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Based on the results of the last few election cycles, I think you are being overly optimistic but I hope you are right. We could not even get the Medicare age lowered to 55 because it required a super majority in the Senate and that failed when Democrats has 60 votes because there's always someone holding out, in that case Joe Lieberman. When Democrats adopted the healthcare plan advocated by conservative thinktanks into ACA/Obamacare, the conservatives moved farther to the right - every time what we see is the Democrats triangulate and the Republicans move the goal posts.
I think it would have been incredibly foolish and costly for your government to sign onto that provision. It's funny that the arguments seem about single or multi or hybrid public private billing arrangements here - but if you look across the national stats, all of those arrangements perform better - because a root cause that I think there are in those nations, a regulation of cost by medical experts in that nation vs efficacy of various drugs and/or procedures. The dream that somehow laymen off the street can shop for medical care like shopping for a pair of socks and that would balance the market in price or knowledge of derived value is really naive in my eyes.
I would think it would be better to minimize the pseudo dfa to collapse states.

Also having each character of an alternation of subset in light blue box then laying them out vertically makes the hard to read.

Of the point of this is to make regex more easily understood, you would think you would want to make them compact.
The beginnings of enclaves.
How drastic do you think a contagion would be if Bitfinex is found to be fraudulent (meaning that everyone rushes out of USDT and buys crypto, then sends crypto to an exchange that accepts fiat)? There are so many exchanges that don't accept fiat.
I remember reading a sci fi novel with that idea too. The scene had a guy packing up his luggage in a self-driving car, watching the car get in line with a long-distance "train" of self-driving cars, and then falling asleep so he can make it to the next city.

My daughter is on the autism spectrum. I think she is capable of driving herself, but at least right now, she shows no interest in it. Instead, I'm teaching her how to get around herself on a bicycle. And while I am still intent on helping her develop self-reliance, the future she will be working as an adult will likely involve self-driving cars.

I think it is very likely that the cost of self-driving cars will be higher. Middle class is already getting squeezed, and if having on-demand transportation is more affordable, it is more accessible for people. When self-driving cars have lower insurance premiums, then manually-driven cars would be left in the domain of the hobbyists and the wealthy -- driving it for fun, rather than because you need to make a living.

At the same time, I can see bicycles and electric bicycles becoming even more popular.

There was a kickstarter campaign a couple years ago documenting how roads were originally made for bikes, with the first paved roads being lobbied by bicycle groups rather than auto groups. We also have some interesting things: (1) in the early days of the auto industry, the auto industry pushed forward legislation for traffic safety, shifting the idea is that if a pedestrian is on the road, it is the pedestrian's fault, and that "roads are made for cars" (2) buying out trolly companies so people would buy more cars and (3) this idea of "roads are made for cars" has become so ingrained in our mindset that it influenced city and urban design for almost a hundred years.

I'm glad to see this is starting to swing back the other way.
A lot of exchanges have a hard time setting up traditional banking partners that can handle physical currency for them. If these exchanges don't offer USDT to their customers for parking money, they wouldn't have any customers anymore.
"To just 'play' in life."

I don't think we're incapable of conceiving it, I think this is very much cultural.

While we should avoid "playfulness" that comes at the expense of the greater good, like kicking a garbage over, or other kind of destructive play. I think its possible for adults to "play", but we'd need to change our culture to allow it.

I'd say a big part of playfulness is about engaging with others in a trustful and open manner. Something I feel our culture makes quite difficult. Going dancing for example is a good form of playfulness, yet is culturally a source of anxiety for most of the western world. To play with other adults makes most of us anxious, how messed up is that!?!

Similarly, to learn and explore as an adult is a source of anxiety, because our culture does not allow adults to be novice at something without judging or ridiculing. As an adult, you feel ashamed to start learning something new from scratch, that's why most people who learn things from scratch as adults do it with activities where they can learn it in secret, by themselves.

Lastly, time is a problem. We've given up our play time as adults, our culture is designed this way. We don't value time to play, we value making more money. People want to be rich, not play more.

I think this is all just cultural, as from where I'm from, these norms are not as strong as where I live now. Where I'm from I know of many more adults who's idea of a perfect life is to just live in a modest house, singing, dancing, playing music, chatting over dinner with good friends and family. To have time for your hobbies, and to just be able to relax and appreciate the passing of time.
They have that already, the macbook or macbook pro if you need additional power. These can act as a hub you connect externals to, with the added benefit that they can be used offsite.
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Kaiser is almost a monopoly in Hawaii (only a handful of providers they haven't bought). Interests can diverge when they are the sole provider for both insurance and every health need. Example: hiring practices of cheap vs competitive doctors and staff. Anecdotally every doctor and nurse I know refuses to take their family there.
It's ironic that Apple, which provides regular software updates, is being scrutinized while it appears Google and other Android vendors -- whose track record on updates is very spotty -- get a free pass.

