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Absolutely. As someone who has received health care in France and Australia, this has nearly zero relevance in determining which system is the better:

> "This seems to work well in Australia, but in the U.S. the public system most likely would be badly underfunded. Therefore, France would be superior."

Essentially: "This system can't be the best in the world because it wouldn't work in one of the most horribly broken in the world, sabotaged or otherwise."

The utter irony? France's system would be MORE expensive. But because they decide that Australia's (cheaper) system would be underfunded (and yet somehow France's would be fully funded?!?) it's worse:

"The French health system is relatively expensive at 11.8 percent of G.D.P., while Australia’s is at 9 percent."
Plus most of the users using Flash and Silverlight for things like watching movies aren't likely to recognize that they are plugins. The answer to "How do you watch movies online?" is probably "Hulu" or "Netflix". Flash and Silverlight were never brands that non-technical users paid much attention to, they were means to an end. If they install something to "watch movies on Netflix", they may not remember because it was a one-time ask by the site they visit, and whatever it asked them to install didn't matter to the user so long as they could "watch movies on Netflix".
This is magnificent! I mean, not the botched adaptation itself, but the story about the botched adaptation. Twain would have loved it! A pair of venal, mercenary hacks are contracted by an equally venal and mercenary publisher to squeeze an extra dime from some fragmentary notes left behind by a genius author who died a century before. It's the perfect setup for a Mark Twain story. Hardly a more cynical author ever put pen to paper.

Which is why I laugh when the article quotes Twain writing "tend to them constantly, and keep a pure heart," as if that's Twain moralizing, when it's much more likely he would have delivered that line with delightful irony.
Does anyone here make money through these browsers? Either by selling ads or by some other means.
I have a few ideas in this space, but I am not sure about monetization strategies.
The analogy of it being an IDE is telling. You can think of some browsers as the equivalent of being a text editor, some as intermediates (Sublime Text), then this as an IDE.

I'm excited for it.
Tag it with something like shutdown=non-biz-hours, or can even specify a schedule that a lambda function can pick up each minute or hour and parse to stop/start any instance that falls within that window.
??? is weirdest thing I ever heard. I can be a feminist and a capitalist; feminism != communism. I suggest you consult a dictionary for the definition of feminism and reconsider your attitude.
If they had an outside security firm helping them starting in March, and another breach in July, that doesn't say much for the capabilities and competency of the security firm.
exactly. which is how it should be: a pain in the ass for your customers if you want them to install drm.

the cost should be born by the company who wants it, not the public.

why is this a bad thing for anybody but a content producer? and if it's not anybody else, then... why do we care? we have already legislated away the right to copy something in return for promoting creation. but the creation is going to happen one way or the other, so we need to go much further than the EFF advocates: we need to scale back copyright drastically.

it would have virtually zero cost to the public, and would not meaningfully affect creative output.
That used to be their attitude, and then they saw the drop in viewers as young people shifted to different online ways of distracting themselves.

They discovered that the whole "You will come to us. We are the rulers of content" attitude was delusional.

Now they are falling over themselves to get back to the top, while kids watch idiots play video games on twitch.

And even my 60+ year old parents just stream torrents because no one can provide a better experience no matter how much you are willing to pay.
At the time, I was in NYC and I wanted to stay. I couldn't find any hardware related jobs there so I switched over to software.

Now I live in the bay area and am working on a startup. Iteration cycles are much more faster so I can learn quicker and ship quicker. Also, distribution is a lot easier.
The title of this article is "The Best Healthcare System In The World".

I am fairly certain the designers of such systems did not consider "the ease, cost, or willingness of the USA to implement the same thing".
Was wondering why Michigan disappeared from national contention in football during that era. Thanks for the explanation.
Philosophy is just so inaccessible to most people and is unrelatable to the layman.

The most valuable philosophers of today IMO, are those that stay on the rails of pragmatism for the everyday struggles of the average citizen.

Stefan Molyneux on youtube is a good example.

He gets off the rails a little bit, but his core ideals of ethics and moral virtue is something I value quite highly in my everyday life.
> 58.4% of the group voted to go on with publication, and the W3C did so today, an unprecedented move in a body that has always operated on consensus and compromise.

