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Just a plug for Paul Starr's The Social Transformation of American Medicine. It's the definitive text on healthcare in America. After that, all the other writing is quaint.

On a separate note, you should have seen the fear on the faces of the retired English couple I saw today when I sent the poor man to the ER. They're here on vacation, he had an MI 15 years ago, ran out of his aspirin a month ago on vacation, now he has had vertigo for a week (stumbling like a drink) and new onset high blood pressure. Never paid a dime for healthcare and I just sent them to the lion's den. I reimbursed them the cost of my office visit, but that will be a drop in the bucket.
Yes, most agree that security against unexpected and unpredictable costs, such as emergency room visits and catastrophic illness, is the proper role of insurance.

However, for drugs, chronic treatment, and preventative procedures, costs would much lower if consumers were allowed to shop around and haggle prices without going through insurance. This is why you see certain operations like Lasik, which are elective and not covered by anyone's insurance, becoming highly roboticized and deflating in cost rather than inflating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WnS96NVlMI
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What's your objective? IANAL, but here's how I see it:

If it is "I want as many people to use it, regardless if I get anything in return, even credit, or even get to know about it" - then you should do BSD/MIT/Public domain. It makes sense for some projects, especially if they want to reach critical user mass, e.g. zlib, png, vorbis (the common theme I find that makes sense for this is "network effect")

If it is "I want people to be able to use it, but they have to give back to the community if they improve it", then LGPL is the right fit.

If it is "I want people who use it to share their use of it as a free product itself", use GPL (if you just want whoever distributes a binary to also distribute the source), or AGPL (if you want whoever makes the binary available for use, e.g. in a web server).

As a consumer, of course I like all libraries BSD - I never have to answer to everyone, everything is available to me for free, I can sell it, etc. That's the spoiled brat in me talking.

But as a mature member of the free software community, I ask everyone to consider GPL or even AGPL for code they release, unless they have a very good reason to do otherwise. Why would you want to support someone who does not support you back?

Specifically, I've so far only submitted patches (and signed over copyright when I did and the project requested), but if I ever release a full project on my own, it will definitely be GPL/AGPL with possibility for a proprietary license.

If GCC, which serves us all, had been BSD, it would probably not have been half as good as it is today: e.g. I suspect Sony would not have contributed back at all, IBM and Intel wouldn't have contributed as much, as many others. Furthermore, if GCC was AGPL, coverity would also have been free software.

ffmpeg/libav is the best media decoding library bar none (If you need control, the closest contender, Microsoft's stack, is not even close, and everyone else is much farther away). Many projects are violating ffmpeg terms left and right, but enough users respect the LGPL/GPL to make contributions significant, and everyone enjoys that. By the amount of projects that violate the terms, I suspect that a BSD license on ffmpeg would have been detrimental to the project.

Licensing something (A|L|)GPL still allows you to negotiate specific licenses for some compensation, e.g. patent protection from the user, or some payment.

We really need a "free software library/app store", where people can get compensated for their project in return for giving it under a non-GPLish license by a user who has problems with the GPL. If they have a problem with the GPL, they're obviously profiting of it, and they should expect to give something back (even if it is just a patent pledge or something else which does not cost money out of pocket)
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US: 91.2 MRI scans per year per 1,000 population

France: 21.8 MRI scans per year per 1,000 population
It's just for show. I got into it after I finally went from lurker to poster and gained 10 karma overnight. Then I went from 10 to 20 from contributing to the community. However, then I went from 20 to 12 after I made a few posts about personal languages choices on a thread and someone got ticked and downvoted all six posts I made to the thread no matter how relevant they were. Since then I haven't tried to take it too seriously.
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I've heard this before. Do you think that Germans or the French end users care about the price? No - they're insured far better than any American without a (D) or (R) after their name. They just _go to the doctor when they're sick_. Period.
> Neither Office or Windows 7 is geared toward mobile computing, which for all intensive purposes is the future of computing and which Microsoft is at an enormous disadvantage.

Yes, too bad that MS isn't making something like Windows 8 or Office 15 that are geared for mobile and touch friendly launching in like six months or so.

>The entire MS stack has been abandoned by the next generation of innovators. Find me an 18 year old MS Visual Basic programmer and I'll show you a minimum wage earner for the rest of his career.

