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Cynical:

American's have accepted that the status quo really cannot be improved much due to a variety of factors including cost, politics/NIMBYism and environmental stuff. We can still innovate on the tech and make a profit by selling it to other countries even if we are utterly incapable of adopting it ourselves.

Basically, America is done advancing it's infrastructure for the foreseeable future.
Medicaid is only expanded via the ACA in 36 states. In the remaining states that denied Medicaid expansion via the ACA, Medicaid is not available based on income at all.

In the states that expanded Medicaid, it is only available to individuals making less than 100-138% of the federal poverty level. The FPL for a single individual in 2019 is $12,490.

Individuals making more than 138% of the FPL, which is $17,236, are not eligible for Medicaid.

I'd argue that making slightly more than 138% of the FPL is still poverty level income, however Medicaid is not available to these individuals.
Tell the TSA agents that they need to tell their doctors to aggressively screen for cancer. Standing next to these things for 40 hours a week for months has NOT been proven safe.

Hopefully, the cost of supporting this useless security theater will make it infeasible eventually.
Discussed 40 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20000034
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US social spending as a percentage of GDP (not absolute amounts) is about 18%, about the same as Canada and Australia, a bit higher than the Netherlands or Switzerland, and a smidge below the OECD average of 20%.

https://data.oecd.org/socialexp/social-spending.htm
Even if it goes 300 km/h, and you don't have to arrive at the station 3 hours ahead of time and be subject to all sorts of delays and inconveniences, it will beat air travel.
Seeing that electron application code can easily be inspected inside the asar container (I.e. you can't trust the client) :

How would you approach the problem to encrypt secrets locally? The only approach I could come up with involves receiving a symmetric key from a server with certificate pinning, but even that seems quite insecure).
Wireguard+NFS is the sort of setup I really wish I had years ago. It's so damn convenient to set up and to use.
While I haven't given it a test drive yet, I'm quite excited about ReactOS. I grew up on Windows, but have been in a state of disappointment for the last decade while I watched Microsoft slowly mutilate or let rot so many of the things I like about it.

I hope by the time I have to give up Windows 7, ReactOS will have a viable alternative - or that it and the rest of the market will have forced MS to get its act together. Maybe give me the Windows 11 I really want.
I was hoping this would be an article about how Facebook is struggling to survive as a business.
The bailout that Iacocca oversaw didn't cost taxpayers anything. Those were loan guarantees; the federal gov't essentially co-signed a loan from Manufacturers Hanover (now JPMorgan-Chase). At no time was public money given, only risked if the loan defaulted.
> please stop buying these raspberry pi kit things

Not just a naked Pi (and even if that's the goal it's typically not done with just the pi, you need some amount of stuff around it too). E.g. the previous version of the Pi-Top is $319 (Pi included)
Of course laundering already occurs. But that doesn't mean we should ignore things that could further enable it.
I was in pain and I guess after checking that my throat wasn't going to close completely he gave me something for the "pain".

> How did an intern prescribe something to you?

He seemed young enough to be intern. I didn't specifically check his age or credentials.
There's a difference between teaching kids to socialize and serving as a de facto social worker.
Location: Europe CET +/- 1
Remote: Yes, I also already have remote experience.
Willing to relocate: No.
Technologies: Web Full Stack (PHP, Python, C#, React, Vue, Js, Nginx, Jenkins etc...) and Android (Java/Kotlin)
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Email: simone a*t masiero.io

Some stuff I made for fun include https://hackertyper.net http://redditinvestigator.com https://borderwait.net https://riftkit.net

I am an experienced and dynamic developer with a strong passion for learning. I am looking for a company where I can solve real problems and continue growing while contributing in a meaningful way. I also love helping new developers and share my knowledge. If I am not familiar with some part of your stack, still shoot me an email, I am willing to learn pretty much anything!!
> Maglev technology uses strong electromagnets which lift and propel the train forward on a cushion of air.

Until a fuse blows. That will be fun at 600 km/h.
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How are trains like this powered? Naively, I'd assume electrically rather than with big ol' diesel or jet engines. If that's the case, wouldn't these trains not only be faster but significantly less impactful to the environment? (Assuming, of course, that the energy mixture in the power plants that power the train aren't fossil fuels.)
Matlab sells its onerously expensive licenses by marketing itself as having unbeatable numerics performance. This is mostly a farce.

