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> A number of factors spurred states to require CONs in the healthcare industry. Chief among these was the concern that the construction of excess hospital capacity would cause competitors in an oversaturated field to cover the costs of a diluted patient pool by overcharging, or by convincing patients to accept hospitalization unnecessarily.

That's pretty absurd isn't it? Were the plebs really worried about too many hospitals being built? And that that would drive prices up?
i hope people quit being insufferable downers
You aren't refuting the class distinction the parent commenter was actually pointing out (serf/peasant class vs merchant/"middle" class). That there exists another distinction between the ruling class and "middle class" in feudal society does not negate the hierarchical relationship between said middle class and the laborer class.
I think that whenever some topic sticks on the front page, and has a couple of hundred upvotes, you'll see a trailing/decaying trend of similar posts the days after.

Some people see the main post, do some more research on the topic, find something cool / interesting, and post them here. Then this induces similar reactions, until the interest low enough to make them disappear.

But then again, some recurring topics seem to stick around forever. It seems like there's a new Rust article here almost daily.
I suspect their end goal is other funding whilst using the consumer space to launch their program and establish credibility.
> The reason for this decision is so that compiler upgrades with -Wall and -Werror don't break builds.

It feels like the "right thing" here would instead be for the compiler to allow build scripts to reference a specific point-in-time semantics for -Wall.

For example, `-Wall=9.3.0` could be used to mean "all the error checks that GCC v9.3.0 knew how to run".

Or better yet (for portability), a date, e.g. `-Wall=20210720` to mean "all the error checks built into the compiler as of builds up-to-and-including [date]."

To implement this, compilers would just need to know what version/date each of their error checks was first introduced. Errors newer than the user's specifier, could then be filtered out of -Wall, before -Wall is applied.

With such a flag, you could "lock" your CI buildscript to a specific snapshot of warnings, just like you "lock" dependencies to a specific set of resolved versions.

And just like dependency locking, if you have some time on your hands one day, you could "unlock" the error-check-suite snapshot, resolve all the new error-checks introduced, and then re-lock to the new error-check-suite timestamp.
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Based on my personal experience, all the big banks in Canada do it. The fee is 45-48 CAD for each declined transaction, no matter the amount.
It's actually worse for physicians. Incomes not only declining due to increases in expenses, but reimbursements in Medicare dropping too, in nominal non inflation adjusted dollars. Yet the corporate side of organized healthcare is seeing healthy pay raises. Bottom Line: anyone who actually does the work gets shafted. Those who delegate win.
1510 satoishi's...

Been that way for 5 years ?
Founder of Ably here That’s odd and clearly a rip off of our post :(
Thanks for flagging
You read too fast:

> SQLite as the backing store for file records, though not the file contents
There are some (that are also likely not affected by Starlink at all)! Some observe high energy particles as they produce visible ligh as they break in the atmosphere. Also some neutrino telescopes use a lot of water or ice to observe neutrino collision with the given dense yet transparent mass.
Owners most likely can raise prices 20% right now, but there's no guarantee that restaurant demand will continue to be so high. When demand falls, people will still remember the inflated prices and may choose to not eat there even if prices fall back down again.
Single node K8s is a thing (but slightly non-standard; you just have to untaint your “control plane” node. I’m not 100%, but I think that works with multiple control nodes too).
I think you might have a misunderstanding about the end goal of mindfulness.

There is more than one way to practice mindfulness, but the goal of any mindfulness technique is to achieve a state of alert, focused relaxation by deliberately paying attention to thoughts and sensations without judgment. This allows the mind to refocus on the present moment.
In the end restaurant work is completely unfulfilling, largely because tons of customers treat you like shit. I've never experienced that as a software engineer. It's not even about the pay.
I seems like many posters in this thread try to classify software enineering as either creative or "mindless factory-work".

Where actual enineering disciplines has the risk of removing the creative part.

I think this classification is wrong. There IS NO mindless factory-work.

Just as in other enineering disciplines, our work is not manufacturing. It's just that the actual manufacturing does not exist (or rather is done by compiler)

Software enineering can (just like other enineering) be:

- more scientific
- more pragmatic
- helped by formal methods

without removing the creativity.

Just as "other" enineering (like software):

- is highly creative
- can be artisanal (if wanted, rarely in all projects)

I REALLY feel we can mature in SWE without being afraid of losing creativity.
I believe they are referring to:

> I imagine I could use it for file content as well
And when planes take off, all the passengers and crew are seated in seats with fastened belts, all luggage is stowed, and tray tables are closed.

