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It is a good start, but he doesn't have the detail at the local level to see what is going on - the prices are all over the map and there is no way to rationally determine what is expensive.

I have a weird plan where I pay a percentage of the total cost, but have to pay for everything first and then get reimbursed; but ultimately a more expensive operation ends up costing me more, so it always makes sense to shop around.

As a result, I know all the cash costs for an upcoming outpatient surgery I am having, and whether they offer cash discounts.

The difference between various hospitals and service centers is HUGE, like 5 to 8 times from one place to another.

Imaging center "A" : CT scan $232 ; Chest Xray: $33; EKG: $21

Hospitals "A" and "B" : CT scan >$1000; Xray $185; EKG: > $100

You end up renting the operating room (the surgeon has privileges at 4 different locations):

(new, shiny, modern) Surgery Center "A": $1200 with cash discount

Hospital "A" : no exact price, "range is $7K to $11K, typical is $9500"

Hospital "B" : no exact price, "range is about $7500, cash discount = $5000"

HOW can it even be reasonable that there is such a discrepancy in pricing? For one hospital, the CT scan "interpretation charge" was more than the $232 I spent on the entire scan + interpretation at the imaging place I went to.

(And yes, I used the exact same billing code in discussions with all the medical billing people I talked to.)
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The current sense of Incubators are a bit different, they look for groups with ideas, take them under their wing for a fraction of stakes, and let them go. The ideas always come from the outside.

What I am saying is, even the ideas are brainstormed inside. Imagine 100 great minded people every month sitting down and choosing a good idea (that originated from the inside), and all of them putting their efforts in to implementing it. You do that every month.
Deming's bio is really interesting. To me it seems that Japan is already something like light years ahead of the US because it embraced this most logical long-term methodology for societies that rely upon production's means of consumption.

Deming's Wikipedia bio; there's a lot missing, but it should be improved over time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
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that the man never actually landed on the moon? :-)
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some points:

- healthcare is not a business. get over it. the law says you cannot decline emergency care. there is no business model here, any more than there is in running the navy. its a cost.

- you care about public health. meaning, you care if other people are healthy. do you go to the mall or restaurants? if you do, you care if the person next to you has TB. infectous diseases doesn't care about your fully-paid premiums...it matters if other people are also healthy. this once again goes to the fact that healthcare is not a business.

- single payer is the only model that works. or would you prefer to spend another century experimenting with craptastic half-baked business/public hybrids? all health insurance companies must go. the government itself chooses single payer when it needs to run large healthcare plans. the VA, military, federal govt...they all go through single-payer.

- healthcare will be rationed. deal with it. water is rationed. the carpool lane is rationed. bandwidth is rationed. why would healthcare not be rationed?
I don't think they're going to pull this off; to me "rightfully high" means it will be significantly more than $0.10 per article.
Absolutely. One of the best things we could do would be changing our farm subsidies away from corn and sugar and instead contribute to many forms of fresh produce.
oh fuck off. there is always some pedantic prick who has nothing intelligent to say but chimes in with "citations????". you get tonight's dipshit award
They seem to draw the line at images. So talking about breast feeding or anti-semitism is okay. I assume they also wouldn't allow pictures of jews or blacks being gassed.
There's a difference between posting gratuitous comments as in the picture (which sounds more like trolling than true racism to me, although I could be mistaken), and holocaust denial. I don't think banning discussion on anything is "common sense and decency". There are anti-hacking laws in most countries, should discussion on hacking be a bannable offense?

Why in the world must they draw a line in the sand and then stand on the same side as Holocaust deniers is beyond me.
That's basically saying that if you don't ban holocaust denier, you're an holocaust denier, which is a huge fallacy.

I'm surprised how worked up even technical people can get when people post false things on the Internet. Let the trolls be, there's not much to be done about it.
the more popular the community gets, the more spam and non-related stuff gets submitted.

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This is REALLY close to what I was looking for. Any time I tried to post something, I kept getting a Name error.

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NO ONE WANTS A FREE MARKET SOLUTION FOR HEALTHCARE.

get over it.

a free market solution means dying baby gets turned away when parent has no money. otherwise it is not a market solution. no one wants this. no one. move to somalia, you can implement your plan there, life is cheap.

healthcare is not a business. no civil society is going to let you decline cusomters who cannot pay when it comes to keeping the baby alive.
Can we discuss health care without the science fiction and doomsday scenarios?

only if you travel back to 1981 before these costs started their long-term snowball
But if the trend hasn't started yet, how can the graph possibly hope to extrapolate it with any degree of accuracy?
Well said. I actually took as a given that this system will disintegrate very soon. It was unraveling even in the best of times but the current economic conditions have set it up for the final collapse. I was thinking more about the difficult task of deciding what will take its place.