The vast majority of Matlab's vaunted numerics performance comes from using MKL instead of OpenBLAS. However Intel has made MKL free software. Meaning that you can easily build NumPY on top of it. Numpy+MKL will compile down to virtually identical assembly as Matlab.

There's very little reason in this day and age to pay Mathworks such an insane licensing fee.
Never used pandora but MixRadio was the best for my taste. Spotify is nice but it’s really fucking hard to find new stuff that within Spotify itself.
That's awful.

My suggestion: next year plant rows of sunflowers or corn just behind the fence line. They'll grow as tall as an elephant's eye.
In the sense of being somewhat federalised, maybe, but

> had little authority, and could not accomplish anything independent of the states. It had no chief executive, and no court system. Congress lacked the power to levy taxes, regulate foreign or interstate commerce, or effectively negotiate with foreign powers.

sounds nothing like the EU!
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US population is up 15% over those same 15 years. The increase in suicides is a lot less dramatic when normalized per-capita.
Outside of school "bullying" is a kind of crime. Either assault, battery or mugging. For some reason juveniles get the epithet instead of the real thing, as if it is less grave or something...
OK, but do they support MariaDB?
Steve Jobs in 2005: "You know we've gotten a lot of people that say our shuffle's not random. Well it really is random but sometimes random means you've got two songs from the same artist next to each other. Just happens randomly sometimes.

And so what we've added is smart shuffle to actually make it less random - if you want.

Even though people will think it's more random it's actually less random and what it is, in preferences, there it is right there, it says smart shuffle allows you to control how likely you are to hear multiple songs by the same artist or from the same album in a row."

https://youtu.be/lg188Ebas9E?t=719
It's not that interesting unfortunately. You can physically delete all of your recordings at any time at https://www.amazon.com/alexaprivacysettings

All of that data is wiped when you initiate a delete request under GDPR.
After reading through your blog, I'm still unsure which properties Bitcoin lacks which nation sponsored currency has.
You don't, but if the countries are different, you can at least relocate to your liking.

If all countries are the same then you're out of luck.
I get your point and I somewhat agree with it, especially when I see a lot of cities worldwide having better public transportation than in places in my neighborhood (SoCal). But, the large benefit of working on these futuristic ideas is that it helps indirect innovation in other areas, similar to how the lunar missions helped build and shape a lot of other technologies.
But the photos on the webpage very clearly show that having a Pi-Top 4 makes you cool. And being cool is pretty useful.
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I'm way too much nostalgic right now.
Also, "I want 'random' songs that are musically appealing to hear in sequence." A sort of lite DJ logic, really; not necessarily modifying the songs' entrances and exits, but more selecting keys and tempos.
This is why Apple calls it "shuffle" rather than "random."
It's a sign of disfunction that folks like Elon aren't getting government contracts (if only for feasibility review) rather than doing their own thing.

In the end China/Japan will be selling this technology to us, not the other way around.
Um, no? I would argue most people would say they want 1 or 2, and the rest of those are mostly things that developers convince themselves are adequate substitutes for these things.
They have a bunch of device-mapper, LVM, and XFS developers on staff though. So I don't think it's strange they're leveraging the people they already have. In a sense they are hedging their bets. From their perspective, if Btrfs pans out by community effort, then Red Hat can change their minds yet again and support it. And if it Stratis pans out better, in particular as it relates to support contracts, then at least they got a product they can ship and support.

The open stratis question for me is, with so many layers it depends on, how are bugs going to get handled? And how fail safe will it really be when there are problems? And what do repairs entail, and how long do they take on large volumes? What sorts of goofy unexpected edge cases will users run into, and how long will it take to find workarounds and permanent fixes? Is it really offering both the general Linux community, including even Fedora in particular, something they'll really want? And I don't know the answer to any of that. I have no idea if it'll see widespread adoption like LVM has.
I was hoping they were working on an ekranoplan but it's a maglev. Still pretty cool tho.
Collaborating across departments with people from different functional areas has absolutely nothing to do with dishonesty or lack of transparency.

If you have good people in those positions in your organization, they will come together and make good decisions.

If you don't have the right people in those positions, then that's not going to be a good thing irrespective of my advice.

Transparency doesn't require anarchy and anarchy doesn't buy transparency.
I know, the easy solution is to buy plain Pi's, not avoid Pi's altogether.
Funny, when I was looking for my first part time dev job in college, a company interviewed me on “how to create a random playlist”. Didn’t get the job.

