Actual hard data shows other countries pay 50% to 33% of our cost and have better adult and infant mortality ratings.
Our insurance is *great* if you are one of the "winners". It's bad for the other 80%. Insurance companies delayed coverage for a friend of mine until it was too late and she died of a curable form of cancer. They do this. All the time. That's why the ACA was passed in the first place. Insurance companies were literally canceling coverage after people had paid premiums for years as soon as they got sick. People who lost their jobs couldn't get coverage and died.
We need something that's fair to everyone. You never know when you may not be in the "Winners" group any more. It happens all the time. Chronic illness being a leading reason.
Until you get in an $89,000 car accident like my young 30's friends.
Or you have a stroke like my 45 year old bud.
Or your house burns down and you are hospitalized with $45,000 in ICU bills.
And the point isn't that *you* personally benefit anyway. If *everyone* needed $6,000 in health care each year, then the cost of providing it would be over $6,000.
The point is that 3 people out of a hundred need $60,000 in health care. The other 97 are fine. Everyone pays $600 and shares the risk.
You know... for the bottom 60% that's almost useless to completely useless, right? With a low income that's already maxed the limit on deductions, a deduction is worthless. And even with a deduction, that only lowers the cost of health care by about 15% or less for everyone making $120,000 and less. This leaves a family facing a $12,000 insurance bill and getting a $2000ish deduction.
Over 20 other countries use single player government health care and their health care costs are half to a third of our costs. And the cost is paid by the citizens who are well off. Not taken out of food and shelter money for the poor.
We really need to remove health care as an incentive to lay off older people and an anchor on business profits that prevent them from competing with companies in countries where business doesn't pay for health care.
It's so funny because *everyone* gets old. It's in *everyone's* interest to prevent age discrimination.
Absolutely. You could have a clutch to the side which simply disengaged the engine from the transmission and wasn't intended for shifting gears.
You couldn't remove automatic transmission tho. Under 3% of people buy "standard" vehicles.
The automatic transmissions are usually physically connected. Making them "fly by wire" is about as bad as a "fly by wire" on/off button that is ignored.
They already had one person die from cruise control and gear shifting failing.
At this point, they need a physical object that can put the car into neutral (so you still have steering and power) and then another one that will kill the engine- easiest way might be a physical switch for the gasline. Some trucks have them now to swap between tanks. Just switch off the fuel.
It is amazing how people who are *completely* ignorant of the facts opine on things.
First, I was on the main road with no stop sign. Second, she was on the side road with a stop sign. Third, I was the only car within 200' in either direction on the main road. Fourth, She was talking on the phone, pulled out less than 100' ahead of me while I was going 40 mph Fifth, Then She stopped right in front of me "full deer in the headlights-- still holding her phone looking at me as I Sixth, braked to a stop less than 3' from the side of her car.
If I had been on *my* cell phone as well or driving distracted- I would have T-Boned her at 40mph. If she had simply finished her turn onto the road, we would have been close but we wouldn't have hit. She almost forced an accident because she wasn't paying attention and then she panicked.
But hey, you weren't there so feel free to decide what should have happened in a situation you had no information about.
I quite using Facebook 7 or 8 years ago after it "accidentally" reset privacy settings for the 3rd or 4th time and the founder said customers were idiots for giving him data and they had no right to privacy.
I think russia has something bad on President Trump so it colors my reaction to his actions which favor russia and literally meeting with Putin and his staff without another u.s. citizen present (not even an interpreter).
But in this case, I think he just adores dictators/strongmen and china flatters Mr. Trump and he sucks it up. At least I don't suspect he's a chinese agent.
And the quality of a lot of other food is lower than it used to be.
Lower levels of nutrients and more sugar. Mass market tomatoes are obscenely sweet these days but at least they are not woody any more like they were in the late 90s. Tomatoes are not naturally sweet. They taste like tomatoes. Nothing else tastes like them. Tomatoes should not taste like grapes. I had some recently on a salad bar that literally tasted like grapes. Not a hint of tomato flavor. Just sugar.
But, anyway. Our population has exceeded maltusian limits with regard to fish. So the price of fish is going up and some areas of the sea are dead with regard to fishing. If left alone they would rise to higher levels and we could have higher sustainable levels but that isn't happening and probably won't happen.
