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>The % of US population covered by health insurance is around 84%

That was pre-Obamacare. 91-92% of Americans have medical insurance, whether through their employers, or government programs like Medicare/Medicaid.

>compared with most other rich countries, which are all at 100%.

Nope. That's compared to 95-97% in other developed countries because there are always some people who fall through cracks, like (say) a Canadian who doesn't get a new provincial health care card after moving, or a German who neglects to buy into a new sickness fund after changing careers. The only such systems with actual 100% (or as close to it as possible) coverage is something like the UK NHS, which does not have a requirement to show a membership card (because, well, there isn't one) to receive treatment.
Nothing says "screw you" like making you jump through hoops ($$) to get a legal instrument (CCW) that should otherwise be available to you.
Can I ask an honest question of the people that use iOS and like to jailbreak?

I don't intend this question as a troll. I'm legitimately interested in understanding your perspective.

Doesn't it make you mad that Apple makes it so hard for you to jail break your device? If you are jail breaking your device, I assume you aren't part of the "I like Apple to protect me from myself" crowd, so wouldn't an Android device with an unlocked boot loader be a more attractive platform for you?
Absolutely. This is a good point.

Courtside tickets to an NBA game? Not okay.

"Your vehicle does not have the permits. You need to come with me" at gunpoint in sub-Saharan Africa? That's a matter of life and death, potentially.
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When it's the commissioners driving the negotiation, the sunlight angle is true. Often, though, it's the activist group which rallies speakers against the project and then negotiates with the developer privately. The developer makes a donation to the activist group, and then members appear at the next meeting to withdrawn their objection. I've seen the tail end of one of these in 3 or 4 of the ~25 planning meetings I've watched.
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Believe this due to time constrain. Proper vaccine takes about 10-20 years to develop/tweak.

One trial round is/was 3 months.
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Would they really though?
> If I appear to talk down to you, it's because by and large people who seriously believe that such an idea is theoretically (not to say even in practice) good (or beneficial) are thinking at a child's level and not responsible for running a society.

In other words, if you appear to be talking down to me, it is because you are. I got that.

> Fundamentally upending a system that has brought prosperity to generations of people because it has become marginally harder for some today -- that's mature and responsible? Everyone should just share?

"Fundamentally upending" is your categorization, not mine. What you call, "brought prosperity to generations of people" is what I call, "concentrated wealth into the hands of a tiny tiny fraction of society". That's not a thing I am proud of. I don't call the system that made that happen "mature" or "responsible". The reality of those people "not sharing" has devastating effects for millions of others. Four hundred men's "prosperity" is literally millions' poverty.

> Let me guess, on some of the other discussions on HN you would be of the position that people should have the right to repair their mobile phones themselves, control what software runs on their computers, etc. etc? And yet, you would propose interfering with people's most fundamental desire to control and do what they want with the house they own?

Yes. Abolishing rental contracts for housing in no way conflicts with those other things. In fact, abolishing rental housing contracts would put more people in a position to do what they want with the house they live in.

You see, people predominately do not rent their computers. People in general don't pay half of their income for permission to rent someone else's computer because they can't afford to buy their own. If they did, they would fundamentally not be able to access the right to repair that computer or arbitrarily run whatever software they want on it.

Can your ideologue brain handle it, or does it break too many rules?

Someday you might learn that your current perspective isn't the ultimate best way of thinking ever. Or you won't. The latter is looking more likely at the moment.
Is it ‘Apple’ or is it the head of security though?
TLDR; The transition from Eth1->Eth2 requires the following steps:

1. Network operators (stakers) deposit at least 524,288 ETH in a special contract

2. The early Eth2 blockchain (the "beacon chain") launches Dec 1st

3. The Eth1 blockchain will be merged into Eth2 (details TBD)

4. Other features will be added to make Eth2 fully functional (sharding being the biggest feature)

Just a few minutes ago, step 1 has been accomplished.
Should just be able to virtualize Linux/Windows inside of it. Eventually phones will be more than powerful enough to do that and we'll hotdesk with dumb terminals + phones.
You know, this is something I can get behind. I thoroughly enjoyed Firewatch which had a (relatively) short story and just provided a simple enough story. It didn't try to do a ton more than what it advertised and it left a lot unanswered (which was fine)

I also found a ton of value in Stardew Valley which I sank hours into but the condensed time of a single "day" made gameplay much more bite sized and short. It is a MUCH longer game though compared to Firewatch but both scratch a good itch.
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That's an entirely different class of bribe. There is no personal threat to you there. In some parts of the world, your livelihood, if not life, may be threatened.

"Call Legal if the police officer in Nicaragua is threatening to throw you in jail without arrest until you give him cash" is a reasonably sure way to put yourself at further risk/in grave peril.
> I'd use a SATA M.2 if needed to save 40% of the cost on the same size SSD. Or just a random thumb drive I have around.

