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> nobody has ever disputed that, but if you read my comment again, you'll see that I was discussing expected value of writing/taking a policy.

Your original post strongly implies that making a claim against the policy is net negative: "they get you on premium increases if you do make a claim". I am disputing that implication.

> Yes, indeed, loans also have neutral or negative expected return, so do lotteries, and that doesn't mean that insurance doesn't too. A is a member of S doesn't mean that the cardinality of S is 1.

The point is that you said that insurance "lets you break a $5k lump expense out into $50/mo payments", this is not true. That is what a loan does. There is a meaningful difference. Insurance allows you to pay to guard against risk by spreading payments out over multiple people, not spread out a large payment over a period of time.

> You're trying to be cute and contrarian, in the finest HN spirit (it's also not cute or funny when anyone else does it, fyi) but you're going off on irrelevant tangents. Please, you're not furthering the discourse here, you're just being tangential and contrarian.

Please read the HN guidelines before commenting, in particular this section:

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

You can find a link to the guidelines at the bottom of the page, or here's a direct link: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I dunno. If you can't see the ball's colours you can't meaningfully say that one is red, the other blue. It doesn't mean they aren't red/blue, you just can't infer which is in which box.

Same here. Energy E will hang around for unlimited time until you extract it. I dunno. Anyway, thanks.
I most settings there are people upstream and downstream of us, if you let something "slide" it's worth consider the knock-on effects on others, or at least give them a heads up
I believe it's less outlawed and more not really approved for use due to insufficient research.
I found DC West by looking at a list of Omaha suburbs, finding Waterloo, and looking up its school district. It's significantly closer to Omaha than Naperville is to Chicago, so yeah, I'm sticking with that being a suburb. If it wasn't a suburb, if it was its own city, that would make my argument stronger, not weaker.

I don't know what "excited" means. By national standards, I've been extraordinarily lucky; a $100k/yr comp package wouldn't excite me right now. But I can compare what teachers make to what other white collar professionals make, and I understand how to account for the rest of the compensation package --- a defined-benefit pension in many major districts (actually, a defined-benefit pension would light me up right now) and an enormous allotment of vacation days.

Speaking only to my local school district, which breaks comp out, extracurriculars are not a "bit" of extra money; it's as much as a 20% pay boost. My real point though is simply that the base salary is where most teacher comp packages start, and there's other things that go into it.

I'm not saying "teacher" is the best deal in the whole economy, but in major metro school districts, it's not a bad deal.

And, just to be ultra clear: obviously there are a lot of school districts, especially rural districts, where this isn't the case at all.
Why Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy (2020)
Life is all about trade offs, i would find no joy in trying to live a life where i never get to eat pizza, drink a beer etc...
I should join AA if I have social anxiety or existential dread? Considering GP's comment, this is a worthless response. Also it wouldn't even apply to people that don't drink, such as myself. I'm glad AA helped you but you chose the wrong comment to reply to.
Alcohol habits have varied immensely across times and cultures, both in terms of consumption and in beliefs about the effect of alcohol. There's plenty of room to change, even if you only think what has happened before is possible.
There are so many things in our life that cause harm in any quantity. For instance, exposure to fine particulate is directly correlated with all cause mortality. Yet almost everyone drives or rides the subway, even though both activities expose you to fine particulate. For many, the benefits of transportation outweigh the negative health impact. Many feel the same way about alcohol.
Why The Pentagon remains both the best and worst customer for tech innovators
Back in the day, you could always tell ABC, CBS, and NBC shows apart by their lighting and coloring. Watch Rosanne and Happy Days (ABC) and compare with old Magnum PI and 60 minutes (CBS) and Cosby Show or Cheers (NBC).
The difference in per-capita GDP between the poorest and wealthiest US states is small compared to EU nations. I did some quick research:

Luxembourg GDP Per Capita: 114,370

Ireland GDP Per Capita: 83,990

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Romania GDP Per Capita: 12,510

