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"The coffeeshop fallacy assumes our coffee drinker knows no shit-all about coffee."

I think you missed the point. It doesn't matter how much you know about coffee. It matters how much you know about other things, mostly unrelated, accounting, cleaning, hiring, cleaning, customer service, etc.
Ah, thanks for the correction! I've updated my comment above.
That's a bit unfair.

You have to give them a chance, they only just got democracy - it takes a while to build up a military-industrial complex.
A large fraction of the 47% are the elderly. The evil rank dishonesty of the people who started this meme (not the useful ignorant who spread it) is highlighted by the fact that the elderly are their electoral base. Rich men are encouraging senior citizens watching Fox to think that "they" are freeloaders ... and using those same senior citizens to inflate the number of supposed freeloaders. That's on TOP of not including payroll, sales, and other taxes with regressive distributions when they calculate tax burden.
> Depending on your province, you can expect to pay about $750 a year to cover your end of basic coverage.

Are you referring to the amount of tax that goes toward support of the healthcare system, or out-of-pocket expenses?

If it's the latter, can you tell me which provinces those are so that I can avoid them? I lived in Ontario from birth until I was 21, and have lived in Nova Scotia since then. Outside of minor costs like the uninsured portions of my dental work and prescriptions (I know there's a word for this, but I don't know it off hand), I've never had to pay for my healthcare.

Supplemental coverage - as you said, vision, dental, and drugs - are typically provided by your employer. I don't really know how many people buy extra on top of that. Maybe when you have kids it becomes more important, but I'm not there yet.

I will definitely agree with your "health care isn't free" statement. It's surprising how many people seem to think it is free in Canada, but it's just a much less noticeable cost. It's rolled in with our taxes, so we just don't think about how much of our tax will go for healthcare. It's just tax. "Out of sight; out of mind" and all that.
Great comment. As Thomas Edison said, "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."
By what logic is it horrible to measure debt based on ability to pay?
We were not paying off debt under Clinton.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=FYGFD

We were merely reducing one kind of debt, namely debt held by the public. Total debt continued to increase.
I'm working with wedding business all the time and I'm a bit sad to read generic articles. There is 0 knowledge specific to the wedding industry. :(
…or they're doing so at more than one job.
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I always get dizzy when I try to understand the monetary system. It seems insane. It really shouldn't work at all.

you use wrong/incomplete models to describe it (incidentally so do policymakers).

try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory for starters.
I seriously doubt blacks and Hispanics in America have to worry about being blown up as they leave their places of worship. Violence and malice towards Copts in Egypt is on an entirely different plane than racism experienced by minorities in the West. These moral equivalences grow tired.
Also, that's wages, not income. Most truly rich people (and a great many fairly rich people) derive their income from non-wage sources.
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Actually most middle class Americans, and basically all Americans in IT jobs commenting on the web, have no frigging idea of how the "other half lives"...
Except he was told by any sane, rational doctor that waiting 9 months is the equivalent of rolling nothing. You can't let a tumor sit around for 9 months hoping bamboo shoots and green tea enemas cure your cancer. I can't see how this is remotely rational.

Those are our odds. His odds, considering his vast wealthy, would be potentially better (better doctors, hospitals, etc). So in other words he chose a the best high-risk naturopath approach over the best low-risk surgical approach. He found the best woo merchants out there and he paid for it with his life. I'm not sure why so many are defending him. Yes, he made consumer goods slightly better than his competition, but he's still human and made a pretty terrible mistake. If anything, we should publicize this so other people don't make this mistake.
By the logic that we can pretend that debt went down, when it didn't?
Haha, Awesome. This is great, we need one in SF now.
In actual usage, it can often end up being significantly more than 4 times, especially in mobile where you might end up going through a tunnel, or leaving cell reception entirely before you finish the article.
If ever you needed proof.

Not sure when the "Steve talks about iCloud" video was (10 years ago?), but it's one hell of a speech. If he knew then what Apple's launching now, what did he know now about what will be launched in 10 years time?

When people say visionary, this is exactly what it should mean.
Thank you, I thought that you somehow found a way to measure CPU load of java processes, in fact you leave end user to measure the work load in end users units.
And yet the blog post itself is linked to Digg and not G+

Oh Google :(
Seriously, check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipple_procedure. If you are a visual learner, check the illustration here: http://www.patientedu.org/aspx/HealthELibrary/PrintOnly.aspx...

"A Whipple involves removing the head of the pancreas, the duodenum, the common bile duct, the gallbladder, and often part of the stomach (see illustration). Surgeons then seal off the end of the small intestine and reattach what's left of the bile duct, pancreas (body and tail), and stomach."

