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Nothing. This is just a tactic to "silence" critics.
How relevant are cow farts in global warming? is there a percent figure? as in cows contribute x% of gas emissions
> Moreover the treatment that a low-income and high-income citizen receives is very similar, so there is a lot less social discrimination.

Can you expand on this? I don't know where I could take my money and receive better medical care than someone totally indigent. If anything, the experience as a poor person is better: my friend has had a kid and two major surgeries in the past year, plus regular checkups, and has paid nothing as she is on Medicaid. I see the exact same doctors, but I get a flurry of bills that come months after my visit, multiple bills for the same thing, and have to evaluate what's legitimate or if I need to argue and I end up spending a lot of money out of pocket due to the craze for high-deductible health plans - even though my premium is over 20k/year and I am still paying taxes to support Medicaid and Medicare!

I mean, I guess the ultra-rich can buy their own doctors, or visit special superstar doctors, but I feel like that's probably universally true. But my feeling in the US if that if you qualify for Medicaid, you are actually better off than someone in the middle class - for example, I broke a bone early this year and I didn't bother going to the doctor because I didn't want to spend hundreds of dollars for something medical care couldn't do much about anyway - but if I had Medicaid, I could just go and not worry.

On the subject of the ACA, the best thing it did was expand Medicaid eligibility, though unfortunately due to the Supreme Court decision some states were able to refuse the expansion. I'm not really convinced the rest of the bill really advanced us much in the right direction. If only one of the carriers on the exchange was a public option...
The system in France is very different from the system in the U.K. Instead of having a national health service that employs the doctors, they have a system a lot like Obamacare, but with national price controls.

For details on the French system see The Healing of America by T.R. Reid. It also covers the U.K. and several other countries.
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So here I come along, as a mechanical engineer who's made a living writing software and administrating servers and networks, with a more-than-passing interest in climate science and what it might mean for mankind. In just these 2 comments, I see a perfect example of what puts me off to try to wrap my head around the "debate."

First guy says there are 400B trees, down around 50% from the beginning of time. That puts the original figure at about 800B. Second guy says there are actually 3T trees presently, which would mean an almost 400% increase over the first guy's original figure. Both cite sources, which I'm sure are well researched, exhaustively written, were presented in peer-reviewed journals, and which made their authors famous, and got lots of grant money for their respective universities.

Which am I supposed to believe? That we're killing off all the forests, or we're drowning in them? It's one figure, but it makes all the difference in the argument, and the laws which might be written AROUND that argument.

I'm not asking for clarification. I'm just pointing out that there are reasonable people who are interested in the discussion, and care about the outcome, but get put off by the inconsistencies in the facts by the published reports. (And don't get me started about reading the studies themselves. They are purposely obfuscated with domain-specific language, which would require a degree to decipher.)
- The sciennce articles that come to conclusions the original study didn't, there have literally been hundreds of them in the UK press over the past 10-15 years. The MMR scare is a prime example of bad news (its actually 99% fake but with that nugget of truth in the middle that is distorted so much its fake news).

- All the bad tech news like all the magical batteries that are coming out next year, and haven't actually every come out at all.

- The political news where they attack someone for something they didn't do.

- The news papers hacking into politicians/famous peoples computers to steal private information and publishing stories on it.

- The pieces about a person that are purely ad hominen and have little to nothing to do with the job they do.

- The pieces that endanger people doing dangerous jobs around the globe, especially things like famous people working in Afghanistan and necessitating them to quit their jobs.

- The news that is just "he said" which has even become twitter quotes now. Just presenting that with no actual points, history or anything else to actually make an article.

- Taking quotes from speeches that are the exact opposite of what the person meant, just plain taken out of context.

That right there is 80% of the news we read every single day on news papers around the world. I could go on and on about all the fake/bad news types we see but my conclusion having personally fact checked a lot of news that could be verified is that 95% of it is either a lie or intentionally misleading. Its every news paper I have checked in the UK and the USA. Its scary how bad the news is.
> I call BS. Office 365, JIRA, Slack, Loggly...these all have monthly price plans, and discounted yearly plans.

These services have different, not comparable pricing models. See http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...

They only sell packs (like 5, 50, or 500 users). All customers have to pay for the superior pack. There is little price prediction, you just _seriously_ overallocate to the next plan available. That's a revenue optimization strategy for the company. It's very costly for the customers.

> Unlike those examples, reserved instances can be bought and sold on the AWS marketplace (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/reserved-insta...).

