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> The slow diagnosis is because the specialists are so reluctant to see people. Right now I am on a six month wait to see a rheumatologist. Why? Capitalism.

This remark seems somewhat lacking in rigor. I know bagging on capitalism is a common reflex, particularly in medicine, but something more is almost certainly going on.

The default thought process for a retailer is to move units. A lawyer wants to rack up billable hours. A subscription service wants more subscriptions.

So why would a specialist look for fewer cases? There is almost certainly a perverse incentive involved, because a competitive market would usually prompt a service provider to accept business and grow with demand.
> In that economic environment, consumer staples which do their own production and have the ability to quickly respond to inflation are favoured. I'm in a sector ETF for this.

What are some example ETFs in that space?

Commodities oriented ETFs?

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OK, nevermind. :-) Googled "consumer staples etf" and a bunch of examples came up.

https://www.investopedia.com/top-performing-consumer-staples...

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Top 10 holdings of IYK

Procter & Gamble PG 16.91%

Coca-Cola KO 11.10%

PepsiCo PEP 10.40%

Philip Morris PM 6.95%

CVS CVS 4.04%

Altria MO 3.60%

Mondelez MDLZ 3.40%

Colgate CL 3.00%

Archer Daniels Midland ADM 2.44%

Kimberly-Clark KMB 2.34%

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Consumer staples -> consumer poisons. This leads to upward pressure in healthcare.
So like being a grad student without the abuse and poverty pay?
If you were on both at once would the antibiotics have stopped the steroids from making it worse?
Consider that a speculative bubble can create excessive demand.

Ireland had a shortage of housing until the GFC, when suddenly they didn't. I'm expecting NZ to discover the same over the next year or so.

I really think it's as simple as banks lending excessively for non-productive purposes.
Similar here also in Canada, my program has a ~20% graduation rate (Computer Science)
At this Univiersity, at this time, you could not take CLEP tests for credit in any classes that were in the same school as your major. So e.g. a Physics major (school of science) could not get credit for the e.g. Math and Chemistry (also school of science) requirements without signing up for the actual course.

There were other classes without any official CLEP, so the process was to convince a board of professors to orally examine you on a day that they'd rather be with their family on vacation or doing research.
Plenty of countries have online universities with a Fair price. For example, the Open University, or UNED from Spain (where you have a handful of them).
I ended up getting sent to collections for $40-50 for missing one of the bills. Never in my life have I not wanted to pay a bill, but god forbid any large organization just take my money and leave me alone.
> Apple will offer tool rental kits for $49, so that customers who do not want to purchase tools for a single repair still have access to these professional repair tools. The weeklong rental kits will ship to customers for free.

Seems you missed this part.
Im contractually obligated to mention the novel The Dragons Egg, which followed the interactions between humans and life that evolved on a neutron star. Major time issues in that one. Fun read!
Nurses do a lot of menial tasks that they are overqualified for. Could those not be freed up by automation so that nurses can do the high-skill tasks they are uniquely qualified to do?

I think you're right in the sense that I expect we won't shoot to automate the menial tasks first, and instead will let our hubris guide us to automate the high-skill tasks. But speaking optimistically, there's a lot of productive automation that can happen. Heck, a lot of it has already happened via digital record keeping.
Yeah, TPC-E is a better (more advanced) OLTP benchmark. TPC-C is trivially scalable by sharding on warehouse id everywhere. The problem with TPC-E is not many companies publish (official or unofficial) results for it, so its not as useful when comparing systems, which is what we were after in our blog post.
To be fair, most industries don't have evening and night shifts and a supply mismatch, most nurses want to work the day shift, it's harder to find candidates for evening and night.
> and a house will take 1-2m

Remember, I'm operating under the assumption that the house is already paid off. Right now, I've got about $250K left in my mortgage. Property taxes aren't too bad, about $4K/year.

That $2M is also assumed to be after taxes from selling my options, but I acknowledge that any gains from the index fund will be taxed.

