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The more I read about US healthcare, the more confused I am about how it's grown this perverse for this long. Prices are hidden (until the government forces them into the open), but they're badly distorted anyway by perverse incentives, which all seem to ladder up to the root cause of providing healthcare for profit.
> Voters not wanting to pay for comprehensive care for everyone is a 4th head.

M4A is overwhelmingly popular, at points taking majorities of Republicans. Also, the US government already spends as much on healthcare as Britain and the NHS; US healthcare is just allowed to cost twice as much.
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I would put it 7 years ago, at least with media and aggressive narrative crafting against certain groups.
Messages on their own are considered criminal until proven otherwise, just like your cash (see civil forfeiture). I wish I could add /s
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>given them government-paid, universal healthcare

This is meaningless if the quality of healthcare is not the same. There are numerous hurdles placed for various different people to get the healthcare, effectively restricting access to healthcare itself.
>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.

Absolutely. Where I work, if the customer is wrong, we tell them. Some are nicer about it than others. If a customer is rude, we can be rude back. Sometimes it escalates the conflict, but it's ultimately up to the individual how they handle it.

But, a lot of people are flabbergasted that we have the gull to tell them they're wrong. "Terrible customer service!" - even if the worker is being extremely polite. You NEVER argue with customers in the US - unless you own the company or you're backed by a union.
I am super excited to buy one of these.
Right, I see where you're coming from. I was curious if you'd categorize something like Socratic methods under fantasy as well. I agree though that practical, testable philosophies are nice in that they provide some degree of mental tangibility. I suppose the more fantasy-oriented stuff is useful as an exploratory or thought exercise, but like you I don't pursue it so much. I like when philosophy can help me (and those around me) live tomorrow better than today in a very direct sense.
> > 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.

I'd still argue that it is a bit different from "FSF did not certify the phone, because they did not receive the units yet".

> > 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)?

To makes things clear: I'm not opposed to the "secondary processor exception". In this case specifically, the firmware was artificially stored on a ROM chip, and copied from there to "a secondary processor" by the main processor to unlock a feature (train the RAM) to allow the main processor to work properly. This is a bit too much for me. Also, I'm not sure the HDMI initialization runs on a secondary processor.

Also, librem-5 getting ryf-certified would make me very very happy. I really would love to see this happen.
You know you have been able to do that for ages using the official android emulator, right?
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> What is the significant new information?

For me who doesn't follow it to closely the fact that significant more proofs - including from officials in Sweden - have been coming out since the case was dismissed as cased closed by fact checkers was the big one.

For someone who follows it closely this is yesteryears news.

For me this was the first time I read that. (edit: it -> that)

Edit: as for the title if we don't have to honor the original in this case, could something like "Summary of developments in the Hunter Biden case previously dismissed as false news" work?
Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease: Mechanisms and Nutritional Aspects:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6209735/

While it may be considered andectoal, this fits with what i've seen in my family. In my mind and from what i've read it seems to be more of a combination of factors - diabetes, an APOE gene, toss in a little depression/loss of purpose/retirement/isolation, etc

I find the studies with gamma interesting:
https://www.alzheimers.gov/clinical-trials/gamma-induction-a...

I think it would be good to bring more attention to noticing when things start to slip, because as things progress there can be less openess to trying new things/focus on maintaining state.
Well yeah it was trained on humans
What do you mean specifically about memory safety? A clean break new-syntax Objective C could have dropped the C part of ObjC, added strict nullability, dropped header files, add non ABI breaking features like enum ADTs and a bunch of other tweaks and still kept most of the same language compiler code without all the downsides of swift. Swift became a silver bullet homer car as far as languages go.
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So no more Electron apps
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Yeah, and bodily autonomy or freedom and liberty is way too much.
It would be impossible to evolve Obj-C to add most of Swift's capabilities unless you drop binary and source back compatibility. At that point it's just another new language and you've lost the things you say made Obj-C simpler.

