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You really think that? The US spends more on its military per capita than just about any other country, save for Israel. The F-35 has been one of the US military's more noteworthy embarrassments, chronically behind schedule and over budget.

The US Military runs the VA, and that's also been a noteworthy embarrassment -> https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/28/va-veterans-affairs-history-...

Outside of raw warfare, the military runs almost entirely on cost-plus, which results in over-spending of contract money for boondoggles that just entrench the military industrial complex.

Outside of the US military, you have systematic inefficiencies like this across most major agencies.

NASA's planned SLS moon mission is a bit of a disaster — way over budget and way behind schedule. Because the boosters aren't reusable, each launch is expected to cost $1B (with a B) dollars — EACH launch! Meanwhile SpaceX's target cost-per-launch is $50M.

In healthcare, Medicare has actually been running a fairly interesting A/B test. When you turn 65, you have the option to enroll either in "Original Medicare", which is what we usually think of when we talk about "single payer healthcare in America", or you can enroll in Medicare Advantage (aka Medicare "Part C"), where the premiums that would go to the CMS instead go to private insurers like Humana, United, Oscar Health, Clover, etc. These plans replace Original Medicare, also cover Part D prescription drug benefits, and often include supplemental benefits that Original Medicare doesn't already cover. The outcomes are fairly interesting:

- 36% of Medicare beneficiaries are on private Medicare Advantage plans instead of the public "Original Medicare". Because everyone is entitled to "Original Medicare", this is purely voluntary. This number has been growing so rapidly, that we expect by 2025, more seniors to be on a private plan than the public one. There's also great variance by State. In Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Alabama, Hawaii, and Connecticut — over 40% of beneficiaries are on Medicare Advantage. By 2022, we expect more seniors in those States to be on a private plan than a public one. https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/a-dozen-facts-about...

- For most beneficiaries, Medicare Advantage costs about 39% less than Original Medicare. https://healthpayerintelligence.com/news/medicare-advantage-...

- Medicare Advantage plans are, on average, of higher quality than the public "Original Medicare" https://healthpayerintelligence.com/news/medicare-advantage-...

- In Urban areas, Medicare Advantage costs less per capita to administer than Medicare — and that's not including the extra Medicare Part D insurance that you would have to buy if you're on the Original Medicare plan. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2... From this same research, public "Original Medicare" is still cheaper in rural areas, but not by a whole lot.

So yeah, while the governments of a lot of countries are fairly robust and efficient, I think that suspicion is warranted, especially in the US.
Thank you. That was a detailed, well thought out response.
> Does anyone really need to be warned that they are using the passive voice? Does anyone actually do that by accident?

Yes, all the time. I write a lot and still fall into the trap, and it is hard not to do it sometimes especially if you were only introduced to the concept later in life. I try hard not to use the passive voice, but there are times when I think it is acceptable, and there are occasions where the alternative is more confusing. The quoted speech "Now we are engaged in a great civil war..." sounds perfectly fine to me!

Honestly, I have trouble thinking of an alternative sometimes, even when I can identify a passive voice sentence.
I send error data from all of my web and mobile apps. We catch a LOT of bugs that we don't see in test due to browser differences or state differences. While this may be invasive, it's necessary to deliver a good customer experience.

I believe a gradient exists here. That's why we don't collect any usage information, but error reporting is something I've found life changing especially given how fragmented the experience is across different browsers and devices.
This is not correct actually. Simpler ISA often requires bigger instruction caches, but consumes less energy because of simpler decoding logic. VLIW theoretically can be super efficient, because it discards decoding stage altogether.
Those are two different things. The red and blue shifts from in-person and mail votes were very reasonably predicted before the election. But the reason the probability of a Trump win rose so much was that Florida turned out red by quite a bit compared to the polls and if that polling miss was systematic Trump would have won. It later became clear that the Florida miss was specific to that state, probably because of specific demographics and the probabilities swung in Biden's favor again.
Fascinating, so you are saying if a Rosetta2 like software can be made for Graviton or X1, that’d be an instant hit?
>I worked as a quant for a power company in Australia

This type of work sounds very interesting to me, do you mind sending me an email (see my bio)? As a university student, I'd really like to know what I can be doing on the side to land a position like this.
Think of it as an attention getter. Rather than saying "you need to change this," it's a way to say "Make sure your usage of this construct is thoughtful and intentional instead of accidental."

To that extent it seems like it could be useful in certain contexts.
> This is lacks a strong causal analysis.

