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Sounds like you are paying for what the NHS in the UK will offer - they'll get you there but it is often slow and quite convoluted, but it is free!

Private care in the UK can be very fast - e.g. I went from an initial consultation with a doctor for "knee pain" to having two sessions with a consultant and an MRI complete and booked in for physiotherapy within 48 hours. Things are often done the same day or within 24-48 hour turnarounds, although sometimes you can only get seen by specific consultants on certain days (e.g. they only see people on wed + Fri etc) . I am not sure what the on-ramp for that is as I go through my work health insurance but presumably you can just pay out of pocket.

www.hcahealthcare.co.uk seems to be what everything my healthcare insurance (from a BigCo) goes through, so could be worth starting there if you fancy a visit to the UK.

Good luck.
The country would be in shambles if, over a 30 year horizon, your investments did not outpace that interest rate. There's a reason why the <3% interest rate era we just left was considered free money - especially entering into an 8% inflation USA.
> couldn't a Zig reimplementation of SQLite use comptime for compile-time query compilation? Including generating native code for fixed queries?

SQLite already compiles queries into opcodes and then uses its own VM to interpret them. You would have to reimplement the internal VM.
I don't think I've ever seen a GitHub outage that has actually impacted my ability to deliver software that week. I rarely need to do something time critical with a window of only a few hours and can't shuffle what I'm doing around.
> $600k in total interest and principle for a $300k sticker-price house over 30 years

Present value of $600k paid over 30 years is less than $600k. Depending on the discount rate it might be even less than $300k now.
Depending on the pain, you may want check out Dr. Sarnos book “the mindbody prescription”. I found it a few months ago on the urging of other online commentators when dealing with debilitating wrist and back pain. After reading it and applying his plan my pain disappeared.
For something in the neighborhood of $50k you can sign up with a concierge medicine practice such as md2. You would get an excellent primary care doctor with great connections who is able and willing to coordinate and expedite all your care. It doesn't scale to the broad population, it's not efficient, etc. but in the U.S. you can get excellent, timely care with no compromises as long as you're rich.
Python does not know what a CSV file is. It doesn't know what a JPEG is. If you want to work with these things you have to tell Python what they are. If you want to use a library to do that you need to know how to install a library such that Python knows what it is and where it is.

You can play around in Photoshop because and get decent results because it already knows what a JPEG is. All of the tools are built around working with 2D images and share a set of abstractions. You might do a shitty job but you're not likely to break your image or be unable to do anything.

Python is not "Photoshop for CSV files". It's not Photoshop for anything. So you must learn some basics to use it an Aella decided learning was stupid and she could just copy and paste her way through the process.

A rational person confronts by terms they didn't understand in some instructions would take a step back and realize maybe they were missing some fundamentals.
QOI doesn't use any entropy compression.
By “Fitness Instructor” I think you mean “Physical Therapist” (and definitely not a Chiropractor). In the US, a fitness instructor can be literally anyone who runs an aerobics class, while a physical therapist actually has medical training.
If they wanted to do this, they would give you cash back, which is accepted anywhere. If merchants want to incentivize you to use your cash back "points" at their store, they would give you a discount on the card.

Guess what? This already happens! And without the waste of a decentralized ledger.
Selecting multiple lines of text in an IDE does not require a mouse. Just hold Shift and use the up/down arrows.

The ability to select text in this way has existed in Windows for at least 20 years.
> … minus the tax deduction to rent.

Make sure to not use the deduction verbatim, but calculate the amount that the deduction reduces your actual tax bill.
There's a fabulous movie short [1] by John Waters, where he tells the audience there's no smoking in the theater. Then he takes several long, blissful drags on his cigarette, and says "Don't you wish you had one right now?"

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDt0hEYrMsc
MS or Fibromyalgia would be my guess?
> A fully participatory democracy where every citizen votes on everything?

What like Switzerland?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy#Refere...
I've been using django/alpine/tailwind/htmx together lately, and I really like it.

