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> share a common culture or history

Americans do not share a common culture or history. We share a political system that is at least in theoretically based on guaranteeing the freedom to participate in whatever culture you want, that isn't limited to people of a specific historical association (either by genetics or citizenship).

> the English race

While England does have a history and culture that traditionally was officially established by the king, Merriam-Webster's use in
this example can apply when referring to historic England, the term isn't really appropriate for modern England.

However, in Merriam-Webster's defense, this mildly misleading definition might be an attrempt to keep explanations simple with references young people would know. The definition that you copied was from the "RACE Defined for Kids" section of the page. Their recommended definition at the top of the page doesn't have the same issues:

1 : a breeding stock of animals

2 a : a family, tribe, people, or nation
belonging to the same stock
b : a class or kind of people unified by shared interests,
habits, or characteristics

3 a : an actually or potentially interbreeding group within a species;
also : a taxonomic category (such as a subspecies) representing
such a group
b : breed
c : a category of humankind that shares certain
distinctive physical traits

Most of these variations refer to what we now know is genetics. Isolated groujps of a species experience genetic drift (and other effects) that create genetic features unique to each group. Eventually the differences are large enough and we call them separate species (see: Darwin and the entire field of study that followed we call modern biology).

None of that applies to "Americans" as a group of people. We are famously a "melting pot" where people from very different races (again in theory) are supposed to have the freedom to "melt" together however they desire.

edit: For a fun, snarky, and informative (with very impressive directing), see ContraPoints video "What is Race?" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY3lBKje46E )
Anyone who can read the white paper could figure that out
> want me to list them?

Yes, please
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CSS variables are useful if you're a professional web developer. But I would say websites are excessively designed now, especially the kind of ones I visit (other than this).

It's pretty incredible just what an arms race web design is. Web browsers should really not be chugging, ever, in 2018.
Although a Swedish person might disagree about how to write ø and æ...
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Asperger is now officially just mild Autism. Of course, they can lie, through it is harder for them to lie convincibly.

> Many people on the tech scene start programming at an early age

That has absolutely nothing to do with anything except right kind of adults around..

> and are obsessed with computers at some point in their lives

Sure, just like people in other professions get obsessed over this or that at some point in their lives. And it is not nearly the same as when someone with autism displays that symptome. Healthy person obsession is much different and causes way less difficulties to that person.

> Nevertheless, I still think an interviewer should note that the candidate is stubborn or pretentious, rather than just writing "on the spectrum".

The two are not the same tho.
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Fastlane has pretty good Android support (equivalent to iOS).

And the guy that created it, @krausefx, now actually runs it as a Open Source community project - from within Google where the Fabric team landed after some time at Twitter.
If the person dying is innocent, the end result is the same. Thoughts?
Where can I read more about this? Would you kindly refer me to some web page or anything ? Also, do you know which ASIC/ Chip / VLSI companies use JIRA?
This sort of interesting article is exactly what I come to Hacker News for.
As long as dollars are created at interest, the only jobs that will be paid well are those that make more money. Any kind of social work will always be living off those scraps in terms of ability to pay a living wage.

One way to make life easier for underpaid people doing work that helps individuals but doesn't 'make' more money would be to let nonprofits issue a complementary currency and do the legwork to get it accepted for lifestyle-enhancing services that might not otherwise be available to those volunteers/employees. Wouldn't pay rent, but would let them save money on yoga classes or house cleaning or the like. Barter networks exist, as do non-profit service-based time-denominated currencies. Nobody's doing it in a clean, unified way, but that might be more likely to happen than a tax credit, given the current political environment. :-/
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> Or termination in the private sector is rarely and indicator of quality.

I never said it was. My comparison would be on termination for dissatisfactory work.

Regardless, the attitude that poor performing people can just be reassigned and/or languish seems to be one held exclusively by those working for companies that can absorb waste (or governments). I worked at IBM, I saw it plenty. Peer quality and management's tolerating of low quality work are among the many reasons I left.

But you're telling me and other SMBs that now in my small business of 6 people I can just move people? Or otherwise that I now have an unhealthy corporate culture? Many companies can't afford waste, and as strange as it sounds, can't often afford low-salary, low-skilled labor. Humans are our biggest expenditure, we can't just keep adding indiscriminately even with modest growth lest we hurt our customers with increased prices. Though your intentions and sympathy are admirable, the approach has led to corporate bloat and an inflated supply of employees in the field (at least in software).
Depends on what you take the word efficient to mean, even at the top end I don't find medical care very efficient. Basic procedures can be very expensive for my insurance company. I'll define efficient here as results to cost. In the US, there are groups at every level between patient, doctor, insurance and big pharma where often their goal is to create inefficiencies because the less efficient the treatment, the more money make. Look at something like insurance billing codes; I have a friend who's entire business is telling Dr's which codes to book procedures under so they make more money from insurance. His company is make 10s of million a year. There is stuff like that at every level.
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Well then I guess it's lucky I don't use it!
Under EU law (this is not legal advice), any bug that wasn't known to you at time of sale, but was present at time of sale, has to be fixed by the vendor. For 2 years after sale usually, some countries have longer (afaik, Norway for example has it set at 5 years. As EEA member, they also follow the EU laws on warranty).
> No matter what planet you need to go to you need to spend a lot of time in space.

