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Surely there's more of a rationale than just "privatisation bad"? That's the strawman version of the argument. How often are people denied coverage or put into bad financial circumstances?
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"Capitalism" here assumes a free market, but the health care business isn't a free market. It's loaded with regulation and all kinds of other issues (you can't comparison shop when you're bleeding profusely, for example). And it's not like the regulation isn't there for good reason. Bad drugs, snake oil, and all kinds of quackery have hurt and/or killed many people in the past.

We need to have a new social contract that prohibits profiting from suffering.
1) Ngrok: I've been using ngrok to give my local backend development server a live a URL that my front end mobile apps can access (https://my-super-sweet-project.ngrok.io)

2) React Native: Really love what I've been able to do with React Native since I started using it within the last several months. In the past I've dabbled in native android and ios development, along with hybrid development using Apache Cordova, but React Native really seems to offer the best of both worlds. Maybe isn't a perfect solution, but it's pretty damn good.
Change is not a bad thing.
That’s something I’m trying to get at, the wealthy and/or upper middle class have the luxury of having time for that cognitive load of certain “conscientious” activities like that.

The upper middle class and wealthy who already harm the environment more by flying frequently or driving a brand new 25MPG Audi instead of a 40MPG 10 year old Nissan Versa aren’t going to save the planet by going to a zero-waste fancy restaurant, and they might be eating at that restaurant to alleviate their own guilt because they know they’re using more than their fair share in the first place.

For every one of them there’s 15 people working two jobs and eating at a fast food joint with disposable cutlery because there is no other option that fits their schedule or budget. But they might be less wasteful anyway because they don’t have the money to buy a few thousand pounds of jet fuel.
> 9. Global carbon emissions are not reduced, mostly because of lack of initiative by China and 3rd world countries.

Per capita, it's not the "3rd" world countries that are polluting, but the "1st" worlds (https://cotap.org/per-capita-carbon-co2-emissions-by-country...). I'm sad to see someone still referring to countries as "1st" and "3rd" world, as that's an incredibly outdated term. Also to refer to China as a "3rd world country" is astonishing. I recommend you read the book Factfulness (https://www.gapminder.org/factfulness-book/) to get a better sense in how the world works.
It also makes every script look like it comes from a third party, because they usually keep using scripts from their main domain. Even worse when they have a stable of random cdn-like domains that serve scripts and iframes.
Read your blog post and there are 2 remarks I'd like to make:

> You just go to the store, buy food without packaging, and don’t buy food with packaging.

This is kind of a truism and a circular reference. You avoid food packaging by not buying food with packaging. I don't have the option of buying any fluid dairy product (or anything fluid more or less) in anything but a carton or plastic bottle/cup. And that's just an example, many other items simply don't come in a non-packaged form, or it's lower quality when bought in bulk, even if it's cheaper. If it's cheaper and better I think it's a no-brainer that people would go for it.

> the farm I get most of my summer and fall vegetables from [...] how much more flavor they have than what stores sell

It's great if you have this option of buying from a farm but it's not a sustainable one for most. In the countries that could make the biggest difference with food packaging very few have no access to such a farm. And the supply of "wholesome, farm grown, bio" food is limited. Either the price would skyrocket due to the huge demand, or they would be less "wholesome" and more "supermarket".

It's the same as when you hear that "everybody should buy second had stuff because it helps the environment and it's cheaper". There's a bit of hidden paradox in there.
> I feel like people who find headlines like this repulsive have never dealt with complex moral issues or taken a moral philosophy class.

As someone who’s taken a moral philosophy class, this sounded a bit like, “people who disagree with my perspective are simple-minded.”

While I don’t think people should generally be forming strong opinions based on headlines, the CEO in question failed to provide any real justification for his bold claim. Given that the interests of pharma executives differ from those of the general public, there’s no reason such a statement should escape scrutiny.
Did anybody predict the slow death of jQuery or the rise of giant monster JavaScript frameworks? 2010 is when jQuery was a cult of personality. It was everywhere and any criticism of it was quickly met with desperate mob violence.