To avoid a case of 'no good deed goes unpunished', I do hope Samsung, Google and co get some attention over lack of updates for older phones/OSes too. Their approach of not updating perfectly good phones just leads to greater e-waste, not to mention wasting consumer dollars.
This kind of vague ad-hominem attack does not belong here. If you have a problem with GP's "insinuation", please explain what you think is wrong using factual, logical arguments. Claiming that it is "grotesque" tells us a lot more about you than about the argument here.
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Amazing how being able to visualize the problem reveals available optimizations!
It almost feels like at some point he's going to turn around and be "I don't really believe all that, but I convinced you, and persuaded some of you of what I was saying. Buy my book on persuasion!"

I get a weird snake-oil vibe from his blog. It feels more like he's a PR department than an actual outside observer.
AFAIK, Google lobbied for that lack of reporting requirements, so removing vital safety protections was a big part of this. Similarly, it isn't "testing" cars to put passengers in them, that's putting people's lives in the hands of beta hardware.

Some description of how your employer does business in this space can be found here: http://googletransparencyproject.org/articles/google-enliste...

The fact that a significant amount of California politicians have been bought and paid for by Google and are still resistant to adopting Google's preferred legislation on self-driving cars shows some level of how reckless Google has been here.
Unfortunately Montesquieu wasn’t an economist or a game theorist, so he apparently didn’t realize the now obvious flaw in the idea of separation of powers, which is that it is in the best interest of all branches of government to collude most of the time.
That's UX, not UI. The user interface is bad. The bad labelling/naming of the links makes it more likely to click the wrong button. That is bad UI. Bad UX would be the situation if even after that, there is no double check or alert to confirm that users intention.
>Get rid of jury trials for northern Ireland for a few years, because it's cheaper than properly protecting juries? No problem!

Handily ignoring the fact that juries are suboptimal, and that at least these people had trials, unlike eg guantanomo etc etc.
You literally said: "Almost nothing is a free market".

Yes I did, in a broader context, which it is commonly assumed the reader is following.

The things distorting these markets in the US are typically nothing as simple as land, natural resources, etc... more they are policy decisions and politics. Suggesting otherwise is facile.

That really is the last I'll say on the issue.
Yes, but they were arguing that Musk delivers what he promised although not necessarily when he promised. In that case all engineers being eternally optimistic are bullshit artists to a fault (which nobody would say they are). Anyway, it's a stupid quibble but given what Musk has achieved it's kind of irritating.
I'm a largely ignorant nobody with no medical degree, but from my perspective this doesn't look like treatment, it looks more like sacrificing chickens and trying to re-balance the humors, claiming victory when the condition clears up and thats why what works for person X may not work for person Y. If the model was any good, then the relationship between treatment and result would be much more consistent, you'd be able to say why what worked for X won't work for Y.

It's possible I'm just bitter from my experience with doctors over the years.
You can "dodge taxes" with any cryptocurrency, if that's your goal. What Tether offers primarily is a safeguard against crypto-world volatility without having to deal with FIAT exchanges randomly holding your money for weeks or months at a time, of which you can find many horror stories on Reddit (even for people with KYC verification in place).

I believe "stablecoins" will be needed in the cryptoworld, especially if the goal is still ultimately to have crypto coins used a "currency". But I'm not sure there's any reason why they need to be "pegged to the dollar" or any FIAT currency. It just needs to be relatively stable, perhaps in relation to the total market cap of cryptocurrencies at any given point in time.
You must raelly love that one book, to have it define your entire philosophy around public libraries and the valuelessness of people who like other books.
Lack of common ports on MacBook Pro requiring extra (paid) dongle hardware to make it similar in function to previous generation.

Apple led the way on lack of repairability and expandability on their devices. Sadly other manufacturers slowly followed suit.

You likely need to turn off iMessage if you migrate to a non-Apple phone to get SMS or text messages someone sends you from an iPhone.

Locking certain iOS functionality away from 3rd parties - preventing browsers such as Chrome from using said functionality that Safari enjoys.

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But... why? I will never understand the thinking that goes into doing stuff like this, especially within a mega-corp. It's the same as with diesel-emissions cheating: if you're successful with that product, you're basically guaranteed to get caught eventually. And if you start from the assumption that it's not going to be a successful product... why even bother?
What's hiding in the article? Maybe we can use tiny robots to drive over to the server rack and hit the reset switch.
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Okay. I kind of wish I hadn't replied in the first place but thanks for giving me an alternate reading of it :/
The part about William Marx, the French zealot professor, is interesting but how the writer tried to connect the topic to Trump seems amateurish. The title of the reviewed book is "The hatred of literature" and seems to make a bunch of much more radical points not related to our post-fact age (every age is a post-fact age, just ask Galileo).
Stopping people’s phones from randomly shutting off is anti-consumer?

