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Well as someone who has experience universal systems in 2 countries and the US system, if I ever got cancer I’d want to be in the US with private insurance (or hell, Medicare or Medicaid even). Yes, the US system is dysfunctional and very expensive, but one reason why it’s expensive is because they’ll throw everything plus the kitchen sink at you. In the countries I was in, if you get cancer they’ll pay for breakthrough from 3-5 years ago, but that drug approved by the FDA last year? Nope.

An example: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/a-tale-of-2-...

"Then I found out that this other country — which I thought had a healthcare system that was so superior to the U.S. — doesn't test for the tumour marker that saved my life, and doesn't cover this drug that is responsible for pushing my cancer into remission after traditional chemotherapy failed to do that."
> When we say conscious though we don't really mean the opposite of unconscious most of the time. Usually it is the opposite of unconscious + many other things. Then we debate what those other things are.

True. I'm thinking of it a bit like a one dimensional spectrum with "unconciousness" at one end, and "as alert as you can be" at another end (imprecisely defined as that is), and various states of alertness between (tired, under the influence, dreaming, etc). Lacking a measurable numeric metric, these are not necessarily in a specific order, just somewhere between unconscious and fully conscious.

> To me this is exactly a language philosophy problem and imprecision in our language causing philosophical problems.

Definitely; especially with trying to define "consciousness" we reach the limits of language, as we're trying to make concrete the source of language and meaning itself.
So engineering before the rise of standards wasn't engineering?
This isn't about population control. This is yet another attempt to oppress Muslims. This state Uttar Pradesh is headed by an Hindu extremist priest who actively uses the arms of the government to persecute minorities.

It is a common trope by the Hindu right wing that Muslims are breeding like rabbits in India and may become larger in number than the Hindus.. and the way to control Muslims is by coming up with measures to restrict the rights of those with more than 2 children.

The Hindu right wing has been actively asking Hindus to have many children.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/Produce-...

The truth is that the fertility rate (TFR) has been reducing drastically for Muslims as well as Hindus.. though the Muslims have a slightly higher fertility rate but there is no way the Muslims are going to overtake the Hindus in population.

https://www.indiatoday.in/diu/story/muslim-women-family-plan...
Educated women who have larger control of their lives tend to choose to have less children. That is how it works.

Stopping to educate women and limiting our ability to make own decisions would probably made women have less children. It would however be unethical, cruel and oppressive.
Guessing this is the starting figure they use for negotiating with insurance companies, who laugh at them and counter with $395, at which point Stanford says ok yes thank you daddy. But they can't use a different price for you if you don't have insurance. So just send them a couple hundred bucks and tell them to fuck off
Do you have a source that people getting small cuts stitched up are less likely to pay their bill?
90/90 is lethal, isn't it?

That's a heat index of 122°F. You're literally able to die because you're unable to evaporate away body heat quickly enough if you don't take precautions.

On the NWS's heat index chart, that's color-coded "danger" while a single tick further up in either humidity or temperature is coded "extreme danger".

So I don't see this as kidding... it's some pretty extreme conditions you chose. :)
Using wood for construction is good, but it involves a lot of work, and there is a limit to how many houses we need. I imagine producing far more logs.

Not that I've done any math, so I could be wildly wrong.
Turchin is, of course, free to think whatever he wants (I haven't studied his ideas). However, I can't see how my statement applies in any way to either Bannon or Trump.

Trump is unsuspicious of having advanced education and qualifications, but instead was born into a millionaire family which allowed him to pursue whatever he wanted. If anything, he would be the person blocking a position from someone qualified but not well connected. He even ended up being president, in case someone forgot.

Bannon apparently served in the Navy, got a Harvard MBA, worked at Goldman Sachs. His wiki page starts "Stephen Kevin Bannon (born November 27, 1953) is an American media executive, political strategist, and former investment banker, who served as the White House's chief strategist in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump". I'd say by most standards one would say he reached quite a number of things he set his mind to that most people don't. Again, hardly an example of someone who failed in his career because he was blocked by someone less qualified.
The other main ActivityPub blogging centric software is Plume https://joinplu.me, oh and there are some plugins for Wordpress
Only your devices should be logged into both accounts (your iCloud account and your iTunes account). You can then use family sharing and purchase sharing to share from the iTunes account to all of the accounts in the family.

