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I've lost two People from my Family to Cancer. One a elder cousin sister of mine and another an Uncle. I was in my teens back then when it happened.

There are huge obstacles to getting quality affordable health care in India. Costly drugs is one of them. But costly drugs isn't the problem, the problem is health insurance is an unknown aspect here even now to many ordinary middle class crowd.

In case of my relatives, despite being in a urban city like Bangalore. We had trouble getting right doctors. Both patients, and relatives like us around them are hugely ignorant of what to do in case of big health problems. And this plays to the doctors advantage.

The problem is there is a huge problem of capitation fee here. Students shell out ridiculous sums of money for even entry level MBBS courses. The net result is need to go for higher studies again to get a job in a god hospital or start their own clinic. By the time they do MBBS + Specialization course + Investments on clinics, they only way they can earn back that kind of money is by charging their patients ridiculously.

There a lot of doctors who ask patients to undergo needless tests, even for some very simple things like fever these days. Doctors and Test labs both get commissions for tests they do. Doctors and Pharmacy shops get commissions for selling drugs what the Drug companies ask them to sell. Its like a huge nexus which acts as a burden on our contry's medical spending. So you will see a lot of tests and drugs prescribed for no reason.

I have seen many Pharmacy Shops sell banned drugs. For example only recently did we know that a drug called Rosicon MF is a banned diabetic drug(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosiglitazone), but my mom was taking it even 6 months after the ban. Blame this both on Ignorant doctors and Pharmacy shops. Although by God's grace nothing has happened so far.

Another colleague of mine needs to his wife operated for Avascular Necrosis. It seems doctors here shouted on them when they discovered them doing pre research before the operation. And it turns out the doctors advised them a mode of operation, which requires a lot of post operative expenses, compared to other types which are better. Its things like this. I have myself faced the doctors wrath when they figure I am pre reading something about the disease while trying to help out a relative. Its almost like suffer at our hands or get lost kind of attitude.

Healthcare is like a huge business, where doctors look to maximize their profits by hook or crook. Patients are largely very anxious and ignorant of what is happening to them. Drugs are costly, Every one in the business is out there to make money at without much regard to the patient. Pharmacy shops, surgeons, physicians, specialist, Test Labs its all mad rush for money.

So drugs aren't really the only problem.
But what about parts that are going to fail in the next 35 minutes of running, and then you run it for 30. There are too many variables to account for here I think.
Who says next years will also be hard to take apart? They made the thing really freaking small, squeezing out every little inch. Lets see if it stays that way.
try Launchy for Windows, it's no Quicksilver but it does a good job.
Memorizing where stuff is? What if you install new programs fairly often? This is a lame workaround.

What the article fails to state is whether you can create groups of applications on the desktop. This would pretty much eliminate the problem.

The Start button was always a shitty idea, which violated Microsoft's own guidelines for cascading menus (no more than three levels). And it's a lot worse in Windows 7, with no way to organize your programs into groups that cascade (which you could in XP).

The best solution was the first: folders of applications on the desktop, originally called Program Manager groups in Windows 3.1. I want my graphics apps together, my music apps together, my office-type apps together. This basic idea has been somehow "lost" by both Microsoft and software vendors, who think nothing of littering your system with shit without ASKING WHERE you want it to go. Talk about offensive.

"There are too many hidden and invisible user interface elements in Windows 8."

This is a tidal wave of incompetence that afflicts not just Microsoft but Apple as well. In a growing number of UIs, the user is apparently supposed to sweep the cursor across every pixel on the screen, looking for Easter eggs. Except they're not Easter eggs; they're critical functions. And they're not even taking up extra space when they're visible.

Sheer stupidity.
Are you talking about Alfred on Mac OS X?
wow, the ignorance is strong in this one.
Let's go for single use, disposable computers while we're at it.
A week ago I was looking for something exactly like this. Which I ran into this site:
http://togetherinfood.wordpress.com/s-f-farmers-markets-the-...
But it is nice to see it displayed all on one map. Thank you.
It's a shitty solution, often cited by apologists when excusing the shitty Start button.

The idea that you're going to memorize the name of every application on your computer is a ridiculous strawman. And if you're going to have to TYPE the name of the program, why use a GUI at all?

