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@emodendroket I didn't fat-shame anyone. I'm struggling with self-discipline myself, like most of the planet. What I'm saying is that many (there a few exeptions) people I met could lose weight by eating healthy food in moderation and not sitting around all day. It takes time, it takes effort and, unfortunately, it takes money to afford anything other than junk food.

There's nothing inherently wrong with being fat, sometimes people prefer to focus on other things. However, if you want to change, I have the duty to encourage you toward a healthier path. Sugar coating things – i.e. "you can do nothing about it" – doesn't help.
A third of China's population are still farmers -- compared to the US's low single digits. It's per capita GDP is somewhere around Peru's and Iraq's. While this has been rapidly changing, it is yet to be seen how much of China's rapid growth the last couple of years is propped up by government malinvestment (ghost cities, etc.). We've seen high growth rates in many countries throughout history. The question is whether this is sustainable, and how much of the low-hanging fruit of growth China has already used up.
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> However, I still don't see what all the uproar is about.

If you don't get even after all the explanations given yo you it is simply because you don't want to get it
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You could write the same article in reverse if you had atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome (aHUS). Soliris, the only drug available to treat aHUS, was launched in the US back in 2011 (and all payers cover it), but only just this year did the NHS decide to fully fund it in the UK.[1]

[1]http://www.pharmaphorum.com/articles/nice-backs-full-nhs-fun...
Hard question and I went myself through this process two weeks ago.

At the end I had Wordpress and Tumblr on the shortlist and went for Tumblr finally. At the end it heavily depends on your requirements. If want to self host and are heavily into SEO and customization then rather Wordpress, if you want built-in virality, a huge community and a social network touch then Tumblr is your friend. Both are quite powerful but I liked Tumblr a bit more because it feels/looks fresher and I needed it for a private blog and not for creating tons of traffic. Then I'd go for Wordpress with a custom domain and selfhosted.
Yeah, searching any user's starred projects. Yours or somebody else. Try it out at http://stuff.hanula.com/starhub/
Hey, you never know when you are going to encounter a foreign power outlet. (??)
This is probably the single biggest factor that's keeping me from moving out to CA. There's a lot of great companies out there and I think I could learn a lot but I also don't want to go broke.

Edit: How are people making it without a really high salary or living with three other people?
> there has been zero selection for anything in the past 200 years

This is false to the point of being absurd. For there to be zero selection, mating would have to be completely random, as would death at reproductively viable ages.
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Apparently it varies based on the plan:

http://www.phrma.org/sites/default/files/pdf/exchanges-menta...

(In some bronze plans, up to $4300 of deductible applies to medications)

The article is not very careful. It goes from saying the drug is cheaper over in Queens to the "$720 a month my medication costs in America".
I wish I was a high-profile VC. Then I too would be writing essays exhorting people to take on high amounts of risk and to spend their 20s and 30s grinding through 60 hour workweeks, so I could grow my portfolio. Because, we're losing to China!

Honestly, it has never been clear to me why "growth" was the metric that we, as a society, have been optimizing for. Who stands to benefit? You? The middle class? Everyone? Or... wealthy investors and a few lucky founders?

Why not focus on, say, average income per citizen (adjusted for purchasing power)? Or even more radical, why not stop using money as a proxy for wealth, and start optimizing for average citizen well-being? Is China beating us on that point?

Or why not see further and optimize for the growth of our scientific knowledge and our technological capabilities?

Economic growth is generally praised because it is a weak proxy for things such as the wealth of a society (assumed to be well distributed) and its technological progress. So why not directly aim for these core goals?
Damn, I was working on something really really similar. Well... I guess I have work to do.
Look at Jared Diamond over here. Just because we're plastered with ads doesn't mean we like em.
I was taught this in my college history classes in reference to cholera outbreaks in the USA in the 1800s. We were taught people use "half beer" which was 50/50 mixed with water, as a safety measure.

I have no idea if it is real. It was just what the book and professor said.
The slope gets a little slippery from there. Your phone needs a charger. If you really need to be productive then laptop or laptop replacing tablet, its charger, and a way to connect it to a cell network. But there's no denying Matt Mulligan is excessive here.
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TIL

Although Rebol can be used for programming,
writing functions, and performing processes,
its greatest strength is the ability to
easily create domain-specific languages or
dialects.
— Carl Sassenrath [Rebol author]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebol
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>>Weight loss is rarely the primary goal of FMT and its efficacy in that realm remains unproven.

