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Ask HN: Any experience with non-ACA compliant health insurance?
The 'individual mandate' was defanged, and the tax penalty for not having coverage reduced to $0 effective 2019. Has anyone 'pressed to test' on non-Affordable Care Act-compliant health insurance? I'd love to get my family on something that covers catastrophic incidents with a high deductible and low payments, and which doesn't have coverage for all the random junk and pre-existing conditions.

Please refrain from complaining to me about my unwillingness to pay for Boomers' health care. They've been draining my generation dry of wealth since before I was born. I feel no responsibility to keep paying for them.
I am not so sure about this. I usually ask for a pretty high number and I feel it frames the discussion in my favor. I have never had a situation where the employer made a first offer surprised me positively. Usually it’s an attempt to lowball.
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Had a Customer who complained that the Wi-Fi in one of their conference rooms was "always" unreliable. I checked it multiple times and didn't find any problems-- low SNR, strong signal, low airtime utilization.

Eventually I learned out that "always" meant a particular recurring lunchtime meeting, scheduled right when a steady stream of workers were going into the break room across the hall and heating food in a microwave oven.
Agree, plus the value of my house and my 401k are highly correlated to the metrics, which means even not being an investor makes me worry about them
Maybe it's a dumb question, but isn't it possible to do most of what Wall Street does from home?
Bonds and stocks move differently. The market has already re-priced the stocks of these companies to account for the risk of default on their debts.

The US government has also signaled that they will bail out these debts, so the companies themselves (and thus, their stock) will probably be fine even if they stop paying their debts.

Crazy times we live in.
The only reason I have Chrome installed on any machine is for YouTube. I tend to get weird flickers when in full screen while watching on other browsers, and Chrome is the only one I’m aware of that will allow you to view YouTube content in HDR.
For what it's worth, games remain playable after they end...it's just that human scoring isn't available for them anymore.

But now that you mention it, that doesn't make sense. Even if human scoring is over, players should still be sent an email of the best responses from past human evaluation.

Thanks for all the feedback! Looks like I have some work to do.
>especially when used to deter crime or bring justice to really bad people out there

At what point does the vague goal of "deter crime" start to infringe on privacy? We're already seeing this happen and it's a bullshit argument, frankly.
“But you've now increased the probability of them stopping the conversation right-away.”

Or you won’t be wasting time with them.
Did you also rewrite the backend for GQL? We've had great success and satisfaction with GQL, but it’s been limited to greenfield development so far. To me, one of the bigger wins with GQL on the front-end, aside from the obvious consolidation of requests, is access to react-apollo client's caching system, which can replace the use of state stores like redux for API data in many cases. I could see it being a challenge to rewrite a complex REST react app to GQL, since you'd be discarding a ton of data shuffling code, but we've been happy with the resulting simplification of our frontends.
Schema evolution is just as big of a dependency hell as managing direct library dependencies. With a monolithic architecture, a lot of those concerns are contained within the context of a single repo, and can be tested much more easily than with many repos.
There is currently no proof that antibody testing is detecting antibodies greater than the false positive rate except in New York, which itself has biases in its study (only testing people who are already out in public, and that's only 1 in 5). Additionally there is no proof that the levels of antibody detected result in immunity or for that the levels of antibody will remain at immunity-levels long term.
> if the file is open we're kind of assuming we need it, aren't we? What happens if the system tries to read the file on disc and it's been replaced or removed? Why shouldn't that end in an earth-shattering kaboom?

On Unix, the directory entry does not point directly to the file contents. It points to an "inode", which contains the file metadata (owner, permissions, timestamps) and points to the file contents. When you remove a file, you are actually removing the directory entry; the inode will only be removed when nothing else points to or is using it. An open file keeps a reference to the inode, so the system can still read the file just fine, even if the directory entry has been removed.

Some other operating systems, like MS-DOS and Windows 9x, do not have that distinction. On them, the directory entry has the same role as the inode on Unix-style systems, which means it cannot be removed while the file is in use. The Windows NT line, when using NTFS, does have something similar to the directory entry and inode split from Unix, but it still denies removing or replacing in-use files for compatibility with Windows 9x.

> Isn't the problem actually not being able to effectively close it to then replace it?

The problem is when another software (for instance, a file indexer or an antivirus) has the file open. You cannot force the other program to release its grip on the file; the workaround is to set the "pending delete" flag for the file and schedule a reboot.
Because keeping it afloat indefinitely creates a fake value that does not correspond to real situation on the ground. That reality will eventually burst the bubble and because the bubble appears to encompass just about every asset class, it will hurt everyone.
sure, but typically you're not 'hiring' in the traditional sense, and the 'problem' may only be a few hours or days.