By contrast, when a train departs a station, there are frequently passengers who are still roaming the aisle with their luggage. And I might have a cup of coffee or something sitting on the table in front of me (or behind me, from the perspective of the train's direction of acceleration).
> carbon impact

I must be missing something here. Surely trains have a much lower carbon impact than cars and planes do, right?
come on, our billionaires are spending money advancing space tech. what a grand improvement over billionaires bribing governments and having people slaughtered instead, as happens through much of the world and history. applaud this.
"Feed mayonnaise to tuna fish!"
This is the most incredible thing about the US. Employers should be responsible for workplace safety and pay for it.
> While Mozilla removes it to delete a Malware vector and/or save programming resources.

Malware vector, really? When was the last time FTP was a major malware distribution channel as opposed to, you know, plain http? And I don't buy the "save programming resources" argument either. FTP is an old, simple and stable protocol, it's not like there's much need to touch that code.
>> Your web browser doesn't need to support FTP.

Your browser doesn't NEED to natively support .pdf but it does and you've probably used that feature. I mean you could have it launch an external .pdf viewer, which is a FAR more complex piece of software than the little FTP protocol code they're disabling here.

Your browser doesn't NEED to support TABs. Your OS is already equipped with the ability to run multiple instances.

Your browser doesn't NEED to sandbox anything, you could just run each instance in it's own VM.

Your browser doesn't NEED to play video, it could launch an external viewer.
> It’s literally claiming that one event is outdoors and attendees tend to follow health guidelines

Yes - and it’s not true - there is plenty of footage of protesters not following health guidelines, and indeed plenty of discussion of how the protests may have precipitated a covid spike.

The fact that other similar events were not permitted proves the hypocrisy in the public health guidance regardless of the outcome.

If you don’t think there is any political bias in public health policy, that’s fine, but it seems like we are in disagreement about that.
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> Every $ earned is going back into building better space tech.

And to the shareholders. Who may choose to build casinos in the desert with that money.

> ... and if it succeeds the result is cheap access to space views from space.

It's more accurate to say it will give us access to space views from space at the highest cost that the market will bear. I assure you this cost will be well above what 95% of the world will be able to afford for quite some time. After all, much of the world can't even afford regular flight.
That’s still abstract. Which projects are doing this?
Why is it called "headless"? I understand the term when it comes to running automated tests, but I don't understand how it can claim to be "headless" when it requires a real browser window in order to execute?

Also what benefit does the extension provide over Playwright's inspector tool?
So did you:

> I imagine I could use [SQLite] for file content as well
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Your tone is quasi-facetious, but you do not realize that Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars, so...now all restaurants are Taco Bell.
Well, you often times hear people make the same argument today about houses...
There's also money in selling the transaction data, isn't there?

That's one of the attractive things about the Apple Pay + Apple Card isn't it? I thought I read some time ago that Apple Pay anonymizes the card somehow so that transaction processors can't sell the data. It was for that reason that J.C. Penny stopped allowing Apple Pay as a payment method.

Ah, here's an article from April 2019:
https://www.mytotalretail.com/article/j-c-penney-stops-accep...
The US was behind the USSR at the beginning of the last space race. Jeff Bezos is an extremely smart and talented guy, and is now focusing a lot more of his time on Blue Origin. I wouldn't count them out.
Everyone is required to fix the worlds problems before doing anything else. At least that is how the thinking goes, which is absurd in most cases. Though there is some nuance here considering Bezos' absolute detestable behavior climbing on the backs of abused workers to get to this point.

It's an old story, as expressed by Dr. Seuss in his story Yertle the Turtle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yertle_the_Turtle_and_Other_St...
> DeepMind claimed that they used “128 TPUv3 cores or roughly equivalent to ~100-200 GPUs”. Although this amount of compute seems beyond the wildest dreams of most academic researchers...

So, we're talking like what? Maybe $100K to $300K of hardware? Wet biology labs often have multiple pieces of $100K+ equipment at their disposal. Why shouldn't computational labs too?
There was only a night watchman. When they see a familiar face doing something on the grounds, especially one of authority, they don't question it.
> I have a problem with somehow believing that it is the only way to practice Buddhism.

Or, worse, that it's more authentic than any types of Buddhism practiced in areas that have traditional Buddhism. I saw/see this attitude a lot. It just reeks of arrogance and ignorance.
One thing I've not been able to clarify is whether Bell accounts for the possibility that passing through a polarization filter could effect the waveparticle in some way, like altering its polarization angle.
> Are you saying that public good funding problems don't exist

No.I am saying people tend to call a lot of things "public goods" when they are not.

If something is rival or excludable, it is not a public good in the precise sense in which economics defines them.

If something is rival and excludable, then the socially optimal level of funding is not achievable through markets (note that the socially optimal level of funding may indeed be zero).

Software is not rival (me linking with a library does not prevent you from being able to use it). However, it is excludable: A legal structure exists whereby people can be prevented from using the software.

