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Malpractice litigation increases health care spending by 2.4% [0]. Many states have already passed tort reform that limits how and when a patient can sue and recover. There are lots of factors that increase health costs in this country, but litigation barely registers. Getting insurance companies out of the game (the BIG Leeches, in your example, who take 20% of the dollars in the system) would go a much longer way.

[0]http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/29/9/1569.abstract
that tree probably had some very special set of genes to be the last one surviving in that area
We have several gorgeous AS/400s still going strong, quietly gathering dust while they wait for the next time we need to test something on them.

I think these servers will outlive me.
from the terms.html:

JS.ORG may also terminate the provision of a certain or all subdomains. Concerned users will be notified at least 7 days in advance by an issue in their GitHub repository
Kenyan lawyer explains rationale behind proposal for Malia Obama – Video
UK Labour Party elected in 1945 removing Churchill from office - they founded the NHS.

People who had suffered through WW2 wanted to feel that there would be some benefit to the common people - 70 years later and the NHS is still one of the most loved institutions in the UK despite being avowedly a socialist endeavour.

NB I am not a supporter of the current Labour Party (AKA "New Labour") but they do deserve a lot of credit for what they did back then.
The papers I've seen on this conclude that rear-end accidents are the major issue. Smoothing the waves can eliminate immense rush-hour delays, if this eliminates panic-braking that can cause minor daily accidents. Or as they say, "speed differentials are dangerous." In I-70 Colorado they claim that police pace-cars used to smooth out the fluctuations have cut the accident rate in half.

In theory the waves can represent a bottleneck, since the close-packed regions are low-flow, but the wide empty regions are also low-flow. If the smoothed wave results in traffic flowing at 35-40MPH, then smoothing will increase the flow, since the peak flow rate takes place at 35-40 MPH. But the increase isn't enormous. I think they said ~15%. That's nothing, when compared to the effects of removing an accident scene from a rush-hour commute.

You can play with those online JAVA simulators: set up unstable conditions on the ring-road, watch the initial flow, then after traffic-waves develop, watch the flow again. If enormous waves appear, the flow drops by ~25%, but if a string of small waves appear, the decrease is less than 10%.
"The public puts so much faith in DNA testing that it makes it especially important to make those the best estimates possible"

The public was made to believe DNA testing was absolutely bomb proof, there are even entire TV shows centered around this "fact" (CSI whatever ...)
Do you work for Tilt?
Meh. I mean the iPhone was argueably revolutionary in as much as it was the device that finally pushed consumers into smart phones but on the other hand we all knew what you did with a smart phone by then.

We didn't really know what to do with the kinect (beyond ripping off Wii games). The Wii vs kinect is a bit disingenuous, the Wii was a whole new platform which needed launch titles of course Nintendo was going to have games ready. Kinect was 'just' a new peripheral.
My first proper software development job was to consolidate the 7 different CMDBs that the company had - they were an ISP/hosting provider who had done a rapid succession of acquisitions, all of which came with their own database of hardware.

Some of the data was so bad that we ended up having one guy who's job was to physically audit what hardware was really in the data centres, and then attempt to reconcile that with the CMDB data.
I'm not seeing what the issue here is, besides that this won't compile because of mismatched braces. There is no need to put braces around the contents of a case block. Unless I'm switching on an enum, I rarely find a compelling reason to use switch/case, and there's usually a cleaner way to do it.
So here are a couple of references.
This one makes the assertion, but doesn't describe how it was derived.
http://www.winwenger.com/socmeth3.htm

However, this one does describe how probably such an estimate has been derived and used.
http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/mysteri...

And as an additional FYI. Some more modern related research.
http://www.wired.com/2013/10/free-thinkers/
Doesn't help who? I say it does help them, because they need to understand no one is going to give them an unsecured loan, no matter what kind of business they're running. Thats the job of venture capital- not the job of your CC processor.

A crowd funding business especially needs to go through underwriting, which will involve proving they have the capital reserves or credit to handle problems that arise. Fostering the expectation that they should try to sneak a loan out of PayPal, or whatever payment company, is unhelpful.

Now, there is fault here in that PayPal's process isn't tight enough to catch them before they start processing. But you will find that fault to some degree with every modern payment provider.
Pressuring legislators to throw out Title IX is the only sensible course of action against it.

