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Turns out that medical malpractice insurance isn't that expensive except for OBGYN's.
http://truecostofhealthcare.net/malpractice/

I totally agree that police should be held accountable for their actions though. A pet peeve of mine is the display of their "gang colors" (black/blue/black) stickers on their cars - as if they should get special treatment.
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Two day free shipping, at essentially the same prices as anywhere else on the web, makes me a happy customer. I would rather buy shit through Prime than go to WalMart. At least searching is optimized.
Right now a guy is sending me a mix of medical, software and truck driving job openings around the country. I guess he talked to me, then randomly poked buttons on his computer. I do embedded software. Some New York firm of recruiters.
I'd like to think I qualify, but I really identify as a software consultant (coder/manager type) who also does recruiting/contracting. I'm happy to answer any questions about this.

I got into this because I'm very personable and have a large professional network. This is from running the largest Java User Group in SoCal, and now a tech interview meetup, plus attending many others. I'd been hearing (and experiencing) what you described for years, so I figured I could be the best recruiter in the area - kind of like the world's tallest halfling. To be honest, it's harder than I thought.

Obviously, most recruiters don't know anything about technology. They rely entirely on the candidate qualifying themselves and the hiring manager giving helpful feedback. So at a minimum, they should have a good relationship with the hiring manager. Internal recruiters are competing with you and may try to block access. I simply dropped a client that did that, but usually it's the hiring manager who brings me in.

I also don't know how recruiters do this for other cities, much less halfway around the world like the offshore recruiters. First thing I did was check to see if you listed a location, because unless I have a client who allows remote work (rare) it's hard to help.

Again, happy to answer any specific questions.
What would be the use case for "letter of the law" agreements, and how do you avoid massive problems due to buggy contracts as we're seeing?
This contract, with this much money, needed NASA levels of QA.

I cannot think of many code projects that have a higher value-per-line-of-code than this contract.

Sadly, it appears that not only was there not the needed QA but the leaders of this project were alerted to the exact problem in code 5 days ago and they responded by declaring that there was no risk.

The actual problem + the response makes this feel like amateur hour.

Now everyone involved understands why things that exist in 'old finance' like contracts and IPOs are scrutinized by large, expensive auditors.
No, actually.

Unjust enrichment explicitly applies only to the situation where no actual contract exists.
Yep, my scenario was exactly like aianus's above. 1% transfer fee was much better than 6% interest since I planned to pay the balance off within the 18-month zero-interest period anyways. The card company issued paper checks specifically for the purpose of a balance transfer.
I thought Oculus was funded as an open device?

Why is it now locked down?
My point is that it is never anything but abused. Does a statement really have a point that's independent from how people use it? Especially when that use agrees with the statement's literal meaning?
And every day for the last half century an average of 92 people have died in car accidents in the USA. Every day for the last 10 years about 20 refugees have died somewhere in the world. But its all eclipsed by a madman somewhere. All about visibility I guess.
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None of those points actually refute the simple fact that most of the interchange fee gets refunded to consumers.

As for the theory that prices are inflated by interchange, there are two problems with it. One, reward card users don't experience inflation because most of the interchange is refunded to them. Two, when Australia regulated down interchange, it didn't actually result in lower prices.

> what the hell is that fee I pay for the card every year?

Most cards in the U.S. don't have annual fees. The ones that do usually offer enhanced benefits like richer reward programs.
A lot of this is predicated on the practicality of writing contracts in conventional code, so let's talk about the state of writing "bug free systems," and the cost. In some cases, there are options that come pretty close. All have huge trade offs and drawbacks.

Model checkers work. You can, with effort, prove programs correct. This works very well for small programs but grows exponentially more complex in the number of branches and variable constraints. Even if you had the computational power you'll quickly hit an inflection point where you're as likely to have a bug in your proof as you are the underlying code.

Life-critical systems style code review works. NASA is very good at writing bug-free C code via a style guide that subsets the language, static analysis/formal methods, and a review process that makes waterfall look agile.

Voing works. In aerospace, code that's responsible for controlling actuators and surfaces is often implemented in three different ways, driving three different actuators. If one implementation returns a different result, majority wins. Same principle for other applications - the output need not be an actuation.

