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c. Insurance.
Ayn Rand did actually state her opinion on health insurance. According to her, it's completely proper if a group of people choses to create a system of insurance as long as they're not forcing anyone to use that system.
Check any biography or article on her life.
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"spend their time denouncing me, while plagiarizing my ideas".

She hated people who were doing what she was who didn't put here on a pedestal, that all. This doesn't make libertarianism fundamentally different to her philosophy. It just puts up a mirror to her narcissistic batshittedness.
It is amazing the things people expect to be emailed. Can you email me the MRI scan? It's over 1500 images. Can you email it?
Please re-read the thread as you've completely missed my point. I've not asked the person who 'confessed' to 'atone' for anything (that doesn't mean I agree with what happened).

My problem is with the comment that does nothing more than lambast someone without providing anything constructive. Offering some comment on how to approach such a situation next time, or what he could now, or projects he might think about contributing to, or anything else that might be useful to the person who originally posted or others reading the thread. As it stands, it's not much better than an ad-hominem.
It is strange how well conditioned people are to regard roads as this Great Social Problem even as they go about buying cheaper and cheaper stuff that does more and more everyday thanks to capitalism.
This article is what happens to your mind when you watch mainstream media and believe what they say.

If you believe you are a certain way, you will be treated that way. Change your own perception and you change (your) world.

By focusing on what you dont like, you are living the reality you dont like.

I love all girls in tech by the way. Without them, office would be very boring. Some are pretty, some are cool, some are annoying. Because they are people, and thats what people are.
This fits with my experience. It's not that Indian engineers are inherently bad, it's that they are often uninterested in what they do for a living. They're not passionate. They feel forced into engineering because of social expectations. And it shows.
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If the implementations of hashes and various ciphers are done properly, and the combinations were truly pluggable rather than hardcoded as individual ciphersuites, you don't need to test every combination (other than for interop, to ensure that nobody else has stupid bugs due to not implementing them in a truly pluggable manner). What's the theory, that SHA3-256 that passes basic validation tests and has been audited, still won't hash certain things properly? Or that Salsa20, properly audited and validated, will work with 256 bit ecdsa but not 384 bit?

Getting rid of MD5, DES, and SHA1 is easy with pluggable algorithms. Just remove those ciphersuites from the ssl implementations.

The reason it's a pain in the ass to get rid of those old ciphers and hashes is not that the algorithms are pluggable, it's that nobody wants to force everyone else to upgrade (and force other ssl implementations to implement enough new ciphersuites that the old ones can be removed), right?
Actually, the majority of the money for curing the diseases that affect the most people comes from government.
Whoa... They could at least have sent an email about this. Or simply removed the possibility to pay using Paypal!

Anyway, thanks for the information. I'll try to order one using my credit card.
What happens when that HOA needs to make a new rule? From what you described it sounds like any person on the losing end of an argument is being violated, and an HOA that has to deal with anything but some basic set of agreed upon rules will not satisfy the non-violation requirements.
I think we can score this as a big +1 for time tested techniques like political donations as a way to get what you want.
I'd give it to Snowden; Manning I'm not so sure about.

I may be alone on this one, but I think Snowden and Manning are very different.

I think Manning's actions were a lot sloppier than Snowden's. Yes, Manning courageously uncovered crimes, and that's to be acknowledged. But, in my opinion, he wasn't careful enough about the impact of what he was releasing, specifically all the diplomatic communications. He seemed to have a stance that all information should be public by definition. I don't agree with that. I'm too practical -- I don't see how that would work at all. Further, I honestly think it undermined the democratic process to indiscriminately make it all public. Maybe I should be blaming wikileaks for this approach.

In contrast, Snowden has shown the world's people that it's on candid camera on the US tax payer's dime -- illegally and unbeknownst toa almost everyone, including most of Congress. What he's uncovered is fundamentally undemocratic and very, very dangerous. That's worth a blown whistle. In my opinion, it does a disservice to Snowden to lump Manning together with him.
how can I even know what will make me happy

Do you have any ideas in mind? Even the slightest vague inkling like "this topic or activity has me curious"? Or are you applying to college because it's the next-thing-to-do and that's what everyone else expects of a high-school senior?

If you don't know what to do, make a basic plan to 1) list out a few things that you're curious about and 2) try them. It's really that simple. Don't get into analysis paralysis. Pick something and try it. If you stick with it and it sucks, try something else. This is real life now, and you're completely free to try whatever you want. The key is to try something though, don't bury your talents in the ground (so to speak) and get stuck in fear. Once you get older, you'll realize anyway that fulfillment is often correlated with your attitude... some activities make it easier to have a good attitude, so it's your mission to find them.

