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In the end, thought, your parent post is correct.

It's still wrong.

The PPACA passed the senate before Ted Kennedy died. When it became clear that the republicans wouldn't vote for any provision, the democrats had two options.

1. Start over with a new, more aggressive bill

2. Pass the senate bill in the house

Since Scott Brown took away the 60-seat supermajority in the senate, the republicans could have completely scuttled any bill at all in the senate, preventing even modest changes to health care.

The D's had no option but to pass the PPACA.

* * * Late Edit since people take exception to my last line above:* * *

The D's technically did have a choice to not pass the PPACA. However, since 0 republicans would vote for any health care reform, their two options were either pass PPACA in the house, or not pass any health care reform. If they had neglected to pass any health care bills, all of their political capital would have been wasted along with several years of debate in congress. It was clear at the time that the 2010 census would provide numerous gerrymandering opportunities to the Rs (who had state-level majorities in many states), which would lead to unavoidable democratic losses in the next election. Add to those losses the impact of a non-presidential election cycle, and the wasted political capital and lack of progress on health care reform, and it was clear that for health care reform to pass in the decade, it would have to be the PPACA.
Your website is eating the back button. I HATE that.
Using VisualVM to profile Clojure code
Since it's the second time it's happened, can you claim that they didn't fix it properly the first time (when it was under warranty)?
You better hope there is a market for your app/SaaS/whatever when you finally release...just saying.
IMDb has a data dump: http://www.imdb.com/interfaces

It's kinda a mess to parse through it and get the data in though.
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This implies that the author will add an upper limit to the number of these accounts (and that the limit will be low enough to actually matter), being potentially unfair to people who are being denied the option (or at least inequitable when compared with the people who received it). It also places a burden on the author to actively prune free accounts that aren't being used, lest they all end up in the hands of non-users.
What was their policy? And why did you leave to the US as opposed to another province?
It is unfortunate that you can't decompress for a month or two in Florence, or a similarly beautiful place. If you ever plan to visit Italy again, please let me know; there's a bunch of very interesting people to meet in Florence, including the mayor, Matteo Renzi (candidate for Prime Minister in 2014) and Paolo Barberis, founder of Dada.it, now founder of the accelerator nana bianca. And others.
I'm migrating from a 2011 Macbook Air to a Surface Pro w/ type cover and am thusfar enjoying the experience. Battery life and performance for most of my setup is adequate; battery life is actually better than the air, but to be fair the air had less memory and often has 3+ JVM procs going. Type cover 2 is adequate for development, touch cover 2 does not seem click with me. The biggest shift is really trying to move into Windows for fun-dev (as opposed to corporate-dev). I miss spaces and still feel a gap between navigating iterm2 against darwin and conemu against powershell. Chocolatey serves the purpose of homebrew very, very well. The Metro/Modern UI / Desktop schism for multi-tasking needs a expectations check... basically you are in one or the other experience, and AFAIK you cannot split-screen a Metro App and Desktop App.

Oh, and calibration of pen in the corners still feel off even after the 130/272 pt calibration task which gets ultimately ignored by wacom feel drivers.

Edit: Tomb Raider & Saints Row 3 run at playable framerates in low settings when in battery mode (as opposed to charging mode); this is important if gaming is an important data point to you. When people have been discussing gaming performance, I think reviewers have been tethered to an outlet, which probably is more generous with allocating hardware to games. The one USB slot and Windows 8 were fine w/ third party xbox 360 controller bluetooth dongles after installing official drivers. snes8x (the metro app version of snes9x) makes for a fun plane ride. :) OH, and audio coming out of the surface pro is surprisingly good for an ultraportable. As a tablet, the weight balance in portrait mode feels off but web browsing is pretty fantastic in portrait. On some sites that aggressively optimize for the fold, you might even see some significant white space at the bottom of a page. Kindle books (mobi) not purchased from amazon (e.g. O'Reilly, PragProg, etc) aren't supported in the app. But if you buy ebooks from a great publisher like PragProg you have them in epub and PDF format. For programming books, epub doesn't seem to work out well, even in the popular Freda app. Then again, without the bells/whistles, I've enjoyed the code formatting advantages of reading PDF files. If you're wetware supports it, the bizarre aspect ratio affords for a great PDF book reading experience when reading 2 pages per screen in landscape mode.
You would not have to limit yourself to a frequency attack. You could also match decoded text against a word dictionary.
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Just moor those things out in international waters, float them a fiber line and say hello to the new floating Google Arcology.
Have they built floating data centers before? It seems unlikely for them to test a new technology by building multiple prototypes at once.