There are now lots of low-end M.2 NVMe SSDs on the market, and M.2 SATA SSDs are becoming uncommon. So there's no price remaining price advantage for M.2 SATA over M.2 NVMe—certainly not 40%—and it is not uncommon to find M.2 NVMe sale prices that are better than any M.2 SATA SSD price, since the more popular NVMe SSDs get better and more frequent discounts than the niche M.2 SATA SSDs.

And the M.2 SSDs on the market with the lowest absolute cost (rather than per GB) are usually the Intel Optane Memory 16GB NVMe SSDs that were intended for use as cache devices, but have enough capacity for lots of embedded Linux use cases while also outperforming SATA SSDs of any capacity.
99% of the Systems engineering jobs will be in C++, not in Rust or Haskell.
FWIW, (bounded) Conway's Game of Life can be efficiently implemented as a convolution of the board state: https://gist.github.com/mikelane/89c580b7764f04cf73b32bf4e94...
Why doesn’t one pick the videos they would like to watch; and put them in a queue...

so you’re fully in control? Just my two cents.
I get that, I just meant that your text has a typo/autocorrect "landlines". (Apologies for my earlier laconic comment.)
I wouldn't call the 6mm 'fisheye', not on the tiny sensor on the HQ camera. Accounting for the crop factor, it's similar to a 35mm lens on a 35mm camera. Wide-angle, for sure, but not 'fisheye'.

I agree it's not amazing as a lens, but it's passable and cheap. Certainly better than the tiny webcam lenses on the majority of sub-$80 MSRP webcams.

I also have a Tamron 8mm f/1.4 C mount lens that is a bit sharper, and also renders things a little nicer, though it's a little tighter framing. Not bad if you can put the camera back a few feet, but would be cramped in a tight space.
Yep. It’s a racket. Imagine if you had to get your sheriff’s permission to open a radio station — given that you only broadcast party friendly programming.
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Use serverless guys.

k8s is a train wreck of needless complexity for 99% of developers.
This is a great choice. RIP Alex.
How do you know Apple was stepping in on behalf of employees?

It sounds like it was the Employees alone.
I really, really wish I hadn't gotten rid of my old iSight years ago (sold it on eBay)—I loved (and still love) the design of that camera... it's like a lens that's a camera.
I often look at our dogs like that as well and I'm just so fascinated at how intelligent they really are. The current dogs we have are quite possibly the smartest dogs I've ever been exposed to. But I believe it's because they just have such expressive personalities. They're a mix between havanese and coton de tulier's which amounts to basically aristocratic lap dogs that love to stand on their hind legs.

One of them is like a jock, very athletic, very show-offy, loves to cuddle. However he's not perfect and has specific quirks to him that only he has! He's the one who doesn't like being blowed on, he gets really uncomfortable when you pick him up but he'll happily jump on your lap.

The other dog is the shy type and likes to hide. He's kind of schizoid like where he likes company but only when he knows he needs it. Other than that he just wants to be alone. But when you come and say high to him it's the absolute highlight of his day. He likes to do things his way and isn't afraid to take charge. Often doing risky things like explorer or running in the road. Whereas the other one is really a tepid scaredy cat haha!

These dogs have honestly made me question kind of what you touched on. I forgot to mention but these are my parents dogs and I actively do not live with them. But I partially go to visit because I loved these dogs so much when I did live at home. Almost because I essentially raised them when I was unemployed for a while. Now I try to visit once a week and my parents hype them up the days I come over. It just feels like walking in as santa to a bunch of kids on christmas morning. Almost as if they anticipated it and knew I was coming and were patiently waiting. I don't know what it is but I constantly question that they aren't capable of thinking beyond their daily lives.
Even if this is a fundamental part of the explanation, there are features of US culture and geography at work. Most of the rest of the wealthy countries have smaller geographies and denser population centers, and a corresponding lower rate of car travel. With our huge suburban sprawl, many youngs find their entry into adulthood coupling excessive commute responsibility for entry level jobs with the new freedom and responsibility of a vehicle. (I grew up in the DC suburbs, this was my life.)
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As a feature for cloud chips, it's great.

If it goes into client chips, and someone uses it for DRM, that's awful.

I guess we'll see?
The mistake they made was bribing individuals instead of making a sizable donation to the department and then casually chatting up the brass at a heavily sponsored fundraising event, over a few glasses of wine, about how frustrating the delays have become for everyone.

This sort of thing won't ever stop because of a few convictions, same deal with the college admissions scandal. It just raises the price.
I use people I employ as my education

I usually assume a role like engineering manager and learn from the teams feedback, challenges and commits

Making money, getting tax deductions and sometimes research credits
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>Why give police the power to decide these permits?

