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There is no guarantee - but the more immediate problem is that talking heads spectacularly amplify such doubt for shallow political reasons. Similar to how "free college" gets turned into "communist mass starvation".
I still remember when Trump was campaigning in 2016, someone asked him about health care (I don't care to look up the specifics). He replied pretty vague that he wasn't going to let people just die. The audience boo'd. I still can't believe it. Most Republicans I know aren't even steadfast against it. It really feels like the lobbyist/business people/politicians are trying to paint a different picture than reality.

Edit for clarity - This wasn't a rally, but a small event of 'suits' in the audience. Perhaps a debate?
You should go ask that person in the other thread.
For those who are concerned about this problem and can afford to help, this is a charity that buys up medical debt for pennies and forgives it: https://ripmedicaldebt.org/

It's obviously a band-aid for a deeply broken system, but it can un-ruin real people's lives in the immediate-term.
That's too bad. Check out http://piano.io to see an example of GlobeKit in use. They launched that over 2 years ago judging by the timestamp on their instagram account - https://www.instagram.com/p/BmPBqP9BWUK/
You’re right and this is often ignored - the few weeks or so prior to exams where the curriculum is largely over can significantly change your grades
Here, let me explain.

The average wait time at a Starbucks in my town is about 18 minutes because of the number of people who are in line. Starbucks is seen as a great independent business whose lines are just a byproduct how successful they are and representative of capitalism.

The average wait time at the USPS is about 10 minutes in the same town, which largely includes people having to fill out forms for packages. This is seen as an inadequate and inefficient endeavor by a government that spends way too much money.

Because the wait time for the USPS negatively impacts their livelihood, they would prefer to go bankrupt or watch people kill themselves via untreated illnesses (because they can't afford to get them treated) than submit to a single-payer system, even if they had the option to supplement the public plan with private insurance.

Until they turn 65. Then suddenly they're for it, as long as the younger people still suffer.

Americans tend to judge capitalism by its successes and socialism by its failures, even though any modern functioning society is going to have a mix of both.
This seems like potentially the beginning of the biggest change to human food production since agriculture.

It's early days, but being able to produce food via industrial process is far more amenable to scaling and more predictable than agriculture under the open sky. I imagine it would also be possible to shorten supply chains buy producing the basic feedstock closer to where you produce the consumer food product. That's good for the environment and for food security.

One could picture a future earth where most of the open space is preserved for the wild, and us humans live in and around our cities. Wouldn't that be a nice change from the way we're currently destroying our only home.
> Well, it turns out, in California, the state apparently pays for it.

Pays for what? His sushi chef salary? His kids' medical bills? Housing?
Yet the ACA has been under constant attack since it passed by one party and the sitting president, so there’s reason to believe that protection will go away.
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I really enjoy svelte. I’m using it to “BYO SSG” by rendering markdown files into posts on my personal site[0] along with Sapper for generating the static files.

There is framework called LayerCake[1] —also written by the Svelte dev—which I’ve experimented with in setting up interactive SVG maps using D3. So far it’s been performant and very useful in quickly throwing together some visualizations. I recommend exploring it if you’re interested in visualizations.

[0]: https://www.dvaun.com/

[1]: https://layercake.graphics/
> and remove their face mask

Having thousands of travellers unmask themselves at exactly the same physical spot within seconds of each other [and inevitably breathe in and out a couple times] sounds like a MASSIVE risk to me during COVID-19.
> Thank god her previous employer had good medical insurance so we could do COBRA. Now we just have to have a kid within 18 months of her separation date.

We're lucky to be in positions to be able to afford COBRA. I used it about a decade ago, and the premiums were over $2k a month. I don't think that most people can afford anything like that while they aren't working.
Incidentally, the nVidia presentation yesterday made a Crysis joke.
For those who are sadly at the very bottom, its not terrifying at all - you simply get the medical care you need and ignore the bills. You can't get blood from a stone, no debt collector is going to bother chasing someone who has no job, assets, anything.
That only makes it worse, surely?
Is it my imagination or are the successes mostly coming from controlling inflammation responses?
Thanks! I'll take a look. Feel free to ping me at hn@ycombinator.com if you like—it can take time to get to something like this but we're definitely willing.
There isn’t just one cause but here are two I know of:

Health insurance companies leave markets where there is competition.

When an emergency happens, suddenly you don’t care which hospital you go to, you just want to live/make the pain stop. (Or your family makes that decision)
As with all tools, they can be used for good or bad but as a frequent contributor to /r/shittykickstarters I am afraid my worldview might be warped and I think this will be used a lot more by scammers to sidestep whatever meagre checks Kickstarter has in place.
> So then you're making the case that they do have a monopoly.