A short aside on College:

When I chose to go to college and bury myself under a crushing mountain of school-loan debt, I went because I had clarity about what I really enjoyed and where I wanted to end up... in my 5th grade yearbook other kids were writing down "singer" and "astronaut", but I wrote down that I wanted to be a "Computer Programmer / Hacker". I had zero self-awareness about it back then, but it authentically came from a heart that loved to build/engineer things.

Don't apply to college with NO PLAN and pray you'll end up somewhere, unless of course you have parents who are paying for all that ;) At the end of the day, this is your life now, and if your plan involves taking a year to figure yourself out, that's a completely valid life course to take, too.
Because yay money! Yay speaking engagements! Yay getting a parking space in Berkeley!
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A bit of unmentioned history: the NRA wasn't in the business, so to speak, of endorsing candidates until after the 1977 Cincinnati Revolt (at the annual meeting), so Reagan or Carter were the first Presidents they could possibly endorse. Carter was anti-gun but smart enough not to be visibly, Reagan signed the Gun Owners Protection Act of 1986 reigning in the BATF, without which we very possibly wouldn't have a gun culture today (or perhaps we'd have tested out this thesis of armed resistance and revolt).

ADDED: Every major party Presidential candidate after 1977 has been a gun grabber with the possible exception of Romney (details on request), the NRA's only been able to endorse the least worst, or in 1992 and 1996 endorse neither.

The bit about the "1920s and '30s" is more fair, but if you read the full text and know about all that the NRA didn't support, including the cited inclusion of handguns in the NFA of '34, "forefront" falls short of the mark. And of course per the Cincinnati Revolt that NRA isn't the modern NRA, which nowadays has done a 180 on concealed carry, the gravamen of this article's claim. Major NRA figure Marion Hammer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Hammer) was the leader in establishing Florida's 1987 shall issue law, which opened the floodgates so that today 42 states, soon to be 43 with Illinois, have shall issue regimes.

Circling back to MLK, today he wouldn't have much difficulty getting a concealed carry permit (or set of them) good in most of the nation, including all of the South.
Geeze. This could result in some catastrophic errors. An order for 900 servers instead of 200. $7M loss instead of $1M in your quarterly earnings. Pricing your product at $3 instead of $8. Makes you realize you need some redundancy and double-checks for important communications.
The startup community needs to make its voice heard by commenting on these proposed rules...
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The libertarians of her era were closer to the anarchists that this essay is attacking. Rand explicitly disagreed with them on issues like blizzard cleanup.

Both Ayn Rand and most modern libertarians have little objection to the government provision of public goods like blizzard cleanup. They simply object to the government provision of private goods, such as diabetes treatment.
Where is this magical "open source community" which is eager to examine dull business code? It's a myth. The Debian project shipped a broken PRNG for ages, and that is a popular project.
I switched majors 2 times (3 if you count a Bursar mistake). I signed up for CS, changed my major before I started, then changed back to CS 1 year in.

It's really not a big deal. I thought I wanted to do engineering, and after my first internship I realized it wasn't for me. I got to try out new things, made a couple of non-CS friends, and only lost a few credit hours (almost everything transferred as "electives").

For freshman year, you're going to be be taking mostly your generic core classes, like sciences, English, and math. Maybe you'll take one or two major related classes.

If you're stuck between majors, try taking the intro class of both majors. They're generally not major restricted like the higher level classes, and you can decide while taking them. Maybe you'll even decide dual majoring is for you. There's also sometimes "certificates", that's a smaller requirement than a minor.

Remember that even Steve Jobs took classes outside of his core major, and those "unimportant" design classes influenced what he built. College is an experience to open you to new ideas, so might as well take advantage of that.

Still, don't stick around too long, since you're paying for those experiences. It'll get mighty expensive if you choose professional student as your major.
It will get ripped of your bike while you're waiting for the light to go green.
I always plan to vote against Dianne Feinstein. I just need someone to vote for that I hate less.

Ditto Barbara Boxer.
It's typically government issued.
Just that phrase is the best thing about the startup engineering course.
My first thought was, "I wonder if this has anything to do with copy protections related to anti counterfeiting?"

Not that I have any valid reasons to consider this.
"Yes, the transition is harsh, but it's getting better".

Exactly. It's getting better, but it was a hell of an annoying time to be between both. Thus why I've come to hate python. I gave three simple examples of things that annoyed me. You can't just dismiss them like they're not worth anything.

The process is supposed to be simple. I.e. pip install <library>. If you have to clone it, 2to3 it, fix remaining bugs, it's a hell of a pain in the ass.. and just a plain waste of productivity and time. It would have definitely been possible to have python3 backward compatible or slightly incompatible. What happened however is more of a "Let's screw up all existing code to fix a couple things".

