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Correct. Marvel has somebody in charge. A more apt parallel is fanfic... except that there isn't any "canon". It's all fanon.

In the Arthurian fanfic verse, a few authors get famous enough that they form a kind of accepted canon. You're likely to read Malory in school, because the faculty likes the Malory version.

Try telling your teacher that you disagree with their headcanon.
Your argument sounds compelling on a sentimental level. Unfortunately, as soon as one digs down into the numbers and does any sort of statistical analysis -- I guess something I'd expect a homicide researcher (what is that anyway? [0]) to do -- the claim falls apart. Controlling for any correlated factors -- criminality, age, income -- whites and blacks are about even in many (but not all) respects [1]

It's true that in some cases, there are disparities that seem to suggest a very small amount of racial bias. Summing up that situation by saying that as blacks are not free is about as unproductive and untrustworthy as using Jamelle Bouie as a source for anything.

[0] seriously, what is that? A description of your hobby of reading newspaper articles and downloading public datasets?

[1] https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/34/3/testing-the-test...
Wasn't really my point. My point is that you should expect to see all kinds of mental gymnastics around answering the question of if this is a positive change or not.
Sometimes it has a pretty good idea.

Typo correcting is an excellent example of this. I don't want my program to compile and run if I wrote "taxis" when I meant "taxes". I want an error. Taxis is wrong. But if the diagnostic says "Did you mean taxes?" that's great because it calls attention to the most likely mistake.

I'd say if the machine has a suggestion that it knows would work (but could be wrong) it's better to mention what that suggestion is than keep silent, but it would be worse to just press on as if that's what you wrote.
I did not feel it needed to be specified since it is a trivial fact that nothing in life is certain. But Apple's product offering is a top to bottom customer experience involving in person help at stores around the country. Microsoft must have acknowledged that, since they went as far as opening stores and coming out with that line of non malware Windows products (as a side note, it is ridiculous that Microsoft even let their ecosystem get to that point). Which, yes, they might have had empty stores, but that is because they failed to continue investing in their mobile products, or even non mobile products. They would have had empty stores for 10+ years while they slowly build it all up, just like Apple had to.

All I know is at this point Microsoft had two options: continue investing into creating an alternative to Apple, or cancel their plans and sit back and let the Office/Azure revenue flow in.

Maybe it was a long shot, maybe they decided the size of Apple's customer base divided by two was not enough to satiate them, but whatever the case, they signaled that they do not have the talent/gumption/appetite for risk to pull it off. But if any company did have the opportunity to go for it, I would think Microsoft (and Google) with their income stream would have been in position to do it.

Both companies seem to dip their toes, but never follow through.
…if China invaded _their own province_. A province over which their claim is stronger than the US' claim to Hawaii.

I keep thinking there's hope to avoid this war, but the way people comment here and on Reddit (in abject ignorance of geopolitical reality), I fear it's inevitable.

Fifteen (!) countries support Taiwanese sovereignty. The _rest of the world_ respects China's claim. It's insane that this rhetoric is even present in Americans' minds.
Commander Keen was the first side scrolling platformer for PC (side scrolling was hardware accelerated on consoles, so PC games didn't have it before this) and released 1991. Wolfenstein 3d was the first fps and released 1992. Both of those were revolutionary and combined is more than enough to put him way above most other game programmers at the time.

And you know, at the time he didn't have any experience! That was his first few years as a professional programmer! So your hypothesis that he was only effective since he worked in a domain he had tons of experience in is wrong! He had less experience than most other programmers but was way more effective in many different areas.
This. It's telling that people working inside this system operate on a totally different set of rules for how to determine basic things like the cost of some input.
Especially after a major traumatic event that requires an ER or hospital stay and especially if that bill is 5 or 6 figures.
Then I wouldn't know how much they lie to me.
Sometimes medical procedure names have commas in them. Instead of text qualifying them, it can be faster to write code that uses a different semi-standard delimiter.

It sucks, but, like, I don't really blame people for being in a hurry to fix a problem.
Alternic and Namecoin foundered on the same issue. To me, this Handshake stuff seems like the Springfield Monorail. It makes sense as long as you don't think about it, but as soon as you do, you wonder why on Earth anyone would agree to new root that gives value to a bunch of pre-mined coins.

Anyone can try! I'm not saying Handshake is, like, illegal. But it still seems like... a scam? I'm not sure what the word is.
I see these at literally every restaurant I go to these days, in the US and even in remote places like Iceland.

This makes sense to me.
And the union and company agree that two people doing this job should be enough. No more hiring

That’s not a thing in Denmark.

The person is not great at getting things done, but not horrible enough to be fired (especially by union standards).

