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"Universal care is no different. If your surgery is deemed unnecessary, you really have no chance at getting it."

Highly disagreed. I had several unnecessary surgeries as a child in canada. I had some swollen drainage things in my sinuses removed, and the only danger is that I was really sniffly all the time!

"We need to get rid of all insurance companies, allow hospitals and doctors to compete over price (which will reduce prices for everything to true values (instead of $80 Aspirin), and only have insurance for surgeries that are rare and can't benefit from the free market."

Does this mean that the free market means hospitals can choose not to treat patients that are too sick, too black, too gay, etc?
You know what he's saying though.
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Here in Germany all scooters have to be capped at 12.4mph. What's it in Austin?
But I really do care. I do!
It is totally normal for corporations to dwarf nations in GDP. Corporations are far less powerful now then they used to be - during colonial times the british east india company was not only larger than many countries, it actually had it's own army twice the size of the british army and invaded and colonized and controlled many countries. If we're talking about corporate dictatorship, it's been far far far far worse than google competing with their own customers.
Yeah that sounds a lot like American propaganda about the Canadian healthcare system. All of my family has had their surgeries done in Canada, and while there is a needs-based component the wait times aren't ridiculous.

Publicly funded healthcare may not solve all issues, but it removes the perverse incentive to refuse or reduce care quality because you don't have access to insurance or cash. Free market means shit to me if I'm mid-heart attack, I don't have the time to review pamphlets about why ABC hospital has the best care for the low-low price of $4999!
This problem can be easily solved using the unicode half block character. People who make these terminal toys rarely leverage unicode (I suppose for aesthetic reasons?).

Here's an example of what you can achieve just with unicode chars:

https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer
The US federal government just granted its first driverless car exemption
Same.

The iPhone is slowly getting there. Latest updates make robo-calling less of a thing.

Wish list: allow perm do not disturb, enable whitelisting for allowed callers, allow total removal of phone app.
But otherwise I could be made responsible to pay for that other poor soul, the concept of risk distribution is too complicated and strokes of fate never touch me.
These issues sound a lot like managers not trusting employees to get work done, which sounds like a bigger issue.
Yes, all of those Disney films with a sad ending like...um...

You know if Disney did this the kid and his dog would be adopted by loving parents in the end.
No. There's some sort of legal sophistry that helps them get away with it, and even if there weren't there's always the fall back of qualified immunity.
Strange that industry has never figured this out, especially as a JavaScript developer. Maybe they will have some magical framework that organizes their code for them only to be astonished when the result is really big, requires lots of people, and does very little.
> Wow, so they must be really overcharging their customers if they have a small % of the market share but such a high run rate?

That...doesn't even make sense. He premise doesn't even have a rational connection to the conclusion.
Since you're nit picking already and because it's a "today I learned" opportunity, parent's usage fits one of the definitions of emergent, the first one here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emergent.
No, you are way overthinking this. There isn't a conflict between empathy and honesty, at least not in my relationships, because an empathetic friend would realize that I don't want to be lied to.

If your friends are mature adults, they can handle being told that someone doesn't want to hang out with them sometimes, without taking it personally. If they can't handle that, that's a problem that needs to be addressed--it's not a kind or empathetic thing to walk around on eggshells and let that problem fester and grow. This isn't a "kind lie" even if such a thing exists. What you're describing isn't empathy for your friends, it's fear/anxiety that your friends won't react well, and if your friends are quality friends at all, it's not a rational fear.

To be clear, moral failure has nothing to do with my argument: I don't even believe in morality in an absolute sense. My argument is that, assuming people want to have cooperative, enjoyable interactions with friends, the best way to achieve that is to tell the truth about what you want and expect the same from your friends.
It's not clear from this article how people are being "denied care" based on this Experian product; the video example provided appears to be about a special need-based admission offering at a provider, not a normal admissions process. In other words: a check that you're poor enough to require the special service.
> (e.g. via an ADR)

what is an ADR?
I take issue with "wildly," but I suppose it's hard to argue with a 4x ROI... :-/
I know I'm nit-picking, but what's wrong with Valve's handling of Portal? It is a highly-successful franchise that continues to pay dividends for them with no further investment on their part, if I understand correctly.
I was really hoping to see statistics regarding fatal accident per mile in comparison to other forms of transport, guess I'll have to dig deeper for it.

Makes sense that scooters would be roughly similar to bicycles though.
In my opinion, the reason why small-wheel (wheel diameter ~6 in / 15 cm) e-scooters are dangerous, is their small wheels. The front wheel can suddenly stop on a a pothole, crack, storm drain, curb, etc, and the rider's momentum will fling them headfirst into the ground. I do recall reading some reports that if the front brake locks up, the same can happen, but I don't know if the risk of that is greater than on a bicycle.

