The "statistical value of a life" doesn't mean what you think it does. It's essentially a measurement of how much, on average, people value their own live at the margin (i.e. how much are they willing to pay for a slightly safer car, how much more does a slightly more dangerous job have to pay for people to still apply etc.)
It's not a political "cap on how much to spend on saving somebody's life". There have of course been rescue operations more expensive than that per person, and some medical expenditures exceed that cap as well.
It is used in public healthcare, for example, with biologic drugs. According to my rudimentary calculations, Spain has an 80-100B euro public healthcare budget. If every person who would benefit from a biological drug treatment received it, that would add close to 40% to that budget.
And in the US, these drugs are much more expensive.
What drug treatment are you referring to, in particular?
In many countries, including those with both socialized and private healthcare, insurance companies routinely pay for treatments costing much more than the statistical value of life.
Also, these incredibly expensive single-dose cures usually are that expensive because they don't benefit from any economies of scale and/or haven't recouped their investment yet. In competent healthcare systems, the price is driven down substantially sooner rather than later for almost all drugs through negotiations.
Nothing on there is really crazy or complex. Just things like running the Roomba when I leave, or turning on lights at sunset.
I’ve found it to be very nice because I can automate common things around temperature, motion, waking up/falling asleep, and leaving/coming home. It also all integrates with HomeKit so I can control everything with Siri.
It’s definitely more in the hobby territory than something truly essential, but I would say that it is definitely useful and better than managing a bunch of random apps to automate lights or whatever.
I definitely like the idea, and I do think it's cool. But I just can bothered with the complexity and the fact it needs to be maintained and networked, etc. Also yaml...
On the side of writing YAML, this was actually all generated by the UI and then exported to YAML when I decided I wanted to version control it. It's really nice because Copilot works pretty well for creating/editing automations.
I've done some stuff for a compiler in Java, backend web services in Python/Go/TS, frontend w/ React/TS.
I was a huge skeptic of this stuff at first but started using it about a year ago. I could definitely live without it, but it also saves me a significant amount of time.
I've been working on a feature in Python. With Copilot edits I just needed to find files the implemented the pattern, add it to the chat context. and write something like "implement feature x following the same pattern". It never gets it right the first time, but you can just keep the conversation going and have it iterate.
Afterwards I can just write /tests and Copilot generates reasonable tests. If it missed cases I can ask it to write cover those tests. Often times I can also just write literally "cover edge cases" and it handles all reasonable scenarios.
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