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Haha, no. If your insulin dose is too expensive, you die. If my insulin dose is too expensive in America, I ship it from generics factories in India¹.

The problem for you is that you can't do what I do. And maybe the problem for you is also that I can't sell you what I get this way.

So in America you have 'shortages'. I do not. And if you wanted, you could also choose not to have 'shortages'.

I remember the same thing happening when Chloroquine was 'in short supply'. I could always get some. You never could. This is by choice. You live by rules that the universe does not require of you. These are probably for other reasons like perhaps you believe in living by the categorical imperative. But there are predators in this forest who do not believe in that.

¹ Even insulin can come here stably and safe. But drugs for other conditions are easier. And what I'm saying here is not strictly true if you're familiar with the details: it's not actually a generic, etc. etc. The important thing is that it's cheap and available.
“Database columns would be renamed simultaneously in clients and servers” databases should support aliasing column names.
IME people tend to underestimate most aspects of type 1 diabetes, especially how big an ask it is to suggest someone switch insulins on short notice and out of desperation.

And the bureaucracy is ridiculous. I'm the most financially responsible person I know in my age group, yet I annually get letters threatening to send me to collections for charges I was not warned about by a weird middleman company that I get automatically charged through for medical supplies for my pump. Haven't heard from them this year, and I've called them 4 times so far trying to figure out where the charges went. It turns out they have 3 accounts registered under my name for these things and none of them are the account that my orders have been going to. At this point I'm just going to wait for the annual letter I guess.

Good job on the A1C though. I want to get there someday, but I get sudden massive drops in blood sugar out of nowhere about once every two weeks and it scares the crap out of me. I'm optimistic I'll figure it out eventually though
None of those things were “invented” or truly brought to the edge of technological abilities by the companies you described. They piggyback off of existing invention, and pretty much are interested in keeping things as-is.

Your phone manufacturer doesn’t care about invention as much as they care about you buying the next, slightly better model.

Your TV manufacturer is interested in recouping the losses they have on selling you a cheap device by pushing as much advertising as possible.

The pharma company is interested in gouging as much money as they can through holding patents - they don’t develop medicine out of the goodness of their hearts.

You get the point.
The issue is using the correlation to make predictions. You're just perpetuating the trend instead of trying to change it.
Never knew until recently, that the amazing guitar solo on Michael Jacksons Beat it was played by him.

I can't find any transcripts, but in an interview on the Howard Stern show, van Halen said (if I remember correctly) that the infamous knocking at the beginning of his solo was him knocking on his guitar, like a professional who is giving his workhorse a friendly tap before the race - and that he was amazed Michael and Quincy left it in.
We who? Anyone who has the Internet can use YouTube and Khan Academy and Zoom for a far better experience than SoA. Anyone else can use SoA.
This is a great take.

> What is the end state if we let this continue?

One of the pillars of capitalism is the idea of "creative destruction" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall). That is, when a moderately-sized company falls apart, it's actually a long-term positive for the economy as a whole. It's decomposed, sold off, and its former pieces are repurposed for the good of all.

One purpose of antitrust law is to keep the cycle of whale falls going. If antitrust law is unenforced, the whales never fall, which has a negative impact on the fragility of our economy: if and when these megacorps become anemic, they threaten to take down the whole economy/whale-decomposition process with them.
I’ll wager that his manager and a security guard carrying a cardboard box are heading towards his cubicle right now...
I can assume good faith while still believing your comment is driven by the same American Exceptionalism mentality that leads to the mindset echoed by The Onion article. If your concern is that the reply comes across as mocking rather than engaging: the article was more concise and more eloquent than the potential diatribe I had written up, so I used it.
Demand is relatively inelastic in healthcare.
Supply is not. The fact that I need a product does not constrain suppliers from supplying it. So normal supply elasticity of supply rules apply.
I wrote a Chrome extension with a similar purpose.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ctrl-access/glmoeh...

The idea was copied from Konqueror.
ChromeOS has taken the path of Android on a lot of things, so drivers are usually hard to mainline.
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And then the consumer/acquired parts become completely derailed/destroyed/super-monetized. This is conjecture, but awfully common.
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People may not care 100%, but all other things equal I think most people would prefer the privacy-friendly service rather than the creepy one.