> But take a pro tip: health care costs add up.

Yeah, this is likely the expense I'm not planning enough for.

But also, as I said, I've got projects that could make money. Also, my wife has stated before that she wants to work to avoid boredom, so she'd keep working, though she'd cut her hours to work 2-3 days/week.
I view drug enforcement policy meant to prevent individuals from making decisions for themselves as always doing more harm than good. The place for regulation in this space is controlling what claims profit-motivated entities can make about drugs, enforcing quality and safety standards in manufacturing, and honestly tying the hands of insurance companies as much as possible, if not just gutting them altogether
I'm a software engineer. My wife is a RN. It's been interesting over the past 20+ years to see the parallels in two different markets. Temporary staffing is used to fill vacant reqs. Gradual erosion of employer provided benefits.
How is an adverse change in government treatment not (aside from motivation) violating a matter of right not analogous to an adverse change in government treatment not (aside from motivation) violating a matter of right in the only way at all relevant to discussion of whether the fact that the issue is not (aside from motivation) violating a matter of right makes an adverse change in government treatment permissible?
> Sounds to me like gold as a standard wasn't the issue, but printing of dollars without backing.

True, that’s why the United States basically declined economically after going off gold and printing as much as they’d like.
> Basically linux is moving from a hobbyist operating system that a single person can reasonably manage in their spare time to an enterprise ish complex monstruosity that requires training and a time investment

This is less a Linux problem, and more an Internet problem. The reason we have more security vulnerabilities now is not because software suddenly sucks and everyone is incompetent (rather, that is a universal constant): it is because software is valuable, and the internet is huge. That is why we need ipv6, but more importantly that is why we need tools that provide security in depth, which is a great deal of the complexity in Linux today. (For example, there are heaps of vulnerabilities that sound terrible, but we know their effects will be mitigated by a container, or by SELinux). Yes, as a hobbyist, one could probably grab a copy of Debian 2.2 Potato and host a website from it. Running a modern stack sounds like an investment? Keeping that afloat will need a dedicated team.
The U.S. economy isn't unfettered free market, including in this sector. The policy is just bad.
> Lonestar, which has contracted with three groups to make the data centers possible, would establish the data centers by providing a platform for critical data infrastructure and edge processing, further leveraging it to enable broadband communications.

> ”Data is the greatest currency created by the human race,” Lonestar founder Chris Stott said in a news release. “We are dependent upon it for nearly everything we do and it is too important to us as a species to store in Earth’s ever more fragile biosphere. Earth’s largest satellite, our Moon, represents the ideal place to safely store our future.”

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read
Software is a system.
I've seen a few interesting things:

Most Indians have darker skin, which helps in hot climates. Light-skinned people (caucasians, for example) suffer terribly in the heat and their skin is more prone to sunburns (although dark skin can also burn in the Sun with enough exposure).

- Drinking water from clay pots. The clay pots cool water down better than refrigerators sometimes.

- "Coolers", which are basically high-powered fans that are surrounded by mats woven from the Vetiver plant, through which water continuously circulates. These do a wonderful job of keeping the room cool and also give off a pleasing smell.

- Lemon Soda. This is sold in various formats by street cart vendors. Basically, lemonade or limeade with club soda as the base. My favorite is the 'goli soda', which is vanishing quickly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLXYNjgOwQE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22RXO6x8z1Q

- Watermelons. The Muslim holy month of Ramadan/Ramzan falls in the summer, and watermelons are a favorite for breaking the fast. Everybody enjoys watermelons in this season, and it is a great coolant. There is a notion of 'heating' and 'cooling' foods and drink, and people try to consume the cooling foods in this season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxYYn4SBd9Q

- Popsicle-like things, known by various names, but basically ice dipped in juices are very popular with children, who buy them from vendors who sell from their carts on the street. They can be found by the roadside all over the country at all times of the day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klnjihAtxGU

