This sounds great to me, I would love to know how much a procedure costs before I have it instead of having bills for arbitrary amounts of money show up one at a time over the course of six months.

You can’t negotiate if you’re unconscious.

The article is discussing non-emergency surgeries in non-life-threatening cases. The patient’s parents absolutely can negotiate and shop around to find the best price and/or the best service.

I found German noun declensions a pain to learn and you basically just have to memorize the gender of each noun. Spanish grammar is simpler in comparison and the -a vs -o ending tells you the gender of most nouns.

Also, like the article mentions, English has just as many words with Latin roots as it does Germanic.

Plus they have ironclad job security and a pension (which practically no taxpayers get), so it's not directly comparable to private sector salaries.

Not true, on Fridays after lunch time can sometimes pass as slowly as 3 seconds per second.

I've been in some 15min standups but actually take 30mins wallclock time, during which interval years pass.

I know some bores so good that 100 seconds passes, and I shake my watch ~ 1 second has passed, so there is a subjective localised field around some people..

The US has also lost its lead in manufacturing during the same time period.

> US has also lost its lead in manufacturing during the same time period

On a relative basis, yes. In absolute terms we are close to our pre-financial crisis peak [1].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PRMNTO01USQ661N

Do you happen to know what "Total Manufacturing" means in practice? I can't figure out what that series is measuring. It seems to be OECD data of some sort, but it doesn't have enough context to interpret.

One of the problems with US manufacturing is that it can be equal by, say, amount of money spent but get much worse productivity than Asia. And I'd believe it is a sophisticated method that accounts for that somehow, but I want to check it.

Re-write McKinsey in Rust.

panic! unsafe!

Are you sure? I'm in the US and it displays the entire price (including cleaning fees) for me.

The Soviet Union had chronic housing shortages. Multiple families would live squeezed together in one small apartment. The waiting list to get your own took years and years.

I doubt that will be a problem here. Their Kentucky plant is huge, it's been around for decades and it makes lots of high quality cars including the Camry. Toyota goes to a lot of effort to teach the workers their production system and culture.

Also higher crime.