The serious shit starts in 30 years or so with chromium (i.e. stainless steel), magnesium, manganese, and so on. We used more chromium in 2014 than from 1901 to 2000 combined.
Regardless of how bad the coverage is, they don't literally kill her and her children tho. And then all but brag about doing so in their next headline.
Once you reach a certain income, you ask "why am I trading my life away for this?"
It's a good sign that the chinese economy is maturing. They still won't achieve wage parity for another 20 years at current rates and that will give them a competitive advantage until then.
The uber car hit the pedestrian about 40' past the white sign on the right.
You'll note the road widens from 2-4 lanes at the white sign and there is heavy landscaping on the median.
There are also multiple signs telling pedestrians to *not* cross there but there is an inviting paver path there and no railing/barrier.
When this accident first occurred the media was full of reports about how the car was speeding when backing up only a little bit to just before the prior overpass you can see a sign that says 45mph.
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I am not a fan of Uber. I think they are scammy and I believe they ignore the law and they lie.
But I'm also not a fan of *emotionally* processing the event and making a decision before the facts are in like the screaming anonymous coward above.
I have some friends in the a.i. car industry and they think uber's a.i. solution is less robust than some others. But... they are going to be suspect because... they don't work for uber and they do work for uber's competition. Still data to consider.
I'm a strong proponent of sealed black boxes which gather high quality video and all relevant data about car speed, position, acceleration, braking, etc.
My point isn't that the bushes on the left and the fact the road widens from 2 lanes to 4 lanes and the fact that light maps show the area is slightly darker explain away the death of a pedestrian who ignored multiple warning signs and who failed to see the car approaching her and in the video wasn't even looking in the direction of oncoming traffic.
My point is we should consider the facts, analyze the data, *genuinely figure out what went wrong so we can improve it* and avoid emotional histrionics because they interfere with the ability to think rationally.
With a sub point that if A.I. kills 300 pedestrians instead of the roughly 2000 pedestrians now being killed, then that is 1700 lives better and *perfect* is impossible.
That's why I said, "improve" instead of "fix". It will never be perfect when interacting with random events. But it will eventually be much better than humans.
When I was younger, written paragraphs and sentences were longer and more complex. You might see a 9 to 13 sentence paragraph and the average sentence length was long enough that they were really complex concepts. The influence of internet page and font size probably affect what we perceive as a "good" paragraph length.
I usually start a new paragraph when I start a new concept these days. So the paragraph break says "Okay, that point is done. Here comes another point."
It also reflects the preferences of my 1st girlfriend and my college english and government professors who would give negative feedback for excessively long paragraphs as well as the many times I've seen people complain about lack of paragraphs in 'wall of text posts'.
So I couldn't put it on any one factor.
With regard to line spacing, my slashdot displays at about 1.5 line spacing. It's not double spacing or single spacing as you would see from a typewriter.
Is it any wonder that the brain is optimized for 2 spaces after a period?
There's probably a part of the brain which is totally optimized for recognizing that particular text cue by the time you have read a few thousand sentences.
It's a fixed format font- so it will be different for proportional fonts and the sites I use already display both single and multiple spaces after a period as 'about 2 spaces". They don't alter the textual data- they just alter the way the text is displayed.
There's probably a benefit to some spacing difference vs "all run together text.with nospaces." But if everyone had been reading text with 1.5 or 2.7 spaces after a period since age 3 then the test would probably have found that was the ideal spacing.
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Actual hard data shows other countries pay 50% to 33% of our cost and have better adult and infant mortality ratings.
Our insurance is *great* if you are one of the "winners". It's bad for the other 80%. Insurance companies delayed coverage for a friend of mine until it was too late and she died of a curable form of cancer. They do this. All the time. That's why the ACA was passed in the first place. Insurance companies were literally canceling coverage after people had paid premiums for years as soon as they got sick. People who lost their jobs couldn't get coverage and died.
We need something that's fair to everyone. You never know when you may not be in the "Winners" group any more. It happens all the time. Chronic illness being a leading reason.
Until you get in an $89,000 car accident like my young 30's friends.
Or you have a stroke like my 45 year old bud.
Or your house burns down and you are hospitalized with $45,000 in ICU bills.
And the point isn't that *you* personally benefit anyway. If *everyone* needed $6,000 in health care each year, then the cost of providing it would be over $6,000.
The point is that 3 people out of a hundred need $60,000 in health care. The other 97 are fine. Everyone pays $600 and shares the risk.