Furthermore regardless of user's opinions, the GDPR forces you to ask for consent before stalking the user, so even if the privacy aspect itself isn't the problem, the user experience is (as in the user needs to click accept before your can track them and most people wouldn't unless you make it obnoxious, but then making it obnoxious also breaches the GDPR).
It's okay, neither does the blog author. Despite their only value-add being a PM-role, they aren't doing a good job of that either.

As evidenced by the fact that they've basically just resorted to doing tons of retrofit to bring benefits that already exist in Wayland to a legacy, deprecated, aging stack. (literally every single change listed). Also, it's no longer just about improving the touchpad (since libinput is already pushing the envelope there), and instead ... X11 Gestures? Okay? (Good luck to those brave enough to install a patched X11 from a PPA!)

I feel sorry for the people who thought there was enough substance to donate. How this project progresses with increasingly less clarity and continues to be celebrated here deeply confuses me.
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The point of this isn't to reveal a deep secret; it's to provide quantified evidence. So there's no need to post comments of mock shock.
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Medicare doesn't pay for drugs. It pays premiums for private insurance that pays for drugs.

The law says that the private insurance negotiates the prices rather than the government.

So the implication, that drug prices are not negotiated, is incorrect.

Here's an article about children and babies paying lots for Acthar too:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/29/health/acthar-mallinckrodt-qu...

They aren't on Medicare!

Of course, the conclusion that the entire insurance system is broken is just as bad or worse.
Exactly, but it's still a problem. Using existing trends that we should be changing to continue perpetuating them through prediction is what's at the heart of the issue.
At a minimum, the engineers and researchers. Deploying an AI sentencing model or AI lie detector should be treated with the same seriousness as deploying a new train or bridge; engineers shouldn't be willing to sign off on such a thing without strong, well-founded reasons to believe it won't hurt anyone.
FWIW, I don't consider bubblesort as trivia -- it's literally the simplest and most obvious sorting algorithm. IMO, it's a lot harder to understand more complex algorithms unless you have at least these basics in your head.
Yup.

I also love the scene in Mission To Mars where they play Dance the Nigth Away in the space ship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZCmgYITgQ&ab_channel=Beeza...
A senior developer though should be able to get productive with a new language in a few weeks. It's not such an investment ....
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> We aren't talking about where the Anglo-Saxon word for "pirate" came from. We're talking about where the word "Viking" came from. It clearly came from the Anglo-Saxon word, "Wicing."

They appear to be the same word. That's not an answer. I could tell you that the modern word "laser" came from the older form LASER, but that would be stupid. You're trying to terminate the question before it's even begun.

Note that in fact the modern word "Viking" is not obviously related to the Old English "wicing"; that term died out. Modern "Viking" is taken directly from later Norse by modern historians. Unless you're claiming the Norse borrowed it from the British?

> They weren't writing it down "retroactively" but contemporaneously.

You are simultaneously arguing that

1. The British referred to Norse pirates using a term that looks like "Viking", which we know because they wrote it down at the time.

2. The Norse, hundreds of years later, also had a term that looks like "Viking".

3. We know the Norse didn't use that term at the time the invaded Britons were using it, because they didn't write it down. ("The primary sources clearly indicate that the first appearance was...")

4. In fact, interesting side note, the Norse of the time didn't write anything down.

I could go on to conclude that they couldn't speak. Or I could conclude that the primary sources don't have anything to say about where this word first appeared, because it is closely related to an almost entirely illiterate culture.
You're assuming anyone here seriously resists learning something they use all the time because they can google it, something I have a hard time believing yet you assert otherwise.

In reality, the things you tend to google every time you need it are precisely things you don't actually use enough to memorize. When you do memorize them, enough time elapses each time to where you forget.
Thank you for sharing that quote. It's not the first time I've seen this line of thinking. It's economically naive. I'll explain why.

Let's imagine everyone decided to grow their own garden like the author suggests. What does one need to start a garden? The common items are shovels, timber, soil, hoses, wires, fertilizer, knee pads, gloves, pots, pesticide, and many other things. Obtaining these items requires physically driving to one's hardware store. Most people drive SUVs. This means there is a sudden influx of people driving their gas guzzling machines to obtain these basic items. We also have to consider the reality that multiple trips will be made. People commonly forget to purchase basic things, need to make returns, or realize they are short on supply (such as soil) and need to purchase more. Now consider other realities. Most people don't know how to grow. Even fewer people know how to grow a plant to its maximum potential. It takes many seasons for individuals to learn the best techniques. Think about the wasted resources spent on this. Now think about the excess waste commonly found in gardens by those who finally learn how to grow. I see this all the time. Gardens filled with oversupply of produce. More than what even their friends want to take home. Consider the yield of produce in respect to time, labor, cost of materials, and CO2 emissions. For every shovel, glove, hose, pot, etc. purchased, for every car drive made, and for every supply chain used to produce these goods, is only put to work on a small plot of land in one's backyard. They are not used to their full potential. This is both a waste of resources and an unnecessary increase in CO2 emissions. If these same resources were used on an actual farm, then they will be used for larger portions of land which will in turn yield more produce. In effect, the costs are being spread across the land, thus making them more effective.