(edit: bad metric conversion)
Washington, DC doesn't seem like a great sample city from my experience. I don't have any empirical data but travel quite a bit and the density of scooter deployment in DC is significantly less than in cities such as Austin, TX. This is based exclusively on my ability to find / use these scooters and the density I've seen on the maps they provide.

I suspect there will also be cultural elements to each region they're deployed in that will have a significant impact on injuries (New Jersey drivers/scootees are wildly more aggressive than Minnesotan drivers/scootees).

Once again this is all anecdotal but trying to infer anything from one city is likely going to be just as flawed for any meaningful conclusion.
I would agree with this article a lot more if it said that most people don't understand the problem microservices are trying to solve, but instead I think it contributes to the confusion.

It's true that a microservice doesn't magically create cleaner code, better designs, or anything like that. It can actually make all those things harder. Designing good remote APIs is hard, maintaining consistent code quality over lots of different codebases is hard.

All a microservice does is give you a way to independently release the code that lives behind a small chunk of your larger API (e.g. http://apis.uber-for-cats/v2/litter-boxes). This is why a good API gateway that's built for microservices is one of the first tools you actually need, and can get you surprisingly far.

It turns out that despite the complexity, this is an enormously valuable capability in a lot of different situations. Say you have a monolith that you can only release once every six months and you urgently need to get a new feature out the door. Or maybe half your code can't change very fast because it's mission critical for millions of users, but the other half wants to change really fast because you're trying to expand your product.

Of course the big bang refactor into microservices that he describes isn't really going to help you in any of these situations, but then again big bang refactors don't tend to help in much of any situation regardless of whether microservices are involved. ;-)
Seriously, why is this flagged? I think it's very interesting and something definitely worthy of discussion. Is this just that anything that remotely appears to dis capitalism gets the flag because 'socialism is scary'?
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Because you installed that one extension that changes cloud to butt a while back as a joke and apparently somehow forgot you did.
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They used to be able to hit 30mph when they were first deployed. They've reduced the max speed a couple of times and I think its now limited to about 15mph.
Is it the "right stuff"? One might just as plausibly expect such people to be highly risk tolerant and to end up screwing up really badly as often as they succeed.
To be fair I too probably wouldn't accept something as a bug until provided by a trivial reproduction case. I have seen too many developers call things bugs before looking at their own code.
Passing a "hardcore" coding test is something you can train for, and tends to not correlate well with actual software architecting and optimization knowledge.
Bluntness is considered rude in most societies I'm familiar with. Not good either.

As another aside, I feel this is the problem with downvoting. It is a blunt criticism in a society where criticism must be delivered cautiously to avoid offense.
I first found out about binwalk from this YT video on Firmware Reverse Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIU4yJn2-2A

Quite a good, short intro into the subject as well!
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not just density, but "easier" for the decision makers. Its easier to rent a big open room than to figure out an office plan and seating plan and construction schedule. Its easier to move desks around like musical chairs than to have to mutate rooms and halls.

People will almost always take the near-term cheaper and easier option, even when its worse and more expensive in the long run.

Incidentally, this was the one thing I liked about we-work. Room sizes were genuinely appropriate for 2 - 5 people (ofc sold as 3 - 10).
s/credit unions/credit reporting agencies/

credit unions are one of the few pro-consumer entities in the financial world, it would be a shame to smear them
I don't really understand how this is news - this is no different than when I spend an hour browsing #antiquewatch and then switch to #denverbroncos and end up on #startups. The same thing happens if you share a netflix account - I had a good laugh with my partner when I started getting barbie movie recommendations.

That doesn't mean Instagram isn't able to track the activity specific to each device though. Just like if you are logged into 5 Instagram accounts on one device they're probably attributing activity to both the active account AND the device.
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This is where my family was in 2017. In 2018 I took a FT job with my biggest client when they offered to pay 100% of a significantly better health plan for my entire family. I didn't regret it then and I don't regret it now.
I’d be really curious how much of a hit to people’s salary they would be willing to take, or the reduced capabilities of their business, to get an open office environment.

I worked with an internal team that created a brand new office for a decently-sized tech company. We had this exact debate: open or closed. We explored closed, or versions of it (see Spotify’s team rooms as a great example of a compromise), but the end result was the same: if we expected to grow substantially and expand our business a lot, real estate would be the biggest bottleneck. We’d literally have to pay people less and deliver slower if we wanted to make that trade off, and all the companies we talk to who had gone with some form of closed office had shifted to open over time because the costs were huge.

