It's at -1. I really should not need to explain why a luxury service is not at all analogous to a service that deals with life-threatening, chronic conditions with a population that may not always have the means to pay especially when that payment amount is built off of a shadow market place and several entities which are notorious for not giving a flying shit about people.
Having the means to pay and needing the service for life or death reasons have nothing do with the forces that drive costs down, namely consumers bargain hunting for the lowest price service that offers adequate an level of quality. Neither being poor nor needing a service for a life-or-death reasons. will prevent consumer from bargain hunting. The factors are orthogonal to those that affect cost trends.
You're failing to see that mechanics behind the evolution of consumer markets that lead to prices being driven down. Combined with your rude and arrogant dismissal of the link, your attitude embodies everything that is wrong with our political system and that prevents solutions from being found and implemented.
>You're failing to see that mechanics behind the evolution of consumer markets that lead to prices being driven down.
How so? If anything, I succinctly recognized these so-called mechanics are really just symptoms of other underlying actions and motivations. The PDF wants to pretend like it's looking at market forces, while completely ignoring some fundamental economic theories.
>Combined with your rude and arrogant dismissal of the link, your attitude embodies everything that is wrong with our political system and that prevents solutions from being found and implemented.
Your personal appeals to however insulted you feel or however blunt my response was isn't going to make anything that was stated in your comment or in the link any more substantive than it already is not.
Upon further investigation, the NCPA is a completely biased think-tank whose explicit goals are apparently "to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control." I've never even heard of the NCPA, but the whole contrived tone of the PDF immediately spiked my bullshit meter.
I'm sorry you think you can get away with espousing complete drivel that needs to cherry-pick information to push forward a narrative, contrary to the experiences of the rest of the world. I have a feeling the more and more I'm going to look into this perspective, the less friendly this conversation is going to become. At this point, I have zero tolerance for intellectual dishonesty.
"I succinctly recognized these so-called mechanics are really just symptoms of other underlying actions and motivations. "
I have no idea what that means or what you're referring to. You still haven't addressed any of the arguments I made.
Once more, my response to your argument:
>Having the means to pay and needing the service for life or death reasons have nothing do with the forces that drive costs down, namely consumers bargain hunting for the lowest price service that offers adequate an level of quality. Neither being poor nor needing a service for a life-or-death reasons, will prevent consumers from bargain hunting. The factors are orthogonal to those that affect cost trends.
All you've done is try to justify the unscientific response you provided to my comment, which contains only ad hominem ideological name-calling about the source, rather than addressing the facts it listed and logic it offered.
To recap: you've had a viscerally emotional response, where you engaged in totally rude and intellectually dishonest behaviour against me, all because the argument I made is for the free market, and the party I cited believes in the free market. This embodies everything wrong with our political system.
I did address it, and you are ignoring it. I honestly do not care how insulted you are, or how rude you think I am. You removed any right to be cordially addressed when you pushed non-sense into this board, and then had the audacity to actually treat it as if you were being scientific.
Part of being scientific is asking your own position, "What does this look like if the theory is wrong?" It's called falsifiability. If the PDF you linked had the intellectual capacity and honesty to ask themselves that, then the PDF would have never been published.
Yet you nor the paper have yet to realize, again, some pretty fundamental economic concepts that explain the paper as a whole and why it's completely irrelevant to the conversation at large.
>because the argument I made is for the free market, and the party I cited believes in the free market.
No because they put their blinders on and didn't bother to actually look at any other direction except for the one they wanted to see.
Allow me to be completely straight-forward with my final words: fuck off with your unscientific, dishonest drivel.
> fuck off with your unscientific, dishonest drivel.
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>I did address it, and you are ignoring it. I honestly do not care how insulted you are, or how rude you think I am.
That's simply untrue. Where did you address it. Let me reiterate, you have not responded to this:
>Having the means to pay and needing the service for life or death reasons have nothing do with the forces that drive costs down, namely consumers bargain hunting for the lowest price service that offers adequate an level of quality. Neither being poor nor needing a service for a life-or-death reasons, will prevent consumers from bargain hunting. The factors are orthogonal to those that affect cost trends.
This was my rebuttal to your argument, and to date, has not been addressed. You falsely claim you addressed it and then quickly went back to your rude, anti-intellectual ranting.
>You removed any right to be cordially addressed when you pushed non-sense into this board, and then had the audacity to actually treat it as if you were being scientific.
You're displaying an unscientific and demagogic attitude, where you justify belligence with your own subjective determination that a party's argument is "nonsense".
>Part of being scientific is asking your own position, "What does this look like if the theory is wrong?" It's called falsifiability.
That's obvious and doesn't need to be stated. If cosmetic surgery prices had increased as much as procedures in other fields of medicine, that would count as evidence against the theory that a consumer market drives prices down. The article didn't need to pose that question because the evidence doesn't falsify its theory.
