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"In every society information is a means of making a living or wielding power, but Arabs husband information and hold it especially tightly. U.S. trainers have often been surprised over the years by the fact that information provided to key personnel does not get much further than them. Having learned to perform some complicated procedure, an Arab technician knows that he is invaluable so long as he is the only one in a unit to have that knowledge; once he dispenses it to others he no longer is the only font of knowledge and his power dissipates. This explains the commonplace hoarding of manuals, books, training pamphlets, and other training or logistics literature. On one occasion, an American mobile training team working with armor in Egypt at long last received the operators' manuals that had laboriously been translated into Arabic. The American trainers took the newly-minted manuals straight to the tank park and distributed them to the tank crews. Right behind them, the company commander, a graduate of the armor school at Fort Knox and specialized courses at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds ordnance school, collected the manuals from the crews. Questioned why he did this, the commander said that there was no point in giving them to the drivers because enlisted men could not read. In point of fact, he did not want enlisted men to have an independent source of knowledge. Being the only person who can explain the fire control instrumentation or boresight artillery weapons brings prestige and attention. In military terms this means that very little cross-training is accomplished and that, for instance in a tank crew, the gunners, loaders, and drivers might be proficient in their jobs but are not prepared to fill in for a casualty. Not understanding one another's jobs also inhibits a smoothly functioning crew"
>It's possible (due to the Halting Problem) that we keep getting applications no matter how much we try to simplify, in which case we've hit an infinite loop while trying to calculate "t", and hence we can never reach the point where we can apply it to "s".

But note that the _order_ of the reductions doesn't matter, as long as they're valid reductions. We always get the same result or it never halts like you said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Rosser_theorem

The Church-Rosser theorem probably deserves its own blog post.
India also has a parallel subsidized healthcare system of Government-operated hospitals, in which you can receive treatment at much lower costs, or often, for free. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_hospital#India)

However, the waiting lines for everything from a basic consultation to an actual procedure are much longer, and the standard of care seems to be lesser, so a lot of people from the middle and upper classes avoid them.

[Edit: parent comment seems to have been deleted, it mentioned the average figure for Indian per capita income, and asked whether most Indians could afford a procedure like this.]
Source : Years of employment.
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I hope she knows all the lyrics to The Ramones' "Teenage Lobotomy".

"Then I guess I'll have to tell 'em / That I've got no cerebellum."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ssoBUb2cJk
To be fair, iPad Mini has the same PPI as the original iPhone (163 PPI) and iPad Mini Retina has the same PPI as the Retina iPhone (326 PPI) so it could be argued that iPad is the only device where everything appears larger than the rest.
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Why is it scary?

Is there something inherent about health care that prevents an industrial philosophy towards production?
That may be so, but the skill level is the same, and the equipment is the same, if not similar.

So if the fundamental quality of care is the same, what explains the insane markup? Salaries? I doubt it.
What a large chip you must have on your shoulder. This is not even in the same ballpark of discussing gender differences in how brains function. This article is saying that even with certain portions of the brain missing, that other portions can compensate. What you are talking about is the different way that things are processed (if any) between male and female.

But good job on sticking it to THE MAN. I'm sure that your social media activism is revolutionizing the world.
Sounds like they thrived there to me. Maybe it was a good fit for them after all.
Right, the answer is somewhere in between.

When I worked on an ambulance, I'd be at the hospital several times a day - in the ER doctor lot, a sampling of the cars:

- multiple Tesla S's
- 3 Porsche Cayenne
- 2 Audi S5s
- several Escalades

Whilst there are two sides to the story, let's not pretend that doctors live hopeless lives, saddled with a lifetime of crippling student loan debt, barely able to keep their heads above water to selflessly help people.

There is a medical group in Kansas/Indiana, I think, that was trialling the novel idea of "fixed price surgery"... looking at right on $100K for cardiac bypass.

Me? To look at my explanation of benefits, the billing for my kidney stone last year peaked at over $60K.
Oi. Wrong window. Meant for article on missing cerebellum...
I honestly don't understand where most tax dollars go in the U.S. I'm in Korea at the moment and the tax burden is overall very light when compared to the States, but the level of service you receive is absolutely tremendous for the most part.

Example, if you make over around $85,000 USD, you fall into the maximum tax bracket, which is 35%. Most people pay around 25%. As a foreigner, I can also pay an alternative 17.5% instead.

There's also a 10% surtax at all income levels. So I can really get by with about 18.5% income tax (and there's all kinds of easy deductions).
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> I am amazed how some people think that with more facilities everyone will start cycling.

