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Do you think it's possible to show or educate those people that in fact the system is dysfunctional?

Any ideas how?
Because Kickstarter is also a platform for discovery. If large corporate projects, which can certainly be funded otherwise, start crowding the site, this means that the smaller projects that can really benefit from Kickstarter for funding might not get the attention they deserve.
That is certainly not the norm. I lived in the UK for 3 decades, and it's definitely not like that. The level of care is very good, and the vast majority of the population are happy with it.
Same here, been out of the States for 15 years and family have our own business. We've been paying taxes locally and filing tax returns yearly for the States. There's a minimum which one can make before they have to pay taxes to the US (about $70-80,000 a year individually).

For an average person or family, it's hard to reach this amount, and as said before you can write off taxes paid in a foreign country.

Though the main problem would be if you're registered as a Professional and individual business (contractor/consultant). Then you're liable for taxes in both the country you live in, and the US. I've been made a number of offers of work as a contractor and had to refuse (due to low pay since companies didn't want to hire employees only contractors, the fact I'd have to pay for all benefits, and also on top of that pay taxes on what ever I made).
"Even"? Drinking water is heavily regulated for good reasons. It's also extremely cheap. There are a lot of other examples of highly regulated industries providing cheap services, something I wonder of others are aware of when they talk about the need to reduce regulation to cut costs.

Health care as a regulated public utility like electricity, water, and phone lines doesn't seem like a bad model to shoot for.
Case law is still law.

Libertarians who think "SUE SUE SUE" is the answer really frustrate me: It's random judges picking the law instead of elected reps
I wonder if the smaller companies named in that should just do the absolute minimum and free ride on the HNW and big company/funds who will fight this without being hurt as much by the legal expenses. I know Coinbase raised $5mm, but they shouldn't burn even $250k on this suit. All the individuals are pretty high net worth, at least.
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It looks like they may have used RSA encryption with a 4096 bit key [1] and as far as I know, if the private key is not compromised; this is pretty darn secure...Can anyone confirm?

[1] - https://twitter.com/namedotcom/status/332260201535266816
This is where my appliaction of a "privacy" idea to a "security" problem falls down.

With privacy, I try to be pretty vigilant, but I don't do everything in my power to prevent tracking. I am more worried with companies collecting large swathes of data on my behaviour rather than the odd tidbit. I'm quietly hopeful that analytics, advertising et al. companies will not go to such ingeniously dodgey methods for tracking peoples behaviour (though being hopeful is very different than expecting them not to be dodgey).

But who knows, as a filter that might catch a portion of phishing links, it may have some use.
I'd give my initial opinion based on a first light reading of the complaint, but I'm afraid Greenspan might find a way to construe that as money transmission and add me to the suit.
> in every single regard (except for range)

And price, and convenience.

> more convenient

No it's not. The lower range, low number of charging stations, and long charging times make it quite inconvenient for long trips.

I bought a used car 3 years ago for less than the cost Tesla charges for replacing the batteries on its car (which you are estimated to need to do after about 8 years). This car is a station wagon, so has much more storage space than a Tesla. I go camping every year, about 550 miles from where I live. I can make that trip in about 10 hours including food and gas stops. For the same trip, I would need to make at least two hour long charging stops at Supercharger stations along the way (if I had the highest-end battery option). But there are no Supercharger stations along my route; so I would need to find places to charge with ordinary power sources. If I used ordinary 10 kW 240 V sources, it would charge at a rate of about 30 miles of range per hour, effectively tripling the length of the trip; now what was a long 10 hour drive has turned into a 30 hour trip, which means finding places to stop and sleep overnight (which hopefully can give you a charge).

Furthermore, I live in an apartment, without a dedicated parking space. I need to park on street. So there's nowhere I could charge my car at home; I can't exactly run a power cord down and across the sidewalk to my car. Neither is there anywhere to charge my car at work. There's no way I could even use a Tesla for commuting right now, let alone longer trips.

With a gasoline powered car, I just fill up at any gas station, my car holds the gasoline overnight so it doesn't matter where I park, and for the above describe trip, I need to stop for gas once before leaving and once on the trip, each a 5 minute stop.

The Tesla Model S is an amazing car. But claiming that it's more convenient, or is a better car in every way but range, is a vast overstatement. It would be absolutely awful for me, and many other people with similar needs.

Some of these problems are solvable; there will be more Superchargers installed, the price will probably come down, there will probably be more electric vehicle infrastructure. But it's still a gamble to say that they will completely eliminate all of these advantages that a gas powered car has over an electric car, at least unless the price of gas spikes dramatically.
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http://ia801700.us.archive.org/20/items/gov.uscourts.cand.26...