It sounds like something Dr. Frankenstein would do.

It is a major rearranging of your guts, with potentially severe dietary restrictions for life.
One time when I was working at Luxoflux, the pizza guy remarked it must be great to work as a game developer and "play games all day."

I had to hold my tongue or I would have replied that it must be great to work at a pizza place and eat pizza all day.
+1 on the quote. You can never force people to do things...but you can convince them they want to.
Oh purleez. There's what, a couple of thousand of 'em nationwide? The same damn crowd that protests.... everything?
Yes, as opposed to 20/20 chances of dying of the same cancer outside the operating table.
I may be missing something, but why couldn't the US dollar function as a replacement?
Province is not a country - they don't issue their own currency. Comparing Alberta's AAA to US or whatever sovereign AAA is nonsense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_New_York_City#1930s...

>> Only "medallion taxicabs," those painted in distinctive yellow and regulated by the TLC, are permitted to pick up passengers in response to a street hail. The TLC also regulates and licenses for-hire vehicles, known as “car services” or “livery cabs,” which are prohibited from picking up street hails (although this rule is less often enforced in the boroughs outside Manhattan)[44] and are supposed to pick up only those customers who have called the car service's dispatcher and requested a car.

Those $1m medallions are just an iPhone (or mobile web) app away from a crash. In fact, I think there's already some company that does this.
I could only care slightly less for Steve Jobs, but this comment was an excellent read. lol @ doctors needing to know more stats, so true.

"But by not requiring a deep, and I mean deep knowledge of hard science for any liberal arts degree, our great institutions have created an artificial separation between learned people."

But I think it goes both ways; I'd like to see more hard scientists with a strong background in the liberal arts.

Reminds me of how Oxford (it might still do so) calls their Physics degree/certification a degree in Natural Philosophy.
Nice post, now i can keep up with the fast evolution of the frontend, while i'm working on backends. I'd like too add : watch the html5bp repo on github, lots of reading there too.
And would it be less unfair if instead of uprbringing and connections, it were due to genetics?
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The interest is more likely paid by new bonds, allowing inflation to help pay for interest.
The first thing I thought of was "Shared Source", the licensing program for Windows source code.
Thanks for the reply. Just to clarify, I am not an international student, and never was, but I had a number of friends in college that I think would literally be an asset to this country that went back to their respective countries of origin. Now, they had reasons other than the visa issues, but I do wonder how it would have turned out if they were offered the option to stay.

Yes, this flood the job market with more non-Americans who are competing for the same jobs. However, we are currently giving out green cards on the basis of a lottery and not really doing anything to prefer any category of job over another when making immigration decisions. Using a proven population to diversify America would be much better than blindly giving out green cards in a lottery. Another strategy would be to not just automatically hand everyone an H1B, but instead simply make the process much easier. Or prefer some industries over others. Or institute a quota and a lottery for just the pool of interested college grads. Possibilities are endless.
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Nope. If there was any big variation between those worse and best "major centers", there would have been an examination and heads would have rolled (plus lawsuits). Big differences in death rates is not what differentiates a worse and a better clinic.
Former budget staffer here-- this part of the article is factually incorrect.

The government borrows SS taxes but spends the money, and provides a Treasury IOU to the Trust Fund. That IOU is not traded and is unrelated to the Treasury bond market in every way.
An actually interesting statistic: two thirds of workers make less than the average every day.

That should disturb you, especially in comparison to that stat decades ago.
1. The Canadian economy is largely based on exporting goods to the US or exporting natural resources world-wide.

2. When the Canadian dollar reaches par with the US dollar, the benefits of US companies doing things across the bordering Canada rapidly evaporates. This means that economies like Ontario start doing poorly, while economies like Alberta and British Columbia that have natural resources to export start doing better (well, at least when coupled with an increase in oil prices.. because the tar sands become viable).

3. A lot of money comes into the Canadian economy through the entertainment industry. There are huge tax breaks in Ontario (specifically Toronto) and BC (specifically Vancouver) for doing things there, in addition to the exchange rate (when the US dollar is riding higher).
You too can own a piece of the taxi medallions in New York (or use them as collateral for loans, at least). Medallion Financial Corp is publicly traded (Nasdaq: TAXI).

Company: http://www.medallionfinancial.com/index.html

Quote: http://www.google.com/finance?q=taxi
For example, why hasn't China invaded the USA yet? Perhaps they are waiting until they get their ~$4T back! :)

theoretically it is fairly easy to repay those $4T. you would need some large container ship to transport all of them back to China, but a lot of those go back over Pacific fairly empty anyway.
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In BC, when I turned 26 and was booted off my mom's (excellent) healthcare plan, I got a bill from MSP for $750. As I'm still in school and my current 8 month co-op is evenly split between this and next year, thus making my earnings in either year insufficient to pay tax, that will drop to basically $0 once I fill out the proper forms. Still, that's on top of the ~$300/year for my student health plan, so while a bargain it's still not negligible. It's about the same as a basic plan for an iPhone, and people have no trouble complaining about that.
> Further, this data does not include dividends, capital gains or interest. Should be fairly obvious which end of the curve gets the lion's share of that.