I didn't say everyone will start cycling, I said more people will start cycling. Please stop attacking a straw man.
I mostly agree, but Doctors get paid a lot too. We let the American Medical Association artificially limit the number of doctors in order to keep their salaries up (which has the side effect of over-working the doctors).

The costs you mentioned are the primary ones, but doctors salaries are a major contributor as well.
If what you mean by materialistic is non-supernatural (or just natural) then that much is quite settled, yes.
My PhD adviser and I have had that debate a number of times. For the congenital case, we can't say one way or the other. But in the acute case, where there are localized lesions to the parts of the cerebellum thought to be involved in cognition, the effect seems to be primarily cognitive. From anatomical studies, we also know that there are "loops" formed between non-motor areas of the cerebral cortex and the cerebellum.
No. There is no correct question. There are a ton of factors involved in an individual's performance, some of which are personal, some are organizational, some are circumstantial.

Don't oversimplify it. Asking why does not allow you to find out how to make everyone succeed. It might help. It might not. But in general, I don't put much stock in notions of everybody succeeding. That's rhetoric, not real world.
How are these results reconciled with well-documented censorship of any posts containing specific words?

I've personally seen social media posts with any mention of events like Tiananmen or political leaders blocked (often automatically by software), and a Chinese friend discovered she couldn't text the number '64' around June 4th (she was actually trying to send an address).

You can try it for yourself on a site like Renren (www.renren.com), just try posting something with the words 天安门 (Tiananmen), 习近平 （Xi Jinping, China's current President), or 周永康 (Zhou Yongkang, former PSC member).

The Chinese version of Skype (actually Skype, not a clone) even blocks words like 'fuck' (see: http://www.nartv.org/mirror/breachingtrust.pdf)
Are the travel costs footed by the remote worker? I'm trying to understand how Remote Year would make money off of this. Kind of like a programmer/recruiter/travel agent all in one?
The previous poster clearly does not understand that ZFS on Linux is essentially a native port with very careful dancing around licensing borders.
Even so the base number doesn't show up until most of the way through the lengthy article, with no explanation. Even after reading all those words I didn't understand the critical fact that there was a base size in dots that was different for each model. Everything before was 320 or a multiple.
I think a G+ nearby feature: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/06/06/exclusive-google-wil...

Would go a long way to make G+ compelling. There's still not a good tool for sharing pictures/video on mobile. MMS/SMS is too clunky when I want to share something with 2 or more nearby friends.

I wish I could take a picture, swipe up and to the left from the picture to initiate sharing, and click on the "nearby" or "frequent" chat-heads that I want to share the picture with.
I have no relatives in medicine (my sister trained as an EMT, but doesn't work as such), I'm not from India and have no family there. They've been pretty straightforward with me. The price they give me comes out of the same price list as the price they give to everyone else.

Also, if they rob you it's still a great deal. Do you really care a lot whether you spend $1k or $2k on surgery?

I haggle with autowallahs on principle, not because I care about paying 30rs extra.
I got given one at ICFP this year. If you're in the UK I'll send it to you.
The salaries are high but the fact that a surgery costs $34,000, most of it doesn't go to the Doctor. I'm sure they get a lot, but the hospital needs its cut, the insurance need it's cut, etc.
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One of the features of 'amorphous computing' is the use of a large number of redundant subunits, giving resiliance against failure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous_computing

However, such an architecture arguably means that any single part is not particularly important.
Interesting. How was it determined that they're feed-forward-only? Can signals not travel back down the "tree"? (Note, I'm not even an amateur neurologist).
struggling to think of a more unsafe and misguided approach to cycling in traffic than continually exiting and reentering the road. bizarre
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The upper image which I assume is her MRI scan is interesting. It isn't just her cerebellum missing - her brain stem looks odd too. Where is the pons? Where are the cranial nerves attaching? Need more images!
Edit. On closer reading this article isn't great. <<Doctors did a CAT scan and immediately identified the source of the problem – her entire cerebellum was missing (see scan, below left)>>. Assuming it isn't some sort of problem related to me viewing the article on a phone, that image is an MR. No CATs involved.
That really sucks, I'm sorry.

The kinds of things I work on now are entire "environments" we sell, so "production" testing is more along the lines of "go plug the box in and do stuff to it".
>> However, many of them give explicit reasoning (sometimes in great detail), so not part of some pro-google astroturfing campaign

I've never seen one.