You know... for the bottom 60% that's almost useless to completely useless, right? With a low income that's already maxed the limit on deductions, a deduction is worthless. And even with a deduction, that only lowers the cost of health care by about 15% or less for everyone making $120,000 and less. This leaves a family facing a $12,000 insurance bill and getting a $2000ish deduction.
Over 20 other countries use single player government health care and their health care costs are half to a third of our costs. And the cost is paid by the citizens who are well off. Not taken out of food and shelter money for the poor.
And they had higher health care costs.
We really need to remove health care as an incentive to lay off older people and an anchor on business profits that prevent them from competing with companies in countries where business doesn't pay for health care.
It's so funny because *everyone* gets old. It's in *everyone's* interest to prevent age discrimination.
Only when the shift lever is physically connected to the transmission. In some cars today, it isn't.
Absolutely. You could have a clutch to the side which simply disengaged the engine from the transmission and wasn't intended for shifting gears.
You couldn't remove automatic transmission tho. Under 3% of people buy "standard" vehicles.
The automatic transmissions are usually physically connected. Making them "fly by wire" is about as bad as a "fly by wire" on/off button that is ignored.
Suddenly google is recording everything and sending it to my gmail account. I did not *ask* for or desire this feature.
I can't find a way to disable it.
They already had one person die from cruise control and gear shifting failing.
At this point, they need a physical object that can put the car into neutral (so you still have steering and power) and then another one that will kill the engine- easiest way might be a physical switch for the gasline. Some trucks have them now to swap between tanks. Just switch off the fuel.
It is amazing how people who are *completely* ignorant of the facts opine on things.
First, I was on the main road with no stop sign.
Second, she was on the side road with a stop sign.
Third, I was the only car within 200' in either direction on the main road.
Fourth, She was talking on the phone, pulled out less than 100' ahead of me while I was going 40 mph
Fifth, Then She stopped right in front of me "full deer in the headlights-- still holding her phone looking at me as I
Sixth, braked to a stop less than 3' from the side of her car.
If I had been on *my* cell phone as well or driving distracted- I would have T-Boned her at 40mph.
If she had simply finished her turn onto the road, we would have been close but we wouldn't have hit.
She almost forced an accident because she wasn't paying attention and then she panicked.
But hey, you weren't there so feel free to decide what should have happened in a situation you had no information about.
Wow. I remember hearing about that quite a while back and thought it was real.
You are correct.
Okay.. well then how about something more concrete.
Drivers and cell phones
Like the one who pulled in front of me and other oncoming traffic then braked to a dead stop when she panicked and realize what she'd done.
and the many thousands of similar dumb things humans do every year, not a few times a year.
https://www.extremetech.com/ex...
http://www.mandatory.com/fun/1...
My point being that dumb humans do dumb things that cause accidents.
But you are correct about the specific example I gave. That was dumb of me too. :-)
Keep in mind the people who died thinking "cruise control" was auto-pilot.
There was the guy who literally got up and went in back of his RV while it was on cruise control and it crashed.
Humans make mistakes. Really dumb mistakes at times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
See also... Australia, Rabbits.
However, that said, it's worth investigating.
How bad does it have to get?
I quite using Facebook 7 or 8 years ago after it "accidentally" reset privacy settings for the 3rd or 4th time and the founder said customers were idiots for giving him data and they had no right to privacy.
it used to be fine but after the last round of updates after playing 7-10 videos it's hanging.
Wisdom is knowing the right thing to do.
IQ is then figuring how to do it effectively.
I think russia has something bad on President Trump so it colors my reaction to his actions which favor russia and literally meeting with Putin and his staff without another u.s. citizen present (not even an interpreter).
But in this case, I think he just adores dictators/strongmen and china flatters Mr. Trump and he sucks it up. At least I don't suspect he's a chinese agent.
Grr. Malthusian.
Stupid me hitting submit before my first cup of coffee.
Stupid slashdot for locking posts. It's literally the *only* forum I use that locks posts.
And the quality of a lot of other food is lower than it used to be.
Lower levels of nutrients and more sugar. Mass market tomatoes are obscenely sweet these days but at least they are not woody any more like they were in the late 90s. Tomatoes are not naturally sweet. They taste like tomatoes. Nothing else tastes like them. Tomatoes should not taste like grapes. I had some recently on a salad bar that literally tasted like grapes. Not a hint of tomato flavor. Just sugar.