I just searched for 'Visual Basic' on indeed.com and came up with the following results:

Salary Estimate
$20,000+ (35031)
$40,000+ (16019)
$60,000+ (9512)
$80,000+ (4628)
$100,000+ (2151)

Minimum wage is 12K/year.

Do a search for C#:

$50,000+ (28977)
$70,000+ (18380)
$90,000+ (8590)
$110,000+ (3348)
$130,000+ (1337)

These are counting only the open jobs(many of which are going unfilled).

>The entire MS stack has been abandoned by the next generation of innovators.

You mean by people like StackOverflow?

>Microsoft is a dying company, and the sooner young people abandon this company and all its technologies the better off they are.

Yes, people should do that. It will make hiring for all the above open positions easier, since it will weed out people who are easily misled by people like you and who live in a well and shout la-la-la to any voice of reason.
Existing efforts have mostly been focused not on the visual portion of the spectrum, but on IR, since that's where military vehicles tend to stand out most starkly against the background.

Here's some links, which should give you some idea of what the performance is like:

http://defense-update.com/20110512_eltics_black_fox.html

http://defense-update.com/20110905_bae-adaptiv_camouflage.ht...
Did you mean "developed countries"? Because I got tired of copying Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_and_diesel_usage_and_p...) after:

Country US$ / US Gallon
U.S. $3.74
Vietnam $1.03
Yemen $2.76
Turkmenistan $0.72
Tunisia $3.75
Trinidad $2.42
Taiwan $3.78
Syria $3.15
Saudi Arabia $0.49
Quatar $0.83
Puerto Rico $3.63
Peru $3.60
Panama $3.14
Pakistan $3.46
Malaysia $2.31
Indonesia $2.23
Egypt $1.17
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"Yes, of course. It came to existence when Ghengis Khan united nomadic tribes"

The original poster posited that Ghengis Khan's activities birthed the society. Alexander's activities did nothing like this - the society was already there, and greek culture was fairly widespread to begin with, though perhaps not in the direction of the Indus. When Alexander died, the Greeks didn't fade away to become background players again - they were a powerful political and especially social force for centuries to come... largely in the opposite direction to Alexander's conquests.

Alexander was an incredible conquerer, but he did not make nor break Greek civilised society.
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"Google blocks most searches routed by Tor exit nodes" - Really? I've never had a problem, but the last time I used Tor was a week ago. Has something changed?
As we all already know, Readability has been running what could be considered a scam by pocketing some of that money simply because the authors don't know about it.

And, I really don't see why I would have a moral obligation to pay for every single article I read. Not every article is worth paying for. 90% of the stuff I read is trash. Plus, a lot of blogs offer their own ways to donate. If a writer is good, they'll get my money anyway. I'm not handing out cash to everyone, and I'm definitely not giving it to Readability.
Right, it just needs a sufficiently powerful C API and internals designed with coroutines in mind. ("just" sounds out of place, there...)

If you want to look at the Lua coroutine implementation, start at auxresume (http://www.lua.org/source/5.1/lbaselib.c.html#auxresume) in lbaselib.c, and the functions tagged luaB_ more generally. (In 5.2, they've been moved to their own file, lcorolib.c.)
You can downvote once you have enough karma (the karma you need for downvotes changes with time; not sure how much it is these days)

Also, it's a function of how long, how active and how agreeable with the groupthink the user is.

In the distant past, it was common for people to upvote comments they disagree with if they made a good point, but give a counter argument. In the last 6 months or so, it has become much more common to disagree by downvoting without giving a counter argument. I liked the old convention better.
Wrong question. Why does everyone else elevate the most mundane aspects of his daily musings into the words of God?

I dont think he asked for this post to be put on the front page of HN, and he is probably laughing about it right now.
Yes, Instapapers model is more straight forward, but you do not have to go to the publishers site and seen the ads, to add the article.

Instapaper provides and API to add links without visiting the site that is used by a number of other applications.