The reasons I've read are mostly emotional, other reasons because of technical issues that can be mitigated just changing the configurations, other reasons because they don't like Mark Zuckerberg.

Other reasons of why they don't like it are applied to G+ also, yet they use G+ w/o complains.

Now, if you can provide examples of valid reasons, then I'm all ears.
I also took a moment to appreciate the full beauty of that trick the first time I saw it. And I'm an Emacs user.
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Basically if you read between the lines of OP's story, he was a B player, but then the fear of no safety net made him an A player.

Anyone touring the halls of Google, HP, Microsoft, or Intel, knows for a fact that large, years-old organizations gather lots of dead weight. That is just the nature of human organizations.

The alternative is either start-ups where the fear of death is ever present. Or companies like Facebook (where allegedly you get fired in 12 months if you don't deliver tangible value).

There are many people that deliver A level work without the fear of death. But you can't assume you can fill your large organization with such people. They are rare. Its hard enough to fill a small start up with such people, but at least that is in the realm of possibility.

Google is never going to find 5000 self-motivated stars. Just look at how far behind AWS Google Cloud is. Google is the nice, comfortable work environment we all want to be in. Amazon is the scary environment with the sword of damocles over our shoulder at all times.
Very cool. How are you handling work Visas? For example, when I moved to the US I kept my job back home but I still need a work visa.
What should one do if they feel like they are in a B position? How does one know if it is the environment that needs to change, or something one needs to learn and grow about oneself?
If you can shop around in the US for something like that it can matter too. To correct my son's tongue tie the first ENT would have been over $1500 out of pocket, including anesthesia. The second one did it in his office as part of another appointment we had related to his hearing, total out of pocket $50.

IMO, The biggest problem is really lack of transparency for this stuff. If a hospital takes government money (and pretty much every one of them does), it should be required to publish its rates like a utility does.
The remote workers all have their own jobs that Remote Year can help them find. They then pay a fixed amount per month to Remote Year, which includes housing, travel, activities, programming and some meals.
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there is zero chance you're a good driver. you seem pretty deluded
You can delete your own posts.
The $47,000 was the average cost for the angiography so just finding out what was wrong with the heart -- that was what cost her $254 in India. Not a pleasant sounding procedure, involving sticking a giant needle through your forearm, guiding it up to the heart and injecting some contrast fluid so you can see what's going on the heart (still better than open heart surgery though).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiography
> But if people can live missing massive chunks of their brain, is it really believable that tiny differences can cause such massive societal outcomes?

Congratulations, you are today's demonstration of 'proving too much': you have also just proven that things like lesions and scars cannot affect cognition, warp personalities, create agnosias and aphasias, and result in bizarre conditions like those Oliver Sacks has so memorably documented, because lesions're so tiny and such small parts of the brain - 'if people can live missing massive chunks of their brain, is it really believable that tiny differences can cause such massive societal outcomes?'
The overview is useful -- thanks. I see Allegro now does full TCO. Either that wasn't true when I was using it (a dozen years ago) or we just didn't have the right optimize switch settings to turn it on. In any case, I thought that the strategy of doing TCO only on local calls was pretty good -- it let me write loops tail-recursively with LABELS, but didn't significantly impact debugging because only local call frames got deleted.

I'm well aware that the LispMs did not do TCO -- I owned several (starting with a CADR) and still have an XL1200 rusting in my closet :-)
I love how they work out to be about what it would cost in both countries using their own currency.
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The more they deal with insured patients, the less ready they will be to give you quotes. I was trying to find a news story of someone calling around to get price quotes on procedures and many places just immediately hung up at the question.
I would imagine the remote workers themselves are paid their normal salary by the company, or perhaps salary minus travel expenses. The company participates by footing the bill for travel expenses, and gets support and feedback from the firm behind Remote Year, who in turn get brand recognition and their name in the ears of executives.

I could be completely wrong, though. There isn't enough info on the website to make hard guesses.
It sounds like this attitude can be summed up as "It's alright to complain, but don't talk about doing anything about it."
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Did you see the age of those same doctors? Virtually guaranteed none of them were < 40.

A fair calculation of salary is some evaluation of (years of training required * intrinsic skill required * benefit to society). If you accept that, then doctors are surely near the top.
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Reversible, at last! But why not make it a shallow, magnetic end piece similar to Apple's newest laptop power connectors? You just push the end of the cable close to the socket and it pops into place. Rock it up or down to detach it. That's the way it ought to work -- non-intrusive, break-resistant, and dead simple. Easier for sight-impaired people (or all the rest of us who are suffering near vision damage from too much device usage!)
You guys have carried this disagreement all over this post. I think bane's point is that even though it's perfectly legal to ride a bike wherever a car can go (which is not true in some cases like highways and visa-versa like biketrails), it may just not be a good idea.