Do you disagree with the principle of Title IX (i.e. that federal money should not fund educational activities that discriminate on the basis of sex), or is it that Title IX has led to bad events and the only way to stop those bad events is to remove Title IX?
I work in Pivotal Labs, a consultancy best known for RoR and mobile apps (and XP + lean product & design).

Right now I'm working on an app that was, for tedious reasons, downgraded from Spring Boot to Spring 3.2, then re-upgraded.

I'm finding that Spring Boot and some of the more recent libraries (eg Spring Data REST) make a lot of stuff very tolerable. I never have to touch XML. A few annotations and bang, my work is done.

Disclaimer: the Spring team mostly works for the same company as I do -- Pivotal -- but in a distant division from mine.
Back then he could have configured it to search for Mersenne primes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Internet_Mersenne_Prime_...) or the like. There's always been capacious sinks for computer power ^_^.

And I think the downvotes are uncalled for, the general idea is excellent, even if Bitcoin mining is iffy in a corporate setting (very bad if you keep them, and the finance people won't know what to do with them, plus their tax treatment is not trivial).
Seems like Adams' thesis is that science is to blame for media's rampant misreporting of it. That's a really odd thing to suggest given that scientists express consternation about this on a regular basis, and devote much time and effort into trying to clear up common misconceptions that arise because of irresponsible pop media reportage.
There are numerous way to heat a machine other then bitcoin mining( actually I doubt if bitcoins mining is the most efficient way)
I find parens around a return value/expression slightly annoying, but not annoying enough to have a debate over it. It doesn't make the code harder to read, IMHO.

Whitespace between a function name and the arguments is significant, however, because with a function-like macro, there must be no whitespace between the name and the opening parenthesis. I've seen the following code in production code, for example:

#include <stdlib.h>
#define free(x) free(x), x = NULL

free(ptr1); // Macro
free (ptr2); // Call free(3) directly

(Whether or not such a macro is good idea is a different question entirely, the point is that you can prevent such macro-expansion by using whitespace. Aesthetically, I find it very disturbing, though.)
If you do visit, it's an interesting post-apocalyptic world. Explore a little bit to the southeast of the old town and you'll find a locked shed, untouched, with a very old car inside and a sign boarding up the back window that says, "The dying set free the souls in Purgatory."

Avoid the few remaining natives, as they're understandably territorial and suspicious since they're living there in defiance of a court order.
He is a political prisoner.
Don't get married. Compound interest by investing passively in index funds.

Not just the sex, but the meeting and getting close to new/more people.
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You know, I keep hearing this, especially related to ipv6, but the problem to me isnt that the industry is being lazy, its that all the guard systems you reference are archaic black boxes to most IT people. If you want to start pushing Guard to the endpoint of every server and desktop, ok, but show me a product that makes it easy to do and I dont have to be a unixbeard from an defense agency to know how it works...

I dont disagree, but I hear a lot of terminalogy thrown around by you with very little substantial practical and technical information. How about a guide to Guard, EAL etc for the common sysadmin?
I have a forgotten server happily chugging away somewhere, it still send me mail sometimes. it might be lonely.
Agree. It seems obvious that Stripe does not care much about their merchants. This is the same kind of behavior that has given Paypal a bad reputation.
Asimov was ver clever and entertaining. But he was very arrogant to and would never admit someone might have a better idea than him.
Guns don't kill people, people do. The place wasn't only used for drugs, but mostly, sure.

The drugs aren't harmful, harm is an abstract term for a process that hurts. The process in question is the abuse of drugs. The selling of drugs by itself doesn't cause direct harm.
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DNSCurve solves none of the problems DNSSEC solves, and vice versa.

The only realistic alternative to the DNSSEC PKI is the global SSL CA PKI, with authenticating higher up in the protocol stack. That does not necessarily mean status quo though, as the latter have obvious room for improvement.
Yeah, this is one thing Python got right. You should indent anyway, and then the curly braces aren't needed anymore.

I don't know what the point is in pretending IDEs or advanced text editors don't exist.
Isn't that an awfully expensive way to generate public interest?
There are standard macros (va_arg, I'm looking at you) that take a type as an argument.
found this article after compiling some very simple golang program (https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1) and expecting small footprints. Not so. Why? Counter intuitive compared to C. The simple Hello world of 74b compiles to 1.7Mb.

This article gives a hint why: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking
Is there enough commonality in the way these popups work that would make it easy to kill them automatically?