I have a hard time believing any engineer is productivity bound by Swift's build times and especially indexing times, since indexing doesn't affect your ability actually write code. Typically developer productivity is bound by thinking of an appropriate solution to a problem and expressing that solution in a language. Given how much easier that expression is in Swift, especially if you spend a bit of time optimizing the language to your problem, the build time becomes rather incidental. Add to that Swift's ability to catch far more issues at build time and its language features and the Obj-C solution falls further and further behind. Even if your Obj-C solution builds faster it will likely be an inferior solution anyway.
Technically, I believe the claim by dissenters is...

"As NPR's Jon Hamilton has reported:

"This drug has generated all kinds of excitement because it is the first approved drug that does more than just relieve the symptoms of Alzheimer's. This drug actually affects an underlying disease process by reducing the amount of sticky amyloid plaque that builds up in the brain. The catch is that removing this plaque may not actually help patients avoid memory loss and thinking problems. One big study showed that it did. Another showed that it didn't.""

In other words, the drug works against what may be a symptom of the disease, but hasn't reliably been shown to do anything for the actual problem.

Science is hard.

Oh, and by the way,

"The drug will be administered through infusions every four weeks, resulting in a yearly cost of about $56,000, the companies said. That's the list price, which doesn't necessarily reflect the out-of-pocket costs for someone who has insurance and/or Medicare. Preliminary estimates suggest patients' copayments for the drug could cost around $11,500 annually."
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I think the multiplier is a good point and adds an interesting dimension to this question.

For example, a SaaS app with mainly one running instance has a really low multiplier vs. a popular open source project.
I've coded in SDL, godot, unity, and a lot of other engines with GUIs.

I still can't just draw fluid vector animations and throw little chunks of code around. I need to rely on a lot of external programs and more complicated APIs.

And I've yet to find a game/animation engine a lay person can pick up and use. That's what made flash special.
There is no internal reliable system. Healthcare in the US uses faxes.

People here thinks that their local hospital is Google, while in reality it's a badly managed/badly funded 100 year old non-profit organization full of middle managers who just learned how to use their email.
There are 6000 hospitals, 20% for profit businesses, 17 of which are publicly traded. They write off procedure costs to some degree. The amount written off is so widely variable and lopsided, the IRS or the SEC would have a nearly impossible task of determining what is true. I'm curious, do hospital CFOs sweat the risk of IRS discovery that write offs are artificially inflated if/when the data becomes easily known and calculable? How many years and how many procedures were written off to which extent? To what end did asymmetric data play in avoiding taxes or violating SEC regs?
Only to a degree because policies basically always have an upper limit on coverage.

If the payouts are dropping because there's a massive reduction in claims, then there's a pretty decent chance that paying the policy maximum on each claim still won't be enough.

Plus, profits don't come directly from the premiums anyway. They come from the investments the insurer makes with the premiums. So sure, they can try to convince policy holders to increase coverage which allows them to charge a higher premium, or they can work on their loss modeling and investment strategy to better predict their actual loss ratio (which means they can have less money in reserve and more money in investments) or get better returns on the investments. And those 2 are usually a better use of resources since increasing coverage means an individual conversation with each policy holder. That's a lot of human-hours compared to the modeling and investing.
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Looking at class in purely economic terms is blinkered, especially if you're doing so in an effort to define some sort of quasi-Marxist "us against them" narrative. (I say quasi-Marxist because even Marx was more sophisticated than this; he saw capitalists as a new upper class emerging from the burgher class and displacing the traditional aristocratic class.)

Financial independence is a consequence of individual choices. Most workers can achieve financial independence by the time they are elderly. A surprising number of workers can achieve financial independence early, but choose not to.

"None of their income comes from capital"? Slightly more than half of Americans own stock in one form or another, and I think it's rare for middle class people to have absolutely no investments at all. For the slight majority of Americans, some of their income comes from capital. But perhaps Americans are unusually enthusiastic about investment.