I'd like to explain this in the opposite perspective. The absurdity seems to become much more apparent this way. The author says that these industries are inefficient as appose to simply growing in one's backyard. If it truly were more efficient, then wouldn't it be most effective if industries simply adopted this? They are looking to save money after all. Instead of purchasing one giant tractor, why not revert to shovels and an army of physical labor? Instead of hauling supplies on a few semi-trucks, why not dispatch an army of SUVs? Instead of having one massive farm that spans hundreds of acres, why not break it up into thousands of 500 sq/ft "mini gardens", each of which has its own dedicated set of shovels, hoses, gloves, knee pads, etc. And for every "mini garden", instead of growing being dictated by farm owners with many generations of growing experience, they will be grown by individuals who hardly have any experience at all.
The Beat it solo is one of the most unique solos out there.
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“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclear power plant creates”
Short answer: because of regulations.

Just to give you an example how ridiculous the US health care is. I used to live in California and I had an inflamed wisdom tooth. It cost me so much to get it out (fully insured, premium+, high income insurance) that the amount I had to pay __after__ insurance (out of pocket) would have been enough to buy a ticket to go to Europe, visit a random country get the operation done, fully pay for (without insurance coverage) it and fly home to Cali.
What do you mean by "vmplugin" ?
Pretty stoked for this. I started learning Elixir a few months ago [0] and it's been a great balance of fun + practical. Way easier to get up and running compared some other FP languages I've dabbled with in the past :P

Also shameless plug: we're currently working on an open source messaging product called Papercups [1] if anyone is looking for an Elixir project to hack on!

[0] https://www.papercups.io/blog/elixir-noob

[1] https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups
A factor can be both cause and effect. It’s called a virtuous (or vicious) cycle. These cycles are what reinforce inequality.

A family has more money, so they can afford better education for their kids, so their kids make more money.

A family can afford a good house, in a low-crime neighborhood, with neighbors who are corporate executives. Their kids grow up living next door to the rich and powerful.

Living at home with mom and dad at age 25 might mean living in a house with lead paint and drug use. Or it might get you free membership at the neighborhood country club.
IIRC, the solo is also completely improvised and totally off-script.
A few large firms competing with each other is very different from a monopoly. Some of the things you mentioned have reasonable competition (phones, TVs, cars) and some are deeply steeped in anti-competitive practices (medicine, public transit).

Your argument was used to make Boeing into a monopoly and look how that turned out. It's easy to cherry-pick examples for either side, but I'd say take a step back and look at the trends and which way the evidence favors. At the end of the day it all comes down to incentives - and what incentive does a monopoly have to compete?
It is a great method. Similar approach I have used to design Summon The JSON flashcards
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> Dumb question, doesn't cooking also kill parasites just as effectively?

Technically yes, but how many households typically have a (meat) thermometer? A lot of people go by the "not pink" or "clear juices" rules of thumb, which work well enough for typical grocery store 'industrial' packaged meat, but may not be good enough for more 'uncontrolled' meat.

A 6.5- to 7.0-log_10 reduction in pathogens (salmonella) is generally hit at 158F/70C (with beef) where there is 'instantaneous' destruction of the pathogen(s), but lower temperatures can also be reached as long as they are held for longer periods of time, e.g., 140F/60C for 12 minutes. Poultry has slightly different numbers, also dependent on the fat content, but a similar principal of a time/temperature 'curve'. Ditto for fish†, pork, etc.

If you mess up the temperature you can have a really bad day.

† And the type of fish can mean different temperatures. The fat content of wild versus farmed salmon means few degrees' difference could result in a dry versus juicy result:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WSGjYMHF60
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Oh look, the goals and goalposts have moved again. Now apparently it's X11 Gestures (literally every patch, for functionality that already exists in Wayland). What a waste of donated money.

