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"Astroturfing" is a political concept. It's about making a top-down initiative appear to be a bottom-up one instead. Fake "grassroots". AstroTurf, see?

What you're talking about, as best as I can tell, is called "fanboyism" -- individual devotion characterized by unusually strong vocality and blindness to contradictory evidence.

Fanboys are extremely common in tech, but usually associated with companies that make products with particularly elegant design (Apple, Tesla) or with a strong sociopolitical component to their identity.
> a business tax

Businesses have proven themselves to be very clever in finding ways to avoid paying taxes. They’ve had a harder time figuring out to avoid paying salaries and benefits.
Because events collector can not make money and usually open source... so have to add one ETL backend.
Not to mention the societal costs incurred by failing to provide mental health services to everyone.
It's still in experimental pre-alpha, and it has a lot of potential
https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro-rad
You know, it would be much more palatable, and much more likely to pass, if instead of phasing out prop 13 entirely, we carved out an exemption for people who only owned one property which was a single-family dwelling. Prop 13 is an important protection for a lot of people on fixed incomes who are also very vulnerable to being displaced from their housing in this high growth state. Kicking seniors out of the homes they’ve spent most of their life in isn’t a very ethical thing to do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question
When I try to create an account, I get an error message:

> Your security key can't be used with this site

> www.deadmansswitch.net may require a newer or different kind of security key

This is with a Yubico Security Key 2 which I thought supported FIDO2.
And you know what they said? Some of it was true!
CA resident here. My ACA plan for me and my son is 890 a month with subsidy and a 14k deductible per year. It’s bad.
Security. Privacy. Long term support of hardware (environment). No carrier crapware.
https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ might have what you're looking for.

(I'm the creator. Ping me if you have any questions and I'll do my best to help.)
Your concern about UBI giving money to the very rich doesn't make sense. They'll be given $12k, but they're paying, let's say, $500k in taxes. And if taxes need to be raised to cover this, then they'll be paying much more than $12k more to do it. Meanwhile, a poor person would be given $12k, and they're paying $0 in taxes.

Same reason it's nonsense to complain about including rich people in free healthcare, college, etc.

When you try to means test things, you end up needing much more administrative machinery, and you end up with weird discontinuities where it can be better not to work so you don't get cutoff from benefits and end up worse off overall.
You are not suing Amazon but rather the person who defrauded you. You have no agreement with him/her.
Nice article, I learned something.

Nitpick:

MOVZX EAX, BYTE PTR [RDI]
AND EAX, 0xFFFFFF00
MOV EBX, EAX // no partial register stall

I think the author probably meant AND EAX, 0xFF. But the AND is redundant, as MOVZX is already zero-extending the byte. The snippet immediately above needs the AND, though.
Is that what Canada has right now?

For US, the real problem is still health cost is too high. The market regulation seems doe not work, at least for this decade.
This is such a basic issue that I don't understand why USPS or some other shipper w/ bricks-n-mortar haven't stepped up to offer some sort of package shipping certification.

If I was the seller it could work as simply as me bringing the item to a shipper who would take their own photos and weigh the items being packaged up as well as some check that the item is as being described to the recipient. In turn the shipper would get an extra fee.

For high value items (i.e. like OP's camera) it would certainly be in everyone's best interest and platforms like ebay, Facebook, Amazon could insist that all parties use this type of service or relinquish their ability to dispute.

Too over simplified??
They literally unbolted the 25 mph signs and dumped them in the ditch... I think there was still a "speed limit reduced ahead" sign.

You'd have a pretty easy case, I think, the only defenses would be "there's a sidewalk here so that's typically 25" and "you drove here before so you should remember it's 25".
> Startup ISOs are totally broken.

> Public RSUs for stock you can sell immediately on the open market are fantastic.

Both correct statements, but apples and oranges.
I really don't think anyone is holding a gun to the project owner's heads and forcing them to use Discord. So they aren't forced into that position.

I personally don't like Discord for lots of reasons, but the original blog post and other comments supporting it are basically arguing that project owners have to change things in order to accommodate some people who have an issue with Discord. My point is that no project owner has any obligation to change things for any random potential contributor who is making demands.

