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When the WHO ranked the world's health care systems in 2000, Italy was actually the second best in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_rank...

That was 16 years ago, yes, but the country wasn't run any better than it is now.
You say that as if we don't have people writing buffer overflows and other exploits in C today.
Yep, you're absolutely right--but it was a time when the entire world wasn't networked to the degree it is today, and there was little or no motivation for someone thousands of miles away to gain access to your system. Security was simply less of a concern for most programmers, so much so that it often didn't even occur to them. Until the mid-1980s, even US federal law and its enforcement reflected that.

Saying it is indefensible to manipulate strings in C is coming pretty close to saying it is indefensible to use C (and after they went to all that work to put together C11!). For most programmers, perhaps. But it still has its uses, and as of C11 safer standard string manipulation functions, as well. A competent, security-minded C programmer can write perfectly safe string handling code in modern C.

Still, it wouldn't be my first choice. A Jedi may use a lightsaber effectively, but a novice will probably just end up cutting off his leg.
I think I'm about 67% towards text and away from GUI as a person, but I think if one attempts to make something GUI based it should be beautiful.
Not so well. There are plenty of problems in the term and the community kind of avoids fixing/ta;king about them.

I had some trouble with it: things that only work with a fringe, the theme colors all mixed up, even putting a sensible line number background. And after quite quite some time trying to fix it I decided it was just not worth it and started an emacs config from base (I come from Vim). Now I'm quite happy.

Also, I go back to spacemacs git repo to get ideias, tips for my own emacs config.
The bzr->git conversion does look like it was always in git from a looking-at-the-repo viewpoint (sans commit messages mentioning RCS/CVS, et c.); but in-repo data wasn't changed much; when building from VCS, it sticks a VCS identifier in the version; prior to a certain commit the script for that tries to grab the commit ID from bzr instead of git. However, ESR's blog does suggest that commit hashes mentioned in the source were replaced; I'm not sure if that's true.

That said, referencing the commit by author and timestamp, instead of internal commit ID is the robust solution.
It's not very wise. They have the ultimate control over your content and your readers...and one day, they can take it away from you.
This is a joke post, right?

You're really going to ignore all of the literature on how shitty the US healthcare system is and try to dismiss the completely awful treatment of the poor and underinsured as a "anecdote"? Shit, or even just the unlucky. Do you know how many IndieGoGo's I've seen for people who sounded just like you until they had a moment of bad luck and re-examined their policy that changed in the last 5 months?

All at a higher cost than other nations that beat us in every possible measure of healthcare (Except maybe overhead cost as a percentage).

Wow. Freakin wow. I wish I could be so naive/privileged/ignorant.
Using Git blame with Sublime GitGutter comes close:
https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter
Rome had 8 day weeks.. actually the history of the Roman calendar is fascinating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar#Nundinal_cycle

"Because the term of office of elected Roman magistrates was defined in terms of a Roman calendar year, a Pontifex Maximus would have reason to lengthen a year in which he or his allies were in power, or shorten a year in which his political opponents held office. For example, Julius Caesar made the year of his third consulship in 46 BC 445 days long."
With the exception of catastrophic coverage plans, neither is what we call "health insurance" in the US. :)
There are 230 private primary and secondary schools in Ontario, most of them are lakeward.

I attended four TDSB schools and I must say, they were pretty awful.

Thankfully I got out of that system before high school. I might have gotten involved with the gangs and hard drug trade associated with my nearest high school.
Mistake, and corrected. Sorry.
I would also go with the Fad/Coolness factor. And if that is why you are posting stuff there you are going to have a really bad time in a few years when it isn't so cool anymore. Been around long enough to see this happen many times before. In six months or six years Medium will just be that place where some people post, but all of the 'cool kids' are posting over on the new platform 'A' because it is incrementally better. If you are really lucky Medium will end up like Blogger with a perfectly okay reputation and is actually still getting improvements, if your unlucky in two years you will have one months to manually scrape any stuff you want before the site is shutdown.

The same can be said of so many things. Most brands are not great forever. Remember when having a [insert email provider] email address was a thing? How about storing your photos on [insert service here]? And don't forget about [video upload site] or [source control site]. If you have the time to migrate from one service to the next go right ahead and play the game every few years.

How many more years do you think it will be before you will feel silly that you have code still on SourceForge? How about HotMail, GeoCities, MySpace, or AIM? What about GitHub, Picasa, Gmail, Twitter, or Facebook? Or dare I say even HackerNews?
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I think you may underestimate how much of a hassle WordPress is for people who are in tech the industry but not technologists themselves. I have what should be, by 2015 standards, a blog with a small level of traffic very predictably on every blog post. It broke several times a year, catastrophically, due to out-of-the-box settings of Apache/PHP on a 2 GB VPS. I threw thousands of dollars of engineer time at that and, more recently, $2k or so a year of hosting costs to avoid having to play amateur sysadmin at 3 AM because Jimmy Wales had tweeted a link to me.