>No because they put their blinders on and didn't bother to actually look at any other direction except for the one they wanted to see.
You're making assumptions, not evidence-based arguments.
Like I said, you have not addressed the arguments I've made, and you have behaved like a putelent child, in being rude and trying to justify your rudeness.
Look I get it. I understand how you feel. You see some POS free market ideologue arguing that the free market is what we need in healthcare, when we've all seen that Europe's government run healthcare vastly outperforms the capitalist US healthcare system at a fraction of the cost. You wonder how someone could be so blind to facts, and so indoctrinated by simplistic ideology that is promoted by the American right and its bevy of propaganda-spewing think thanks. You see POSs like this polluting the minds of the public with their pseudo-religous free market dogma, and preventing far better public options - that would save lives and cost less, while guaranteeing universal coverage - from gaining the critical public support needed to be implemented.
I know where you're coming from, and if only you had an open mind, I could explain why your assumptions are wrong.
Because Ford's actions had been expected/known for some time. Trump literally had nothing to do with it. You don't just spin up factories like an EC2 instance.
His other tweets regarding other companies were all future-tense, and companies he is in a position to bully. Except for Nordstrom, of course.
Probably rebasing more than anything. cherry-picking is a messier, yet easier way to get the same history, you just need to clean up after yourself.
Merge commits are useful, in my opinion, if there was significant work done to get two branches to "align" with each other. Otherwise, just rebase your work for a cleaner history.
So in short:
Merging: More "accurate" history about the work done to bring the work into the main/dev branch, yet messier.
Rebasing/cherry-picking: cleaner history, potentially at the expense of context and "accurate" history about the work done to bring in code to the main/dev branch.
Because git log --graph implies "--topo-order" and I didn't want that:
$ git help log
--graph
[...]
This implies the --topo-order option by default
Without "--date-order" it looks like this:
$ git log --graph --all --decorate --oneline
* 86d911ec0f (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Allow index AMs to...
* 7c5d8c16e1 Add explicit ORDER BY to a few tests that exercise hash-join code.
* 8f93bd8512 Fix roundoff problems in float8_timestamptz() and make_interval().
* a507b86900 Add WAL consistency checking facility.
* 115cb31597 Fix relcache leaks in get_object_address_publication_rel()
* e35bbea7dd doc: Some improvements in CREATE SUBSCRIPTION ref page
* c3c4f6e174 Revise the way the element allocator for a simplehash is specified.
And 960 more commits before finally getting to this one... :-)
> things can pass testing but fail in production if the staging environment provides an imperfect simulation of the production environment
Your staging environment should match production, or it's not really staging at that point. It doesn't have to match it in _size_, just structure and process. Ignoring data loss, if you can't quickly switch staging to production it's not really staging. It's just a dorky test environment masquerading as a stage environment. It's also surprisingly not that difficult (the variation of difficulty depends on the type of data you're interacting with, and how isolated it needs to be) to "forward" a slice of real word traffic to your staging environment and monitor it for some duration of time.
>For example, your staging environment servers should be connecting to a different database with a different password.
Handled by proper CI/CD pipelines. Completely irrelevant to deploying new features, configuration for production specific users/passwords happens on the sysadmin/devops side of things.
My experience has been people who claim they're banned from groups for espousing different opinions actually did so in the least constructive way possible. They weren't banned for the opinion, they were banned for their conduct.
See: Reddit. With the notable exception of alt-right subs like /r/The_Donald -- who apparently have no issue with banning anyone they even _think_ is going against the hive mind.
That's true. People complain about being banned, and then it turns out that they called someone's mother a hamster.
Not that there isn't some awful part of me thinks it's a little bit funny to tweet gay porn at the alt-right, but if you do something like that, than don't complain about getting banned: you had it coming.
I will never understand why people think JSX style processing is a good idea. It's hiding what's actually happening, at no benefit (or very little benefit). At least with the former (C#) I can neatly build things up, reuse those components, instead of passing some monstrosity around.
I don't understand this. You could build up the template using jsx exactly like you could otherwise. For instance, I could put that in a variable and then use it in another template via {}
You could, but it's unintuitive (in my opinion) to do so -- which was the parent's comment larger point. You're not doing anything different, and to an extent the latter is actually lying about what's going on (you're not writing HTML). I also lose a certain level of tooling by doing it the JSX way. Why try to mask what you're doing? Why make it harder for your tools to help you out?
I guess I haven't felt this pain that you've felt. I'm satisfied with my tooling and feel that small components help keep things very clear and focused.
Is this supposed to be satire? Do I even need to explain how ridiculous this stance is? I'll save my energy until I get a resounding "yes."