"2013-05-08
Order to Show Cause
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE.

If, by 5/22/2013, an attorney qualified to practice in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California does not appear in this action to represent Plaintiff, the court will dismiss the action without prejudice. No hearing will be held on the order to show cause unless otherwise ordered by the court. Signed by Judge Edward J. Davila on 5/8/2013. (ejdlc1, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 5/8/2013) (Additional attachment(s) added on 5/8/2013: # (1) Certificate of Service) (ecg, COURT STAFF)."
IMO, the biggest benefit of Haskellis that it collects lots of programming language advancements that have been mostly ignored by the mainstream until recently. Haskell does generics really well, has some really cool abstraction facilities (leading to cool things like parser combinators, and a rich typeclass ecosystem) and the type system is really good at letting you write code that is correct if you manage to compile it.

I think its still too early to say that Haskell gives immediate, quantifiable, benefits for multithreading but it sure gives more avenues to tame your code and lots of freedom for people to code different concurrency solutions on top of it.
The reason it's dangerous is that packages can introduce backwards incompatible changes. If you have a project that you don't work on for a few weeks/months and then need to fix a bug, you're going to have to spend additional cycles tracking down the issue and fixing either the backwards incompatible change, or adding a specific version to your requirements file anyway.

I like to try and scope the package versions at the level the maintainer promises not to introduce breakages at.
Thanks! Last time I looked, I came up with nothing but the specs on the Open Compute page.
What a great lesson. I'm a little jealous.

How did you prevent this from becoming a black mark on your medical history though?
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Some additional context about past litigation:

http://abovethelaw.com/2012/06/facebook-litigation-continues...
> Wouldn't a free-market system have to ration coverage in some way as well

"Free market" is a rationing system that provides scarce goods/services to those willing and able to pay the most first.
I said "You will have to merge your agri-business with the daily delivery of fresh food to my house, making around 20x the profit on your produce if you capture the end to end market"

Hell, I agree but there has to be some solution - look at Mr Money Mustache. I know what he says is sensible. But I still have an unaffordable mortgage (my kids need a good school!) and buy lattes each day (I like them)

This is just exactly the same thing.

You know what, I like a Nanny state. I need more Nanny.
The very latest versions of Firefox and Chrome don't seem to have a problem supporting older versions of Windows.

Can you tell me more about these sacrifices that would have to be made? I'm genuinely interested.
Thank you! Hear, hear! And well put. Exactly. We've struggled with the same issues, not to mention the confusion added by iTunes sync. (My bad: should've kept iTunes' little sneaky fingers out of it.) Lots of duplicates, and over the years, quite a few MIAs.
This is a red herring. It is not surprising that the cost of care can vary wildly when the customer cannot possibly know the cost of care before purchasing it. Even a person with no immediate need for care cannot obtain the best price since no hospital will provide him or her with a price up front.

"Posting prices publicly" is not the same thing as "completely deregulating the industry" or "repealing EMTALA."
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No, NI is just tax. It doesn't "cover" anything.

The point still stands: even if you have private health insurance, you still have to pay your share of the NHS, even if that share is not a line-item anywhere.
It happened with eBay: established sellers crowded out smaller and casual sellers in all but the most niche categories. This may not happen in Kickstarter, where the projects aren't fungible, but the precedent exists.

These are still early days; big projects are still bringing in fresh backers, and the small projects are benefiting from this traffic. What Kickstarter will look like in ten years is impossible to predict right now.
>and there would be enough remaining in underworld circulation to supply future members of those professions

Not to mention eventually you'll be able to 'print' a gun from a 3d printer or use your personal affordable CNC mill. Its just going to get easier and easier to make your own weapons.
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Thanks for explain the difference between hashing and encrypting. I neglected to make that explicit.

However, I disagree with you when you say, "Encrypting a password could be ok," because compromises happen and the attacker could do a memory dump, check the environment variables or perhaps find a location where the password is hardcoded (config or script, yes this happens). It's a sloppy practice that we should discourage. Hashing passwords is the most basic level of security and it's been known for decades.
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That's a surprising conclusion given that countries who have the free market much less involved in health care have a much lower cost of care.
* solidly American (e.g. 3rd+ gen),*

and where exactly does one's US citizenship start becoming "unsolid"?
The population of Canada is approx 35 million, whereas population of the United States is over 300 million. Canada is not a large country population wise.
> This is Tesla's first profitable quarter.