We did the next best thing, because we definitely heard the concerns of people that getting work done at work really was harder than it should be: we created as much private space for 1-2 people as possible that lots of people could use, so you got to decide whether you were in at your desk mode or heads down mode. Several years later, this seems to work all right. There’s still a desire to work from home occasionally, and my teams are pretty understanding about that. Even with the open office plan, though, we still have to rent virtually every open space around us.
> The hospital isn’t extending an offer for credit

That's exactly what the hospital is doing when it doesn't require payment at the time services are performed.
Perhaps the comment was lamenting the lack of bike lanes.

As a person who rides a bike as much as I can, I'd be much happier sharing a bike lane with a bunch of scooters than a street with cars.
Java gets better with every release and is a pretty decent language today. But Kotlin feels just more consistent with less corner cases. Let me name a few things:

* No checked exceptions destroying lambda expressions and leading to architecture problems (since exceptions are oft not used like the inventors of checked exceptions assumed).
* Functions are real first class citizens and don't need artificial interfaces.
* Named parameters with default arguments are very practical.
* `name: Type` is a better fit for type inference than `Type name`.
* Null-safety helps to avoid lots of bugs.
* The type system with `Any` as a unified root and `Unit` instead of the special case `void` makes programming with generics much easier.
* Constructors are always lean, not only for data classes (record in Java 14).
* Most things are expressions, so you can write `val a = if(cond) 1 else 99`.
* Extension functions and operator functions can be used to write simple to use and elegant APIs.

So at least for me Kotlin is definitive the better Java and I wouldn't start a new project with Java, if I could use Kotlin instead.
My hypothesis is that this style of office is detrimental to most software engineers. Not sure how to prove that though!
does montessori really come across like that? i find that quite ironic, because from all the alternative systems i have seen, montessori seems to be the most efficient and scaleable. whereas most improvements to schools call for less students per teacher, montessori works well with traditional class sizes because the students learn to be independent and need less teacher attention.
in other words, if there is one system that actually has the potential to improve schooling without requiring more teachers, then it is montessori.
"Specifically, the NCAP prohibits adding medical debt to credit reports until after 180 days from the time the account was reported to the credit reporting agency. It also mandates the removal of previously reported medical collections that have been or are being paid by insurance." [1]

Medical debt can still be added to your credit report.

[1] https://www.creditkarma.com/advice/i/how-to-remove-medical-c...
There are well worked out schemes which do achieve this e.g. Password Authenticated Key Exchange schemes (PAKE):

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/10/19/lets-tal...
Government run care is different in one massive way: It's not a profit seeking entity.

Private insurance, even those run as non-profit, still turn a profit. Does the head of the DHS make 15 Million dollars in year? No? That's the average compensation for private insurance CEOs. Bernard Tyson CEO of non-profit Kaiser Permanente made 16 Million in 2017.[0]

Is that really "all the same"?

[0]https://medium.com/@kaiserkeepthrivealive/this-analysis-look...
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AI cannot be explained (at any level of abstraction) because of Quantum Weirdness, obviously. Also, feedback loops disprove causality.
You are 100% right, but it's worth noting that this is why there's a whole model of b2b interaction that involves embedded engineers partnering with a company to solve their specific problems (IBM, SAP, etc.).

The reason Google support has a hard time of it is Google doesn't offer that model to all its customers, just the ones that can pay a lot of money. But support still has the job of helping everyone else (with all the challenges you've described that such entails).
I suppose "public service" is technically the more appropriate term. But it is a public benefit in the sense that healthy people can contribute more to a healthy economy.
Delivery vehicles parked in the bike lanes. Cars cutting off the bike lanes at every intersection. No traffic light sensors in the bike lanes. Bike lanes that are poorly connected because they're being retrofitted into the city peacemeal and don't cover the major thoroughfares. These have been discussed to death in other articles, I didn't want to sidetrack this conversation with another digression.
It’s pretty clear that it’s a new frontend talking to a very old (probably green-screen style mainframe application) backend through some kind of gateway, though. Maybe with some modern DBMSes serving as ancillary data storage, but with the legacy system definitely being the system-of-record that everything has to interface with in the end.

