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> example of the benefits of free market economy

Healthcare is rarely a good example of the free market. Medical decisions aren’t made by comparing costs between providers. And if you’re in rural America, you’re lucky if you have any provider. Price transparency would be nice, but maybe not as helpful as you’d like. Let’s say you’re in the middle of a rural area and the ER says you need stitches — but they cost $6000. What are you going to do about it? Are you really in a position to negotiate? Your choices might just be 1) get the treatment, or 2) go without.

Many things in rural areas cost more than they should. Usually on this forum we talk about the high cost of internet access and the lack of options, but medical is very similar in that regard. Services are hard to find, providers are covering a very large geographic area, and many costs are higher.

It’s not a good example of how a well functioning free market would work.
Before clicking the buy button just check if the frequencies match your country and cellular provider by using a couple of sites [1], [2]

[1] https://willmyphonework.net/
[2] https://www.frequencycheck.com/
I had a tetanus shot 2 years ago and it was not anywhere close to $500. Not even sure if I paid $50. My flu shot was free last month.
And yet ironically, in the US at least, there’s a decent chance that plumber actually makes more than a physician.
God doesn't exist, that doesn't prevent him of being.

The quest for freedom is, of course, an idealistic one. The important thing is that, in their fight to promote freedom, they meet obstacles. Those friction points reveal the lack of freedom. And so, although they don't reach freedom, they actually show that freedom is limited.

IOW, refusing the statu quo is one of the way to change it.

You should look at history and look at how much freedom you have, how much protection you have, etc. and then ask yourself : where does it come from ?
Do product managers become worthless at companies where coders understand algorithms? Or what is your point?
> Really any healthcare procedure that is not typically covered by insurance has seen costs go down over time.

Health "insurance" companies are incentivized to raise the cost of care. Why? Their profits are capped to a percentage of the cost of care. The only way for them to make more money is to have more revenue -- which they do by increasing the cost of care!
When I got my tonsils removed my options were the $75k surgery at the private hospital, or waiting 3 months at the public hospital. I actually stopped consulting and took a job so that I could get insurance, and had the surgery two weeks later.

A few years back I broke my wrist while bicycling across England. I was patched up and casted a few hours later, I think the bill was about $200, as a foreign tourist. It wasn't even enough to cover my travel insurance deductible. This would have cost me about $5k in the USA.

I agree that the free market works fine, for those who run the market.
From the article:

Has this happened to anyone else, or was this user error of some sort? If this is real, can some reporter write about it?

(Not that “user error” is a good justification. Any system where making a simple mistake means that you’ve forever lost your privacy isn’t a good one. We see this same situation with sharing contact lists with apps on smartphones. Apps will repeatedly ask, and only need you to accidentally click “okay” once.)

EDITED TO ADD: It’s actually worse than I thought. Edge urges users to store passwords, ID numbers, and even passport numbers, all of which get uploaded to Microsoft by default when synch is enabled.

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But Microsoft at their build conference said they are a woke corporation:

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1456344147103653889

Or maybe the performative art of being a woke altruistic corporation is the subterfuge for being evil.
What framework are you using then? Rails is pretty intuitive and easy...I am biased yes but nothing I saw from Spring or Django made me think they made more sense than Rails. The whole Bean thing is pretty crazy. Django is an over engineerd Rails from what I saw.
I would never trust a cop enough to hand over my phone voluntarily.
This is insane. I live in Iceland. I recently fell off my bike, got a bad cut on my forearm and needed stitches and extensive cleaning of the wound. I visited my local clinic where a nurse cleaned the wound and a doctor applied 5 stitches. The whole process took about 90 minutes with wait. For this visit I paid 500 Icelandic Kronas, about $3.75. Afterwards the wound got infected which required another $3.75 visit and antibiotics treatment costing about 10.000 ISK,rougly $75.
You always need more unions...not less. This is starting to make sense.
>> That's highly dependent on a bunch of stuff that you can not choose at birth.

> Meaning, which country you are born in? Yes, of course; that's why I specified which country I was talking about.

Yeah, because there are absolutely no differences between people at birth within a country.
Are games with virtual assets bubbles? The whole NFT space might be, but it's still value creation analog to games with virtual assets. Last 15 years we've gone from MMOs with lots of game and in some of them you could buy land plots, and of course shiny armor. To less game with casual mobile games and loot boxes, to now no game with social media flexing and NFTs.
It is a bit more complex. Climbing means falling. The 'ratchet' needs to work under shock loads. And wet/ice ropes radically change the friction numbers. There is a reason why climbers, experienced ones, know and use a great many different tricks for accending and decending ropes. A "big wall" climber can make a belay device out of almost anything, or even nothing.
Sure the farmer can have an opinion, but I’m not sure how

> who was charged $6,589.77 for 6 stitches

is relevant when OP was talking about procedures NOT covered by insurance.
A colleagues son was in a motorcycle accident, and needed some emergency surgery to fix his leg. He was talking about how he was really dreading the hospital bill. I got to go through the joy of explaining to him that because we're in Australia, it's free.

