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Gold plated plans are not really the problem in driving up health care costs, that has more to do with private operation if what is essentially a public service with a natural monopoly (you can't shop around in emergencies, and you probably wouldn't look for the best price if you wanted the best care instead). And really, are you going to say no to that cat scan because it has a small chance of finding anything?

The big problem with employer provided insurance is that they suck a lot of healthy people out of the individual market. We already know richer people are healthier, and they are likely to be enrolled in group plans. So what is left in the individual market are necessarily less healthy on average, so the premiums suck.

For us, it's that our insurance is tied to our jobs, so we can't think of leaving or even "taking a break" if we can afford it!
>"They are not very accepting towards honest mistakes. The legal system frequently disregards intent when ruling and punishment for even small infractions can be quite severe in the US."

Can you give examples of people being "severely punished" for a minor infraction? I am curious to hear this since as you say it happens so frequently.

The U.S is not perfect by any means but it is certainly not a place that is vengeful towards its citizens. Your comments just read like America bashing.
"taxi protection" laws are really just outdated "people protection" laws. They were just at the time and worked for many years after.

Regardless, all laws should be followed. Thats the whole point of society. We agree to follow the laws collectively.
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Dale Carnegie will teach you formulas

Toastmasters will give you practice.

In would also recommend watching some great communicators. Like Martin Luther King Jr. I like his speech to Stanford called "the other america" (can't post link sorry)

how to thank a group when receiving an award. 1thank them. 2 tell them why and how the award means to you. 3tell them how you will use what you received. 4 thank them again.
notable in this story is trumps confirmation of the fisa surveillance order against him. I'd suggest someone should explain to trump that his taking the time to confirm stories such as these that he is declassifying their existence and enabling people to leak more information, but on the whole it seems that his incompetence is helping to blunt the impact of his treason, so it's probably a net benefit.
The number of tents on the sidewalks and under overpasses has gone up dramatically in the last year. I walk to work in the East Bay (across from SF) and it's really worrying.

What gets me, there's no talk about this anywhere I see (IRL). It's like no one wants to admit there's a problem.
What happens if you simply ignore filing US taxes? Do you get arrested if you return, even if it's just for visiting?
Neat! My favorite way to show the impossibly large scale of our universe: http://spaceengine.org/. Set your speed to 10 light years per second and watch the Andromeda galaxy just sit there.

Also fun to see how slow even the speed of light is. Start at the sun and head for earth. Once you reach Earth marvel at how fast you had been going.

Head towards Jupiter and, once again, marvel at how impossibly slow your going compared to even the nearest background stars.
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Yes it absolutely does, but it is dependent on the station (the client) doing so. One of my gripes about Wi-Fi is that it delegates too much to the station - your experience is thus dictated by whoever wrote your phone/computer's Wi-Fi chipset driver, and how they interpret the standard.

Any Wi-Fi network supports roaming on the network side, you just need all of your access points to use the same SSID, and to dump users onto the same subnet consistently (otherwise you'll need to re-IP after roaming).
Is that unique to the bay area though? It's been a few years since I was there but to seem I recall some larger high rise buildings.

Smaller apartment blocks (3 stories etc) doesn't have to come at the expense of the lifestyle either - the large European cities I've been to all had thriving neighborhood's , likewise with parts of larger US cities.
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Yup. Functioning market economy requires a fair and impartial judicial system. Among other things.

Freedom Markets™ is a religion, not economics.
I remember when the now wife (from a South American country) came to visit the UK when I was living in a city in the north. She was shocked "wow, you have poor areas and poor people too".

She literally had the idea, the UK was all quaint little villages with roads made of gold populated by Hugh Grant types.
FWIW Pandoc already handles Groff formatted files.
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A few years back I built an app that took in data from APIs and did a lot of calculations for visualization. The page could take 5+ sec to render for large data sets, freezing everything while loading. If I built it today I'd use Web Workers.
The paragraph in question is one of the paragraphs under [D.5, License Grant to Other Users](https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service-dra...):

If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you hereby grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to access your Content through the GitHub Service, and to use, display and perform your Content, and to reproduce your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality. You may grant further rights if you adopt a license.

There seem to me (remember, IANAL) to be three rights granted here to each user of github:

1. to access your Content through the GitHub Service,

2. [and] to use, display and perform your Content,

3. [and] to reproduce your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality.

The second right is not limited to "on GitHub". Therefore, if your content is anything that can be used by linking, such as an image, javascript, etc, you're granting each github user the right to use that on their site.

From the pushback on this point here and in other comments, I wonder if people are parsing this as

1. a nonexclusive, worldwide license to access your Content through the GitHub Service,

2. and to use, display and perform your Content, and to reproduce your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality.

