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Agree - I've been thinking about what the city would be like if all cars (except taxis) were banned during rush hour. I'm struggling to see how it would lead to anything but a better public transport network and a better standard of living for most people that need to commute during busy hours.
Apple made $18 billion in profits last quarter. For half of that, they could have saved 2.7 million people from dying of malaria. In one quarter alone.[1] Apple's customers spent about $45 billion on iPhones last quarter. If they had gotten Android phones for half the price (which still provide essential information and communications), they could have saved 5 million children by investing in children's health programs.[2]

If it's reprehensible to have the means to save a life and not do so, then Apple and its customers are reprehensible. This is the natural consequence of your reasoning. The only distinction you can make between Gilead and Apple is that Gilead invented the means of saving lives, while Apple would have to pay someone else to do so. But how on earth does that count against Gilead? Why is Gilead evil for making profits when they could save lives by giving away Sovaldi, when Apple could just as easily save lives by buying Sovaldi for those who need it?

[1] It costs about $3,300 to save a life from malaria: http://www.techinsider.io/the-worlds-best-charity-can-save-a....

[2] It costs $4,200 to save a child by investing in childhood health: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150703072652.h....
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This was already true back when I started using Emacs in my teens. Now that I'm middle-aged myself...
> Twitter said it has a long-standing policy barring third parties, including Dataminr, from selling its data to a government agency for surveillance purposes. The company wouldn’t comment on how Dataminr—a close business partner—was able to provide its service to the government for two years, or why that arrangement came to an end.

So why was the exception made to this policy?

> In-Q-Tel, a venture-capital arm of the U.S. intelligence community, has been investing in data-mining companies to beef up the government’s ability to sort through massive amounts of information. In-Q-Tel, for example, has invested in data-mining firms Palantir Technologies Inc. and Recorded Future Inc.

> U.S. intelligence agencies gained access to Dataminr’s service after an In-Q-Tel investment in the firm, according to a person familiar with the matter.

> When a pilot program arranged by In-Q-Tel ended recently, Twitter told Dataminr it didn’t want to continue the relationship with intelligence agencies, this person said.

VC funds led by US agencies that operate on a quasi-legal and opaque basis is the worst form of crony capitalism

Open version of the article http://www.wsj.com/article_email/twitter-bars-intelligence-a...
Sure. But if they demanded a trillion dollars per pill, the government shouldn't have to pay for it. It would bankrupt the country. They shouldn't be able to set a price and force the government to pay it.

The only reason we have this crazy system is because people refuse to put an economic value on life.
FWIW, before I even joined Google, there were notes from Sanjay (the actual inventor) saying that varint was a poorly-chosen format due to excessive branching. IIRC he was arguing for a format where you can tell the length based on the first byte although I don't completely remember. In theory you could design such a format that is just as space-efficient as varint, by re-arranging bits.

Protobuf -- like most successful systems -- was not so much "designed" as it was "evolved" as a series of decisions made out of expediency rather than because they were the best possible answer. Overall it has obviously worked extremely well, but I would not assume that just because protobuf does something, it is good. (But I'd say that about just about everything, not just protobuf.)
Scientists at pharma companies who make breakthrough discoveries are well rewarded in stock and bonuses.
Agreed. I'd the exact same feeling reading the piece.
There are some good reasons, such as a vetting process to make sure the company isn't helping the inmates do anything illegal. Doesn't mean that this hasn't gone overboard, but the seed of reason is definitely there.
How much time does it take to analyze the original and copy it, set up for mass production, advertise, etc? Then, how much time until demand shifts from the original to the generic in each market (India, US, etc)?

According to the OP the company was making "billions every quarter" on sales in the US. Considering the research often costs "billions", they should make a profit in the first quarter by selling in multiple markets if it takes around a month until the demand shifts to the generic.
Keep in mind that the potential for huge profits was what motivated private investors to fund development for a cure. Without that, Hep C would still be a death sentence, regardless of how much money you had.
coming from someone who worked as a govt consultant, In-Q-tel is a scary entity
As someone who works at a university and does work for drug trials, I don't agree that they are fully privately funded. They use university staff much of the time, and those staff are not paid market rate. They get equipment hire at academic rates rather than commercial rates too. Just thought I'd add my 2c.
Right - maybe just re-cut the government deals with itself down the line.
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I wonder that myself. I think it has more to do with standard corporate over thinking about what's skills are actually required for a job. It certainly make it easier to say, "We want someone to write titles and snippets of news stories. Who does that? Journalists. Cool, let's get some of those."