Would floating data centers allow them to avoid laws by operating out of international waters?
I broke my pinky toe when I was younger. The first doctor I went to said I needed to have surgery to place a pin in my toe and then have it taken out a month later, being relegated to walking on crutches for a whole month. I was told that if I didn't get the surgery/pin then my toe wouldn't heal properly and it could hurt for the rest of my life. I went to a second, more reputable doctor and he told me to just wear a boot for a week or two and start wearing shoes when the pain subsided. My toe is completely fine now and I have had zero problems. Since then I have definitely been wary of doctors.
Buzzy Photo App Frontback Shuns Twitter Interest, Raises Millions Instead
Joseph, OR, where the guy with the "Hobbit House" lives is a really unique place. There are a lot of people who live on very little there - many are artists, some are hermits, most are just plain poor as it is a difficult place to make a living. My family ranched there for several generations and we still spend vacation time in the area. The people that live there - and really, you could extrapolate this to much of middle america - are living for a lifestyle, not in pursuit of the almighty dollar. It's pretty typical in Joseph to see a $50K pickup and $30K snowmobiles in front of a 40 year old single-wide trailer - whatever money they have goes into their "toys." Is this existence better or worse than the urban "keeping up with the Jones?" Depends on what you want in life. But make no mistake about it, even someone who chooses to downgrade their wants and needs doesn't automatically have life easy. There is already snow on the ground around Joseph and it won't warm up again until about June. I've been snowed on there on the 4th of July. You could spend thousands just keeping yourself from freezing to death. The Oregon department of fish and wildlife has to deal with a lot of poachers - some because they feel entitled to a "lifestyle" but others, it's probably pure survival. I see articles like this as mostly propaganda, trying to position the reality in which most americans live as a positive choice rather than the consequences of stagnate incomes, et al. We have shanty towns, hunger, malnutrition, unclean water - all the problems of the developing world - but they are perhaps less visible and/or effect a smaller number of the overall population in a visible way.
There's a ton. There's even some new ones sprouting up. Have you checked out the NYC Innovative Tech meetup? http://www.meetup.com/innovative-tech
Impressive. I backed a few projects and have not regretted it since.

Here's to the next five million.
Shameless plug, my employer has done pretty well with direct marketing on Facebook, which from this thread seems to be way more common here than it is elsewhere (I guess branding's more corporate?) So if you're curious shoot me an email (it's on my profile).
Is Facebook vulnerable to people not taking Facebook and its 'likes' seriously anymore? I've started liking every page that is 'suggested' by Facebook only because I've grown bored with Facebook and was curious what result this would have. I started thinking about the implications of this becoming a trend and it seems Facebook would lose most of its value to brands and companies if Facebook 'likes' stopped corresponding to real world 'likes'.
That is very, very scary. I wonder if this problem also exists in other countries besides the U.S.

AFAIK it's nigh impossible to get away with this in the EU, or at least in Belgium. Belgium's worried about an increasing C-section rate, but at 20% it's still far below those in the U.S. it seems (which was ±33% in 2010/2011).

Also: is the cost actually USD $60,000 or is that a typo? That'd be about 10 times the rate in Belgium!
Now no one has an excuse not to come to the next Watsi / Teespring party!
Yes. Facebook marketing is dead. You shouldn't even try it and just go to other places. It's literally impossible to get a positive ROI there so just move along, nothing to see here.
As I typed that, I thought, "I wonder how long it will be before Carter corrects me on the Haskell comment". :)
With all that cash, apple should buy something..I thought it was idiotic that they didn't buy waze. It would've been the second wind their maps app needed. They seem to be totally aloof to the fact that most of their in-house software is considered awful.

Edit: I know Tim Cook mentioned that they make an acquisition every 6 weeks, but they're never high profile acquisitions that would show the market they are trying to change the game.
Medicare is essentially single-payer for old people, yet it's identified in the article as part of the problem. Like other government programs, it's so much better at measuring inputs (amount spent and procedures performed) than outputs, that there's an institutional bias in favor of overspending and overlooking corruption. ("Oh, no, that's not 10% more fraud and inefficiency this year, it's reaching 10% more of the needy.")

There's only one other sector of the US economy that's "single-payer": military procurement. And that's not known for its spending efficiency, either.

So it's not simply "single-payer" that magically saves money, but the specifics of the incentive system that's set up, and the other precedents from American federal governance are not positive.

Thank you for acknowledging that the main mechanism that a federal medical buyer monopsony (aka nationalization/single-payer) could use for cost-control is, essentially, "death panels" who say no to many treatments currently performed.

But can the American political system embrace that step, or will it wind up with single-payer without cost-controls? We wind up with the kinds of giant federal programs that can make it through the political system, and get implemented by the bureaucracy... not the kinds of idealized programs existing only in advocates' minds.

