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> More recently, private equity firms have accelerated this process, invariably with harmful impacts on access to affordable care, its quality, and profiteering, with little accountability

Predictable.

I am hardcore free market fundamentalist, but profit motive should not come anywhere near healthcare.

The healthcare market has the unique characteristic of having inelastic consumer demand - which is to say that you do not have much time or optionality to "shop around" for lower prices when you appendix is about explode. Instead, you call 911 and hope that the anesthesioligist on the surgical staff takes the same insurance as the ambulance.

So market participants on the supply side (hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, ambulance providers, medical device manufacturers, etc) have the ability to manipulate the supply side economics, where prices can be driven upwards in favor of the supply side participants, with little change from the demand side [1]. Read that to mean - healthcare costs are too high in America.

In aggregate, the US has the highest healthcare costs and nowhere near the best healthcare outcomes - this is why.

Wait, it gets worse. How Americans run the healthcare market is, in a way, a microcosm of American culture - short term profits, greed, self-interest above the long term common good of the community. IMO, the problems of healthcare are demonstration of American cultural values, and it permeates everywhere:

* corporations buying back stock over capital expenditures

* NIMBY-ism

* Fed policy keeping asset prices above fair market value.

* etc

Government intervention in healthcare won't fix healthcare. Instead, it will give you Obamacare. Fix the cultural values, and the healthcare problem (along with other problems) will fix themselves.

[1] There is a metric fuck-ton of data that supports this, OP's linked study is one.
What, that is useful in todays society today, would you hand down to somebody 10-20 years later though?
If using '@' to prefix builtins[0] is the biggest complaint[1] people have about Zig, then Zig must doing a pretty good job.

[0] or really any statement at all about aesthetics

[1] I know for a fact pjmlp will also complain about lack of built-in gc or ref-count pointer safety.
Expect to be wrong when speaking on other people's behalf against their interests.

If you however, do something about it, that counts for something. Not just asking others to do your job for you, without even asking them.
If you're not arguing everyone should use IPhones, why bring up poorer folk? Or why bring up a luxury brand?
As an interesting aside to carbon taxes and such (which appear to be working to a degree):

Was shopping for ETFs a while back and came across the WealthSimple SRI portfolio which is based on their funds. They use a normal ESG index but it also de-lists any companies in the top 25% of emissions for their category.

This would seem to help avoid some collusion and complacency in industries like software that are just at a natural advantage in absolute terms compared with, say, coal plants.

Of course, it's a retail investor and consumer driven thing which leaves too much on the table for some, but I think there's something to the idea of getting companies to compete on the rate of improvement relative to each industry, in addition to internalizing some of the costs through taxes.
50% effective against transmission, severe illness, or both?
>Eventually I wrote a high-durability key-value store on top of our source control system and told them they could give me my database or I'd be deploying to prod.

That's diabolical. I knew Google should never have dropped the "do not be evil" thing
The Monroe Doctrine doesn't count?

What do they teach at MIT ?
They understand that GDP almost exactly matches energy production and utilization, and the cheaper and cleaner you can make that, the better for your economy and industrial power.
Saw an ad that you can now finance a Dominoes pizza over 6 weeks. Financial literacy is not high in this country (America)
Shitty standups happen because 1) team members do not believe in their core that their work is valued; 2) in such an environment, meaningless, destructive competition on dimensions other than the teams ability to deliver and maintain code that does the stuff the business wants takes hold; 3) in such an environment, team members become hesitant to actually share that they are blocked by something (in case that counts as point against them come promotion/comp time) etc

In that environment, the individually rational strategy is not to reveal much, look busy, don't stick out much etc.

So, people end up listening to the newly minted scrum "master" pontificate on value or the grooming habits of their pet.

In a healthy environment, standups are developer-to-developer conversations. Dev A says "I am having a problem solving X" or Dev B says "I found out that 3rd party service API we are relying on was suddenly phased out, we need to rethink the entire approach", and people can figure out a quick response. Sometimes the solution is pairing, sometimes it's a change in other plans.

Public information (who is working on which ticket, which PRs are open etc) do not need to be repeated. Standup is not a place to list accomplishments: Of course, if a particularly thorny problem has been solved, that calls for celebration, but 30 seconds is more than enough if nothing unexpected happened since the last time.

I do prefer in person synchronous standups so that an impromptu discussion of how to handle anything unexpected can happen with everyone's input.
1. I have found that 90% of the time the discussion on HN is valuable even if I do not read the linked article. Often this is the case even if the majority of commentators do not read the linked article.

There are enough HN commentators who have subscriptions to for-pay sites such as the NYT, the WSJ, the Economist, etc., so that someone usually quotes the main points of the article in their to provide context for their comment here.