- Sugarcane juice: This is a huge favorite in the hot Deccan Plateau in peninsular India. The cane is pressed between rollers that squeeze juice out of the cane, which is mixed with a tiny bit of lemon juice and cooled with ice. Great antidote to the heat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLP4G-PyhU8

- Clothing: Men wear white clothes, in particular those that work outside all day in the Sun. Even if it is soiled, white
clothing keeps you cooler outside. Clothing is also loose-fitting and lets air through (rural men literally drape white cloth around their waists, called dhotis, and hike them up to knee height when the weather is hot).
That's what I liked about some of Google's bathrooms: individual bathrooms with showers even.
Here's my naive understanding of the situation:

It sounds like they're just being overworked. So, just have the nurses take a 20 minute break every 2 hours, to go out and take a walk. The hospital can require it if it comes to that but why wouldn't they just want to do it? and if the hospital doesn't want to do it, then the nurses should insist on it and walk off the job if not given their breaks. I would imagine the hospital would rather agree to 20 min breaks every 2 hours rather than loosing 90% of their workforce forever: they don't have a choice, they have to agree.
Makes you wonder how this works for them. How do they know if they are in the black or the red if they can’t tell who owes what?
They didn't say it was due to their opposition to this bill but for misbehaving. Disney has been doing quite a bit of things that Floridians don't like. Bringing a young kid on ABC (owned by Disney) to promote transgenderism in prepubescent kids for example. This has been brewing for a long time.

Like I said, the bill was the catalyst of this, but not really the reason.
> Anything energy related.

The oil and gas industry would say otherwise.
Is there such a thing as too cold for heat pumps though? They drop in efficiency, sure, but still beat resistive heating. Modern ones are still going to be 300% efficient down to -20C or so. With a resistive pre heater I don't see how they'll ever not be more efficient than resistive heating.
For what it’s worth, many people reached out to me after reading the article to thank me for introducing them to the idea that they could earn their missing degree in less than 4 years and/or without student debt. Many of them are self-taught developers with decades of experience that can’t move up the corporate ladder, work abroad, or pursue graduate studies because they lack this important piece of paper.
> You should educate yourself about how most of the western world manages to have a functioning semi social health care system. US is broken because of this blind fantaic faith in free markets deregulation simplifications

Most healthcare in the west is subsidized by the US. The US market is far more lucrative, so companies do R&D and make capital from the US. The US also subsidizes in terms of both military and energy almost every western country. Even then, Europe has a higher tax rate and on average is far poorer.

I’m well educated on this subject and worked in this area in the US and spent time in other countries. You have no idea what you’re taking about.
Same here in Canada. There may be some reduction in rate here and there, but the overall trend is always up.
They have a policy for anyone seeking your transcriptions of just marking everything as a "B" (3.0 GPA) on everything.
If you're using an upstream image from a distro, pull that down, update it, push it back to a registry, then use that as your base image. Do that every day in a CI/CD (or just cron) system, such that you've got logs, auditing and fires off alerts if something breaks.

Add update steps to the builds of your final image containers too at the start, to catch any delta that may have happened during last base image patch.

There are also container scanning tools but they can produce some false positives sometimes but useful nonetheless.

You still run tests as normal against the new images before promoting, just like normal.
>I strongly believe that only physicians should be running hospitals.

Can you elaborate on your rationale? I ask because I've worked in hospitals run by a cadre of physicians and it was not run well. Anecdotal, obviously, so I'm curious on your thoughts on what they provide.

My worry is that it can lead to an unbalanced technocracy. It's like saying a politician needs to come from [industry x] to govern [industry x]. Technical competence is a necessary, but insufficient criteria when managing a multifaceted problem. The risk is that the front-line physician priorities would always become the organization's top priority. In reality, a hospital administrator has to manage competing priorities across many different domains.
As long as our modern economic history is deemed interesting. Almost 400 years later we still talk about Tulip mania. Even if cryptocurrency falls out of favor tomorrow, it will still be an interesting economic event for a long time.
It’s an anecdote based on personal experience, not a benchmark.
Thanks, I didn't know that these existed. I will have a look at them.