I suppose this isn't factoring in the countless enormous government subsidies. I don't really count this as "profitable".
Do we expect that our medical professionals and facilities have the capability of providing the best treatment to everyone all the time? If they do not, how should we decide how to allocate the medical care?
So in the case of AirBnb, their service is helping people find places to stay?
That's not strictly true, but actor Jason Alexander isn't usually known by his birth surname.
Ah, but the British authorities would have definitely seen their action as that of mentally deranged people. Had there been modern psychology then, they might have found them violently anti-authoritarianistic. They might have claimed that these people, instead of harboring true grievances against the King and His Officers, had a mental disease which made them unfit to live among the civilized ones. They might have claimed their brain was defective, diseased, corrupted, disabled of the ability to think properly. That they did not is a credit to British common sense.

O that we too in America today could think people hold valid grievances against our own government instead of painting them broadly with the brush of mental illness and washing our hands of the mistreatment they suffer at the hands of our own agents...
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Yes it is a a small number. Canary in a coal mine, really.

The people who leave go everywhere. Including high tax locations. Income tax is not usually the issue. Estate tax is a big reason. So are the tax penalties imposed by the US for trivial paperwork problems. Hint. You Aussies in the USA have a big big problem with your superannuations.
This big movie from Zach Braff is an indie project. This isn't just semantics - the whole point of it is that Braff wants to maintain creative control, which requires being independent of the major studios.
Those are the traditional choices.
He has to hire a lawyer or the case won't move forward, because you can't represent yourself when filing as a corporation. We'll find out within 14 days if Greenspan actually intended to take this case to court, or if it's just about the awareness/PR it creates.
I read it more to mean, a US citizen with highly attenuated ties to another country; after 3rd generation, you aren't likely to have immediate family overseas, &c. At least, I hope that's what was meant.
Oh, really? Nobody mentioned this in the last thousand times people discussed US health care. Glad you brought it up.
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Wait for profit takers to bring it down a little but yes, if you're willing to hold for the long term -- 5+ years at least -- I believe in it. I think a $100 price target is not absurd. Of coruse, Tesla is so comically far from becoming a mainstream car company that it's not for the feint of heart. It's not their products that will challenge them I don't think. It's the difficult of scaling a car company. No easy task.
Perhaps in this market, Arkansas can leverage economies of scale.
Broadly speaking this is just what happened to us at The Guardian.

Our major takeaways have been a drive to 2FA-by-default for all users, and a move to managing social accounts through intermediaries like HootSuite.
How shall emergency rooms operate? Also, how shall people make an initial determination on care when no diagnostics have yet to be performed?
I was talking about product research.

No you weren't! You were talking about the later stage: "going mainstream", which means efficiency, testing and deployment. But when I mentioned testing and deployment, you said Who cares about that?

that's the #1 reason I'm wrong

The reasons why you are wrong are contained in the damn links I went to the trouble of assembling for you. Why don't you go read them and learn something, instead of hitting me with a comeback? Sheesh.
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I know that for Australia and Canada, at least, marriage really means nothing as far as permanent residency (and from that, citizenship) is concerned.

It's all about the relationship itself. That is to say, you need to prove that the relationship is solid and marriage does not prove that. It's the years before that of living together, joint bank accounts and bills that proves that relationship.
I think people just disagree with your comment...
Is all the money you pay to Airbnb for the service of helping you find a place to stay? Or is most of it being transmitted to the property owner after the end of your stay? Yes, it is; they are acting as a money transmitter. Money transmitters typically take some of the money; they're licensed businesses, not charities.
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He doesn't mean it like that. He's referencing the tendency of other nations to grant citizenship to descendents of citizens. E.g., if my father were German, I'd have a better chance of acquiring German citizenship than if my most recently immigrated ancestors came to the U.S. circa 1840 (which for me happens to be the case).
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Charity is an excuse to keep the poor around in order to look good pretending to help them. As a stopgap in the immediate future? They're good things. As a long term strategy? It's intentionally ineffectual.

No charity has, or ever will, end major problems like hunger or poverty.
I've seen 2 in Pittsburgh. I see one driving what I can estimate is ~30-40miles one way every day.
Are most people leaving simply immigrants who got US citizenship vs real Americans with American parents? Are the majority leaving to the Middle-East? (Edit: just saw from a post that people are leaving to many different locations.)
> The Tesla Model S is an amazing car. But claiming that it's more convenient, or is a better car in every way but range, is a vast overstatement. It would be absolutely awful for me, and many other people with similar needs.

