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1 in 3 Californians now receives free health care under Medi-Cal

Look at that again, people. That's not just subsidized coverage; it's free coverage, for over 13 million... and that was before adding free coverage for those here illegally.

Does this strike people as a long-term sustainable model?
> excess taxes on gambling and tobacco

You may be mishearing the term "excise tax". An excise tax is a tax on any specific good, such as tobacco or gasoline. Those taxes are included in the cost of the good (it just costs more at the pump or on the shelf). Yes, they are typically used to reduce consumption, or to pay for costs associated with consumption (eg roads).
From the article -- "someone who puts in 70 hours doesn’t produce anything more with those additional 14 hours"

This was something I always wondered about at Google. Because you could eat three meals a day there, shower, do your laundry, and nominally sleep[1] does that make their employees that much more expensive than people with out the extra perks?

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employee-lives-in-truc...
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The problem is that middle class Americans are charged outlandish rates for the plans.

The plan for my family last year cost over $1200 per month, and this year rose to $1400/month.

Previously, with employer-provided plans I paid at most $400/month for my family.

Not only are the costs outlandish, there are no high deductible plans available for people who are generally healthy. All of the plans, gold, silver and bronze, are geared toward heavy users or highly risk-averse users.

A healthy, disease-free family at an income level to afford $1400/month in health care costs surely ought to be able to purchase a plan that covers catastrophic scenarios and costs a lot less than $1400/month.

In the past I'd had a plan via an employer that was a high-deductible plan. It cost $350/month but I had to pay the first $10K of all costs each year. Do the math, this was a better deal even in the worst case scenario than my ACA plan.

The problem with bundling a progressive tax, a flat fee, a subsidy, and a prepayment plan into one "price" is that it is impossible to tell which dollars apply to what.

I'd much rather have my actual taxes go up a small bit than pay an income-based penalty in my healthcare price.

I'd also much rather self-insure the first $15-20K of risk each year in exchange for a much smaller payment.

One other detail. Nearly all the plans by all the providers are essentially identical. The cheapest bronze plan I could have found was over $900/month! That's for a pretty abysmal level of coverage of most things compared to any other employer provided plan I've ever had.
How is speculating not equal to fake?
I wonder if this is an example of hormesis? http://gettingstronger.org/hormesis/

I'll use this opportunity to recommend all of Dr. Rhonda Patrick's appearances on the Joe Rogan podcast. She discusses the science behind many nutrition and health topics, including hormesis: https://www.google.com/search?q=rhonda+patrick+jre
Ask ten people to write a hello world in js, and they all will do it, and do it the exactly same way - this is great for a production language. On that point, JS is as good as C/Cxx

The downside - ask 10 people for an example of proper use of advanced oop in js, and out of these 10 you will get 5 passible anwers all of which will be drastically different - horrid thing for production
Your comment is hypocritical. This is to say I'm sure you point is made elsewhere, somewhere. And yet I'm glad you posted it so it can be discussed. Which is to say it's still wrong even when applied to itself (a wrong point).

The point of discussion isn't to create some sort of internet that might one day be studied and determined to contain useful information, the point of discussion is that those who participate can learn and improve. Sometimes this necessitates saying things that have already been said. That's not a problem.

As for the notion that sometimes discussing things with people in significantly different circumstances to yourself might not be the highest value discussion you could have, I agree. However it's still fun, interesting, etc. Better use of time than Netflix, that's for sure.
I know Python but I am going to be required to work on some PHP projects. Thanks for the advice though, I guess.
What Lever did from the beginning was focus on building an inclusive culture first and let diversity follow.

My recommendation would be to check out Project Include; they've invested a ton in putting resources together: http://projectinclude.org/
I'd guess Javascript is quite popular[0] because it's literally on every modern computer and has incredible reach[1]. It's also a bit of a kitchen-sink language so students can grow into a style and paradigm that suits them. Plus there's nothing to install to get started... just open a browser.

[0] http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/javascript/
[1] https://tessel.io/ https://www.sitepoint.com/creating-webgl-game-unity-5-javasc... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sETJs2_jwo
If for no for no other reason, to become more knowledgeable. I have to be honest, the only reason I went to university was because I could do that or try to find a job during the Great Recession with only a highschool diploma. Wouldn't it be great if college was for people who genuinely wanted to learn information, and not just buy a $20,000 employment certificate?
Umm, perhaps you haven't read the comments here?

The Guardian story was good. Perhaps it is slightly overblown, but it is arguable both ways, and it certainly highlighted a real issue.

Musk is way over defensive and never admits a problem of any kind, and in most of the stories about him there is a problem of some kind.