Sure, Discord being less slimy and/or having other client options would be great! I personally use IRC a lot partially for these reasons, but I object to someone telling other people how to run their projects.
> Borrowing foreign money to buy foreign goods has no effect whatever on a country's level of production

And this is where you're wrong. Borrowing money has a direct and deep impact on ta country's level of production, mainly because that cash is dumped on the economy by spending it on buying goods and services.
The point of “The Boy who Cried Wolf” is not that we should stop caring after a few false alarms. It’s that the wolves tend to show up when we do.
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Just curious, what are your total yearly expenses on Kaiser? And how much does the employer pays on top of that, do you know? Thanks
Cool. Work well on Firefox Mobile.
I installed successfully on Kiwi Browser (Chromium Mobile based) but couldn't edit extension option, glitch somehow. Hope author add a feature like importing config file.
Read the abstract
The sudoku solver is equally impressive, didn't realize that SQL could be bent to do these sorts of things.
"isn't just bad for the poor. It's bad for everyone"

Thank you for saying that. I am amazed at how so many people don't see and understand this. It is not just about Cost which is insane alright. It is about the BS we have to go through after a visit to a doctor or hospital. I am scared about the type of bills and claim fights I have to do if I visit a doc. Not because I cannot afford it necessarily. But because I have to spend may be like 5 hours calling doctor's offices, insurance admins, billing departments and what not.
You are risking bankrupting you and your parents for a single hospital visit. Friend had a heart arrhythmia scare at 28 years old. Lost consciousness, ambulance to ER, admitted and then stayed in hospital for three days. $67k in Billings that they negotiated down to about $50k. That’s why.
evil, adj.: morally bad, cruel, or very unpleasant
Just out of curiosity, how does compound make money?
> calculated by extrapolating the overhead in medicare to the entire US healthcare economy

Many friends in healthcare have pointed out (correctly it seems) that medicare has lower overhead because medicare shifted that cost onto the existing admin, and many places lose money on medicare, but are forced to take it. So it's simply not possible to extrapolate that to all hospitals without bankrupting many.

Here's a WaPo article with ample links to peer reviewed papers on the issue. (Note the part WaPo rates as false is that ALL hospitals would close; WaPo does admit with cited sources that there is ample evidence Medicare pricing would cause less service and less capacity from many fronts).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/03/would-med...
I remember seeing you guys sometime back on Show HN. Any change in your product positioning since then? Any learnings from customers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21973458

Congrats on building this. This is awesome and much needed.
> If you’re going to sell on Amazon or elsewhere, take an actual video of you packing the camera. You need all the defense you can get against items mysteriously disappearing.

Isn't this evidence just as bad as the buyer's account that he didn't receive any accessories? One could just unpack the box right after filming.
Try staying on the page for a while and scroll around. Pretend to read it. Triggers for me on mobile chrome browser.
Why not take the buyer to small claims? Or at least, have a lawyer draft them a nice letter.
One thing I'd really like is for Mumble to stop pushing certificate-based authentication so hard.

You can make whatever security arguments you want, but it's going to drive away users. And then they'll still be using passwords anyway, on whatever chat service they use instead of Mumble.
"Their spying extends to every single message sent and received by anyone, including direct messages betweeen users."

It's not spying if it is in their Terms of Service.
Full of hyperbole.
Yes, common sense SHOULD tell you: If you are using a free service such as this that is not free to operate, then YOU are the product.
And you will be marketed to and you will not have privacy.
Get over it.
Isn't this a form of escrow service? Those are sometimes used when buying very expensive items via auction/real world.
Well I don’t know about deep discounts but the housing market in Florida is already changing because of climate change concerns. Historically black neighborhoods on higher ground are gentrifying as developers see opportunity diminish at sea level.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/high-ground-is-be...
Not a strawman- you stated "NSA in the history". Believe it or not employees work on all sorts of projects.
That’s not a loophole. It was the intention of the lawmakers who passed the law!
Are you forgetting overtime back in 51 I suspect there may well have been more OT worked and there would have been more factories back then
Interesting I didn't know it had those issues
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De-risking is something a company will go through progressively.

1. An idea? Risky.
2. + funding? Less risky.
3. + proof of concept? More less risky.
4. + an MVP? Less risky still.
5. + paying customers and metrics? Less risky again.
Yes, you're the buyer. As the discussion above mentions, Amazon is biased in favor of the buyer, possibly for good reason
I have a similar story. I sold a brand new iPhone to someone on eBay who claimed it was reported as stolen and was not able to be used. Paypal refunded the buyer, and allowed them to keep the phone. Paypal account went negative, their internal collections started calling every day right away even though it was in dispute.

Even after providing proof that the IMEI was not reported as stolen, and them waiting weeks for the buyer to provide any proof (they didn't), they still sided with the buyer. I called for weeks, and finally after about two months, somehow the person on the phone was able to just issue a refund. I've not sold anything on Ebay since.

On top of that, when I had an issue with buying something through paypal, they used that ^ instance as a negative against me while on the phone. "Well I see you sold a stolen iPhone in the past..." was not something I was expecting to hear.
Drug companies are using price discrimination to maximize their profits. Charge a lot to the insurance companies but less to others with no or poor insurance. If a drug only costs $10 to make, they can mark it up to $100 for the insured people. Then insurance charges a $20 copay. The drug company now gives a $20 copay assistance card to make it "free". The net profit is $100-20-10=$70.

