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As someone who lived both in USA and am from EU (can only speak about Slovenian and German system) and I have preexisting condition (asthma and ankylosing spondylitis )

Sure you can find problems in any healthcare system. Because there is no upper limit on spending. There is always something more that you can do.

If you are proper rich* (dozens of millions or more) USA has the best health care system.

Fore everyone else, EU health care is better.

For instance right now I was at my pulmonologist and he wants me to take CT of my chest.
As it is not emergency I could wait for a week (and it will be free), or I can have it today in private clinic, where I copaid 40 EUR*. If it were serious I would have it done for free today.

I got yearly prescription for
Berudual, fosters, spiriva and Singular for free.

Bottom line is yes, sometime there is waiting time, but outside few pathological cases they are quite reasonable.

In USA I had more than double of my current pay, but with rent and my preexisting condition the way that they are, I am actually left with slightly more each month.

And there is another big difference between our system and US. Everyone is insured (weather it's public or private). So there is no fear of ever going to the doctors or calling ambulances.

Private clinics are getting paid by my insurance (I could get free CT at the same clinic a week later), 40EUR fee is just convenience (I don't want to wait) fee. And normally It wouldn't take a week, but with covid and flu season in full swing it takes a bit.
Proton email servers are in Geneva I believe. But isn't that better than being in the US?
They've stopped including it, but they sell it for $9 with free shipping.

The next thing to go will be the physical SIM card tray - takes up a similar amount of space which is better utilized for battery capacity or other features, and also makes for easier waterproofing if removed.
We had something like this in 2001. It was called the Agenda vr3 and it ran a full X session with the FLTK in 16meg of RAM. However, the history of PDA's that run linux is mostly lost since LinuxDevices.com doesn't really exist anymore. I owned several of these including Agenda VR3, Vtech Helio, Zaurus, etc. It was quite a nice system even without wireless unless you count IrDA. It used FTP over RS-232 for installing software using a primitive packaging system. The little linux distros for these devices didn't really take off until the Zaurus SL-5500 took off by going on sale for $220 on the home shopping network in 2003, and someone developed the packing system called ipk which was a little more intelligent and reminiscent of Slackware's packing system.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/marrying-linux-and-the-...

Agenda VR3 specs : Processor: 66 MHz 32 bit NEC VR4181 MIPS; Memory: 8 MB of RAM plus 16 MB of Flash Memory

NOTE: This could play mp3's while running an FTP server.

https://web.archive.org/web/20030219081647/http://www.linuxd...

Zaurus packages : https://www.zaurus.org.uk/download/cacko/feed/

Zaurus specs : Intel SA-1110 StrongARM processor running at 206 MHz, has 64 MB of RAM and 16MB Flash

NOTE: This could play MP3's, MP4 at 320x240, run an SSH server, etc.

I'm surprised there aren't more systems out there, but a lot of these linux devices in the 2000's (the aught years) were just other systems cannibalized for linux like the iPaq line. Eventually some people put this together in to something called Familiar Linux and trying to standardize the whole thing. handhelds.org doesn't exist anymore, though.

https://www.drdobbs.com/packing-linux-on-ipaq/199200756

The whole openembedded (OE) system showed promise and came from the guy who made Gentoo, but it got mostly abandoned and merged in to other projects (YOCTO) when he went to work for Microsoft.

https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://docs.yoctoproject.org/

I kind of gave up on this all when I started developing for iPhone OS 3. It just worked with regards to wireless, and I realized I was more interested in the application layer anyway. Before 2020, you could get an iPhone 5s for about $20 on ebay, so it really had all I wanted including GPS.

There was someone who put together a site called http://pocketworkstation.org/ which isn't in the internet archive (archive.org) that had a whole LaTeX system working in Window Maker on the various Zaurus models. It was a scaled down desktop with 7 bit fonts, but it could be VNC into and used. Fun times.