I don't care about integrating with online services, it's more for my home stuff. I self-host everything of importance anyway. And most external services only integrate with IDPs on their most expensive corporate plans anyway (unless they integrate with Google, Apple or Microsoft consumer accounts which I don't use).

Kinda looking for a personal PKI as well (which can overlap a lot with IDP) but I'll see what these can provide. I looked about 2 years ago and didn't come across either of them.
For perspective, some may perceive doing research as being spoon-fed. Sometimes, you don't know where to start and need a hand. At one point, I didn't know how to turn on a computer, and now I'm a software engineer.
grep -r is GNU bullshit which implements a filesystem find inside of grep. That's completely retarded.

Don't you have that Kubernetes-Docker trash fire to babysit, instead of trolling around here?
You're finally understanding my point. Removing an unfair privilege is only "harmful" to the person with the unfair privilege. Considering the full context makes it not actual harm.

Put it another way: Imagine a law that said white people get 10% off of every purchase. Now that law is repealed, and white people say: "I'm being harmed!" Are they?
Sure, there are lots of nurses making well into the 6 figures. But they're working 60-80 hours a week, most of them night shifts.

A nice 9-5 weekday nursing job makes a couple dollars more per hour than the receptionist out front.
Go is a fine language, but not great for scripting. The verbosity shows in the examples, it’s basically skipping five or six lines of code to read from stdin and import a functional library.

Learning the jq syntax will have a much better payoff in the long run.
A new dimension for magnetosensitive e-skins active matrix integrated
Well... there does tend to be a certain measure of arrogance that comes with youth, and if you're still at University, then you probably do have a touch of that. But that's normal and nothing to feel bad about. It takes some time (the amount depends on the individual) for that arrogant sheen to wear down a bit, and to be replaced by some combination of apathy, cynicism, acceptance, etc.

All of that said, "are you surrounded by incompetent people?" Hmm... well... I don't know if I'd go so far as to say "incompetent", but let me put this suggestion out there (this is not a new idea, BTW). In years past, most of the people who were majoring in CS in college were people who intrinsically enjoyed computers, programming, electronics, etc. E.g., your traditional hardcore "geek" type. People like this programmed for the sheer joy of it, wore the title "hacker" proudly, and held themselves and others to a high standard of technical excellence. Today, on the other hand, a lot (no, I can't quantify this exactly) of people in CS are probably there because they heard that it's a field where you can make a lot of money, and/or because family and friends pushed them in that direction. They don't necessarily derive any intrinsic enjoyment from learning newer and better techniques, learning new technologies, or trying to "one up" their colleagues with technical excellence.

Is this true? Hard for me to say, as University was ~25 years ago for me. I only saw it the way I experienced it. But based on what I see in industry, and what I hear from others who are still in school, or who entered industry at different times, I tend to believe there is something to it.

but at the same time, I can't help but wonder how some of my peers are passing classes or getting hired.

That's one of life's great mysteries. You may have heard anecdotes like "I interviewed a guy with a documented Ph.D. in Computer Science and he couldn't code fizz-buzz" and thought to yourself "there's no way that story is true." I'm here to tell you, I've been the guy delivering that anecdote and it's absolutely true. Perhaps even more to the point, I've interviewed people who had documented 10+ years of industry experience as developers - apparently having some modicum of success along the way (they didn't get fired after all), but yet still couldn't write fizz-buzz. Which is all a long winded way of saying "What it takes to have some modest level of success as a software developer in industry may not be what some of us think". And apparently fizz-buzz isn't all that great a predictor of whether or not someone can somehow, someway, find a way to deliver code when needed. Take that for what it's worth.
You've described how my mailserver should work.

I'm willing to stipulate that this is correct and would, in my case, be a difficult problem to solve.

But nobody is losing job offers or missing kids' schedules or breaking their summer plans because of my mailserver.

