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Many of these systems have a management UI available through mobile devices because of the need for staff to manage them while in the field or out of the office. As I said, some of the most critical systems are air gapped but there are critical systems that require an internet connection for practical use.

Emergency dispatch for example - the airport acts as a PSAP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-safety_answering_point) and requires integration into regional systems. They have radio backups but my understanding is that they pull a lot of data via the internet. The first responders also have cloud apps that help them route to a location or see the position of other nearby resources.

There is also considerable coordination with regional/national infrastructure owned by the airlines for managing when aircraft will depart/arrive. That would be much harder without an internet connection.

The airport will continue to operate safely if they lose internet connected infrastructure but the efficiency will drop quickly and the national airspace is like a busy road network - congestion in one area can rapidly cascade and cause chaos.
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You're implying that the risk a young, healthy person takes is entirely within their control, but even a healthy person can get hit by a car or get injured in some way unrelated to their "fitness" level.

The reason we need to fix health care is simple: if you are dying or seriously injured, and you don't have health insurance, you are going to the ER regardless and someone, somewhere will end up paying for it. Let's all be adults about the situation and just implement something that works.
Man here. Before getting serious in my current relationship, I sat down with my girlfriend and gently initiated a frank conversation about about what each of us expect out of a relationship and what our short-term and long-term priorities are, not just in terms of relationship goals, but also in terms of general life goals to see whether or not a relationship would hinder or help those goals. As someone who's experienced, not one, but two traumatic parental divorces in my life, the last thing I want is to get ten years into a relationship before discovering that our goals are incompatible. This isn't anything exclusive to women.
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Thanks. It came up so often during 2008 that I assumed it was inspired by this event, never bothered to check the dates.
Most rent-seekers are at least operating within the boundaries of law and physics, if not ethics.

Compare that to scam-preneurs behind startups like Theranos or uBeam, or vc-hustle-preneurs behind is-this-satire startups like Juicero, June, etc.
Can someone care to enlighten me on how SaaS can qualify as rent extraction? I'm sure there is a lot of fudge, but the US is a "capitalist" society—in that I mean you're not required to continue paying for a SaaS product if you deem it's not worth the money. How is this 'rent extraction'?
No, that really doesn't follow.

Some classes of issues will be better solved if the solver understands stats. M/M/1, distributions, percentiles, etc, yes. If only I understood them...

By my local major London paper somehow needs 4MB of crap and >60s to display a 2 para story. I don't need anything as subtle as "stats" to tell them that they're holding it wrong and why I avoid their site like the plague.
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Disclaimer - my current contract is with the Farm Credit bank system, and they're likely to be the ones to lend to these farmers. Mainly because they understand agriculture and farmers & ranchers, and the big banks don't. But also because even though we're a government-sponsored entity (the feds guarantee our loans), we are run as a co-op. If we have a good year (i.e. not many losses) we will refund patronage dividends to our customers. And this can be significant - one association alone paid out $160 million last year.

These farmers are pretty smart - yes they're taking a risk by borrowing money. But diversification can only help them in the long run. And $2-6 million for new barns isn't a lot in a business where field equipment can easily run a half-million dollars, and wears out/becomes obsolete in 10 or 15 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics#Origins_in_the_U...

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Eugenics-and-the-Nazis...

> During the '20s, Carnegie Institution eugenic scientists cultivated deep personal and professional relationships with Germany's fascist eugenicists. In "Mein Kampf," published in 1924, Hitler quoted American eugenic ideology and openly displayed a thorough knowledge of American eugenics. "There is today one state," wrote Hitler, "in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception (of immigration) are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the United States."

> Hitler proudly told his comrades just how closely he followed the progress of the American eugenics movement. "I have studied with great interest," he told a fellow Nazi, "the laws of several American states concerning prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would, in all probability, be of no value or be injurious to the racial stock."

> Hitler even wrote a fan letter to American eugenics leader Madison Grant, calling his race-based eugenics book, "The Passing of the Great Race," his "bible."
The major things are:

Show examples of large companies using Scala in production (Twitter, LinkedIn, Walmart etc)

Gradual low risk introduction of Scala using Gatling load test and ScalaCheck

Production ready frameworks like Play and Akka

Demonstrate that Scala can be introduced at various levels from "Java without semi colons" to "You need to learn category theory to understand this" and what we would do to make sure everyone on the team would be up to speed.

Build a prototype

What counted against Clojure and Common Lisp was the immediate reaction of people with no exposure to lisp languages was "those brackets" and the lack of a large stable framework one can pick up and use as a gateway to using the language.