And there are enough smart and knowledgable commentators on HN that the comment thread often goes off on related matters that were not even in the article.

2. In the case of most journal articles like the one you give as an example, they are usually available for free. They just aren't free on the web. You might have to visit a library that either gets the printed journal or has something like a JSTOR subscription.

3. I'd rather be well informed even if I have to spend a little money to be so than be ignorant for free. If I see that some particular paywalled source gets regularly submitted to HN, those submissions regularly generate interesting and useful discussion, and from the comments of the people in that discussion who have access to the article I can see that it was a high quality article, that provides me with valuable information as to what paywall sources might be worth paying for.
Is it 100% guaranteee the $550 million won't be a bailout of some sorts?
You got it before I could edit :)

But this is very much my point: we were sold a benefit-risk ratio that assumed the vaccines effectively curb transmission.
Languages are taken way too seriously, and there are way too many bad languages out there that try to dictate the shape of your solutions in a certain way. A good language shouldn't do that in my opinion, except for boring and "solved" problems. The problem with languages is (apart from LISP maybe) that you can't abstract over their syntax - so while languages should give you useful building blocks to implement a solution, they should stay out of your way as much as possible.

To me, C is the easiest way to interface with the platforms that I develop for. It's also totally sufficient to implement the ideas that I'm working on - figuring out the data layout, the flow of code and data... It offers a concise syntax for the frequent operations - load / store, arithmetic, dereferences, and function calls. Most languages are already disqualified by not offering or discouraging nesting of data types a.k.a value types, making it way too complicated to simply copy data "anonymously", using memcpy() or similar.

Think about that - the language that people can't stop bitching about because it doesn't offer "generics" is actually the one that allows you to read and write data generically without a tremendous amount of complexity and/or slowness.

That's why my personal route is to learn ways to not need the type based polymorphism offered by more complicated languages, and to get along with just straight code that can push _any_ data payload (type) to the next endpoint - without requiring the multiplication of junk in the type system and/or in the compiled binary.

Macros aren't used that much but they would be missed a lot if they weren't there to help in some cases where we need to hack an abstraction over (lexical) syntax instead of data. I said above that you can't abstract over languages' syntax, and C macros don't really do that... They're a hack, and sometimes tremendously useful.
Good idea. I just set that up. I did do some manual googling around but could not find anything.
I wish more corrections were taken this way. Kudos.
I just bought a '98 M Roadster, beautiful vehicle, happy to have it despite it being 23 years old
Can't get any better than this! Nightfall is the solution!
>>my view is the correct view and the only view which will have any permenence on this planet

And that's a fantastic view to keep when trying to discuss anything, really keeping that mind open eh? Good luck with your project.

>> I don't think you have anything of value to protect with license.

You are wrong(hey, two can play this game)

>> You can't sue a person for creating software,

Sure, but that's not what I said, so you're making a point just for its own sake.

Also I kinda hoped you'd answer my question if you think any licences/copyright/legality don't matter on your permacomputer. But then you haven't even answered my other comment, so meh, maybe I expected too much.
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> Ml based systems will always make errors

Sure, but error should be randomly distributed. This is stats 101. Any decent ML practitioner will check for this before releasing a model.
Agreed. However, once we've vaccinated all the at-risk populations, isn't the benefit of vaccinating everyone else marginal?
"quantum fear, uncertainty and doubt".
So in that case the mRNA is more like printer ink than like a blueprint? Or both at the same time? Is it possible for a cell to still produce the protein when it runs out of mRNA?
"Our paper, which had a global impact within 24 hours of publication, provides important support for the following crucial public health actions: vaccinate the unvaccinated ASAP; give boosters to all those who are eligible ASAP; maintain social and public health measures despite vaccination.

Nowhere in this article are anti-viral treatments mentioned. While part of the arsenal may be vaccination, boosters and social distancing, why ignore the potential of anti-virals?[1][2] Surely they are an important part of the picture.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58764440

[2] https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/uk-government...
It depends on the team. 99% of the time stand ups are there to help your manager/scrum master/team lead get a read on whether there is a problem that somebody on the team is trying to avoid mentioning.

One of the biggest reasons to time-cap it is that overall...it really isn't a good use of time.

On the other hand people are far too over the top acting as if it's the most awful thing they've ever had to deal with (it's 15 minutes and in most cases the only meeting you're going to have that day). People who can't tolerate a 15 minute chat with their team tend to have a lot of issue working well with others in my experience. The "I can't spare 15 minutes" mindset tends to live with people firmly in the "all about me" world.

It can be hard to get out of the bubble of the work that you are doing.

EDIT: I totally get bad scheduling that interrupts flow time. IMO either beginning of the day, end of the day or just before lunch is the ideal time to do it for that reason. Time zones also complicate it.