Nope they cannot... UNLESS you're American, and you have a bank account in America and in dollars, and you have an official American tax number, and you fill some paperwork... and more unknown hiccups you'll only find out too late! (I couldn't continue the procedure to see what's next, didn't fit the criteria at this point ^^).
In Boston, a big problem is at 2:30 AM after the bars close and people are wandering the streets to get home because public transit is also (inexplicably) closed. When everything is closed, how do you prevent people from pooping and pissing in alleys (or in broad streetlight)?

Or, for the opposite type of person, runners at 5 in the morning have the same problem. Miles away from home, sudden need to go to the bathroom, everything is closed.
There's some indications that Google would support Postgres as part of the CLoudSQL in the future. But there are already multiple DB-as-a-Service offerings that provide PostgreSQL in Google Cloud. My company, Aiven (https://aiven.io) is one of the providers and I believe Compose, DatabaseLabs and ElephantSQL also provide managed PG in Google Cloud.
But someone has to pay for the health care, so they're losing some freedom (money in this case). That person gives up freedom also on the pricing of your healthcare.

Note: that person may be you, depending on taxation
The primary issue with the system before Obama was two-fold.

1) Too many young people didn't insure themselves meaning that the relatively low cost of having them as insured couldn't be used to balance out the higher cost needed for later on in life. This was putting the primary burden of the cost on the older generations.

By forcing everyone to pay the idea was that you could even out the cost.

2) Pre-existing conditions. I.e. the insurance agencies wouldn't cover you if you came into their plan with an existing condition. To give you an example of that from real life.

I had a stage 1 melanoma. They tried to excise it but didn't get everything out and I had to get more complicated operation.

My insurance wouldn't cover it because they claimed I had that coming into the system. I later convinced them otherwise but until that happened the only thing my doctor could offer me was to monitor my melanoma for the year I had to wait until they would cover me again. Imagine that.
Except the neighbour has higher costs having to deal with cleaning the toilets that's not being offset by increased profits. TINSTAAFL or TINSTAAFT in this case.
16.5% of methane emissions, give or take. If you could further apply this to all livestock, it's around 30%.
Could downvoter(s) explain?
Both of these books are excellent.

I'm lucky enough to have a full three car garage full of top-of-the-line power tools, but there's no substitute for a set of well sharpened chisels and a few handplanes (and the skill to use them).

I absolutely endorse the idea of starting with hand tools.

Christopher Schwartz has gone so far as to create a list of the 48 hand tools you should buy (in order). It's in the above referenced book, and you can also google it.
Here are couple of articles about it.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/04/11/301794415/gas...

http://timeforchange.org/are-cows-cause-of-global-warming-me...
For the Berlin S-Bahn, there is a weird mix of automatic and manual announcement. Where the train is heading is announced automatically, whereas "Einsteigen bitte" (board please) and "Zurückbleiben bitte" (stay clear) is announced by the driver. I imagine a driver saying this every 2-3 minutes in an 8 hour shift.

But also, I disagree with the failure rate of 90+%, from my experience I'd say it works pretty well in 90+% of the time. The system can even announce the "umgekehrte Wagenreihung" ;)
What I find so frustrating about this discussion is the inability so many seem to have to take themselves out of the argument and separate the two notions that 1) this machine does not fit their needs in particular and 2) this is a great machine for a lot of other people.

Also, how hung up people are on the word pro. Whether this machine is for you or not, can we all please just agree that pro doesn't mean anything other than the most expensive option? Certainly, noone is saying that Apple aims to serve every single market of people who self identify as pro users. If you think this machine is inadequate to do the kind of work that you do, then maybe, just maybe, it wasn't intended to? It doesn't mean that it's inadequate when it comes to countless other pro tasks.

One final thing: This machine is more powerful than the ones it replaces. Ergo, if it's not computationally up to the task of some pro task, then its predecessor certainly wasn't either. Which must mean that many of the people complaining weren't Mac users to begin with. Hmmm...
aka: more expensive
I agree that it's really easy to find time for reading. For us in tech, just replace your HN/Reddit time with reading and you'll be surprised how much you can read!
Ever since the old guard missed the mobile wave, they don't seem to want to take any change on the "next-big-thing". If apple goes into something, they all jump right in, business case or not
Perhaps I'm missing something, but how is "very forceful"?

Aren't these people are voluntary doing this work?
I am French and live in France right now.
Recently I had to undergo a surgical procedure. Nothing as serious as heart surgery, but still one day at the hospital and general anesthesia.

This has not affected my personal finances and I only had to focus on getting better.

I would like to move to the USA but I have got to admit that it frightens me that this kind of issue would have costed me a lot and a serious health condition could bankrupt me.