Simply put there can be a gradual adoption of Scala in a company that's really not possible with Clojure.
No because on-premise software has not been regulated by SaaS providers. Customers are choosing SaaS.

SaaS is indicative of greater concentration and the possibility of oligopoly, though. I think it's only a matter of time before the cloud platforms begin coordinating price rises beyond the value they provide.

If they try to regulate on-premise software then it's time to break the glass.
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Across the Atlantic (eg NYC to LDN) I continue to propose to just skim the surface using a line of sharks with laser repeaters (and beams)...
Changes:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/iolttq$qnn$1@digitalmars.com
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The issue is that the left wants single payer and the right wants tax cuts. Then there is the insurance lobby.

Premiums increases can be mitigated by reinsurance. The ultimate payer of that should be the Feds (as it is with almost all catastrophic cases e.g floods/earthquakes/landslides).
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this isn't about writing

swift as a haiku.
There is a theory that all above market profits are generated by government granted monopolies.

So, for instance, software is protected by patents, oil and gas is protected by mineral rights, drugs are protected by patent law, entertainment is protected by IP rights, and so on.

In so far as there is competition, it often arises when the rent-seeking motivates people to disrupt the government protection by making it useless.

In software, people have lived with that since the beginning because it moves so fast. But even in slow moving fields like energy, we see new tech rendering the old protections less important.

I am not saying society has not paid a steep price for rent seeking behavior but that it has been part and parcel of all capitalism forever, and not unique to the American experience.
This isn't just an Iowa issue. When I talk to early stage entrepreneurs looking to raise seed capital healthcare is almost always one of their biggest concerns - both for their own families as well as the impact it will have on recruiting the necessary talent.

PEOs help early stage companies to a certain extent, but for a pre-revenue company the cost of healthcare is almost always going to be a significant burden that funnels valuable cash away from the product and shortens the runway. But without a decent benefits package, start-ups have almost no hope of attracting key talent especially if those prospective employees have kids, so they (and their investors) are forced to just suck it up.

Healthcare in the US is a ticking time bomb with the potential to significantly impact our long term growth (if it isn't already). Unfortunately we're in a situation where for-profit insurance companies, for-profit health networks, and for-profit pharma companies are all fighting for their share of the pie while pushing increasing costs onto the average consumer. I wish I knew what the fix was - other than an unattainable single-payer system - but we need to find something and find it fast.
Kind of reminds me of that episode of Always Sunny in Philadelphia where Danny DeVito's character comes out of retirement to save his former company.

"So what do we make here, Frank?"

"What d'you mean? We make money."

"Right, yes, but what do we actually create?"

"We create wealth."

"Okay, but like, what do we produce, what do we manufacture, what do we design?"

"Manufacture? Leave that to the c&$%^s, we produce profit!"

Incidentally, starting to order parts a few hundred at a time from places like Taobao for various projects, I'm noticing that there are a lot of companies who just do that and slap a 500% markup on Amazon. Want a 6-pack of $0.15 mini-breadboards or a few dozen $0.05 jumper wires? Sure, $5.99 with prime shipping. What a steal!
It works so well in Australia that entire elections are basically predicated on who will protect it the best.
The reasons Washington can't come up with real solutions are simple: ideology and money.

A big chunk of Washington firmly believes that socialized medicine is evil, and they will fight it. It doesn't matter what the facts are, it's part of their identity at this point.

For the rest, the desires of insurance companies and similar get in the way. For example, the main, perhaps only reason the ACA didn't include a public option is because Joe Lieberman, Senator from a state where the health insurance industry is huge, refused to vote for a bill that included it and his vote was required for passage.

If lawmakers wanted to fix things, it would be easy: study the systems of other first-world countries and incorporate the things that work best into ours. But "something that works well" is way down on the list of priorities.
This is security Inception. There have been many PoCs for compilers and linkers being modified to then insert backdoors into compiled/linked output.

At some point you have to trust your toolchain.
Single payer works well in the US. Despite claims and the continuously driven narrative of government inefficiency and waste, Medicare and Medicaid are easily the most efficient and effective health care options in America.

It would take a one line act of congress...removing the income cap...to make America a defacto single payer state. The only problem is that it would disrupt a huge capitalist market, and our society has judged the protecting markets is more important than protecting people.
What about drug R&D in those countries?