Days for the moon, months rather than years for Mars, and we've already had people on space stations for that kind of duration. 3 years for the Jovian system which is a step up but not a huge one.

> Furthermore no matter what planet you would want to explore you would need a space station to explore from.

I don't see that at all. Unmanned satellites would make sense, but the surface (or possibly an aerostat for some planemos) is always going to be a much more human-friendly environment in terms of gravity and radiation shielding.

> It will also be the best way start the exploration as you can use your knowledge from the space station we have on earth.

This is circular reasoning.

> Furthermore, we are simply not even close to be able to live realistically far from earth let alone able to afford it.

Which is why the moon makes sense as a next step. It's challenging but doable.
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> The administrators blaming this on politics are most likely scapegoating for their poor planning.

Couple of people I know in India right now are looking at going to Canada, Aus or NZ because they are uncertain what is going on under Trump. 5 to 10 years back almost everyone in my friend circle in India wanted to go to the US.
In other fields, fuzzing data while still maintaining accuracy is a well-established practice.

A simple example that fits closely to debits/credits is the "vote fuzzer" on reddit. This was important back when reddit allowed you to easily access not just the point score of a post but also the count of up and down votes. The points are calculated as (upvotes - downvotes), but spambots could take advantage of that to figure out if their votes were really being counted, or being thrown away by the spam detection systems.

So suppose the score on a post is currently 20 points with 30 up, 10 down votes. Reload, and you might see 32/12. Or 37/17. The fuzzer would give back fictional always-increasing counts of up/down votes which happened to add up to the correct score. It would also add phantom votes to offset spambots it had detected, so a spambot might see 32/12, issue an upvote, and then see 33/13, where the 13th downvote was a complete fiction invented by the fuzzer, to cover up for throwing away the bot's upvote.

Apple's differential-privacy implementation in iOS does something similar; it boils down the metrics it will submit into a fixed-size data structure, then randomly flips some bits before submitting. But the weighting and occurrence of the bit flips is set up so that on average for every time, say, the third bit of a given submission flips from 1 to 0, there will be another submission that flipped its third bit from 0 to 1. This preserves the overall statistics while making it impossible to know which bits of any submission were "real" versus which were flipped by the fuzzer.
Specifically:

ı (capital I; the letter is pronounced as a schwa), and:

i (capital İ)

This is why upper- and lowercasing of letters is also locale-dependant (in addition to collation).
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When Obamacare was being drafted, house Republicans were busy condemning the 'death panels' of single-payer systems.
Maybe Snowden was factoring in bonuses and and other incentives?
>The part I struggle with most, is how/where to store these & Authy/Google Authenticator tokens in a manner that they can be delivered to specific people in the case of my death without decreasing security.

Something I've often wondered about...
I am also quite annoyed because I paid premium (Intel) prices with the expectation to get premium speed. Now if I can just get the same performance cheaper with AMD, maybe I should just return the whole thing.
Do you expect them to fly commercial, like animals?
GP didn't say the top end was efficient, just that their results were excellent.
yes, my bad. But the comment stands. Just replace war machine with insurance companies.
It's way easier to charge $100 for a pill, in bulk, on one invoice, than to do the same to an actual person, end user of that product.
Insurance companies and laws that protect them are to blame for sky high prices in the US.
> It's not just a 'perception of gov't incompetence': it's a widespread phenomenon. Government employees tend to excel at working organisational politics ...

Is there any basis for this claim and the others? It's repeated by many, but that doesn't make it so. It doesn't describe the people I know that work in government.
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I will also add that libraries that operates at bytecode level (such as AspectJ) may be incompatible with newer JVM versions. This can be a problem since they are often used by higher level frameworks to do their "magic" (one example being Spring) [1].
The solution is that you have to update either the library (which may not be compatible with the framework using it), or the whole framework.

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> Restaurants/travel are 3x points and transfer easily to airline partners.

Have you actually done the math?

