skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been at a small company (circa y2k) that looked at group insurance, and decided against it specifically because of one employee's pre-existing conditions would have made the plan more expensive. Boss was a little too forthcoming with that information, and sure enough, when the employee moved on, we all got insured. Thankfully, that's illegal now.
I'll double down on this one. Easy, quick read. Pick it up at the local library and you can finish it in the day, or you can find an audio book on YouTube. Keep in mind that Orwell wrote this during WWII, before much of what he describes took place in full effect in the soviet union.

If anyone knows a capitalist equivalent, I'd be very interested.
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Surely then they look at timing, people will click anywhere from, let's say 50% opacity, but bots always wait?
Also think about how providers won't accept lower rates, so your new discount plan will only give you access to bottom of the barrel providers willing to take any patient at any price.
ANNI. The specific video I linked to doesn't involve much live looping, but here is one of her vids that does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgNDY2qKZGo

I'm quite a fan
what report? where?
This is a great idea and lets face it - enterprise subscriptions are where the real money is at.
> But now it is tied to the government, which is way worse...You can't complain to the government.

Elections have consequences. Try un-electing your group plan provider.
> NHS in the UK has 6M folks on waiting lists for things like cataract surgery, knee replacements etc. The wait time is in range of 18 weeks for many and for 300K+ > 52 weeks.

The obvious question here (and I legitimately don't know the answer) is if there are a bunch of people who want knee surgery in the US but can't afford it, and so demand at the offered price is lower.

Fewer people being able to afford a procedure would generally mean less demand and shorter wait times, but its not clear that that's a preferred outcome at a population level.
In which case, if I'm a business, why am I in California again? Why pay their taxes? Time to move out (if that's true).
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I suppose since my name is green, and I said I'm shilling, and linked to Youtube, someone assumed it was some autospam promotion bot thing.
EU gives Poland loads of money every year. Just stop the money faucet.
> Exactly - no doctor who has his crap together is going to accept the government's insurance.

Isn't the whole point of a single payer system putting and end to this madness? You no longer need to worry about a doctor accepting your insurance, because there's only one insurance, and everybody accepts it. (You can still buy additional insurances if you're worried about a medical disaster, but that's a separate concern.)
This is so cool, I hope the author keeps up with it!
The Congolese need to pony up if they want a nice society!
They spent eight years iterating their technology. The idea that they had nothing but already-failed candidates at the start of the pandemic is simply false.

Their 10-K from the end of 2019: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682852/000168285220...

> We have a diverse pipeline of 24 development candidates, 12 of which are currently in clinical trials, and many of which have the potential to be first-in-class or best-in-class medicines.

All of this is a bit academic, anyways. We've plenty of evidence the Moderna vaccine works. You can quibble over the exact rate of rare side effects a little, but it's abundantly clear it's good at reducing deaths and severe disease in the vaccinated population.
> It’s just a popular phrase.

Yes. And, as the G(GG...?)P said, a stupid one.
US citizens are legally entitled to this information.
I'm not in California , but am wanting to build several ADUs (in the Seattle area) if that is a service you are providing consulting for.
That's 1.5M for a brand new house on the half-lot, versus 1.3M for the existing 60 year-old house on the original lot. Since the new house cost 700K, then in theory the lot next door could sell for 1.6M if you're assuming that you can split it via SB9, build two 700K houses, and sell them for 1.5M each (one of them after waiting 3 years for SB9 requirements).
If the goal is to create a successful product, then no.

If the goal is to get another round of funding from, or bought by someone with tons of cash but lazy in the diligence department -- then it can definitely "work".
Love NextDNS as well - my only gripe with it is that I cant have separate filters and lists for different sets of devices. Would love to have my family on some more basic security and privacy stuff while keeping the advanced and higher false positive based stuff for my devices.
I believe Robotbeats calculations are lacking if the intent is to demonstrate how much fossil fuel energy is embodied in one unit (joules, calories, etc) of food:

-hydrogen is not a primary energy, no accounting for energy needed to produce 1kg of H2 gas
-producing ammonia from hydrogen consumes energy
-producing corn from ammonia requires more embodied energy than sunlight - other fertilizers, *cides, fuel and construction industrial sized agricultural machinery.

Only measuring the chemical energy in quantity of H2 vs the dietary calories in associated corn produced is incomplete model of fossil fuels required in agricultural production.