This is why California recently made is illegal to provide copay assistance to drugs where generics are available. I have a drug which cost $800/month to the insurance. My copay was $80/month. The manufacturer was so helpful to give me a $75/month copay card to cover this. Around some point the patent expired but the manufacturer continued to give that card out. Eventually the drug became generic and my pharmacy offered the generic version at $10/month. So my copay is higher but insurance cost is much lower. In fact the original manufacturer bugged me to petition the state legislature to change back that law.
Discord is a private company. I know it has been pointed out repeatedly, but there is no slippery slope here because discord is not obligated to host any content it deems bad for its business. This isn't inhuman, nobody is entitled to use anyone else's private platform.

Precedent matters when it comes to what you host because it does put a significant burden on discord to distinguish what content is malicious and what isn't once they allow malware to be distributed on their service. If the platform becomes infested with people spreading malware for games users or other game developers will avoid it, harming discord's business.

If you want to have a community of people that shares content that violates the terms of service of a lot of existing software then you'd probably be wise to host that platform yourself rather than expecting a game chat company to facilitate the sharing of game-breaking software for you.
What if the government deployed desktops to all citizens that were centrally administered, and requires them to be used for all government business / taxes, public services.

France tried this, le Minitel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
So your answer is, yes, you'd hold NSA's janitors responsible... I hope you never become an employer!
Personally, I would go for ANY system right now other than what we have. I am too pissed off at how our healthcare system is. Single Payer may or may not have the same issues but I am ready to take my chances. Status quo is not good enough for me.
Won't this only apply _after_ you've loaded the page? Doesn't really help prevent the tracking that most of those parameters are used for.
How about requiring them to pay their taxes?
> i've done medical billing systems too and it is, indeed, crazy but what's make you think the gov. would be any better?

Well, first of all, because there's no medical billing in M4A. It's free at point of service, so I'd hope they do better at billing considering they don't need to bill at all.
How is slack any better than discord? Both roll out stupid (and forced) updates, and slack doesn't even let me browse kinda old history if the owner doesn't pay for it. [*4] Not to mention the search is relatively terrible anyway.

The main thing that worries me about is discord is their revenue model... I just don't see how they're making money, and they keep on raising money.

There are a few good alternatives like zulip [0], matrix [1], discourse [2], Rocket Chat [3], or just plain old irc.

Although discourse isn't really a chat application but more of a open source forum software.

[0]: https://github.com/zulip

[1]: https://www.matrix.org/

[2]: https://github.com/discourse/discourse

[3]: https://rocket.chat/

[4]: You can get around this by messaging relevant information to yourself. Or just saving things locally, like a weirdo.
Thank you for the recommendation! This will add some peace of mind.
Sounds closer to a notory service combined with shipping and insurance to me.
I encourage you to go to cloud providers and ask to see their code. They will laugh in your face.
Well, if it's all above board, they shouldn't be worried about transparency then, so what Varoufakis is doing is totally OK, am I right? Except I think there will be unsavory stuff in it, or there wouldn't be any reason for him to disclose this.
From what I see about half the cost is the admin overhead and another huge chunk is providers billing very high rates because they end up paying a lot less to the insurance companies. If you want to optimize the lowest fruit is the admin overhead, which means just go single payer.
> those issues

What issues?
I had the same response, so i googled it. The home page that came up for the Anki application (https://apps.ankiweb.net) doesn't really explain what it is either (it has a lot of fluff about how its useful and where its useful, but no actual information on what it does and how it does it.) I had to go to the docs link and read a good way into the user manual to get a sense of what it actually does. Still I'm not 100% sure I know what it is and how it works. Ok, its a flash card app. There have been hundreds of those going back to at least the 80s. And before that people were writing on 3x5 cards for a very long time. How is this better or more useful that?
Yeah exactly. Early in my career, I loved working at startups, and aside from compensation would prefer to do so again, but the opportunity cost now is way too high. The one advantage I see at a startup is that if you pick one with a decent engineering culture, you can learn a lot more than most FAANG roles (although you'll probably learn more at the best FAANG roles than at good startup roles? Unclear.)
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Without more integrations, it's a hard thing to sell. Salesforce? Dynamic Yield? BounceX? Emarsys?

Also, how does it work with native mobile apps? No catch-all collector?
Then perhaps ask him about his attitudes and beliefs- not for access to his code.
It isn't that simple. This thing will be DC, and at some random voltage. They will need huge bits of kit to convert the output into some sort of usable power. It is electricity yes, but not clean useful power.
> It feels frustrating too since you keep reviewing the same 5 or 10 items that won't "stick".

I think the idea is that eventually you'll be recalling even those "leech" items, due to the sheer exposure you're getting in the meantime. Frustration is part of the game.
Yep. Even more reason to conserve it for cases where we actually need it. Plastic is tremendously useful, though we could probably use a lot less of it, too. Particularly in the ocean.
... you're going to travel to another state for this purpose?
That applies to every B2B company pretty much. Did he also ask other companies for access to their code?
> I am paying nearly 20k a year for possible emergencies?