Finally, in single-payer systems, getting "whatever you want" done "at your own expense" is often effectively prohibited. For example, when the official system has particular limits (like price controls, limited participating providers, or waiting lists) for a covered procedure, it has often been illegal, in US Medicare or Canada's programs [1], to purchase that same procedure out-of-pocket/out-of-system for a negotiated price. Once you've nationalized, there's even a certain logic to such prohibitions: the system is straining under budget caps, and you can't risk the wealthy siphoning off capacity/copayments that could help support the common base.

[1] http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/freedom-
"Bismarck: A Life" by J. Steinberg. An object lesson in overweening use of power and personality. But lessons for effective leadership nevertheless.
> As a white, heterosexual, cis, male, I’m granted, from birth, an extraordinary amount of privilege. One part of this privilege is the ability to make aloneness a choice; rarely, if at all, in our society will I be forced into aloneness because I’m different.

What a completely absurd thing to say.
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The political system will always revert to 2 major parties. That cannot change, it is the nature of the system.

I believe runoff elections would though. Currently if one party runs multiple candidates something like this happens:

Democrat 1 receives 33% of the vote.
Democrat 2 receives 33% of the vote.
Republican 1 receives 34% of the vote.

Democrats had two strong candidates with some differing views, and decided to let both candidates run so the people would have more of a choice. The result is that 66% prefer a Democrat but a Republican ends up in office.

(Spare me the "their both corrupt" speech, I use these parties only as an obvious example.)

This called the spoiler effect, and a runoff vote would prevent it. Right now more choices in the vote results in chaos and the candidate most people DON'T want ending up in office. With a runoff vote, there is no negative with more choice.
Car sales people also talk people into spending too much on cars. It's the myth that doctors aren't in business and the interference with that market that has created the nightmare of our current system. Did you notice how difficult it is to determine the price of medical services? You call this a free market?
Where's a good place to find (and list) tech events that happen in NYC?
Firefox 25 has some big changes in the graphics area on OS X. It removed a layer of abstraction used for drawing content and switched to off-main-thread compositing. Either of these changes could have caused the speed up you're seeing.
That's what the power cover is for.
Redis has keyspace notifications [0], so you can make your iterator aware that it should possibly restart.

[0] http://redis.io/topics/notifications
??? Maybe the first online store builder, but not the first web app...
New trend: Deep thinking must be done at parties. But by yourself.
Interesting product, though some of the language in the video and on page felt a little awkward.For example, the voice in the video says "just not only that!..." I don't know if it's just me but that does't seem right?
If you're looking for the clickable version of the graphic on the OP (where the Read More links work), it is here:

http://www.docker.com/about_docker/
I do like the release schedule for Firefox.

However, I haven't used it in years, except for testing. Philosophically, I agree more with Mozilla than Google, but I just can't seem to get past three things:

1) Chrome gets out of my way. The UI is unobtrusive. Firefox is still bulkier here.
2) For whatever reason, more websites render oddly in Firefox/Gecko than in Chrome/Webkit.
3) Chrome, being a part of the Google ecosystem, plays very nicely with my Android phone.

This is not to say I'm not open to switching back to Firefox, but I'm going to need a compelling reason to uproot my workflow and abandon my apps and extensions.

Firefox 25 doesn't appear to give me that compelling reason.
Assuming a random distribution of quotes from the twitter stream, and assuming there isn't any control on repeats, how long can we expect to be able to recreate the movies (well, the portions with dialog) in gif form?
This is exactly right. Why do people corner themselves into mutually exclusive, absolute truths, with absolutely no room for compromise? It just doesn't make any sense.

When I was in 4th grade I wrote a country report on the US. When I got to the economics portion of the encyclopedia, I still remember the opening line..

"The United States is a mixed economy operating predominantly under capitalistic principles.."

Why settle for one when you pick the best from both worlds?

Unbelievable how much this affects people's lives..you can ONLY like Go or C++..you can ONLY like Apple OR non apple products..you either watch Art House Cinema or you watch Hollywood blockbusters, absolutely not allowed to watch both..you're either 100% capitalist or 100% socialist.

The idea of the "truth lies somewhere in the middle" is at least as old as the Greeks (that quote was attributed to Aristotle when I first read it), and yet every single day, the same people regurgitate the same tired arguments to the point that I'm starting to sound like a broken record myself in response.
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"Unix, the open-source operating system." - Really? This mistake speaks very seriously about the author of the article.
Indeed. There are plenty of cases of local and/or state level corruption in the US, but there is also the FBI who has the responsibility of tracking that corruption and prosecuting offenders.

In the US, there are "the police who watch the police": the FBI. But their powers are relatively limited in scope... the FBI does not do routine traffic stops, or patrol neighborhoods. So even if the FBI were corrupt, the typical citizen wouldn't come across them very often.

Is there a local Mayor or Governor who is accepting bribes or illegal kickbacks? Call the FBI on them. Is there a local police officer who is giving trouble? Are the local courts too corrupt to prosecute the officer?