To this day I still wasn’t sure what was the purpose of that question? Was it to see how I think or did they really wanted me to come up with a way to create random playlist that satisfies their arbitrary definition of random
Not sure exactly what you're referring to here, but on Google Play Music, there's a concept of a "queue" of music that's currently playing/has been played. Generally it's just the songs in order of the album/playlist/etc. where you selected the song to play, but you can also manually add/delete/reorder the songs on the list. Since it keeps track of the songs that were played previously in the queue (to enable the "previous track" button, among other things), enabling shuffle just reorders the queue in a random way (with the currently playing song first). From the few times when I've used it with extremely large lists of songs (e.g. my entire music library), it doesn't just shuffle a subset of the queue that you have currently active, but the entire thing. You can also choose to start playing an album/playlist/etc. shuffled, which just puts the entire thing in the queue in a random order and starts playing through it.
or is just stapled to the telephone pole on the corner
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Don't forget that the sufflers will often try to match song outros and intros so they seamlessly cross-fade.

This could have the appearance of #4.
Perhaps a young doctor. :-) They should have advised against you leaving until they did a throat culture. It's rare, but strep can develop into a life threatening condition.
Just curious, do you have to deal with OFAC controls?
If you have the fission happening surrounded by rock, it can indeed get to very high temperatures and pressure, and after the rock gives and the hot material comes in contact with water, pressure will rise very rapidly.
Uh oh. You know it's bad when the conditions for a ban are an oxymoron.
You should also check the average savings per person in Germany vs USA (both total and percentage).
Not buying tons of random shit doesn't always mean you can't afford it.

But you are right, it largely comes down to the mentality/preference on how to spend your money.

I had just some medical issues that resulted in me being hospitalized for a month (while receiving tons of care in terms of specialists, MRIs, X-Rays, CT scans, ultrasounds, drugs).

I can imagine this kind of random thing ruining somebody financially or at the very least eating heavily into their savings. I received majority of my salary during that time and the final bill was $0.30 for 3 months worth of new expensive drugs I have to take.

So yes, choose between safety nets or fancy appliances / larger houses / steak dinners (all of which people with decent jobs can still afford any time of course)
Chilling effects exist, plus the potential for abuse. (And not by the policeman, but whoever gives him orders most likely.)
Often your doctor tells you what tests they want and then you go to some center where they perform the tests. It's pretty predictable in many cases.
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scheduling visits with specialists (in my experience, so anecdotally) took about three months.

From my own experience, that's approximately what it takes to schedule a specialist visit in the UK.

Unless (surprise!) you have a private insurance.
I remember wanting to see a dermatologist for a mole. The waiting list was six months.

I live in France, where healthcare is "free". I just ended up googling it and decided it probably wasn't cancer.
I loved the idea.
UI is a little bit confusing.

- "Waiting" can be replaced with "Waiting for user"

- "Next room" should be exited as a separate element not part of the list. It looks like its some action can be performed on list items.
Sendy is just a front end for Amazon SES, another ESP whose reputation is as good as Mailchimp's at 1/100th the cost. We’ve never had a problem with deliverability.
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True! I know some of the people involved in the windows update bar. Since cpu and dusk are so different across devices it’s hard to know actual time it will take. Instead teams divided their packages into theoretical weights and the progress bar showed the percent of total “weights”. That’s why it can be choppy is packages with few subdivisions have little to interpolate.
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Because the US doesn’t care about helping people who would take public transportation...instead we prefer VCs funneling money into innovative startups disrupting transportation by littering scooters all over our public walkways and allowing them to eventually take these companies public for billions in return.

God forbid you have an opinion other than US transportation is the best, US healthcare is the best, US education is the best...you can’t even look at other countries models or actual global rankings showing the US outspends every other country in those area yet our outcomes are nowhere near the top.
Reminds me of the Impossible Quiz[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxzGSHbr5CQ
because politicians are not interested in public transit unless it involves a ribbon cutting and or a naming celebration.

throw in that within just the boundaries of one state and they could not even build a high speed rail without tripling of costs and involvement of hundreds of parties who all wanted their piece of the action.

in some sort of perverse way we should be thankful for all the political hamstringing that public transportation suffers because it has forced private industry to innovate around that.