disclaimer: i worked on that fb product.
Um, what? I don't recall some kind of mythical "anti-patent lobby" successfully convincing the government to eliminate patents anytime recently.
There is a difference between brand/product name and product itself. As @dredmorbius mentioned in a sibling comment, IDEs by definition do not "do one thing well" - various tools are integrated with varying degrees of tightness. Take old VS project, old Eclipse workspace and they have to be first converted to a new format. How can one be sure that there is 1:1 mapping between old and new formats?
Having worked on VS6 does not guarantee that old tips&tricks will be valid in VS2016 or VS2030. Imagine if they decided to switch from VC to clang - it is integral part of VS and cannot be dismissed. Even though I'm not emacs user I'm pretty confident that overwhelming majority of what I learn today about the tool will be valid 20 years later.
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And from a SEO point of view?
I'd argue that US practice damages healthcare systems everywhere with the defensive practice of ordering every test and scanning every system to avoid liability. It contaminates thought processes where a 1 minutes pause would generate some level headed thought.
Since I haven't made any large scale apps, I'd qualify my experience as 1-2 years of Android. I've dabbled in iOS but not really that much in depth.
"The best editor is not Emacs nor Vi, it's Vi + Emacs"

I've discovered [evil](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil) a few days ago and I'm in love.
> if they demanded a trillion dollars per pill

Then nobody would buy it and they would lose their investment.

> force the government to pay it

They can't force the government to do anything. Of course, the government can just take the pills from them, but if they did that, then no more cures would be developed.

> people refuse to put an economic value on life

People do all the time. Every time you (and everyone else) make a decision of risk vs cost vs utility, you do. For example, some cars are safer than others. How does that influence what you'll pay for a car?
The problem with Science is it has nothing to offer you when you're fucked.

When you're fucked, science will just tell you you're fucked.

Religion, on the other hand, will tell you that God is right there with you, and you can just keep going and you'll find a Way.

This is also the reason why I think white atheism is sometimes racist. If you are a white person who has generally had it easier than people of color, then it's really convenient to say "I don't need faith, I am pretty good just letting reality be all there is". If your reality is that your children keep getting shot by police, or if your reality is that your husband was hung for demanding some white customers pay for the goods they bought, then Science is actually not good. Science will tell you it's bad and it's not getting better. But religion will offer you peace.

And then there's the fact that science has historically been conducted by white people for white ends. Which isn't to say black science isn't an (awesome) thing with a (long) history and a promising future. But to say "just throw out your ancient cultural knowledge about how to survive in a hostile world, science has got your back"... coming from a white person to a black person? Easy to say when science has largely been about improving white lives.

The same thing applies to class: atheists with steady employment sometimes think poor people who believe in God are stupid. But unless you grew up poor I don't think that's fair to say. Someone who never thought they had any choice other than crime, someone who ends up hurting people, killing people, driving into situations where their friends get killed..... When you go through that kind of stuff, and you're sitting in prison and you have nothing to do but think back over your life... You see how evil you've been. You see the harm you've caused, over and over. Science will tell you that when you get out you're probably going to end up in the same environment. Science will say you're probably going back to prison. You'll probably hurt more people. That's a dark place to be.

But religion won't say those things. Religion will tell you to forget about what's probably going to happen and instead to look for your path. And religion will tell you that there are forces in the world which are good and which will always be there with you no matter how bad it gets.

Those situations are where religion really shines. And populations who end up in those situations over and over again need something like that. If you came from that background, or any background of tribulation, and you are an atheist, I have total respect for that. I would love to buy you a beer and listen to your thoughts if you're into that kind of thing.

But if you came from a white family, are relatively employable, and generally treated as a citizen in good standing in your country, then I think Atheism for you is a racist, classist, and cruel worldview. I think you should switch to atheism-leaning agnosticism with a willingness to learn about religion with fresh ears.
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They can implement an alternative driver to convert IO streams into API calls. And that's how libuv did.
I disagree with your second paragraph. I don't see how humanity being a product of time and chance implies that evil is an illusion. For instance, I think the claim "suffering is bad" is true regardless of whether a God or chance created humans.

This is a frequent misconception though. See the Euthyphro dilemma for a rebuttal. TLDR: are things right/wrong because god says so, or does God say so because they are right/wrong. The former implies a completely arbitrary morality. The later implies that morality is independent from God.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaethics/#EutPro
Funny thing is, despite all this, protobuf beats almost everything in benchmarks, in part due to excessive micro-optimization. Almost all varints in practice are 1-byte, so the larger ones don't really matter.