So that they can make an end run around the 14th amendment, deny all the blacks, deny all the mexicans, deny all the chinese while the state looks the other way, or at least that's what the tacit understanding was ~70yr ago when people were voting for politicians who supported these policies.
Or maybe not having a kid is why you’re still alive.
I've seen a resurgence in the "I like ads" argument from non-tech-savvy friends recently, usually in the context of Facebook. This feels like the modern equivalent of people in the '50s saying they smoke cigarettes to help them relax, but I can still empathize with it a bit - reducing the friction of making good purchasing decisions is plausibly pro-consumer, and with that in mind I've personally criticized Amazon's failure to effectively automate my boring/routine purchases.
If you’re an owner of a slack instance, you can export all of the history without paying.
There's no such thing as a non-discriminatory may-issue scheme. They are by definition discriminatory.
People want to hack on things. If they bought a superwidgetV2.X and the superwidget doesn't allow homebrew, people would hack the superwidget for homebrew. It's just how it is.
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Private parties recording conversations without consent is illegal in California.
> The fix for this is to just never ever connect your TV to the internet.

My understanding is that lots of them aggressively sniff and try to hop on any unsecured network that they can find.
however the official in a shall issue state is then lying on documents, by jumping through hoops to deny applications if they are not paying the bribe.
Even without swap enabled or any explicit memory mapping, read only pages from executables (code, read-only data) are mapped into the process’ address space and may be evicted. Unless you explicitly lock those into RAM they still behave somewhat like swapped memory does, except the pages don’t need to be written back.
For the latter, it's the FCPA. For the former, is there a specific act that's violated, or is it just part of the US Code?
Local police have been noticeably resistant to rules allowing recording. A large fraction of the civil rights violations documented by Amnesty International against BLM protestors were exactly against people who were only recording what was going on.

Therefore no matter how much you might be within the right, I would personally not be willing to record the police unless it was under the direction of another police force that was ready to barge in.
I know I hate to be "that guy" but I've worked at restaurants with waiters. Half the time they are college kids or drug addicts. Or frankly have 0 skills whatsoever.

Regardless, not tipping is my statement of "go work in a factory if you hate minimum wage. plenty of people do it, so can you." And women especially cannot say they can't do that work. I've worked in a factory as well, FILLED with minority groups of all ages, weight, gender, and and lifestyles. Just because you're a white girl "destined for more" doesn't mean you can't ship digornios while you make ends meet.
2013 rates age adjusted[0], Arizona had a higher per capita death rate at 14.1 vs 7.7 with California.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_Uni...
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Focusing on the benefit to elites is a red herring that conveniently ignores the poor/middle-class, who are in need.

Focusing on universities is a closely related, but separate issue. It does need to be tackled, but that does not change the existing situation of the current victims.

My entire point is that student loan forgiveness shouldn't be discounted out-of-hand simply because it doesn't fix everything or that it benefits some people you don't want to benefit.
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I've lived in the Bay Area most of my life. It's well known the only way to get CCW permits in the Bay Area is to "donate" to the local county sheriff. I'm surprised someone was actually caught. I moved to Washington and got my concealed carry in a few months after filling out paperwork. No "donations" required.
Plus:

1. For smaller amounts, the cost to fight civil asset forfeiture often exceeds the value of the assets taken. Why spend $1k to maybe get back you $500 in cash the cops took? Best to just write it off.

2. All claims about the money being taken "from drug dealers" come from the police, which as you've mentioned have a ton of incentive here to lie. Given that police can't reliably tell us how many people they've killed, it's not clear that we should trust their statistics on civil asset forfeiture.
This is silly - it's more about the mismatch between the custom of buying a person's time and paying for the outcomes an employer is looking for. The flip side of this is that employees are stealing from their employer whenever their attention wavers from the job, for example talking with co-workers or texting or web browsing or whatever.

The reality is that hourly pay is almost always a poor approximation for the expectations between employer and employee. Calling any deviation from strictly kept time for an employee in 100% service to their employer "theft" is just silly, whether it's an employee chatting about their weekend, or an employer asking for some extra minutes. Each should (and outside of artificial constructs like this article does) weigh total compensation against benefit / effort and decide if the relationship is worth continuing.
Thank you.

That reminds me: Craigslist started as an email too.
The advantage is you can have "unlimited" email accounts and "unlimited" domains for $5/mo. One domain registration is even included.
> "Before you rush to answer, ask yourself how you would feel about, say, a version of Transport Tycoon where you have to move Jews from the cities where they live to the concentration camps where they will die.""