Then prosecute him in Federal Court, for federal corruption crimes.

Similarly, FBI Agents are still subject to the rules of the towns and states that they go under. Even if the Feds were corrupt... the State Attorney can prosecute any FBI Agent that oversteps their bounds.
This is great! Thanks :)
Anyone know of any other open source projects that one can contribute to?
Clicking around a bit I think the only conclusion I draw is that variability from one movie to the next is much greater than any overall trend of an actor's career.
Pretty much. I went to one of those places in Tokyo, years ago, where you pay to pet cats and it was a depressing place. There were cats who were into it, but there were cats who clearly didn't want to be there (and some who'd been confined to cages that looked like little human apartments and were pacing constantly inside them).
Capitation is only viable for primary care physicians which is not what the OP is about. You can't pay surgeons, radiologists, and most specialists a per patient fee because they don't have a consistent patient base. Also their patients vary wildly depending on their disease, this is not the case for PCP.

Capitation also has it's own perverse incentives, you are motivated to work less, spend longer with each patient (beyond what is appropriate, such as shooting the breeze with patients) and take more breaks. It is almost as bad as giving physicians a flat salary, you don't promote efficiency, turnaround, and accessibility.

Capitation is ideal for the individual patient provided they can get an appointment, but is bad for the system overall. Medicine is primarily concerned with the well being of the general population rather than an individual.
If the case is so clear, then they will be convicted with the full rights as the rest of us, won't they?

Once upon a time, I was waiting in the Illinois state supreme court room for my then SO to be sworn in as a new member of the bar. Behind me, two little old ladies were chatting. "What they did to those babies, they do not deserve a trial." The topic was the (alleged, at the time) Oklahoma City bombing perpetrators.

That is an interesting line of thought, isn't it? Bad people do not deserve good trials. Obviously only good people deserve good trials. Wouldn't it be wonderfully efficient to simply dispense with the trials for all those bad people? In fact, why have trials at all? Good people do not need trials. We just let a cop or judge decide who is good or bad. The good people deserve trials, but since they are good, we can just set them free. The bad people, right to jail for you. Done!

The trial system as a tool of justice rests on the assumption that even very very bad people deserve fair trials so that society can make a sober assessment of whether and to what degree they should be accountable for the particular crimes. Otherwise it is all theater.

If you do not positively believe in open and fair trials for bad people, do not pretend you believe in trials at all.
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I don't think single payer is the right answer especially for the USA. The US has a much stronger bent towards freedom, independence and self determination. I think some sort of hybrid, a la France, is more appropriate.
Sorry for the trouble you had to go through. If you have access to an FTP client, you can go to ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest

or you can go to http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases... from a traditional web browser as well

Cheers!
How Venezuelan Used ‘Scrape’ to Make Six Times Her Salary
reminds me of devopsreactions[0].

[0]: http://devopsreactions.tumblr.com/
Of course! I'm also on twitter @gabrtv or #deis on Freenode.
Well, to be honest, I completely ignored the "putting Firefox installer in a file share and be done" part, because there are infinite reasons why an offline installer is needed (and also because I already saw people killing themselves in this discussion).

Entering in much detail of a specific use case is not really a helpful way to leave feedback, but it's understandable since users have the perception that their use case is completely ignored/forgotten.
Check out NYC Innovative Tech Meetup - it's a different vibe. Small, but growing. Mostly doers, not talkers. And from a wider range of industries and tech sectors: http://www.meetup.com/Innovative-Tech/events/132311232/
I understand that is a concern in many situations. The problem here though is that you don't get the "streaming" benefits in any case: you still have to include the length-in-number-of-items of the compound type and the lengths of each individual member item in any case.
I think we're talking past each other. All I'm saying is, the specifics of how you upset your employer are probably irrelevant. Anything you do to piss off your employer is probably grounds for termination.

I'm not disputing the risk of doing a temp-to-perm project for a prospective new employer. But the operators of these programs would probably retort by saying that they're the last step before confirming that you're giving notice anyways.
HN was not impressed a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3751893
I'm unfamiliar with gstreamer. Can you elaborate on this weird way?
I mean we, chimps and, dolphins evolved on the same planet at the same time and have vast tracts of DNA in common yet the gap is huge.

So anything evolving at a different time period in a different environment (in the unlikely event it developed intelligence at all) would be so far beyond us, we would be, at best, as interesting as dolphins. Even if their development were ahead of us by only 1/100 of one percent of the time stars have been around, that still put them a 1.3 million years in advance of us. About the divergence time between us and a chimp. And chimps do make things, they clean twigs to scoop edible bugs and use leaves for umbrellas. But we have no interest in these things and they have no understanding of our idea of commerce even if we did.

But aliens per se? Sure. Indeed there maybe even bacteria as close as Mars and Europa.