You're basically calling for a command-line interface. Fine. But don't defend shitty GUI design with it.
I'm defining philosophy very broadly as written, systematic knowledge in the West. All major branches of knowledge where once subsumed by the title "philosophy". For instance, what we know of as science was previously called "natural philosophy". What we now know as "political theory" was once indistinguishable from "philosophy". And political science is a combination of the latter forms of the two. It began with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium_(education)
Even if it is a natural phenomenon, am I alone in thinking that it is still interesting?
"Most scientists I know that disregard philosophy do so because science gives them a feeling of getting somewhere, while philosophy, even at its most rigorous, just seems to leave them more confused than when they started."

The things you dislike about philosophy are exactly the things that make it so useful, and the things you like about science are the reasons why most (if not all) of it is ultimately illusory.
I agree that change for change sake is frustrating, but I jumped from Office 2003 to 2010 and a year later I still hate it. It's not just a matter of it being different. It's demonstrably worse. Things that took 1 click now take 3 or more. I also went from XP to Windows 7 and I can't stand it either. Why do I need libraries and all the confusion that comes from a library location and a 'real' location?
From the article

"But in 2005, India brought its law in line with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules recognising 20-year patents, pushing up the prices of newly launched drugs."
Imagine if someone took programs written for the Obfuscated C contest and boxed them up for sale to the general public. Art that is "movement Z is a reaction to Y, which in turn is a reaction to X" might be fine for artists to circulate amongst themselves, but the problem is that it is sold to people who have no such insider knowledge, yet like to pretend it is somehow relevant to them.
The closest I can think to this is something like Jack Thompson (the anti videogame violence gentleman).

He was eventually disbarred:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)#Disbar...
America has the funniest lawsuits in the world. And since we are talking about comics, here's an "info-graphic" about it: http://www.superinfographics.com/funniest-lawsuits-in-americ....
That's the dream, but software pushes the envelope constantly, so much so that a computer that was cutting-edge a month ago is lagging today. If the hardware were irrelevant then we wouldn't be seeing faster and more efficient computers year after year.
Seems pretty cool, but the main graph at the top doesn't seem like a very helpful way to visualize data. It seems safe to assume that the vast majority of Facebook pages gain likes over time, and the graph has lower and upper bounds that are very close to those of the data which means you'll pretty much always have the same graph on every page. It doesn't really tell me anything.

For example, I just clicked on the first six reports you link to on your landing page, and the graph looks the same for all of them.

Other than that, this looks pretty handy. Thanks.
My shell work isn't the issue. Or rather in isolation it's not. I'll run upwards of 40-50 shell sessions (on multiple hosts, with screen sessions on many of them). The net state of all of those sessions, including spatial relations between shells and color coordination (helpful for state recognition) is the hard thing to replace. Note: it's not that I carefully choose the colors of all shells, but I do have a couple of scripts that will kick out terminals in either lighter or darker shades (lighter == remote terminals, darker == local) to indicate stuff whose state I want to specifically register.

Full desktop sessions and browser state are the big ones.

I might be able to look at NX or another remote desktop solution, but those would be at best poor substitutes.
If you want to discredit theorists who have been critical of scientific practices, you need to put down the Sokal and actually engage with specific works.

NB: I'm completely ignorant in this realm.

I thought one of the key points of "Impostures Intellectuelles" was that it defined the group of criticized "postmodernists" and referenced specific essays and papers?
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I kept reading this and going "wow, he's describing GNOME 3!"
It comes down to this: Microsoft doesn't care about the desktop market. They don't have to. People will keep buying Windows. It doesn't matter how bad the experience gets, the average consumer will still buy it, and the manufacturers will still ship it. Not to mention the desktop market isn't growing. The tablet market is a different story. This is a young market with lots of potential and people are still making decisions. Steve Ballmer is a businessman. He knows desktop windows can be as bad as he wants, and nothing will change. But if Windows 8 works well on tablets, Microsoft might have a new revenue stream. From a business perspective, the desktop Windows experience does not matter, and so it will be designed for the tablet.
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You wish your ex-mate to go back to you, so you maintain saying to on your own that you would do all the things they wish you to, just to have them back.
Philosophy is about posing new questions, not providing answers.

I'm increasingly under the impression that philosophy is "about" whatever the individual philosopher or reader or writer wants it to be about, and that a lot of philosophers really like arguing about what philosophy is about. Granted, this comes mostly from sporadic reading in the field and from listening to Philosophy Bites, but the combination has still made me increasingly skeptical of explanations about what philosophy is about.