Obviously convenience is different for different people. The OP is probably someone who finds car maintenance very inconvenient and as the owner of a used station wagon I am guessing you are not. If you don't take frequent road trips and have the ability to charge at home, the Model S is indeed very convenient--never have to worry about fuel and hardly ever have to worry about maintenance.
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This is my 30 second project. I was out of ideas. :) You can bookmark the page so whenever you need to jot something down that you're not gonna need later, you can do it without the friction of logging in anywhere.
You think it's that you mentioned a competitor? Most people have never heard of Arcimoto. I haven't. Had you written something informative and showed some honest enthusiasm for the company, nobody would've downvoted you.

Instead, you started it by taking a crap on Tesla which is 1) Not in the spirit of "HACKER news" that you just evoked in your defense and 2) a dumb thing to do if you care about down-votes when we all know there's a lot of Tesla fans here.

I suppose maybe you don't truly care about down-votes, which would make me wonder then why you're complaining about them.
Yes. For some reason, I assumed it was Alan Greenspan.
The worst part of this is that a lot of their advice for stronger passwords is idiotic and dangerous. They've taken methods that do increase entropy, but castrated them by making them systematic and predictable.

1. Using a multi-word passphrase is smart, but only if you generate it randomly. A novice reading their suggestion might think they can come up with a phrase that's meaningful to them. This is very bad advice and will lead to weak pass phrases, guaranteed.

2. The choice to delimit the words in your pass phrase with spaces/hyphens/title-case adds less than 2 bits of entropy to your password. If you do it the same way that everyone else does it (because Intel told you to), it adds zero bits. Randomly mixing in capitalization increases entropy. Predictably mixing in capitalization does not.

3. Adding numbers to your password is a red herring. The most likely effect that advice will have on a user is to encourage them to choose a pass phrase where a number fits in naturally, which will drastically reduce entropy since it constrains the types of phrases they might choose from.

And again, randomly throwing in numbers increases entropy. Predictably throwing them in does not.

4. Adding an exclamation, period, or question mark to then end of your pass phrase adds, again, less than 2 bits of entropy. Once again, random punctuation increases entropy, predictable punctuation does not.

And the icing on the cake is that their example "My 1st Password!" reinforces every possible bad interpretation a novice could make of their advice. Intel should really be ashamed of this piece of work.
This is cool as hell! I want to see somebody actually play a song with this.
You never need to visit a gas station. That's 15 minutes per week that I'd save myself.
You don't need to wait until expiry to sell. There is a lot to be said for options if you use them carefully.
Yes, risk is higher with high leverage and a narrow portfolio. But returns can be also. I think the line about risk adjusted returns being higher in index funds is 3 parts inexperienced investors trying to pick stocks without doing their homework and 7 parts experienced investors trying to convince inexperienced investors to provide mindless liquidity for them to work against. I prefer to make my own buy/sell decisions, and so far it's given me a FAR higher average return than any index fund.
> Give me a proposal that stops poor people from dying of treatable diseases (or at least gives the appearance of legitimately attempting to, as is the current state of things) while preserving market forces, and I'll change my mind.

No such proposal exists. Any proposal that does requires a third party to intervene as either an angel to donate whatever resources are needed or as an agent enforcing policy that one group of people must provide services to another group of people regardless of means.

Both of the aforementioned scenarios do not exist within the realm of market forces because market forces cannot make guarantees.

People will always die because they don't have the resources to fix what ails them. We can only hope to lower the amount of resources to get treatment, and "market forces" are absolutely a legitimate solution to that.

But if you're stuck on "stop people from dying from preventable diseases" or "appearing to do so", then you've implicitly ruled out market forces completely.
I think that continuing to discuss the bad parts, like this, is helpful, albeit only gradually.

The people with this attitude are generally either young, healthy people who have never needed serious medical attention, or people who have always had stable jobs that offer good insurance, and have never seen a hospital bill that didn't have 95% paid by the insurance company first. They've never been injured on the job and then forced to pay a year's salary for the surgery they need to continue working. They've never been prevented from starting a business because their employer's group plan is the only way they can afford their life-saving medication. They've generally only seen the system work. In the rare cases they've seen it fail, it has always been for people they don't know closely, and it always looks like an anomaly.

Showing these people that these problems are real, common, and affecting a huge number of people is a start.
The following has a working example of that repo. I really like the implementation, and it gives wildly different results than the Intel site. http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/209/zxcvbn/test/index.htm...