I haven't followed the Latter story at all.
AIs and humans have different skill sets. Could be that HU is harder for a human but easier for AIs that we can write today -- math is not a problem for a computer but modeling many opponents might be.
if the diversity racket is so small why does it seem so many have built their careers on it?
*basically = manually
Look at the goals of a bootcamp in the first place - to get you just enough knowledge to have the minimum skill needed to be useful to a team. They are not trying to make you a computer scientist... they are trying to teach you as little as possible, while still knowing enough to get work done, which means knowing how to work with a toolkit that does most of the work for you. And RoR does that. It also is popular enough that once you know it, you can probably find a team using it that needs help.

And why JS? Because that is what runs in the browsers.
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document.write("hello world");
document.querySelector("body").innerHTML = "hello world";

alert("hello world");
prompt("hello world");

console.log("hello world");
console.info("hello world");
console.warn("hello world");

process.stdout.write("hello world");
Because if you can understand Ruby, you can understand anything.
Zero IMO. I think the people at Google have had it with Andy. His parting wasn't a surprise. It was more of a mutual agreement.
I don't think that's the parent point.

One of the main ingredients of a successful negotiation is to be likeable. Men can be likeable and aggressive, leading to better results than a likable but non agressive man. Women on the other hand, have more difficulties being aggressive while remaining likeable. If they act agressively they get labeled as "bossy", a term that society rarely if not never use on men. Since remaining likable is more important than being aggressive for the long term, women have a harder time getting big raises.

That's the social penalty I think the parent refers to.
Most of these are available on cloudron
How many ways do people write Hello World in C, Java, Ruby, Python?
no qtcreator?
The new pole station was also designed to do this, on legs, after the experience with the previous dome becoming totally buried in snow.
I think it's considered to be 40-55.
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Is it mandatory that I have to finish the course with 17 weeks or whatever the time duration is? Let's say if it takes me year to finish the course is this acceptable? I am interested to learn Deep learning and gain knowledge to concepts and new materials which Udacity is providing. I'm going to be most likely a passive learner not in a pursuit of degree.

Also will there is new materials added periodically or is this for a short duration of time frame?
if you don't trust the cloud with your data, you should just invest in a good server instead of RPi. The RPi is seriously underpowered and this one of those things which just fantasize about but don't get around to actually doing (reminds me of 'i would love to use linux but i use mac')
BTW, Metrowerks was originally founded as "Metropolis Computer Networks" by Greg Galanos in 1985.
Hi Akshay,

You have 6 months in total to finish all the content. Siraj is also posting some segment of the content for free on YouTube for everyone to see. The new material is added weekly!
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> if the diversity racket is so small why does it seem so many have built their careers on it?

Perhaps because the diversity racket is in some way related to the group of people causing Jessica to avoid sharing thoughts online? If you can silence all the people not in your group, your group's size will appear a lot larger than it really is.
There're also more of them working too. Because women work nowadays.
Swarms of alternatives is a penalty of success, not failure. It's what Javascript looks like now, for better or worse.
Rails is not that employable anymore. Sure, you can find gigs for it in tech hotspots, but that's true for any language. For people living in the Real World outside of the tech bubbles, Rails jobs have mostly died out and been replaced with Node jobs.
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hi! For some of us who have never taken a udacity course can you maybe give a bit of background information about what the weekly time expectations are? And also maybe a quick outline of the format for interaction? (or a link?)
Err, most people I know who bought a Wii bought it because of Wii Fit. Perhaps I'm a different demographic to you but it was pretty big when it came out.

The balance board sold 32 million units, so it was a pretty major success. That is as many units as Nintendo64 consoles sold. See http://www.gamesradar.com/holy-crap-look-how-many-wii-balanc...
This looks like a good resource, thanks!
I'll check it out, thank you!
None of those variations save the 73% are going to cause major changes in behaviour.

Also - they need to be taken into context with the other tax rates: dividends + income. And arguably corporate rates as well.
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Of course. I'm not sure why anyone would think otherwise. Trying to create a competitive and compelling mobile experience today requires an ecosystem of apps, tooling and most importantly developers. You get all that with Android for free. Unless he's come up with some revolutionary technology that eschews the need to rely on the Android ecosystem he doesn't really have much choice if he wants consumers to buy his phone.
All of the images enlarge when you click on them. (It's mentioned in the Intro.)
How would we measure the correlation between "willing to ask for more cash" and "willing to advocate a technical decision"? Has it already been done, are you speaking from anecdotal experience, or are you just conjecturing?
From: https://justinkan.com/the-founders-guide-to-selling-your-com...