Link: http://www.philosophybites.com/
It's CSS selectors and then wrapping the DOM element again in a function to give it an `attr` method, which is jQuery style. Other libraries may use that syntax too, but I'm pretty sure it started with jQuery (and if not, was certainly popularized by it).
The same people who support Apple's closed App Store over the more open Android model because "most" users don't install software not in the App Store anyway. Apple knows what's best for you.
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I see what you mean. Something like % fans talking about the page would be more useful.
There is a lot of extra rigor in a random controlled study than an observational study because it is harder to "cook up data" to support the scientists own beliefs. This may even happen unconsciously.
An easy example is modern activist tactics, i.e. Seattle and Occupy Wall Street. Another hackneyed example is Israeli military tactics, which have been said to have been influenced by writings of Gilles Deleuze.

Above and beyond specific examples, it's important to note that world affairs are influenced considerably by people in positions of power. Such people tend to be well educated, which often means they've been exposed to and influenced by contemporary philosophy. For instance there is a large body of work on international politics. I don't think it's too much to assume that policy-makers at that level have some knowledge of current discourse in the field. For instance the debate about whether a world government would be a good thing.
Perhaps it's a bit like the "free speech" thing. That is, you can frivolously say whatever you like, and similarly you can frivolously file as many lawsuits as you like too?
I'm homeless, jobless and deeply in debt. Can I puleez sue myself for five mil and have the state pay me damages? Pleeeeez, can I huh, pleeezz?

Edit: I am wondering if the folks downvoting me even looked at the infographic. It literally lists someone suing themselves for five million and expecting the state to pay the damages on the grounds that he can't afford it.
Firefox on Linux works fine for me for both RSS files and tar.gz files.
I think modern art is what happens when your "understanding art" circuits get into a feedback loop of some kind, there's something going haywire in there. Modern art is the mental equivalent of an allergic reaction. So we get these famous artists who made things like big canvases of entirely purple, and we say it's art because art critics sneezed out a bunch of reasons why it's art.

Laypeople look at Rothko and wonder why a guy who made rectangle blobs on canvas is better than all the other guys who thought of making rectangle blobs on canvas. And then you wonder what's the point? The point of art is, depending on your philosophy, variously to improve the mind or the spirit or to provide aesthetic pleasure; it's not to satisfy the intellectual pretentions of art nerds. The obfuscated C contest is a difficult intellectual pursuit and this wouldn't be hard to understand to someone who doesn't know C, but it is hard to explain how Rothko's rectangle blobs or Pollock's scribbles improve the human condition more than anyone else's blobs or scribbles except that these artists happened to fall in the right confluent streams of intellectual nonsense at the right time. The obfuscated C contest is not a thing where you say, "my five-year-old can do that", or that any other Joe could do that should he rub the intellectual establishment the right way. But we live in a world where we take stuff anyone can do and put it in a museum because it has some neat context behind it or something. And so the layperson is completely nonplussed.
What do you class as very expensive?

We put multiple orders of magnitude more data than the free tier into Splunk, and it's still a lot cheaper than 2 developer-years.

It is true, though, that if the licensing was cheaper we'd put even more data into it.
I dunno, man. The bullshit ratio has gone up dramatically since the modern notion of "artist" has emerged.

"It is not that the public has failed art; it is art which has failed the public."
I've read at least an article that they wrote and all they did was take some quotes out of context and show how they were scientifically inaccurate when they seemed to me to be metaphorical from the start. I can't speak for the book, however.
Why wouldn't it be an either-or proposition?

It is clear that Apple went to great lengths to fit a 15" retina display to a powerful laptop while maintaining battery-life and trimming over a pound from the weight.

What, concretely, do you think they should have done differently?

That's a rhetorical question, no need to answer it, because any answer you give is going to be pure BS when compared to a product that I can actually drive across town and try (maybe even buy if I get there before their latest shipment sells out).
>>I'm an Indian citizen and have the right (luckily) to dissent.

Oh! I am an Indian too.

Cost reduction is innovation too. Its like what Telecommunications companies have done to call rates here. Remember the days when getting a telephone connection required recommendation letters from ministers? These days you can get one for 100 rupees with a address proof in 20 minutes.

Pharmaceutical patents at most act like software patents sooner or later some one discovers them. But to act like 'I discovered first, so pay me eternally or suffer mercilessly and die' attitude will only do damage.

You are also right in the sense that we must incentivize research. But for that we need larger health care reforms especially in the areas of health insurance. Every Indian must have a means of affording health insurance and pay for quality health care. I like Narayana Hrudayalays's schemes in Bangalore, for farmers and alike.

Regarding when that will happen, your guess is as better as mine.
The government is complicit by keeping it illegal.