"A textarea which you can tweet a link to that doesn't break" is a product people want to buy, either with money or with the social transaction costs of adopting Medium as your main writing presence. (I cannot conceive of why a serious author would do that but then again I write more on Twitter than my blog these days so...)
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I can't seem to edit the comment, but: change that to 5 times, they used Arch between CVS and bzr.
I have late 2011 MBP 13. I did upgrade it with 16GB ram/512SSD and 32GB MiniDrive (SD). Don't see any reason to upgrade ATM. Looking at MBP 12'' single port insanity im scared to even think about it...
This is a cool set of projects, though it would be better titled: "100 Days of UIKit."

There are Swift-focused ways to build apps, but the use cases where Swift shines tend to be on the application architecture side rather than the visual result.

That said, you're bound to learn a lot about Swift by virtue of using it to build UIKit projects, so well done!
It's trivial to distinguish a tor user from a regular user on both ends of the connection. Hiding the fact that you are using tor is not the goal, making yourself indistinguishable from other tor users is the goal.
Having used, extensively and in anger, Hyper-V 2008/R2/2012, VMWare ESXi 4 thru 5.5 and (Citrix) XenServer, for Windows and Linux VM's, my personal favourite is XenServer.

Hyper-V works, but has terrible admin tooling, especially if not on a domain

VMWare is a fine hypervisor and if you are happy with what it provides then ESXi free is hard to beat

But if you want a cluster on the cheap, with proper clustering support, XenServer is hard to beat. I use this extensively especially in SMB and also local dev environments - a couple of Xen Servers backed by fastish NFS SAN's. Easy to maintain and administer. Good tooling both from a GUI and CLI point of view, without actually having to dish out any money.

That said, if someone else was paying, ESX would be just as good if you needed vMotion/vStorageMotion etc.
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To me as someone living in the UK, this is bizarre. Why would you need an deductables at all for it not to be expensive? This in itself indicates that your entire healthcare sector is entirely dysfunctional.

In 2013/2014, the UK National Health Service spent $2928/year per person.

This is the average, and includes everything from the costs of births to the costs of expensive heart transplants or cancer treatments. General practitioners. Specialists. Hospitals. Ambulance services. Subsidized prescriptions (in England there are prescription charges of 7 pounds per prescription; in Scotland and Wales prescriptions are covered by the devolved governments).

Since I moved here 15 years ago, I've been to A&E (accompanying my ex) and hospitals (same) several times; I've had a son; I've been to the doctors many times. The care has been excellent, and fast. We've never had to fill in a single form that is not purely medically motivated. Never had to take out my wallet other than the occasional few coins for a prescriptions (I'm Norwegian, and while Norway also has an excellent socialized healthcare system, being able to just walk straight out without going to reception to pay after seeing the doctor was a novelty to me too - things like general doctors visits carry a low co-pay in Norway). Best spent $2928 I could make.

Where is all this money going in the US? Surely someone, somewhere is making ridiculous profits that must have investors drooling and looking for contenders.

The US welfare system, or lack of one, is one of the reasons I'd never consider moving to the US. It seems so totally barbaric and arbitrary.
I see what you mean. I wouldn't call it a race condition in that code though. It may be a race condition in the system, but this code fragment on its own is race free - if there's a file, it will be removed. The rest of the system is not present and we can only see the correct-or-not way of file removal. (raising exception or not)

Otherwise we'll end up with "a = 1" being a race condition, because it may happen to map to a device memory used by many applications.
Do you have an alternative approach to propose?
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Because with experience comes internalization of the maxim, "perfect is the enemy of good." Mature programmers get more done and ship more good code than they can remember, while junior programmers are so focused on following perfect standards using perfect frameworks and perfect syntax that they 1) ship very slowly, and 2) belabor every decision, causing even more bugs.

Yes, the language isn't the most ... diplomatic ... but it is also frank & honestly expresses one difference a decade of experience makes for most professional programmers.
I use Virtual Box, but it is based on QEMU.

I used QEMU sometimes because it has support for MIPS and SPARC emulation so that it can run old operating systems for those platforms on it.

I had a task to modify QEMU to get networking working on a Solaris 7 SPARC virtual machine, but there is a bug in the kernel that causes a crash with the NIC that is emulated in QEMU for SPARC and there used to be a Sun Y2K CD-ROM that fixed it and nobody seems to have it anymore. Anyway I couldn't modify QEMU in time to make it work and lost that gig. To be honest there are Russian Hackers trying to get Solaris 7 and older stuff working in QEMU and can't seem to get anywhere. But that was a few years ago and maybe someone made progress yet?