What exactly is the EFF saying should have happened? More than 50% voted to go ahead with it. The majority voted for it. I don't see how the W3C going with the majority vote is a dick move. Consensus and compromise is obviously very important, but when one side is strictly anti-DRM, it's pretty hard to compromise. This just seems like the EFF being bitter that they lost and trying to disparage the W3C.
I just sat through a meeting with a bunch of high-level execs at a huge corporation. The amount of shrugging and barely educated guessing that goes into million dollar decisions is pretty absurd. The main qualification seems to be the willingness to make decisions in the face of uncertainty.
Then rapists go free. That's the price of not putting innocent people in jail.
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Not my experience at all from losing a loved one to an accident.

From what I can tell the murderer in my loved one's case doesn't feel a thing.
That's because it's used to designate sub-team (e.g. companyname.infosec is a sub-team to companyname)
i'm on a slow connection so i can't find the links/news but i don't think that's true anymore. they certainly have restricted it. before it was including collectors editions. then it was only on preorders. not sure about it now but it's definitely not all just 20% discounted anymore.
I agree that this style of debate is not terribly useful, but I will grant that this issue does stir significant emotion in people who are seeing their baby suffocated to death. However, I am uncertain what you believe is meant by 'actual corruption'? How could abandoning consensus, the normal functioning of the body for decades, and refusing to continue discussion in order to reach a compromise, not be a de-facto corruption of the organization?
What’s the point if the other story has no discussion, other than to kill the topic again?
It was their only chance for continued relevance. Ever since the formation of WHATWG in 2004, it has been increasingly clear that the only standards that matter are the de facto standards set by the browser vendors.
Maybe the Payment Request API will help? https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/
Well, tangential to this?

The US may not require appointments, but US insurers will find themselves in the media on a regular basis for such gems as:

"car accident victim flown to hospital denied insurance coverage because the flight wasn't pre-authorized"
Toward less injection
Except the odds are that the salary is the only thing you'll actually see as compensation.
DNS could always be used only for the initial name registration. After that, ownership would be managed within Keybase.
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Ad networks are waiting for this in order to move a lot of ad code to a place where they can make ad-blocking illegal.

They have a lot of pull among a huge number of sites that depend on ad revenue.

Start buying this argument.
Good recruiters have experience and don't have a reason to be in multiple cities. Recruiting is the ultimate "remote" job because recruiters are always on the phone.

If a recruiting firm is staffing up quickly it will hire unexperienced people; it is much like a sales organization, but I think you can learn to sell in an organization with a good playbook more quickly than you can learn to recruit.

Another factor (at least for "data science" around greater NYC) is recruiters who work for Indian firms who have some different norms than most recruiters in the US. For example, US recruiters may ask for salary history or requirements but will instead answer the question if you turn it around and ask what they expect to pay. Some of the Indian firm recruiters won't go forward without salary history, which is strange to me.
Well that works if you're a startup in one timezone with no teams depending on your service. If you work on a larger company, it's quite possible the sun never sets on your project (west coast, east coast, Europe, India, Australia or SE Asia)
I'm now pondering a "these fratboys are deleterious to boards" index fund thanks to your post.
Yes, the best quote from the whole article is, about exactly that sort of misguided holier-than-thou squeamishness:

"The novelist and essayist David Bradley, Jr., has written and lectured widely about Twain and race. “Was he a racist? Wasn’t he a racist? It’s sort of amusing,” Bradley, who is black, told me recently. “That question isn’t asked of most other American writers, and I think that’s because Twain actually did something about race, and most of them didn’t.”"
The full article title is "The Best Health Care System in the World: Which One Would You Pick?"
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It is per region, but you can request a reserved instance be moved between AZs.
There is something to be said about transitional CEOs who keep the lights on while the company figures out a long term strategy. Most actually terribly run companies don't just bounce back the minute they get rid of a bad CEO.
As a software dev, who watches an unnecessary number of these cell internals/molecular dynamics/spontaneous self assembly vids on youtube for kicks, I am always amazed by the utter chaos that produces all these mechanisms and processes.

We see nothing like this level of randomness in the already chaotic world of software development. When one works on complex projects with more than a few hundred people one constantly sees random things bumping into each other producing stuff nobody imagined. But this stuff happening inside a cell is just insane too me. Makes me feel like a cave man playing with my current set of stone age tools.
I read that as, "StackOverflow confirms: Pandas is poorly documented."
> With speculation of a bankruptcy mounting, shares of Toys “R” Us’s vendors tumbled on Monday. Mattel Inc., the maker of Barbie and Fisher-Price, fell 6.2 percent -- its worst decline in seven weeks. Shares of Hasbro, the company behind Monopoly, Nerf and Transformers, dropped 1.7 percent.