I'd wager that the only people left who don't think that the entire path that money takes between patients and doctors needs to be demolished and started over from scratch are lobbyists.

At this point, the parasites have more or less killed the host. If, in the unlikely event that we Americans make no real progress on this in the next couple of years, projecting out to 2043 and talking about sustainability is entirely moot. We'll have gone banana republic long before it matters.

Edit: Perhaps I over-emphasized the end-of-life part. Got it on the brain a lot these days. The perceived unfairness will permeate the entire system. Just put the Noble laureate and the truck driver in an accident with only enough resources to save one. Who will decide, and how. If they have the power to choose the scientist, they have the power to choose their roommates cousins nephew or a big campaign donor.

Government rationing seems like the best choice. It still sucks. Bummer.
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That is effectively what a bunch of the new diet plans do - where you purchase meals from them.

The benefit to the user is you don't have to cook - and you can charge a pretty good margin for making the meals.
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Device where every time you mutter a complaint it records it and attempts to match it up and send it to the correct recipient. The complaints are anonymous, but tracks whether the complaint was responded to or not. If so, the complainer gets more karma and is prioritized higher. There could be the opposite marking of spam or unreasonable. The eventual goal is to identify complainer pundit wizards that will make the world better by walking around and muttering (bitching) about their dislikes.
In middle school I built a system based on hacked message boards and content management systems for students to share notes and study online (mostly the night before tests).

Before it got 'big', I was working on it during lunch when a media specialist saw the web page and logo and asked what it was. I thought I was screwed.

But I was at a small private school and next thing I knew, the head of the middle school was telling my entire grade about it. Then it grew. I learned a ton in middle school, I had my best study skills ever because I was preparing content for the web, interacting about the content, and managing the site. At one point I had a science teacher logging on before tests and helping students. Eventually I won first place at a state technology fair.

But the site was always confined to my middle school.

The following summer I wrote pages upon pages of planning, figuring out how we could convince schools to buy licensing, how we (2 friends and I) would monetize it, grow it. But we all went to different high schools and my public high school instantly gave me signals it would not be tolerated.

I could get into a big long debate about my views on the "honor code" but my point about this story is that I am sure there were lots of localized "Facebook"s around. What Mark did well in my view is that he took it beyond his local, beyond Harvard, and he did so exceptionally well. At least better than I, a high school freshman did.
Unsynced.com is also a startup in the Toronto/Waterloo area (we're 4 engineering students from U of Waterloo, but office is located in Toronto).
I'm not sure what you mean by "made it work". It causes me real physical pain to look at the site.

Was that the intent? Is this like some roundabout new fangled goatse kinda thing?
That's true. The online payments would have to have a huge audience comparable to its paper circulation. If we're talking WSJ at $1.50 newsstand price, it could be $0.10 per article... if advertising was consistent online, which we know isn't the case.
The thing that really really shot facebook through the roof was its photo tagging interface. Being able to tag a friend and have your photo show up on their profile-- that was the killer app.
Yeah that's my user friendly way of saying you're not logged in.. I sent you some login info
Crockford's "Javascript: The Good Parts" (aka "the butterfly book") is a much quicker read, and will result in better code.
More sensationalism from tc, whats new?
> the parasites have more or less killed the host

Precisely
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she should just do it anyways. it's easier to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
> The simplest thing to do is pick out the best healthcare system in the world, and then replicate it exactly. So bring in the top officials from Singapore, put them on an independent commission to redesign the healthcare system, and force Congress to pass exactly the plan they come up with.

You'd have to also replicate the covered population and make sure that there's a "USA" outside paying for drug development and the like.
In an experiment, formed a line in front of a random doorway. After a whole, the line grew. Nobody knew what they were waiting for.

What about hiring people to make a store front of parking lot or booth look busy?
> water is rationed. ... bandwidth is rationed.

Nope.

I'm pretty sure that I can buy as much water as I want and I know that I can buy as much bandwidth as I want.
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Way more countries have laws against holocaust denial (11 or so) than breast feeding (0), but guess which one is banned on Facebook?

Holocaust denial laws are bullshit. Free speech is free speech.
Well, to his point, he is saying that you should never give away the core parts of your business for free, else you will never be able to charge for them.