If you are saying the urea price spike has occured in a complete isolation, like temporary specific failure of urea manufacturing , maybe its not a problem. If its one of the first noticable effects of an overall fossil fuel shortage, its going to have huge feedback effects invalidating economic models such as slowing renewable growth, making the whole economy less productive.
...As someone from Vancouver (90 minutes from the Whistler ski resort), I didn't make the connection until JUST NOW.
Not a conventional one, but it checks the boxes of recording audio on multiple tracks and the ability to edit on a linear timeline (in song mode), plus the ability to host plugins. Like Ableton Live, it's both a DAW and an improvisation/performance environment.

One common DAW feature it lacks (that many, including Ableton, also lacked in the early days) is MIDI sequencing, but it's on their roadmap.
> Having income tax based on your weight or smoking status is probably a non-starter

Australia has very high taxes on cigarettes mainly because they want to keep their (universal) healthcare costs down. They could do the same thing to sugary snacks as well, even the conservatives would get onboard if it was to save money on healthcare expenditures.
Did I miss something or did this article never define what it means by:

>We Should Fund Students

The article bags on public school systems, but I don't see any alternatives being suggested. Overall this looks to be a propaganda article by a libertarian think tank that is all fluff but no substance.
Brilliant. I've been obsessed with death since a close family member had a heart attack (and lived). In your twenties, with any luck, you will not get acquainted as intimately with loss as you will later in life. But when you do, everything else seems immaterial in the face of, as John Mellencamp put it, us standing "on this single print of time". It gives you a panic, an anxiety, about climbing the wrong ladder, about not having enough time for climbing multiple ladders, but most of all, about time running out for your parents and grandparents. This article helps me realise that perhaps with enough brute force, one may yet come to accept finiteness.
yes, that's the trivial part, which is obviously not what was being insinuated.
And before ACA, the prospective employee would normally have to show evidence of continuous creditable coverage before being added to the new employer group plan. This is how pre-existing conditions were handled - if you had always had coverage, OK, but if you went uninsured for a while and then tried to re-join a group, tough luck.
Some examples of common cultural (that is, completely avoidable) antipatterns:

- LISP dialect devs insisting on using incredibly obscure technical abbreviations for important names, like car/cadr/cdr instead of first/second/rest or something else human readable.

- POSIX-ish shell standardizers and builders making it really difficult to deal with anything but ASCII alphanumeric filenames. Saying "You shouldn't put special characters in filenames!" isn't helpful if I'm trying to make a script to support other people's filenames.

- C-style language makers' insistence on terminating statements with semicolon, so that a tiny fraction of multi-line statements can be shortened to one line.

- Python devs treating time-zone-less datetimes as not an atrocity, for example in utcnow.

- Nix, well, being generally incredibly hard to read and learn, even after about 20 other languages. I hope somebody goes ham on that language and creates a thoroughly backwards incompatible implementation of the fantastic ideas behind it.

I guess I've pissed off the entire internet now, but remember that these are my gripes, not some absolute truths I'm trying to convince y'all of.
The state tax and the health insurance payment are both line items on my paycheck deductions, right next to each other.

If the latter goes to zero and the former goes up, that's not actually doubling my deductions, despite the hyperbolic headline.
I know that. I meant that “abc” + “def” is most likely illegal (although “abc” + ‘d’ is not).
We should just sit back wait for solutions to climate change to become profitable enough for the owner-class to act. Nothing to worry about. I'm sure they will figure it out before it is too late. If only they had been made aware of this problem earlier. The market will solve this in no time.
No, the person in that video was never positively identified, and it's unclear whether there's even an open investigation. Back in Summer 2020, the police showed off a search warrant against one Mitchell Carlson, and media ran with it as proof of their whole right-wing-agitator narrative. But the police appear to have quietly dropped the matter, and nothing more came of it in the year and a half since. It's interesting that the cops released that affidavit soon after rumors started spreading that "umbrella man" was a cop. At least that problem got fixed :)

So... is this really your "evidence"? I mean, sure, that could have been an outside agitator. But maybe not. You have no idea. But I suppose you can believe whatever you want.

Look, I recognize that were probably some outside agitators mixed in with the BLM protesters. For example, look at the two guys that Kyle Rittenhouse killed: neither was local, and both were hardened criminals-- Joseph Rosenbaum was a convicted child rapist, and Anthony Huber was a serial domestic violence offender. Maybe these two characters had travelled to Kenosha to participate in a strictly peaceful demonstration. Maybe not. We have no direct evidence either way, so here again I suppose you can believe whatever you want.

On the other hand, we have hundreds of videos of everyday trash humans looting, breaking windows, burning shit in the street. Take your pick. Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6preTw28GWE. How many right-wing agitators do see there?