And I've written an app (http://www.ryanwatkins.net/software/papermache - webOS and Android Instapaper app) that allows you to browser a feed of articles and add them to Instapaper directly.
I have been self employed for 22 years. I have always worked this way, and it has always paid far more in benefits than I ever could expect. People will talk about the type of business person you are and the word always gets around. It is amazing how fast and far your reputation can spread (for better or worse).
The three week-long problems are now up here:
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The three week-long problems are now up here: http://www.quora.com/CodesprintQuora
They don't 'block' most of the searches -- they just put up a CAPTCHA before each SRP.
mind putting a space in that comment? you're breaking the layout
> good health care arguably is more important than limited government power

Of course, even that only applies if increasing government power will even improve healthcare (in the long and/or short run), and if increasing government power won't have ancillary negative effects that counter the improvement in healthcare.
What ever happened to convention over configuration? Why are "engine" developers even making this decision?
plenty of people are fine with learning how to program. It's Learning How To Program that people don't want to do. I blame hiring practices TBH. If anything programming should be the ONE field that leaves the bullshit signaling aside and just hires people who can make things work.
Shouldn't that make the cost in the US go down? After your fixed investment, the only thing you are paying for is the person running the machine.
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I know that lots of services let you add to Instapaper, but with Instapaper itself it's impossible to add articles without visiting them. I think I recall Marco talking about the fact that this is on purpose for the previously stated concerns.
Also, Instapaper doesn't let you stitch articles broken up into multiple pages.
I'm still listening to Build & Analyze but I'm one or two more nonsensical episodes away from removing it from iTunes.

The earlier episodes were a lot better in my opinion. Conversation was focused much more on actual development and the way they talked about it was interesting to me. Now they talk about topics that they think are interesting to developers but I guess I'm no longer their target demographic.

Like you I can't quite put my finger on it but there is something about Marco that just rubs me the wrong way. I think as Instapaper has gotten more popular it has gone to Marco's head and he has become a bit arrogant. His motto seems to be "this is how I do it and if you don't agree I don't care because it works for me and I'm making a lot of money".

But it really doesn't matter in the end. Competition is always a good thing. Some people will stay with Instapaper, some people will be converted to Readability but Readability's free price tag should make a lot more people aware of this type of service. If Marco has the ability to keep up then both products should get better.
Gods behave in many ways. Some are jealous and quick to anger, and others are inhumanly patient. Some forbid alcohol to their followers, and others get drunk and beat up giants. Some descent to earth in the form of a bull to conduct illicit sexual liaisons with mortals, and others lack reproductive organs altogether. However, without exception, one thing they all have in common is that they never conduct polite discussions of bitwise arithmetic tricks. And yet that is exactly what I see here.

Next time you decide to #include <linus/stdflame.h>, please check to make sure it actually applies to the situation.
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How about asking him some q's unrelated to yc. Like, what does he miss most about not living in New England anymore? What does he do when he is not working? Fav TV show? Fav food/drink. Type of mobile phone or computer has uses?
The more material you give your students to plagiarize, the wider the range of derisive works they’ll make from them.

Derisive should be derivative?
Shakespeare had it wrong---not kill all of the lawyers, leave them on the list sure, but first kill everyone in human resources. Ask yourself how many times the first question asked in today's interviews is 'Can you do the job?' To my admitted old fashioned way of thinking, it should be the first , middle and last question. Particularly since it is the only question that makes a damn bit of difference. Oh---and then kill all of the lawyers...
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This reply still seems to indicate a fundamental misunderstanding of multifaceted identity. The fact that i am one physical person should be irrelevant to a reputation service. If I have one identity that I use to post jokes on reddit and another identity that I use to post serious content, those identities should have different reputations. What I do with one should not affect the other. My uniqueness should not have to be verified, the only thing that should matter towards my reputation is what the persona I am currently acting as has done before.
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High health care spending is yet another way the US subsidizes other countries. From the article:

"This is a good deal for residents of other countries, as our high spending makes medical innovations more profitable. “We end up with the benefits of your investment,” Sackville says. “You’re subsidizing the rest of the world by doing the front-end research.”

In the past 30 years have you heard of any medical innovation or drugs coming from anywhere other than the US?

Of course the MRI machine was itself invented in the US:
http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-winners/a-damadian.html
He did mean developed country. The US pays about two-thirds what Australians do for petrol, who in turn pay about two-third what Europeans do for petrol.