None of your family members should be logged into anything but their own iCloud accounts.
UTC is the only civilised timezone. That’s what server internal clocks should use.
I've already noted that the accident rate is far more dependent on organisational rather than technological factors. As such it's less subject to progress, and that progress likely has flatter curves and lower intrinsic limits than technological processes, especially those similar to Moore's Law.

Automobile safety is a domain in which we've extensive experience, and what is shown is a decreasing trend in absolute numbers, as well as in percentage safety. In the first decade of widespread adoption in the US (1910--1920), the accident rate per passenger mile roughly halved. It's halved every two decades since, as contributions from a number of factors are combined. Some risks, notably toward pedestrians, have remained largely unchanged or increased over the same period.

In the power sector, the record from hyroelectric facilities across countries shows a similar trend, with early immature sectors exhibiting major disasters, which fall greatly by time. But the pattern itself repeats across countries, and there's some uptick in risk as aging and poorly-managed infrastructure either fails or experiences near-failure. See for example the Edenville and Sanford dam failures in Michigan in 2020, and the near-failure of the Oroville dam in California in 2017.

With more nuclear power plants, there'd also be more plants in more places, including in less well-governed or more unstable countries. Note that in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, much of the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South and Central America, and Africa, there've been numerous transitions of government, as well as coups and outright wars, often with major terrorist / partisan freedom-fighter components. We'd have to presume that these would have occurred with a much more substantial nuclear power component.

Under such conditions skilled engineering and management talent often prefers seeking better conditions (higher paying, more stable, safer) elsewher (brain drain), coption of programmes for non-generation purposes (explosive weapons, dirty bombs, other forms of coercion) is far more likely (see Iran and North Korea as two examples), nuclear proliferation, already widespread, would likely be much greater, a even simple errors such as siting on poorly-suited or improperly mitigated locations (as was the case at Fukushima-Diaichi) would be more likely.

Then there are the fuel preparation, delivery, and waste management issues, as well as site decomissioning needs.
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Medicare would pay around $160 (facility+non-facility) total for this procedure.

CPT 12011 - "Simple repair of superficial wounds of face, ears, eyelids, nose, lips and/or mucous membranes"

See: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/physician-fee-schedule/search?Y...
Even then it would be kinda useless, because of the difference between hypothetical billing codes 22934a "Stitches, easy location, no complications" and 22934z "Stitches, weird location, infection present, uncooperative patient, resistance or allergy to common anaesthetics". Which is often very much up to interpretation and discussion as well.
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In the above example, the remaining balance gets accounted for as a loss to maintain the fiction of the facility’s not-for-profit status. It also provides the basis for a kickback the federal government sends to this hospital called Disproportionate Share Hospital payments [0].

In medical parlance, this is called uncompensated care or uncompensated revenue. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid provides a ton of detail [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disproportionate_share_hospita...

[1]: https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Guidance/Manual...
> The government also seized the healthcare competences of the autonomous communities, only to be revealed that they were incompetent, and make old people die in assisted living facilities.

Eh, there have been compaints from both left and right that the competences left to the autonomous communities have done more harm than good. To say they have not had a lot of competences is misleading, they do have a lot more decision power than in other countries. Spain is de facto very decentralized.

> There is an all time high unemployment in young people…

Indeed, but unemployment overall is not the highest in the last years. You need to be specific when talking about data.

> You can’t take the prices of the last year when many people started working from home, and leaving big cities, and hence rent has decreased.

Yet in most of other EU countries it has went up sharply. We're not doing as bad as you think.

> Left leaning propaganda is pretty much alive in Spain, where you can’t criticize the left without being labeled as “facha” (as this case).

Honestly I agree with you here, but still, you can't say misleading statements that contradict the data. If we want to see real improvement the first step is looking at data and being honest about it.
My understanding is Nazi Germany made synthetic fuels from carbon monoxide, eg from coking coal, which is a more reactive substance than carbon dioxide.
I would say that plans sufficiently specific to be done by any supplier and ability to switch supplier would be equivalent to final code and the final step should be done by using appropriate frameworks instead of human contractors. Any repetetive software process with precise specification should be automated with better tools or other higher level abstractions. One reason it's not done more for physical engineering is that the robots or machines would be impractically complicated or expensive or other physical limitations. But even then manaual machining is increasingly getting replaced by CNCs and houses built from bigger prefabricated components. You might choose not having a house made from prefabricated blocks due to aesthetic reasons but in software hardly anyone except small fraction of programmers will complain about electron or too many levels of abstraction under the hood.
I mostly agree, but at least Excel is more easily inspectable by a human, which makes a certain class of errors (specifically, silly logic bugs) less likely to get through.
>It is a common trope by the Hindu right wing that Muslims are breeding like rabbits in India and may become larger in number than the Hindus

It's happening in Europe already. It's not far fetched.
Planting trees should be combined with sustainable harvesting, and using the wood material for building, replacing as much carbon emitting concrete as possible. The buildings should also be built and maintained so that they last as long as possible, effectively acting as long-term carbon sinks.