Kind of, yes. The vast majority of healthcare spending is, unsurprisingly, on very sick people.

Insurance is for the outlier cost. The difference from other insurances is that almost everyone faces that outlier cost eventually in their lives, assuming they don't get hit by a bus in their 20s.
They're two very different things. Flight is obviously possible because the inherent laws of physics allow it, and we observed other creatures do it.

How are you going to take a grown man, whose physical traits are obviously different from a woman (broader shoulders, taller, more muscle mass, deep voice, not to mention his reproductive system, and other documented differences in other organs), and turn him into a woman? This is physically impossible and is akin to changing a banana into a fly.

> if someone is indiscernible from a women without inspecting their molecular structure they are for all practical purposes a woman

And physics and biology would still disagree with you. This warping of reality to fit some unscientific narrative is getting out of hand.
Not at all, that's a side effect. If what you say were strictly true, then why would Greece bother? Let the creditors burn.

Of course the reason Greece agreed is that the attendant inability to borrow after the default would be much worse for Greece than the lenders. That really goes to the heart of the situation Greece had got itself into: default would not save them.
You are my favorite for today.
Look, I'm no Greek, and you're entitled to your opinion. The problem is this is exactly the same kind of finger pointing and the Greeks (the Spaniards, the Italians, etc) are the spoiled brats rhetorics that are creating toxic politics in Europe and causing the rise of far right populists. I wouldn't imagine a rhetoric where evicted homeowners are blamed for causing 2008 crisis with irresponsible borrowing instead of the Wall St.
At a Purolator (Canadian retailer) mailing centre near me, they have this system that weighs the box but also measures the dimensions. The whole rig is ceiling mounted (while the scale is on a counter). I suspect like this could also incorporate a camera that takes a photo of the inside contents.
Well, nobody writes posts because they're eager to be "wrong", do they?

What active measures are you taking, besides changing hearts and minds on HN, to dismantle the patriarchy and white supremacy? What are you personally doing, say, to promote the work of developers and entrepreneurs that are female and non-white?
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Love this kind of decluttering. I hate gigantic URLs! I've been using ClearURLs for Firefox, seems to work well. Anyone know of any major differences?

https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls
The threading model is also just generally better for async communication than slack/discord style channels.
yes, personally I think there is. I've spent a tremendous amount of my career watching computer scientists misunderstand how to work on protein folding and waste a lot of people's time. Because the concept of protein folding is so unbelievably complex, most CS and ML folks get the basic talk: "nearly all proteins fold reversibly to a global minimum energy structure which is completely defined by the sequence of the protein", which isn't remotely true (basically a weak form of Anfinsen's dogma and Levinthal's paradox). It's easy to explain, and CS and ML people get excited and go off to work on the problem.
This led to a lot of publications that focused on rapidly finding heuristics that could sample enough space to find an approximation of the lowest energy structure. these methods typically failed to make good predictions although eventually methods like Rosetta did start making good predictions around 15-20 years ago (amusingly, the author of Rosetta told me: "the larger the PDB (training data set) gets, the worse the predictions we make".

But people who spend a long time getting a biological education know why this is true: most proteins don't fold to their energetic minimum, they fold to a collection of kinetically accessible states, rarely finding their true minimum (some small proteins do fold quickly, and we typically can predict their structure). And, many of the physical approximations that are used lead to inaccuracies (for example, some variables are constrained to specific values to save time, but making good predictions requires them to be unconstrained).

Some of my work made significant contributions to changing these beliefs, and I've very thankful for the CS and ML folks who contributed to that, but all of them spent a lot of time learning about proteins before they were useful contributors.

Myself I've had to "unlearn" a lot of the early things that were explained to me when I was a layperson, because when you're first learning something, if somebody gives you a simplified view, it can be really hard to move on to the more subtle and nuanced details in the field (for example, many people learn Mendelian genetics and then spend years struggling to understand why most traits don't follow mendelian statistics).

My goal here is to prevent wasted time on behalf of the experienced contributors in the field. I do appreciate good attempts at explaining the field to laypeople, but want to set the expectations on contributing accurately.
> Greta fans

Please don't do this. Worshipping undermines whatever credibility her efforts had.
And RocketChat no?
Are options considered an equity grant? I hadn’t thought so, but maybe I need to update my own vocabulary.
One more reason to not burn it.
But the kicker with this is most young people don't have much in assets so they don't lose much in a bankruptcy. Meanwhile they get to immediately spend any cash they would otherwise be paying on health insurance. Also from what I've read...the lack of insurance penalty has been scrapped. Now it makes sense why so many don't get the insurance.