The biggest problem isn't that bug free system are a pipe dream - it's that making one is very expensive, and the cost grows massively as your tolerance for error decreases. This is a community that wants to drive adoption, and that means competing with the status quo. If one of your selling points is that you're saving the cost and complexity of dispute resolution and human constructs, you've gotta factor in the cost of writing bug free contracts in the first place.
One of the things that many legal systems try to enshrine is a principle of fairness. One part of that is acknowledging that many contracts are entered into in a state of information or power asymmetry, which makes it easy for certain parties to create unfair contracts that the counterparty doesn't recognize as unfair or doesn't realize they can argue against.

This is really a good thing. The most tangible example I can come up with is employment law in California: One big thing that distinguishes the labor market in California from other regions is that non-compete clauses are basically unenforceable. Non-compete clauses being a big drag on innovation (since they basically imply that if you have a good idea that is related to your current line of work, and your current employer doesn't see the value, then you're SOL and not allowed to have a go of it), there's a very strong argument to be made that Silicon Valley couldn't have happened in any other jurisdiction.
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I also find the concept of exclusivity for a VR headset very problematic. People in conversations have been comparing it to console exclusivity. However, I don't need to connect my console to a $1k PC and now am not only committed to one platform, but to a combination of two.

I was really excited about VR when Oculus was still a kickstarter project. The Facebook acquisition killed some of that excitement. However, what really killed it for me was learning that it wasn't just another PC peripheral, but that these things have their own stores, etc. Until I can connect a VR headset and play a game I bought anywhere with it, I will stay away from this. I understand that some things don't work due to technical limitations like Vive's room tracking, but that's not the issue here.
There are massive research and regulatory efforts aimed at making cars safer, at least. We don't even attempt to do anything about the guns. Note that if you look at all gun deaths rather than just mass shootings, the number is similar to cars.
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It sounds like you're suggesting we should be indifferent to premeditated murder because an animal kills people too. I don't see how that follows. Can you please expand on your reasoning for clarity?
I think Oculus's attitude is actually fairly sensible for the position they are in..

First, the success of VR is an existential risk for Oculus. This is not true for Valve; Valve just doesn't want to be left behind (at least at a business level, I have no doubt their engineering organization wants to continue to be the tech leader).

Second, they are very concerned about whether people have good VR experiences, because the well has been poisoned by people's memories of 90s VR, Cardboard, concerns about motion sickness, overhype, headsets looking dumb, etc.

Third, they're a fairly small organization, and they already have to support engagements with GPU vendors, OS, as well, as getting their hardware built and supported. Having to support other hardware on their platform (especially as there is a race to the bottom between HTC, Razer, etc) is a huge additional burden. They do have financial resources from Facebook, but you can't just throw money at an engineering org, you have to scale carefully.

So to make VR is successful, they have to make sure that people have good experiences, but they have a small team. Buying exclusives makes perfect sense for them: it's a way to leverage Facebook's financial resources, and since the titles are exclusive they can focus on making those titles work as well as possible on a SW/HW stack that they own.
Because it more likely that beginning programmers would jump straight and look for the "accepted answer".
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/us/large-companies-game-h-...
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Oh. I was thinking it might be like this part "On this analysis, the defendant is obliged to make restitution if there is no 'basis' for her receipt: for example, because the contract under which the defendant received the benefit was void ab initio."

Obviously, i wouldn't offer a contract that lets someone take an unlimited amount of money and only deduct the amount of the first transaction, and the withdrawer clearly knew this. Not true?
That is the legal argument the article presents, but it is wrong. Here is a quick legal analysis:

Contracts that include illegal activities, such as theft, are unenforceable. If the hacked funds get released the whole of the DAO would be legally invalid.

In other words what stopped an investor from day 1 from suing the creators of the DAO in court to get their investment back? Well the fact that there was a contract in place and that contract/DAO had not been breached, meaning the investor would lose such a lawsuit. The argument from the article is suggesting even with the hack the same is true, because its part of the contract; therefore, the contract/DAO hasn't been breached. That is where the legal argument fails.

Try contracting for any other illegal activity and see how that works out enforcing it in court. "Your Honor, I have a contract right here that says I paid for the drugs but they weren't delivered." Just imagine, "Your Honor, the contract/DAO says any member can create a child DAO and steal the funds from the other investors/party to the contract...Judge they contracted to be stolen from." I am predicting right now if any of those funds get released as a result of this hack, there will be criminal charges, but it will just as likely be against the creators of the DAO as the hacker. They are not shielded from liability, civilly or criminally, because the victims agreed to be victimized in a contract.