Of all the things Apple has been accused of over the years this seems like one of the most clear-cut examples where they didn’t do anything wrong.

You want to make political points? Go after them for iTunes, the App Store, something else. Somewhere where you have a leg to stand on.

“Your honor, they tried to cause the phones of the American people to be more reliable! I demand justice!”
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New Zealand missing from a map? Inconceivable!
I had an iPhone 6 Plus (from 2014) that dramatically slowed down after an iOS update that was released around 2 years ago (some point after the iPhone 7 was out).

This is a phone that costs with sales taxes, over $1000. At one point, it was so slow that I felt like throwing it on the wall, and breaking it into a thousand small pieces. (There even was a lag between me typing on the on-screen keyboard and those characters appearing.) I replaced the battery (about a year ago), and the speed improved a bit, but not completely.

I had to get a new phone because it was (still was) simply just too slow. Honestly, there needs to be some sort of class-action lawsuit and compensation for iPhone owners who have literally been swindled by this.
So, more fundamental than UX, that the proper employee action for an “exercise” differs from that for a real threat doesn’t seem to be a proper test. Why not just have an administrative airgap keyswitch that enables exercises to be conducted without the requirement to disseminate the fact beforehand? Then you can test for the proper response without risk.
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Thanks for the hint. I'm aiming into something similar to BS4 in terms of use simplicity - you download the kit, plug it into your site and go.
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As they loaded Kayleigh Hutschins, age 36, onto the stretcher, it waited. Rick was a new EMT. He just got his certs about 3 weeks ago. He was told of the 'shadows' in classes. But seeing one was still a bit un-nerving. Daniel, the more veteran EMT was marking the time, but knew there was no rush to get to the hospital.

'Yeah, they freaked me out at first too' Daniel said into the ambulance's sterile white lights, he looked back at the freshie.

'They go all the way to the hospital, right behind us, yeah?' Rick wondered if the stories were true.

'Yeah, as long as her credit card still works, it'll be right on our ass'

'What happens then? When we get to the back door?'

'Follow us right in, thank God John Muir's not a blind road and has an exit. UCSF just has a loading dock, damn things block us in all the time and we have to call SFPD to get em moved out of the way.'

'How long do they stay for?'

'In the parking lot? They'll stay until her card is cancelled or the family does something. Homelanders like y'all can't pinch two nickels, so the family'll likely never contact the card company cus they'll hound them for years about her debts.' Rick looked at her glowing green fingernails, perfectly manicured.

'After 30 days John Muir or the other hospitals just calls the car company and gets them to move. All at once. It's a laugh riot.'

As they loaded her into the bay, the shadow inched forward the exact same amount.
Lots wrong with your comment, but in particular note that we are discussing public sectors, not just social services.
Real missiles can miss, malfunction (the missile), be intercepted, not have a nuclear warhead in the first place, experience a warhead malfunction, and—even if they hit somewhere in the area of Hawaii and detonate a nuclear warhead—leave much of the state intact (Hawaii is, after all, about half as far across, east to west, as the continental US.)

The very last may not produce an all-clear in the short term, but it's likely to at least require lifting the “missile is likely to hit in our area soon” alert in favor of a very different emergency posture, which is a similar need.
Exactly. There is some circumstantial evidence that Tether printing may be inflating bitcoin prices: http://www.tetherreport.com/

But it is just circumstantial at this point. There are a lot of ifs related to Tether, but it has that fishy feeling to it.

While I think there is a very good chance that Tether is not backed by USD, I think the regulators may actually be more interested in USDT being used for money laundering and non-reporting of investment proceeds. In fact, that is likely a larger crime with respect to US regulators.
I use my own app I made for this exact purpose, BulletNotes. You can use the hosted service I provide [0], or you can host your own easily with the directions linked on the GitHub page [1].

The main way I use it for fast entry is I have an IFTTT integration setup to take any incoming text messages, and store them as a note in my Inbox that I can sort later.

Then I have my Pebble watch setup to have a one button press voice to SMS to my IFTTT number. So I just raise my wrist, hold the 'up' button, say my note, and send it. Done.

If voice to text won't work, I can send a normal text, an email, run a terminal command, use my Alfred workflow, send a chat to the Telegram bot, or even make a voice phone call.

[0] https://bulletnotes.io/
[1] https://github.com/NickBusey/BulletNotes
What is the "deliverable" if the US Regulators find that Tether isn't fully backed by USD? Do they issue fines? Do they shut them down? What about exchanges that deal with USDT (tether)? What do you think are the wider reaching implications of this?
It does, but a method would arguably have been better.
No, a bad lane change is not probable cause for a search. How you know that is, upon being pulled over for improper lane change, the police cannot demand a search of your car. I think we're talking past each other.