People need to emphasize that the problem is the bad scheduling of the time slot rather than the 15 minutes itself. Also, it's a good idea to make skipping it periodically totally acceptable.
Atmospheric air isn’t just oxygen
Lab safely replicates weightloss benefit of plant linked to harmful side effects
Same, I would invest in Tailscale if I could.
To some extent, health insurers, the health care corporations which make the payments, are non-profit, but the other half is still for profit.

A step in the right direction would be to require all business in that area, to be non-profit, to lessen the shock of just taking away the industry altogether and federalizing it.
"The host systems for our Cloud instances all have a redundant 10 Gbits connection. This connection is shared by all instances on the host. We do not offer bandwidth guarantees for our Cloud servers, but you can expect about 300-500 Mbits."

This sounds pretty underwhelming and probably what's preventing me from migrating infra to Ashburn. Other than that, looks pretty great bang for buck.
> I'm not clear on how "the vaccine does not effectively prevent transmission" translates into "vaccinate everyone and give booster shots at once".

It translates into "vaccinate everyone" because the fact that transmission can't be eliminated means that it's likely that nearly every person will eventually be exposed to live virus, so we'd better hope everyone is vaccinated so the effects of that exposure are lessened.

If it were more effective at reducing spread, vaccinating everyone would be less critical, since we might achieve heard immunity with a smaller vaccinated percentage.
If you want we can start counting examples if that is your point, I can pick another one that doesn't use integer overflow.

What is the solution for use-after-free on Zig today, that isn't just like using Purify?
Destiny?
Anyone else notice these articles accelerating along with inflation. Any day we'll see the media narrative "High inflation is actually a good thing: here's why"
> To be clear, I am encouraging more communication, not less communication. For internally aligned teams, you get more, and better, communication through a system that replaces daily standups with asynchronous collaboration.

Coming from a perspective of managing distributed teams: Asynchronous communication is a decent way to replace synchronous standups if (and only if) everyone involved can respond in a timely manner and is willing to schedule a synchronous discussion when necessary.

The pitfall of asynchronous communication is when team members start trying to force everything to be asynchronous. In many cases, getting on a call with someone or even just taking 10-20 minutes to have a synchronous chat is all it takes, but the team needs to be willing and ready to go synchronous when necessary.

Purely asynchronous environments sound great when you just want to go heads-down and work on something, but the downsides become obvious when people start getting blocked on responses from other people for sometimes days at a time while async emails ping-pong back and forth instead of a 10 minute conversation that could clear everything up.

Of course, the other extreme is also bad: If everything is forced into synchronous conversations over chat or calls then you’ve given license to the team for everyone to disrupt each other all day. There needs to be some guidance about what’s appropriate for communications and interruptions as well as some authority for individuals to push back and delay meetings that interfere too much with their work.
I'm not an expert in this but... If DNA is like a blueprint, mRNA is like an email sent from the architect to the contractor to instruct them to carry out specific work.
Here's the relevant press release:
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2020-01-08/spotifys-head-of-glo...
>What does big Pharma have to do with it?

You should really research Purdue Pharma litigation if you don't know. Making sweeping general statements without even being aware of one of the biggest pharmaceutical settlements in recent history is surprising. In short, Purdue Pharma was bribing doctors to get patients hooked on Oxycontin.

>Your solution is to let people get them more freely.

My solution has more to do with housing than free drugs. Legalized, controlled, distribution would allow hospitals to more accurately keep track of who is dependent on these drugs, and having stable housing is shown to be a requirement for rehab.

Ultimately, when you look at the homeless problem you have 4 choices: you can kill them, imprison them, house them, or leave them alone. Choices (1) and (2) should never be considered in a free society; leaving choice (3) and (4). Choice (3) would mean some kind of socialized housing (a là Vienna), which is obviously a no-go in America so you find that (4) is the best option that you see implemented in America.
I was also advocating that people be able to make money by creating content that people visit.

Perhaps schools can hand out blocks for citizenship, and for things like the Duke of Edinburgh Award, for time volunteering at an animal shelter or senior center.

If you have ideas for how to "solve" the wealth gap, I'm all ears. Until then, I'm kind of stuck in that as a framework for how to solve problems.
> they have to have signs saying you can't take food home

I don't understand how it's possible to misunderstand all-you-can-eat buffets. The words correctly describe the service: you can eat there until you're literally full. There is no "unlimited" anywhere. Those people must be acting in bad faith.

> There's a "reasonable person" standard here

It's perfectly reasonable to assume unlimited really means unlimited and not some industry-specific, lawyer version of the word.

> these sorts of offers have fine print which it behoves you to read

The presence of these hidden "fine prints" is proof of deceptive advertising. This is why marketing cannot be trusted and why consumer protection laws really ought to put an end to these industry practices.