EDIT: formatting and specs for low end devices
> What orange website could they be talking about?

I wouldn't know, my topcolor is B5DB5D.
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This doesn't particularly make sense. You can't even use non Intel chipsets with Intel CPUs and integrated GPUs are inherently tied to the CPU. (In the case of the discrete GPU segment, Intel didn't even have an offering.) The only place where alternatives are even technically possible are in WiFi where there is no impact on AMD.
> It adds that Tyler – a figment of the narrator’s imagination – was sent to a “lunatic asylum” for psychological treatment and was later discharged.

So even the imaginary friends get "reeducated". Whats next, banning images of cartoon characters? Oh wait, they already did that.
It is! Ende was raised under the esoteric Anthroposophy philosophy, and I suspect much of his works are dedicated to debunk its nonsensical beliefs. The second half of The Neverending Story is a philosophical treaty on itself (it hurts the book as an action story, but gives you a lot to ponder about).

His child books certainly have a deep second reading as adults.
Some commentators at the time said that supporting windows apps on OS/2 significantly contributed to its downfall. It meant that developers only needed to write their apps for Windows and OS/2 users could run them too.

Perhaps we will see a reduction in certain classes of windows apps (slack?).
The issue isn't that Google search results exclude stuff that was in the page title.

The issue is that Google search results insert stuff into the page title that wasn't there.

So the issue isn't that the overly long + pipe

<title>Which programming language is fastest? | Computer Language Benchmarks Game</title>

is abbreviated. The issue is that the domain of the hosting service is inserted, which gives the misleading impression that this is a project in-some-way approved and promoted by the Debian organisation:

"Which programming language is fastest? - Debian"

:when it would be better just to snip:

"Which programming language is fastest?"
I don't need it, but want it :)
> living under the identity of someone else

Quite sure most people, the vast majority of people would rather this be tightened up just for the fact that they don't want to have others living under their identity.

As for brothers sharing a passport, I doubt that these laws would affect them the same way, especially if they're twins and pass for each other. But then, just because they can do so, doesn't mean that they should.
Ah, see this is like one big NASA patch away from the chef's kiss award for retro-futuristic home care. Diving into similar products on Amazon, and the customer review photos, also generated a lot of calories and warmth here as I couldn't contain the laughter in the end. An intrigued type of laughter though for sure.

(Not _quite_ as effective for overall body heating as the effect of reading "sesame oil" hair conditioner reviews where people divulge that their grandparents were cooking family meals by stirring meat & veggies around in hair product for about a month before anybody noticed. But close.)

I have some mylar emergency blankets in my car which I see are now advertised online as "thermal foil sauna blankets," so some experimentation in the space may be called for. Thanks op!
Maybe if you're immuno-compromised, you should take more precautions. Especially since the vaccines do not prevent spread. "But they reduce the chance of spread!" the first reply will say. Great! Tell that to your immuno-compromised friends, neighbors and family that you killed because you were "less likely" to spread Covid, but did so anyway.
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https://www.theonion.com/i-have-an-ipod-in-my-mind-181958401...
> I'm anticipating that things will go wrong...

Yep, anxiety absolutely self-propagates. You have to break that cycle. Which first means realizing that it is a self-perpetuating cycle, being aware of it when you are creating your own anxiety triggers, and instead finding behavior that moves you in a positive direction. I'm surprised that you are having trouble finding a care provider who understands. Maybe stop looking for a psychologist and just find a therapist? This sounds like the kind of thing that a bit of CBT therapy could help with. And your lack of confidence that this is true is also likely driven by the same self-perpetuating anxiety. Don't let "maybe it won't work" stop you from actually trying.
A lot of you likely invest in a boglehead style.

Wealthfront was an attempt to automate that while adding some bells and whistles on top; tax loss harvesting, smart beta, etc.