Well, doesn't this case demonstrate that FMT can be used to have an effect on weight, albeit in the negative sense? So something is going on here, and while the science is unproven, it sure seems like this incident demonstrates that it has promise.
> * if I am paying for something, I certainly expect not to be the product.*

And yet cable exists.

Pay $30+/month to watch 15 minutes of commercials an hour.
I disagree with a lot of this.

The Chinese value the appearance of working hard, not actual hard work. Cheating among Chinese students is pandemic. Chinese companies regularly publish misleading or outright fraudulent earning statements and quarterly reports. While the Chinese government seems to be taking steps to reverse these trends, it will take a long time to undo their culture of corruption. Contrast this with the American culture of honesty; fraud and cheating are national scandals, not the norm.

Second, the US currency is the world reserve currency because the world trusts that the US will keep paying interest on the debts. A trillion dollar debt is not actually that large, and this is reflected in the near-zero interest rates on treasury bonds. If there was a belief in the market that America would no longer be able to pay off the debts, interest rates would be sky-high. But the opposite is true. The national debt is just a talking point for people who don't understand economics. (The largest owner of American debt is...America!)

Finally, I am unsure what evidence there is that the US culture has moved away from innovation, risk-taking, etc. If anything, there are many more entrepreneurs today than there ever has been before; the maker movement, youtube celebrities, and startup culture is evidence of a growing number of people who are not employees of large corporations, but independent businesses.
> implicit discrimination towards engineers

Never. There is discrimination on social status in China, which is determined by wealth.

> In Chinese college, the "elite majors" including cooperation and government management usually have the highest bar of admission.

This is not true anymore.
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As a native Chinese (I'm tired to claim this every time when commenting on China related topics.), I think the op needs to do a lot more homework on China. It's not an easy task to know something you are not familiar with with just numbers, even if one has more than enough numbers.
You haven't backed up a single one of your claims either, and you've made some pretty big claims ("nearly everything I have read is [that obesity is caused by lack of self-control]").

Also I didn't make a single personal attack. However you have (calling me "condescending"). See we can both play the victim card.
Not right out of the gate since I'd have a hard time trusting the 3rd party. If the reputation of the company was good enough, I'd consider it, but not sure I'd get the value out of it since I call Comcast 1-2 a year.
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I'll concede that point.

Addiction may be more physically/genetically based than we currently realise.
If you can get people to give you money, you don't have to care how expensive your bond is. It invites quid pro quo.
This essay raises a lot of good points-- mass conformity, data ownership, overstimulated brains. If you work in this field, you're rich, richer than many, many generations before. If we don't ever pause and consider these things, we'll take them for granted.
> That is what we created it for in the first place

Do you have a source for this claim?

As I understand it, this is flatly untrue. Jails were, up until quite recently, designed to hold people awaiting trial, not as punishment.

My belief is that imprisonment for decades as punishment is a 20th century phenomenon.

The only book I've read on this specific matter is "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison" by Michel Foucault, but that was a decade ago; I'm not sure if the details are crisp in my mind.
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I wish I could upvote this more than once. American insecurities about China seem to come from people who don't understand how unenviable China's position is. The country is authoritarian, polluted, crowded, and corrupt. People in China work hard because living in China really, really sucks if you are poor. Members of the wealthy ruling class all own property overseas and send their kids to university overseas. They made their money from owning manufacturing companies that sell goods to American brands. There isn't much of a middle class because white-collar jobs in China are so limited and pay so poorly because so many college graduates are competing for them.

There is literally nothing about China's economic system that would be appropriate for the US to try to emulate. We need to look to Northern Europe if we're looking for an example to model our system after.
The rules aren't written in a particularly clear way, but in general the idea is that NHS eligibility is residence-based, and people who aren't ordinarily resident are entitled to urgent treatment only. Flying back just to pick up prescriptions is definitely against the spirit of the rules.

Enforcement -- or even understanding -- of the rules on a local level seems spotty. I've helped overseas visitors find their way through the NHS. Some GPs and out of hours services have treated them like a local patient and when asked about payment had no idea, whilst one GP pulled their wallet out in the consulting room and demanded cash there and then. Hospitals are supposed to be more consistent, but I haven't any experience there.
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As a general rule, never call yourself an expert in anything. For one thing, you're probably not. Just as importantly, don't say that you're an expert, demonstrate that you are. Experts don't have to tell other people that they're experts. Going off nothing but the content of the resume, I see nothing to make me think you're an expert systems engineer, which makes me think you're overestimating your own skills, which is a huge red flag. Saying you have excellent communication skills (which again is saying instead of demonstrating), when the resume has multiple typos lends to the perception that you don't have the skills to back up your claims, which is enough to make me pass on the resume entirely.