The American healthcare system seems completely nuts from here.
$300k salaries are top tier engineers, not the norm. The vast majority of people regardless of job are making closer to $50k.
'Ladies' is a moody sounding, but good humored remark for fun, to lighten things up.

A Lady is a Karen.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Lady

A Karen is a kind of person who is unhappy when little things don’t go their way.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=A%20Karen

You may find some in this thread.
Just look at my downvoted comments at the end of it.

And sorry, yes, I am aware of the slightly misogynistic undertone.
But that's okay, because I love this particular form of gender whataboutism of the form "I'm not XXX, because some of my best friends are xxx."
It's perfectly fine to call me an asshole in that regard, because some women are explicitely my best friends precisely because I call them ladies for fun.
And otherwise.
The most common security issues at small software companies and how to fix them
"Mutual assistance" I believe is the concept.
Sincerely jealous. The one thing I long for most in my lifetime is enough time off from work so that I can actually train for and hike the pct.
I have been using a Cubot Mini (4") for sometime now (1+ year), and am pretty happy with the experience overall. Feels so good to have a phone that fits in any pocket.

https://cubot.net/Smartphones/king-kong-mini/8
Same thing happened to me with a plumber 12 years ago.

I spent a couple hours on YouTube and now I can solder my own copper pipes, install a new toilet and anything else I need.

Even being a software engineer I couldn’t compete with the hourly rate of a plumber so it makes financial sense for me to do the work myself.
Exorbitant health insurance premiums and healthcare bills was the primary reason our family of 3 (now 4) left the USA (we're all American citizens). It's such a relief knowing that we all have the option to go to the ER without emptying our bank accounts. My tax rate is higher here in Europe, but I'm actually saving significant money compared to the USA, when factoring in healthcare costs.
Good article, steps one level below container managers like Docker or k8s. Obviously not the indepth of how Linux kernel manages container processes but a good write-up.
While that's a real problem in general, I would think that for this particular group of people it might be less of an issue.

We are well paid, and as such majority of HN'ers should qualify for premier banking. One of the advantages in that is that you get access to quality in-house customer service, and may be able to call them directly from the banking app. (A really nice feature.) They tend to have good availability too. The plural of anecdote is not data, but I've never had to wait for longer than five minutes when I do have a problem that requires CS's involvement.
It looks that way because people blindly followed samsung to make phones bigger and bigger. It happened because it's the easiest way to differentiate yourself from the competition in hardware that's mostly a solved and commoditized product.

Lots of people like me are dreaming for the day I can get a new nexus 5 and be able to type on the keyboard with one hand again.
Correct, but to get access to the "exclusive guilds" on Discord you need to verify your NFT for respective guild.
In Switzerland the insurance system has various deductibles you can choose from per year, and then a monthly premium that varies per deductible. If you can't afford to pay this for genuine reasons, then the cantons will step in as part of the social insurance system. Once you have paid out of your deductible, insurance covers 90% up to a certain value and then everything.

Costs for treatments are standardized and agreed on nationally: you can go and look them up. Your bill has codes on it that match this list. It is called TARMED: https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/fr/home/versicherungen/krankenv...

Insurers under the LAMal system are restricted in what they charge for premiums too, and must negotiate this with the confederation.

There's still a lot of scope for private companies to make money here. LAMal covers what are deemed essential treatments, which is most things you need a doctor for. If you want 'alternative' medicine there are insurers you can pay more money to for that. Likewise, if when you go to hospital you want a guaranteed private room every time, then you can pay extra for that. And so on.

Even on the basic system, you have a choice between telephone doctor for all appointments except emergencies, family doctor for the same or the unrestricted system where you can ring up a specialist yourself without referral. Needless to say, the one where you ring the insurer first is cheaper, followed by the family doctor (similar to the UK: referrals are controlled via your GP).

I don't see any poor doctors here, or poor insurers either (insurance, behind banking, is a massive business here). So it is entirely possible to design a system that includes a large amount of private insurance that also doesn't randomly try to bankrupt people for getting stitches.
To be fair, the appeal of Nix (and Guix) to me is that it's very easy to create binary packages of applications I use. Coming from Fedora, it takes minutes to create new packages compared to hours with RPM.
Try left and right arrow keys
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Revealed: The SECRET menus of a Vegas slot machine
If you had very limited space and no mobility issues there's a very cheap solution that has existed probably for millennia.
That's a great deal for the programmers. Not so much everyone else. Median household income for 2021* in the United States is $80k; which is a far cry from $300k.

