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> The difference is that one system is designed to heal people, while the other is designed to profit from it.

The US system isn’t designed at all. Many if not most hospitals and insurers are non-profits, while others are operated by varying levels of government. The resulting patchwork is regulated on multiple levels of government with a variety of differing policy outcomes, but “profit” is not generally one of them.

There are, indeed, for-profit producers of drugs and medical equipment, but this is also true in the UK (GlaxoSmithKline is a British drug company).

> For a system designed to heal people, the priority should be to heal people, and to make the cost of doing so as low as possible. In this system, when somehow someone is unable to access healthcare they need, it's a failure of this particular implementation of the system, and something that needs to be fixed.

Minimizing cost and maximizing access are, in fact, competing goals. If a certain medical treatment is inherently costly to provide, you have to make a specific choice between cost and access. If you are unwilling to budget for competitive pay for health care professionals, you directly affect the availability of care by risking shortages of these professionals. Likewise if you don’t build enough hospitals. This fundamental constraint applies to all health care systems.

I would argue that having the government individually operate each hospital and directly employ each doctor and nurse imposes a heavy administrative burden that is fundamentally impossible to optimize for cost-efficacy. “Failures of implementation” are inevitable and systemic in this model; you may have paved a road with good intentions but that doesn’t mean it leads where you want to go. This is why the NHS is relatively unique even among universal systems and was not broadly replicated even in other European or Commonwealth countries, most of which seem to have better health outcomes.

I’m not saying the US system is perfect, or even better for that matter, but countries like Switzerland and a Singapore have systems that are arguably more privatized than the US while providing better outcomes as well. Even most countries with universal health insurance have some private sector involvement. The problems with the US health care system are far more complicated than the oversimplified conspiracy theories people keep spouting (theories that aren’t far off from those of anti-vaxxers or known frauds like Kevin Trudeau).
Are there any languages other than C#, Java and maybe Dart that have these features?

As soon as you add any kind of metaprogramming or macros to the mix, IDEs start to break, because they can't refactor code that doesn't exist yet. That's an issue for IDEs for C, C++, Rust, D and probably few other languages.
> even for laundry detergents, scents matter

A detergent should clean my clothes. If there is a scent after washing they aren't clean.
I'm in the middle of migrating from Debian 10 to a FreeNAS with jails appliance - mail, web, xmpp, nextcloud, etc. So far FreeBSD (the jails run full fledged FreeBSD) has been a delightful experience.
Perhaps when they bury nuclear waste, they can warn off future civilisations with stone tablets etched in comic sans?
The downside might be that when you are aware of this, it may create a prejudice when meeting new people. Somehow I know (or think I know) that most people won't meet my interests to settle a common ground. It's not that my interests are better, it's just I am not into common things like TV shows, politics, sports, religion, etc.

This keeps me from talking to people except those who I already know (perhaps from a time when the prejudice was not so influential). I don't want to play status games because I have no interest to begin with.

Of course, the above excludes these tangential thoughts that one may share on HN :)
>Remember Google+? Who lead that initiative? What a travesty that was. Outside of Gmail, Google's UIs really do suck.

I don't think that was an issue with the UI. Their UI was quite nice and the overall UX was too. Thing was they started by driving up hype, then letting a lot of people in but not everyone. Those lots left because it didn't have the main drive of a social media platform. Users. Their friends weren't allowed in yet. And then more people were let in who left. And then everyone. A horrid way to launch.
Part of what this is getting to is that the elites are, in a sense, unmoored. I can't speak for what they individually feel but there must be some acceptance that Facebook and Google just don't measure up to Standard Oil or Toyota in terms of real world impact. The electronic companies can measure up, but they are becoming more of an Asian phenomenon. Maybe the drug companies.

I have a half-formed view that many of societies elites are trying to pretend that they are something else because they don't know how to handle the responsibility of maintaining the complex machinery of society. They don't want to actually let go of their power and status though.
“Paralinguistic Cues” Can Help You to Persuade
ssh-chat: Chat over SSH (2015)
Is C# nowadays friendly enough for type driven development?

Using TypeScript daily, I have a great time with type driven development. (C# and TS was created by the same guy)

I was never comfortable with Java community approach of automating stuff, with their heavy use of reflections, method name parsing instead of being strict in typings, use generics, macro, templating, etc.
"Merda d'oca" is definitely lighter. This one would be rather "color de gos com fuig" (literally, the color of a dog running away).
“Working from home guilt”Is it real?
Indeed, and those artistics usually don't get a damm about platforms beyond getting exposure to their work in some form.

Walking the corridors of GDC(E), PAX seldom turns into discussions about OS and 3D APIs, rather business opportunies, publishing contracts, turning ideas into contracts.