Now, assuming something like the MIT license, you now have a nonrival/nonexcludable thing. That does fit the definition of a public good.
MUD player for ~20 years, (previously) administrator/developer for ~5. First of all, great work on pushing this out and making a usable product, especially one built for people who aren't entirely familiar with writing software (which is often the big hurdle for starting a new IF game or MUD).

I haven't had time to play with it, but I do have three (or 2.5) pieces of feedback based off reading the documentation.

1. Service subscriptions are solid, and using them for multiplayer access is entirely reasonable here. $15/mo isn't actually very much for that, especially since hosting is handled, so that's an exquisitely low barrier to entry for that. That said, Patreon is a big turn-off for a lot of people (including myself, though I'm not necessarily your target audience either).

2. Lack of telnet connection on multiplayer worlds is a big hurdle. Most MUDs/MUSHes/MOOs are telnet-based, and by not making this a way to connect, you are effectively turning away ~30 years of software written, and a good percentage of the people who have grown used to this software. In the MUD I worked on, I still had players using zMUD because it's what they preferred and what they had things built for, despite it not having been maintained for years and not being able to use several features of the MUD as a result (xterm colour, MXP, GMCP and other telnet subnegotiation protocols).

2.5. VIPs (Visually Impaired Persons/Players) and accessibility. This is one of the largest userbases for a MUD or IF game, as other games that are accessible to them are somewhat rare. I cannot speak to how screenreader-friendly your web client is, but telnet access lets them use clients that already are compatible and integrated with screenreaders.

2.75. Players with terrible internet. Many countries have great internet. Many countries, and even parts of countries that would otherwise have great internet, do not. A lot of players I've met in MUDs played them not because they were enthusiasts, but because they were more friendly to slow connections with high latency. Throttling my connection to some test settings I used for testing data flow to a couple players so I could recommend settings to them and test things for them, your client and the initial screen of the game you have on your homepage linked to the "Play" button is 44s.

There is a chance none of these are concerns for you, and that is an entirely fair decision - you can't develop for everybody. But I hope this is useful feedback.
Sorry if my language was unclear, I meant to highlight this line from the wiki article:

"There is no proposed mechanism of action by which the positions and motions of stars and planets could affect people and events on Earth in the way astrologers say they do that does not contradict well-understood, basic aspects of biology and physics."

Relevant here because it essentially says "there is no empirical basis for spooky action at a distance" which has been grounds for dismissal of such action-at-a-distance claims like 'the relative positions of celestial bodies influence events on the earth'.

This kind of empiricism has been used as grounds to not critically evaluate these claims. Everyone is certainly free to have their own reasons around why they do not want to evaluate such claims. For example some people only want to consider things that are easily falsifiable and subject to particular scientific practices. The wiki article goes on to mention how Carl Sagan refused to disavow astrology on these grounds (i.e. gravity is weak so stellar influence writ large ought to weak) while still leaving room for a disavowal if it were on firmer grounds. I do think your point about simplicity is salient here.
I really appreciate the honesty in your comment. I can relate to it closely and have had the same thought.
IMHO CDN nodes on the satellites themselves are just matter of time.
As someone who experienced countless panic attacks, I find the description of his symptoms to be very on point with my experience.

I've hit rock bottom about 10 years ago, experiencing these about three times a week. The road to building myself back was pretty long and is still an every day effort, but nowadays I only experience these once or twice a year, if any.

If that's of any help to anyone, I've found countless of little things that put together helped a lot. They aren't ground breaking by any mean, just sharing my experience and tips:

- Therapy. yes, good old fashioned therapy. Shop around to find the right person.
- Life change, I moved from one country to another. Spoiler alert, the panic attacks followed me, but it certainly gave me more confidence.
- Identify your triggers. It took me years, but my trigger was a stomach inflammation that I identified as being my heart having an issue. So I changed my diet, stopped smoking too.
- Exercise. Finding what you like is a long and painful process, I only found what I liked around 30. For me it was hiking, then climbing, then more recently (pandemic), yoga.

I hope that's useful for someone.
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Or you can stay here on earth, go scuba diving and experience the exact same weightlessness... :)
Blue Origin made a point of taking shots at Branson and Virgin Galactic before he went up:

https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1413521627116032001

Bezos is a hyper-competitive, winner-takes-all narcissist. Of course it's about him.

That being said, let's not pretend Musk or Branson are particularly different in their essential makeup. Heck, Musk literally bought the right to be called Tesla's founder. If that isn't the action of someone deeply self-involved and vainglorious, I don't know what is.

Bezos appears to be just a lot more petty.
I use https://hnreplies.com/ and also the /threads link at the top.
It's definitely something we've discussed as a team.
We would like to help make fraud less profitable.