Nobody really reads or understands these terms. It's not like people will hire lawyers to analyze the legalese for them. This is not a deal between equal parties, consumers are severely disadvantaged. Just force them to deliver what they promised. They'll stop promsing soon enough.
And the vaccine _did_ curb transmission of the original variant. Variant Delta came later.
I think some European countries are on the right path: the tax money is not gone, just distribute it equally (as the externalities of emissions hurt everyone in the same way), and the poor will be fine. If only we could roll out such a scheme globally, it would be the just and definite solution for climate change.

Your individual emissions are above the global average? Tough luck. Are they below the global average? Congratulations, your higher purchase price for iphones is more than compensated by the payout everyone worldwide gets every month.
The "about us"[0] page is a bit hidden but explains well the concept.

- [0]: https://www.propublica.org/about/
The justice system is generally a lot less punitive in the UK. He was sentenced two years ago, so he might be released already now.
"The new data center park is powered by 100% wind energy supplied by Vantaan Energia."

https://www.businessfinland.fi/en/whats-new/cases/2018/inves...

I think it's only Finland that they are 100% wind
The Kim Dotcom case proves that some courts will ignore nation borders altogether.
The C4 model is better than the spaghetti most people make whilst trying to fit everything and the kitchen sink into a single model.
wait... you can finance a single pizza?

that seems absurd..
More information and background:
https://news.bitcoin.com/silk-road-2-founder-finally-sentenc...
Ok. You convinced me. Clinton's "basket of deplorables" comment was not transmitted charitably. A charitable reading can be criticized, but yes, she was not calling all Trump supporters deplorable
Yes, I think I understand. Thanks for explaining. Does this mean that the sites won't render if JS is disabled?

I have stopped/started learning React several times, because I always end up preferring go back to simple HTML/CSS pages. Bootstrap Studio is something that works for me because it's has that nice split between pure WYSIWIG view and code editing view.
There's always reactionaries and contrarians, are they just being moderated out of your "bubble"? or have you been trained to ignore anyone who looks as if they might contradict you or your notion of the Hive Mind?

Is this "convergence" an actual emergent effect or carefully planned and laboriously implemented?
Totally unrelated, but a fascinating tidbit from that wikipedia link:

> Venus has a CO2 atmosphere. Because CO2 is about 50% denser than Earth air, ordinary Earth air could be a lifting gas on Venus. This has led to proposals for a human habitat that would float in the atmosphere of Venus at an altitude where both the pressure and the temperature are Earth-like.
This regularly comes up on any kind of tax proposal. You just reimburse some fraction of it to the poor. One super easy way to do that is to replace an existing regressive tax, but there's a thousand different ways.

If any kind of market efficiency pricing change actually hurts the poor, it's because the people passing the law wanted it to, but many wouldn't even if done super simply, because rich people buy more stuff, use more carbon etc.
Paying attention it seems.
>Shitty standups are first the fault of the leader,

There are no bad teams; only bad leaders. -Jocko

Took me a long time to buy in to this but it's 100% true. Sucky standups are the direct result of an ineffective leader - whoever that may be.
This reasoning completely ignores the reality that COVID does not pose a significant risk to most people. Why not vaccinate those who are at risk, on a voluntary basis?

To reiterate: I am not opposed to vaccines, but concerned about the general push towards mandatory vaccination for everyone.
This along with ollydbg and w32dasm brings back memories of the old keygen and patch days. SoftIce blew my mind at the time. Man that was fun!
I saw an article years back about MMO gold farmers, I think in Mexico. They sat in an air-conditioned room, and the wages were decent - they liked the job.

If we can transfer wealth from people who have money but not time, to people somewhere else in the world, who have time but not money, then I'm calling that a good thing.
Unfortunately this. I really like how you have articulated the problem. Disorganized mob. This mob also loves moving from one team to another inside the company once they deem to think they exhaust the resources in the former and once the product is dead. I think it happens sooner or later in enterprise. It sucks.
It's quite ardous and unfun, but the wlroots project does most of the heavy lifting. For beginners it's probably useful to create a toy WM using wlroots[0] and dig deeper from there[1].

[0]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/tree/master...
[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/wikis/Getti...
A lot of the comments here read like folks didn't continue on through the readme to get to the class definitions and code parts. I think this sort of experiment with a different approach is cool.

Personally, I prefer the way Svelte blends HTML/JS/CSS together in a file, because it's a smaller abstraction layer than what Nazca provides, thus making it clearer how things will end up after compilation.
Indeed, want to start another thread?
Current permission is really old, backward-compatible and simple system that works well in most situations.

setfacl exists is supported for years (although I prefer windows file permission logic to be honest)