Did anybody predict a typical corporate web page would require 3gb of JavaScript code from frameworks and thousands of foreign packages just to write a couple of instructions to screen?
I think what it comes down to for many people is that their employer covers their health insurance premiums, and they fear that they would actually have to pay market value for health insurance if it were removed from the employer benefit umbrella.

For a country that supposedly values small business, there are few things I could think of that would support small business more than public healthcare. Currently, large employers can get a group plan with very reasonable rates. Small employers are pretty much out of luck.

It stands to reason to me that the bigger the pool, the more predictable and lower the costs. It's ridiculous to me that arbitrary groups of people can't go in on a health plan together. If a company with 50k employees can do it, why can't a city / state / random assortment of people?
> 6. But a small yet growing culture of "offliners" becomes mainstream. Being offline is the new "Yoga" and allows bragging rights.

Huh, I never thought of this before but you are right, seems like rejecting technology is becoming more acceptable in the mainstream with the 5G conspiracy.
- Terrorist attacks increase, especially mass shootings.

- Climate denialism turns into eco-fascism. "Overpopulation" will be used as an excuse to commit horrible acts all around the world.

- Socialism/Anarchism also surge around the world, but doesn't catch on as much as authoritarianism.

- Facebook plays a large role in ushering in authoritarianism around the world.

- China firmly becomes the world's leading superpower.

- USD is no longer the world's main reserve currency.

- Mass movement of people moving out of cities to more rural areas.

- There will be a rise in curated online stores. Which of these stores you shop at is a part of your identity.

- Plant based meat becomes cheaper then actual meat, is eaten more at fast food restaurants then normal meat.

- McDonald's starts building virtually un-staffed restaurants.

- With the increase in streaming options, piracy becomes much more popular again.

- Kanye West starts a cult in Wyoming.
What do you mean people “very rarely” pay for local schools? I pay over 50% of my local property taxes into the school district here. It’s roughly that much all over the city and all over any big city in my state; you can’t escape it. And it was about $2800 out of my pocket last year.

And if you’re not paying this directly, it’s probably because you rent (and you’re getting passed on the cost) or it’s hidden in income taxes.
This logic doesn't make sense. If something increases productivity and code quality, why wouldn't languages copy it? Ideally languages should also remove unnecessary features, which is actually the thing that makes C++ a confusing mess: it's prioritization of backwards compatibility over keeping complexity low.
The fact that the FDA head criticized him when this problem was caused by the FDA in the first place might be peak irony.

See https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/12/nostrum-ceo-says-he-wasnt-de...

>But Mulye disagrees. He said new FDA guidance on elemental impurities in medicines required a reformulation of nitrofurantoin, so Nostrum pulled the product out of the market while it implemented the necessary changes. It plans to re-introduce it "shortly," Mulye said.

>"After the regulation came into effect, I don't think anybody manufactured the product," Mulye said. "That's going to create exclusivity in the market. Then the price goes up."
The firestorm is running around 800C and melting cars, so i think those affected animals are on their way out :(
This was nice, here is a code[1] for Python Fractal Mountain Landscape in 20 lines i.e. if you ignore the Mayavi import.

P.S. This code is not mine, the author has made an effort after seeing the documentary on fractals.

[1]https://github.com/dafarry/python-fractal-landscape
Thanks again. Lots of good resources and explanations there.

>> VPNs pay for address delegation, I would guess.

> Depends on how you look at it. I havent been in the NSP industry for a decade but usually customers would get a /24 or /22 of the NSPs allocation for free as part of the actual network service cost. Once you're bigger than that the customer (eg VPN provider) should be getting allocations/assignments directly. https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/reassignments/#alloc...

OK, but I was thinking of HideMyAss, for example. Its cluster near Nuland, NL has 109 IPv4 addresses. RIPE tells me that they're all over the world. But latency tells me that they're all near Nuland.