The riots in Minneapolis damaged or destroyed thousands of buildings, and some neighborhoods may never recover. Again, you're free to believe that this all the work of mysterious white supremacists or whatever, but you sure haven't given me any reason to believe one way or the other.
Yeah I was going to say this. If you want smokers and the obese to partially fund their own healthcare, you can very easily slap taxes on cigarettes and soft drinks, earmark that money to go to insurance, and call it a day.
The new house has a value of 1.5M. The existing house would be worth less because of the smaller lot (but not by a substantial value).
https://archive.is/iDC9U
To date, every infill residential project is custom. Even if its a pre-designed plan on the internet, its a different city, different material supplier, different local architect, different contractor--every time.

We just put the whole process on rails--a few material options and designs still have exponential customization, but represent drastic reduction in overall project complexity and project-to-project variance.

With a kit of parts we can automate design and management, and with 3d scanners in everyone's pocket, we can mostly offsite QC with similar or better quality outcomes.

Because we're a repeat provider, we offer builders, cities and suppliers consistency that's only been available to date in tract housing, which is incredibly environmentally destructive.

One specific example:

When an affordable architect specs a house, they almost never spec a shower valve (let alone cabinets, specific flooring providers, etc). When you buy a shower fixture, the valve doesn't come with it. This means you or the contractor has to either drive to home depot to buy a 6 dollar valve, or install the wrong valve to pass inspection and then wait and reinstall the correct valve.

If they spec the materials themselves, it isn't much better: their preferred suppliers never get shop drawings, often are out of stock, and are not able to scale with them.

We make sure there is always an interchangeable backup part, that any specific finish material or fixture is on site before the time it's needed. Designs specs are updated in real time to deal with supply chain disruptions.

That is just for a shower valve—it compounds as custom plans are changed, materials are out of stock, items don't fit as planned.

Prefab solves for a lot of these issues, but because of transportation costs and capacity constraints, it usually is costlier and longer to delivery from start to finish, even though the install is quicker.

We can scale with demand: because their cashflow velocity is so much quicker than working with homeowners, contractors always want to bid on our projects.

For Sb9 we'll use prefab where it makes economic sense—we are solution agnostic!

For existing homeowners, our liquidity is provided by in-house debt backed by the future lot asset.

For purchasers, we own part of the purchased home & that interest is transferred to the new lot when it is split!
My sentiment is moreso that an engineer should be trying to create robust, maintainable software and my experience has guided me towards believing that simplicity is the easiest route to this, which Go solves in my opinion.
Not OP, but I'll answer.

Switching to a single-payer will be too costly for any political party to tolerate. The US spends $3.8T on health care per year. That's $11,500 for every single person in the United States.

In order to fund (raise taxes) to a single-payer system that number will need to drop dramatically. We'll have to cut out middlemen, reduce bureaucracy, negotiate domestically, etc. That $11.5k needs to drop to about $6k to be on the upper quintile of health spending per capita compared to other, successful, single-payer systems. That brings the total from $3.8T down to $1.98T.

...but therein lies the problem. The health sector is 18% of the economy and employs 14% of all US workers. You can't quickly pull $1.8T out of a single sector of the economy. Would it stabilize to 9% of the economy and 7% of all US workers? What do all those people (7% of all workers) who previously worked in health care go do? Where does that $1.8T that we used to spent show up?

So it's a conundrum. You need to slowly reshape the industry over 10-20 years and carefully manage the outcomes or it's an economic and political disaster. However, the only way for that gradual plan to work is if you raise taxes to fund the $5T that it would take to maintain status quo. ...and good luck with that. The total net worth of all the billionaires in the US is $5T. There isn't a tax rate in the world that could raise that kind of revenue.

Vermont tried to implement a single-payer system, did their own analysis of what it would take, and decided not to move forward.[0]

So it's not that I oppose single-payer in theory, I just oppose it as policy in the US because I see it as a political impossibility that is in the way of realistic reform. To me it's chasing a perfect outcome when there are good outcomes available.

[0]:https://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7427117/single-payer-vermont-...
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Don't forget all those power plants generating power when there was no demand!

“Making renewables profitable” is the same talking point as “utilising excess power” as I see it, or at least a minor variation of it.
Yeah, just like all the artificial intelligence companies operating out of Anguilla.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ai
There was another comment about the already released documents being taken wildly out of context and flat out lied about by anti-vaccine idiots.

This is the same type of thing honestly. The presumption that you have that you know what these numbers mean, entirely out of any meaningful context.

Let me sincerely ask, when you wrote this what did you assume someone in regulatory affairs at FDA did? What motivated you to think that number was too large?