That said, the fact that you can't skip forward in a protobuf without parsing through all the previous fields is unfortunate in some use cases, hence Cap'n Proto.
Rehabilitation and integration are not goals in the US. It's punishment and deterring criminals. It's dumb and antiquated old testament morale beyond believe.
"This item cannot be installed in your device's country" (Turkey)

Is this intentional?
Yes, you can assume, but existing applications, maybe written in 1990s even 1980s, won't.
And there are millions of computers, maybe in important industrial companies, are still using them.
You are missing the context. Advancements in computer technology were a result of research and development, not someone ruthlessly cutting costs.
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Jeans are a weird phenomenon. Ugly, heavy, unflattering fabric. They only look good on people who would look good no matter what they wore.

Worse still, they are like a disease. I was in a bar/restaurant recently, and I couldn't help but notice how many people were wearing jeans. So I did a visual survey, and as far as I could tell, out of about 40 people, only myself and one other lady were not wearing them. Even my wife was in a pair.
Don't worry, with the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) we are all signing up for we have agreed to be gouged deeply. New Zealand.
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Honestly, no, there's no "good" reason.

In practice the reason it ended up designed this way is because varint was introduced first with no special support for negative numbers, and then zigzag was introduced years later. Zigzag worked well because it stacked on top of the existing varint parser without changing it.

But for a new format with no backwards-compatibility constraints, it would probably make much more sense to use sign extension (so, the first encoded bit becomes the sign bit).

(I am the person who rewrote and open sourced protobufs at Google, though I am not the inventor.)
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Disclaimer: I have only used vim and emacs, so I really don't know what an IDE can do.

Things I wish I knew about emacs earlier in life:

Emacs benifit plan volume 1:

* You will finally love the ui/ux for `info` pages

* macros (save and repeat a sequence of commands, commands can be applied to anything)

* registers (save locations in buffers, save text for later pasting)

* Frames (M-x speedbar for starters)

* modes (which to use and how to configure?!)

* built in documentation is awesome!

* what does this sequence of buttons do is only a `Ctr-h k <sequence of buttons>` away

* Mostly solid remote editing (tramp mode is no match for rsync on large files, luckily, RMS and friend have afforded us our freedom and we can configure this to our liking.)

* Freedom (as already identified by many people here but not by the word 'Freedom'. Also Freedom causes longevity. I have no source on this)

* Why is Freedom not number one on my silly list? If this were ORG mode I could bump it up to the top quickly.

* Excellent (multi-language (multi-language)) support. This is a recursive joke and the base case for me at least is English Bash. Emacs is language agnostic and language aware

* You will never have to write a 'throw-away' shell script ever again because emacs macros are that good. Still like shell scripting, incorporate shell commands in your macro.

* Carpel tunnel syndrom (cts) is a real thing, but, IMO, poor posture is more likely to give you health problems than cts. In reality, with Ctrl-R reverse search and Ctrl-S forward search, you can basically cycle through every command you have ever typed.

* Default key bindings in bash are emacs based and I actually enjoy the emacs bindings more than the vi ones despite spending lots of time in vim

Last reason: It's fun to play with a "real time display editor" and realize that emacs is an endless journey on the road to freedom in your ability to manipulate computation, however it may be expressed in years to come.
Nowadays, it's good to learn more than one domain. Go ahead to learn as much as you could, they are part of the user experience you could improve your skills and deliver high performance.

I feel Android app experience are inferior to iOS app that it feel gaming are more exciting due to LLVM powered on iOS.
You may or may not have noticed that extreme poverty and hardship doesn't lead to less offspring, in fact the opposite occurs. Look at birth rates between wealthy and poor countries or groups.
Clearly some people at Oracle think that way too. They probably paid a lot for 'owning' the Java language and runtime, and only to see that Google just developed their own, and copied the whole API on top of it. So they are probably pissed that their language is slipping away (Java is definitely no longer associated with the Oracle brand).

Thing is Oracle got screwed in the first place, they shouldn't have thought they could "buy" the language.
Article is about rate adjusting, not packets.

\Theory We can only perceive nature's algorithms after we've worked them out for ourselves, because we don't know what to look for in the noise. Therefore, we are surrounded by incredibly clever algorithms, unbeknownst.
Your comment isn't coherent, but I think you're asking, "What fair-use defense is Google asserting?"

One approach is for Google to say, "Developers expect a reasonable platform that they are familiar with. To give them that, we had to use Java (or C# or similar)."