Bulgaria GDP Per Capita: 9,850

vs:

New York GDP Per Capita: 93,463

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Mississippi GDP Per Capita: 42,411

Yes, NY transfers wealth to Mississippi but the scale of transfer and the relative number of wealthy states vs poor (there's like 5 in the deep south) means the dynamic is completely different. Without significant development in ex-Soviet states I'm not sure how the EU can hold together longterm.
How often do you see a car from the 80s still on the road?
Aa the link says, the Mac program doesn’t start till tomorrow
Do you know for sure that surveillance capitalism isn't pushing up the prices of your health insurance because you once googled a symptom

Yes, I do, at least for the very large majority of Americans who get their health insurance through their employer. As problematic as that relationship may be, it does set up a wall such that (a) the cost to me, personally, is completely standardized; and (b) there's a large gap between my individual online identity and my identity as an employee within my organization.

Further, health insurance is just about the most heavily-regulated industry in the universe. Aside from the trivial assertion that it's absurd to refer to this industry as "capitalism" because it's so far from a free market, the fact is that the insurance companies are watched very closely, and I think it's improbable that they could have a setup like this without anyone having learned about it.

Finally, again for the majority who are covered through their employer, most of these policies are self-insured. That is, it's the employer themselves who pays the charges, and they're also paying the insurance company to administer the program, but not to shoulder any risks. The more the insurance company has to spend on that administration, the less likely they're going to be hired. To make such a trade-off there would need to be a pretty clear demonstration to the employer that more money is being saved in medical payments than is being spent on that additional administration - and again, that's consistent with my argument in the prior paragraph.
Fake Reservation Links Prey on Weary Travelers
There used to be a meme along the lines of "Congress was too chicken to pass a law to collect taxes, yet the IRS (executive) continues to collect them. Thus you don't have to pay taxes at all, by law."

Was that nonsense? Where is the 'tax law' (not a regulation) passed by Congress?
On a hotlap they'll probably be quick but electric racing cars would still end up spending hours in the pits if they raced at le mans for example
I'm not saying it's not a better outcome, I'm saying that it should be merely a start and not something to be celebrated.
If you ever find yourself in a scenario where clean water isn’t available. Beer might be one of the few things you can drink that won’t kill you.
3:2 pulldown is taking 24fps film and making it work in 29.97fps TV video, generally with a couple interlaced frames. If you're seeing something "excessively fluid" the TV is interpolating frames. Which I love: 24fps needs to die. But a 120Hz refresh TV can also display 24 fps exactly, by showing the same frame 5 times, if the manufacturer has provided such a mode. 60Hz TVs cannot display 24fps without judder or interlacing
The fact that alcohol is sold in stores en masse, but it's somehow so bad that it kills cells? If it is so bad, why isn't it banned in every country in the world?

Beer is even considered food in some countries. I don't see any evidence for his theories mentioned in the video.
Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdYzVaC6HSQ&t=9m37s

LTT runs the numbers to demonstrate it. Apple is making you pay more to do it yourself, and you have to wait days for the parts to arrive, when you could just go down to the Apple Store. The pricing completely nullifies any real-world benefit of this program, making the program seem like it is entirely performative.

If an individual can't even save money doing it this way, the program is worse than useless for repair shops since they won't be able to compete with Apple Store repair services. That's also without even addressing the inability for repair shops to buy parts before a customer shows up with a problem. Repair shops want to be able to provide same day service, which this program makes impossible... unless your name is Apple.
Fluoride salts are good for fissile uranium + fertile thorium. If you want to work with a plutonium/uranium 238 cycle then chloride salts are a better choice. Plutonium doesn't dissolve very well in fluorides.

Molten chloride reactors can have performance characteristics right out of science fiction, it seems possible for such a reactor to not only breed more fuel but to destroy the long-lived (500 year) fission products such as cesium and strontium.