FWIW I am also unconvinced by the article's thesis that prediction markets "beat" polls. But I'm not sure I agree with your premise that we need to ascribe causality if markets beat polls. The "point" of markets is that they work in mysterious ways: the combination of financial incentives and the wisdom of the crowd coalesce to price things correctly. You might be able to point out why a specific market participant has a specific opinion and makes a specific bet, but doing so for the entire market is a fool's errand.
Here is the most important question - how well it will run Linux? I do not like MacOS at all.
I use ddg often myself.

Google does infer purpose better, and if someone is looking to buy something, it does well there too.

Ddg is very good at info queries and the more one uses it, the better it is.

What they could do is exactly what google did and that's to review those uses and improve.

But what they have right now is solid, given just a tiny bit of work.
That's kind of the idea, sort of, yeah.

But what kind of limits does such an attempt run into? Can you just keep adding more and more dishes, as long as you please, each one pointing at one satellite, with zero interference from any other of your ground dishes? No, I rather suspect not. When you are uplinking, there's probably going to be other satellites also getting some of your signal, especially as we move from 1000, to 10,000, to beyond numbers of satellites. This is not my field, but I feel like there are some very interesting limits to uplinking, a lot of constraints, that the sky itself can only hold so much uplink capacity, and it'd be interesting to me at least to have some more back-of-napkin discussions on what those constraints really look like.
i see 'em comin', i ain't paranoid
Yeah, all of these are quite DDG-friendly searches. It is my default engine and, yes, some results do suck quite consistently.

I'm a bit lazy right now to remember all the problems it has, but some of the most obvious are looking up for news on recent events (especially something small, stuff that doesn't appear in reuters and these sorts of media) and trying to find out some basic stuff about local shops and such (of course, I only know about how it feels in my location, not worldwide). On both occasions I pretty much always use "!g ..." right away, because DDG is just clueless about this shit. Google does this just fine (in fact, sometimes it's even impressive: there are thousands of cities like mine, yet Google can often tell me where I can buy some stuff I'd have no idea where to look for).
> which is why Medicare can claim to spend less on administration

In addition to this, it's worth pointing out that the idea that Medicare is the solution to all of our problems because of the cost savings of administration is way over-stated.

There's a pretty great breakdown of where per capita costs go in the US vs comparable OECD countries -> https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/what-drives-health...

Administrative costs make up a tiny percentage of the overall cost differential. You could basically zero it out, and it would still hardly make a dent on the overall cost difference.
As an experiment, I searched “tech news aggregator” on both google and DDG. Neither listed Hacker News. Instead, apart from a few actual sites, most of the links were articles saying “top ten tech news sites” or links to quora q&a threads.

It definitely seems that search engines can’t find new websites for people. Now they are just aggregating Q&A.
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Low quality information is more profitable to produce than high quality information (thanks to Google and their ads). So all the incentives for people currently are to produce content that is nearly indistinguishable from spam. It is much more profitable to take 1 hour to write generic content than to take weeks to really think through everything. This problem will continue to get worse with AI generated text, and I don't see how Google can fight that. This is why 90% of my time is now spent on Youtube instead, which has the advantage that focusing on quality has a much higher ROI with video than with text. That doesn't mean it's not filled with garbage though, just that it's easier to swift through it. Product search is also something I now do on Amazon because Google results are essentially spam. The results there are also not ideal, but at least I can distinguish the bad results faster.

One way to make search better would be to embrace bias and give people what they want. Just accept that most information is biased and bring it to the forefront. Initially there would be some default domain whitelisting, but users can request sites to add or remove from their bubble. Maybe they can "share" these lists among each other and certain clusters would form, which you can then use to recommend more nodes. Users would also be clearly told that results are biased based on their preferences, and that they can choose to view results from other points of reference. It would also have different "modes" for things like products, information, and news. Maybe some users only want to see results from independent or ad-free sources, and they can choose those clusters. Maybe they want only far-right or far-left sources, and then they can choose those. At least people would be aware of their bias, which I think will help fight it more than acting like it doesn't exist. Essentially there would be an explorable graph so I can see different realities. It would be a combination of search and social media.
It says it's "reducing bandwidth", but then it's downloading all the graphics assests so it can render them in very crappy unicode? Why? Wouldn't it make more sense not to download the graphics at all?
I got this:

https://www.enca.com/news/sa-lockdown-strick-international-t...
I've never used another BSD, but the reasoning for my 'I prefer Linux' complaint could I think equally be said to conclude almost any non-Mac Unix - my primary concern or annoyance is configurability.