Curious to see how they succeed as part of UBS. I thought Marcus/Goldman was going to buy them personally, so a bit surprised UBS is getting in on this game.
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The MIT license also clearly states that the software comes with NO WARRANTY (in all caps) and that you use it at your own risk. I don't see what the MIT license has to do with this at all.
> I wonder what would be achievable, around the $15 mark WITHOUT needing a minimum order of 1000?

A Raspberry Pi Zero?
ah, someone who shares my disdain for "hacker" "news"
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Around a month ago Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, said in an interview (paraphrased) "cloth masks are ineffective against the transmissibility of omicron".

(Edit: wrong person, here's video of what I'm remembering: https://mobile.twitter.com/townhallcom/status/14733056927149... ) (Anyway that was just intended as context for below, what I think may have been the starting point for a larger shift)

Thing is, the virus didn't change size, so right after this it's as if people started to realize the droplets-vs-aerosols mistake from 2020 that a minority have kept on since then, and what they've been saying for over a year is slowly becoming accepted:

Masks and social distancing were mandated under the assumption SARS-CoV-2 spread primarily through heavy droplets that would quickly fall to the ground, which were also large and heavy enough to easily be caught by masks. However, it turns out the primary spread vector is aerosol - too small for cloth masks to catch, light enough to quickly diffuse through a room, and light enough to easily slip around the sides of an unsealed mask.

A well-sealed N95 might work, but considering how bad even pro-mask people are at wearing cloth masks correctly, I don't think very many would manage to wear the N95 right.
This works but then all my music has a muffled rubbing sound from the cable that reaches my ears while I walk around. This is what I used to do, but wireless is still better IMO for headphones on the go.
I'd love a modern RIM 850 that could do all my messaging (Discord, Telegram, SMS) and nothing else. Keep the 850 formfactor, keyboard, that amazing thumbwheel, but give it something like e-ink and great connectivity. Hell, throw a WiFi hotspot in it if we absolutely must.
Some people perhaps don't have the skills to replicate the different handwriting, stamps, reasonable dates/locations, etc, that would be needed to make them plausible for a specific area. Even if they aren't technically security features, they sort of are.
They weren't designed to be an authentication measure in the first place any more than the little reminder card your doctor's office gives you when you schedule your next appointment.
everyone has a history of it, and many non-western societies still have a barely concealed if not government sanctioned industry of it.
Well there is an interesting history to passports. This article does a decent job of outlining how they morphed from a tool to help fight the Spanish Flu to what we see today.
https://apposition.substack.com/p/papers-please

Also there is quite a bit of economic work that showcases the positive impact of removing such stringent barriers to the free movement of people.
I can certainly see how this happens. Points to how poorly all the chatter about microservices obscures important points. This post itself doesn't strongly enough highlight that 12 developers is a full-stop no microservices decision point.

Or to phrase it differently, it's like a horror film where a small/skinny person goes into a dark unknown basement by themselves. Sure there's a story to be had, but the important bits to know come before the decision. I suppose it could be useful how to best defend oneself in a rare situation but avoiding it altogether is better if easy to learn.
No we aren't.

I don't have to buy a phone. Yes, the apps make the border easier for Covid, but don't be ridiculous. I can fallback to filling out a piece of paper. Furthermore, I can buy an [PinePhone, Librem 5, etc] phone and "fully control" that.

As for c) that's been part of life since the government got the right to tap your phone or telegraph.

Right now there are troubling signs for the direction of American democracy, but the courts have held up and life is still pretty good and, for some, getting better. I know mistakes happen and it isn't perfect, but we're no where close to being forced to own and carry a device.
Ask HN: Where is JMAP (jmap.io) implemented or being implemented?
JMAP (jmap.io), originally developed by Fastmail, got standardized more than two and a half years ago, but the Wikipedia article [1] lists only Apache James as having "experimental" support (the quotes are from Wikipedia), Cyrus IMAP server (which I presume Fastmail uses), and Ltt.rs, which is a proof of concept Android client that supports JMAP.