To take on your example, yes, using print as a function is cool. But how in hell can't you make it possible to use map(print, ..) in python2.x? It's just about being anal about consistency that print should be a function and not a statement, thus screwing all existing code.

My point is not about if python3 is useful or not.. but more about the way it happened. If you want to make something fully incompatible, fine, but don't do it by screwing everyone who's been using your framework/language/library.

It's like someone deciding that red lights on the road should now be green, and green lights be blue. Let's just change it. Who cares how many accidents will happen?

You might think I'm trolling but I'm not. It's just frustration of literally wasting hours and hours of fixing stuff that was already working (!!!!!!!!!!!!) but isn't anymore. Now, take this time, and multiply it for every production servers that I have running slightly different builds or OS. How in hell something that's been working for 2 years isn't anymore because I updated my os to the latest version? Oh yeah, right, there's a new python version that screwed up every existing scripts. Let's make that the default executable.
There is far more to business than SV start ups funded by VC.
What if you became really attached to said co-worker or business partner, and then they died with a gesture like this?
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That's certainly one way to look at it. On the other hand, the same powerful army has struggled on several occasions recently to put down insurgencies from determined, armed local populations in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Colombia, and several other places. Of course, in a Civil War II situation, there might not be the same constraint to wrap up the operation before popular support dwindles.

Occupying a hostile United States could possibly be the quagmire to end all quagmires.
I'd like to ask whether it's "take one for the team", or "take everything of everyone's shoulders till I perish" because I've been in groups with the latter dynamic.
I'm all for giving it to Snowden. It seems like a lot of people don't really know much about the situation and assume that he's the bad guy, based on what the TV says (that he's a traitor, etc). A lot of people don't even realize that many people consider his actions to be heroic. If he got the NPP, I think the average person might take a second look and realize that there's more to it than what they've heard.
I don't agree with her on the specific point, but I actually agree with her more broadly. If your everyday life doesn't match up with your ideals, you don't have to martyr yourself to be a good person. Hypocrisy is a normal state of affairs. For example, it's okay for me to complain about sweatshops but still buy running shoes that are made in them. It's okay for me to send my kids to a private school because the public schools in my area are terrible, even though I believe in raising taxes to support a high quality public education for everyone and making private schools obsolete.
>you can also easily argue that the prevelance of child pornography is going to increase the amount of people attracted to this "fetish"

Can you argue that so easily? Because I see the claim made very often. I have seen zero strong arguments supporting it. If you think you can argue for this position effectively, I invite you to try.

>Not to mention that considering viewing to be socially acceptable , in itself, damages society (by lowering social norms)

First of all, there's a gigantic difference between switching enforcement efforts away from people who view CP, and making the viewing of CP socially acceptable.

But if you're saying that it harms society to make having sexual attraction to children socially acceptable, I couldn't disagree more. I think the only plausible hope we have for significantly reducing child sexual abuse is a revolution in how our culture understands morality as it applies to internal mental states. If you want to teach someone not to act on urges to harmful behavior, you aren't going to get very far by telling them that they're evil for having the urge in the first place.
This is a good example of why very few libertarians exist in NYC. Fantasy solutions like a thousand different HOA's to plow the streets just don't make much sense when you think about 8 million people spread across hundreds of square miles.
>Their ideas are as worthless.

Just like Socialism which ruined India.
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When you say liberal you are referring to a political leaning. Rand's growing influence is on politics. If people started electing astrological evangelist preachers to government positions and it resulted in policies that they disagreed with, then people would spend a lot more time combatting the phony astrology that the movement is based on. That focus wouldn't make astrology any truer.
When somebody gets TB, regardless of their lifestyle, is it in your best interests that they get a full course of treatment in an isolation ward in hospital, or that they wander the streets coughing blood all over the place and incubate a new drug-resistant strain? Is it in your best interests that tap water is maintained by competing for-profit companies (see Victorian Britain and cholera), and is it better for you to pay 'insurance' to competing for-profit fire services?
I can only find information about them being in two US cities (Seattle and Atlanta) on their homepage.

I would go for Netherlands VPN's. They have strong privacy, very fast networks and no gestapo government.
> The benefits of learning about the maze generally far outweigh the risks of having your idea stolen.