For all the issues of the US healthcare system, one thing it has going for it is most of the new developments in medicine comes from the US.
I enjoy articles that talk about success and how people/companies got there but I have gotten tired of reading the gospel. Instead of prescribing to me how to be a success just share what you did.
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pretty much every sleeper truck is designed to be mostly highway. The ones that stay in-city are the single cab designs. This isn't always true for Owner-Operators taking a buck where they can get it, but most trucks are designed for this use. There's no other cost-efficient way to get goods across cities/states/provinces/countries/continents.
So, in other words, "trust us."
I have an employer sponsored plan through the small business (25 employees) that I work for. The rates the company pays has gone up around 10% a year since I started working here. Two years ago, rates were going to go up 35% but the company found another insurance provider and (after polling employees) went with a higher deductible plan to keep the increas just under 20%.

This does not seem sustainable.
Thank you for the suggestion. As I said above, there is nothing preventing something like that from being implemented in ZFS in the future. Unfortunately, however, the encryption implementation uses a port of the Illumos Kernel Crypto Framework, which has not yet implemented an SIV mode.

As far as using our own HMAC goes we are using a standard SHA512-HMAC implementation which should be just as secure.
The part in all of this that has bothered me more than anything is that it's a diversion to mask the real problem: healthcare service and products are unsustainably expensive.

Casinos use chips and vouchers to distract gamblers from actually grasping just how much money they're playing with. Health insurance sure feels like the same thing, but it's even worse in that when you're in need, you're not always in a state of mind to make rational choices nor are those choices even adequately defined prior to receiving a bill. Why is this acceptable? Since when are contracts entered into under duress admissible? I suspect it's probably a massive success on the part of lobbyists.

I don't know the solution, but I can confidently say it's probably not reached by tackling the insurance side of healthcare. Maybe the current system needs to collapse under its own weight before a new approach even stands a chance? Unfortunately, it's probably more likely it'd just receive a government bailout at taxpayers' expense so it could continue the status quo.
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What about people with a chronic but completely controllable condition?

Dismissing anyone with an illness from entrepreneurship because you think they can't handle the stress is ridiculous.
It's worth noting that Iowa is in particular trouble because of a single patient that costs ~1M a month[1]. In a relatively small market you end up with an unstable situation when there are more than 1 insurers because none of them know if they will have to take on this very expensive patient in any given year.

1. https://www.balloon-juice.com/2017/04/21/catching-the-fallin...
Great for pharma stockholders, terrible for American citizens.

Let's stop subsidizing drug R&D for the world on the backs of US citizens who are being squeezed to death by Washington and a for profit healthcare system.
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We should rewrite the article with the same core ideas, but make it about communicating in a tech workplace and see how people respond to it.
The only people that will make bad decisions are the aggressive angry drivers, which should be removed from the road ways for the benefit of all innocent people.
>Well, they state that they are using it in their own production apps. They did the same with Angular from basically day 1.

This reminds me of a question I've had before: exactly what production apps does Google use Angular for? Have they rewritten Gmail to use Angular? Or Calendar? Or Docs? I'm too lazy to dig into the obfuscated source of any of these to figure it out for myself. Does anyone know what apps Google actually uses Angular for?
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This is not a full picture of entrepreneurship or small business ownership. Entrepreneurship, especially in "middle America", also encompasses starting your own hair salon chain with an innovative approach to curly hair, or trying to get your dog-washing device manufactured and into stores, or selling Ukrainian sausages and imported chocolates. Sure, on HN it's all about healthy and young people at the mercy of investors, but out in the world it's imperfectly healthy sometimes-old people who use savings and family and friends to get things going. Especially if we're talking about health insurance in Iowa.
I wondered that too until I realized it was the Twilio blog, so they would need the use case to fit their particular service.
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Share your candies with others, man.
so, it's even worse.

doesn't matter if live or not.

companies are forbidden to have user generated content at all?
After code is written it goes through a compilation step that makes it easier for machines to read and harder for humans to understand.

Think of the index of a reference book. Where every pertinent word is listed along with a page number. Imagine you wanted to read a complicated and meaniful book like Tolstoy or Kafka and really understand it. Walk away with a sense of exactly what it meant. To gain that understanding you only have an index and you had to reconstruct the book's meaning from there. Technically you can, but it is massively more difficult.

Edit: A more accurate analogy would be that you aren't even given an index of words, but an index of phonetic sounds that you have to piece together to create words.
I use boost filesystem and string algos. I can't say they slow down compilation that much. And they save a lot of typing.
Doesn't most self-driving protocols out right now demand perfect conditions to even operate?
I remember a classmate of mine doing the exact same 'hack' and distributed it to the whole school (Well, it was posted on school's major Facebook group with 10k-ish members) but it didn't have the SMS bit (It notified you via E-Mail, AFAIK).
They would have to adapt. This would create a good evolutionary pressure, and as a result, bad policies wouldn't survive. Not a bad thing overall.
I suspect this “cyberweapon” nomenclature will have serious consequences, if it becomes popular. This is like the reverse of the usual PC language softening, e.g. to murder is to “neutralize,” etc.