Can you give a quick rundown of when it might make more sense to use Tetra?
> (Hoping USB-PD, with it's bump from 20 up to 48V, once again proves another huge win!)

Can someone explain to me why 48V? Is there something special with 48V or beyond? The reason I ask is because some cars now have electric turbos and the manufacturer had to switch to a 48V system. Just curious what the benefits of higher voltage is and if 48 is somehow special.

Thanks in advance.
Is AI Progress Impossible to Predict?
The "principle" amount on a 30 year is negligible for the first 7-10 years or so, which coincidentally is about how long the average homeowner owns a house.

People also wildly underestimate just how much taxes and maintenance can be, because they're not monthly - if you have to escrow taxes it's more noticeable, and if you correctly account for maintenance it's surprisingly high, even on relatively new homes.

The mortgage deduction only applies if you are not taking the standard deduction, and even then only the differential really applies (as otherwise you'd take the standard deduction) - something like 87% of filers will take the standard deduction.

Remember that if you have a copy of TurboTax or something similar laying around, you can do "what if" scenarios by inventing various 1099-INTs and playing around with them.
I found something in the last few years about the use of a cigarette as a prop. The Vertigo comics character John Constantine is a heavy smoker. Part of his character; he even comes close to dying of lung cancer at one point, and weasels out of it via a deal with some devils. They made a Constantine TV series in 2014, canceled after half a season, and then the same actor reprised the character on the CW's Arrowverse serieses, most notably on Legends of Tomorrow.

In all those appearances, Constantine is shown holding cigarettes, getting them out of a pack, gesturing with them, fussing with and lighting his lighter... but never actually lighting a cigarette or smoking. It's done so smoothly that you probably won't notice unless someone mentions it to you.
Agreed.

My mom was a life-long drug addict, and I was raised by my father and at times in foster care with my mother's brother.

Before she got hooked on oxy in 1999, she was just a typical drug addict (coke, crack, tons of alcohol) who would get clean (usually substituting fundamentalist Christianity for her drugs) and chain smoke cigarettes at twice the rate she usually did. After the oxy, there was never any attempts to get clean, and she became a full-on opiate addict with the rewired brain and all of that. When she OD'd in 2015, she was already suffering from emphysema.

The smells of stale cigarettes bring back horrible memories for me. She always reeked of them, and even at 6 when we were on supervised visits at her house, I always sensed that the cigarettes were a slow suicide. She used to accidentally burn my hand all the time when she'd be smoking and holding my hand when she'd take me on a walk.

I'm really sorry for you to have to watch your father follow your mom. It's terrible to think about.

My dad enjoys the occasional pipe, and pipe tobacco never made me think of that nasty-ass death smell of stale cigarettes.
Why does it matter? Deno should not need NPM in any capacity, or does it?
> Never have I faced any issue that can't easily be solved.

Which doesn't mean others didn't have issues, huh? Also some people might have not specific knowledge to solve the issues.
I feel like it makes sense for Koch to stay private since their work mostly focuses on fossil fuels and specifically fracking. Public markets can be a big distraction with protests and what not. Is stripe worried about being cancelled?
They are pen tested. Now same question, what happens when the ransomware infects a hospital?
> Neoclassical economics preaches that all is fair with the distribution of income. Income differences, the theory claims, stem from differences in productivity.

I'm not an expert, but this sounds like a scientific idealization, like a frictionless surface, and not a genuine and absurd description of reality.
I went through the exact same scenario with my mother.

I toy with the idea of spending my retirement tormenting tobacco corporation executives and shareholders. I welcome any ideas and assistance.
“N.B. This was only ever intended as a gimmick and a proof of concept - not something that I would actually use at work. Please keep this in mind before arguing why I should be fired over this in various online comment sections.” - from the end of the article
'Properly' price shop means that a client would be able to evaluate quality/price across a wide variety of firms in a transparent fashion relatively easily. Say with a week or two of work.