Street musicians and art fair artists also do stuff big labels and architure societies don't care about.
Actually, several American car manufactured experimented with this idea in the 50's. Most notably Ford with the Nucleon [0], but also other brands such as Packard and (I believe) Cadillac were also designing nuclear powered cars.

Eventually it was concluded that the shielding of the reactor would make a nuclear powered passenger car impractical, as it would make the vehicle too big. And of course there were the obvious safety concerns.

There is an good documentary on this subject on youtube [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR5gefU87TY
This comment perfectly navigates a line of sarcasm and optimism that speaks to me this gloomy Friday morning.

Bravo!
No, in a word.

You expect a technology to be made to work first, then to be made to work profitably, and only then commodified, miniaturised, etc.

Nuclear works, but no one has made it work profitably. There is no reason to think shrinking it will make more profitable.

Quite the opposite in fact: nuclear has big fixed costs. That's why you usually see multiple reactors build close together on single sites. The more profitable (less loss making really) sites are the biggest ones.

This is why the first computers were not laptops.
> Cut down on variety and compete on price instead.

I don't care so much about price as I do about convenience. ALDI only sells low-budget store-brands, and that's going a bit too far. I want A brands where it matters, and high-quality generic things where it doesn't.
>You say that like they are equally bad for you. Being bought out is great for the previous owners. (Otherwise, they wouldn't sell.)

If the other option is being broken then of course you sell. Even if you could make more money in the long run if they weren't holding a gun to your head.
Sounds a bit strange because the game uses Unreal Engine 3. Doesn't that get you 99% there to supporting those platforms?
Do not follow your passion
Yes trip advisor has become irrelevant, in the beginning you could rely on the ratings. Now almost everyone has 4+ stars.

I find Google ratings slighly better.
France has some nuclear plants that are on rivers where this problem has been seen.
There are lots of brands that do this. I think Ikea in particular has some pretty minimalistic branding on its own products. Tesco, lidl/aldi (I forget which) too.
> more feasible than acquiring 100x die scans of the chip

Last time I had to get SEM micrographs in resolutions between 2K and 10K, we paid 475€ for 2 hours of work.

While I wouldn't want to pay this out of my pocket and gift it to the world, I don't see how it's less feasible to make better die scans than to build the testing equipment (PPU breakoutboard) needed for automated testing.

Especially if the current owner of the already decapped dies were willing to lend them to someone else willing to do the footwork.
I think it should be easy enough to find 19 people willing to donate 25€ for this kinda effort.

On the other hand, the dies would have to be plasma coated with Gold/Platinum, which might be bad, I'm not an expert. So, perhaps you were refering to this when you said higher-res scans are less feasable than making automatic testing happen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The young chimpanzees that play with dolls
Thank goodness for status ambiguity.

It's possible to be rich, yet a terrific bore; a talented golfer who is a mean drunk; a world class programmer who can't weld for beans; or a respected judge who nonetheless commits a faux pas at a society event.

We can all be switching statuses all the time and (to an extent) we get to choose which ones, if any, matter to us.

I think this makes life immensely more rich and tolerable than the self promoters of this world would have us believe.
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> Considering the value of their service, GA on their marketing page seems like a very small compromise.

It's not a compromise until you consider the value of both sides of the equation. Please do elaborate on that, with some details on the negative externalities of blindly sharing your tracking data with Google.

Otherwise your argument just became "superior data has got some value to me, which is more than none, so yeah I got mine".

It's not less of an all-or-nothing attitude if you fail to seriously consider the other side of the supposed compromise.
I believe you have not disagreed with me, but you have introduced additional intermediate stages and conditions with which I disagree.

I disagree that it is necessary for technology to be made profitable before becoming commoditised. I would argue that some technologies only become profitable when they are commoditised.

There is no reason to think shrinking it will make more profitable.

I cannot see into the minds of Rolls Royce, but I would hazard that they think it can be done. They suggest that if they can export this technology overseas as well, they can turn a profit on it. While I don't know if they're correct, they clearly believe it's possible.
Terrorism has been working pretty great for the US and UK governments over the past 200 years.
I love Atlassian's implementation of this[1] where they installed "portals" around their offices, connected to a counterpart in another office - if you want to chat to someone you can walk over to the relevant portal and do so, but because they're always on and in public places they also facilitate the sort of spontaneous conversations you get when you bump into someone in the kitchen while making a cup of coffee.

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/blog/archives/developer-lives-save...
Best case for GPL 3.0 but every idiot out there uses MIT ... without even understanding it and the calling foul when other people use their code in SAAS.
You're missing the point. Going to space puts us in very restrictive environments and situations that forces us to solve issues that we "can" just shrug away here on earth (meaning we move it to one or two generations down the line so it's not our problem anymore).
Most cases for rpi are $3 plastic shells around the board. With a stiff cat6 cable you can’t even make it sit on a flat surface but it will hover above your shelf (good for cooling but feels a bit flimsy). That’s what my closet looks like now. Tiny boxes suspended by their tangle of cables. Disconnecting one always feels like a risk of disturbing another.