Why is NYT using this term? It’s been invented by NSA to redirect defense funding towards their mass surveillance activity. Shouldn’t journalists point out things like that?
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If not the market, definitely the regulations once traffic reports start piling up... Even faster when there's no one behind the wheel to blame.

Can't even imagine a manslaughter case where a driverless vehicle killed someone. Who's at fault? Most fault current resides in the driver, as they're the final call.
The only way this will end is limits on campaign contributions and other kinds of bribery. The returns on lobbying are astronomical compared to the returns on productivity improvements.
I'm not sure the shareholders of those companies would agree with you. They may find another product - I can't imagine there isn't an incentive to seed a competitor to US companies in Russian jurisdiction. Russia has the capital and talent to do it, and I can't imagine the will is that far off.
Lots of innovation in tech happened despite patents because of ideologues like Stallman and the gpl/open source movement which left lots of software which could be used to disrupt monopoly. Not because it moves fast. If people were playing that game companies like Google would not exist or at least be much much slower in growth and what they have been able to accomplish.
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Oracle ZFS does have encryption, but this implementation fixes a few security / usability issues with it, adds more features, and brings the implementation into the open source world.
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Possibly, but in my opinion probably not. Costco is selling these chickens for $4.99 each. It's a loss leader, and (as far as I have heard) Costco is adamant that this price will not change. I think Costco is simply trying to reduce the amount of loss they are taking at that price.

* I know it works on me, I go in for the free samples mostly and regularly spend $50+ on a visit (maybe half the time), and just recently spent $7,000 on a massage chair.
That's a fair argument but I'm more interested in how much R&D happens under single payer systems.
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> Where I lost them was when they equated themselves as being so important to crypto currency space that critiquing them can be used to tag the whole space as being a giant ponzi scheme.

To be fair, the whole ICO scene of the past few months largely is a bubble phenomenon: an incoherent idea, incompetent code, and really obviously just creators who see easy money selling to buyers who see easy money. The critique is widely applicable. There are non-bogus ICOs, but mostly it's complete air.
I've read that book - I highly recommend it.
Sure but why do i as a American consumer subsidize drug invention for England or India?

If the goverment wants to pay for R and D awesome. Dont put it on my bill to see the doctor.
Lots of social animals demonstrate some form of credit/debt accounting in their relationships. I think this is an almost inseparable part of our mind-body systems (a sort of limbic balance sheet) and does not depend on abstract concepts nor symbolic tools like money to still apply an economy to social groups.
If I am reading btw0's comment correctly, it isn't that they are ordering them to stop serving video forever, but instead that they are illegally doing so, because they do not have the proper license. Should they acquire the proper license, they would be able to provide the "video and audio program" features again.

Now, as btw0 notes, these licenses are scarce, and so this amounts to a _de facto_ ban of a sort for people who only know about these popular sites, but it is not a ban in the strict sense.
I'm not doubting the professional truck driver, though. Do you have experience running over porcupines? I do not. They've seen a lot. Enough to draw conclusions from fringe conditions like this.

Perhaps this is more of an occurrence on re-treads.
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Hell, how much of the money is spent on marketing, not actual R&D? It seems like there is a lot of Hollywood accounting in pharma.
I always wonder why, in all the coverage about health care and insurance groups "pulling out" of the marketplace, no one seems to want to state the obvious:

* Insurers are not pulling out of the insurance market.

* Insurers are pulling out of selling to individuals.

* This is happening because selling to large groups (like entire companies) is easier/more profitable.

* It is easier to sell to larger groups because you have greater numbers across which to amortize risk.

* The largest group of Americans one could envision selling insurance to is...ALL Americans.

So, by pulling out of the unprofitable individual marketplace in order to focus on selling to larger groups, these insurance companies are practically shouting at us what anyone with half a head already knows: single payer is the only practical, efficient, and cost effective solution for universal coverage.
problem is with political system, lobbying and campaign contributions!
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Channels, like an email mailing list with a searchable archive?
I think people would miss such a button, especially since the unreadable stuff is after you scroll down.

For what it's worth, I've tried the page on 7 screens/devices here, and it was only properly readable on 3 (two of which are very similar models by the same manufacturer). On three of the screens (two really new), it was more trouble than it was worth.