In the example you cited, I would think of it as the videos being the marketing for the goodies, and goodies being the core business. If they ever started with giving away free t-shirts, they would never be able to charge for it, even though they would get a large user base from that model. Note that they wouldn't also be very successful at giving the basic t-shirt designs for free and charging for the better ones.
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Axod may have overreached by saying "most languages". However, you overreach as well by saying "the minority" (though at least you add the qualifier "I'd expect".)

What Axod perhaps should have said is "most languages that support automatic type coercion."

We could have a flamewar all day about whether or not type coercion is a good or bad thing. And, actually, tumult's whole complaint could be summed up as type coercion is bad, and I don't get that object literals are different from string literals.

Many languages with type coercion, where objects can be converted to a string via a toString method of some sort, behave the same as Javascript. At most, like php, they log a warning or notice of some sort.

Personally, I prefer type coercion to throwing errors, and I prefer loose types to static types. Apparently, tumult doesn't, to the point of whining about the programming language that is the lingua franca of the web. To each his own.
Absolutely. I rarely see such insightful, constructive, and inspirational writing about UI design floating around the web. Relatively little has changed since this written, and it still looks so innovative and even "futuristic." I think just about everyone on HN can take something new away from this.
Except that apparently, forgiveness costs $500/day.
You can bitch about how javascript sucks, and refuse to use it, or you can man up and write programs in the language that every web browser supports. Seems like a pretty easy choice to me.

Yay running out of stack, tons of fun.

Why aren't you using setTimeout to work around that limitation?

Maybe I should lay off the India pale ales and comments.

Yes, maybe you should.
Nethack is probably doable. Dwarf Fortress isn't open-source, and would probably bog down badly on the iPhone without significant modifications.
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You have to mouse over a 3d pie chart to see what the fields represent. It should probably be labeled. I'm using Chrome/Vista if there's something I'm not seeing.
The author is not talking about the per user secret key. He is talking about a secret API key that is used to encrypt all the communications from his application. If you store that locally you run the risk of having anyone with a decompiler be able to reverse engineer your specific API key.
In addition to the big increase in spam and off-topic stuff lately, usually from accounts that just signed up to spam us, dupes have become a lot more common from old-timers. Not sure why that is. The volume of stuff making it to the front page is still low enough for it to be easy to check the past three days or so before submitting something.
Perhaps his point is not that they should take down the denier groups but instead let back in the breast feeding pictures.

Clearly the tone of the article doesn't make that appear to be the case, but Arrington is indeed correct in pointing out a discrepancy here. I find it funny that people champion Facebook in the comments for taking such a "high ground", when clearly they are not doing so in the case of breast feeding images. Facebook is censoring its content, albeit making some controversial choices, but censoring all the same.

If free speech is free speech, then the images should be allowed back on. There exists no reasonable argument for removing them outside of "they're offensive to X group", and that is the exact same argument being made about the denier situation.

I think its great that Facebook has relatively pro free speech attitudes, but let's not kid ourselves here: every choice about what stays on and what doesn't is purely based on marketing. In this country we have a problem with nudity, so the breast feeding pictures are out. If enough people got angry about the denier groups, I guarantee those would be taken out as well. At the end of the day, its absolutely true that these choices are a function of cowardice: not wanting to upset certain demographics that would leave their service.
And if she doesn't pay?

(The answer is: she gets in legal trouble, and the issue goes to a real court, with the possibility of appeals. Will three judges really think she can't use the water that lands on her roof?)
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Even though he is a "noob" the term coined by pg and appropriate here is to be relentlessly resourceful. That is if he wants to become a good hacker from a nubile state he will need to become relentlessly resourceful in the effort to get things done. I agree with pg that the good/great hackers are extremely resourceful.
because SICP was a great introduction, personally I think that Scheme (at least at first) is easier to pick up than Python. Our professor taught us basic Scheme in 40 minutes no problem. Python takes longer than that because there is more syntax. Basically all you need in scheme are some () and define, lambda, cons, car, cdr, and cond for the first 4 or 5 weeks.
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This actually is a good idea for something like a bloglines subscription where you have to read everyone else's posts before you can post...
Frankly, I know I would never hire anyone with your view of CS.

