A game of Go can be legally infinite due to recaptures. (player passes 360 times, then eats the entire board and it starts over).
It's also a natural infinite game due to Kos which can be the best move to play. This requires a set of extra rules to prevent. (Ko, superKo, triple kos, etc)
There's something about some of the 80's and 90's games that showed exceptional love and art from the game makers.
I bought my 5-yo daughter an arcade for her birthday and we have been playing Bobble Bubble non-stop for months, finally beating the game with a single credit!
As we played the game, we discovered new patterns, tricks and pathways to beat impossibly-looking levels safely, and we discovered portals, bonuses and secrets galore. We also got to know each other better, as we play together better than we would play with other people.
The game pushes you constantly between competing to get power-ups and extra-lifes to collaborating to beat asymmetric levels.
There is one power-up that turns the level into a bonus where you have a score board and whoever gets the most bonus items wins extra points. But if you do even scoring, you both get the max bonus. The game is testing you!
It is when you beat the game at the end that the secret of the universe is revealed: Love & Friendship.
This is a site made by a VC, for news on VC startups, for VC startup news consumers.
Its mind-boggling that so many users come here to rant against capitalism, or advocate against startups, or have absolutely no relationship whatsoever with the space. It's not only crazy for me, its crazy for the makers of this site was well!
Argentina is way more socialist as measured in a controlled economy than europeans - some taxes are higher than 80% of net income and often exceeding gross income as well.
It is also way more capitalist than the US by having a large part of the population paying less than 5% income taxes.
The country is hard enough to explain without the constraints of a browser textbox.
This is a common argentinian conception, and it is a big misconception. Gov corruption is a lot worse in the united states. It's just that corruption is not a 1-1 correlation with the success of an economy.
Argentina has a poor economy because it is a half-capitalist half-socialist country.
Hospitals are very interested in running their operations close-to-a-loss. This is more important than the spend-share on equipment or salaries.
Hospitals are setup mostly as non-profits, which means they have no incentive to have an operating margin. Furthermore, hospitals can have lots of leverage, as sometimes they are the only one in 20 miles or more: so the closer they are to bankrupcy, the more money they can ask government.
Hospitals are very close to the mercantilist corporations pre-liberalism in this way: they are protected from competition and from their own failure.
> >> you would also lower admin costs.
> Not clear that this is true or why it would happen.
There is an operational tax whenever you involve more people into the operation. You need to communicate, add paper trails, set up structure, etc. If say, you had one person collecting payments instead of a secretary, a doctor writing a paper, an insurance biller, an insurance agent, etc for the same ops, it would be a lot easier. You would have doctors perform many of these tasks. For example, give vaccinations, take vitals, etc.
> Medical school debt may be high, but salaries are higher. Certifications are not likely a large obstacle to more entry, IMO.
Thats the survivorship bias. Salaries cant be lower because people would go bankrupt. Certifications reduce competition, and make it harder to practice. There's even a startup that Raised a series A of multiple millions just to make this process faster (medallion). Evidence this affects the market is that most doctors are only licensed in a couple of states at most.
> There are plenty of “tort reform” states that cap malpractice payouts. Medical services are not cheaper there.
I'd like to see some data about this if you have it. Conceptually malpractice insurance is a fix cost that puts downward pressure on supply. IT is particularly salient for physicians that would like to work part-time.
> Source needed on this claim. Might be true. I’m skeptical though. High relative to what?
>> In the book " The Social Transformation of American Medicine" they talk a lot about how hospitals rent-seeking behavior is to turn themselves as a non-profit, and then ask for federal funding and getting that denied to for-profit hospitals, effectively capping the amount of hospitals you can open.
> Certificate of need laws are state, not federal.
The point above is that by making it impossible for for-profit hospitals to compete due to lack of subsidies, the supply is deliberately constrained.
Sorry but employees making top 5% of salaries in the country are not bound by economic necessity to their employer. That argument might have a point in amazon warehouse workers, but not on people that have plenty of job opportunities at other employers as well as self employed.
Its a forum literally made by an "incubator" that gets VC investors for startups. People that come to HN to spout anti-capitalist, anti-investment, anti-profits are in the wrong community.
The CDC is updating their recommendations for healthcare providers several times a day. There's plenty of epidemiologists working on this topic in the us: shutting down airports and roads also kill people and it has varying effects depending on the point of the epidemic you are in.
I can't believe I'm saying this as a libertarian but you have to put some faith into the government's action here. The public in a panic already took away all the masks healthcare providers needed to safely attend patients, diminishing the capacity to serve.
Designing the tools that providers use to treat patients is exceedingly difficult and filled with moral hazards.
What makes this instance so pernicious is that it was involved in what is now a national crisis, but it's not very different to what a flu vaccination manufacturer could do, and which would raise no eyebrows in the eyes of the public or the government.
Medicine is one of those fields where the discrepancy of what patients think it is and what it actually is is wide enough to cause outrage at every single thing.
It's also a natural infinite game due to Kos which can be the best move to play. This requires a set of extra rules to prevent. (Ko, superKo, triple kos, etc)