But, anyway. Our population has exceeded maltusian limits with regard to fish. So the price of fish is going up and some areas of the sea are dead with regard to fishing. If left alone they would rise to higher levels and we could have higher sustainable levels but that isn't happening and probably won't happen.
The serious shit starts in 30 years or so with chromium (i.e. stainless steel), magnesium, manganese, and so on. We used more chromium in 2014 than from 1901 to 2000 combined.
Regardless of how bad the coverage is, they don't literally kill her and her children tho. And then all but brag about doing so in their next headline.
Putin has a poisonous attitude towards russians not following his script.
It's not disingenuous. It's realistic.
Once you reach a certain income, you ask "why am I trading my life away for this?"
It's a good sign that the chinese economy is maturing. They still won't achieve wage parity for another 20 years at current rates and that will give them a competitive advantage until then.
A little more rational than the anonymous crazy person.
So here's a link.
https://www.google.com/maps/@3...
The uber car hit the pedestrian about 40' past the white sign on the right.
You'll note the road widens from 2-4 lanes at the white sign and there is heavy landscaping on the median.
There are also multiple signs telling pedestrians to *not* cross there but there is an inviting paver path there and no railing/barrier.
When this accident first occurred the media was full of reports about how the car was speeding when backing up only a little bit to just before the prior overpass you can see a sign that says 45mph.
---
I am not a fan of Uber. I think they are scammy and I believe they ignore the law and they lie.
But I'm also not a fan of *emotionally* processing the event and making a decision before the facts are in like the screaming anonymous coward above.
I have some friends in the a.i. car industry and they think uber's a.i. solution is less robust than some others. But... they are going to be suspect because... they don't work for uber and they do work for uber's competition. Still data to consider.
I'm a strong proponent of sealed black boxes which gather high quality video and all relevant data about car speed, position, acceleration, braking, etc.
My point isn't that the bushes on the left and the fact the road widens from 2 lanes to 4 lanes and the fact that light maps show the area is slightly darker explain away the death of a pedestrian who ignored multiple warning signs and who failed to see the car approaching her and in the video wasn't even looking in the direction of oncoming traffic.
My point is we should consider the facts, analyze the data, *genuinely figure out what went wrong so we can improve it* and avoid emotional histrionics because they interfere with the ability to think rationally.
With a sub point that if A.I. kills 300 pedestrians instead of the roughly 2000 pedestrians now being killed, then that is 1700 lives better and *perfect* is impossible.
That's why I said, "improve" instead of "fix". It will never be perfect when interacting with random events. But it will eventually be much better than humans.
It's probably a combination of several factors.
When I was younger, written paragraphs and sentences were longer and more complex. You might see a 9 to 13 sentence paragraph and the average sentence length was long enough that they were really complex concepts. The influence of internet page and font size probably affect what we perceive as a "good" paragraph length.
I usually start a new paragraph when I start a new concept these days. So the paragraph break says "Okay, that point is done. Here comes another point."
It also reflects the preferences of my 1st girlfriend and my college english and government professors who would give negative feedback for excessively long paragraphs as well as the many times I've seen people complain about lack of paragraphs in 'wall of text posts'.
So I couldn't put it on any one factor.
With regard to line spacing, my slashdot displays at about 1.5 line spacing. It's not double spacing or single spacing as you would see from a typewriter.
Is it any wonder that the brain is optimized for 2 spaces after a period?
There's probably a part of the brain which is totally optimized for recognizing that particular text cue by the time you have read a few thousand sentences.
It's a fixed format font- so it will be different for proportional fonts and the sites I use already display both single and multiple spaces after a period as 'about 2 spaces". They don't alter the textual data- they just alter the way the text is displayed.
There's probably a benefit to some spacing difference vs "all run together text.with nospaces." But if everyone had been reading text with 1.5 or 2.7 spaces after a period since age 3 then the test would probably have found that was the ideal spacing.
Are you stupid?
Lidar is blocked by solid objects. The pedestrian came out from behind landscaping on the left side of the road.
To the car, the pedestrian appeared out of no where. It may have contributed to the "false positive" decision.
You can use your brain and consider various possibilities, or you can scream irrationally some more.
I bet you haven't even looked at the personal p.o.v. on google maps.