I know when I ride I purposely try to avoid roads that have poor space for bikes. I don't feel safe and I don't want a distracted driver running me off the road. It took a couple near misses for me to learn that lesson, but I follow it and my rides are much more pleasant as a result.
I am also a Linux kernel contributor, so running the latest kernels is important for me. This prompted me to switch from Nvidia graphics to Intel graphics a couple of months ago. ZoL's future kernel version support should reflect this.

As for the issues you linked, the project will likely not be able to tackle them until next year, but being in the tracker means that they will receive attention.
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Great book. "The Art of Memory" by Frances Yates is also a fascinating read. Chronicles the memory palace technique along its entire 2300 year history in popular culture.
I agree with everything but the "not semi-socialized" statement. It is half socialized, half corporatism with the worst of both worlds. You even refer to the socialized aspects which it wouldn't have were it not semi-socialized.
Chrome is already the defacto desktop for millions of users regardless of actual base OS. They are leveraging Android apps to continue to chip away at the things that "don't work unless its a native" and dev effort already committed to mobile.

This way when your hardware cycle is up. Hmmm $300 machine runs chrome and all those cool apps I use on my mobile but for my "desktop".

The goal is to erase the idea of desktop all together for the most part.
You can't realistically equate the complexity involved in reverse engineering a 100 year old cola recipe to the complexity of reverse engineering a state-of-the-art pharmaceutical.
Would you be willing to add this information to your site? You might find more people willing to sign up if they are better informed. See my above (wrong) conjecture as an example of how little can be extrapolated from what you have on display.
It sounds like a coworking (coworkation?) round the world holiday. Can participants work on other things or are they tied to those jobs that the organisers assign them, I wonder...
What kind of visa did you use that let you keep working for a foreign company?
I would think that people who die very young, like kids, would get autopsied all the time, simply because such deaths are rare and there would be suspicion of foul play or other issues.
For most of us too, ORM is the day to day reality. But a graph database could be potentially a better default fit for DDD, for projects starting from scratch.
> is it really believable that tiny differences can cause such massive societal outcomes?

Yes it is believable, as evidenced by numerous people that work on, get funding for, and continue to do research on a large slew of topics that contain "tiny differences", such as <insert any sort of engineering>.

EDIT: (Hint: "tiny differences" is fundamental to the notion of calculus.)
I agree with almost everything you have written. But I'll add that it can be quite a bit more complicated than "ask the price, pay it". You're right about the financial aspect. But the technical aspect can be quite muddled.

Many doctors tend to show off expertise that they do not really have. I have a dead family member to show for as an instance of doctors who are too too stupid to understand what the reports were screaming at them. My family member did get top-quality care after an emergency incident put them under the purview of a different department: the department that the initial report had already made blatantly clear. And this was at one of the best hospitals in Bangalore. I have chronic health issues, myself. I had to "shop around" until I found a doctor who was (1) aware of the current recommended treatment procedures and (2) not making grandiose claims about the success of my treatment options.

And yes, medicine here is quite wonderfully capitalistic. Most drugs are very cheap, and the penurious get "BPL cards". That's enough for most people. However, things aren't all that rosy for people with weird chronic diseases, or diseases that need the latest in therapy... like cancers, etc.
> Example, if you make over around $85,000 USD, you fall into the maximum tax bracket, which is 35%.

In the US, the maximum income bracket has a 39.6% marginal rate and is reached at $400,001 in AGI for a single filer; the (weirdly narrow) 35% bracket starts at $398,351.

So if Korea has a 35% top bracket, witha 10% surtax, that starts around $85,000 USD, I'm not seeing how that's "overall very light when compared to the States".
I take back what I said after more thought and reading other comments.

If you cant even reliably get a quote on a procedure then there are much bigger issues at hand beside the patients charges.
There is some missing information on the page I think, such as, what do you get paid, and who pays for accomodation, and, what are the 18 locations?
We had one when I was a kid. It really moves the air through the house and can be effective in the right circumstances. Also, it's awesome to fly paper airplanes into.
I think Apple patented that and their lawyers enforce it brutally.
Sounds more like motivational speech that seeing the future...