But it also doesn't include unreported income, public grants, welfare, food assistance programs, Medicare, Medicaid, retirement funds, pensions, Social Security, receipt of charity, etc.

It also fails to realize that some of those low-income workers are homemakers who only work a few hours a week to get out of the house, teenagers and young adults just working for spending money, and retired elderly who are looking to stay active and supplement their fixed income without working too hard.

I'm not against social assistance by any means, but trumpeting misinformation only serves to muddy the waters and harm productive discussion.
Is the US Declaration of Independence illegal?
God forbid people's money should keep up with inflation.
I would say that the ability to predict the future is indeed a large part of what we call intelligence. Note that 'intelligent' is a relative term, however. You are considered 'intelligent' if you are able to predict the behavior of a system at a success-rate significantly higher than the average observer, given similar or equivalent prior knowledge about the system.
I signed up since I'm a little closer (A2) but I agree. Most likely the organizers are trying to gauge how much interest there is before committing to a place. You could easily end up with a venue that's too small or too big.
I hope that you wouldn't try Clojure because it features less typing. That's not the point, merely an observation. The reason to try Clojure is that it allows you to easily create powerful abstractions that are not intertwined. You get less typing as a bonus. :)
Sorry for being off topic I always find it weird when people use $ for non US currency. After all $ is a U superimposed on an S. Is it a common thing to use that symbol for other currencies, or is it a just easier to type thing.
Actually, the trick to draw virtually anything is really simple:

http://blog.aviary.com/how-to-draw-anything-in-1-step/
so, I thought this was interesting. Giganews has done a lot on their field (usenet). encryption, compressed headers etc... Due to the nature of their business, privacy has always been a big deal.

For those who keep complaining about Dropbox not being secure enough, this looks like it'll be an interesting alternative. Still in private/invite beta.
I don't know where this is coming from. Everyone who's been following Ron Paul knows that he's very much anti-war and probably the only one, too. I've noticed some candidates are even starting to suggest that USA should "do something about Iran" (read: war) while others like Hermain Cain are more like "we leave all options on the table" (read: easy puppet -> war).

http://ronpaulflix.com/2011/10/ron-paul-cnn-interview-before...
This part of the article got it wrong. SS money is spent, it is not invested. The SS Trust Fund gets an IOU but there's no asset backing it. That's different from a Treasury bond, which is a real financial asset that is tradeable and marketable.

Also, the US wasn't really running a true surplus, it was still borrowing from SS during this period. The feds use SS to mask the true size of the deficit, and it was only by this phony accounting that the budget was "balanced".
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Having started my computer career in the 1980s, I strongly disagree. If the command line were all that, GUIs wouldn't have have taken off like a rocket in the first place.
Uber does this already in NYC, Chicago, Boston, SF, and Seattle.
The Internet peanut gallery has decided that any number of people are notorious for any number of things. That doesn't make it OK for someone's employer to berate them about it on stage.
For what it's worth, I did upvote you, but I think you are trivializing it a bit. My point is that there are alternatives, and I happen to think that my idea is pretty good; or at least good enough to share. At first your response did look like an attempt to shoot it down, but upon closer inspection I think you are just expressing frustration with the current system, if I am reading your comment correctly.
Yes, but this isn't a good thing. The solution isn't to make the rich poor. It is to make sure everyone else can make more.
As a private citizen no debt is generally the right way to go, but not always. It really depends on each situation.

A great example is buying a house. If you have the cash for the house that's great, but do you want want to tie up that much money into a single asset especially when the cost of money is so low right now? Other investments might not be that great today, but over the next 15 or 30 years you can probably find an investment that beats the current low rates of 3.75% or below.
"The genetic code does not, and cannot, specify the nature and position of every capillary in the body or every neuron in the brain. What it can do is describe the underlying fractal pattern which creates them."
--Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Nonlinear Genetics"

Despite what the exact number is, the brain's connections are much more numerous than the data in my DNA. All information flows from DNA. Chemistry between RNA & proteins & everything does change the end product, but even the chemistry that those do is largely controlled by DNA. (The DNA only produces proteins which does chemistry that it wants to do. Or there is chemistry already happening in the environment, which the development strategy accounts for, but which doesn't add much, if any, complexity to the brain.)