It never gets upvoted on HN when I link it but I've been following MSRs for a while and even spoke at the first thorium energy conference and I've been watching people's thoughts about designs evolve and this one

https://www.moltexenergy.com/

is well ahead of the others.
I believe that the video was misinformed or your recollection is a bit fuzzy. The closest true approximation I can muster is "there is no commercial molten salt reactor design yet approved by the NRC, and the NRC approval process may need updates to consider reactor designs that significantly deviate from the common water-moderated types."
I'm actually willing to tolerate almost anything since we finally left the age of mainstream headlines using "epic," because there were plenty of them. If the papers would stop their 60 year-old employees from using snowclone 2010s meme formats on twitter to defend drone bombings, I would also be grateful.
>UK inflation to top% in early 2023, Citi warns

to top 18%

You need to edit your title, perhaps HN autostripped that?
I had a typo - should read “hasn’t factored” and not “has factored”.
We're both making the same number of assumptions. The difference is that yours is in the negative and mine is in the positive. Your example about the risk of someone leaking to the press shows we simply live in completely different realities, thus argument is impossible. Which is fine! In my reality people are leaking to the press all the time about such things and simply being ignored by most who don't want to confront how dark corporate and government PR and marketing has become.
The police asked for stuff and the company complied and now you're upset that the government has it, but somehow it's actually Google's fault? Pass laws so your government can't do things you don't like.

>If you don’t see the glaring material issues, that explains a lot about why Google is Google.

I don't work at Google anymore. Feel free to click on my profile to see what I'm up to these days.
I dunno, I’m not a huge fan of effect-based FP as well, but have started to see its merits in my current job. I guess it’s like you said, i.e. methods in your library are checking if there was an error already and if there was, don’t do the required processing. With effectful monads, you get that out of the box - it just happens automatically. I think it’d prefer that aproach for a serverside project. For anything low-latency though, it’s obviously too slow (at least in Scala).
Dont know why people talk about Netflix vs "Hollywood counterparts" because those are the same fricking people.

Except that hollywood have only hollywood people and netflix have hollywood people AND the rest of the world producing for it.
The "DHM Depot Dihydromyricetin" brand on Amazon (first result for DHM) has been consistently effective for me. I have not tried other brands.
Why does everything on Vice read like that?
Ever study human history? Something is definitely wrong with humanity.
It is an old and lazy joke format:

"Benny, which of the girls would you take on a date?"

Benny - "Yes!"
Expensive college, expensive healthcare, expensive housing, but low wages and stiff competition for most entry level jobs.
It would be helpful if people would include [WAITLIST] in the title.

Too many waitlist things going on - I can understand the need for it, but I'm more inclined to think "Scarcity marketing" in most cases.

Of course if some new products couldn't deal with an influx of new users in a timely fashion, better to have a waitlist.

But for the first N people it should be auto-accept.
This is a really interesting article. One question answered for the author: I believe TPMS sensors have an RFID-style mode, so that handheld programmers can access them without waiting for the slow reporting period.

I have experience with how finicky these sensors can be. I installed a radar detector in my car (legal in my state, and wise considering the unusually aggressive speed enforcement that appears once every few weeks along the highway I drive). I stashed the radar detector's control box in some empty space between the glove box and an air duct. The TMPS receiver module is also located in this area and cannot receive signals while the radar detector is powered on. I assume this is broad-spectrum EMF and I need to layer the control box in aluminum foil.
Sounds like you were mooching off the heat of nearby flats :)
Tire Review says [0]

> the sensors are usually powered by 3-volt lithium ion batteries, but some use 1.25-volt nickel metal hydride batteries. There are developments underway that promise battery-less sensors in the future, having the potential to dramatically change TPMS markets.

Also, YouTube has a number of videos on how to change out the batteries

[0] https://www.tirereview.com/changing-tpms-sensor-batteries/
Don't be obtuse, that wasn't what I said at all.

Decades of posting all about your life online and doing insane things for internet fame, and even your own personal details means they can't cry when that attention isn't always positive.