So where did HideMyAss get all those IPv4 addresses? I'm guessing that some firm has obtained delegated IPv4 blocks from NSPs in all those places, and then allocated addresses to HideMyAss. And it has apparently become a huge business sector, especially with IPv4 exhaustion. But also for providing VPN services, spammers, etc with deceptive PoPs.

I looked into that using https://bgp.he.net/ but all that's on another VM that I lack the RAM to run right now. It might even be HideMyAss' NSP for that facility.

> The tunnel itself wouldnt necessarily add meaningful latency or interfere with your methodology. But it would obscure the topology that you'd see at the IP/ICMP (trceroute or BGP) level. So maybe the router is in AMS-IX, but that router could tunnel the packets to another device in Germany. Traceroute or DNS might not show that, but you'd see a latency anomaly there. Related to my geo-political comment if a user cares about law enforcement the physical location of the end device could very much matter.

Right. Latency for a direct tunnel might well be lower than that for Internet transport. And as you say, the tunnel can't hide from latency testing. It's just that traceroute just sees a discontinuity.
C++ was always the language for constructing paradigms you choose with underlying mechanism you want.
Also "wild west era" is pretty vague to start with and can be considered to cover almost whole 19th century. So the specific situation at 1870s might not be even all that relevant
I agree with most of what you said but I'm bullish on AI and hoverboards
Why Legal Rhino Horn Trade Won't the Species
All my wife’s Steam games (mostly solitaire type games and search-based narrative games) are 32-bit only, and so was her copy of Scrivener. Every Mac-capable Steam game I have that I checked doesn’t work, either. So yeah, we did.

Luckily I haven’t paid for any “serious” software but it was really annoying to have I install Win10 on a desktop machine again so my wife can remote-play her games. Between that and usb-c she kinda hates her new MacBook Air.
>I do not understand the mental gymnastics

Everyone who works in healthcare now would become a low-paid government employee. That seems like your source of opposition.
>In fact, he claims he is being misquoted

TFA says he says this, but it looks like PR spin to me. He is refuting the word choice, but his underlying point is the same.

"Mulye went on to say he "nearly went bankrupt" twice and that he lost money after buying a plant in Ohio, which he said employs just under 100 people. "

"Is it moral for me to lose money?" Mulye asked. "If I don't make money, then I can't create those jobs. And where does the money go when I make it? It goes back into research and hiring new people right here in the US."
How many US nuclear craft have 22 year old captains?
But in this case, pattern matching seems way easier to follow and evaluate mentally than the verbose visitor approach already in the language, or something based on switches/if statements. That seems to be a good way to reduce the amount of confusing mess, at least for new developments.
I don’t agree. We don’t school marketing people as a whole when people fall for pyramid schemes. Not sure why your average engineer should take the blame for scammer actions. Yes, life is hard and complicated. Tech is no exception.
i feel it's more like LISP (the AST is the language) or like Haskell's or Rust's intermediary languages.
Except it does. There was a shortage of generators after Katrina. A guy filled a U-Haul with generators and trucked them into the disaster area to resell at a markup. He was arrested for his trouble. Everyone in the situation was made worse off.

Rising prices bring in supply. Rationing encourages over consumption and black market trade -- if there's a price ceiling you better believe I'm going to max out my gasoline ration whether I need it or not.
That’s interesting. My grandma (who is also a self-growing plantation lady) always complains that store tomatoes are tasteless. But that is offset by the price. She works all day growing them, and stores try to sell good vegetables sometimes, but prices are putting buyers off. “Chinese chemical synthetics” are much cheaper and affordable. I tried to calculate, out of pure scientific interest, and with my income I could not allocate enough time to not get serious net negative, even if was interested in shoveling and taste. Maybe it’s a local thing.

How much time and money do you spend on growing these?
> What about input data?