That’s also not a thing. It’s surprisingly easy to fire workers in Denmark. It’s similar to at-will employment in the US. Only you’re not screwed if you do get fired, because we have generous unemployment benefits and universal healthcare.
Probably not—Epic stated in the court hearing that mobile was a small percentage of their sales; most of their business was on consoles.
I would say that service varies but in general and I've recieved bad service in pretty much every country I've ever been to, but yes, customer service in the Nordics is different to some other countries.

I think some of that is down to the server considering themselves the customer's equal, which is as it should be, and is not dependent upon the customer's disposition for their income. Customers in tip-centric countries hold too much individual power over servers, forcing them to be sub-servient whilst hoping that something they have no control over hasn't angered the customer and affected their income. I'll happily take a slight downgrade in service over income inequality & unfairness.
Yeah, this sounds like a tooling issue. I have no difficultly believing Kotlin + Android Studio might be faster or more reliable than Swift + Xcode. Hard to say with any certainty though, it could be any number of things, if the perceived difference is even real.
Price transparency is a pointless shell game designed to keep everyone strung along on the entrenched, failed system. When you're having a heart attack, the last thing you're doing is shopping around for the best prices on heart attack emergency treatment.

The free market has no place in health care, because in the hands of the free market the first thing that will happen in a life-threatening emergency is for you to transfer 100% of your wealth to the party that has 100% of the leverage.
> I couldn't find "FSF did not certify the phone, because they did not receive the units yet" in the links you posted.

Just below the picture of the phone, first sentence: While we're still waiting to get our hands on one, this device looks promising: https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v11.

> These maneuvers around memory and hdmi look more like cheating to me.

Why does it matter to you that a secondary CPU which has no access to anything runs proprietary blobs to train the RAM? Do you also care about proprietary firmware of SSDs (and avoid them)?
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DLINK 2890AL (AC1750). I don't even know what it looks like anymore. I just plugged it and configured it so many years ago and it's been working ever since. It's also not ugly and can be exposed.

Before that, "the modem/router" was something I constantly had on my mind. No internet? Is it DSL or the modem? No network? Is the modem off? Should I reboot it? All these issues are gone.
Yeah, Rust's crossbeam channels are actually really good.
... I don't know how to approach that statement. You prefer arbitrary invisible changes by actors unknown? Or is it a part of some elaborate Phillip-K-Dick art project about unreliable narrator and "what is truth anyway"?

If Bob sends me a letter, I expect Postal Service to deliver it to me exactly as sent.

If Bob sends me an email I expect email service to deliver it to me as sent.

If Bob sends me a webpage I expect it to be delivered as sent.

We can discuss changes & preferences on presentation layer, but invisible, uncontrollable substitution of content, I have no idea how they're either justifiable or desirable.

I am likely not interpreting your comment correctly. Perhaps if you elaborate it may become clearer.
I might quibble that the troglodyte doesn't know the drone operator's location, but I think we agree on the larger point: privacy and surveillance are about power and vulnerability.

Surveillance increases the vulnerability of those watched and privacy decreases it.
I think the broader point for the HN crowd is this is a great example of why you want to be part of a profit center instead of a cost center in a business. If it's easy for management to try a direct line from incoming revenue to the work you do (like a sales person or, in this case, a football coach), you are in a great negotiating position. If you are in a cost center, management will do everything possible to reduce your salary, even if it the grand scheme of things that cost center is critical to running the business.
If you develop for iOS|macOS professionally, you may be interested in Jetbrains' AppCode [0].

Note: I'm not connected in any way to Jetbrains, and I have not used AppCode myself, but I used other tools from them, and they're quite competent, I'd say.

[0]: https://www.jetbrains.com/objc/
The news was also mischaracterized as it's not the active ingredient that is associated with cancer risk, it's a contaminant/by product of the production process, so it's more of a product safety recall than a drug safety recall. As far as I know, this was a voluntary risk-reduction recall by the manufacturer and not an FDA recommended or ordered recall based on safety data.
I feel like the US has become a very hateful and bitter place. One could say there was an inflection point in that about five years ago, though it has been going on much longer.

I suspect that Reddit is reflecting that, rather than driving that. But it seems to happen to almost all sites eventually, unless they go to great lengths to avoid it.
> They make less that way. If they know you're insured they won't allow you to pay the cash price, only the much higher negotiated price.

This is not correct for all practices

My wife's practice (of plastic surgeons medical providers only in a reconstructive practice 75%, cosmetic 25%, attempting to be in-network with every insurer, with administrative front-office doubling as billing, and dedicated personnel for resubmits) vastly prefer cash paying because they get the money right then, and they don't have to haggle with insurers around things like pre-authorization, billing, etc. Insurers regularly make physicians go through the ringer to get an pre-authorization for a vital surgery. Even worse, insurers will ask for a "peer to peer" and then have some underqualified medical provider understand what a board certified surgeon is doing, based on a complex diagnosis, and not understanding the actual surgeries or procedures involved. Insurers will forget pre-auths, and then reject billing, and they have a whole bunch of shady practices around, even with in-network practices for cancer cases.