Here is their website. Is this what you thought they did? https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-organization/office-regula...
In my view it only does so incrementally. At best you can double properties. Society would benefit more from joining lots to create a footprint for multi family dwellings, rather than dividing them.
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6000 sq ft lot. the house will likely be 1200-1800 sq ft. regardless, this is america. we can live in large homes.

california is 1.7 times bigger than the UK. we have 40 million vs 68 million population of UK. we are not the united kingdom.
I thought it was https://ncase.me/loopy/ pro version. I would love if there was a pro version to better demonstrate or simulate feedback loops
Is this show better than Peep Show? I have it in my queue but haven't made an orchestrated effort to download it yet.
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The problem, the reason why we don't have a free market economy, is that the saver gets to decide how much debt there is.

The saver gets to decide whether to lend out his money, to spend it or to simply keep it forever. The money is no longer circulating within the economy, which means someone, usually the government, is forced to borrow the money back into the economy at an interest rate that is simply not sustainable.
I’ve tried it a few times even though I’m paying with a credit card just to see if I could do it. And entirely because of that commercial.

Never did.

But after trying to hit $20 I’d just go back to letting it fill my tank.
Yes yes it does you see... they're saying "submit (and quit possibly end up imprisoned or worse) or we kill you." Much better, you see!
I think the technology will be there to do the mixed instruction set stuff in 5 years, but for now I understand why Intel have played it safe.
There's a Korean movie from a few years back called The Host. They have an all-time great hacking scene. Guy calls his friend who works for the phone company to get him in the office then they scour the desks in the evening for anyone who wrote their password on a post-it.
I think the 1.5 million price is a snapshot of the current market, with low availability of housing and most people unable or not knowing they can split the lot. So houses are priced for their livability.

If it starts to happen in mass, either the supply will depress prices or the existing houses with splitable lots will close to double in value to internalize that unrealized gain.
Lex asks the Pfizer CEO that question in his interview: https://youtu.be/Z_LhPMhkEdw?t=1369
Sorry to hear that. My experience with government insurance has been with Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA, and to say I've been unimpressed is an understatement.

I guess I should be thankful my insurance is ~$1000/mo, and hasn't left me with the horror stories some seem to experience.
It's extremely hard to extract meaningful insight from population data, because it's massively confounded.

Recently some locations locations have reported omnicron case _rates_ being higher in the vaccinated population than unvaccinated. Your logic would have us conclude that the vaccination increases the risk of becoming a covid case with this strain.

... in reality, the vaccinated population is likely more at risk and the vaccine protection isn't enough to offset the difference. But it's extremely hard to tell, which is why RCTs are so important.

Those one in a million events also don't get found outside of trials: They go unreported because outside of trials surveillance is very low, or if noticed they'll get attributed to something other than vaccination because without a control group you can't establish a baseline rate narrowly enough to attribute it to the treatment with any confidence.
> What does Exxon have to do with the FDA or how medications are authorized?

It proves that the FDA shouldn't use a "trust, and don't verify" approach to medical trials performed by megacorporations.
Doesn't seem like a serious thing. Almost zero chance of passing.
It was IBM's OEM version of MS-DOS, more or less.

Random Google result:
https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/classics-rock/my-dos-versi...
That surplus was on made on extra taxes collected, and not on lean government spending.

I love this state’s geography and food scene, but the various governments here (local, county, state) aren’t exactly the pinnacle of smart governance.
> We find tax cuts for the rich lead to higher income inequality in both the short- and medium-term. In contrast, such reforms do not have any significant effect on economic growth or unemployment. Our results therefore provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy.

The conclusion taken from the abstract.
All companies deserve skepticism, to be clear. AMD have their management engine too. As far as I'm concerned the only reason why AMD's ME isn't as developed as Intel's is because their products have been such a joke leading up to Zen that no one with men in suits bothered asking them for the capabilites, or something like that.
No, I'm so sorry! We'd love to one day, but we avoid consulting—we find that without an eye on the whole process, projects can still go very awry and the consultant is left with the blame. It's why we started homestead—these consultant solutions just don't solve end-to-end problems like we'd want them to!

You can reach out to connect@homestead.is, let them know I sent you, and I'll try to carve out 10 minutes to point you in a good direction!
Nationwide (only one option) vs. nation-like quantity of people (other states, other systems, as options) are very different situations.
You have to realize that there is decent amount of people who lived through the collapse of USSR on HN, so just because someone mentions USSR in the context that is upsetting to someone with left leanings does not mean that it's without merit.
I didn't imply that the document is false. It's your interpretation of it that is false. You imply that the deaths are caused by the vaccine, which is not what this document is showing in any way shape or form. So you lied to everyone reading this HN thread.
Is your app doing a get request on each story that shows on the page to pull in the page images and other assets ?
That must be a coast thing for HOAs. A lot of the Midwest specify minimum acre(s)
I second the notion.