As a lawyer I have called the DAO snake oil[1] from the beginning, but mostly because it sold itself as something new legally...which it is not (of course I was downvoted). I suggested if you like the concept of a DAO, great, but start your own that is true decentralization as it really isn't much more than an Investment Club LLC. And more controversial I challenged the charade of the smart contract, again not as a concept, because they do have value legally and otherwise, but as what the DAO sold smart contracts as...a self enforcing contract, that is bullshit any real world example anyone can give me I'll come up with a real world way to breach it. 20 days ago I suggested the first DAO proposal should create: a) a group of lawyers/coders to review all proposed and funded contracts for approval; and b) an insurance company to insure both approved proposed and funded DAO contracts in the instance of bugs/errors.[2] If these hacked funds don't get released and that is not the first step members of the DAO take after cleaning up the actual DAO framework, everyone deserves the next hack.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11707497

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11789829
> to keep the new millenials, they're pushing everyone else away.

Millennials are the biggest and most active group, and more important to them compared to "everyone else" - they know what they're doing.
We are constantly making efforts to improve automobile safety. Driving a car requires a license, which can be revoked. We're making efforts toward self-driving cars, because humans aren't competent to drive them. It's a silly comparison.

Madmen are part of the human condition. Violence is part of the human condition. Guns are not part of the human condition, and we could do without them if we so chose.

I agree that we shouldn't make policy based on rare events like what happened in Orlando. But there are a lot more deaths due to guns than that.

I'm not denying that guns may be a useful tool. But whether they provide a net benefit to society, make us safer, etc, that's well up for debate.
It is unfortunate, I agree.
No, it doesn't. It simply means that the rules in the contract are not the only rules that govern the agreement.
Yes, and the number of car fatalities has fallen over the decades because automobiles and drivers are regulated. So why shouldn't guns be?

I am not sure what your point is about the refugees, but there is a lot being done to help those people and money being spent on the problem.

And you do realize this is not "a madman somewhere". These is a heavily armed madmen about once every other month.
Loopholes are generally legal, by definition.
They are easy to bypass for technically minded people, which should describe just about the entire audience of this site.
What is the illegal act that occurred?
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This actually makes me wonder if it would be worthwhile to look for this and similar issues and remove Windows support from the methods for a custom implementation. It might shave off some more time.
From 2001 to 2010, 119,246 Americans were murdered with guns, 18 times all American combat deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - Stanley McChrystal

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/opinion/home-should-not-be...
You really can never say in code we trust entirely, because we say the same thing about our state of the art encryption today that the Nazis said about enigma in WW2 "It would take more than every human lifetime combined to crack this code!" But then the next paradigm of computing sets in, and you have a Turing machine built, or a Quantum brute force attack become possible on RSA 4096 rendering it as useless as enigma code. The fact of the matter is you can't declare a system that can not update it's own software "Autonomous" - someone will attack.
so I'll just throw the Bullshit flag right there...
It is true that upon adoption, the 2nd did not apply to slaves. It only applied to 'citizens' and as slaves were not considered citizens, it did not apply to them.

however: aside from your slanted attempt to start a racial issue re: the second, there are other, more pressing backing and reasons.

A. The Federalist Papers, No. 28: Alexander Hamilton expressed that when a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.[Halbrook, p. 67]

B. The Federalist Papers, No. 29: Alexander Hamilton explained that an armed citizenry was the best and only real defense against a standing army becoming large and oppressive. [Halbrook, p. 67]

C. The Federalist Papers, No. 46: James Madison contended that ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms. [Halbrook, p. 67]

E. The Federalists promised that state governments and citizen militias would exist to make sure the federal military never became large or oppressive. To say that the National Guard replaces the notion of the militia runs contrary to what the Founders said and wrote.

F.John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (1690) aimed at reforming Britain’s monarchy and parliamentary system and limiting the power of government, and profoundly influenced the Founders and all Western Civilization. John Locke explained that civil government properly exists to more effectively protect the rights that all individuals have in the “state of nature.” The individuals have the rights to life, liberty, and property. They give civil government the power over themselves only to the extent that it better protects those rights. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, specifically declared that the ideas of John Locke’s Second Treatise were “generally approved by the citizens of the United States.”Jefferson mandated that Locke’s Second Treatise be taught in the University of Virginia.

Also, feel free to look at other sites that may not align to your political echo-chamber. You may find it gives you a more complete point of view.

http://rare.us/story/when-black-americans-used-the-second-am...

http://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amend...
As far as I understand, the phones rely on real crypto to verify transactions without exposing secrets to the merchant.