So much of this price transparency stuff is a giant racket because it helps insurers, and not the actual medical doctors, PAs, NPs and other medical providers. However, it is medical insurers & Payors which are driving all the paperwork (Horrible EMRs, ICD codes, pre-auth, auths, etc) along with growing the tsunami of administrative personnel)

Insurers try to use being out-of-network to reject medical bills, so they use it as a weapon vs practices/hospitals, very effectively unless it is an emergent case (medical emergency).

What is completely missing from this conversation is who this benefits, who this harms, and how insurers exploit the status quo.

Cash paying customers should always be the cheapest option, since there is little overhead for them.
Honestly this seems like an argument to quit everything _except_ facebook. For me, fb is the only social media built to enhance relationships with your real friends.
It's possible of course, and every so often some new weird anomaly is detected, and aliens are suggested. But mostly a natural explanation is found. The WOW signal and Oumuamua are one of the few exceptions, but natural explanations have been suggested for both.

The thing is we know about natural phenomenon. We don't know whether aliens exist and are detectable. Occam's razor would favor existing natural explanations. Stars, planets, comets and what not are common throughout the universe.
I've found similar results, although at the end of the day, iOS development is still faster overall.

Kotlin does a better job of getting out of the way when you need it to (compared to Swift), and Jetpack Compose is the real game-changer in terms of productivity.

That being said, there's a lot that you 'get for free' in iOS' frameworks, and APIs are generally more interoperable / batteries included. Both of these factors are what ultimately speed up iOS development.
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If you enjoyed the things you did why the fuck do they need to be productive? No one needs to be "productive" 100% of the time.
Even better: Mandate them to upload the data to some government system and let them provide a central API, transparency reports, ...

Germany did this for gas stations:

> Since 31 August 2013 companies which operate public petrol stations or have the power to set their prices are obliged to report price changes for the most commonly used types of fuel, Super E5, Super E10 and Diesel "in real time" to the Market Transparency Unit for Fuels.

https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/EN/Economicsectors/MineralOi...
This is a civil case, not criminal. And even in some low level criminal cases, convicts are sometimes allowed a few days to get their affairs in order before reporting to jail or prison.
Our system is so byzantine. I prefer to go to Kaiser, if possible, for no other reason than everything is in-network by definition. The only reason I don't have Kaiser right this moment is my current company only has one Kaiser plan, and it's a Cadillac plan -- zero deductible, zero out of pocket maximum, and so it has a fairly high premium (whereas the PPO plan I'm using has a premium essentially zero, the company pays almost 100% of it). Which brings me to something else I loathe -- that my health coverage is related to my job. Dammit, I don't want to change doctors when I change jobs.
I remember she did have to sign a lot of paperwork. I have no idea what it contained however.
That's my question! How are they profitable at $22/hr for crew? Are they subsidized? Something is going on.
It is trivial to complain in general.

If a trivial complaint from a colleague who, in your theoretical here, is less productive than you can make your employer not pay you more then that means you are only trivially more productive or negotiating pay based on something other than productivity.

Labor is told repeatedly that wages are based on market forces and companies have to act at a sociopathic level of responding to economics.

Why does the narrative always flip to employers having to act emotionally whenever labor would get an up like decreasing the information asymmetry between employers and employees?
You technically can, in 66 easy steps and about 1-3 hours [1], all the while risking damaging your laptop. Compare that with 3-6 minutes [2] for the actually replaceable battery on the Framework.

[1]: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Touch+Bar+2...

[2]: https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Battery+Replacement+Guide/85
Messaging apps maybe, but Facebook? I think once FB started to put news and content from people you don't know alongside content from people you know / care about, IMO they stopped making this a priority
I'd like to live in a society where things are legal for reasons other than because some psychopathic billionaire who would rather literally shoot himself into space than help the poor thinks it will be good for his bottom line.
Maybe they just turn offenders along with the evidence over the the PLA, for "review."
It's poor risk/reward, I think.

The trick that Musk mastered in order to acquire fame is continuous presence in the news cycle by saying outrageous things, picking up fights with people and by constantly manufacturing a Them for his "Us v. Them" narrative.

First it was big oil , then shortsellers, then the SEC, now is the NTSB and the Biden administration.

Let's also not forget the mini feuds along the way with the British cave diver in Thailand .

Constantly going at it every day works better than a single individual effort
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This is simply savvy maneuvering by apple.