Chris is himself a troll. He has physically attacked a gamestop employee, his mother tried to run over another one.

Again, if OP wanted to garner sympathy, Chris wasn't the example to be used.
>who simply don't understand

Most likely they do and their pros/cons calculation is just different from yours.
I bet even with literally perfect lives humans would still drink alcohol and consume other drugs. It's a chemical you can ingest that gives you different experiences than you normally could or would. That will NEVER not be attractive to the human brain, even if you think that's irrational. Humans are curious creatures, and that curiosity includes the desire to understand dangerous or weird things.
Funny thing: I'm reading this on a thin client (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/08/14/2030) that I set up a couple of weeks back, and on the second HDMI port of the monitor I'm using there's a Xiaomi Mi Stick (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/04/29/2045) that I've used to play Xcloud on.

I have used NVIDIA's service on and off since 2018: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2018/09/30/1600 - I did that because I'm (privately) a Mac user, can't stand fan noise and like to game, but have mostly moved to Game Pass for multiple reasons (full disclosure: Microsoft FTE with kids who prefer Xbox games to PC ones).

The experience of streaming a full blown AAA title to anything (provided you have good connectivity) is pretty great these days.
> Lucozade is another thing we have over here in the UK which is lauded as a 'curer' for hangovers.

I’d recommend Lucozade Sport instead, for the electrolytes (It’s got what plants crave!).

Then, poached eggs, rashers, toast and some roasted or fried tomatoes. Throw in a chopped up habañero as well for flavour if your spice tolerance is up to it.
Wasn't the RPi hardware originally developed for a STB before being sold separately? Seems like it should be well suited for the task.
Inflation is a general rise in prices, and what the paper reports is not merely that people who received money paid their employees more (yay!) but also that employers in villages that didn't receive any money also had to pay more in wages. Literally they experienced an inflationary shock in the labor market. The research is very quiet on this part - in the control villages the little businesses suddenly had a big problem. They couldn't/didn't raise prices because their competitors in the next village over weren't doing so, but they suddenly had to pay more in labor costs.

You can say this isn't a problem but the goal of aid is to try and create sustainable increases in wealth that stick around after the money flow stops. That clearly didn't happen here.

As to definitions, that's exactly the problem in talking about. The academic definition of inflation is useless and misleading. They say prices didn't go up, as if labor is some magical thing that doesn't have a price. And they neglect to mention that a very important category of prices did inflate unless you read most of the paper.
I'm living in Cyprus; had a Lenovo technician come here from Nicosia (~150 miles return) to fix my left-side USB ports of my ThinkPad T590 about six weeks ago.

In the past, I've had come Lenovo to remote parts of Switzerland and Germany, as well.
Samsung frame.
Hardware: It has physical netflix, prime, somethingelse buttons which immediately switch to that app without asking if you want to close the current app. Frustrating when you accidentally sit on your remote. So i modified my remote, put tape underneath the buttons to disable them.

Software:
In menu ads, sometimes, for some crap thing like tennistv. I have no idea how to disable it.

The fucking frame store is inbetween apps and starting point of the menu. Alyways need to do 4 (or 5, depending on ad) times to the right before being able to run the app you want.

It started playing samsung tv. After a week. I hate tv. Took me a day to get annoyed enough and then spend an hour to disable the shouting XL Americans.

So, typical Samsung. Software ux just sucks. Luckily a tv is mostly turned off* and that is why I bought it; hardware looks great when it’s off.

*off: it always switches to the frame mode. It is a laughable gimmick. Ever seen a painting giving light? You cannot disable it (i assumed it was possible). Long-hold power off to turn the tv off. Else frame mode. Sucks.

We need to save energy here in Europe. @Samsung: please fix it.

I thought i would not use thr smart functions, but I use it a lot. Tune-in radio and spotify work great. Also a lot of youtube and national tv app are pretty good. Airplay works fine too.