"When a sufficiently high-up decision maker decides he/she wants to buy your startup, he/she will attempt to meet with you constantly and put time pressure on you, so as to prevent you from shopping the deal and getting a better offer. The absence of this behavior indicates the other company is not serious about acquiring your business."

"Letting a potential acquirer interview your team is extremely distracting for them, and signals to the acquirer that you are willing to bend over."
It's meaningless to compare employer funded plans to ACA plans without knowing what amount was being subsidized by your company. It's also a different risk pool.

The idea is self-insuring $15-20k is absurd for most people, and most people who buy insurance on the exchanges will have government subsidized coverage.

If you want to argue the government should subsidize more of the cost of this care, I'm all ears. But I don't think we should dismantle the system because it doesn't benefit your precise set of preferences.
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This has been explored in many places, like path. It has yet to stick.
Alternatively, it could be because of increasing lifespans and ballooning educational requirements for the average job.
Hey @dnautics! The main deadlines are around 5 projects that you will do over the course of the 17 weeks. We have suggested deadlines for them but the only requirement is to pass all of them within the 6 month date of the program. There will be other weekly assignments but those are meant for you to go at your own pace. We've designed this so that those who have a full time job and family can stay on track while making progress.
I cannot say I'm very impressed with the article. I could pick out a number of millenials who are doing better than their parents at the same age. But I wouldn't use that to argue that everything is okay.

One thing that has stuck out at me has been the ways in which people have money drained from them. I think there is a huge student loan problem where young people were "sold" a crappy education. But setting that aside for the moment there is a huge difference in lifestyle that I see in people; going out to eat more, paying for basic entertainment, communication charges, credit, and transportation.

Something that seems to be missed on people is that debt is very corrosive to your future wealth. People who carry a balance on a credit card, month after month, may feel like its "okay" because they always have enough to at least pay the minimum but it isn't. When they don't take the time to each bag lunches, breakfast and dinner at home they are sending more of their money out into the world and out of their future. When the world tells them every car has to have backup cameras it means they are going to have bigger car payments. Coffee habits, in app purchases, cable TV instead of free over the air TV.

Some people budget badly, some don't. But before you slam an entire "generation" I think it makes sense to look a bit deeper at the forces at play.
What do you think will be the use cases for the Hololens in the short and long term? I've yet to try it, but I've heard mostly good things.
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>

I thought my (Millennials) generation was born in 1992 or afterwards. So I was about to challenge your 'mid thirties' assertion. Wikipedia also has a wide range of start and stop birth years, ranging from 1976 to 1996 as the start birth year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials#Date_and_age_range...

Then I saw this. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/25/millennials-...

It claims that Millenials were born in between 1981 and 1997.

Who is right?
Web is the most accessible medium. If you can view it in your browser, so can anyone else. There is no complex configuration or build process (though it seems the JS community is dead set on changing that). What You See Is What You Get. It's an immediately useful and intelligible medium and you mostly stay away from the really scary things. Teaching simple web dev first makes sense.

Rails is probably chosen mostly out of the false tradition that Ruby is a good beginner's language or the also-false tradition Rails is a good framework.
> By definition, insurance is literally not intended to save the insured person money, in expectation.

You fundamentally misunderstand the concept of insurance. Group insurance is, by definition, a way to spread the cost of rare catastrophes around the group so that the affected individuals don't bear the full brunt. There is the full expectation that in the event of a major medical event you will save money.

Try reworking your example around major medical events (e.g. a $500K hospitalization) rather than preventive care (the function of which is to reduce the risk of certain controllable medical events).
The article mentions that the U.S. focus was deliberate in order better assess each map's priorities:

"we want to look at areas where the maps are most likely to be “finished” (i.e., areas where the maps are most likely to be complete and up-to-date.) San Francisco is Google’s and Apple’s backyard, so the maps should be really good there. And New York and London are two of the world’s largest, most important cities—so they should’ve also gotten a lot of attention."
I hate hate hate, bitterly, angrily, and even desperately, those fetishes about a better, nicer, more innocent past. We all heard it; we all partake in the orgy of present-bashing and past-glorying before. However, let's wake up and, seriously, get our attention back to the present.

Look, yoga and meditation have existed for a looooooong time. And guess what, for every time period, be it modern "over-loaded" time or ancient time, only a handful of people can master them. And what are they? Oh, yeah, attention controlling. I mean, if the past is so focused and attentive, shouldn't everyone be meditation master? Shouldn't people be super productive and focused and attain greatness? Guess what, they don't. What does that imply?

It implies this: please, for the love of progress, stop your whining and start appreciating how much luck and resources you have access to today. Please. Pretty please.