...which seems wrong to me. If that were the intent, then I think it would have been easier to say

[...]through the GitHub Service, and to use, display, perform, and reproduce your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality.

In that way, usage, display, performance, and reproduction rights would be connected to "solely on GitHub".
As a side note...

While the housing stock is on average larger is is also significantly older than it was 30 years ago.
I did. It's still fairly superficial, and not the focus of the article.

What I'm looking for is e.g. an explanation of how MIMO works, or why explicit timeslots were considered useful for 802.11n but not 11b.
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It uses Electron under the hood.

https://electron.atom.io/
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Please consider spending some time to write a comment here or a blog post on this experience! I would be very interested to read it.
> This would be a lot better if it used vertical scrolling and not sideways scrolling.

Why? Since there is no vertical scrolling your mouse scrolls sideways.
And then there's companies like Square that decide to tie their political ideology into their terms of service.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/13/technology/square-guns/index...
In theory that works, but a lot of phones get angry when the AP stops talking to it. It just assumes that you lost WiFi and disconnects and doesn't try to rejoin right away
Take a look at Bellarmine, Castilleja, and Harker as well.
Yes and nothing special, as long as the clients and AP are moving consistent to each other.

If the client is moving >10MPH relative to a fixed AP (i.e. you're driving past the AP in your car), Wi-Fi doesn't handle that well. Your movement creates Doppler shift in your RF signal, which Wi-Fi can't adjust for (vs. e.g. LTE which does).
> As the prisoners collapsed, choking and retching, the police opened fire. Over the next several minutes, officers poured hundreds of rounds of gunfire into the yard, including, a judge later estimated, between 2,349 and 3,132 pellets of buckshot. The prison yard was transformed into a charnel house. The prisoners, who had no firearms, were sitting ducks, as were the hostages that the police had ostensibly come to save. As hundreds of police and corrections officers stormed the prison, they sometimes paused to shoot inmates who were already on the ground or wounded. “Surrender peacefully. You will not be harmed,” a megaphone announced as unarmed prisoners were mowed down.

This isn't surreal, this isn't random, and it's also not "man being a beast". Some are. Many more are made so, on purpose.

> Behind the blind bestiality of the SA, there often lay a deep hatred and resentment against all those who were socially, intellectually, or physically better off than themselves, and who now, as if in fulfillment of their wildest dreams, were in their power. This resentment, which never died out entirely in the camps, strikes us as a last remnant of humanly understandable feeling. The real horror began, however, when the SS took over the administration of the camps. The old spontaneous bestiality gave way to an absolutely cold and systematic destruction of human bodies, calculated to destroy human dignity; death was avoided or postponed indefinitely. The camps were no longer amusement parks for beasts in human form, that is, for men who really belonged in mental institutions and prisons; the reverse became true: they were turned into "drill grounds," on which perfectly normal men were trained to be full-fledged members of the SS.

-- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"
> This is called a car and the vast majority have one.

Not if the vast majority don't live in the USA.

I got by with taxis for the last 9 years before moving back to the states.
I would love to be able to print it to scale on A4 paper (with white background of course). Posted on a long wall the results would be very interesting ;-)
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Depressing as it is, the best option for SF might be a 1906-level earthquake to clear the slate and force rebuilding.
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>Did what I said above seem to imply these things?

Well, "they didn't appear to want the job very badly" strikes a nerve as implying that.

Why would they need to "want the job very badly" instead of merely "wanting the job"?

And "dying for the job" sounds even worse.

>Are you interested in what I meant?

Sure, but tone matters.
Not seeing what you're trying to argue. Lots of appeal to emotion here. I'll make it simple for you:

1. Me: High levels of defense spending has easily identifiable consequences. But we need to be careful that we also take time to identify the positives and consider them.

2. You: The US has done bad things in the past and war is bad.

I don't disagree with you, but you're not rebutting my point.
We need about a 3x jump in energy density by weight to make personal electric aircraft practical.

I would take this in my next cell phone. The weight is not as big of an issue as safety.
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Alcohol is involved in a very large number of deaths in the US every year. A very large proportion of suicides, automobile deaths, shooting deaths, diabetes deaths, and so on are directly caused by alcohol consumption.

It's not like we need more people running around with impaired decision making ability.
No you're not wrong, they are the "Pierre Cardin"[1] of tech products, essentially slapping their "P O R S C H E" typeface on anything half decent and shinny to win some licensing bucks.

Bang & Olufsen[2] they are not, but they like to position themselves in the market as if they were.