I'm making the case that the phone situation is the same as the console situation, and that if you condemn one you have to condemn them all.

In fact, the situation reminds me a lot of the Atari v. Nintendo case of the 1980's[1], where Atari sued Nintendo because Nintendo was controlling manufacturing, distribution, and allocation (in other words, Nintendo allocated manufacturing resources between games however it saw fit). Again, the argument here was quality control and consumer satisfaction.

The case was eventually decided in favor of Nintendo, but the lawsuits didn't wrap up until about 1994 or so.

[1]https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-12-13-fi-193-st...
I don’t. Already had one! I had full coverage and got sent to a hospital that wasn’t contracted with my insurance company. 4 days in the hospital for a bike accident with 6 broken bones and surgery cost hit me back with $100k in out of network hospital bills.

I don’t know if this is still the case, but in 2006, San Francisco General Hospital (now the Zuckerberg themed hospital) was the only level 1 head trauma hospital in the city. I had head trauma and was forced to go there. I asked them if they took my insurance. They said yes. What they meant is they’d bill my insurance and hit me with anything insurance wouldn’t cover. That ended up putting me into a spiral of depression that took years to recover from, on top of the physical recovery. What a shit show.
Built on shopify, so presumably shopify is taking their usual cut of payments. Seems weird to me to self-host with another middle-man...
Typically insects used for human consumption are fed grains (such as feed corn), but with a conversion efficiency making the problem worse. True that smaller operations, family farms, and homesteads could take advantage of waste streams like that, but that is kind of a logistical nightmare for feeding of large urban/suburban populations.
And only Americans.

Every other developed, even developing, nation has a superior, if not perfect, solution.
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> Sure it's possible.

I don’t think it’s possible. We have huge amount of evidences. This article alone has 150 references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency They include analysis of internet activity of state-sponsored trolls, insider leaks, and even documents from US courts.
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"You didn't check that the second doctor in your surgery, who came in while you were unconscious was in-networking? Well, too bad, you should have done your due diligence more carefully!"

When we had a kid, it was $10K out-of-pocket, and we had a bunch of "out-of-networking" bingo due to mostly lab tests or a doctor out of network at an in-network ER.

Since then kid themselves also had an ambulance ride (seizure), and that too was "out of networking" in spite of being the only ambulance provider available within 15+ minutes.
I wish we could cut as many of the PBMs, claims, and overall middlemen out of this damn system.

Health insurance costs would be significantly lower if it was as direct as possible, as transparent as possible, and the end user had a say.
> Besides the fact the premiums are onerous, it is the health insurance carriers that evaluate if and how much insurance will cover an expenditure, usually after a copay and possibly coinsurance has been paid.

This is not true. ACA requires health insurance companies to pay for all healthcare expenses after reaching one’s out of pocket maximum.

And they have some discretion to call out fraud, but insurance companies have to by and large follow medical procedure guidelines. They don’t have to cover experimental treatments, but if they are denying appropriate healthcare, they would get nailed by various government agencies.
Anyone else getting a github 404 on this?
The last line. Oh god, the last line. I haven't cackled that loudly in months.
It's not only fragile, it's also crazy on energy consumption.
Would you settle for a public option? So then you could choose either private insurance or Medicare.
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What are you using to synchronize state across users?
California paid for all the hospital bills for childbirth, all the subsequent doctors bills for the kids. I have no idea how he paid his rent; probably by making sushi. Only reason I knew about the kids thing was by asking. He was kind of surprised that wasn't available for everyone, like, you know, citizens and people like above who was worried making a baby would bankrupt him and his fiancee.

I assume it was ordinary Calmed and his job was off the books; didn't pry into details.
Cheating via smartphone can encompass anything from directly looking up an answer, to sending someone the essay prompt and having them send you a completed essay which you just copy down.

Can you name a good test by your standards?
In the same category of the "Unhooking fee" a tow truck will charge--you can pick up your car from impound for $200, or you can pay the tow driver $200 on the spot and save the hassle.

Though obviously lesser significance than the same behaviors from your police force.
Presumably this sort of thing will become harder to maintain as bodycams become more prevalent.

It seems plausible that anti-corruption NGOs could request the bodycam footage (anonymized, I suppose) under public records disclosure laws. (e.g. see https://www.rcfp.org/bodycam-video-access/, though I'd be really interested in what others think about the likely legal interpretations of disclosure requirements.)

Yet another reason to push for more bodycams, and auditability/disclosure of that footage; sunlight is often the best disinfectant.
I'd tend to agree, though this can be harder to set up than just having a consistent build config for all platforms.
How much were you expecting it to be?
> Clojure is a recurring gravitational pull for me.