When it comes to class, though, economics is not the whole picture. Class is more directly about social status, and social status is not wholly dictated by income. In the 1980's, Paul Fussell wrote a satirical book, titled Class, exploring this phenomenon. The specific examples are dated but the underlying concept remains somewhat valid.
But you're still out the downpayment? Your loss is still 20x.
Tartu, Estonia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartu

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Tartu
Zero surprises here.
>yet they are not "good Samaritans" to their own people

The state of the secular healthcare system is unrelated to the religiosity of the population. Further, in some states (like TN), there are in fact christian organizations that do take on a substantial portion of the social safety net, especially for the homeless. Critics will say that the time limit on food and housing is unethical but I think its important not to create a permanent dependence.

I'm not a religious person but the disdain which people commonly speak of [white] Christianity online is really offputting and, frankly, ignorant.
Use one time pads
Or they could learn to use Signal.

Properly installed (F-Droid) on off-the-shelf phones with fresh prepaid sims and OS updates disabled, it can be considered secure software against all but the most sophisticated adversaries.

Then, simply verify the handshake key for your contacts, and you can be sure there is no man in the middle attack. Rotate phone+sim every 2 months, while keeping the same "outside" number, say, a landline you control.

There are attacks against this too, but they are very noisy (modify all Signal binaries delivered to a certain area) or typically exceed the technical capabilities of run-of-the-mill agencies (exploit an OS zero day).
> If I'm going to have a command line on my phone, I want a keyboard.

https://pineguild.com/pinephone-keyboard-first-impression-is...

Also, you can connect via ssh and use your computer's keyboard to manage the phone. Or buy a Bluetooth keyboard.
I would say "just use python!" but python, in my experience, has been difficult to keep running on an environment.
Bash scripts have thier place, but one must be weary of accidentally writing an unintelligible script.
> Do you all not not feel that the browser is ya know the user's agent?

Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't, depends on what the browser developers want.

That said, there is something dubious with how ad blockers take an author's written content, "liberate" it from the ads that pay the author's bills, and make it available for free.

I sense Brave is trying to solve that problem, but everything I've read about it seems weird.

(Separately I see nothing dubious about tracking protection. I wish tracking were less inseparable from the advertising; I'm perfectly willing to see ads as long as I'm not being shadow profiled).
This still happens frequently. Even before the lawsuit against Blizzard, their WoW forums would basically have daily posts from people who felt the need to cry about things they didn't like about the game and tell everyone they're quitting.
Raw data could be a good option. A PDF, PPT, or screensaver option would be cool too!

Is this a free service, taking donations or do you plan on charging at some point?
Sounds better than -the dead- Anbox
Inherently? No, just under capitalism.
The article is light on criticism about Apple. Usually what happens to these people is they go out all guns blazing, spend a lot of time, figure how to do stuff the hard way, feel temporarily in control and then face death by a thousand cuts or decreased productivity. It is the case with 90% of the users. For most people, computer is a means to an end, which Apple understands spectacularly well. It gives you 5-star hotel like experience with its products. Is everything perfect? No. Does it make mistakes? Yes. There is no progress without mistakes, unless you allow many many years for ideation. Apple strikes this balance spectacularly well, they are mostly at the forefront of tech, meanwhile giving users a fantastic experience. It is Ritz Carlton of computers, you stay there, do your business, expect mostly everything to work like a well oiled machine, and you go home without sweat after finishing your work. To write 3 or 4 subjective opinions about Apple and dismissing it tells more about the author than Apple IMO.
> But why did you single out the Chinese?

For my experience working with Chinese and other peoples' reports of the same?

I have worked for a company that has outsourced production to a Chinese company. They would try new trick every other month. Replacing parts for cheaper substitutes, skipping process steps, using counterfeit components. You point it out, they fix it, then they do the same when you are not looking at their hands.

Every time they are being polite about it, but you know, this happening almost every shipment is not an accident.

And even when you come with a solid proof they bend backwards to not admit they did it.