In other words, it is an interoperability defense, but for compatibility with developers, not devices or software.
Good enough or, "we're #2!" might be all that's needed to chip off some server shares. Which is good for AMD. But for my machine I'm not sure I'd give up any single threaded performance for the promise of 8 physical cores with SandyBridge level IPC.
This happened to me, in Guatemala. Was using a rental car Garmin GPS whose map had some serious errors. The worst was, driving at night, thanks to my brights being on, I saw the road drop off ahead and slowed us to a stop. It was a sheer cliff into a ravine. The actual road had been knocked out and a replacement road had been built 100 feet away. We had to backtrack to find it.
They were also discouraged from mentioning Twitter by name in headlines and summaries, and instead asked to refer to social media in a broader context.

Hah!
So, in your opinion, radio waves do have an effect on the world around us. Which, actually, I agree with you.

However, their existence was undetected 150 years ago. Similarly, there are likely things that are undetected by us that also will become very important once they are discovered.
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Yeah ZocDoc is best for that.
That's a nonsensical argument. My parent comment referred to "peoples" in the plural. Your argument is that there is only one people, which is a contraction. The whole point of the discussion is to compare different peoples.
>Of course, the government can just take the pills from them, but if they did that, then no more cures would be developed.

There seems to be a common misunderstanding of how eminent domain works. The Constitution requires "just compensation", which the courts interpret as fair market value.
"most of the $225 jeans is markup."
I don't like your wording here. While you don't say it is "profit", it seems to suggest it.

How a about costs for the salesperson in the US? Rent for the store? Branding and marketing costs may be huge.

I recently looked into hand made automatic watches. The main difference between the major brands and smaller (EU based) unknown brands seems to be marketing. You can't pick up a life style magazine of visit an airport without advertisement for watches. This costs money.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree here. Your argument is totally valid economically, but I'm arguing the morality of it. I certainly don't think all companies and consumers should be providing every surplus dollar to helping others.

If this were a free market system where competition has resulted in $84k being the price at which it makes sense to produce then so be it. Instead, the company can lobby to make sure the government, who we both agree should be involved here for the public good, never gets involved and buy out any company that challenges its monopoly. Then, it can take advantage of global markets for additional profits, while the people who are actually dying can't and have two options - death or debt.
How so? I've pitched them in the past. They behaved like a VC firm with government interests.
This is great. BASIC was my first programming language on a TI-92 calculator. It provides an invitation to new would-be programmers to explore writing code. Having it available on Android just opens the door for more people to try.
Wasn't there recently an article that stated lithium had already tripled in price.

And if it reached a quadruple it would become cost effective to extract it from the ocean?
The Facebook echo chamber is a true effect, and echo chambers cause a feedback loop of encouraging radicalization. If you wanted to, you could always run sentiment analysis over comments containing a political candidate, say Donald Trump, and penalizing in feed ranking comments that were pro-Donald or anti-Hillary, thus dampening the echo chamber. Same thing with simply penalizing links from right wing websites. The echos then start to fade, and then perhaps lower the motivation of someone to vote or donate money or something.

In the end though, you're basically just playing at the margins.
I've always disliked the explanations I've seen for the Mpemba effect. They seem to be based on poorly defined terms, odd assumptions, and uncontrolled variables. The (poorly) linked 2010 paper by Brownridge is the first description that I'm inclined to trust: https://www.binghamton.edu/physics/docs/Preprint%20and%20Sup...

Impressively, he describes a controlled duplicable setup in which he's able to reliably freeze (using an exact definition) identical quantities of water in identical containers under identical conditions such that the hot water freezes before the cold water. Incredibly, he was sometimes even able to observe this when starting with 100C water vs 0C water!

As you'd guess, there is a little bit of a trick to it, but it's one that not nearly as obnoxious as some of the earlier explanations: no evaporation resulting in a smaller volume or remaining water, no spontaneous ice spikes with greater surface area, and no differential melting of the thick layer of frost on the freezer shelf required.

Rather than giving a spoiler, I'll let the paper describe the exact technique he used. OK, a hint from the paper to encourage you to actually read it: cold water will indeed always reach 0C before identically handled hot water, but contrary to popular belief reaching 0C is merely a requirement for freezing rather than a guarantee.
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Couldn't agree more. In addition to that, the NSA (among other government organizations) sniffs and logs all internet (including Twitter) traffic. Given the unlimited resources of the government to sift, sort, and mine this data (thanks to our taxpayer dollars) it wouldn't be at all surprising if they didn't already construct a superior, parallel analytic system unconstrained by any of the regulations or financial restrictions faced by Twitter.
The admins on here manipulate content quite a bit... that would be my guess.