If you'd like to move the goal posts and talk about roadside detention, fine. But that's (a) not a search and (b) not relevant to the question of whether the border search exception means that tens of millions of Americans are continually exposed to warrantless searches of their devices by dint of living close to a border.

(I didn't say you hadn't read Martinez-Fuerte; I said you hadn't read it carefully. A decent-sized stretch in the middle of the opinion is about exactly this distinction, and reaffirms the fact that LEOs can't search you within a 100 mile range of the country's border).
Activities like preparing food for the homeless, tutoring poor kids etc., seems not to have terminal milestones to me. Please do correct me if I am wrong
If I was the manager in charge of a team that sends test nuclear missile alarms and my faulty process caused a miscommunication, which in turn created a mass panic, I should be fired.

I don't think the employee who did as instructed and sent the alarm out is at fault, nor do I think they should be fired.
> Stopping people’s phones from randomly shutting off is anti-consumer?

Funny thing is, I've owned non-Apple phones for years and I've never had any "randomly shut off." If you pay half attention to the battery capacity icon and/or warnings the devices gives you, any 'shutting off' due to no more battery charge will not be random.
I bet a lot of people would still pay full price. I mean, Gap has 30% off coupons every week like clockwork. 40% off is pretty regular, too, so why would anyone pay full price? Well, I bet a lot of people do.
I have knowledge of a handful of tiny uhh "State Department" facilities that rely on their obscurity for security (a fairly common practice that works in the military for the most part, since fog of war on the ground is a very real thing). Those facilities are visible even from the global view with max zoom.
Good English grammar (and graciousness) would dictate: "How Tonya's effects crew and I captured..."
Bitcoin is a dinosaur that will either need to adapt or die.
Can anyone access their website [1] or whitepaper [2]?

It is incredibly scary that such a huge ICO can disappear from the internet. Imagine if another company that was raising $600 million just disappears from the web.

[1] http://arisebank.com/

[2] https://www.arisebank.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/elevato...
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Everyone who says, "Why should I have to pay for poor people's health care?" is opposed to economies of scale.
> That, or the client has some pretty free money to burn.

You say that as an aside, but it's actually quite relevant. Esp. larger clients will have budgets where the one hiring you isn't directly responsible for the cost -- or doesn't care as much as if it was their own money -- In this scenario, other factors are more important to them than your price.
I use this "Airdasi-Travel Pillows for airplanes".
>I had to get a new phone because it was slow to the point of being unusable.

What new phone did you end up getting? I hope it wasn't another iPhone.
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So after Musk’s juvenile model line is complete where do they go on from there?

Model C A/4 and R?
What is "e-waste" and how is it different than regular waste?

Has Samsung, Google et al provided any clarification on why particular phones do not receive updates?
The SEC took much stronger action with AriseBank.[1] Emergency asset freeze. Receiver appointed. ICO shut down. The SEC alleges AriseBank "falsely stated that it purchased [a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation]-insured bank which enabled it to offer customers FDIC-insured accounts."

Clearly, the SEC has had it with people running these huge scams.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-8
Regulators shouldn't give a damn about 1 and 3. 2 and 4 are suspect.
Because tires don't usually get that hot?

https://www.caranddriver.com/columns/a-look-behind-the-tire-...

>How hot does the tire get? Typical tires experience a temperature increase of roughly 50 degrees after running on the highway for a half-hour. If it's a 70-degree day, this suggests a tire temperature of about 120 degrees.

So even at 120 degree weather, you'd only expect the tires to reach 170 degrees. That's still far below the 194 that they're rated for.
which is odd because I thought the libertarian dystopia that bitcoin is pushing us towards abhors this kind of regulatory interference
Yet try to submit legitimate high scores as an _unknown_ and you'll find them repeatedly dismissed on "technicalities".

Many of their arcade "high scores" for lesser known titles are easily broken by someone practicing for less than a week, but happen to be long held by TG regulars, with hundreds of "high scores".
Going ahead with the bad product has higher payoff than not or later on. I imagine that's how they made the decision if the knowledge was widespread.
I'm guessing the auditors weren't happy with "out of thin air" when they asked where the the backing currency came from.

The Tether folks were like "Our balance sheet is really simple! We just add numbers to this column until it evens out, what's the problem?!?" and the auditors are like "that's just fraud".
I think we agree as well; my reply was meant to speculate on whether anti-maintenance sentiment comes from developers or higher up (culture etc.).

> Management doesn't even reward bug fixing

I think that's the moral of the story. It's not that developers are childish, stamp their feet, and refuse to do bugfix work; it's that they're incentivized to not do it.