Any evidence for that? Stealth mode seems to work pretty well in big companies
English is my first language, and I'm decent at it. "Boring" is inherently subjective, so stating that it's an opinion would be redundant. I don't usually need to open a statement like that with "It is in my opinion that..." to make it clear that it's an opinion. This is a weird outlier where a few people are taking it to be a statement of fact. At least as many picked up on the fact that it's an opinion without extra words.
Just goes to show that different people like different things (which seems to be forgotten sometimes). personally, I think his videos are fantastic, and quite the furthest thing from boring.
Then again, in all those cases you cite they had a secure rear area, one reason I cite the "Amateurs discuss tactics, professionals discuss logistics" maxim. That's a much, much sticker proposition; as you posit, "the quagmire to end all quagmires", we're an ornery people.
I know it is a hard pill to swallow that such a pedagogical luddite such as Sal Khan is having such a broad and important impact on learning when the professionals are struggling mightily.

Maybe, just maybe, he's on to something that despite years of institutional training 'real' teachers are missing.

Maybe it's important for a student to be able to interact with a lesson over and over again in order to catch a key point they might have missed the first pass.

Maybe it's important for a student to be able to ask other students how they caught on to something on their time scale and in a way that is pseudo-anonymous.

Maybe what makes Khan a great teacher is his breadth and depth of knowledge and context thanks to being a triple undergrad from MIT with backgrounds in math, computer science, and electrical engineering AND a Harvard MBA.

Maybe the institution of teaching is due for an evolutionary shake-up and Khanacademy is it[or at least a taste of things to come].
I cannot speak for the parent, but disagreements can be resolved by independent, third-party arbitration (which may have also been agreed upon by the HOA). This is not to be confused with a territorial monopoly on final arbitration, viz. a government court.
I think the problems many educators have with Sal Khan can be traced back to the media. And, perhaps, what Bill Gates said.

If Khan Academy were just some obscure YouTube channel with instructional videos, the OP wouldn't have wasted his time writing this letter. He would have just moved on and selected another source of instructional videos.

Did you know there are 60+ alternatives to Khan Academy? As well as several easy ways to record your own Khan Academy-style videos? Alternatives abound.

Unfortunately, most aren't aware of these alternatives. The media has, for better or worse, made Khan Academy seem like the de facto choice. And therein lies the real source of the criticism KA has faced, in my opinion.

You know what will be really cool? When someone creates a really good rating, review, and curation service of instructional videos. (I've heard from a few who've said they are working on this already, BTW. So hopefully it's coming soon!)
Why does Snowden deserves it?
I like inline code comments, especially when the original commits are not well factored. But I find it too common for a discussion starting from a patch to gradually become general and ultimately involve dozens of people that had no interest in the original patch, but care a lot about the general discussion. Sometimes these involve multiple projects, in which case cross-posting to another mailing list makes sense. With GitHub Issues, you generally tag individuals rather than groups of perhaps hundreds of people (most of whom filter on their own criteria).

Later, how well does search find the 100-message design discussion starting on a commit in a PR that was later amended and then rejected? And what if you move the repository elsewhere?
Seems like a similar idea to seeing the future because you're living in it - domain knowledge and connections are a powerful thing; the 'Self' part of PG's essay on startup ideas (http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html) is about this, albeit from a different angle.
OP seems to be reading "figure out how to do it in a way that doesn't suck" as "imagine a way that wouldn't suck."

'Figure how to do it' is nice and specific: for a physical product, figuring out how to do it so it doesn't suck includes manufacturing plans. For things that have a network effect, figuring out how to do it so it doesn't suck includes having some marketing plan that lets you get it off the ground. e.g.: big launch; minimally seeded community (e.g. for dating, find every world war I reenactment enthusiast to join - maybe htere are only a few thousand of them - and iterate on them to begin with); fake having the network effect already; or simply piggy-back on someone else's network through some kind of arrangement.

"Figuring out how to do it" includes, well, figuring out how to do it.

It's not enough to imagine how it might be better. You have to imagine and find a path to it that you can actually do.

If you can't do it, pick a different idea! It's called a barrier to entry for a reason; you're not going to figure out how to create a solar-powered electric flying segway if you only have an arduino and a few scrap parts to do it with. If you can't think of a plan, then pick something you can think of a plan for.
I think the current wisdom is that neither is perfect, they have different strengths and weaknesses. Some aspects of the economy are better managed using open markets with some regulation and others are better managed centrally by the government. A more current debate is to find the best mix.

It would be very hard to argue in favor of pure capitalism or socialism.
To make this point even further, a lot of what Manning leaked were mundane diplomatic cables of no national security or criminal consequence (e.g. Clinton discussing how they book frequent flier miles for diplomats). In these instances he was merely a saboteur of otherwise private conversations.
There is nothing nefarious about protectionism. Follow the money is an excellent principle if you want to understand why policy is made the way it is intervening (an exceptionally rare thing in the first place) on behalf of Apple makes perfect sense to me. I don't like it, but it does make sense.
It's time Google came to grips