The "problem" at many companies is "we need someone to be able to continually identify and respond to a range of problems as they come up over the next 1-4 years".
You are making the assumption that the thing you are ordering is already available in digital format. This is a National Archive, most of their historic holdings will be in paper form. There is a not insignificant cost to digitisation, so they may be digitising on demand for you.
How do you make up for the 2 months you decided not to eat out and cooked home instead? I live in Boston, and some of my favorite restaurants are already closed, and the huge liqueur store next to my house closed this week. It's not possible to make up for things like this, they're gonna be replaced by larger food chains once virus passes. But it's not true to say virus didn't hurt our economy permanently, of course, one can argue in 6 months time the degree in which we're hurt might be minor.
Hi. Skim read your other replies. Am confident that you and I have enough common cause, overlap that we're pulling in the same direction. So this is a sincere response of my current worldview. My position has changed A LOT over time and I reserve the right to change more in the future. :)

I was an election integrity activist. I had some minor local victories. Like delaying the rollout of new gear (until 2009, a much less risky election) and prohibiting unique bar codes on our ballots (which were linked to voter id).

I've studied crypto voting proposals and other privacy preserving stuff like translucent databases and differential privacy. I'm just a simple bear, so I don't claim to be authoritative.

The core idea of the crypto systems I studied is to emulate the secure one-way hash of physical shuffle of the ballot box (Australian ballot) by inducing hash collisions. So there is no algorithm way to reverse the transformation.

Great in theory. Hard to implement in practice.

Over simplifying: you need simple (enough) ballots and large (enough) political jurisdictions (precincts) to ensure that each voter's ballot gets lost in the herd of ballots.

Otherwise straight forward brute force process of elimination (big data) allows trivial reidentification of each ballot's voter.

This is already a problem with our paper-based systems. Especially postal ballots. So us election integrity activists advocate very specific procedures to preserve voter privacy. Which are expensive and onerous, so rarely done.

For future, I will remain open minded about crypto voting systems. But it'll always remain a tough sell.

How this relates back to voter registration and eligibility? I don't know. Identity and authentication is very hard. My very best guess, per the translucent database strategies, is that once we issue everyone unique identifiers, such as Real ID, then we'll be able to technically unlock a lot of privacy protections.

Until then, because we have to link identifiers across heterogenous systems, we have to store PII as cleartext. Which defeats the purpose.
Of course not, and here is why: lockdown is not binary, there are degrees of lockdown.

So, when you help us all out with the model of deaths-by-lockdown that informed your decision, we can all benefit from it by comparing it against the latest, updated death-by-covid-19 models and making an informed choice about the degree (if any) of lockdown to pursue.

The lesser evil.

But of course no such model exists. Its all just emoting. Happy to be wrong.
Given they say pretty whacky shit sometimes they're certainly entertaining.
This is one piece of advice that sound true and insightful, but in my opinion doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. An example of what I mean is the saying "perfect is the enemy of good", which directly conflicts with the above.

Since I'm from the north, outdoor gear is a good example of this — there is no hardshell jacket in the world that ticks every box in my checklist. I've been through the lineup of both known and obscure companies item by item, from cheap shells to the ones that command a ridiculous premium. Finding this out has been a fun little hobby over a number of months, but realistically I don't think I'd be worse off if I just got the first one that was "good enough".
>understanding English as spoken in Scotland is a challenge.

Interesting tangent that I somewhat recently was made aware of; some of what they speak maybe isn't English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language
Specifically with this subject we had a solid month of all of those "sources" denying there was a problem that might require individual action, even going so far as to refute common sense best practices like wearing face masks. Their only source of credibility is not breaking rank.
I didn't know that about the French keyboard. The Japanese keyboard is mostly a mess because they have to shove a bunch of extra characters into the same physical space, but the one thing I miss is that they have @ as an unshifted character. It's very convenient for that. I'd gladly trade away unshifted ` for unshifted @.
Amazingly how similar my path is to Aaron’s. I use paid for Google services (GCP, buy lots of movies and books) but I have mostly moved to DDG, combination of FastMail and ProtonMail, (sort of) trust Apple walled garden, and rely heavily on FireFox containers to separate data for all web properties that I visit and use.

I do still use Google Photos and Microsoft OneDrive for secondary backups for my photos on iCloud (my iPhone auto exports to all three when I am on WiFi) and I sometimes use Google Search in a FireFox container (I use one container for all Google web properties).

Respect to Aaron for running his own email service. I think about doing that but never do. My problem is that I enjoy spending time writing, and designing and writing code, and I don’t make time for some things that I would like to try. Time management is a pain sometimes.