Most people here have played Master of Orion. Recall that you can take over planets by either bombarding them with your ships, resulting in the death of the entire planetary population, or sending in troopships carrying your own population, resulting in the death of the some or all planetary population and/or some or all your own population committed to the assault.

I'd be surprised if more than a handful of players ever even gave the act a moment's thought before ordering the attack and I don't recall the ethics ever being brought up in any review or analysis.
I do eat at home. I only go out to eat with people when that comes up. However, I despise restaurant and tipping culture altogether. I don't get why the US can't just have a culture where we can't just get fast food. There is nothing wrong with it and you don't have to bother with tipping.
> I totally agree with you, but I think the clear implication of baryphonic's comment is that the State of CA was being "authoritarian" here by denying the permit, as opposed to the sheriffs dept.

I'd argue that the state is slightly authoritarian by allowing local officials such discretion, but that's more a matter of taste. However, if I was arrogant enough to think the Bay Area, LA and San Diego were representative of the entire state in terms of their approach to gun permits and this is actually not the case, then I apologize.

> Which, I'd point out, doesn't make much sense given that it is in fact the State of California which is bringing the charges against these people in the sheriffs dept for demanding bribes in exchange for a constitutionally protected government service.

Interesting framing. But the people who should have been entitled to these services and were coerced into paying bribes are also facing charges. The state's foremost goal appears be defending its own authority zealously, and worrying about things like legal rights after the dust settles.
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This is a California thing, or at the very least a rich city thing.

Where I live building permits are basically shall issue. They're happy to have the development.
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No, but Walmart should begin preparing to turn over a complete list of all identifiable purchasers of these devices when the FBI asks for it, and if we had a functioning US government, they should be compelled to issue a recall with refund for them.
> I think there's more potential to convince the right wing and the center of UBI than student loan forgiveness.

> The problem with the UBI is that a livable UBI is too expensive for us to afford right now

Those two statements contradict each other.
I have suffered migraines for 40+ years, starting as a young child and I really suffered through the years when I didn't get any medication for it. For the last 15+ years I have treated it episodically using Sumatriptan and it still works 100% for me. Newer formulations such as Rizatriptan, paradoxically, don't work as well. I tried other prophylactic drugs such as valproic acid (worked but liver-toxic and caused weight gain), topiramate (caused loss of stream of though) but the side effects were not worth it.

There is one interesting experience which might be of value to other people: for a year I went on a zero carb diet -- and I mean zero with no cheating -- to lose fat. I lost the fat but also lost all migraine episodes as well. Completely migraine free for a year. Just that makes me want to go on the diet again.
Fall on the ground and knock over a table, claim the waiter shoved you. Demand a free meal from the manager. Win win!

I'm kidding about the above, but to be honest, you just don't say anything. The likelihood they're gonna slash your tires or something on your way out isn't even a possibility.
Only if Walmart failed to apply a level of diligence sufficient to protect against lead exposure risk, a known risk with laws in place demanding appropriate care and notification and recalls.

What is the industry-accepted, “will pass muster by a judge and jury”, level of due diligence that is considered minimally acceptable when purchasing Internet-connected devices from a supplier for resale to consumers?

The current answer as I understand is, simply, “no level of due diligence is expected with regards to network functionality, as the relevant UL/CE standards for ‘networking’ only concern themselves with RF interference at most”.

Should all computer resellers of any business size, whether Walmart nationwide or PC Hand-Me-Downs in a single city, be required to hire specialists to disassemble device firmwares for auditing purposes? Should this burden be placed on importers? Is this even legal under the DMCA?

Should the UL certification be found at fault here, since clearly they did not audit nor certify the device’s preinstalled firmware?
$400 for just a bloodtest at a GP? That's insane. All free in Australia, from the initial visit, to the blood taking, to the follow up.
For all the people saying - ‘he should have gone to the FBI’ this is a key point.

If he didn’t pay the bribe there would have been nothing to report.
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Not gratuitously misrepresenting others' views counts for something as well, but thanks.
This claim is not something you need a CEO friend to tell you. Anyone on Reddit's conspiracy theory boards could give you exactly the same message. (BTW it's interesting to note that in my limited experience high level execs are just people, and prone to the same foibles as other people too. They don't automatically have insight into all things.)
26th in homicide according to wikipedia [0] but what is your point?

The 'typical' murder involves people that know each other and has a motive. Loose firearm regulations enable mass shootings [1][2] which are more indiscriminate.

Everyone has the right to bear arms but what do we do when that infringes on other peoples right to life? I think it's a cogent question.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_homicid...

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/the-looser-a-states-gun-laws-the...

[2] https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l542
I've seen this come up on reddit ads - has anyone tried it out ? Does it live up to the claim that its Rail's for Haskell ? How does it compare to any of the other web frameworks out there ?