few 100s in the same place).

11. Close to 2030, with the help of DNA editing, China will release a deadly virus that targets lactose-tolerant humans, starting WWIII.
There can (and typically should) be a difference in one's personal preference and what one would advocate as public policy. Of course I am more emotionally attached to my own health and my kids than I care about one hypothetical unknown stranger thousands of miles away, just as you are. But if I stop and think for a moment I can't rationally justify a system that works well for 1 human (me) and works poorly for 100 other humans.

As a relatively wealthy and well-educated American with great insurance (and easy access to other jobs with benefit packages should my employment situation change), yes, I benefit from the American system. But I wouldn't vote for representatives that advocated it. We're not yet approaching something that's a little bit worse for 99% of the country and a lot better for the remaining 1%, and I'm sure we will have many fun debates as to where we should balance the equation as we approach that point. I would have to be pretty selfish to vote for something that's objectively worse for most people in my country.

However, it would in fact take an oblivious moron to advocate something that's simultaneously worse on average and also worse for them individually, and yet that's what we have in American politics today.
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>free work

>leech

Pick one.
Whatever I've made public, I don't set any expectations for it that would allow me to be let down. It'd be great if it helped me directly in the long run, but I don't expect it to come back.
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I guess you have had different experiences than me. We did fairly strict Scrum at my old job for a few years.

I never felt "attacked at full force" or "derided" even though we didn't follow Scrum to a T.

Never saw that "ScrumButs" thing until I Googled it just now.

I still don't feel attacked or derided. I've talked to dozens and dozens of developers over the years with various feelings on Scrum and never experienced those feelings.

But, you do, and it is 2020 so all feelings are valid. I'm sorry you've had bad experiences. People should not be jerks to you about Scrum or anything at all.
China is 2x the emitter that the US is and it's going to get worse. China has more than doubled their per capita emissions in the last 20 years. Many other countries will follow suit.

The US and other more developed economies are plateauing in terms of emissions per capita. While there's ample opportunity to begin to claw back those numbers, it is not where the problem lies moving forward.
Very cool! Wish you could see more but I get you are trying to get subs.

Curious about how you got the information... but still good stuff. Would be useful for advertisers who were trying to figure out who to target.
You're not wrong that herbal supplements are completely unregulated, and I totally agree that its a huge problem. But I still think you're putting far too much faith into the regulation we do have for the drug market. The regulatory agencies have been pretty thoroughly captured by the drug makers. And profit is a hugely corrupting influence. Just look at the insanity that has taken place with the makers of opioids and the opioid epidemic.

I think the point is that we need to work to improve the regulation of both concentrated drugs and of herbal supplements.

And in the mean time, if people want to use that plant because it makes the feel better - let them. And if their doctor thinks that plant will serve them better than the mass produced drug, let the doctor proscribe the plant. After all, their doctor is the real expert here.
So you're saying that Musk, Tesla's CEO, should be able to mislead investors unabated and that "buyer beware" is the solution rather than the SEC doing its job? I don't understand that argument.

Ultimately Tesla and Musk agreed with the SEC that his previous conduct was wrong, and that's how we got to this settlement agreement. So to argue now that the SEC is wrong and that Musk's behavior is fine because that's his "style" seems to fly in the face of Tesla's own viewpoint on historical events vis-a-vis misleading tweets.
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> And you know another thing? Email works great to me, and it's decentralized. I have my email server, with my domain, so I don't depend on anyone to provide me a service. I have full control of my data that is on my server. I can even send encrypted emails with GnuPG without any problem

OK, and how many non-technical people do you email that have GPG keys? If they don't have GPG, how do you have end to end encrypted communications with them?

This is where Signal won and GPG lost, with the Signal protocol integration into WhatsApp, one billion people instantly got secure comms without even having to know what a key is.

> it's as secure as Signal, if not better.

Signal uses a new key for every single message you send, so it could be argued that actually Signal is better than GPG.