3 points/$1 and each point at an airline is generally worth around 1.5 cents, so it's equivalent to getting maybe 5% cash back at restaurants. Compare this to the Uber card where you get 4% cash back on dining. For the 1% to break even with the $450 annual fee - $150 credit = $300 net, you need to average at least ~$40 on dining/travel on your credit card per day. And then you have to make sure you only use the points for trips that you would have already gone on anyway on cold hard cash, otherwise you're just spending far more money on food/hotel/rides/etc.

I don't know about you but it's an understatement to say that I'm skeptical this comes out to the benefit of the majority of the card's users.
This is a classic american problem - keep throwing money at something until it works.

This conundrum plagues their healthcare, their education, their military, their welfare spending and so on. For example, they spend more on their military than the next 15 highest spending countries combined, and don't get proportionally better results. They spend a lot more on education (per student) than most European countries, but suffer from worse education quality than some developing nations. There is a fundamental problem with how this money gets spent, instead of how much of it is available.
I wonder if there is also some people morale in this. I mean, if I was a hacker and knew what the NSA had been up to in regards of mass-surveilance, my integrity and morale would be like "heck no, thies org' fucked up and I want nothing to do with them, at all!".
Lets hope this kills the travesty of dependency injection.
As soon as macOS comes into the mix, hosting (hence CI) prices go through the roof. Since they're not keen on bringing back Xserve or Mac Mini Server, I sure wish the macOS license would allow for it to be run on hypervisors on non-Apple server-grade hardware for CI uses.
Ahh, I was referring to the US, and bugs that weren't known at the time of sale (I'll edit this in), but thank you, this is still useful information.
I was going to start learning webdev and I was suggested HTML/CSS/JS/PHP/MySql.

Should I go ahead with PHP? What is the alternative?
Some guy was telling me how IBM Watson was going to make healthcare more efficient by helping doctors make smart choices. I replied that that wasn't going to help profits, so it probably wouldn't be adopted. Hospitals and insurers really should be merged so the incentives are all properly aligned. Kaiser Permanente works this way and, IMHO, it's actually not that bad.
How much of that egregiousness has been fixed by ACA’s cap on insurance company’s profits, in your opinion?
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Is it stranfe that I actually prefer two codebases? I find the hard split (or just client/server architecture) to provide clarity, focus and peace of mind.
It didn’t get interesting to me, until I was quickly corrected by more than one person. Is the phonetic pronunciation... what is the pronunciation for Å in English?
tl;dr: US spends so much more than other nations because US hospitals (and by extension, doctors, which NYT is too chicken to say out loud), keep increasing prices for the same care.

There is nothing here about insurance companies. It's lack of competition on the supply side.
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Now can we have a "Why the U.S. Spends More than the Next Eight countries combined, and 63.7% More than The Entire Rest of The World on Defense"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

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Oh wait, we spend even more now:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2017/roll378.xml
"The US spends more on healthcare because the prices are higher!"

Um, okay. Duh. A better question to ask would be: Why are prices not falling? In the "normal" economy, people can't offer any arbitrarily high price they want: They have to compete with others to offer their good or service at a low price. The more you raise your price, the more you invite competition and give them room to run a profitable business.

Anyone who has gone to a doctors office or hospital lately knows why there is so much overspending in health care: The health care system is the most fucked up, overcomplicated, ridiculous system you could possibly imagine. You start out by filling out a big paper form with all your info on it... They use that to bill your insurance, which then says okay, we're going to pay you half of what you asked for. What ridiculously perverse incentives. Now the provider will naturally ask for twice as much, knowing they won't get everything they bill for.

Health Care will be fixed not by laws or insurance companies, but by technical innovation and good old fashioned economics. You know, those old ideas Adam Smith had. If there was serious technical and economic / business model innovation in the industry (an Apple of health care) prices would go down, outcomes would improve, etc.
> should be motivated by public service, not remuneration.
It's strange that this should be such a widely held belief given that it relates to the top job in the most capitalistic country on earth.
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Indeed. That's why I'm skeptical when they say they care about the customer. Most of the times, they don't give a flying fuck about the product itself and whether or not it actually does anything useful for customers - the whole point is to get into someone's wallet; the product is just a proxy (and often customers themselves are a proxy too, to get more money from the investors).

Getting paid for building something valuable seems to be a dead concept in the startup economy.
Because there is no competition on the supply side. Do you shop around when you're gravely sick? Can you even get transparent prices out of hospitals?
> There are large fixed costs to running a university and these students pay way above their marginal costs.

There’s a slight silver lining to this - up until now there’s been very little motivation to reduce those large fixed costs.
It's a pity that they don't try throwing money at poverty. Maybe that problem will actually go away with more money being thrown at it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16040903
Did someone say they were?
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