Does Toys R Us owe money to Mattel? Or are people thinking that if they go away or significantly reorganize people will just buy fewer toys of these types? On the surface a 6% drop for Mattel seems huge based on this news. If a grocery chain goes into bankruptcy, you're not going to see Coca Cola stock drop..
As far as I can tell this is mostly the EFF being sore losers over the DRM issue. They only joined W3C so they could oppose it, now they are leaving since they failed. While I'm neither here nor there on the DRM issue, the EFF leaving isn't exactly the big deal they are making it out to be.
For a different take on it from Heinrich Neuhaus who taught Richter, Gilels and Lupu:

"Godowsky, my incomparable teacher and one of the great virtuoso pianists of the post-Rubinstein era once told us in class that he never practised scales (and, of course, that was so) . Yet, he played them with a brilliance, evenness, speed and beauty of tone which I believe I have never heard excelled. He played the scales he encountered in musical compositions in the best possible manner and in this way learned to play ideally "scales as such".

[...] What was Godowsky's method of teaching? As everybody knows, he was reported to be "a wizard of technique" [...]. For this reason numerous young pianists from all over the world flocked to him, mainly in the hope of getting his recipe for attaining "virtuoso technique".

Alas for them! Godowsky hardly ever said a word about technique in the sense in which these youngsters understood it; all his comments during a lesson were aimed exclusively at music, at correcting musical defects in a performance, at achieving maximum logic, accurate hearing, clarity, plasticity, through a scrupulous observance and a broad interpretation of the written score. In his class, he valued above all the real musician and approached with obvious irony those pianists whose fingers were fast and agile while their brains were slow and dull"

(from The Art of Piano Playing)
drm is intrinsically bad for consumers.

any consumer should have the option of using it, if they want.

the problem here is the codification as a standard, and the implicit endorsement that the W3C creates in providing the standard.

DRM is expensive to your freedom, and it should be as expensive as possible for media companies to implement. by making it opt-in rathen than can't-even-opt-out-if-you-want-to, the W3C are really giving the public interest the middle finger.
It's been an interesting ride for the past few years. The economy is chugging along, growing, but not that fast. Yes the stock market is up significantly.

It's done wonders to my porfolio since I was in before the crash of 2008. However, I won't be surprised at all when we see DJIA go under 20,000.

However, my retirement is still decades away so my money will stay in the market, just like it did during 2008.
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I'm in the same boat as you: data science workloads that run intermittently on big hardware.

What are you running your big jobs on? Because I'm currently using Batch, but given you've got to wait for the compute environment/VM to start up (if it's not already running), and that's a pain because it takes forever to startup.

I wish I could just run containers on large hardware the same way we can run lambda's: press the button and it just runs, I don't really care about having my own full compute environment, I just need enough memory and CPU to run it.
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The covenants still typically allow the private equity investor to do a 'recap' (i.e., issues themselves a dividend) while still having the debt outstanding. This would come with restrictions, such as balance sheet ratios and interest coverage ratios.

What the PE player would want to do is do the leveraged buyout, cut expenses to boost EBITDA, reduce working capital demand (create cash) by lengthening payables, collecting extended debts, and cutting inventory or selling off excess assets, and then once interest coverage is up from the EBITDA boost, issue a recap as big as the covenants allow to get much of the original equity risk off the table.

Then they see if they can grow it, or sell it off, to get their multiple.

Sometimes it works, sometimes the company goes through bankruptcy (ch 11) instead. It's not whether it always works, it's whether it works on average. The results have higher variance due to the higher leverage but it doesn't make it wrong.
If it can detect the messages, then why not immediately decrypt on page load? Wouldn't that avoid the 'two click' problem you were talking about?
It's weird to see Netflix there, as their service might be one of the premier reasons lots of people can't be bothered to copy movies as much as used to be the case.

The only reasons I can see is that studios/rights owners are either requiring DRM for newest titles, or that they offer rebates on DRM'd material. They rights owners also probably prefer other people to run their errand, as some of them aren't too popular, and others have simply made themselves to a laughing stock in at least some parts of the internet.
With three kids, my wife and I used to buy Lego at every opportunity. It was also an easy gift idea to give to grandparents.