If it were legal, it could be taxed and regulated like anything else. Most people are OK with letting others do what they want with their own body. It's certain puritanical, tyrannical, authoritarian and powerful government factions that don't allow that.
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"run far, far away from ones that do."

Like Picasso, Dali, Caravaggio and Michelangelo?
Well said. One of the first sculptures I was really moved by was by Antony Gormley. You should have a peek at his work if you want to dig some sculpture.
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Are we to regard Ethics as irrelevant? Logic? Aesthetics? Epistemology? Metaphysics? These are the five branches of philosophy.

I majored in Computer Science and have a minor in Philosophy. I consider philosophy the most important element of my life, and the lives of everyone else, often unknowingly. I see philosophy all the time on Hacker News and elsewhere. What do you call debates over law, for instance? Are those scientific? No, those are philosophy. So much of what humans do is philosophy that to suggest they do not participate in it because they aren't talking in "academic" terms is simply inaccurate.
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Except saying you are fat and ugly when you're actually Brad Pitt doesn't really do anything. Getting sued for BS causes undue stress, time, money, etc.
I personally believe art's purpose is to create and distribute beauty. By extension, a secondary purpose would be to distribute that beauty to the masses, and to further increase the "net beauty" of the world, if you will.

In no way, shape, or form is "My cunt is wet with fear" beautiful. This is simply an artist trying to be shocking and radical, but without the courage to actually do so in a meaningful way, is simply couching it in "art".

I would argue that much of modern art (not to be confused with abstract art) is simply an excuse for the artists to be ridiculous without reprimand. If you look at the art of da Vinci, or Raphael, or even some modern artists (One could argue John Mayer's skill with a guitar constitutes art) they did not need to be shocking to have an impact- their work stood on its own.*

That, I guess, would be the crux of the matter. All these other comments explaining that we don't get the "context" or that we simply need to "understand the background" are more or less re-iterating the foolishness found in The Emperor's New Clothes. Art is meant to stand alone. The Mona Lisa does not require context to appreciate it's nuance of color, and the skill with which the expression is painted. Andy Warhol's (in?)famous Campbell's Soup Cans can be lauded on their symmetry and juxtaposition of color alone, while incorporating the mundane into the abstract. The Sistine Chapel can be admired simply by the scale and breadth of the murals within, not excluding the skill with which they were painted, or the beautiful imagery. I've even had non-religious friends admire it more than my religious ones.

One cannot simply say that "you don't get it". Beauty does not need "to be got". Beauty is inherent, and all perspective simply does is skew the appreciation of the beauty. I don't have to like Picasso to appreciate it, just as I don't have to like jazz to appreciate the beauty in syncopation.
Even if you do not agree with me, we can all concur that true art will stand the test of time. So I ask you, do you see people talking about this exhibit 20 years from now?

*This is not to say that bodies of work cannot heighten appreciation, or lend further enlightenment upon the individual works, however a broken bridge, a looped video, a sentence set in neon and various pots placed on pedestals does not constitute a cohesive body of work.
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Oh, I forgot to add that probably my favorite "post-structuralist" author is Manuel DeLanda, who actually quit his job as a hacker to become a philosopher. He does a great job of making Deleuze's work more clear and his own work is fascinating: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

"A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History" looks at the past thousand years in terms of the kinds of material processes that occurred (at all levels from geological to political) with reference to theories from dynamics. DeLanda generally continues the project that Deleuze started of taking insight from modern science and applying it to philosophical problems.
>When viewed from the GMail web interface they look totally legitimate, you can only discover the real sender by looking at the mail headers (and it's not even easy to show them in GMail anymore).

I had never tried to view headers in the Gmail web interface before, and it took me literally 5 seconds to figure out how to do it (down arrow next to the reply button, click "Show original"). Sure, it's not the most obvious feature on the screen, but that seems reasonable given that most people have no idea how to interpret that information anyway.
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Everyone wants to (re)build their own pyramids (often from scratch) instead of just uniting to finish the top of the most promising one. But I don't judge too harsh the developers: my contribution to free & open source is quite small until now and free & open source it's a lot about free will and passion and not necessarily for the benefit of the world.
> A prophecy: The first entity to put a state-of-the-art UI on top of Linux....

Already been done by Google with Android. It's state-of-the-art in the sense that it's a touch-based mobile UI, and it does compete with Apple directly...

Although, if you mean Linux in the sense of a full-fledged traditional GNU/Linux Unix userspace..the closest we've got is probably something like Ubuntu.