That is impossible because the quality of work for a lawyer is very, very difficult to gauge, and it may take years (or decades) for bad work to be visible in many cases (say missing some bad edge cases in contract language, or they can't handle in litigation in certain types of cases, or the like).

And other lawyers have little incentive to price shop either, as they usually get to add on a little on top when they farm out the work. Cost-plus, essentially.

And if 'very expensive and opaque' is the norm, it's not like 'very expensive and opaque' is unreasonable.
> It's a terrible, smelly, health-destroying habit, and I was right to give it up, but I think I'll always be a smoker at heart.

It's incredible how much I can relate to this. I finally managed to quit smoking after multiple attempts but I would still say I will always be a smoker at heart. I loved smoking and probably always will.
Is an appraisal enough or is refinancing required?
When I surf on this page I get a captcha which does not work with noscript/basic (x)html browsers.
Coinbase Leaders Net $1.2B in Share Sales
Co-founders Brian Arm­strong and Fred Ehrsam, as well as Pres­i­dent and Chief Op­er­at­ing Of­fi­cer Em­i­lie Choi and Chief Prod­uct Of­fi­cer Suro­jit Chat­ter­jee, to­gether net­ted about $1.2 bil­lion in pro­ceeds from stock sales start­ing the day the San Fran­cisco-based com­pany started trad­ing through Feb­ruary of this year, ac­cord­ing to a Wall Street Jour­nal analy­sis of reg­u­la­tory fil­ings.
Treating a mortgage payment as "money I'm lighting on fire" is the safe way to do it if the mortgage is on an asset that you can't liquidate in order to get access to the equity (because you're living in it).
Reproducible builds aren't really that powerful if nobody audits what is being reproduced. And manual auditing is hard and tiring. You'd have to limit the number of updates to how many you can securely review over time. Or "pin" the code manually to specific versions so that it can't change without your permission.

My hot take on the subject of encrypted webmail is that the protocol to retrieve and decrypt mail should be a standard implemented by the browsers themselves. Not dependent on third party code, and you already trust the browsers not to leak information about what you're reading.
Oh goodie we have an outlier of a country which we can hold as an example of the majority of the world.

So if Canada is so good at testing and knowing the change in quality they must be able to predict when something is going to fail. Right? So why do things pack up in Canada then?
Your pace sounds exhausting, that stinks.

The big lesson I learned was if the engagement was on a Monday morning, and I had to fly Sunday, that needs to be reflected in compensation somehow. I was forcefully adamant that I flew during the week only without structured and logged PTO compensation.

The other company I worked for had no issues with me booking longer stays past the engagement as long as I covered expenses for those. That gave me a day or two in most places and I could hit highlights.
And property taxes, insurance, utilities (which you may have in an apartment but will probably be lower than a house) etc. I live in an older house on a reasonable bit of land so my expenses are probably on the higher side. But I figure $1,000/month is a reasonable round figure for budgeting. Condos will be lower in general--though there's a condo fee in that case.
Right, but that not OP's point. OP said that insane valuations reached in private markets can't be reached in public markets. Public markets can be just as irrational as private markets
Toronto downtown, thats the quotes I got for toyta Camry 18 years old.
I still wonder about how smoking has become unpopular but obesity with diabetes and drug use has ballooned, is there a trade off? Which is worse?
My experience watching my mother slowly die was that the cancer was easily beat. It was the COPD that caused the most suffering and eventually killed her.
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You can turn of IP logs in the Protonmail webapp. I do that as a small precaution, but if the authorities want your IP, they will get it, and in the worst case compel Proton to deploy a compromised webapp frontend where emails can be seen in the clear. But you'd have to be a really juicy target for that to happen, and most people aren't juicy targets.
Nonsmokers will never know the satisfaction of cigarettes and beer. Or cigarettes and coffee.
Well the mortgage lenders aka banksters decide whether you can afford housing. A stealth form of birth control is high house prices unless those parents put their kids out to work....
Every analyst is recommending one choice, one way or another. "Not taking an action" is a choice. "Shutting down cryptocurrency" is a choice to shut out a bunch of people who can not participate in the current system.