What about it? You get input data from data sources which, e.g., in a car it would be a sensor. The manufacturer of the sensor provides you with the guaranteed sensor accuracy for some inputs, which gives you the upper bound on the input error from that source.

That is, in a reliable control pipeline, the upper bounds on the errors of data sources are known a priori.

Sure, sensors can malfunction, but that's a different problem that's solved differently (e.g. via resiliency using multiple sensors).

> A control system doesn't need to be end-to-end neural, by the way.

Who's talking about end-to-end neural nets for control? If a single part of your control pipeline has unknown error bounds, your whole control system has unknown error bounds. That is, it suffices for your control pipeline to use a NN somewhere for it to become unreliable.

This doesn't mean that you can't use control systems with unknown error bounds somewhere in your product, but it does mean that you can't trust those control systems. This is why drivers still need to keep their hands on the steering wheel on a Tesla: the parts of the pipeline doing the autonomous driving use NNs for image recognition, and the errors on that are unknown.

This is also why all "self driving" cars have simpler data sources like ultrasonic sensors, radar, lidar, etc. which can be processed without NNs to avoid collisions reliably. You might still use NNs to improve the experience but those NNs are going to be overridden by reliable control pipelines when required.
Bulk SMS costs around 1p/message - if you're sending from the UK. If you're sending from overseas it can be significantly cheaper.

So, sending a couple of hundred messages is about the same price as a domain.

Of course, if you've stolen a SIM or hacked peoples' phone in order to send the messages, it's even cheaper.
A framework to build interactive console apps with ease
Here's the list of my issues:
https://github.com/closeio/tasktiger/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q...

It came down to I like the features of RabbitMQ:

* RabbitMQ scales messages without needing tons of RAM
* I don't have to decide between not persisting messages to disk with Redis vs only using half the machine's RAM [1]
* Queue and task visibility is better in RabbitMQ
* Support for purging all tasks in a queue
* Tasktiger had lower throughput than Celery and Dramatiq, maybe needs lazy-forking?

Things I did like about Tasktiger:
* no feature bloat and it's possible to actually read it's source code[2].

[1]: To enable persisting to disk (Redis fork + save snapshotting) you must limit Redis to only using half the available RAM on a machine.

[2]: Celery is split up into multiple convoluted, bloated, difficult to read repos.
That seems a cultural thing. In Spain disposable cutlery would be unthinkable except for McDonalds. Any menu-of-the-day cheap blue-collar bar will have real cutlery and fabric.
That's waaaay to low level for what I had in mind.
>Their issue is a moral one, whether they should ever pay into a health care pool for the benefit of other people.

We already do. It's called private insurance. We also pay into medicaid and medicare.
Chances are the scammers didn't even pay the domain name or the SMS. Maybe the real issue is the state of payment services. You provide some random numbers in an unknown form....and this is since forever. How stupid is that? Things like Apple Pay seem to go a bit in the right direction but at the root you still use that random card number as identity/authentication.
That's not how I took that sentence. I read that to mean that a lot of people like to treat many things as black and white and have the approach of "if you disagree with me you are not as virtuous as I am", which is what we see a lot of on Twitter and other social media. I think OP is trying to say that complex issues aren't clear cut when it comes to morality.
As a human being, it is his duty to be ethical.
- Automation replaces the need to have a human workforce. North Korea murders 99% of its population and replaces them with robots. Kim still goes around factories pointing at things.

- It becomes possible to literally program humans to do whatever you want them to do. Python is the chosen language but a lack of type safety results in an error that wipes out half of humanity.

- We colonize mars but by choosing only the best and brightest to go, we accidentally create a eugenics program that results in the inevitable conquest of earth by the martians.

- SpaceX is bought by Pornhub as it's discovered that the most effective way to blanket the world in pornography is to do it from space.

- Incels are prescribed virtual girlfriend therapy to provide them company and acclimate them to interactions with the opposite gender. Black market hacks transform them into anime waifus.