The problem is this is likely to cause problems for image light boxes. I hate those too (I would prefer a slideshow on a separate page) but unlike stupid popups they are necessary for the working of the site.
>nobody could recall where it was physically located.

ah yes, the good old "responds to pings but where is it?"
Thanks, anonymous hero... actually, who owns/provides this? The only credit I can see is for the web design.
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> If people want to take drugs, even take too much drugs their going to get it somewhere

It's akin to the tragedy of the commons and it's not true.

If I don't murder you, you're going to die eventually anyway. Is that legitimate reason for you to let me kill you? This is a pretty good example because death is indeed inevitable, in contrast to the availability of drugs, and also, death is the ultimate problem concerning drug abuse.

BTW: It's they're, not their.
> who does everything to not be regulated like a bank would

People say things like this all the time and I don't understand the basis for the claim.

What does PayPal do to not be regulated like a bank? They're perhaps the single most heavily regulated financial company in existence. They operate in more countries [1] than almost any other, and each of those countries regulates them in some way. In some of those countries they are a licensed and regulated bank (including the European Union [2]). In the US, they are overseen by 54 separate governments, including every state and territory, all of which license and regulate money transmitters [3]. They wanted to be a bank in the US to get the FDIC insurance on deposits (they originally believed themselves to be eligible and advertised it as a feature), but a federal agency 13 years ago decided they don't qualify as one.

On the flip side of the same coin, why do you think being regulated like a bank would change how any of these situations play out? Most banks offer merchant account services for accepting credit cards online. Every merchant account agreement I've read has allowed for termination without cause, freezing of funds for up to 180 days without recourse, and establishment of reserve accounts or holds at the bank's whim. These real banks won't hesitate to terminate your account and hold your funds if you try to use them as an unsecured loan against future promises you've made to thousands of people, either -- if you're up-front about the fact that you're taking credit cards for crowdfunding you'd not make it past underwriting and get an account in the first place. No regulator steps in and stops banks when they hold a merchant's funds. PayPal operates no differently because it is, at its heart, a tech stack on top of those very same merchant accounts from actual banks with the same policies and same tolerance for risk.

1: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/country-worldwide

2: http://tamebay.com/2007/05/paypal-becomes-a-bank-no-longer-u...

3: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/licenses
I suppose, insofar, to me, it reflects the fact that he's been down the same rabbit hole and seen that it does not yield useful results (in his case, anyway).
What would you say the impact of the prohibition and the war on drugs have had on the number of people who are negatively affected by drugs? That must be considered too.
Can you tell me what costs firing someone in Portugal incurs to a company?

I know roughly how it works in most Nordic countries (which have relatively employee-friendly labor laws) and it's not very expensive. A small company (Mandriva would be categorized as "small") can cite profitability problems (not enough revenue to cover salary costs) and layoff how many employees they want.

There is a strict protocol to follow, such that those with the lowest seniority must be laid off first and then more senior personnel. The laid off employers unions must be notified two weeks (I think) in advance so that they can verify that the termination protocol is followed and protest if it isn't.

This step is crucial, if the company makes formal errors they will be forced to pay several months extra in severance pay if the union is alerted. An example of a formal error is delivering the termination message orally and not in writing with a date and signatures.

Then there is a severance period of 1-3 months based on the age of the employee. I think 1 month for < 35 years of age, 2 months for 35 - 45 and 3 months for > 45. During that period the employee is supposed to continue working for the employer but for various reasons often can't work 100%.
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To me, it reflects the fact that he's been down the same rabbit hole and seen that it does not yield useful results (in his case, anyway).
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In Python you usually don't add semi-colons, and it will bark when your intention is unclear.

In javascript you may omit semicolons, but the interpreter will guess your intention when it is ambiguous and it will probably guess it wrong.
There's the story about the novell server left running in a walled-off room:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/12/missing_novell_serve...
> it's a device that the PR suggests that it helps you save energy and costs.

I think being able to see your usage broken down to more than one reading per quarter can definitely help. You can then change your behaviour and see the improvements very quickly. One product many of the companies hand out with smart meters is something that sits there and tells you how much you're using right now. I can easily see that making people realise just how much they're using while not realising it, and turning some things off.

> but be smart and cautious as some very energy efficient rated devices like new electric kettles and vacuum cleaners consume less power by using less Watt which means physically it takes longer to boil the water or the vacuum cleaner is less efficient as the engine is less powerful and it takes longer to clean your home.