While I understand the fondness many people feel for Scheme, building an entire CS curriculum around it strikes me as particularly problematic. Scheme and Scheme's approach to programming can, I'm sure, be useful as one part of a larger curriculum, but more often it feels as if I'm talking to someone who, say, learned how to take a derivative via limits, and then decided that it would be all right never to learn anything more about calculus in the course of a mathematics degree. By analogy, building a REPL given only a small set of atomic language bits to start with simply is not the totality of either theoretical or applied computer science, and should not be pushed as such.
Wish there were more sites like this. We mostly just believe the answers we recieve.
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Facebook is not taking a "ban nothing" approach. They have no moral highground to stand on. They are taking a "ban what they feel like" approach. And they feel like banning mild things, but not troll level quality of thinking holocaust denial hate speech. They are giving the holocaust deniers better treatment than far more legitimate groups. That is siding with the holocaust deniers somewhat, and it's bad. They should either ban nothing, or add the really awful stuff to their ban list, their choice.
It was popular from the start. You cannot correlate any release of a feature to this subjective shooting through the roof to which you are referring. Or, if you can, I would be interested in seeing the data.
She has to be a pawn in some larger game that intends to subvert water rights. Bills don't come into the state legislature over one organic farmer's attempt to capture rain water. This reads like a slimy PR piece to stoke "grassroots" support for overturning water rights.
A holocaust denial law in the US would be bullshit b/c holocaust denial here is only slightly dangerous.

In some countries, e.g. Germany, it's a lingering part of world war 2 which is not yet obsolete. It's a war act, and it's suppressing a genuine, serious risk of violence.

I know that's a bit hard to believe for an American who would never do such a thing. The holocaust was hard to believe too. We should not ask or encourage Germany to repeal their holocaust denial laws before Germans judge that they are ready.
Javascript does not guarantee that, and yes, it does affect the results.

I did a bit of playing with this in Firefox, sorting the array [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] and then testing the mean of the first 5 vs the mean of the second 5, over 10,000 iterations. Then, based on the deviation from 4.5 in each set, I nudged the random cutoff up or down.

It seems to result in most evenly distributed randomness if you change the 0.5 to 0.36725 or so. When I tracked the values to return the same result for the same pair every time, it converged almost exactly on 0.375 every time.

These numbers seem suspiciously round to me.
It's a clean Friendster and MySpace that is now copying Twitter. I would not call that innovative!

It's strength is everyone, including your mom is on Facebook. From grade school, to high school, to family & friends, etc .... MySpace never provided that!
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"Unfortunately, you can't tell the class of a C++ object given a pointer to it at run time....which is why you can't automatically collect the garbage of C++ programs."

What nonsense. Here's what I learned from this link: trolling isn't as effective when it requires the trollee to read 10 pages of text.

This is garbage. Please flag it for collection.
Will it cost her $350,000 to get that far?
You don't believe in using the right tool for the job? In learning a variety of paradigms?

Perhaps we have misunderstood each other. I'm not pushing Scheme or the metacircular evaluator as the totality of theoretical or applied computer science. My interest is entirely in the educational value of building a REPL versus, say, a robotic control system. MIT has a lot of robotics opportunities from clubs to IAP (winter term) competitions to UROPs (undergrad research). MIT doesn't have a lot of REPL building opportunities.

In fact, I believe it is possible with the new curriculum to graduate from MIT with a degree in CS and have never built a REPL or a compiler. That seems a little... misguided.

I don't rail against this change because I mourn Scheme or hate Python. I rail against this change because I feel it fundamentally weakens the quality of an MIT CS education.
I would think that not killing babies would be the kind of publicity advantage that really sets a business apart from its competition.
In fact, I believe it is possible with the new curriculum to graduate from MIT with a degree in CS and have never built a REPL or a compiler

Hasn't this been the case since at least 1999?
The funny thing is that the title works both ways - Jewish haters are also welcome.

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Would you have survived in the middle ages?
At the risk of being polemic: The discrepancy you point out is perceived much more generally about the US as a whole by, dare I say, much of the rest of the world. High-minded talk about freedom coexisting with military aggression/intervention and even torture coexisting with incredible pettiness about sexual matters (bared nipples anyone?). But perhaps you are right in a deeper way: Who cares about logic. It's all about marketing!
I've noticed this too, for what seems like the past 2 months or so. This is just a passive observation, though. Most [dead] links seem to be from users who are either brand new or who have 1 karma point - basically bots, it seems.
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I wonder also if new users are also more apt to have an itchy reporting finger though. For example, yesterday a pretty benign Noam Chomsky link, already sitting with active comments, got killed (it was later restored).
I wouldn't call that funny.