This is not ok. It saddens me that USA have not been able to instore a sane health care system.
It's different in different countries. The Netherlands has a system that is similar to Obamacare in that it is a system where everyone is required to have insurance and insurance companies cannot charge more to people with pre-existing conditions, but in the Netherlands there is a lot more competition between insurers. There are 30+ insurance companies and switching is easy. A standard insurance package is €100/month with a €400 deductible.
>"Why should I pay for someone else's healthcare?".

>and I don't really have an answer to that. Why indeed?

Because you don't know what is going to happen in the future. One day you may wind up broke and be diagnosed with a serious illness. And what about any children you may have. Wouldn't you like to know that they will receive care after you are dead no matter what is going on in their life?
Making your own bench is a rite of passage for woodworkers.

I'm glad i did it.

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I supported Jeremy Corbyn, so I am also way more socialist than you average Brit, but the answer to "Why should I pay for someone else's healthcare?" is actually quite simple - human decency.

Do you really want people to actually DIE? I hope not and that you'll rather pay "for someone else's healthcare" than to see them suffer and if YOU are ever bad on your luck and need the help, I'll gladly pay for your healthcare if you need it, because I know that you paid into the system when you could and now we're just paying you back.

I am already paying taxes for a lot of things that I may not want to anyway, like overbudget defense spending, over the top salaries for MPs, failed research, government websites that cost way more than they should and other initiatives that nobody asked for, financial support for hugely profitable multinationals etc. etc. - if I am paying for that, OF COURSE I'll pay into a system that will help a human being when they need it and be confident that I or my family members can expect the same, should it ever come to it.

It always seemed to me that in the U.S. they're fed up with having to pay for an excessive budget, yet they always blame the wrong part of it for their high taxes - don't blame healthcare spending, blame the way it's implemented, blame the fact that over 50% of your tax dolars is spent on the military, blame the failed, overbudget F-35 project etc. etc. DON'T blame Flint residents who don't even have access to clean water - where's the logic in that?
Those are from the waste water injection wells, not the fracking itself.
But can the seaweed prevent an undersea methane hydrate apocalypse?
> That said, the world could probably use a state of the art open access chip house that wasn't in Asia or controlled by the Chinese. Not sure that Intel could go there given their company history and organization.

Why should a chip house not be in Asia?

What are the issues with control by the Chinese [I assume you mean the Chinese government]?
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The free market is incapable of valuing the environment. How do you place a dollar amount on the survival of our species? Every gallon of petrol burned causes damage to the environment. How do you calculate the cost of that damage? How can the free market ever solve our problem if this very real cost is not reflected in the price of the product? Don't you think it's fishy that oil companies are now actually pushing for more taxes on fossil fuels? It's because they know that they'll get a bargain; the tax will always be lower than the value of the damage they're causing to our planet, and by the time everyone else realizes that it will be too late. They will be even more rich, and our species will be franticly scrambling to deal with the consequences of our inaction.

We've seen it time and time again; the free market is prone to the same short-sightedness as the rest of the human race. It will continue advancing in exactly the same way until it is either forced to change or eats itself whole, except instead of a depression we will face extinction.
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What correlation does using cruise control have with not paying attention? I think that's a strawman. I certainly feel much safer on the highway with people driving at a relatively constant speed, rather than gunning up to 80 mph, then falling back to 60 because they are fiddling with their radio or taking a call, then accelerating back up.

> Think about your behavior when you enter a highway. If you are like me, you take note of the posted speed limit, set your cruise control for 5 m.p.h. above that limit, and you're good to go.'

This is exactly what I do, every time. Except I set it at the speed limit, and trundle along in the right-hand lane. You get there just as fast, and don't run the risk of attracting any attention from the five-o.
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That is not a physical axiom, but a logical consequence of the principle of explosion, ex contradiction sequitur quodlibet.

The fallacy here is in the assumption we had a complete idea of an immutable theory of physics, the universe and everything, when that is clearly not the case. It's the same handwavery as from theologists, as dear as it might be, that many physicists aren't or weren't free of, as well.
Yes.
As everything big in culture at the time, it started in France: http://www.gutenberg.us/articles/roman-feuilleton

But it happened in the USA also, as serial novels: http://www.gutenberg.us/articles/Serial_novel
Segment on Cow Farts from the latest Climate Change video by National Geographic starring Leonardo Di Caprio:
https://youtu.be/IxGOQDiWImA?t=49m31s
Unless they are in a soundproof room somewhere you still have the problem of background noise coming through the speakers. One of the great benefits of automated or prerecorded messages is that they have no background noise.
There's a confusion here which you still don't get. Momentum is not 4-momentum. Conservation of latter implies the former but the reverse is not necessarily true. And nothing in the above is a "subset of conservation of energy"--that's absurd.