My kids haven't played with Lego for years. They enjoy doing it Minecraft or one of a zillion other Steam games that offers the same build-it-yourself functionality as Lego.
I'd only do this strictly in dev or qa. Remote teams can always spin it back up if they need it on a wider schedule.
I think the main takeout of the article is:

"..Once a technical innovation has been introduced,.., people usually become dependent on it."
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India is one of the successes. (After, of course, the United States, Canada, and Australia). It's the largest democracy in the world, and set up to be one of the wealthiest and most powerful after the current crop of powers.
Ah, finally. They've ruined my idea for an optimal EMR job runner. Under the old system, if you have a linearly scalable Hadoop job, it's cheaper to, say, use 60 instances to do some work in an hour vs 50 instances to do the work in 70 minutes, assuming you're getting rid of the cluster once you're done. No more!
I currently use their OneTouch, and it works pretty well for a custom solution. However, I still hope that they support real TOTP's soon because I can securely store all of my TOTP's together.

It'd be very annoying to have an app for each single service.
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It's quite possible the security firm was asked to audit their systems, but not asked (or paid) to fix them.
Are you sure the meaning of "guess" in each quote is the same as in the other? I'm not convinced that Dijkstra's comment, in context, contradicts Feynman's.
W3C decided to publish a final version of the EME specification. W3C is the place where member companies come to write and negotiate the specification for how many web technologies should work. EME is an API for talking to a audio/video DRM module. EME (and the corresponding DRM modules) have been shipping in all browsers for years.

A large minority of W3C members, led by EFF, were trying to tie the publication of this specification with a legal contract (called a covenant) between members preventing them to sue people (under laws like the DMCA) if they did nothing more than break the DRM. This would leave copyright infringers liable to law suits, but not security researchers, developers of accessibility add-ons, and so on.

This proposal gather a large minority, but a minority nonetheless.

The W3C process doesn't let the majority win automatically. Normally, it goes by consensus, and keeps negotiations going until all find something they can agree on. If that fails to happen, and someone objects to the decision being proposed, the director of the W3C (who is incidentally the person who invented the web), gets to call the shot.

If a majority of members thinks he called the shot wrong, he can be overturned in appeal.

This decision to publish the final version of the EME specification without a covenant was appealed, and the appeal failed.
They certainly could.
Sierra was both a publisher and a developer led by husband and wife team Ken and Roberta Williams. The first Leisure Suit Larry came out in 1987. Sierra didn’t acquire Dynamix until 1990, and they had nothing to do with Larry. Dynamix was known more for flight simulator games like Red Barron. The only forums around then were on Usenet and BBS’s. I used to run one of those BBS's. Fun times!
this is just the first step down a slippery slope.

and it _is_ a slippery slope.

are you really going to _not_ use gmail and google maps because you can't see the source code? of course you're not. but is it beneficial for google to lock their code up behind a DRM blob? of course it is.

so there is every incentive in the world for web pages to be made proprietary, and no incentive at all for users to put up a fight (which is why this first step is so important: because it's being made at the level of technologists, who supposably have the insight to know why it's important).

but after this, the progression will be slow, but relentless, toward a closed web. Even if a subset of ideological wackos decide to fight... they're just ideological wackos.

Stallman was right, and this is the exact same thing playing out again on a distributed medium.
This is why it's very important to have a real TOTP based solution supported for these kinds of services.
Sounds like the definition of Kevin Smith's "fail upwards"
Duly upvoted. Thank you.
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> The argument is that nobody will go out of their way to implement DRM unless they are contractually obliged.

The less customers like something, the less willing a company will be to sign a contract obligating them to do it.

> Your "solution" is not a solution for 99.99% of web users

One device used only for watching media is called a television and something like 99.99% of Americans actually have one already.
When I write 'authenticity' I do not mean 'identity'.
I'm not sure what you mean by eliminating billing. Physicians and other healthcare professionals still need to bill for their services, no? That's what most of the paperwork is. Figuring out what code to bill under, someone verifying that, sending payment, etc.

I agree that not billing patients reduces paperwork, but that's a relatively small part of overall billing.
I'm not an expert, but based on casual observation, yes they do.
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According to this article, Toys "R" Us accounts for about 10% of Mattel's revenue. That seems pretty significant:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-orbital-atk-northrop-grum...
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You want that toy? Here, watch a YouTube video of someone else playing with it until Amazon delivers it tomorrow.
I never used => but when JavaScript introduced the fat arrow and made it different from the fat arrow in CoffeeScript, this introduced a mental barrier for me. By definition, the JavaScript fat arrow is the important one to know.