Sure, it has a 'nice/well integrated GUI', but I'm not allowed to choose a different one. Good luck configuring the one they give you for different machines without lots of pointing and clicking. (Yes I know about `defaults write`, I tried to maintain a script to configure everything that way and similar for several years, things change every version, and it's a mess even when it works. It's not how they want you to do it, and it shows.)
> If you don't know what git push means, you shouldn't be using it and are playing with intellectual property fire.

Whether you realize it or not, that's gatekeeping. The point of UX is to remove artificial gates. When people apologize for the gates instead of fixing them, well... That's tantamount to threatening people's livelihood. It's a lot easier to do that when you don't think of it that way, and it probably shouldn't be easy. "I understand it, you shouldn't work here if you don't" is literally, "Fuck you, I got mine," with different words.

> about git being hard. But there is a shortage of effective, popular competitors

There is only so much oxygen in a room. There is not space for a million solutions to every problem, and once the Hype Train has left the station all you have left is to make the fiction true, or try to accelerate the Trough of Disillusionment so we can get on with fixing the problems instead of deflecting.

And I say this as the only person on a large team fit to do anything approaching surgery on screwed up git repositories. There is frequently a degree of turf protection via "he's a bastard, but he's our bastard". No, he's just a bastard. I don't claim any responsibility, I just have to interact with him.
> For China is business as usual harassing other fishermen legally operating inside the claimed nine dash line waters, claims which were invalidated by an international court. Other nations are defending their EEZ and have every right to chase them out or sink them.

The nine-dash line claims were invalidated on the grounds that controlling small islands without permanent settlement doesn't extend the EEZ, so the EEZ is limited to 200 nautical miles from the coastline. But there's a lot within 200 nmi from the Chinese coast, including the Paracels, where those Vietnamese fishermen in the article were attacked by the Chinese coast guard. Simply defending their EEZ, as they have every right to do. Except the Paracels are also within 200 nmi of the Vietnamese coast, so the maritime boundary is up for negotiation. Vietnam and China have a treaty delineating the boundary in the Gulf of Tonkin, but otherwise it's still unspecified.

As for Japan, they're on the other side of Taiwan, so their EEZ doesn't extend nearly far enough to make any claims in the South China Sea.
It appears to be the case in a technical workflow sense, from the little I just read of Snowflake, but my proposal would be a much more open system than one under control of a single vendor. It'd be more like a set of standards for interoperation and a common data center so that the data is accessible under one roof. Maybe each entity could do specialized search as a service and the search aggregators would pay by providing some infrastructure to run the crawlers.

I don't personally think any system specification is impossible unless it goes against since mathematical law, so a really fast, distributed query system where there are a few hundred specialized providers for a single query is feasible. Imagine the aggregator does initial analysis to determine the category of search, like programming, news, or restaurant reviews, then sends the users query to a set of specialized providers that supply an index for that category, then fuse the results with some further analysis of the metadata returned. Then the user can also include or exclude the specialized providers at will.

You could also eliminate the aggregator as a service as simply make it a user application on the desktop, allowing for even more user control and maybe caching or something.
I don't have a name for it, but I agree that it should have a name. It's a fascinating behavior. I nitpick all the time, though I don't actually post the nitpicks unless I really believe it's relevant. Usually I find such comments to be non-productive, as you mention.

And yet, even though I often believe nitpicks to be unnecessary parts of any discussion, I also believe there is a certain value to the kind of thinking that leads one to be nitpicky. A good programmer is often nitpicky, because if they aren't they'll write buggy code. The same for scientists, for whom nitpicking is almost the whole point of the job.

It's just an odd duality where nitpicking is good for certain kinds of work, but fails to be useful in discussions.
> not including 5% withdrawl fee

This withdrawal fee they have is a confounding variable to interpreting the prices of the options on Predictit.

I've seen many slam dunk contracts trading at $0.96 or $0.97 a share. At first I thought it would be a good idea to buy as many as the platform would allow me, and get the guaranteed 4ish% percent return. But then I remembered the withdrawal fee and realized I'd still lose. And then realized that any other potential buyer would do the same.