Even the $300k doesn't go as far as you'd think given the costs of housing in the areas that pay that kind of salary.

*https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il/il21/Medians2021....
So they took the easy road to get into medical or law school.

What about the humanities majors that went straight into the workplace?
right arrow key works on desktop. Didn't try left arrow.
Perhaps, but in these specific cases I was billed by offices owned by individual doctors.
I want whatever you’re smoking!
I'm fairly certain the indicator they cite there is Current expenditure on health
by general government and compulsory schemes, i.e. includes the public health insurances, but it appears it's not in the current WHO database anymore and thus can't 100% verify that.
Cool project! I couldn't find any benchmark. How does it compare to protobuf/json/... performance wise?
The uncertainty comes from not knowing exactly what services will be performed, who will be performing them, and how much the insurance company will cover (which has a ton of variables, many of which aren't known until everything is settled).

In my opinion, getting away from the fee for service model is one of the routes we ought to be taking to address healthcare spending in the US (if you're charging per service, you're incentivized to perform as many services as possible in a given encounter).
I wrote down all I learned here: https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/gnu-guile-gnu-guix-pack... (or use org-mode file in same repo)

I've not yet had the energy or patience to learn the TexInfo format, which is a standard for GNU projects. But if anyone wants to put what I have in the Guix docs, even as merely an example or tutorial, I wont mind.
I have this phone, I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. The main issue I had is the battery doesn’t last more then a few hours with very light use.
I'm leaning towards 30+.
I can have 3-4 drinks, still doesn't come close to YouTube's hit to productivity.
> It just sounds completely broken over there and I'm not sure I will manage to wrap my head around it.

Agreed. But that's the way it is, and it's important to understand why it's this way.

When Europe and Australia adopted national healthcare systems, the industry was ~3-5% of GDP. So at that point it wasn't politically strong enough to resist either nationalization or strict controls.

Then healthcare mushroomed in size, being ~10% of GDP in Europe and 20% of GDP in the U.S.

So now, when you try to do the politics that the europeans did, it doesn't work. The industry is too powerful. Merely blaming the US for not doing what Europe did misses this essential point.

There are millions of nurses, lab techs, administrators, and doctors, and they have money and they vote. So the left keeps looking for some villain -- greedy insurance executives, Wall Street, Evil Billionaires, etc. And basically refuses to understand that these are not the ones standing in the way of reform. It's the 13% of our labor force that earns 20% of national income, and these are not the same easy targets that the left can attack, because they are a large portion of the US middle class, and are core Democratic constituencies.

That's why healthcare reform in the U.S. always focuses on having the government pay some of the costs charged to consumers rather then reducing the costs of providing healthcare. E.g. more subsidies for this bloated industry, which only results in costs rising even more, and then calls for even more subsidies when people can't afford to pay the costs. When what we should do is fire 50% of the staff and cut the pay of those that remain by another 50%. That's the only way to get affordable healthcare.

And you have a similar problem with higher ed.
You know what meets in the middle? Standardized tests.
> of the impression that software engineers in Europe are largely unionized

That somewhat varies by country (i.e. a bunch of Swedish developers I know are, just because it's so common there for entire companies to have blanket union contracts for everyone), but in general: no.
Yep, and the same shits go around telling everyone to get an ambulance instead of Uber to go to the hospital and go to the ER instead of urgent care for certain symptoms. Fix your fucking system first.

Even I avoid the ER because of costs.
Or...you are working on way smaller Elixir projects. Lets see how fun it is to inherit a million line old Elixir project 7 years from now. Or a million line codebase split into 50 services. I am sure you'll be productive as hell cos Elixir!
Except trading of Gravatars, right?
I live in the US and my employer pays for my very excellent health insurance.

For my family of 4 the most I will pay in any one year is $750.

About 1/3 of people in the US have excellent healthcare and benefits. You don’t often hear from us.
Yeah, this is why politicians have themselves shot and wounded. Eases reelection.
Yeah but there's a global pandemic right now and India isn't exactly doing well...
Happened to me about a week ago. When I opened the browser, a notification popped up telling me "Your bookmarks are now being synced". There was an option to turn this off, which I did, but I have to assume that the bookmarks were already sent off to Microsoft.

There's nothing remarkable in my bookmarks. I've never really found it to be a useful tool beyond a way of marking things I want to check out again soon. I don't use it for day to day links. I do recall going through this with Chrome and Firefox in the past when they pushed syncing as a huge wonderful benefit for me and I had no interest at all. I'm sure some people have bookmarks as part of their personal workflow and are grateful to have this syncing ability for multiple devices. That's great for them but all vendors need a very strick opt-in policy, not a "we're so sure you're going to love this that we turned it on for you" scheme.
This is insanely great (as mentioned on the page demo via "ssh -C vtm@netxs.online")
I've heard positive reviews of Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635536/never-pay-th.... I've only read as far as the free preview allows, but it looks good.