The chip and whatever cards despite taking 10 or more seconds are still just transferring the secret to the merchant. So once criminals figure out how to make copies they will be no more secure.
I disagree. The miners are the network. It has always been the case that the ability to influence the miners is equivalent to the ability to manipulate the network however you please. This isn't a new property of the system.

The miners choosing to do this or not to do this changes nothing about the fundamental security assumptions of Ethereum. Even if they choose not to fork, that doesn't mean that they couldn't choose to do so in the future for some other case. So i'm not really sure what it is that's being lost if they choose to do so now.
I wouldn't say that this is a bad business to be in -- I'm sure many people in this space have good ideas -- but it's very crowded. If you want to build a business, I would suggest thinking of something else.
Serverless now means "servers in the cloud" ? So what do we call apps that don't use servers!? I'm actually writing one right now...
Yep, if I have a coke at lunch I'll pick zero if I got a large amount of caffeine in the morning, otherwise diet.
By now Oculus VR is clearly larger organization than Valve and likely only small portion of Valve works on anything VR-related. So I just not sure you can call them "small" anymore.
Why isn't "increase mental health care" an option in this game?
How about the Manga Guide to Linear Algebra (https://www.nostarch.com/linearalgebra)?

If that's too adult, there's always the story of Ping: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2VDKZ4X1F992Q/ref=cm_cr_dp_ti...
A single instance, yes but we're talking about a platform. It's closer to bug than a feature.
You're also talking about systems 20,000x larger than what The DAO contract was [1]. The total DAO contract is roughly 2,000 LOC by my estimate [2].

IMO it probably won't be overly onerous to develop reliable contracts of this size using many of these techniques. It's just so few people have the discipline to delay implementation for design and planning at the level required when it needs to be bug free. Most software developers have no training in how to even begin designing and developing using these techniques.

[1]: Shuttle's primary flight software contains 400,000 LOC http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/flyfeature_...

[2]: https://github.com/slockit/DAO
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Yes. But mass shootings are not the only ones that would be prevented by sensible gun restrictions. Its true that the currently increased focus on the issue is due to an emotional response. But that doesn't mean that it's a bad idea.
As said, differences and all. To me Splenda tastes like sugar. No aftertastes at all. Stevia on the other hand is awful with a bitter taste that I can't even take.
Theft has a precise legal definition. Most of what happens online isn't theft, but rather forms of fraud. But the contract language used for this project makes the applicability of fraud hazy. That's the point of the article.
Also "thoughts and prayers" are the standard political response from GOP senators and congressmen. Many think they should do their jobs and pass legislation to help keep the public safe, like is done in the automobile industry for instance. Thoughts and prayers haven't helped...ever.
wait until people realize that the Dept. of Education has a SWAT team...

http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2011/06/beware-t...
Gabe Newell's phrasing makes it sound like Valve is basically offering a cash advance to some developers (similar to trade publishing, where authors get an advance check which they must then "earn out" before they can receive future royalty checks).

It's basically an interest-free loan which doesn't need to be paid back if the project is a failure (i.e. fails to "earn out" its advance). Quite generous, assuming Valve isn't taking any more than their usual cut of the Steam revenue as part of the arrangements.
>The Facebook acquisition killed some of that excitement.

I knew then that it wouldn't take long for them to bring their shitty business practices to the VR table.
yt-download and the full-featured video-player of your choice.

Option to fast-forward, repeat, speed/slow, etc., from keyboard as well. Which rocks.

Web video players suck. All of them. YouTube is horribly inconsistent across interfaces.
> Guns are not part of the human condition, and we could do without them if we so chose.

Could we really do without them? No guns for madmen, sane people, kids, death squads, adults, spies, sportsmen, militia men, soldiers, police officers, swat teams, special forces, or concentration camp guards?
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Unless I'm reading this incorrectly, two mining pools control over 50% of the hash rate:

https://etherchain.org/statistics/miners

2/3 of the hashrate from three pools doesn't seem very decentralized.
It's possible for there to be both too many deaths from mass shootings and too many deaths from dog attacks. The prevalence of one has no bearing on the tragedy of the other.
There's an assumption with these systems that the miners value the integrity of the system, whether out of idealism or just because they're invested in it, so you'll never have most of them try to subvert it.

If they roll this back, that will show that this assumption is wrong. They are not sufficiently invested or sufficiently idealistic to preserve the system. At least half of them value expediency instead.

Technologically it changes nothing, but it totally alters the human element.
I'd like to use it! But it's not available for Linux (oh, the irony).