[1] http://www.highsnobiety.com/2015/11/23/digging-deeper-pierre...
[2] https://www.bang-olufsen.com/en
Asking that people should "appear to want to job very badly" (and on a later comment changed to suggest they should be "dying for the job") is not merely about not phoning it it, or not being likeable.
Yeah I didn't mean to imply that I pick bad names intentionally. Of course I pick the best name that I can come up with. But when I'm doing something I haven't done before, it's hard to judge whether a name is any good, maybe because I don't actually know precisely what I'm doing in the first place.

In these cases I err on the side of short names (preferably non-composite) because I know that making a longer name will not help. I just use that new name a little in a more exploratory type of programming. When it sticks it was a good choice. Examples: tree, spec, coverage, identity, isomorphism, object, struct, key, value, tag... These names need context, but they can turn out to be good names because they are short and distinct.

When the name doesn't stick and I can't come up with a better one, maybe I should do something entirely different.
IIRC GIS exists in its current form because of the benefit in using it for land management. It's definitely a powerful tool to show climate change etc but unfortunately I think we are past that phase. Most people have made up their mind on the issue - typically along partisan lines. All the maps on the world can't change political belief if people are saturated with media about how it's all a hoax etc.

Great point re data. The tools for dissemination of data are getting better and there is a growing open data movement within government. My own experience has been that greater education is needed for policy makers - they often fear releasing data in case it will be used against them or don't understand the potential benefits of releasing data. In the GIS world there has also been resistance due to policy makers wanting to recover the cost of data acquisition.
Should I set channels on the APs in some specific way?

We're using mostly apple hardware + ubiquiti APs, and to be honest I expected everything to "just work" with the defaults...
In general see my response to grk, you can roam with any network that meets these criteria:

1. All APs use the same SSID

2. All APs bridge users onto the same subnet

But the experience will vary from client to client in terms of how aggressively they roam. Many AP vendors offer knobs to "help" clients roam by kicking clients off at a certain signal threshold, supposedly triggering a roam: in practice, this just upsets many clients.

Re #1: "SSID" is actually shorthand for "ESSID" - Extended service set identifier. Each AP has its own "BSSID" - Basic service set identifier, which is the AP's Wi-Fi MAC address. The whole concept of an "ESSID" is to signal to clients that a certain group of APs belong to the same system.

Re #2: If you need to scale beyond a single subnet, you generally solve for this by terminating users on a centralized packet core / wireless controller, which shards users out onto multiple subnets.
I was against timber-based construction. Mostly for esthetic reasons. I associated cheap construction with sprawl, waste.

I now think the impermanence is a feature, not a liability. It's fine for a building to last just 20, 40, 60 years. And then get torn down and have the land repurposed.
Ha, I did not realize that. My sarcasm filter failed me :)

Cheers.
> "We had the idea that elephants should be the shortest sleeping mammal because they're the largest," said Prof Manger. "Why this occurs, we're not really sure."

Off the cuff, probably because of the squared-cubed law? Small mammals need to sleep a lot to conserve energy. Larger mammals have a greater reserve of energy for their size and so can afford to remain non-dormant for a greater proportion of time.
The number one thing you need is practice. The number two thing is feedback.

Various clubs (Toastmasters is the most widespread one) can provide that. But don't discount the benefit of preparing a speech and delivering it over and over again, even to no one. Filming yourself can provide the feedback component.

I think "Thank You For Arguing" [0] is a good resource on persuasion broadly. Some of the same things that work on a person-to-person level also apply to a speaker-to-audience relationship, and the book goes into both areas.

American Rhetoric has a library of audio recordings from "great speeches" [1]. Listen, and imitate the things you like.

Finally, more than anything else, I'd actually recommend taking improv comedy/improv theater classes. They taught me two things: that not knowing what you're going to say next is totally fine, and that the audience is on your side and wants you to succeed. Knowing both of those things in your bones before you take the stage makes everything so much easier.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Thank-You-Arguing-Revised-Updated/dp/...

[1] http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html
Don't know why you're being down voted. I immediately thought the same thing. I'm all for CEO's being held accountable for these types of things, but it doesn't seem to happen very often. So, asking whether gender plays a role is absolutely fair game. Could also be, of course, that she's embattled, so it's easy to do.
Why does he think he's so special? Didn't Bush followed by Obama tap ALL of our communications via The NSA? Are physical wiretaps even a thing anymore at that high a level?

Edit: punctuation.
Although I think I agree that many current languages do not pay enough attention to ergonomics (hello, Scala!), I think your line of reasoning could be quite dangerous.