Honestly, sorry to be harsh, but I'd scrap the whole thing and start over, taking into account all the good advice in here.
hopefully without the typo :-)
Newegg has a "large format display" category for big monitors. 46" seems to be a popular size. There's some pretty cheap 1080p ones in there, but I don't know anything about their image quality.
You make shine with things like potatoes instead of fruit. You're very much not going to want to drink 'wine' made out of potatoes or beets-but if you take that same 'wine' and distill it, you end up with something that doesn't taste so awful.
Also the Google Now app constantly asks you to enable Google search history with no option to permanently ignore the question.
I downloaded your app 10 minutes ago and I think there should really be a way to turn of participation.

Right now I get like 1 question a minute.

Otherwise, very nice mvp, works quite well and I could imagine myself using it every day/week.
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> The other stark contrast is how much harder people in China seem to work than people here, and how working hard is considered a good thing, not a bad thing.

It is a survival thing, not an inherently good thing. Those factory workers or university students aren't working 14 hour days because of the 'virtue of hard work'. They're doing it because they have to in order to stay alive in the continious stampede of progression that is China.

See how 'hard' most Chinese people work once they've got money. Most of the hard work of wealthy Chinese to conceal their wealth in western coutries.
>>Honestly, it has never been clear to me why "growth" was the metric that we, as a society, have been optimizing for. Who stands to benefit? You? The middle class? Everyone? Or... wealthy investors and a few lucky founders?

Growth of who, or what? Focus on optimizing personal growth, either in your skillset or personal income, and everything else should take care of itself.
It seems like people are advocating for centralized solutions to "problems". But after recently reading Mitchel Resnick's book _Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams_, I can't but help wondering what decentralized solutions might look like?

Here's a piece by him describing "decentralized" more:
http://hci.ucsd.edu/102a/readings/LearningAboutLifeAnnotated...

Edit: And here's a similiar non-PDF piece:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/JLS/JLS-1.0.html
Unless things have changed since graduated way back when, the homework / machine problem sets were a fairly minor part of the grade.

Really only enough to fuck your spot on the curve if you got zeros on them.

Exams were like 80%+.
For good reason. It is both unhealthy and inefficient to work massive amounts of hours. There are multiple studies that show that overall productivity increases when you don't work over 40 hours a week.
It isn't random, but it sure isn't a guarantee that being smart and working hard will pay off either. If it must be compared to some game, I guess poker would be more apt than a lottery.

If you're smart, and work hard you can make the right moves to put yourself in an improved position for possible success, but ultimately you are still playing odds with lots of variables that are completely out of your control and even if you play "perfectly" it is entirely possible you still fail.

In poker you can deal with this variance via bankroll management, for which the startup version would be not to invest too much of yourself (emotionally and/or physically) in any one startup. However, the culture around startups (unlike the culture around smart poker play) does not promote that at all, rather it tends to promote a leave-everything-on-the-floor approach... which, IMO, is the sort of position most people are really complaining about when they say things such as what sama paraphrased in the article.
Look at my original comment. Clearly there will be people who can get away with doing little and maintain weight while others will have to work much harder. I would guess you're pretty young as well, most young people stay relatively fit without doing much.
Completely agreed. Most of China's growth has been from moving people from agriculture to manufacturing. Essentially activating its giant labor force to compete on price. This has lifted millions of people out of poverty. However, it's still not entirely clear if China will be able to avoid the middle income trap that many countries seem to get stuck in as labor becomes more expensive and they aren't able to compete on price anymore.
I feel your pain, I have the same problem, Ruby installs fine, but building dependencies is a gamble, I cannot install thin on Ruby 2.2 on Windows, so I'm stuck to Ruby 1.9.3, there are bug reports, but nobody cares, I don't thing this project will change that.
Sorry, this is coming purely from personal experience.