Frequently these cases are appealed and new terms introduced to the judgement. Apple doesn’t want to give away any negotiating position until this is fully resolved.
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If 2x programmers are paid ~2x then the company is using some performance metric to influence pay, but then for pay to remain secret the performance metric also has to be secret.
What about at scale? Meaning many individuals?
That’s not always true. Sentences can be, and frequently are, deferred while the appeal is evaluated.
This just isn't true. Given equal familiarity, Swift will be vastly more productive at any skill level. Of course you can always tunnel deeper into more sophisticated solutions using Swift, since Obj-C lacks most of its capabilities, but that's hardly an equal comparison.
> I don't buy into sharing source files instead of clean separation via Web APIs, the additional tooling complexity isn't worth the pain.

Fair enough, that's a different argument from the one you posed upthread though. The ecosystem and tooling are very much there.

Happy to disagree on architectural merit of the approach. Personally I'm done with javascript/typescript for any future products/teams I build, and am glad to have a viable solution.
The cost of the aspirin depends on these things lol. Look up 340B.

There is a drug called Oncaspar. It's >$16,000 for one patient, and 5 cents for another (acquisition cost). Same drug, widely different acquisition cost.
Of course the firmware is only Qualcomm if the modem is Qualcomm.

QPST/QXDM allows you to mess with the modems by sending it commands and changing configs yeah. But if you want to flash the firmware that's something else.

Yeah the firmware integrity mechanism are not the best, and there's definitely vulnerabilities in the firmware. But there's still no way of installing unsigned firmware on more recent devices, and I've never come across a way of running unsigned code without it being really obvious.

There was a bug recently that allowed you edit baseband memory from within the OS, but again you'll never be able to hide that from Qualcomm on a million devices.
> I would have liked to see this type of work start much earlier given the potential to save lives in the US and globally.

In that case you will be delighted to learn that this type of work did start much earlier. If you follow the link I provided above, you'll see that the trials for Activ-1 started on 15-Oct-2020, for Activ-2 on 19-Aug-2020, for Activ-3 on 4-Aug-2020, for Activ-4 on 4-Sep-2020, for Activ-5 on 5-Oct-2020, etc.

Even before that, on 19-Mar-2020, there's the start of the Recovery trial, which tested, among others, hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and tocilizumab (and about a dozen more)

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04381936

There were other trials as well. Not all were unsuccessful. In particular dexomethazone came out as an effective treatment after such a trial.
Is there anyone who knows how to root a device that doesn't know how to torrent?
I disagree. In my experience the lightning port/connector is the main pain point of the iphone. Even if you clean it out with a toothpick, it stops charging well (you have to fiddle with it and even hold it in a specific position to get it to charge), the cord falls out easily, etc. I truly hate the lightning connector. I'm not sure if USB-C will be better, but it certainly can't be worse.
Holy shit, that's just insane!

Here in the UK we paid for a prenatal scan and NIPT a few years ago (this was in addition to free NHS scans at our local hospital), and IIRC it was £200!
A friend screened a female candidate years ago. She was highly qualified, with serious experience. When asked what her salary expectations were, she said what she made, but confessed she doubted the prospective employer could possibly pay that.

The reality was she was quite under paid. It's quite saddening that her prior employer seemed to have convinced her that such low pay was top of the industry mark.
I'm not sure how useful these lists are when hospitals are not in competition. In many areas that aren't a major metro, you may only have one hospital you can even choose, and the law prevents new hospitals from opening without permission. This 'market' is the very definition of inelastic.
I thought we were discussing this right over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28616683
Reader mode proves that "exatly as sent" is the opposite of what I want.

I would like browsers to reinterpret what is sent for me (and noone else, definitely not for the browser maker) and display something more readable and useful (lightweight, queryable, cross-referenced, hyperlinke, actionable, etc.).

I'd love to never see the site owner's design or interact with their UX 95% of the time (if you're an artist or musician I probably want to see what you designed, that's about it). Reader mode probably makes it 50% but is not designed for any kind of interactivity so I still have to use horrible booking pages, shopping sites, etc. I'd love my bropwser to extract the ueful and completely standardise the UI every time.
The insurance most definitely did not pay $11,000 USD. They paid a percentage of an adjusted figure, and the balance was passed on to you. Billing and payment amounts usually differ by an order of magnitude.
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At scale, nothing is free. They are offering this free to everyone via their browser.

https://jaas.8x8.vc/#/pricing
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So basically — if you're getting exploited, ignorance is bliss?
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Just spent last night in an Urgent Care watching my youngest child get stitches (closest thing around for miles). Can't wait to see how that bill plays out, hopefully one day I can see how their prices compare to larger hospitals and such.