The panic that the US gets itself into when discussing fuel prices is amusing to watch. Australia is a big country with spread out cities like the US (or even more than the US) and similar wage levels, yet we don't have problems with post-paying cash for our fuel. In six weeks of driving around the US west a couple of years ago, I never found a single place where I could post-pay with cash - they were all too afraid of drive-offs. Weird.

Also, you've mangled the statistics - for example, you've used Vietnam's price per litre against the US's price per gallon.
There is probably some good research in programming languages out there though every time someone goes looking they encounter the ACM paywall. Back to PHP I guess.
doing an English language search on google.de is kinda unfair. Also note that the hl param on google is set to german. Of course you get crappy results.
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I think we need to declare some things here: looking at your comments throughout this thread I'm going to ask you straight up: are you employed by, or affiliated with Microsoft?

It seems like you're the only here leaping to MS's defense at every turn. I'm willing to accept that's simply your stance, but we should put this to rest.

I'll go first: I am not employed by Google, nor have ever been employed by Google, nor by any subsidiary, nor have I ever worked for a Google affiliate (marketing firm, contract firm, etc).

> "who wears dorky glasses, ill-fitting khakis, and a jacket and tie"

That's the point. PC was always the "nice guy" - PC was never portrayed as slimy, perverted, belligerent, or even stupid. He's the hopelessly out-of-date nerd, which in itself is not a fair characterization of Windows/PC users, but at least doesn't have the malicious implications that you get with a very obvious "used car salesman" character.

> "The salesman is being projected that way, and I hope you know how IT salesmen work"

You're applying this standard to Google, but not in reverse to MS. The whole ad in summary was "Google is slimy. Their products suck, and they are willing to lie and swindle you to get you to sign on the dotted line". You're saying that all IT sales is like that - yet the clear implication in the ad was that Microsoft is not like this.

So if we're taking you at your word that all IT sales works in slimy ways and that this is true across the board, then Microsoft lied by implying that their own sales guys aren't.

> "If you have any beef with misleading or wrong content in the ad"

Oh here we go. This is the same lame defense political attack ads use: "there's nothing factually inaccurate in this ad! What're you complaining about?! We didn't say that our opponent goes easy on rapists, who cares about tone, connotation, and implication?"

As always, attack ads (whether political or commercial) are in general in poor form, but MS has really crossed a whole other threshold with this one. FWIW, it really takes away from their products and good work that is being done at MS. The more MS attacks its competitors directly in its marketing message, the less consumers will perceive MS products as good in their own right.

The Google Salesman ad was done in incredibly poor taste, shows very poor judgment on the part of MS marketing, and is not only unfair to Google, but more important is unfair to Microsoft, who is working on some genuinely kickass products. They blew an opportunity to brag about the superior features of Office and instead spent it slandering a competitor in the most hamfisted manner imaginable. The Office team at MS is probably the most innovative team in the realm of their core products. They're the ones who voluntarily threw out years of UI and went back to the drawing board for the ribbon (which despite the mocking of its competitors, *works really well). They have shown a tenacity for constant product improvement that deserves to be recognized, and instead MS is spending its time doing "hurr Google evil, incompetent, and would probably steal your stapler if he could".
So in which verse in the bible they talk about bitwise tricks?
Actually multi-page stitching just got added to the browser bookmarklet, relevant blog post: http://blog.instapaper.com/post/18556429689
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It barely scratches the surface. There's no event tracking or visitor flow tracking, not any of the deeper analysis that Google does with its data.

IMO, Piwik is something akin to what you could build for your own site with an internal team.
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Bing will try to autocorrect incorrectly. If you stick a + before the query, it'll return the right result:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=%2bthe+film+where+a+house+is+fl...

In fact, as far as I can tell, Duck Duck Go's first result is always identical to Bing's (if you turn off Bing's phrase correction). I imagine this is because DDG uses Bing and always makes it their first result.
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This says nothing about search quality. No single query can. The fact that I've completely stopped using Google search for about 3 months now and don't miss it at all is probably more telling. Five years ago that wouldn't have been possible, but today Bing is as good (sometimes worse, sometimes better).
Not necessarily, if the person running the machine or the person screening the results has to be a trained medical professional. In those cases, due to monopoly and other concerns, we'd have a supply bottleneck which would increase price given increased demands.

I don't however know if you have to be medically trained to use a MRI machine, or interpret the results
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