This way we could have both forests and urban areas acting as carbon sinks. Somebody should tell Americans and EU leaders that wooden buildings do indeed exist already.
Frank Zappa was smarter than everyone at that table.
I’m in Germany. I’ve got Disney+, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video.

And yet, a significant proportion of shows isn’t available for me on either of these, and requires maxdome, sky, whatever other bullshit which I’ll never subscribe to. I’m spending enough money each month on streaming that, if something isn’t on there, I’ll just pirate it.
This is the Singapore approach to everything the govt offers. Unless citizens have “skin in the game” over utilization happens. So even if you’re destitute, the govt will ask “well, what can you pay?” and if it’s $20/month for rent, we’ll, your rent is $20. Same with healthcare. Destitute? Ok, the gov’t will cover 99% of the cost, but we need you to pay $20. Private insurance had plans that paid 100% of costs and the govt created a regulation banning it. The end user must pay something.

No saying it’s the right approach or not, but it’s an interesting one.
Is it possible to import stuff from other blogs e.g move from WordPress to WriteFreely using a WordPress export?

And is it possible to export from WriteFreely should one want to migrate away from it?
Thank you for sharing this, really helpful to hear from someone inside the industry and of course, the issue is super nuanced and complex. I just wonder if/when something will give in the U.S.

But you said something that stood out - "Everyone has their finger in the pot trying to get paid for their services in a world of increasingly small reimbursements." Given the rising prices, why isn't the pot getting bigger?

What do you think of Epic systems and EHR stuff?
> I sort of figure it's Natural Selection at play, all these folks who choose to poison themselves and embrace chronic illness as something that is inevitable will eventually fall out of the Gene pool, unfortunately the destruction they cause during and on the way out costs all of us an enormous amount of resources.

That’s not how natural selection works. Men over the age of 50 father less than %1 of babies, and it’s lower than that for women. So if a tendency to embrace chronic pathological behaviors is genetic, the offspring will be born long before the behavior catches up with them. Things get a little more complicated because of the inter generational support networks. The older generation does support their offspring, but at eventually will need support, and take resources from the breeding cohort. Which is the only cohort natural selection cares about.
Pipe operator is now in base R so one of the nice features is now standard

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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2021/05/new-features-in-r-4-1-0/
It's difficult to understand the mind of a man who cares more for shrubs and jellyfish than the survival of his people.

Here's a thought, if you're a conscientious White man concerned about the environment: Make babies. Make a lot of them. Raise them with the same thoughtfulness you have for the natural world. Raise a dozen greenies.

I assure you the woman in Niger with 11 kids has never lost a wink of sleep over any endangered Alaskan moths.

The children of those with total disregard for the Earth will inherit it. Or yours can. It's your choice.
The ground reality in Europe is nothing like in India - not by a long shot.
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As always, it depends. There is a certain point at which your visit is tied into your insurance so you can't just undo it. At that point the hospital is now fighting with the insurance company to pay and you're stuck in the middle.
My gut feel is that we'll end up with regulations putting a cap on retail (maybe not for industrial...) price variability and/or inserting in an extra fixed fee (similar to connection fees) in many jurisdictions to help out with keeping baseload around.

I haven't done any of the math though. Like I want nuclear to just be cheaper than FF. But shrug.
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Life expectancy is a terrible measure for health outcomes. Too many confounding factors. Americans drive more than other countries, more road deaths. That drags down life expectancy and has nothing to do with healthcare.