I don't think there's any empirical support for the idea that a shallow learning curve translates into a powerful/expressive language. EDIT: I'd love to be proved wrong, so if there's anything in the way of evidence, please link me!
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The From trait can be derived using my derive_more crate. That would at least decrease the boilerplate a bit.

http://jeltef.github.io/derive_more/derive_more/
Because Electron (or whatever they use) is web-scale.

Web-scale? What's web scale? why does my desktop client need to be "web-scale"?
Note the Sanford-Ryan bill moves the US in this direction. It is one of four bills meandering through Congress in first months of Trump adminstration.
They cared more about cost and time to market than performance and technical prowess, and in a business context, that is often a correct trade-off.

Cool when you are starting up and all, but surely they must have a bit more money now, and would be able to do it right?
Is there any reasonably popular encoding that is "hole free / complete" in the sense any sequence of bytes has a valid decoding ? I use B85 or B64 when needed but was wondering if there is a Unicode encoding that will do the job.
How is (a) claiming you accept donations on behalf of a charity and (b) not passing them on anything other than blatantly fraudulent? Surely at the least those charities have a claim against PayPal as well.
Conscious consumerism is a lie
The Nvidia Shield, 4k games? Are you sure? I'm pretty sure that can only be true if the games are very undemanding, like simple 2D games...
The Canterbury earthquakes have done something similar in Christchurch, New Zealand. There has been a lot of political contention over how best to rebuild the CBD and fights over bike lanes/slower speed limits as well as concerns about the impact of redevelopment on outlying areas that picked up the slack when the CBD was being leveled.

Given the political environment in the US I fear it would take decades for an area like SFO to recover, if at all. Many companies would likely just leave the area.
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That's nice. And about roughly when the developers will get one?
I worked a place that did roaming from one AP to another one on a train in Norway in the early 2000 / late 90s, think we was the first in the world to do it.

To don't have a huge network drop we used a VPN connection on the client computer so it had the same IP while jumping from one wifi over to the other one.
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Trump said recently as last week that all non-employed people in this age group are unemployed. That number is 41% in US. Note this includes all the women-folk in Trumps family- four housewives and a student.
What about external PCIe docks with full fledged GPU for laptops ? In theory if the graphic subsystem allow for something like SLI the logic could adapt dynamically... (IANAGD)
The stability of the strategy can be the problem. If the strategy assumes increased attractiveness of males with higher relative income, then the higher the female income becomes the fewer men fall into the higher relative income category which boosts hypergamy even more. Therefore a constant hypergamy strategy coupled with growing female income lead to increasingly less effective dating market for both male and female sides of it. To resolve the problem either the female income should decrease (which women don't want to do), or the strategy should change (which women can't do). Otherwise we're heading into a fundamental social crisis.
I'm sure this situation is very real for you but you exaggerate a little. Most men do not end up in jail for failing to make child support payments. Child support enforcement is a long drawn out process.

Edit: But I could be wrong. I found several anecdotal articles about this subject on the NY Times and elsewhere. Here's a more informative article on the topic http://www.ncsl.org/research/human-services/child-support-an...
The decline of these dad jobs will soon permeate itself into credit scoring as well. I have always thought of individual credit scores being a reflection of steady paycheck from a credit worthy employer and that individual's ability to manage his/her debt. Will changes be needed to reflect upon an individual's flexibility and capacity for attaining jobs in a gig economy as well as their ability to manage debt? Or will one day credit scores just be a reflection of someone's tenure at a company with a good NSCRO credit rating?

Additionally the use of jail to persuade child support payments can also perpetuate this downward spiral. Credit account closures/declines in credit lines for imprisoned cardholders can adversely affect credit scores and employment opportunities. I understand paying child support is necessary but garnishment and seizure of tax refunds should be enough.

Many people will need to begin to reconsider what is home/community. They will need to avail themselves to the flexibility of labor markets. Doing so alone is possible but if you have a family it is burdensome without some governmental support. People once had that mindset... constant moving... constant searching for new opportunities. It is tiresome but many more will need to adapt to that mindset.
Channel selection won't affect roaming, so you shouldn't need to. What specific problem are you having?
> Can you give examples of people being "severely punished" for a minor infraction?

Try possessing a small amount of LSD.
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In corporations, the CEO reports to the board of directors. She can't redistribute compensation that has been docked from her.
All communication takes skill.

The value of the montage here is editing down a large set of images and footage to the critical and suffient element.

As is writing, or audio, or anything else.

I see far too many people who think recording is synonymous with authoring or creating. As Stephen Colbert commented some time back (and many others before him), steganography isn't news.

I've been kicking around a lot of ideas concerning narrative, the thread that organises a story -- fictional, expository, explanatory, whatever. P.D. James' quote on what the heart of a novel is, bringing order to mystery, is apropriate as well.