The big issue is in finding out the upsides and the downsides of each of these choices, and who should pay for the consequences if the actions backfire. This is why we should ask for those analysts to actually put some Skin in the Game.
Does anyone know if it's possible to visit DynamicLand in Oakland? Massive Bret Victor fan.
I think kinematic UI's would at first seem new and fun, but then become tedious. Sign language has less bandwidth than speaking or typing and expends more calories.
The problem with these articles is that they never go into exactly what parts of the message and metadata is actually encrypted. It can't all be encrypted (or at least I'm not aware of how that would work in practice), so it would be useful to know that, for instance, while the message is encrypted, the sender and receiver metadata is not, which certainly wouldn't make information about who is communicating with who private.
good point, you're correct. The government unfortunately has the power to jail or strip you of your income as they have the monopoly on violence.
The LeapMotion was basically a really accurate Kinect for your hands, and that was back in 2014. I always wondered why it never took off, and I suspect it's a market issue more than a technological one. Waving your hand in the air and doing hand gestures just didn't provide enough benefit I guess
“So here’s a vision of the future that’s popular right now. [video embed, black with the text THIS VIDEO IS PRIVATE]”

I like this vision a whole lot.
That makes more sense now, lol
> The government lets you deduct your mortgage interest from taxes

This is effectively not true anymore.

> Also, what am I going to do instead, rent? My rent can go up $50 bucks a year where my mortgage payment is locked in. For most people, home ownership is the safest and best way to build a retirement nest egg and a tangible asset to borrow against in times of trouble.

I'm going to push back a touch on this, it's not really true. Mortgage rates don't usually change in the US(because we take 30yr fixed mortgages generally). But housing costs do go up for owners: property taxes, and property maintenance.

Generally renting vs owning is mostly a wash, sometimes one is cheaper than the other, just depending on the local housing market.

Historically property has a about a 1%/yr real rate of return, so housing basically keeps up with inflation, but not much more. I know recent history makes people think this is not true, but it really is. It seems unwise to think this recent history will continue forever. Equities historically get a 4-6%/yr real return, drastically outperforming the historic returns of real estate.

But yes, lots of people tend to not save for retirement, making their houses their de-facto retirement savings. The problem is, they have to live somewhere, making their house value somewhat hard to spend in retirement.
As a fellow parent of children in your school that's possible for you yes in your specific situation, but it's not possible for most people. However even then I doubt you could grab a bunch of the children and take them out for food without negotiating with their parents first.
Not bad for me on Fedora 36 Wayland, 2x scaling and no hinting, like God intended.

https://imgur.com/a/ZFTwW6A

This is as good as macOS' rendering as I've ever seen on any other machine, and I'm really fastidious about my fonts. It's really easy to achieve:

1. Install Fedora

2. In GNOME Tweaks, disable font hinting. Looks good only on HiDPI screens, this is why it's not default. If you're not on Fedora, change all fonts to Noto because they're much higher quality.

3. Optional: copy the Windows and macOS fonts to avoid the crappy "lookalike" replacements. The screenshot above uses Verdana straight from a Windows 10 installation, which is exactly what's requested by HN's stylesheet.
Didn't know that project. Sounds like an opensource Tailscale with more features. Love it, thanks for sharing!
They’re somewhat orthogonal to each other, but they aren’t opposites.

In practice, relatively few socialist/communist regimes had what could be charitably described as democracy (with the exception of the Nordic countries), but when the political philosophy really gained steam in the early 20th century, many of the branches of socialist philosophy were rooted in democratic control, of all society. Even during the Russian revolution, socialist takeover mean democracy within the government, the factories, and the military. It was only later once the Bolsheviks consolidated power that reality shifted away from that, under the shadow power structure of the party.
What in the hell?
Yeah, a physiotherapy course is the standard treatment for "weird body pain with no visible problem on MRI" here in Germany. I'm surprised to hear if that isn't the case in your country.
This book did a tremendous amount to help me with my chronic pain issues: https://www.painscience.com/tutorials/trigger-points.php
TBH, I gave up on internet privacy when GPG could not catch on at the user level.
People in crypto invent new words rather than building new things all too often. I think it's a carryover practice that emerged from the whitepaper era of 2017-2018, when you had to have a massive pseudo-intellectual theoretical framework supporting your dApp to support a token raise.