Where are the initiatives from the large email platforms like Gmail, Outlook365, Yahoo, Apple, and others? Where are the initiatives from open source clients like Mozilla Thunderbird? I see an old tracking bug [2] for Thunderbird, but there doesn't seem to be much progress on it (that Thunderbird has also been going through a core re-architecture and redesign with "web technologies" is another matter).

Email continues to be one of the most (if not the most) critical piece in today's connected world. I see a "chicken and egg" problem with email providers and email client software with respect to JMAP.

I've already seen IMAP support disappear from (i.e., disabled in) some providers used in the enterprise market (especially Outlook365). Are we going to be pushed deeper to use proprietary apps with no interoperability (and with fewer freedoms), like a Gmail app (while Gmail keeps scaring Gmail users who continue to use IMAP), an Outlook app, a Yahoo Mail app, and so on? One outlier so far seems to be Apple's mail clients that still support IMAP and Apple's iCloud that also supports IMAP.

I get that alternatives for old technologies take a long time to become widespread, but I can't help feeling a bit disappointed with the pace of progress.

I'm sure the folks from Fastmail may likely chime in here, but I'd also like to hear from others who are working in this space or are tracking this space.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Meta_Application_Protocol

[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322991
Being a crypto skeptic is literally David Gerard's job. He writes books about crypto failures.
Russia and China are very capable masters of misinformation -of that there is little doubt. On the other hand the career government officials and others in government have had their fill with misinformation about Covid origins, "Russia-gate", Syrian dam bombings, etc.
That’s because the vaccine cards were never designed to authenticate vaccine status. It was literally an appointment reminder mechanism. In fact, a PDF of the blank card was available from the CDC website.
Pieces from Cloudflare and even Google themselves are posted here all the time, and have CTAs at the bottom.
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No, this was before she became a successful author. About half of it was an inheritance on her side. The other half came from his side.
El Salvador should offer an automated hedging solution for their citizens

They can have bitcoin and stable value
> much of Silicon Valley would be "Ludds"

Much of Silicon Valley is just looking for a way to pay their exorbitant rent and/or become million(billion)aires. SV isn't going to take a principled stance on anything. Heck, the big players all know which side their bread is buttered on and the bigger they are, the more entwined in the corruption they are.
This sort of flamebait is not welcome on HN, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. We ban accounts that take threads further into flamewar this way. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Edit: since your account has repeatedly been posting flamebait and unsubstantive comments, and you've ignored our request to stop, I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
> The FB case in US seems a bit stupid as what exactly do they have a monopoly on. They don't own a paltform as such. An upcomer like Tiktok can upstage them and create its own space out of nowhere in a couple of years.

Because Facebook is big and robust enough to take a few on the chin in order to make it look like "something is being done", which ultimately protects the industry from actual oversight and regulation.
yeah I asked jwz how to do that, but I can't figure out a way to make that work with Github pages.
Well we kind of can’t, now, since the design of the existing ones are so easily faked. If we could do them over again:

1. Go back in time and use one or more anti-forgery features of drivers licenses to at least make them hard to forge

2. Hold retailers accountable who fail to check or accept a forgery (like we do for liquor stores checking ID)

3. Consequences for possession of forged documents

4. Find and go after producers of them. This can’t be hard—the police could probably find quite a few just with a web search.
A national ID could be issued not through the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) or other similar bureaucracies in whichever state you live in, but through the Post office. Every citizen has access to a nearby Post Office, and many times more frequently than a DMV.
That's all part of the Airpods experience for me. Randomly have to reinsert into the case to get both earbuds working, devices I've connected to won't work if I've connected more devices, if I reboot from Linux to windows I have to drop them and re-pair them (I assume they pair based on a device id?), sometimes they don't charge but it's impossible to tell because when I open them it just shows yellow. Maybe it's because I have the first gen and no apple devices, but I really don't care for them.

My wife's soundcores work great.