QEMU runs IBM OS/2 quite well.
My preexisting condition was "history of headache". I was denied by every insurer that did business in our state in 2010 and 2011. I wish I was kidding. Had I failed to mention the headache thing and sought treatment, I would have been vulnerable to rescission.
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> And what will happen is you will not get much health care. Certainly much less than you got in 2005, for much more than you paid in 2005.

Other countries that have single-payer universal coverage have much better care, and absurdly better quality-of-outcome-per-dollar-spent than the US.

Also, I'm nth-ing dmitriy_ko's request for a citation... along with a request for a quote on the actual overhead-vs-payout ratio of private-sector "health insurance" companies. (Make sure to parse those reports very finely... as we've certainly learned from the creative ways that the Intelligence Community has lied to Congress, the DoJ, and the American public, there are many ways to make a statement that is strictly true, but so misleading that it might as well be a bald-faced lie.)
"You're making some argument..."

Not that I know of.

There's an argument, not made by me, that some IoT is foolish to which I alluded. Is that what you mean?
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There's nothing that prevents companies from selling insurance along state lines - as long as they comply with the insurance regulations of every state they want to sell in.

See: http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/meme-busting-sel...

"Selling insurance across state lines" is a misleading way of saying that companies should be allowed to sell in a state without complying with that state's regulations, just the regulations of their home state. Given the example of how this played out in other markets (e.g. credit cards), a more accurate summary would be "remove state-level insurance regulation".
Every country has people who fall through the cracks. It's noble and true to say this shouldn't happen, but it does, and in every country.

Germany, too.
What I want to know is, how much does it cost to provide that service to you? Not how much do you pay, but how much does it cost? If it's greater than $100 a month (how could it be less?), then someone is paying. What portion of Canada's budget is spent on the health system? Are you paying for your healthcare indirectly via taxes (in which case you're just unaware of the true cost) or is someone else paying (in which case you just won the redistribution game, congrats).

It still costs something to provide medical care. It's not like Canada doesn't need to pay their doctors. The cost in the U.S., contrary to public opinion, is not driven by insurance company greed. So, assuming the cost is about the same in Canada, how did you succeed in shifting the cost elsewhere in a manner that you're satisfied with?

And, if we were to replicate such a plan in the U.S., do you think we'd see similar results?
I'm not locked in, all of the local providers are just shit.
I think it depends on the state. We don't have a national healthcare system (disregarding a couple programs for the old or very poor). Obamacare laid down only the barest of national standards.
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This is a pretty neat response to a debate that has had a lot of strawmen and arguing against statements nobody said.

The longer an essay is, the further apart the main arguments are and the easier it is to forget parts of the essays. The ones we remember most saliently, of course, are the controversial claims that trigger an emotional response, not the paragraphs of simple history fact-stating that builds up to the conclusion. As a result, responses to the essay tend to strip out the context of claims and argue against them in a vacuum.
You're a shitty, intentionally dishonest person.
> After that, let the market bring costs down by removing regulations.

This is hilarious, given that the US has the most expensive healthcare system in the world, outpacing far more regulated countries by vast amounts....

You might be right that you're hampered by bad regulation, but heavy regulation of the healthcare system have beaten the US consistently on cost for most of the developed world.
My wife is from Hong Kong, and we're both seriously considering moving back there because of the cost of health care in the US. It's been a constant strain on our finances--any little thing can set us back by hundreds or thousands, even while insured! We never had problems like this back in Hong Kong. I really wanted to make our lives work in the US, but I don't see how we'll ever get ahead when raises and bonuses get eaten away by health care.
Yes this may have been true a few years ago but no longer...we are in the of age of programming-trend warp drive where they may reverse every 6 months or less.
Where in the link does it say that?
> so why is ego getting in the way here?

I find those kinds of comments insufferable as well, but I'll assume you actually wanted an answer and not just an excuse to chastise someone:

It's because those of us who have learned we don't know everything are annoyed by people who still act like they do know everything. It hurts because we're embarrassed by remembering our younger selves.
Original discussion here => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10839314
Are wildcard certs still necessary if you can get a cert issued automatically with no delay?
As far as HTTPS improves privacy, all sites need it. It's not up to a company to decide what parts of browsing should or shouldn't be private. There are families/societies where watching certain YouTube videos could lead to being jailed or killed. Users shouldn't be bothered by paying attention to the status bar on every site -- we should just protect them by default.
The New York Review is more expensive per issue but it's really in a class by itself when it comes to the quality of content. It's intelligent, informed, and incisive without being academic or pedantic. I pray they never go out of print.
Trying to figure out a more compelling use case for this drone..

