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I really like single payer in theory, but I'm with briandear on this one. There is already enough monkeying with what Medicare should and shouldn't pay for. My fear is the more money is involved, the less science/data/evidence based the decisions will be.

That's why I'm torn on the whole thing. I think for-profit should be able to do it better, but the current system clearly isn't structured in a way that encourages it. I have no idea whether the devil I know is better or not, and it's a big decision.
One question is why the Lisp code doesn't use the letter E as much as every language? Is that just due to normalizing of parentheses?
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... that more money allocated to the 'defense' budget is a good thing.
That was a good read - thanks :)
... while the bikers attempting to use the bike lanes get ticketed for riding in the street when a bike lane was available. (yes, this does happen, despite the law saying that a biker can leave the bike lane if an obstruction makes it unsafe to ride within it)
I'm sorry, but your impassioned and eloquent post is wasted on the garbage you're responding to. If it was a well thought-out critique, it might be warranted, but the author couldn't even be bothered to proof read. There are horrible spelling and grammar mistakes throughout the entire article. And I'm not being picky. If I have to stop and think about what words are missing from your sentence so that I can understand it, I'm not going to bother thinking about what ideas the sentence actually tries to convey.
A business is required to pay sales tax, not collect. Like some other businesses, Amazon can just include the tax in the price.

For instance, bars will include the taxes in the drink tax because if they show you how much tax is in a glass of beer you'd be very surprised, it's something like 40%.

It's an mental game though. Do you get people "through the door" with an item at $19.99 and hope they don't close the tab when they see the $1.00 tax, or do you just advertise it at $21.99 and hope that people are attracted to you because of name, etc even though joesonlineshop.com has it for $19.99?
I think the small stores have had their chance, which has come and gone.

Simple rule while you do anything it to ponder the 'next steps'. You just can't keep waiting and expect your competition to do nothing in return.
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Woah! I didn't realize you were a New Yorker! If you can make it, you should come by the next Hack and Tell on the 25th! http://meetup.com/hack-and-tell
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They're fixing a serious error in the way they model conversation. Please explain how this is "dictating social behavior."

People engaged in an in-person conversation constantly and involuntarily give each other verbal and nonverbal cues indicating the receipt (or loss/corruption) of each message. One of the primary gripes against the text-based communication Facebook et al "forced" us to use is the loss of that subconscious channel. Having an unreliable chat system that created the ability to hide behind "oh sorry, I didn't get your message" was one way Facebook corrupted human social interaction. Now they're making it right.

I, for one, desire and expect reliable delivery of my messages to my friends' attention. Do you see a workable solution besides acknowledgments?
Good point. That thought had crossed my mind as well, when I started asking myself "what are the chances that this happens to some random guy, who just happens to be a Redditor?" In any case though, it's a neat gimmick and will probably stir up a lot of attention for somebody.
$10 yeah. It is more if the difference was hundreds or the increased range of not carrying buyable stock gave you access to many times you didn't before.
It probably gets used about the same amount as the other languages, it's just that the parentheses get used an insane amount and outweigh all the other characters.
This is ancient.

It's much more fun to ask the DBpedia SPARQL endpoint a question like

select (count(*) as ?cnt) { dbpedia:John_Lennon ?p ?o . dbpedia:Paul_McCartney ?p ?o .}
>Stop trying to change my behavior by holding me responsible

In general, being responsible is a good thing...
You should really consider a credit union. I haven't had a bad banking experience in 15 years. I could sit here for an hour writing about all the great ones I've had. Every time I heard these horror stories about Chase, BofA, etc. I just shake my head in amazement.
This is so true. My SO purchases clothes that are made from terrible materials, with stitching that falls apart.

Womens shoes exclusively seem capable on only lasting 6 months of regular wear. Everything from straps, buckles, soles and innersoles seem to fall apart.

The ultimate insult in all this is that they always cost more than the equivalent male version. The only exceptions to this are where the two items are equivalent (ie mens/womens levis, mens/womens running shoes).

I don't like buying clothes unless they're made from natural fibres/materials. It's cotton, wool + leather for me. For a woman, it's virtually impossible to stick to a rule like this.