Infant mortality is counted differently. The US system will try and save a kid that other system don’t - that’s a death where other systems don’t count it as a life.
That is true for citizens too. Going to the hospital in the US, especially the emergency room, is crazy expensive. Unless I'm actually going to die imminently, I'm not going to the hospital. And if I actually know I'm going to die then there is no point in bankrupting the family by going to the hospital.
I've had this exact argument with someone! Saying that you do know that by paying for private insurance you are paying for other people's treatments, right?? And they said that yeah, but at least they are choosing to pay, instead of being "robbed" through taxes and being forced to pay for other people's treatment.
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Does the European Central Bank calculate inflation in the US? - but healthcare is almost always part of CPI, so people doing CPI calculations would typically include this and this would be part of inflation calculated uuing CPI. And yes, healthcare costs have risen much faster than inflation as a whole.
I don't use R, and didn't read this, but I think the biggest problem with excel is that it hides the code. Figuring out which cell does what, and how, usually means clicking a million places trying to remember what is what

It's the same reason I took the doors off my pantry and cabinets
I think it is for many countries but especially on longer stay visas rather than simple tourist visas.
That's not a heatwave that's just heat.
I’ve always considered programming to be equal parts: science, craft, and art. Trying to fit it into a pure engineering discipline misses many of the other benefits of the craft and art of development.

Much of what we do involves not just telling the computer what to do, but communicating with other programmers (through code). This is where elegance and craft can make a significant difference to the success of a project
It's difficult to understand the mind of a man who cares more for shrubs and jellyfish than the survival of his people.
Here's a thought, if you're a conscientious White man concerned about the environment: Make babies. Make a lot of them. Raise them with the same thoughtfulness you have for the natural world. Raise a dozen greenies.

I assure you the woman in Niger with 11 kids has never lost a wink of sleep over any endangered Alaskan moths.

The children of those with total disregard for the Earth will inherit it. Or yours can. It's your choice.
And not to mention when they say "on the spot," they mean it. In the room, right there, as you're checking out. If you don't have access to any payment methods or you need to wait two days until you get paid or something, you're looking at a 50-100% increase over the final quoted "cash price" even if you're still paying cash.
Are there only two choices?
That's what I find most wild about this argument. Not only is insurance paying for other people's healthcare, you're also paying to enrich a bunch of shareholders.
Ah, now this is a value proposition!

If they would only say _that_ on their front page, I would understand what they're offering me. Well, that, and a list of extra features they offer relative to various build systems.
Not if your "travel" is multiple months spent working there.
Package management is painful, replicating our two environments as i did a peer review always took way more effort than it would have in many other languages.

I found my partner, Jess, to be using some fairly niche packages for stats, which admittedly would be harder to replicate in other languages. I personally think it’s fine to use, there’s no harm, but as someone comfortable with many languages, most the people i found debating the pros of R (since this project and it coming up in discussion) often are in non software fields and it’s their only language. I personally wouldn’t choose it over python and i might even consider something old school like Java for similar projects if i didn’t have an audience that only understood the work in R.
Well, that's straight up not true. My own dad was treated with the very latest drug by Novartis because he had an extremely rare cancer that didn't have any other treatment yet. 100% paid for by the national health service.
There is a major difference between engineering and software development: liability.

If a civil engineer designs a bridge, and it crashes and people die due to a design flaw, he or she can be sued, and even put in jail.

On the other hand, software comes with a license that explicitly makes its authors not liable for design flaws.

When was the last time you had to agree to an end user license agreement before crossing a bridge?
People who come up with that argument don't understand how insurance works. An insurance company pools the premiums paid by their customers; so of course you're also paying for someone else's treatment. If your insurance premium only covered your own expenses, it wouldn't work.

It should be added that a healthcare system that relies on insurance companies isn't necessarily a problem, as evidenced by the number of countries (the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, etc.) with highly regarded healthcare systems that rely on private healthcare. Germany has a hybrid public/private system, while the Netherland system relies on mandatory personal health insurance. But these systems work because they are highly regulated and are designed to benefit the individual, with limits on how much providers are allowed to charge, for example.
You say that discoverability options for individual websites exist, if you could, please name a couple that you recommend, because that one issues is a huge problem for would-be writers and one major reason why they do indeed pick sites like Medium. It's easy to criticize big platforms from one angle but how thousands of other people believe they will help them should be taken into consideration as well.
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It's not obvious to me that Excel is more easibly inspectable, can you say more?

To me, R seems more easily inspectable, as all the logic of a program is visible just by looking at text files, where in Excel it's hidden "under the surface", you have to click on cells, look at what's there, go click on other cells that relate to it, remember what you were looking at in the first one that's now invisible, etc.