My Bose over-ear are a much better experience.
The iPhone SE2 has a fingerprint reader. It's a lower quality device though.
Yep, you are right. I actually used to own a liquor store. Shutting you down for a day or more while you pay for your employees to go to mandatory retraining hits the pocket book pretty hard. Of course you could (well, had to, really) also just pay into the local police 'benevolent society'. It was cheaper and kept you out of most trouble.
Give me a 80x24 font terminal and framebuffer support for SD2/video/images/PDF, and I'm sold.

This has no internet support, but who cares as I can just rsync the NNTP dir from/to slrn in my laptop and read good stuff offline, and just answer over the laptop, too.
Or, well, an Atheros dongle would work fine.

For coding, JimTCL with or without SDL2 is fun, and, for gaming, text adventures and roguelikes would rock here.
> Americans don't want to use ID even for voting

*many liberal Americans
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Nope, not everybody cares. My father is staunchly in the "I have nothing to hide" camp, more specifically, he thinks "what does it matter if <company> knows I do <thing>?"

Meanwhile many of my other relatives are afraid of being tracked, but they attribute that tracking to spy chips bill gates put in the covid vaccine. Meanwhile, as my father above pointed out, they carry their phones with them everywhere, and use facebook prominently.
Mine runs on a years-old Raspberry Pi Model B Rev 2. A Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ (which has an ethernet port), SD Card and case is about £40 at pihut, that's CAD70

A Zero 2 W with wireless is half that or less including the case, SD Card and power supply.
I don't understand why the US must invent new solutions, when there are already working solutions in other countries of the world. Yes, with a digitally signed QR code and an ID, where the controller checks the signature and the ID and that's it, no medical info goes anywhere. Even the US has ID checks when buying alcohol, why it's so difficult to use for covid? And yeah some people show fake IDs too, but how many are those. And yeah some people will show with "lying" QRs but only the health authorities can issue those so you know already where you must look for the forgers.
Personaly I would appreciate more articles focused on art (cinema, culture, photography...) and pholosophy but still curated agenda is much more educative than any other social media algorithm.

Actually HN is my last and only curated feed. I use 70% RSS, 30% HN.
I believe per HN rules, the title here should be changed to properly reflect the title of the article?
I'm immunocompromised because of some medication I take, but I don't agree with the idea of the government forcing people to undergo a medical procedure. I'm fully vaccinated and I hope that others get vaccinated too, but mandates under threat of consequences are a clear violation of medical ethics. (and yes, it is a medical procedure with demonstrable risks)
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This title edit was not for an article, which is what confused me.

A user submit a self post, a rant basically which got popular, and the title was edited hours later.
Ha, caveat emptor. Oh, wait, OP isn’t even a buyer and paid nothing for the code and blindly built it into the app. No reading, no understanding, just copying.

OG plug-in author has a problem with people abusing license key system, builds in code to detect it. Disclaims it vaguely, OP gets bitten and has the gall to call it stealing. Author offers to help OP out, OP puts him on blast.

Zero sympathy, even at 30%.
Much as I loathe Comcast residential service, their business service has been solid except for that ludicrous requirement.
> The only real solve is that the they need a new branch of the military that handles production and R&D in house, and also mans and owns the factories, and to stop giving contracts to parasitic companies.

Might be a good idea, but the military doesn't pay enough (and can't because of regulations) or have the prestige to do this. Part of why the contractors exist is so the military can pay more.
Freedom is self-determination and ownership of your own survival.

Some people will make decisions you see as stupid or bad. Upside: others can't impose their decisions on you. Downside: you can't impose your decisions on others.
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PCs don't have the hardware security infrastructure at the moment for Microsoft to feel comfortable adding Xbox support. Even the previous gen never put decrypted content into RAM, which is part of how it became the first major console to not get hacked in it's lifetime.
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Is there a reasonable explanation for the revised numbers without delving into conspiracies?