What about a laser tag drone that hooks up to google cardboard? So two kids can have a dogfight in their backyard and maybe you can even go as far as to augment the sky with virtual drones for them to work together to down?
I have used KVM. I have a standard Ubuntu workstation, but sometimes want to do something like have a Debian sid system building the trunk version of Gnome via jhbuild or something. If it falls apart, my base system is not affected.

I have VPS's at Linode and Ramnode. Both these companies use KVM as well. Even if you're not deploying cloud, you might look at what the big VPS providers are using, as they're dependent on a sturdy hypervisor, so big VPS providers using a particular one is a good indicator.

I have worked at places that used VMware's hypervisors, and they worked fine. You'll be shelling out more money for the support and such though, although they do have some free options on the lower end. I am not up to date on VMware enough to know if there's any catches on the free VMware stuff now in 2016.
>"If something catastrophic happens," she said, “I feel like it’s better just to die.”

This is the richest country in the world in 2016, no other country has this problem, and this is the best our politics can do.

Sit with that thought for a little while.
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No, this isn't an example of casual racism.

First, if it was "Honest Steve", I assume you wouldn't see it as racist? Or "Honest Mary", the same? If so, how about "Honest Vinnie"? Is it only when the name suggests a specific ethnic or racial group that it feels racist to you? Only certain such groups?

That actually reveals a bigger problem. If "Steve" and "Mary" are 'normal' names, but "Achmed" (and maybe "Vinnie") is 'weird'/'noticeable' to you, then that's a hidden assumption that "normal" = "white middle class American". That's not good.

The second major issue is that there's a subtext to this joke. The joke is that no one in the US would call a new CA "Honest Achmed", precisely because it looks... odd. In other words, the joke is on the people that find it odd - including the same people that think it might be a racist joke. That it feels 'odd' is wrong; it shouldn't. But in our society, it does feel odd. That's not the joke being racist - that's society being biased. When you call the joke racist, you're completely missing the point, and shooting the messenger.

Am I saying stuff like this can never be racist? Of course not. It could easily be. If a TV show always picks a black person for the "random criminal of the week", that's racist. Likewise, if every time we needed a random name of "new CA" it was an Arab-sounding one, that would be racist. In other words, the pattern matters. When a TV show or a recurring joke constantly focuses on one group, for no reason, that's very possibly wrong.

But of course, we don't constantly use Arab names for "new CA" jokes. There isn't such a pattern. This is just a one-off joke. One that actually makes fun of the racism you're worried about.

Worrying about racism is a good thing. But seeing racism where it isn't is not, it's the opposite.
Perhaps you are not the intended audience, then?
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One reason not mentioned is that you can actually replace the disk drive with a caddy to put in another hard drive. I replaced mine with an SSD. I also upgraded the RAM so I could finally appease Chrome because I would get a lot of swapping to disk previously. I'd say it's quite competitive to the later models and does everything I need. (Just don't look at a retina screen or you'll be jealous) Repairability is a huge feature that is being lost, so I'm very grateful to iFixit for advocating for it and putting out such valuable guides. Sadly, there's an issue with mine where the hard drive cable breaks after a few months and I've had to get it replaced about 4 times already. The thermals also aren't very good so under heavy CPU load it heats up, though that doesn't happen for me much unless I (rarely) play a game or use all my cores. The added ports are just a bonus, even if I don't use them often like the Ethernet port.

Edit: Just noticed that it is mentioned in the first footnote.
Honestly, I got more information out of the comments than that article, which was mostly insults advancing a strawman of PG's position.

But back to what you're saying, can you give more examples at least? To pick some of the richest (most extreme?) people for wealth inequality, is it wrong that for example, Warren Buffet managed to acquire a lot of money and then give most of it to charity? The problem with advancing an ill-defined position like 'extreme' inequality is that I'm not sure that anyone is on the same page, though based on the abuse hurled at anyone asking questions, it seems like questioning it is equivalent to hating the "poors" (at least, if Medium is to be believed). I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I have great sympathy for the poor and I try to help where I'm able.

Is Elon Musk be another example? I'm not sure we'd have SpaceX or Tesla if he wasn't able to get rich. If there's a problem with wealth, I'd say that it's where incentives are misaligned (e.g. a CEO might get a huge bonus by laying people off).

As for value... I think too many people are unfamiliar with the terms as used in economics and that's leading to very confusing posts. Startups may create wealth (new services that didn't exist, new technology, etc.) and that's the important thing. 'Value' is either completely subjective or tied to currency (I repeat myself) so I don't think anything useful comes out of discussing that.

I think a lot of people get distracted over movements of currency, when the real focus should be the increase of global wealth and making sure that everyone has access to at least some basic standard of living. The world has been moving in that direction for a long time and I certainly hope that more people are able to live well in the future, though it seems like energy security is the most likely bottleneck.
"Insurers routinely pay out over %100 of premiums in claims."

Because there's zero controls around costs.