Recommend it? No. Happy with it… just enough to not return it.
Sure, but it would be better if we had more efficient methods of doing it.
> There is a difference between ads and graffiti. One is voluntary and the other is not.

To the one person who legally owns that space, there is that difference.

To literally everybody else, the difference is that one is trying to make me buy some stupid shit, and one is trying to capture my interest by artistic merit.

> Thats an assertion you believe in. China has roughly 1/6th the global population, is communist controlled and has the same issues.

Oh? How many wars did China start for oil in the past 20 years? Did they spend 6 trillion dollars on interest alone for illegal "wars on terror"? Are they trending down, or up? How's their manufacturing base? ... And who exactly are they exporting all their cheap goods to, in a very capitalist manner?

And - please digest this fully - just because our late-stage capitalism has a hand in the issues I named, for us, that doesn't mean that I support China, or communism. That's so clearly a false dichotomy. I think it's an example of an artificial talking point, created by cynical think-tanks and spread by corporate media.
You're right! I saw a scifi Stackexchange link, clicked into it, and saw it was a [story-identification] question for a story about numbers but I missed that it was a different question about identifying a story about numbers. Sloppy of me, but speaks to the depth of content on that tag!
Does it work on Windows 10 Enterprise running Crowdstrike in the EU during a full moon on an odd numbered day while it's raining?

Being sarcastic of course, but... hey maybe I'll take another look.
The best cures, as usual, are preventative. In order of effectiveness, I have found these reduce hangovers:

1. Don't drink a lot quickly. If you never get to the point that the room starts spinning, then your body can roughly process the alcohol at the rate that you're consuming it. Avoid doing shots and sip cocktails slowly.

2. Sober up before going to bed. If you do get too drunk, spend an hour or two sobering up before going to bed. That will give your body time to process some of the alcohol and tell you what it needs—to pee, drink water, eat, etc. before you go unconscious.

3. Drink a fairly large electrolyte drink like Gatorade before going to bed. Much of the pain of a hangover comes from dehydration and other chemical imbalances from your body processing the alcohol while you sleep.

If you haven't done any of those and woke up with a hangover, it's too late. Your body has used all of its reserves processing the alcohol and you have signed up for pain.
> They're already trialing overhead wires on some highways for electric trucks.

Yes, and it's a bad idea. The friction between tarmac and rubber is orders of magnitude worse than steel on steel. Electrification alone doesn't solve the problem.
Is having a drink or two a week really measurably self-destructive? How does it measure compared to sitting at a desk all day, or putting mayo in your sandwiches?
Who's making 65" 4k OLED monitors?
A usable example would make this much more effective brochureware.
Hooking up an ISA Ethernet card (or chips designed to go into one) to an 8051 (and later, AVR) was actually the go-to way to do "internet of things" back in the day. Then ENC28J60 came along, and things got much easier.
Replacing Lead Water Pipes with Plastic Could Raise New Safety Issues
Thanks for pointing it out, I fixed it. I was using background-blur in CSS, Firefox mobile didn't like it I guess.
That wrinkle is important though - since their repair services could be more marked up when purchased directly Thant the insurance is. Looks like that isn’t the case for Apple at least for your fleet but there is no reason in general that a membership / HMO style insurance service will be more expensive than paying out of pocket.
The solution existential dread is managing it, it won't go away because we don't have the tools to answer the questions that induce it

I suggest studying epistemology
> I think I will use it the next time I wiggle the mouse to make my Teams status green again.

https://github.com/arkane-systems/mousejiggler
They are battery powered. The battery lasts a few years, and conserves charge by only reporting pressure every minute after motion is detected.
Many people come over on an L1 visa. A U.S. company will higher a foreign worker, have them work in a foreign office for one year, and then they qualify for an L1 visa.
Does it have push notifications (Google Firebase)?
I haven't even heard of most of these before but I found a couple of cool ones, especially for music prod. Thanks!