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Comment · 3 years ago
Also, in Chinese, the logogram might change depending on the gender: 他/她, he/she, also part of his/her
Comment · 3 years ago
In this particular case, only "está" (instead of "es") is correct. Otherwise it means that the person is an active person, instead of meaning that at the present period of time, the person can be found active/online.
Comment · 3 years ago
I am pretty sure that it was meant "unintentionally". I would say that nobody has killed another person with a shovel unintentionally since shovels exist (maybe injure). OK maybe one since shovels exist /s
Comment · 3 years ago
The first one is just the binary sum without carry (x xor y) and then adding the carries of that sum (x&y) shifted by 1 bit (2*(x&y)), still the addition of the carries can in turn produce carries, but that is taken care of by the normal "+" which is addition with carry.
Comment · 4 years ago
The Power7 (2010) already had a very powerful prefetching engine (also programmable) able to detect a multitude of patterns/striding supporting even 12 different streams. Its design, composability and not only automatic detection but its programmability, allowing you to drive its behavior or change according to different computation phases made a fantastic piece of engineering for its time: https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248079.pdf

Just pointing this out (there are several generations of Power's with improved design) as you mentioned memory controllers. The problem in the blog post is different (aliasing) and I guess that all I can say is that unless some randomness is introduced, every design will have a "worst" access pattern.

Comment · 4 years ago
Fortunately, life-threatening, chronic, bankruptcy-inducing, rare-and-disabling conditions represent a relatively small portion of the total healthcare spending (removing the most widespread chronic conditions). Those are also the least profitable things to insure (require a constant and sustained spending to maintain the knowledge/capability and fund research even if underutilized) if we want to ensure that any human can get reasonable access to those treatments regardless of their wealth. For this reason, countries like Switzerland or Germany maintain a "healthy" public (with lots of adjectives) healthcare system alongside.
Comment · 4 years ago
Air also has inelastic demand. It is just that it is too cheap (that doesn't mean that the producers make a good profit) to produce an enormous quantity of it (even though fresh food is perishable), so much, that even the US and the EU agree on agricultural quotas and/or increasing tariffs over a certain quota of imported quantity.

For Switzerland & Germany the way the incentives work are different than in the US, but the market for compulsory health insurance is very strictly regulated and the cost distribution for healthcare is distributed across public and private entities (particularly for very expensive treatments, rare diseases, treatments involving machines of great complexity/cost [like for proton therapy]).

Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for the comment! I was meaning the former (under debt).

The intention of my comments was to make clear that in that regard, Switzerland is not an efficient free market private insurance paradise. There are lots of nuances to it, and the private insurance system in fact brings in inefficiencies, namely, a very complex and costly cost itemization and enormous amounts of paperwork and stress for doctors, customers, employers, and the insurances (for example, if there is an accident in a public place involving a car, there are at least one or two days worth of people's times just filling in forms)

Comment · 4 years ago
But another way in which Switzerland maintains its healthcare system with public money is through the -often deficitary- cantonal hospitals/clinics/health care centers (also helped at the municipal level)
Comment · 4 years ago
I guess that you don't know that, for example, if you get operated of a congenital defect in Switzerland, the bill goes to the SVA instead of to your private insurance (and so on for specific cases)

I am not conflating anything, you have a superficial understanding that makes you think it is privatized. If you dig into the spending public & private and the actual details you would see that Switzerland is not privatized as people generally think.

Comment · 4 years ago
Social insurance is covered by AHV/SVA/IV (funded by salary deductions and cover congenital defects, invalidity, some rehabilitation therapies and other non profitable coverage) and of course healthcare is not fully privatized as you say: private insurances are private, offering highly regulated compulsory insurance and can offer less regulated additional insurance. Some hospitals/clinics/health and elderly centers (cantonal) are kept with public debt & public donations even if deficitary because private clinics would be unprofitable otherwise.

I don't know if you legitimately do not know that.

I did not talk about federal/cantonal to avoid writing a thesis in a comment. I never said it was centralized.

Comment · 4 years ago
Switzerland has very strictly and non-deniable obligatory minimum (very broad in coverage) insurance, with regulated yearly price adjustments and on top of that, publicly funded hospitals and clinics (mostly unprofitable but of high quality and offering treatments that would not be profitable for private hospitals) that issue their bills to the health insurances. And, to put the icing on the cake, there are treatments and operations (e.g. congenital defects and invalidity-related) that are directly billed to the public social insurance (funded by salary deductions) to help health insurances reduce their risk.

Switzerland's compulsory private health insurance is nothing comparable to other countries' private insurance. There is "additional private insurance" in Switzerland (covering alternative medicine treatments, access to single bed rooms in hospitals, etc.) which do operate as private insurances elsewhere.

Comment · 4 years ago
If you are a non native English speaker you will notice shifts in how things are pronounced when put together, some of whiicht are just not written down, like pronouncing "a" as "ei" or "a" or "an" (this one written down )

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