Build cool things and don't hide behind jargon.
Different people have different preferences, for sure. I used to feel that way when I lived in a small town with no amenities. But now I'd hate to move back to a major US city, for the reasons I list above.

I'm not interested in raising kids, but if I was, it wouldn't be in SF, Seattle, Austin, Denver, or NYC. I'd raise kids someplace where I could let them walk around and explore in a safe way -- the situation on the street in many US cities is not that. They'd be accosted by the mentally ill or run down by giant trucks and SUVs in no time.
>but mortgage principal is not an expense.

this isn't entirely true either. You need to live somewhere. Yes you own the equity, but it's always going to be locked away as "home equity". It has an advantage of giving you higher debt flexibility by taking loans out against it - but to say it is the same as banking cash as compared to renting is wrong.

Unless you downsize your living or sell the house without buying another one (which means you will be renting) that money is effectively gone as far as liquid cash is concerned
What a cool project! Hoping to see a full web suite with something like "ProTerm" integration someday.
Agreed with Mr. Robot part 100%.

About whoever is behind this ransomware, of course this is nothing "fsociety-level" though the general intentions (hacking powerful ones and changing of powers) gave me a similar vibe.
It's worth keeping in mind that the quality of Xray and MRI machines vary greatly and the facility doing the scans typically won't be upfront with what machines they're using. You are the only person who is ever going to advocate for the treatment you get so you'll need to be very firm but polite to get this information.
"But that's crazy, Morpheus. Thermodynamics says.."

"And where did you learn about physics, Neo?"

"..... In the Matrix...."
This is true in any developed country.
-- to nitpick -- empathy is the ability to put yourself in someones position & truly feel what their reality must be like -- compassion is acting on that empathy --
Unfortunately private care in the UK may not be so great when the NHS starts to fully break down
Modernization makes warfare orders of magnitude more efficient, wouldn't you agree?

More people have suffered and died in modern warfare than any other wars because its that much easier to harm and kill people at scale.

That's my cherry picked argument vs yours.
> The AudioContext was not allowed to start. It must be resumed (or created) after a user gesture on the page.

Created a new issue: https://github.com/martme/webaudio-modem/issues/8
It doesn't work for America lol... I'm in America.
I would say it is on Hacker News for this very reason! Pure ridicule!
How do you feel about typing on an iPad or iPhone or membrane keyboard vs a keyboard with actual keys and switches?
Countries are unwilling to stop emitting carbon so they've made the decision for themselves.
I use one to and it's absolutely great.
Separation of concerns is a really important concept, but I also think it's very often misinterpreted.

The real question is where are the inherent couplings within a system? In places where they exist, collocation is a very good thing. Separation of concerns is best applied parts of the system with low inherent coupling.

In the case of web UI, the controller logic, document structure (HTML), presentation (CSS), and client-side interaction logic (JS) often have very tight inherent coupling, to the point of needing to relate to each other through shared identifiers (e.g. DOM classes, variables). Collocation generally allows you to scrap boilerplate declarations and work on an entire UI component in one screen of source code, rather than bouncing between tightly coupled files. In my experience, this is a huge productivity boost and aid in understanding code other people wrote.
Often, comptime code couldn’t be executed at runtime because the language features it accesses aren’t available then. But I agree that if a parameter could go either way, you shouldn’t have to write two versions.
I'm not sure, I was quoting the article in my first paragraph.
What were they using to hash passwords? sha256? I actually am curious since they didn't mention it in their email.