I suppose if you already have money deposited there, and don't know where else to park it, then buying these contracts would be the in-universe equivalent of "parking it in treasuries." But I'd expect the pricing to become more accurate if that 5% transaction cost was eliminated.
Agreed, the only thing going for IntelliJ is that its easier to use than Eclipse, but the product is still too complex and ugly.
Thanks! I've never used hazel, but i wanted to make my own.
I have a root hints dns sever running in my home environment. I'd prefer to control dns at os level. I also route my mobile devices through openvpn to cover when I'm not home. I control every aspect of all my devices network traffic.
A new Japanese invention aimed at single men simulates holding a woman’s hand
you are not wrong, but Photoshop 5, released in 1998, works on Windows 10 because Microsoft made it possible

CS6 works officially from XP SP3 (2008) to the end of Windows 8 (2015)

It works unofficially on XP pre SP3 (2001) and on windows 10, almost 20 years later and it's guaranteed to work on the LTSC for another 8 years (last LTSC is from 2018)

CS6 on Mac is supported on systems that span from 2011 (OS X 10.6.8) to 2014 (when Yosemite came out)

On May 2020 Adobe updated the release notes on CS6 saying that "If you are running Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3, Photoshop will run in both 32-bit and 64-bit editions. However, Adobe does not officially support the 64-bit edition and you may run into problems."

So they are still supporting it on Windows XP on their official channels.

Most of the problems with old applications in Windows come from installers using ancient techniques to detect the OS version

Most of recent Adobe software theoretically could also run on older windows versions (8 or 7 for example), but are not supporting old platforms anymore with the new subscription versions and recebtly dropped support for the LTSC versions of Windows 10, so probably keeping the old versions around is a smart move if they work well enough for you

People who bought licenses for old versions should be in their right to use them as long as they can

Which simply is for longer on Windows than on MacOS
That post is entirely the author's opinion that the market is wrong about Trump's probability of winning through. Namely, they think Trump's chances of winning went down from June to October. The author is bewildered that the market gave Trump a constant 40%. It's also written before the election. If anything, it's proof the market had a better sense of the situation and ultimate outcome than the author.
Trump Fires Chris Krebs via Tweet
A lot of people hating on this in the comments, but other than; yes, those absolutely God-awful default colours I’d say it’s pretty neat.
> Almost every other wealthy, developed country guarantees healthcare itself, not the right to get surprise billed or screwed by your insurance company.

I'm not sure who argued that "the right to not get surprise billed or screwed by your insurance company" is the optimum solution. The argument is that guaranteeing access to healthcare itself is attainable without price controls.

> SNAP and ag subsidies are also just price controls with extra steps

They're really not. The closest analog would be to institute a basic income that's earmarked for health insurance premiums. We don't have that today, at least in a uniform way (ACA subsidies come close).
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Well someone had to have hired you. Does a CTO exist and if so are you on good terms? I don't think this is about inspect element anymore. Your coworkers revealed their feelings about you. Consider this: if you actually hacked the site for a gag, and they liked you enough, no one would've mentioned anything to the IT guy. This may be a good opportunity for you to jump shop once you are vindicated -with a year's severance for the headache. I wouldn't try to stay at this company unless you have some overriding reason specifically to stay here. Your coworkers view you as disposable. THAT is "disconcerning".
There's always crobots (c. 1985) / netrobots

https://github.com/netgroup/netrobots
This is cool. Cork is a wonderful city, as are the people.
Do e-mail clients like Thunderbird and Outlook already use UTF-8 by default? The last time I checked they used ANSI/ISO codepages for new E-mails. I mean the desktop MS Office Outlook app primarily, but I'm curious about the web apps as well.
A friend of mine who tried different working schedules described it like this: With five-day workweek, the weekend is not long enough to recover. With four-day workweek, the weekend is enough to fully recover. With three-day workweek, you have enough energy during the weekend to start working on your own project. With two-day workweek, the work no longer makes you tired, it is as if you are on a perpetual vacation.
On the air now. Launched Kerbal Space Program without a problem, loading mods now..
If you have 3 different sets of quoting characters then you can nest things 3-deep without escaping. How deeply do you actually need to nest?
The NIH already funds a significant amount of drug R&D in the US.
Sorry, that was imprecise. My impression is that, at least on some prediction markets, transaction fees (and maybe also inflation?) make it low-return to buy high-probability contracts. I don't bet on prediction markets myself so I may be wrong about this though!
browsing through SSH
This was a private school and the macbooks were school supplied (from your fees of course)
That's the same question being asked - have they been recompiled as universal apps?
I like Links more than Lynx.
The benchmarks were done before enabling split dwarf support for llvm.
Once enabled it will allow to be as or faster than cranelift while keeping sane runtime performance.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/77117
My particular objections to people being made machine like are rooted in a Christian conception of the inherent worth of humans as being made in the image of God (who is not a machine). Being machine-like impedes our progress towards our telos.