Actually, I'm not 99% sure, I'm 100% sure. It's very easy to imagine a relativistic system where momentum is conserved but energy isn't. Imagine if the universe was made of inelastic billiard balls, with no internal "heat", so every collision just lost energy. But momentum is still conserved.
Health insurance is not really insurance, though. Not only "a few" are going to use it. If auto insurance worked in the same way people would expect it to pay for oil changes, new tires, and other car maintenance expenses.
Why would one take a subset of healthy people in a comparison?

If anything, healthcare systems ought to be ranked on the life expectancies of the bottom percentile. Making a great health care system for the not-poor, not-addicted and those without preexisting conditions isn't a hard problem.

Part of the difference in mindset might be that addiction or poverty is partly seen as self inflicted in the US whereas I would always classify both as being mostly beyond the control of the individual. Even with our socialized medicine rich people eat bettter, excercise more, stress less and thus live longer. I'm glad our healthcare system offsets the life expectancy difference down to 5-10 years between me and a poor person, and I'm happy to pay for it.
Buy a desktop then.
With deforestation to make cow farms and methane released, its estimated at 18-30%.
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No, and that's not going to happen soon. But companies can start marketing their products as carbon neutral and selling them at a premium at retailers like Whole Foods.
It's closed because between 8 and 2:30 they make no money, so why would they keep it open for 6 hours.

In the UK the councils subsidise the local transport to stay open till 1/2am.
I love how nobody calls military spending "socialized". Only health care and education, for some reason.

The US has a gigantic "socialized" spending on that compared to everyone else. It's just that it's rather focused on one single thing. You can even hear politicians promise to spend even more taxpayer money on it.
I'm not a lawyer. You should get legal advice.

Liability insurance is for damages you or someone working for you causes, like knocking a server over or erasing a database. Freelancer vs. customer disputes over deliverables and schedule or payment generally lead to a breach of contract lawsuit, which I don't believe you can insure against except perhaps to limit damages. The best protection is to have a good contract, well-defined deliverables, and good communications with the customer.

Curating content from other web sites sounds like a possible intellectual property problem. Just because something is freely available on the web doesn't mean it's not copyrighted IP.

Also be aware that contracts, copyright, and IP are covered by state and federal law. A contract cannot override or nullify existing law.
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It's covered by some of the taxes you and your employer pay (though it's transparent for you) that are roughly proportional to your salary. For most people :
Health cotisation : ~14%
CSG (on all types of revenue, not only salaries) : ~8%

Some other taxes go to fund the medical system (e.g. Forfait social, Taxe sur les salaires, TVA on drugs), but as far as I know those two are the main ones.
COW by default file systems which provide a "snapshot at time x" can help with this. NTFS can do it with shadowcopy.
It's an interesting puzzle as to how you'd monitor something like that for a global warming tax. Random cow inspections? Some kind of satellite thing?
Opening this in an airgapped machine
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US doctors are paid more because they take risks (they have expensive education, handle expensive treatments etc)

If an MD cost zero to get, doctors would still be paid well, but not crazy well.
"annual income tax", which is "impôt sur le revenu" in french, is irrelevant here, it doesn't fund the social security system.
I think it's interesting to ask why people separate themselves from other people, I.e. people who are sick and possibly dieing, who need help.

Something I read on hn a while ago involved trying to place others who have had bad things happen to them in mental categories apart from oneself, to not have to deal with the possibility of bad things happening to yourself without any reason. E.g. a traffic accident, cancer etc.

With traffic accidents, is very instructive to see that people will reflexively think that the persons involved did something wrong, this removes the need to accept that life isn't safe and that our behavior often has little influence at all on wether bad things happen to us. I think it's the same with healthcare. The defense mechanism is: they got sick so they must have lived unhealthily - granted, there are a lot of things your behavior can influence: cardiopulmonary disease, some forms of cancer but not all of the tragedies of health that can befall you are in any way under ones control. By sticking together we can shoulder the burden of the few that didn't have any blame on their fate.
You have to use water to clean solar panels off, so putting them in the desert means they would get dirty and dirty panels aren't very efficient.
Yeah definitely don't forget to add 8GB of RAM and an extra battery pack if you want to use Chrome. It consumes more than most operating systems just to show a few pages of information. Since I've banished it off my computer everything works a lot smoother and battery life is improved drastically.

Safari for basic stuff and Firefox when Safari doesn't cut it.
Ergo, if it's not computationally up to the task of some pro task, then its predecessor certainly wasn't either.

But that's not what people are saying: they are saying there is no reason to upgrade and that they will explore alternate solutions.

Your argument is silly anyway, in the 1980s people were using Macs a tiny fraction of the power of today "professionally" for DTP, does it logically follow now that anyone complaining that a modern machine isn't suitable for modern use cases, was never a "real professional"?