The current iteration of the product requires users with some level of financial expertise - hence why we are starting with fundamentals investors. We believe that the longer a fraud goes on, the more people get hurt - so we want to bring these issue to the forefront. Perhaps each trade can be considered a zero-sum game, but long-term there is a benefit to all market participants.
We love the idea of every investor considering how aggressive accounting/reporting informs management integrity. Unfortunately, I think we have some time before this becomes the norm.
> Public goods are chronically underfunded

What are public goods you consider to be underfunded?
One thing I know, is that mechanical disk drives have suffered a very big drop in performance in windows 10.

I've asked this question several times, "Why would an OS need an SSD to work normally and be responsive when it was already fast without SSD some years ago", and I often get responses like I don't know how computers work, that win10 takes advantages of SSD and that it cannot work well on old techs. Even when you have a high amount of RAM and use a HDD, it's still slow.

I'm still looking for a decent filesystem or kernel developer to answer that question with a good enough explanation, because to me, I'm either stupid, or there is negligence or some attempt to increase sales of SSD. Maybe windows now uses SSD as some sort of "secondary RAM", and thus it will never be fast with a HDD.

I mean, linux desktops seem to still be fast enough with mechanical HDD.
> warts in the file explorer more so than warts in the system itself

I'm struggling to understand why one shouldn't treat the behaviour of explorer.exe as simply part of the Windows system.

Are there third-party explorer.exe alternatives available?

If so, during Windows install, where do I click to _not_ install the MSFT explorer.exe and instead select one of the better alternatives?
1. Be CEO's personal tech support during off-hours, at my own expense (fuel, time, etc).

He lived in some rich person's castle that was a long drive from my downtown dumpy apartment. Never even offered any sort of compensation. I was an hourly employee at the time.

I (and others) got the then new-fangled Caller ID on our landlines, because of him.

2. Physically removing hostile/out of control/drugged out people who were in our office.

I am a network/system engineer.
it's an entirely appropriate dream for a child. for a society with enormous intractable problems such as global warming, income inequality, and fascism, it's pretty lame.
There's no spooky action at a distance. Let's imagine we have an entangled qubit system that consists of a superposition of the states (0,1) and (1,0), i.e. either part A is in state 0 and part B in state 1 or vice versa. When we perform a measurement on the first part of the system and obtain 1, it simply means that we have "branched" into the (1,0) state of the system. This branching is usually irreversible because of the decoherence caused by the measurement (which itself is just an ordinary quantum process). There is no information exchange or any type of exchange between the two parts of the system going on, we simply branch into a part of the probability space defined for the system. The question whether the other branches still exist then leads to either the "classical" interpretation of quantum mechanics or the "many worlds" interpretation. The latter seems to be favored today as we know that there's nothing special about the measurement process that causes the collapse of a wave function (it's a quantum process in itself), but in the end there's not really a way to test this so it's really more of a philosophical question.

Articles about "spooky action at a distance" should really mention this, as we have a much better understanding of the measurement process in quantum mechanics today than Einstein et. al. had when they wrote their paper.
Why wouldn't they?

Customers have lost their minds. The notion that "the customer is always right" has combined with what can only be described as a mass-psychosis among a population of patrons. The level of behavior among these customers is borderline criminal in terms of attacking staff and restaurant property. Why deal with that for minimum wage?
Most people don't buy Windows - it just comes with their computer, thanks to Microsoft's deals with OEMs.

Kids get accustomed to Windows and Microsoft Office in schools thanks to Microsoft's lobbying, so when they grow up they keep using Windows and pay for Office.

Everyone uses Windows and Microsoft Office, so most companies and organizations have to pay for licenses for each of their employees.

People know Windows, so they develop on Windows, so they get locked into yet more Microsoft products and libraries and have to run Windows on servers. That's yet more licenses for a Windows and for Visual Studio.

Their business strategy would almost be impressive if it weren't terrifyingly harmful.
> The western church in Rome was of the same One Mind of Christ in worship, Creed and sacrament until 1054

The political/administrative disputes of 1053-1054 that directly produced the Great Schism didn't involve theological change on either side, so this (or the inverse, painting the Orthodox as the moving party, which I’ve also seen) position is simple factional-identity reinforcing revisionism.

> and then subsequently the Protestant revolted against their dogmatic innovations

Quite a few of the things Protestants objected to in the Roman Catholic Church were features it still shared with the Eastern Orthodox Churches (and many of them, both in the shared category and not, were not issues of dogma), so no, that’s not true in much the same way as the preceding claim about 1054 wasn't, even before any debates about which issues of dogma or other doctrine may or may nor have been innovations.
> The free market is not a solution to the problem of healthcare spending. Consumers do not have enough information, they aren't in position to refuse treatment if it's too expensive,

I may partially agree. Consumers do not have enough information because hospitals intentionally keep it from them.

Even in situations where I can call around or schedule a procedure, it's amazing how few places even know or will tell me. Or straight up lie without consequences.