EDIT: something I forgot to add: when following a web link, copy the URI and then open the appropriate FireFox container for the domain and copy the URI to a new tab in the correct container. Good hygiene.
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Then you are lying on your application (never a good idea), and that can be considered fraud in some situations.

I'd never assume that your salary is a secret. It's pretty easy to figure it out. Making a material misstatement about it will be perceived as a character defect at best if you are caught, which may happen in the future when you are in some stupid internal dispute.
Single day drops are anecdotal. Overall drops in S&P500 are much lower, so far, then they were during the 2008 crisis. I’m saying “so far” because eventually the stock market will catch up to what’s happening outside. It’s just that in 2008 economic activity did not come to a halt like now and yet the stock market saw a larger impact.

I think that the sentiment today is that governments and central banks will not allow the market to collapse for as long as they can (a point which no one can really point at).
I trust Angela Merkel to not fuck it up.
It's not open source yet, but I am planning on making it so. Watch this space. In the mean time I'm open to feedback and bug reports via GitHub issues.
>> It is a bet on the continued support of the market by the Fed.

Pretty much this. The Fed is backstopping losses. Betting against them post-2008 is a tough position to be in.
After turning to Manjaro for my main distro, I feel like all the time I spent on trying to configure a base Arch install was totally wasted. The i3/awesome community editions are great - they are properly configured and setup with sane defaults and a minimum set of programs to ensure basic functionality you'd expect from your average OS (like wifi) works straight out of the box. I don't think I could go back to doing everything from scratch with Arch or even starting from Ubuntu (or other) where the default settings for i3/awesome are nigh unusable until you've sunk a significant amount of time into setting everything up.
As a hiring manager, I don't do that because it really does vary based on the applicant. I have a set of people in mind for a role, with a range of skills and experience. I may expand a junior role to mid level, or shrink a mid level to junior, based on who I find. In smaller companies, the number of engineers who just sit in a cube all day writing code in the same language is small. There are all kinds of side tasks, everything from sales and support to research and all kinds of sustaining work. How much I'm willing to pay is based on which of those side tasks I can give to the new hire.
Great question! I can't answer that for you.

First, it's hard to know what kind of influence you have on people. I think back on my life to interactions that I still remember and sometimes when I mention them to the other participants, they don't remember them at all.

Second, I think that the answer to this question:

> would you say that influencing one person's life profoundly and unalterably would be more leverage-bearing than influencing many lives shallowly

is "it depends". Depends on what your overall goals are and what you desire.

Think of it this way, to put it in a solely career context.

Would it be better to help and guide one new developer through the years of their career, making sure they achieved all they could?

Or would it be better to write a book or blog (like the one this post was from) which lightly influenced many more people.

I guess when I put it that way, in this context, I chose the latter.

But when I think of my kiddos, I chose the former.

Sorry, no great answers, but awesome point!
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I think we can put property taxes aside, you’ll have to pay your landlords property taxes if you rent after all.

If you can afford the cost of a down payment (more on that later), then buying a home does have some utility in wealth generation. You’re right that most of the initial mortgage payments go towards interest, but even collecting 25% of your monthly payment towards your own net worth is a big deal compared to collecting 0%. Especially since there is a good chance that your landlord has a mortgage too, either original or secondary to afford more property, so you must pay their interest plus a portion of their living expenses. This is why generally speaking home ownership is considered superior to renting if you’re not going to move anytime soon.

I think the main argument against home ownership from a wealth standpoint is that it ties up a large amount of money as collateral that you could otherwise be using. Here in SoCal purchasing a home with a traditional 20% down would involve locking up $200,000 that could be put into the market productively, potentially making me even more money. This is why the counterintuitive rule is that if you have enough money to buy a house with cash, you should get a mortgage and invest the rest, as you’ll be better off that way in the long run[0].

[0] Caveat here being your age. If you’re 30, you have another 30 years for the difference to grow in the stock market, while if you’re 70 you’d probably appreciate the lower cost of living and stability that this provides.
Population flow drives spatio-temporal distribution of Covid-19 in China
"I was educated montesorri until middle school, and while there was plenty of socializing it was ultimately detrimental imo."

So, you went from what I describe as a reasonable environment, where you did OK, to what I describe as a pathological environment where suddenly you had a lot of trouble, and apparently mostly (but not entirely) recovered when back out in a more reasonable environment.

This is basically what I would predict with my theory. You were damaged by entry into a pathological environment. How would you be if you had never been exposed to it? How much more damaged are those who never knew anything else?

I don't think your experienced is evidence against my point... it's evidence for.
Some bats do pollinate some plants, but few (if any) depend on it and none is important to human survival.
>Don’t be a jerk. I answered your questions honestly.