Gestures, in Wayland or X11: https://github.com/Coffee2CodeNL/gebaar-libinput
Knowing the atomic number of all the elements on the periodic table is also very simple to memorize. The fact that you don't know them all isn't because it's hard nor complex. The same thing applies to bubblesort and every other thing you might not know off-hand without googling.

Watch Jeopardy and ask yourself if any of the questions are particularly hard or complex to memorize. Perhaps that's not why you don't know them.

I've implemented bubblesort at least 10 times in uni. I remember a few of the sorting algorithms I had to impl, but I forget which one is bubblesort. It would take me 10 seconds to go "oh right, that one" if I ever need to see it. I haven't had to in the 15 years since uni. Remembering that bubblesort is algo A vs algo B without googling it the one time I need to know is worthless. Knowing higher level concepts of sorting and perf trade-offs, on the other hand, is not.

Having a set of trivia that you consider essential is itself trivia. As I could have my own arbitrary list of easily googleable essentials, like the wall socket voltage in every country in the world. No matter how handy I claim that knowledge is, it doesn't even pay its rent in the grey matter is takes up when you can just google it.
It really feels like your entire contribution to this discussion amounts to "but what if we ignore the point being made and instead just focus on very strict semantic interpretations of the language other people in the conversation are using". I feel like you have not really engaged with my actual points and instead have focused on finding details to complain about in service of appearing to make a point, which effectively derails the true conversation. I find this incredibly frustrating, and I have no interest in continuing.

I would politely suggest you consider whether this is a common issue you have with people or whether it's just me (certainly a possibility, I admit). If this happens to you often, you may want to try alternative approaches to broaching your points if you'd like better engagement. I think most people don't enjoy when their main points are continually ignored in favor of bringing up other minutiae to prove that they're wrong or something.

Regardless, cheers.
Exactly this. Googling to me is long term memory - I can access it, but it takes a tiny bit longer to retrieve. Stuff I use more frequently I do memorize.
Heh - this is extremely close to the company I am building! Shared Kubernetes is a great starting point, but unless the PaaS can be installed on _any_ Kube cluster I wonder how much of a step forward this really is.

That said, auto-configuration guessing based on the contents of a GitHub repo is probably the future - Automatically get a redis server when you've installed a redis driver, etc.
I don't know, I have never cared so much about the technique but more about the outcome. For me he was just another generic rock guitarist with good technique. I prefer people like Johny Marr from the Smiths who created a new unique overall sound. I guess there is a place for both.
BCD is still in use in many financial applications, where it's the usual way to handle decimal fractions which can't be exactly represented in binary (floating or fixed-point fractions).
You wonder what the coronaplague did to all the dentists in San Luis across the border from Yuma.
Yup. There's no rant like a Bryan Cantrill rant. :)
> Endless ink has been spilled about how the public does not understand statistics but very little effort has been made to communicate effectively.

How, then, should statistics be appropriately communicated?

> They want to claim their predictions are infallible but then when the public says they failed they want to backpedal with holier than thou "well, actually..." excuses.

Do pollsters generally try to claim their numbers are infallible? If anything, the fact that margins of error are included in the results would seem to imply the opposite.
Why don't you trust Linode?
> This deeply saddens me, the pool of people I admire is draining faster than it’s replenished

Then you need to stop wading in the shallows of the people you admire and get out in the insane expanse that is the rest of the creative world.

In terms of just music alone, there's more talent out there now than there ever was before. Two generations or more of musical education where none really existed before, plus an entire generation that saw making a living as a musician as a possibility (whether or not that was true) has led to a situation where almost every town of 50k people or more has musicians in it who are as almost as good or better than any who ever lived.

I am fairly confident that the same thing is true of writing, painting, photography, dance: the pool of talent is out there. If you're as old as you semi-suggest, it gets harder and harder to encounter it. I'm 57 and I have to work quite hard to ensure that I keep exposing myself to new artists and creatives - the natural tendency is to just look back on all the people I discovered between 17 and 27 and then lament them dying. Don't do it! YouTube is a miracle in this respect. There's so much incredible talent and invention out there. Every generation has people in it for you to respect, and they too will die and become the "legends of old".

[* edited "wallowing" => "wading"; did not mean to sound so harsh ]
This seems like just a marketing re-brand of GSuite?
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This has been posted before, quite recently too.

I would like to see an option to ignore case.
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