Just a bigger/heavier case, or one with good wall mounts, or a half with rack tray where you can bolt one (or more) raspberries would be perfect to get some order in the closet.
Googling around now I see a lot of DIY rack mount (stacked vertically in 2U seems to be the popular choice). Just need to find someone selling that commercially.

Using iDevice chargers are a good idea.

Edit: googling further reveals this one too:
https://revolution.kunbus.com/revolution-pi-series/
DIN Rails! Situation has definitely improved a LOT and shows that there really is a demand for more "industrial" use.
Solar power is simply indirect nuclear power anyhow. If we can do what’s happening in the sun in a bottle - then no need to produce panels. If there is material in stars to produce solar power, then there is more potential nuclear power. I’m for both, and solar seems distributed in a way that makes me think it’s better for human society, but since stars are made of fissable materials - by definition there is more “potential energy” in fission than solar, since solar is simply a subset of fission at a distance.
> solve all kinds of existential problems

...very few existential problems have anything to do with technology.
There was a RISC-V processor with optical components manufactured (https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Wed1015-riscv-s... https://escholarship.org/content/qt4dh1v4px/qt4dh1v4px.pdf). This isn't necessarily an "optical CPU" because the cores themselves are still regular CMOS, but it's a step towards that. Interestingly one of the authors is the chief architect at SiFive.
3 Things that kill focus in a startup
Can be. In general it can be lots of things because shitloads of hormones do weird things
I'm not a game developer, so I can't really answer your question. But it's worth noting that most of these games are 32 bit on Windows too. I don't know if that's because of middleware or an actual desire to support 32 bit hardware, but regardless, it probably doesn't make sense to use 32 bit on Windows and 64 bit on macOS.

For non-games, a lot of the Mac software that was still 32 bit was using Carbon, which doesn't have a 64 bit variant. Carbon is old as heck, but if you're using it, there's no upgrade path other than a complete rewrite. That may or may not be worthwhile versus EOL'ing the software.

(As a complete tangent, I recently learned that Apple did once promise a 64 bit version of Carbon. The library was present in the developer preview of Leopard, and many devs began building with it. But then it was gone in Leopard's final release, and Apple never mentioned it again.)
China building 1k-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus
What causes my behaviour is that my brain is literally retarded

That is a very infectious way of modelling the world.

Asking "what is causing it?" is the dead end.

It certainly is not. If I have problems geting the information from a book in to my brain. The cause can be said to be that I am trying to read it. Solution: Get it as an audiobook instead.

I do have an ADHD diagnosis but I don't think that justifies my thoughts in any way.
Milk bottles are thoroughly steam washed. Not sure If I could trust a bottle washing machine unless they where my dirty bottles.
Always be wary of grandiose claims like this that amount as much to facts as to marketing material.
The huge cost leads to mismanagement. Obsolete or unsafe nuclear plants keep running even when they shouldn't. Those plants should have been replaced with new designs immediately but it is cost prohibitive and that is what lead to accidents like Chernobyl.

If you can't afford to shut it down then don't build expensive big designs. Build smaller ones that you can actually afford to take offline.
> If I can receive a message, respond to it four hours or a day later, and receive a phone call for anything more urgent than that, I'm happy to use IM platforms for collaboration.

Isn't that exactly Slack with the "Do not disturb" mode on does or email?
Sounds like stores during socialism in eastern Europe. No thanks.
> I mean, how many successful terrorist attacks on nuclear plants have we really seen?

This is the best example of survivor bias I've seen in a while.
In my case procrastination mostly happens when I don't schedule things properly. I think it's more a time-management issue rather than an emotional thing. Timeboxing my daily schedule and commitment are the best solutions.
It's probably the only possible successor to that surprisingly standard looking Merlin powered Phantom II someone did a few years ago.
People need to stop putting the bar for anti-competitiveness at monopoly. It just creates an artificial ceiling
Microsoft saved apple.
AMD and Intel. Etc
You get selfmaintained duopolies instead.
And to grow they just go into other markets.
Sure google doesn't have a search or add monopoly. Can't grow much anymore in those fields because of the rules? Use your dominance to crack other fields, every field.

Microsoft was so close to being broken up for this long ago but now everyone does it...so why do we allow it?
This sounds like the plot of Resident Evil.
Grande skinny matcha latte, please. $8.75? I’ve got a musket ball and this shiny bead, will that cover it?
"Uh huh" generally means "yes". However, I think what might be tripping you up is that it is often used sarcastically to actually means "no".

In this case, I agree with you. It probably means "yes".
Ask HN: Should every employer provide free Virtual Healthcare?
Thought not free hospitalization or Home care.