No, you evaded the question. All you see is morality. Your own personal morality. When a software developer says "we should not use this design pattern because it's immoral" that's a person you either remove from their position of power or you mock. Complex phenomena are not subject to childish morality, they are subject to the question of whether they work or not and how well they work.

An economy is a complex system. You want the economy to produce a large amount of goods and services. Once it does, you can always tax the economy and seize output for public spending, so that's the place where we stick your moral sentiments. You do not apply moral reasoning to individual price vectors to insist that it's "wrong" that a tomato costs this much, or that a haircut costs that much.

Morality is an evolved sentiment design to govern your behavior in small tribal groups. You can't apply it to things like an airline scheduling system or a price vector.

>Are you asking why I want to involve myself in philosophical debate?

God, no. I know exactly why you do it. The world is filled with people like you, and indeed all teens go through a casuistry phase. It's a type of self-righteous disease that is the plague of the modern era. Once people lost faith in religion, they redirect their religious fervor to going on various moral crusades like banning straws or building "moral societies" that kill hundreds of millions of people. You might grow out of it at some point when you realize the world is much more complicated than you think, and what matters is that things actually work rather than conform to some mawkish moral sentiment that was never suited to design complex systems but to govern your own personal behavior in simple tribal situations.

No, what I'm wondering is why you think price vectors are "moral" concerns and why you think you are qualified to pronounce on them philosophically.
I had an instructor for a class who had a similar story. He had requested a day off of work to take a short vacation, but because it was a small company, it meant that no IT personnel would be available for that day. He came in on Monday and was immediately called into his manager's office because apparently all the servers went down on the day he wasn't there, and they had to call in the other IT guy to fix everything. Turns out, one of the other managers in the office had turned off the dedicated AC to the server room because he thought IT was wasting money by running the AC when nobody was there.

Luckily they sided with my instructor when he said that it wasn't his fault and ended up firing the other manager for trying to cover up his own mistake.
I use it for my data grids on https://pysyteline.boyden.us (Flask is the framework I used for that site).
One example is not using wood or charcoal for cooking or heating as economies mature. Also, though double edged sword, moving from subsistence farming to Corp farming is more land efficient.
Better explanation: the fed is buying securities.
Well, lets assume N = 999, then N^2 = 998001, so nowhere near the number of atoms in the universe, which is estimated to be about 10^80.
A LOT of people lost jobs, a lot of business will be bankrupt.

When things recover, a lot of people will be sinking money into late rent payments and credit card bills, not spending.

A lot of people cleared off their credit cards of anything not critical. Will I go back to the gym? Maybe. Will I turn back on Amazon Prime or half the other subscriptions I cancelled? Nope. Will I eat out as much now that I've had a month and a half of eating healthy at home. Probably not.
>I’m not calling for unrest. Lord no, that’s against the law. All I’m saying is that there is a real risk of it happening due to the current climate, but maybe that’s not entirely a bad thing.

I don't know. Every president since GWB has been considered illegitimate by a significant fraction of the opposing party, some mix of Hitler (for the red team) or Stalin (for the blue team.) People believed Obama was a Kenyan born Al-Qaeda double agent, and the person most responsible for spreading that conspiracy theory is currently running the country (with, as expected, everyone on the other side certain he stole the election and is going to put everyone into the gas chambers.)

I've been hearing about the "cold civil war" ready to boil over into violence for years now, but it hasn't happened. Trump's election is the biggest response to that "unrest" that I'm aware of, and it seems to have been a net negative for American society and political discourse.

I agree that the electoral college and FPTP voting are problems that need to be addressed - but the parties themselves should stop fielding one and only one candidate per election. I feel like the primary phase should be done away with entirely.
>I understand that the economy and the market are different

It's not that they're merely different, the modern stock market bears almost no relationship to "the economy". It's HFT algorithms all the way down.
To quote the classic:

"Many of you will die, but I am ready to make that sacrifice."
After having n photo startups (paid and free) disappear into the mist, along with my photos and videos, I decided self-hosting was the only thing I could trust. I couldn't find any software that would reliably scale to my library and fix my mess of duplicates and bitrot files, so I made it. I'm providing access to the beta for free in exchange for feedback, if you'd like to try it. https://photostructure.com/about/v-0-8/ is dropping this week.
Compared to the last Linux GUI distros I used Windows 10 is a massive step up. Compared to Windows 7 it's a massive step down. Can't speak to Linux distros bricking my or my Customers' machines. Windows 10 update-induced issues have caused me a lot more headaches than Windows 7 ever did, though.
Springer released about 500 books for free following the Covid-19
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