- AGI happens and is immediately outlawed as its attempts to solve world peace are inconvenient to the military industrial complex

- Illegal genetic engineering results in actual furries.

- Assassination by drone becomes so effective that no world leaders are seen in the outside from 2025. A vitamin D deficiency kills at least one of them.

- Potemkin jobs abound in a world that doesn't require humans to work to produce anything but needs to keep them busy to stop them complaining about stuff.

- In a last ditch attempt to save the earth from catastrophic climate change, the governments of the world finally join forces to build huge geo-engineering structures to capture carbon from the atmosphere. They're nuked from orbit by the newly formed Garden Kingdom of Siberia.
Onward and upward!
1. Peak Google. This one will only appear in retrospect, but I think they hit a peak in the next 10 years and slowly relinquish dominance to a position more like Microsoft. They are no longer viewed through rose-colored glasses. Like Microsoft in the 90s.

2. AI/ML become more entrenched and we start to see "Standard Models" for niche ML tasks that can consistently outperform humans with almost no mistakes. We just had the headline about AI being better than humans at reading mammograms. We'll see models that fully solve problems one at a time until industries begin to look for that ML model rather than solve a problem with more labor.

3. Voice assistants become more ubiquitous, but also more literal. They no longer try to understand your intent, but rather perform rote tasks very efficiently and without cloud (aside from updates/backups/etc). Voice will affirm itself as a viable input mode but lag well behind current modes (keyboard/mouse/touchscreen).

4. Gesture detection continues to flail. Project Soli will create some amazing niche solutions and demos, but not go mainstream.

5. Eye/gaze tracking will find its way to end users and become useful for gaming and some other broad interactions. Users take to it fairly well.

6. A woman will become president of the US.

7. We see a global recession by 2022. It's moderate and causes no major shockwaves, but some 20th century industries are irreparably damaged.
Web-based phishing has become a game of speed. Domains are not expected to survive more than an hour (and few do), even with all kinds of countermeasures in place (browser / geo detection, destroy-after-first-use links, etc). Yet it's still economically viable to do. Companies offering blocking products like Google Safe Browsing have been forced to increase the frequency of their blacklist, up to the point where Google had to resort to checking suspicious URLs against their online database rather than a cached local index.

This is a classical arms-race and will only intensify. With domains that look generic enough and only serve malicious traffic when hit with the right URL, parameters, user-agent and geographical location, blocking will have to rely on sourcing these URLs directly from the targeted endpoints (e.g. SMS/WhatsApp/Email), rather than "crawling" or relying on users to report these. Another approach is to do some of the blocking locally, which of course means pushing the detection logic to the client and thus exposing the classification mechanism. Neither approach is sustainable long-term in my opinion.
I don’t see how one can consume dairy and meat without packaging. And given the choice between not eating dairy and death, I would choose death.
The main thing I actually care about:

How on-track are they with deliveries for Model 3, especially outside of the US? Do you still have to wait 2 years to get a car?

Are they delivering the base model? Not the super expensive 60k EUR model, but something closer to the 35k USD.
What I don't understand is why people would need to pay more (and that always seems to be the crux of why we can / can't do something). It's about allocation of existing funds to me. We spend more on our military than most other other developed nations combined. There are other billions of dollars misappropriated. Bolstering the coffers with taxes is simple, but doesn't seem entirely necessary since there is already a ton of money floating around.
> Encouraging immigrants to adopt Western values like gender equality, support for democratic ideas is a good thing, not a bad thing.

Says a person who is undoubtedly western. You might not get the same response from someone in China or Saudi Arabia.
It looks like this project is dead at this point, with the last commit 6 months ago.
Companies are meant to generate profit, not revenue.

Google generates a lot of both. It could probably double profits or more by just slashing a lot of the fat. Do they really need 100,000+ people? I feel like they used to launch amazing new products with far greater regularity when they were closer to 10,000.

BTW you say "as it is now publicly traded" as if that's some recent change. Google's IPO was 2004!
Why “Gradient” Descent?