You're in love
In my opinion the jump from 1080p to 4K is as significant as the jump from hdd to ssd. That's a lot of screen real estate and especially when programming I put it to use.
Children spread viruses very effectively. Schools being open means a faster rise in infections, not just amongst school populations. Which means more deaths.
> Is Lady Liberty not famously blind while balancing the scales of justice ?

No, in two ways

First, that lass with the scales is Justice not Liberty.

Second she doesn't always wear a blindfold, the depictions of her vary considerably in that regard, and there's a good chance there's a depiction of Justice near near you where she can see perfectly well.

And Justice is holding something important in her other hand, which artists (and perhaps other people symbolically) sometimes forget.

Liberty is the one with the book and the torch.
There are plenty of ways to phase a transition to mitigate concerns. It makes senses to take an approach like that. It doesn't make sense to continue the status quo.

For any other change, there would generally be a preference from people to phase the changes, why not healthcare too?
Hi, one of the collaborators here, thanks for the good points.

We have been targeting some Lattice FPGAs for prototyping purposes, but we've mostly been doing designs for ASIC processes, which is why details are a little sparse for FPGAs you get off the shelf, but it's a priority for us to fill those in. We have some interactive demos that show FPGA synthesis stats (cell counts, generated Verilog, let you toy with the pipeline frequency) and integrate with the [IR visualizer](https://google.github.io/xls/ir_visualization/#screenshot), we'll try to open source that as soon as possible. The OSS tools (SymbiFlow) that some of our colleagues collaborate on can do synthesis in just a few seconds, so it can feel pretty cool to see these things in near-real-time.

We fold over resources in time with a sequential generator, but we still have a ways to go, we expect a bunch of problems will map nicely onto concurrent processes, they're turing complete and nice for the compiler to reason about.

I'm a big believer that phenomenonal is really effort and solving real-world pain points integrated over time -- it's a journey! We're intending to do blog posts as we hit big milestones, so keep an eye out!
Lobbying.

Many of the industry actors make bank based on spread, which incentivizes lack of downward pressure on prices in order to get allocated bigger chunks of money to manage as float. This increases earning in the event your risk pool is on the lighter side, and ensures that all actors material to price point fixation converge on price increases.

Medicare/Medicaid don't factor into the price point equation, because they aren't allowed to negotiate as a private market actor, and are considered by most who got into the U.S. medical industrial complex as a price of doing business to cash in on the fundamentally dysfunctional market.

Until you can get a straight answer out of insurers/hospitals/medical practices how much something will cost ahead of time,you won't get sane downward price pressure.

There's also the F'd Medical Education Complex issue and cartel as well, but that's another issue.

Full disclosure: Working somewhere that's trying to remedy at least a part of this dysfunction.
That's the beauty of medicare for all, you can still buy insurance on the private market if you want to. For what it's worth, Medicare itself already does a pretty good job being the single largest insurance provider in the United States.

Comparison to the VA is not apt. It's not the same people, it's not even the same concept as M4A.
$9000 /year is not 'high-quality', that sounds more like a high deductible plan that would have relatively low premiums. Higher premiums would lower the deductible.
What you ask would take many paragraphs to explain in full. The short is that is varies a lot depending on your employers plan. A small percentage of working age individuals get coverage outside on “Obamacare” and those plans vary a lot too. Initially there were decent plans but over the years now in most areas you can only get “silver HMO” plans that limit who you can see, carry very large (several thousand dollar) deductibles that have to be met before insurance pays, then have high coinsurance amounts (up to 30% that you have to pay even after meeting the deductible) and have max put of pocket limits of several tens of thousands before you finally don’t pay anything. As a result it’s generally not financially advisable to get insurance unless your employer provides it because you won’t be able to use it.

Medicare kicks in for over 65s or those who have been disabled for over 2 years. Medicare requires a 20% copay for everything which can be taken down to zero by using a supplement plan which generally costs between 100-300 per month depending on your age and region. You also then need separate prescription insurance which costs $20-50 per month and has really insane complex rules that mean you may still end up paying tens of thousands a year if you have specialty drugs.

Medicaid is for “poor” people but varies depending on states. The cut off for eligibility is very low and in some states it still doesn’t cover adult age people unless they have a child or are on social security insurance.

Those profiting are a mixture of medical professionals, administrative staff due to the bloated administration required, of course all the private hospital and clinic systems around the country. And the insurance companies who take their increasingly large cut.

In defense of the medical professionals many want to move to single payer for a variety of reasons (eg American college of physicians group and others have come out in support). Although they may make more revenue in the current system it also causes an insane amount of extra overhead and distracts from their ability to do their job.

By 2027 the US health spending is projected to become 20% of GDP. This is not a healthy economic situation to be in.