the public transit bus is the most affordable and flexible means to move the people throughout the city yet it is regularly slighted in funds to promote rail which has more prestige attached to it.
Sadly, Oracle Java could also be in that blacklist. I've tried going through the hoops of downloading Oracle's "community" versions of MySQL in the past -- Java 6 for Android development IIRC. Today, I appear to have openjdk version "1.8.0_212", is this a fork?
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Absolutely is part of the answer in the current system. So the way to think about this is the following. 20% of professors are currently women. Are 60% [1] of the women permanently stay at home mothers? If not, then we have to ask why its not possible to make accommodations for people doing enormous social good (having ~<2 kids), and ensure that their social contributions do not stump their ability to pursue their choice of profession? To be explicit, the system should be that women can go away for a few years to have children and still come back and be promoted to the top positions in the organization.

[1] 20% of all profs/50% societal gender ratio = 40% of women are employed as prof assuming only two careers (prof and SAHM).
Define light, and define cheap.

I'd go for a Thinkpad X250 or later with a light Linux distro. Or a Thinkpad X1 Carbon if one of the earlier ones (4th or 5th Gen) fit the budget.
Haha right? How did that technology stack make it past approval? Was there no oversight?
This is one of those things you've got to do to experience, mate. I don't know what to tell you. I live in SF and have lived in a few places in the world.

The other guy put it really well. It will increase the friction you experience.
I don't have a problem playing my local ogg/mp3 collection in shuffle mode with XMMS; but using Youtube for listening to music sucks in a related regard.

It seems like pretty much no matter what song I start listening to on YT, it eventually falls into a rut where I start hearing the same handful of songs that I've heard a million times. It's like it's too good at figuring out "what I like" and tries to only play songs it "knows" I like. Or more likely, since plenty of what I like are "deep cuts", it's just playing the most popular few songs by the given artist(s).

The order within a given session is probably shuffled up OK, but it still sucks from a variety standpoint because I don't want to hear "Eighteen and Life", "Round and Round", "Kickstart My Heart", "Livin' On A Prayer", "Rock You Like A Hurricane", "Fallen Angel", "Shot In The Dark", etc., day after day after day after day after day... as much as I like all of those songs.

It does seem to be at least somewhat genre aware though. If I start out listening to classical music, it doesn't jump to metal/rock, or if I start out listening to synthwave, it doesn't bridge to classical. But the problem I just described seems to exist within each genre. :-(
> MySQL can't add TEXT type column without length specified

>> That's just incorrect. What they MEANT to say is that they had a column to store filenames that was a varchar(255) column and people were running out of space with long directory paths and filenames. They could have moved to a TEXT column, but didn't because they thought it couldn't be indexed without specifying a length... But they were wrong, you CAN index a TEXT column without specifying the TEXT column length, you just have to specify the length of the substring you want to index.

Unless I am misunderstanding the SQL documentation, doesn't the prefix length specification essentially make it such that you can only partially index the field, up to the first 3072 bytes? (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/create-index.html) After that limit, the index _may_ still be performant, but does not at scale I would imagine that YMMV. You make a fair point that there are other patterns.

IMHO The article was not about bashing MySQL rather the GitLab team decided to choose one database platform to support and provided some basic reasoning around why they chose Postgres over MySQL. Both are great platforms, but you should choose the right tool for the job. While I agree that some of their arguments are weak but I am not sure that matters given that their strategic choice was one or the other.

Frankly, I would have liked to have seen some data that represents what their install base utilizes. If it is 90% mysql and 10% postgres their choice would be strange given the weak arguments. We just don't have that data.
This sounds great but they are also out of stock!
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Just out of uni devs are terrible consultants as they don't know what they don't know.

So when they cock up, the really cock stuff up spectacularly.
They may seem, but they aren't so far, is the reason. There's major problems with that family of sybil resistance systems that have yet to be solved in practice.
Let's put some of that post IPO money to work?
Even if they use jet engines it's still likely to be better than air travel—airplanes spend a significant amount of their energy just staying in the air.
> Leaning on a WAF to plug gaping vulnerabilities that can be discovered and exploited during the period of time before the WAF was restored means you have much bigger problems than uptime.

It's also, roughly speaking, the selling point of products called "WAF". (and yes, relying on them is not great)
I don't know specifically wages but often there are re-certifications needed even within the EU (currently a friend's wife who is an M.D. is trying to switch from Estonia to the UK and has to jump through several administrative hoops and get certifications in English and a few other things)
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