And what's with the fetish against "algorithm"? I despite those who take regular but uncommon concepts and make a demon/angel out of them. Algorithm, simply put, is how to calculate something or how to solve a problem. Sorry, algorithms do not have "tendrils". They neither scheme against you nor love you. Think about it: if you trip over a rock, does it "conspire" against you? If you burn time on some game, don't blame the game, please. Blame the publisher, maybe. Don't blame the poor tech. It does nothing but to please you.

Back to time and attention. Is it challenging to keep my attention in today fast pace world? Sure it is. How easier compared to starving world of the old? Or racist world? Or back-breaking labor (think agriculture before advent of machine and fertilizer)? Luckily, I have not been made to find out. Very luckily. And I think everyone can appreciate that luck.

I always appreciate advices on control of attention and focus. I might not find them valuable (I frankly feel like I can focus just fine with emails singing their songs, for example, so I don't need to completely cut cord). But I would not make a statement against those. I need all the ideas and advices: attention is very hard to control.

However, the whining and fetishizing and conspiracy theorizing must stop. Please. One nation have voted for economic regression while another elected a racist bigot as their First Citizen. Why? Because of all of those whining and fetishizing and conspiracy theories. So, please, stop. For the love of progress, stop.
Yes. Most two parent families require both parents to work, whereas in the past most middle class families required only one parent to work while the other would take care of the children. "progress"
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I don't believe in those 'darwinian' notion of societal priorities, I'm just pointing out that those are baked into your priorities. If reducing cost is the priority, the machine (government/society) will churn out a solution that reflects the priorities it is programmed with.

I don't know about your characterization that "Basically all research..."

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0708558
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> "Never heard of Glencore or Phillip Morris."

The amount of passion in your comment and this gap in knowledge don't go well with each other. I encourage you to at least read about Philip Morris (or watch John Oliver's episode about them at least).
I can't find the link to the study in the article, I must have missed it.
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Same as if the app was open source, no?
I'm not from the US, so there's that.
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>You've just described a "man in the middle" attack. It is endemic to any public key cryptosystem, including Signal and PGP, not just WhatsApp. The notification that you see in WhatsApp, Signal, SSH, PGP, or whatever is the defense.

Wouldn't Coniks provide a more robust defense?
I love hot stuff, I only avoid it because I hate having a runny nose. Is that something that goes away with consistent exposure?
> start WWIII just to see if at least life would be less boring

Yes, another 3% of humanity dying in a global war would be very interesting.
>I think we should all remain open to ideas about how we can improve this UX within the limits a mass market product has to operate within, but that's very different from labeling this a "backdoor."

Then release your product in a manner that let's people improve the UX and correctly label what is and isn't a backdoor.
>TLS certificate errors are not something that should happen under normal circumstances. When a TLS certificate fails to validate, something is really wrong. As we've gotten better about ensuring those conditions, browsers have made it harder and harder to get past the warnings, because they're not warnings anymore -- they're error conditions.

Not paying Verisign your rent? That's an "error condition".

(Here of course referring to the choice of browser vendors to block access to web sites that offer secure end-to-end crypto via TLS, but merely haven't paid a browser-trusted CA to issue a new cert with a future expiration date.)
thanks for your questions. i cannot answer them satisfactorily.

i have to admit, on closer examination, my theory looks wrong.

if we get to self-driving cars, uber driver might be viewed as a job that appeared just for "a moment" (a long moment, admittedly), but it doesn't take all that long to learn to be an Uber driver, compared to how long you could work as one. so that's not a great example.

if Watson succeeds at replacing MDs one day, we may eventually have fewer of them, but they'll still be around i bet. (in a way, Watson has already "replaced" human chess and go players, but people continue to spend tons of time learning those games and competing professionally).

then i thought about a clerk at a video store. even that job lasted like, what, twenty years or something?

i was trying to imagine what it would be like for most people looking for a role to play in the "quickly automating all around me" economy of the future, a future where software and AI and robots are destroying human jobs faster and faster and faster.

i imagined lots of desperate workers scurrying around, trying to be relevant in a very complicated world where it's hard to become relevant. lots of study/practice. a month later, some new robot takes over that little niche you found.

but that isn't quite how it has been working, as you have pointed out. most job types last longer than "just a moment" it seems.

thanks again.
I have also heard roughly the opposite model, namely:

1. A small subset of the startup ecosystem wants to fund diverse founders, and is willing to compromise on startup quality to do so.

2. A larger subset of the startup ecosystem recognizes that fact, and won't invest in diverse founders (all things being equal) because they are worse due to group #1 funding worse companies.

3. Everyone else knows about #1 and #2, and so are cautious about funding diversity.

I'm curious if you have considered this way of looking at the world, and know of any data that would let me conclude it was less accurate than the version you outlined above.