I guess it's all about the fashion and style, and they aren't expected to last due to the built-in obsolescence of womens fashion.
Common posters..lighten up..this is a start-up trying to be really bold and are making some cool stuff. Isn't that what's a start up is about. For me this post criticizes sprit and innovativeness and hence is a bad one.
Congratulations, you are what's called an outlier. Seriously, this post only shows how different from most US consumers you are.
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Why is E the most common across multiple languages (except Lisp (which I assume is due to the parentheses))? I assume it's usage is higher because it's a vowel, but none of the other vowels are nearly that high.
In KC, $40k might be a fresh-out-of-school salary, but even then it sounds low to me.
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While I agree that this ruling in favor of EA is correct, I find it telling that this is the only time I've heard recently of a court reversing the trend of granting outrageous intellectual property rights, and it's in favor of the massive company in the entertainment industry. But I'm probably just being paranoid; it's not like the US is a plutocracy in disguise...
I think it's a boneheaded move. The "DirecTV refugees" have eyeballs they could be selling advertising to, cutting out the middleman (DirecTV). Instead they're turning those refugees away at the border.
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IKEA is still essentially this concept to this day, only the customer picks their own goods.

In the UK there is a big chain called Argos which still does this, right down to the employees fetching the goods. This might be related to the fact that big-box retail space in the UK is much harder to come by.
You can close the popup after the announcement finishes and watch the excerpt videos, but if you go to the Full Episodes page, there is a notice that full episodes are not currently available.
E is the most common letter in the English language. There was even a fun book written without the e: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)
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Well from my own personal experience. When I go out to buy shoes, I look at things like durability, ruggedness, comfort. The shoes must be long lasting and one must be able to wear them for long hours without feeling uncomfortable.

Most girls I know don't have that criteria. The first and foremost criteria for them is they must fashionable, good looking, must match with their dress etc. Given this use case, there is only so much you can do for things like durability and ruggedness. Because you need to make them colorful, with some deigns etc.

Ultimately you get what you ask for.
That's it! It was Service Merchandise.
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OUYA, the Android console - naivete at work?
That didn't stop them from claiming it would be on my desktop.
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I'm one of those morons who enjoys The Daily Show's intelligent satire. Stewart is razor sharp and you do not want to get into a battle of words with him. [1]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
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I don't have adblock anything, but it happens anyway.
Neat idea. I'd definitely donate if the whole thing was going to be open sourced so I could run it on my own infrastructure.

Currently we use csshX for this sort of thing, and it does the job. It's an open source tool that opens a bunch of ssh sessions and sends each character you type to each session. You can launch it with command line args that specify the hosts you'd like to connect to and optionally the commands to run, so it's pretty easy to set up scripts that mimic the recipes in this video. If you're working with less that 20 servers at a time (about the limit of what you can read on screen at once) it's a great tool.

http://code.google.com/p/csshx/
What is the Readability & Instapaper business model? Is it same for both?
On a side note, you should not use Lobster type face for content. It looks "hip" for logos and all. But it becomes annoying for content.
I know this probably fits only me but I never use my email address as id.

Every company and every account I sign up for I give a different email address. I'm not about to use a single one for my ID. Especially when they are easy to spoof (any one can send mail as you@there.com) and they are easy to spam and abuse. I had an email address that got 3000 spams a day. That's why I never give use email as ID because I want to be able to disable any email address that's giving me trouble.

So, not interested in BrowserID I think. Or maybe I didn't grok it.
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You're making the assumption that you won't be able to purchase a box of assorted screws cheaper than making the trip to the hardware shop. If you could purchase an assortment of screws that essentially spanned the entire range of the hardware shop, you might change your mind.

That could easily change.
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Women go for fashion more than men, Fashion doesn't last, so there is no real point in the clothing lasting.

Women's clothing is also cheaper at the lower end, and much more expensive at the higher end for the same reason.

.. so women tell me anyway, I can (surprise surprise) male.
Have you considered to develop this on the top of chef-server?

I think most features (and more) you mentioned in the video are already covered by the chef-server (recipes, role, ohai, search, provisioning etc), and they have large community and more thoroughly tested.

However, their webui is too simple, and in particularly not extensible - no plugin mechanism so it is difficult to add some minor feature on the top of their webui.

So I think there is a huge market for providing a better UI for chef-server, especially they are one of the leaders in the field?
Yeah, paredit would make only the left paren red...
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At first I thought it would be in most keywords. But looking at one of my Python files (a tiny sample, to be sure), I see that it doesn't occur all that often in the keywords I used.

However, it is in most of my variable names. Given that it's the most common letter in English, that makes sense.