And my quote, by the way, is from a fictional person.
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The point is that he is not "making money by giving away his music for free". He is making money by selling it / and or asking for donations.

If he were not asking for donations, but still gave the music away for free, he would make no money.

Free == no money, in and of itself, you have to get the money elsewhere. Sometimes that works, sometimes it does not.
> If someone is earning $26K a year, then this means that their labour isn't worth any more than twenty-six thousand dollars to anyone else.

This is trivially true.

>if your labour is only worth $26K this means you're contributing very little of any value to society

This is way, way wrong. This is a very pervasive error in reasoning. Just because someone is only willing to pay X amount for your labor, doesn't mean that labor is worth X amount to society. When there are a lot of people willing to perform said labor, that pushes down the monetary value of that labor. This is completely independent of its value to society.

If I knew some magic incantation that would cure cancer, this action would be invaluable to society. But if I taught 1 million people how to perform it, the cure for cancer's value to society does not decrease.

The problem is that people conflate value in the moral sense with monetary worth. Thus when someone's labor can only bring in 26K a year in the marketplace, somehow its seen as a moral failing on their part. It serves to transfer the burden of finding a place in society completely on the individual, instead of where it belongs; on society as a whole.
It would be interesting to see a breakdown of where the money goes when I take a cab ride. What % goes the the actual guy doing the driving? What % to pay for the vehicle? What % goes to the amortized cost of the medallion?
I don't understand what your point is. People are products of how they were raised and who they know as a result.
Well, even if we'll still be able to share within Reader, what I like a lot about way it currently works is that the information about who shared what is available to services other than Google without any hacky screen scraping. I am not going to take the trouble to "curate" (or vote on or whatever you want to call it) web pages or blog posts if the fruits of my curation (or voting) are going to be restricted to one company's walled garden.

Note that making the information public might not be the current default behavior of shared link blogs, but if it is not the current default behavior, then for those users like me and "patrissimo" who have opted to make the information public, the information is (as far as I know -- I guess it could be disallowed by Google Reader's terms of service) available to all services on a non-discriminatory basis.
As a final question, if you hypothetically took human DNA only and put it into a frog embryo, there is no way you could pass on the parts that make up our highly advanced minds? That is what I meant by everything we do is in those 50MB.

What I am getting at is that very similar standard libraries are in stem cells in animals. There's countless examples of people taking DNA from one animal and putting it into another that is completely different, and copying the same traits.
There is no hefty premium over COMPARABLE counterparts. People just compare any junk say Dell with the same hardware specs (memory, processor, disk, chipset, etc) to a MBP.

Open a Dell and a MBP though, and take a peek.

Have the same money been spend on the Dells internal case design? Is the Dell assembled with the same attention to detail? Does the Dell sport various small and big innovations, from the mag safe adapter to auto-inverted Ethernet port, non protruding camera, lid magnets, etc? Does the Dell have a unique in industry machined aluminum "concrete" case design? Is it as light? Is it as thin? Is is as sturdy? Was even the industrial designer designing the Dell as well paid and respected by his peers as Ives? Oh, and does the Dell hold its resale value just as well?

Now, if you take a high-end Sony or Lenovo laptop, with comparable construction, it's often the case that the Apple laptop is cheaper or same price.

Oh, and regarding tablets, media players and phones, Apple completely smoked the competition in pricing. Wasn't the Samsung tablet for example like $799 for a version competing (badly) with the $499 iPad?
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If someone is changing locations/IPs regularly enough, and you can correlate those same IPs to BitTorrent downloads, you could make a decent claim that the specific person was doing the downloading. Especially if the person allows downloads to span IPs. For example, you download 50% of a file on one IP and then the last 50% on another. Since you advertise your available chunks of the file over BitTorrent, it would be easy enough to show that there was no overlap. Now granted, single data points don't prove much here, but with targeted data harvesting, you could end up with enough evidence to convince a jury and/or judge (or at least enough to blackmail a person).
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Whether they are or not (and that's a very boring debate I don't wanna get into)... no, not unless the premium is huge and obvious.

Wikipedia sez: "Conspicuous consumption is spending on goods and services acquired mainly for the purpose of displaying income or wealth." That's not a very good description of why people buy Apple products. They're just not expensive enough or pointless enough to make a good target for your conspicuous-consumption dollars.

This is what conspicuous consumption in the consumer electronics field looks like:

http://www.goldphoneshop.com/
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This site records debt to the penny, daily. There's a fair amount of up and down in such a measure, as you might expect. There are certainly (long-ish) periods during Clinton's presidency where the total debt, as well as debt held by the public, decreased from the day at the start of the period to the day at the end.