If a new-ish web app for a bank or government service has a “maintenance period” where it becomes inaccessible between 5PM and 9AM each day—without the actual web layer going out, just seemingly changing its access ACLs on the data layer—that’s because they’ve got the web app fronting a mainframe that was designed for explicit OLTP ingest / OLAP batch ETL phase separation. The new record event stream gets collated at night to build queriable/indexed tables. Often on hardware so slow that it needs the entire maintenance period to finish building those tables+indices. (This is why better performance in these systems is hard: if you want higher OLTP ingest throughput on the same hardware, you can have it, but then they’ll need longer maintenance windows, so long that they’ll now break their SLAs by being unavailable during business hours!)
My first job out of university was writing display drivers (C and x86 assembly). It was definitely a junior position but I was hired for my interest in and [at least] emerging ability to optimize C and write code running “on the metal”. It’s a skill like any other—There’s not some magical age where you get it.
Inter generational gains leveled off 5-6 years ago.
Seems kind of like QT for the web (obviously very different, but the same general idea). I like it, shall try it out.
The proper way to map a private driveway in OSM is `highway=service,service=driveway,access=private`. I can see why you, or a simplistic data consumer, would class that as “service road”
You'd be shocked. I had a meeting with a CTO of a F100 company, can't say who, but when talking about what encryption methods we use he was completely lost and asked to gear the conversation to be less technical.

...This meeting was scheduled as the "technical" meeting mind you.

Most executives at that level in F500 companies are so far out of the "weeds".
You know what “strong” and “weak” mean. Should we also define what constitutes “hard times”? Or what “men” are?

If you have an issue with the statement, just say it. Don’t hide your criticism behind supposed ambiguity.
It is not exactly the same. The bill cannot go into collections for 180 days. This is different from regular debt.
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I'm pretty sure that that would evaluate to false in C++
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I tried to differentiate from other Go books out there by including things that align with my research interests. Inside the book and its accompanying code you can find lots of (hopefully) interesting concepts such as how to build from scratch data pipelines and a distributed graph processing system inspired by Pregel.

As simply discussing these concepts is not that interesting without some code, my main focus was to write a hands-on book. To this end, the book is kinda code-heavy and includes about 16.2k lines of Go code (52% Go code, 30% tests and 17% auto-generated mocks/gRPC stubs according to gocloc).

You can find the full source code for the book at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Software-Enginee.... It comes with an MIT license so feel free to tinker with it and let me know what you think!
In an open-plan office, "turning their chair around to chat" involves everyone in the vicinity who overhears the conversation, and "turning around" is only possible for the single-digit number of next-seat neighbours.

Consider the opposite extreme of private offices. An impromptu meeting involves some walking, but otherwise the meeting stays between just those directly-involved. There's no cost to anyone else.

Keeping this distracting effect in mind, silent communication (messaging) looks more attractive.
Er, no. Do you have evidence that Google Maps is copying data from OpenStreetMap? Because if you do, please document it. It would be a bombshell.
It's also pretty natural to not want to die because of an error on your credit report. Imagine, for a moment, that some other cwzwarich filed for bankruptcy a few years ago. By some (incredibly common) mistake, their bankruptcy ends up on your credit report. And you go in to the Emergency Room with a potentially life-threatening injury.

The doctor runs credit on you before providing treatment, and because of this erroneous bankruptcy that you may not even know about(credit reports can only be reviewed once per year), you are placed in the hallway instead of being given a private bay despite the increased risk of infection. The hospital wanted to make room for paying customers, you see.

So while it's natural to want to "sell" to "profitable customers" in this case applying free market principals to this makes a complete mockery of our health care system. And given the credit bureaus' track records of high inaccuracy and difficulty in disputing the reports, you're likely to get poorer treatment inexplicably, and entirely by accident.
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Because people understand how distracting their conversations are to those who are not involved in the conversations.
This seems like a variation on regression to the mean. If you take a group of people who have had unusually bad circumstances (language + cultural barriers) and compare with a similar group (their children) odds are that things will improve on the next iteration (assuming that the bad circumstances are transient and not endemic).
> I use a fountain pen

As an experiment in waste reduction and to see if it could end up less expensive as well, I started to use a fountain pen instead of my favorite Pilot Uni-Ball Deluxe pens.

I paid $45 for a pen, converter and 50mL of ink. At this point, I have definitely reduced waste but I'm not sure that it will end up being less expensive. The pen will need to last for ~4 years of daily writing to succeed and I don't know if it will.
Learning deeply about procrastination is an excellent way to procrastinate.
Fun fact: The GPO actually recommends capitalizing "Nation" when used to describe the United States in any and all government writing.
There might be some hard to account for factors. Many immigrants end up in worse jobs than they had in their home countries. Some doctors end up driving cabs for instance. If your parent is a doctor with the income of a cab driver I'd expect you to have more upward mobility than if your parent is a cab driver with the income of a cab driver.