It teaches the system and how to fight back by a Propublica investigative journalist who had to fight the system himself.
Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record
Eso solo aplica si tienes Isapre, seguro, etc etc

Los gringos están mal pero en chile tampoco estamos bien bien
The matias quiet click arent really meant to be very silent. I think it alludes to the tactility of their clicky switch minus the click. Their quiet linears are dampened light linear switches, and sound less than most rubber domes.

Matias boards are just no-nonsense boards for typists. I dont like fiddling with my keyboard. No keycaps. No lubing. No swapping switches. I have done that. It is a distraction for me. I like typing on my matias board. When that dies I will get another one or maybe just use my old no-brand dome-with-slider keyboard (probably BTC) that I have used since 1994.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 entered a holding pattern for 22 minutes
Nice project.
> Except the real value is in the painting. If it were destroyed, then the certificate would be worthless.

Not true. Banksy sold a painting for $1.4 million and it shredded itself right after the auction ended. Three years later the shredded remains (presumably with the certificate of authenticity) sold for $25.4 million[1]. So, no, the value is not in an intact painting.

Forgers can artificially age paintings. It's amazing the lengths they go to. Maybe something like Starry Night has been analyzed enough that it could be verified, but other works are not. It's not really known how many works of art on the market are forgeries.

> No one would want to buy the certificate from you but let you keep the painting in your vaults

Actually people do this all the time. They pay millions upon millions of dollars for a work of art and it gets loaned to a museum and possibly sent all over the world. They still own it though. There's also freeports[2] around the world with warehouses full of art. You can buy an artwork and it never moves from the warehouse, just the record of who owns it changes.

[1] https://nypost.com/2021/10/14/shredded-banksy-artwork-could-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_economic_zone
That's a good question to put in the discussion tab on their GitHub repo, that way others that are interested can find it too :)
It is a religion at this point.

Political views have parties and parties have supporters. FSF is more like a cult that has followers.

How else do you explain their rejection to include Debian as a fully free distro?
I'm not sure battery life is going to be worse just because it has a smaller battery. At a constant DPI, the CPU/GPU doesn't have as much work to do to paint with a smaller screen, not to mention the screen itself consuming less power. Even if the battery life were worse, I'd want a smaller phone.

I'm still using a Z3C with LineageOS. At some point it will kick the bucket. I barely use it save for phone calls, and minor conveniences (e.g. vaccination proof, tickets and such). Part of me thinks I should just bite the bullet, accept a larger screen, get a PinePhone, and find a way to start contributing. At least I'd get more software support 1 year out than from the Android manufacturers ;).
This is probably too late a response to ever be read, but with regard to the latter point, Kripke did not have to invent the 'quus' operation , as there are actual examples to be found, for example in modular versus conventional arithmetic, real-valued versus complex-valued functions, etc. These cases do not create any unavoidable problems; we simply disambiguate where necessary. It is a non-issue unless your philosophical intuition depends on the semantics of words being something more fundamental than a convention among the users of a language.

As for your first claim, it appears to be begging the question, predefining, without justification, 'real' computation as being something that only humans can do, while machines can only simulate so doing.
I don’t understand your maths here: how is generating 4billion of them is any different from generating 3 billion except a slight raise in the probability measure?
The dominance of JSON shows that Crockford made some good decisions, even though we may not agree with them on any given day.
The hospital is reimbursed on a fee for service basis. Most (all?) countries use a fee for service model, but most countries also don't have for-profit payers that are incentivized to drive up the cost of care.
> I'll go ahead and add that PowerPC is one of the other non-ARM platforms supported. Both on box64 and box86, although ppcle is still a mess of a target triplet.

Does that include big endian support?
This article reminded me of the Malcolm X quote on corporate media

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
Prices in medical care like anything else is a function of the maximum amount of money that can be extracted.

With the socialized Medicare/Medicaid already in place, hospitals charge as much as they can knowing the government has deep pockets, will pay, and will give minimal resistance.

Those high prices are then charged to insurance companies as well through closed door, complex negotiations on a case by case basis - super inefficient and expensive.

Also without consumers in the loop even caring what their insurance company is paying, and no price transparency in general, there is no pressure to decrease prices, improve quality or compete in general which are the cornerstones of free market economics.

Luckily price transparency laws were passed last year and are still working their way through the system so hopefully people will start to get a taste of what’s possible soon and decide to take those laws even further.
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Crypto Wealth Will Alter American Politics