Don't you think it would be affordable for a company to provide Virtual Physicians to their employees and families who are in need for doctor for their aliments like

- colds, allergies, infections and minor injuries.
- diabetic & Hypertension care, preventive care
- other issues which can be dealt without a doctors visit?
I miss the days of standards. Having to buy into an ecosystem for this kind of thing is remarkably annoying. I want to be able to buy any "smart" speakers I like and have them work together through a common control system. Not be stuck at the mercy of individual company decisions.
With the advent of home delivery, this is as easy as filtering inline search results to said brands. And, if it matters to you, printing out your own minimalistic labels..
Except there's no doctor-patient discrepancy, most people in this thread are in the business and actually do have to make these choices based on their own expertise in the field.

It's a lot more like if all doctors were telling each other they should wash their hands before surgery, but many of them don't really because the tap water is cold and kinda too far away and everybody is doing it and what's the harm really and at least I'm not actively sneezing into the wound, you know?
Learning Rust helped me become a stronger Python developer.

I've been working full time with Rust for long enough that I've acquired an intuition about ownership such that a lightweight borrow checker in my mind monitors ownership designs in Python. I use mutability sparingly. I use compositional design. Etc.
> why?

Because MY DNA is MY DATA. MINE! I own it, so I can do whatever I want with it, including not giving it to some weird company or whoever. Is that so hard to understand?

It's not me who needs a very, very good justification (and no, hypothetical criminal-catching doesn't cut it, because you'd have to prove me being a criminal first) to keep that data to myself, it's anyone else who wants to make use of it who needs a very good justification for that, ideally one that doesn't just depend on brute external force to "convince" me of consenting to someone else utilizing that data.
It’s impressive that they were able to sequence the genome of this virus so fast.
TIL – Git switch and Git restore
That's a terrible idea in my opinion, any advertising at all on Wikipedia would be the thin edge of a very unpleasant wedge. Wikipedia is many people's first stop for knowledge, we really don't want people being able to buy eyeball space next to what's supposed to be unbiased content.

Additionally, expanding advertising generally is a bad move when exposure to advertising has been shown to be negatively correlated to quality of life and contentedness. We need to be transitioning away from advertising as a primary driver of the online economy, not fuelling it further. Advertising should only be employed when there's no better option in my opinion, not the first thing you reach for monetising a site. We should see advertising like fossil fuels, a regrettable necessity that we should aim to phase out.
the site is such a crap on mobile, low contrast letters, and that header that pops up and takes 30% of the screen every time you scroll up a pixel
What if a child uses a screen to read?
Yep. You can probably go higher than this today - $25 million these days seems to be too small for the VCs.
Y Combinator Is Hosting a Work at a Startup Expo in Los Angeles on March 7th
It also allows things like Google Assistant to work.
they have a live demo
https://demo.buxfer.com/dashboard
Wait, arachnophobia is 3.5-6.1%, while trypophobia is 15-17% ?! I find that hard to believe.
For one day, yes, it can cost €60-70 but the price per day goes way down once you rent it for a week. That's what I do (3 kids, no car, only renting for holidays).

Of course if you need a car for 2 days every week that doesn't quite work, and you're better off owning one.

But many people living in cities don't really need a car (can't find a reference right now, but I think less than half of Paris residents own a car).
Console generations are a known quantity for both developers and consumers. A lot of people keep their old consoles around when they buy a new one.

You will never see Sony release a PS4 update that drops support for 2013-era PS4 games, at least not purposefully. If they did, people would be very mad.
Can you elaborate on why this was transformative?

The dropping of standards is always going to make things a bit easier on yourself but if there isn't really much more to it than that, is proclaiming "It's okay to be messy" really a good thing?

I don't think(I might be wrong) other engineering fields can get away so lightly with such attitudes, why do you think we can? Particularly in light of so many security disasters unfolding around us. How can you justify an attitude that seems to move in the opposite direction of where many believe we should be heading, i.e. tighter control, more strongly enforced standards and a distancing from the 'move fast, break stuff' ethos
silicone doesn't require mold release on a nicely machined mold. If it IS required, such as with complex shapes, food-grade oils are used.

I suppose you could get a newly machined mold that may have cutting oil or something impregnated in the metal, but i'm not sure how you'd avoid that anywhere ,really.

(Just wash everything thoroughly when you receive it and buy from reputable dealers, that seems about as good as you can get.)
Sure thing, but the gigantic Google Analytics machine is hardly a small compromise versus all the other ubiquitous tracking.

I don't even consider it a compromise, because literally no one arguing to use GA anyway seems to be able to present both sides of the scale considering the compromise.
> The “cloud car” that Waymo and Uber promise is really cool

Not for me. One aspect I appreciate a lot of owning a car is that I KNOW it's available for me whenever I need it, as soon as I need it.