Our current system is both morally indefensible (65,000 die every year due to lack of coverage) and also fiscally indefensible ($500 billion would be saved every year moving to single payer). Yet it persists. That is the power of bested interests, lobbyists, and legalized political corruption.

Edit: That wasn’t very short in the end. I’m on mobile or I’d provide more detail and references.
I was making a bit of a joke.

The judiciary in the United States is the "uninvolved third party should decide if they take the person's stuff," and it's quite a violation of the operating principles of our government that civil asset forfeiture bypasses the judiciary in many places and is allowed to proceed under the law without a court hearing.
But newer processors use less power at idle, and doing work faster means it can spend more time at that idle, low-power state.
I wish semilattices got more play. They're so ubiquitous when talking about distributed systems. I remember a keynote on eventual consistency in databases that could have been replaced with "make your merge operation the join of a semilattice."
Look at the submitter's post history.
It came from latin, but it's now an English word.

Most English words are imported from other languages, but we conjugate them according to English grammar, not the origin language. Except for pluralizing latin nouns.
Dang, I think that's a solid response. Thank you.

The theory behind SSM seems well thought out.

I think it would be helpful to enlighten people about the SSM when noting that a response is breaking the rules for an accusation of astroturfing.

For me, I think a brief explanation that well formed arguments are the only defense against an SSM would have removed a feeling of helplessness derived from reading your initial comment. And instead, lead me down a path which could really be helpful.
In my city, you'll sometimes see people riding around with the official cap or bumper sticker of the police union on the back of their car. It's no mystery why.
> And if it was cash exchanged at the time of an officer responding to a crime it’d be even worse.

Would it be? Buying bribe credits ahead of time doesn't seem inherently any better than on-the-spot bribes to me. Arguably worse; if it really is the case that small business owners get these with favours, then unless they're reimbursing the company personally for the bribe purchase, they are purchasing personal items through their business. So add tax evasion to the list of sins.
Joyce’s great novel has nothing except the most tenuous and inessential connection with the Odyssey, despite the title. Joyce removed the chapter titles that had referred to the Odyssey after the first edition, and said that he regretted ever having put them in there, because they had misled readers and critics into imagining parallels to the Greek story that did not exist. The main character does wander around, though.
They do not deny claims for reasons of just saving money. They employ teams of doctors and pharmacists who double check prescribing doctors’ and whether or not treatment plans are supported by evidence.

If people think multi billion dollar insurance companies are trying to nickel and dime them for medically supported treatments, then I don’t know what to tell them other than it’s simply not in their interest to risk so much for so little.
I'm assuming by "universal healthcare" you mean single-payer. I think the biggest problem is that changing who pays for it doesn't actually fix the problem. You've still got the most expensive, least effective healthcare system in the world -- now it's just financed with your tax dollars.
What’s the conversion efficiency, ie kCal of food per kWh of electricity?

(This can, of course, be expressed as a dimensionless number since both numerator and denominator are in units of energy.)

Also, how does this efficiency compare in absolute, quantitative terms to competing solutions like Calysta FeedKind?
Since I'm not a gamer or CPU-news-watcher, would anyone be able to put this in context?

Is this:

-- a major improvement in power efficiency, heat?

-- major gain in speed (and who is the consumer concerned with this)

Seems like everyone is more concerned with GPU capability as the bottleneck for whatever application these days.
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The topic resists summary.

Yes, bill will be scary if paying out of pocket.

Health care is often tied to employment (you or spouse). There are different insurance options, even when employed. A good plan will cover everything but a relatively small fixed amount of even large bills (e.g., emergency delivery of child). A bad plan will have a lot of excluded procedures or very large "co-pays" where insurance pays some, you pay some. Other plans have mixes of the above approaches.

If you have a professional job, your plan will typically be pretty good; if not, there can be problems.

To pay for the co-pays, a system of tax-free health care saving accounts (HCSA) was set up. You pay into the HCSA, and the co-pays come out of that, and it's tax-free up to a point.

So you notice there is this piecemeal and patch-atop-patch theme to the whole thing.

When you get older, typically 65, there is a government health pool called Medicare that you can enroll in, that takes over most of the role of employer-provided insurance. Most older people do this. Then, you can get further insurance on top of that to plug holes it may have. Also, there is a very lucrative prescription drug plan that's now built in to Medicare, thanks to big pharma.

A lot of doctors really don't like the insurance companies controlling whether procedures are considered acceptable. But, historically, the American Medical Association, the US physician's professional organization, has lobbied hard against public health plans.

Finally, this is just one citizen's description of some of the major features of this so-called "system". There are a lot of other parts to the puzzle -- for instance, it varies by state, and there are 50 states -- and there are special cases, like veterans. It's wacko.
> in particular its loose typing

As opposed to, say, Javascript or IndexedDB, those famously strongly typed technologies?