I am talking about gmail. I am talking about MS (whatever it is). I am talking about yahoo.com.

Their spam heuristics are, in many cases, laughably bad - they are demonstrably, clearly broken. If I email my wife twice daily for 15 years and then one of my responses to her emails gets put in the gmail spam folder ... what words to even use for that ?

They need to fix this. I don't care how sticky of a problem it is.
It is beneficial, just not from a financial aspect.

With Reedy Creek, Disney doesn't need to worry about whether local politicians will approve expansions or meet the needs of the Walt Disney World complex since the local government is purely serving Disney.

If you take a look at Disneyland in California, Disney is going up against Anaheim and Orange County councils on a pretty routine basis to get new things built.
Amazing that it took Grink 22 days to secure the files.
> Unless the standards are drastically different

Kinda seems like my 4 years’ bachelor degree and whatever this ‘uni’ in the article is have radically different standards of what constitutes a degree.
My last experience in a hospital was Dec'21. ICU, at an old friend's bedside, in a large (500+ beds, "teaching") hospital that is part of a big (50+ hospitals) chain.

The nurses seemed excellent...but the amount of time and emotional energy they had to put into dealing with multiple computerized systems - just within my friend's room, to replace an empty IV bag - was staggering. The "smart" IV pump was the worst - a crappy little display, a minimized number of flaky buttons as the only interface, and the nurse had to drill down into multiple sub-sub-sub menu's to do even basic stuff.

My first thought was that you could triple nurse productivity (as in "care given to sick humans") if you had two IT tech's following each nurse around, tasked with doing all the "re-redundant data entry & dealing with computerized shit" that had obviously become the nurse's primary job.

My second thought was that interfaces which the nurse had to deal with should be restricted to 1950's-industrial-control-panel style - nothing but well-labeled, single-purpose physical buttons, switches, & dials. And the data entry that they had to do was restricted to wax pencils on well-laminated paper - which could be fed to a scanner, to update the patient records database. (Displays, say of vital signs & such, could be fancy. But the "50's control panel" rule could put an end to "oh, that information is hidden down in a sub-sub-sub-menu here..." shit.)
Yes. The system is gross. When my dad suffered from a stroke (pre-COVID), the level of neglect and poor care he received was startling. He died before he should have after making substantial recovery due to the side-effects of being in a hospital.

My mom was a long-retired medical director of a hospital and even she was shocked at poor quality of care, compassion and competence. Even in the ER of a recognized trauma center, things were pretty meh. Some specialist floors and ICU were good, but when an infection caused by poor hospital hygiene struck, he was relegated to the “medical” floor, where he was not fed, medicated, turned or treated with respect. Ultimately we maintained a 24x7 staffing of family volunteers for over 6 weeks.

Many of the staff frankly sucked. But it was easy to see why - the staffing levels were so poor pre-COVID, that any RN risks license every day by virtue of being there. The smart ones GTFO. You can’t care for 15 patients.
Fucking beats me (although this particular hospital seems to be very disorganized). I will never understand why anyone would make it difficult for me to give them money.
To be fair, while he's clearly a bad presenter, at least I generally get the feeling that Elon is genuinely passionate about what he's presenting on, while Zuck generally gives off heavily polished PR speak vibes.

I definitely fine myself more engaged by Elon's presentations despite his performance.

I'm not sure if that counts as charisma, but it's not nothing.
Is a fixed fine fair and equal treatment? The punishment is much more significant to someone poor than rich. Sure the dollar amount is equal but that is a very narrow view. The same arguments can be made about a flat tax vs. progressive tax systems?
"To be or not to be, that is the question." -> "Or not."

That settles it then.
> that was just a number for illustrative purposes

It's more of an ideal, e.g. the ECB targets this. In practice there's a margin of error, the question is how big it is. Once this error (for the currency you use, e.g. USD I assume, given your comment) and the volatility of BTC are close enough, we can consider BTC as competitive as a currency. Until then it's not.