Read up on some other horror stories of outsourcing production to China.

Successfully outsourcing to China usually requires a sizable fleet of lawyers, constant presence at the production facility and inspecting every shipment for adherence to the contract.

Again, don't you understand the reason for why you buy Chinese from Chinese company and it immediately falls apart? Or tries to kill you? The Chinese companies that try to make quality products are a small minority. They do exist, my Andonstar soldering microscope and Rigol osciloscope is a proof of it, but they are an exception.
Just like the first Go playing programs. Just you wait until it is trained by "self-play" against a compiler.
Can Quora still be described as locus for intelligence discussion? A few years ago it'd be the place to go for in-depth yet concise explanations from experts in all different kinds of fields, and for some very interesting perspectives on different subjects.

Lately I've visisted Quora only to find a series of inane replies and silly questions dominating the website.
> The more information you have the better a position you'll be in - always.

I agree with this 90%. More information is very useful most of the time, as long as it is high quality.

However, given that we humans do not have infinite processing power or infinite emotional capacity, there are obviously limits to the amount of information we want to have at any point in time. And these limits will change depending on the situation and our own internal state.
So I think where this idea runs into problems is assuming that people actually want or need a Dyson swarm.

The sun puts out 3.846×10^26W. Let's assume a Dyson swarm manages 10% capture efficiency, and a future population of 100 billion. That would result in every person having access to 384TW, or about 25 times Earth's total power consumption.

Clearly, that's far too much power for any reasonable use-case, so at that point you're talking about either a far higher population (quadrillions) or far smaller collection area. Earth's population seems to be destined to cap out at about 9bn, and the trend away from population growth is most pronounced in highly developed energy-hungry countries. So _we're_ probably never going to need a Dyson swarm, anyway...
This is not remotely true.
“Zero deaths” should have set off your alarm bells. That’s way too neat of a number for the real world; you only get that kind of result with small sample sizes or fraud.

Even the vaccines, which are very effective, do not have a 0% death rate from infection.
I haven't had a chance to use Jetpack Compose yet but this roughly tracks with my experience. Needing to hunt down third-party libs for everything slows development down considerably and makes for complications down the road when those libraries inevitably stop being supported.
Remain insecure in your security or else be completely unsecured.
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Depends on how it's put into production, but you can deploy a model as a RESTful API that has a defined interface and a defined output. What it does underneath is less important to you I guess. So for all intents and purposes, yes, a model in production is something you feed a predefined set of data points and it gives you a predefined format of output.
> It would look at the Window Title and find the available passwords that matched.

Ew that sounds awful for security and ripe for phishing. Nothing stops a site from setting the title to whatever they want, at least with a browser extension it only shows credentials when the domain matches, giving you a chance to second-guess it.
No one is forced to work with apple. I've been developing software for 15 years and never once touched xcode or iOS. Working with apple is a choice you make.
> Teams lose valuable players all the time

If they were that valuable, they should've paid them accordingly. Compensation is the most direct marker of "value". If you're valued more, you get paid more.

> often to everyone's detriment

Presumably not the acquiring team's.

> See US women's soccer last year

They played 1 game in 2020, which they won. This year, their W-D-L record reads 15-3-2, which is pretty damn good.[1] Their contract negotiations might have been fractious, but they still performed on the field.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_women%27s_nation...
Swift hasn't changed much in the last 2.5 years, and was stable for the year before that, so it really shouldn't be an issue any more.
I have a rather complex application that is a mix of C++, ObjC and Swift. I humbly consider myself an expert in all three languages and worked on AppKit while employed at Apple. Perhaps Swift is slightly more accessible when you begin development. If you aren't familiar with ObjC syntax, Swift my look more familiar at first, but syntax quickly becomes familiar.

When you mention more sophisticated solutions using Swift, I am not sure what capabilities Obj-C lacks that would hamper it. Are you referring to the functional parts of the Swift language? Combine?