Edit: found a source citing Federal Bureau of Prisons: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/10/war-on-drugs-prison...
You're right--interviewers act fake. And besides, this article generalizes, hyperbolizes. But I'm not using this lone anecdote as evidence. My experience on HN is the evidence. My experience working for tech companies is the evidence. And the smug attitude in the article, even if fictional, captures reality perfectly in the same way that a comedian's impression reveals more about the subject than a faithful depiction.
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I suppose the sentiments of people who say "don't work hard" can vary. Many people tie working 'hard' to hours put in. I will say there are many schools of thought on this. If I am super focused and work 'hard' for 30 hours a week and enjoy my life the rest of week, how is my productivity and creativity compared to someone who puts in 70 hours? Are they really out-competing me? What does the research show on this, compared to anecdotally stating "All successful startups that I observe work hard at all hours, therefore this is THE way"? You are one of a small group of people that could make this observation. Just because that is common in successful companies, doesn't mean it is the best way.
If asked, people tend to prefer getting everything for free on a silver platter. That doesn't mean it's workable, even assuming we could come up with enough silver to get everyone their own platter.
Wanting to move things to the web is more about wanting them on multiple devices. If we had an operating system that allowed us to work on the same stuff on all our devices, it wouldn't be so big of a deal. Unfortunately, at present, we need a different OS and a different set of apps for every form factor, and even then syncing complex data is a pain.
>From a moral standpoint...

From a moral standpoint it is immoral to force person A to pay for person B's misfortune. You and I call that stealing.

>they have regulators who are educated and understand the market

It is impossible to "understand the market" without market prices.

>It is a much free-er market than the USA market

The USA is not a free market. Anyone who claims otherwise is lying.
This woman was being treated for recurrent Clostridium difficile, not obesity. The weight gain was a side affect of the treatment, not the reason for it. Yes, people recently have started experimenting with fecal transplants to help with weight loss, but that's not what was happening here. The woman also picked her daughter because who wants a stranger's poop injected into their colon? No one... is pretty much the correct answer there. No one. Lastly, this was done in 2011, so... up the butt it went.
The hypothesis is that the bacteria in your gut are able to affect your hunger. If you have this bacteria you are always hungry and eat the wrong kind of food.
If you a working non-stop on the order of years you both 1) Dont know what the fuck you are doing 2) are on a path to kill yourself.
Bingo! The largest US private insurer (United) cover 40M lives in the US. They pay higher prices than nearly all European countries (even the ones with smaller populations).

Drugs aren't cheaper in places like the UK because the gov't negotiates lower prices. Drugs are cheaper because the gov't mandates lower prices. People shouldn't confuse the two.
The problem IMO is out of the 100 or so developers I have worked with none of them fit that profile and IMO that's completely ok. Granted, I actually cover most of that except the networking side, and know a few other that come close. (Which is probably why I am standing up a continuous integration server today instead of actually coding.) But, it really just seems wasteful as the value of teams is they let people specialize.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, it sounds like this is not a 'rewrite'.

Its creating another app that serves a different purpose and a different customer base. The current app remains un-rewritten, and people still continue to use it.
That's really interesting. Did he expound on why he thought this was the case? I agree; as sama said, the volume of inventions made here are highly disproportionate to the population share. Laser, semiconductor, airplane, assembly line, nuclear power, etc. I think two of the key drivers were the form of government (a republic "by and for the people") and a demographic boon of immigrants willing to work themselves to the bone for a better life, because they believed in equality of opportunity.

Ironically, I think he has had a big hand in the decline of the former with the Citizens United decision. And the equality of opportunity has been in decline for decades.
Maybe you're projecting your own lifestyle onto the entirety of society. Honest question: Have you been to China?
Just because you have some outliers doesn't mean it isn't random. As long as you're good but not the best of the best of the best, it's random pretty much by definition. An old pg's essay covers it well: http://paulgraham.com/judgement.html.
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> And death to docx.

I wouldn't mind some elaboration on this point; I would think it's a step up from .doc at the least.
This looks more like a travel kit than something you'd really carry every day. I mean, why carry the heart rate monitor and watch like this? It should be with his running clothes, unless he's always wearing them. He should have those in his EDC kit as well. And all the chargers, you don't need to carry those around every day unless your equipment dies frequently or you aren't going to your own home most nights.
> this works. If that's true and it isn't the result of abortion being legalized

Both these theories are based entirely on correlation with no good casual mechanism to explain them. The first is particularly impugned - in fact it's reasonable to say disproven outright - by the very high recidivism rate. The second is outlandish on its face.

At least the lead exposure theory passes the straight face test.
I understand that products and services sold by US companies boost USD (vis-a-vis buying iPhones in your example), but why would, say, a Brit buying a Xiaomi phone using USD boost the USD? The USD holding time would be rather short, I would imagine.
Why ignore the elephant in the room? The U.S. is more unequal than it has been since before WWII [1], and that is a big reason why its growth is stagnating.[2] It's time to stop taking seriously any analyses that do not address this.

[1] http://www.epi.org/publication/income-inequality-by-state-19...

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/income-inequa...