There's the famous phrase "ETAOIN SHRDLU", dating back to printing press days, of the approximate order of the most common letters in English.

Not to be confused with the early AI program "SHRDLU"". :-)
I'm not seeing any typos or missing words. Could you point out a couple for me?
Refutations:

1. A lot of games already support the Sony Experia Play gamepad layout which is extremely similar to this controller. I own that phone, there are plenty of games. This is just plain wrong.

2. Nonsense, plenty of fantastic games. Maybe not XBOX 360 / PS3 level of library, but is that necessary for success? I think not.

3. Yeah, there's junk, but there are also a lot of gems. So what, that's what ratings are for. Plenty of crap available on all game systems. This isn't competing on having specific games, but being an open platform. Expensive dev-kit not required. People actually like that, even if they don't use it. I love low-budget indie games. Lots of other people do, too.

4. Android already has great games. The games are already there, or trivially easy to port. A lot of developers added support to the Sony Experia Play after the fact when that came out. There's a good chance all those games will work on day 1 on OUYA.

5. No real compelling argument here. Android is an open system for networked games, they can work however they work. What's not economically feasible about games running their own servers or having multiple competing server services. These already exist in the PC game world.

6. Well the success of current consoles suggest that lots of people still do (and will continue) to game in their living rooms staring at their giant HD screen. I do.

7. Specs moving too fast? The XBOX 360 is dramatically "behind" in specs (not to mention the Wii), but as we already know, the tech specs of game systems aren't really much of a limiting factor in creating enjoyable experiences.. Hell, lots of people love games made for radically out-of-date consoles. Who is going to be writing games in 2 years for Android that doesn't run on current best-in-class android devices? Idiots, that's who.

8. We'll see...
what is a devops task? I normally just call this work.
hah, i'm not trying to take anything away from the rest of the city, cause it's a nice place, but i've made two separate road trips from atlanta (9 hrs each way) with 14 people just for the city museum.
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A year ago at what release?
There's no way to pick the culture you work in before you start working. First, job opportunities are basically random. Everyone just interviews at random places until one randomly hires you. The secret is to continue job hunting after you've started, don't sign anything, and be prepared to walk if the culture turns out not to be something you can tolerate. And I say tolerate, because there will never be a 'good' culture. It's a job and your exit strategy is to not work any more. People are going to say their company is different, it's awesome, but they don't even know what makes it such a horrible environment. For instance, any culture that has a strong affiliation with kids stuff sucks to me: scooters, bikes, slides, candy, games, nerf, etc. It really says that they see adult employees as introverted children who are stupid enough to do real work so they must like candy and scooters. Other people like this kind of stuff, but that same company is going to have something else seriously wrong with it that they won't like. Just pick some place you can tolerate until you save up enough cash to escape wage slavery.
It might be more interesting to see these with the vowels factored out.
First, 50% of the programming is advertising (20 minutes content, 10 minutes ads).

Is that a typo? Or hyperbole? Isn't ten minutes of advertising for every twenty minutes of programming what we call "33 percent advertising"?
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I personally noticed this too.
Interesting. I am able to access the full episodes.
There is also A Void: it was originally written in French, which (I think) uses the letter "e" more often than English and then translated to English. In both cases it did not use the letter "e" at all.

I only know about this because it was referenced in a book on cryptanalysis. The simplest sort of cipher can be broken by paying attention to the relative frequency of letters in the original text. I remember a useful mnemonic for remembering the most common letters: the sentence "a sin to err" contains them. E, followed by t and a, are the most common out of those (t and a are very close).
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I still remember the big hype about Hashable.

I wonder what they are pivoting to next.
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BrowserID is designed to be integrated into the browser. There are some huge usability benefits possible when your browser can log in for you. If the browser UI succeeds in reducing friction for signup and login, that could motivate sites to adopt the protocol.
Every time I've tried returning an item less than $20, they don't make me send the item back in. They just give me a refund and tell me to keep the item.
I am aware it has been "solved" -- my theory is that the solver is an insider working with the original poster.
For an easy anecdote, just walk into any Forever 21. The clothes are extremely thin, with bad stitching, and made from materials that aren't durable at all.
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BrowserID lets you use any number of email addresses and choose which one to use for a given site (though I think the current UI might get a bit cumbersome if you have dozens attached to one Persona account).
There is a lot of scope for one-time emails, pseudonymous emails and other kinds of not-my-primary-email authentication systems within Persona. One simple example of how this might work is MockMyID:

https://mockmyid.com/

Try logging into a Persona-enabled website with anything@mockmyid.com - you will be able to authenticate without entering any password or giving away any personal information. Of course, so can anyone else, but it might give you an idea of the possibilities in this space.
It's an arms-length negotiation by sophisticated parties. Some cable channels (like CNN and ESPN) can command big fees from network operators because consumers expect that these channels will be available on a cable or satellite system. Some cable channels (like, probably, Animal Planet) have to pay the operator for the privilege of being carried. Some cable channels (like HBO) are able to produce higher-quality content _because_ they have the benefit of predictable revenue from subscriptions and are not as dependant on advertising or per-show viewership.

But it doesn't do much to sit outside the negotiations and decide that you are offended by how the deal shakes out. Which way the money flows depends on the relative bargaining positions of the two parties. Yes, DirecTV is providing Viacom with a service -- operating the satellites and dealing with individual consumers and billing them. But Viacom is also providing DirecTV with a service: producing TV programs and channels (including Comedy Central) that consumers want to watch and are the reason they subscribe to DirecTV in the first place!
It'd be interesting to track down the origins of that misconception, that "Republic" and "Democracy" are two different kinds of government. Is it possible that so many people believe this because of the government types in the original Sid Meier "Civilization" game?
Oh I missed the part where they're writing the webapp bit in PHP. Amateur hour all over the place here.
I'm using FF 13 and the submit didn't work for me either until I hit 'Enter' in the text input. After that I was able to click submit.
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csshX works great for small tasks on a small number of servers, but it lacks a few main features. Commando.io stores responses from each server so you can traverse back and see exactly what was run and the response. Additionally, csshX does not have the concept of stored recipes which are fully versioned.

What if we had an "enterprise" version like GitHub which you could run on your infrastructure? Would you back then?
Who’s afraid of Google fiber? Time Warner for starters.
> Honest question: As an app builder, why would you use this instead of facebook?

You should use both, to maximize the convenience of your users.

Some are always signed into Facebook, and like to just use that, others want other methods that offer different models of security and openness, Persona is the best of those I would argue (OpenID is nice too, but the lack of native browser integration is what makes it less impressive than Persona).
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Wow, I was just thinking in the shower yesterday just how horrible this exact feature would be, and how facebook wouldn't have grown if one saw how much your friends didn't see what you posted.
True, but not everyone actually realises this.

I have an XboX360 Pad plugged into my PC which I use to play some games (a huge amount of steam games seem to support it).
You'd be surprised however by the number of people that this amazes "woah, you can plug a gamepad into a PC?".

It wouldn't surprise me if the same people didn't realise they could hookup to a TV via HDMI.
If this were actual keys pressed while programming rather than an analysis of completed code, the action on app switch and editor meta-keys would rival that of the highest ranking regular keys.
It's one thing Facebook has (always?) been careful not to show. Even with 3rd party apps they'd proxy all content so you couldn't make a "who's viewed my profile" app.
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I see multiple comments from men here about how women they know buy impractical clothing and shoes that are poorly made and don't last well. I'm happy to report that whatever the general pattern is, there are happy exceptions. Some women I know (for example my wife) and some girls I know (for example my daughter) seek out clothing and shoes that are well made and hold up to heavy use in outdoor exercise. Just the other day, my wife asked for advice among a Facebook private group of mutual friends about good garments to wear while bicycling that are also suitable business wear for teaching piano lessons (her occupation). She loves to bike to the homes of clients (her preferred location for delivering lessons) whenever she can, year-round. She invented her own outfit built out of clothing items she already had after receiving advice from friends to "buy [Brand X]" or "buy [Brand Y]." She takes a hacker's approach to clothing and fashion, and tests the boundaries of what is possible with the resources and constraints that she likes.

We both like taking walks or bicycle rides together. I ask her for advice about shoes for both purposes.

P.S. When I lived in Seattle in the very early 1990s, I was told that Nordstrom's was known as "Rent-a-Shoe," because the generous return policy at that department store meant that a woman could buy a pair of shoes to attend a fashionable party, wear the shoes just once, and then return them without hassle to the store. I don't know what current policies are at Nordstrom's, but it does seem that fashionable shoes for occasional use have long been a mainstay of the store's business.