While you do need to check, you can definitely get lower powered kettles and vacuums (particularly the latter) that are as good or better. The EU has come around to regulating vacuums because many were just putting uselessly big motors in that did nothing really helpful for actually cleaning, but used loads of energy since people see a higher power and think it's automatically a better vacuum.
I wonder how they managed to get such a short domain name, I thought 3 characters was the minimum. And it must cost quite a lot.
So true. And yet, count the number of `curl http://pwn.you | sudo bash` install commands out there, or the number of userspace programs which just don't run if they aren't run as root (docker), or which require passwordless sudo privs (salt-ssh). And then there's all of the recommendations across the web to just `setenforce 0` to get around configuring your app to work with selinux.

Root isn't going away anytime soon, sadly. It just makes developer's lives so easy they wouldn't know what to do without it.
We started a corporate project in BigCorp. You know: Once a corporate software is installed, you claim you're in charge of it, you can hope to get the budget for it, and you're competing with the other European teams of Big Corp. So you install as much as you can and pretend to have been delegated by BigCorp's headquarters. So we installed Artemis in a VMWare on a desktop and got it up running in the first 16 hours of the team ;)

A month later, 4 internal customers on board and 5 other apps installed, we get a new technical expert. The machine was there. He checked. No Weblogic server running. No tomcat. No database software. Not even Microsoft Word. Clean machine. Format, reinstall...

The day after, Corporate gave us the budget for a server room. \o/
Scott Adams seems to want science to be like religion, and is disappointed that it isn't.
I use a PayPal merchant account for my very small side-business, selling a specialized gadget that's not very expensive. Over the past 7 years, PayPal has been utterly flawless. I have had zero issues. I monitor web forum chat, and enough people have commented about my product that I would know it if someone had a bad experience, or was reluctant to buy from me, due to PayPal.

This is without discounting any of the horror stories that I've read. In my little niche market, those stories tend to involve the eBay side of PayPal.

Once in a while I research alternatives to PP, and have really not found one that caters to the super-small business.
seriously, this is your discussion about croudsourcing? spamming with nospec links?
Not sure what the intent of this post is. Yes, Python indeed isn't Lisp.
Steven Novella wrote a bit of a rebuttal to this article: http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/scott-adams-on-...
This is a nicely written statement of one of the basic points/counterpoints in the philosophy of science and scientific realism. If you want to read more, you can probably find more by chasing citations from this Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/#PesInd.
Stefan Keim: https://github.com/indus

Source: https://github.com/js-org
They list the owner in the legal information page: http://dns.js.org/legals.html
I get the impression that MS these days are trying to depreciate Windows in favor of their cloud services.

In a sense it is a return to the MS that was before the IBM PC, when they were supplying office and development tools to all comers (MS Office got its start on Apple computers after all).
> but are the language syntax and standard library stable?

We had a 1.0 release two weeks ago, so the syntax and almost all of the standard library is. The things that aren't are clearly marked, and aren't able to be used from a release build, so you aren't affected by their instability.
The guy who wrote this is a total barbarian...
http://dns.js.org/legals.html is linked under the title 'Impressum/Legals' and has owner details (as required by German law, I believe)
Not just in eastern Europe, there was a variation of this scam in Amsterdam(at least 10 years ago), where an alleged drug dealer would hold some white powder in his hands and bump into you on purpose, so that it makes him drop the powder, then the guy would say that you wasted his drugs and you should pay him money as reparation.
Any tech that is invented, and implanted on human beings, without studying the humans themselves. is bound to fail. Humans are smart mammals and they do appreciate anything that's smart, however they didn't come from a fancy space ship as google has established. they were born on the earth. that is full of colors, breeze, green fields.

on a serious note, what happened to Google Glass??

regardless of downvotes, I am convinced that all these 'efforts' are solely aimed to stay relevant, Tech is changing at a pace that no one could have predicted. Even Apple is paranoid. Who had thought iphone 6+++??
I don't mean it's uncool. But just see how things are happening fast and quick. It's hard to catch up.

Google has more failures in recent years than any other company, because either they were too late to the party or too early. i.e Google Plus / Google Glass etc etc.

iPhone was not 'too early' it was just in time. that's why it was a major hit. Give me something that I would start using today(). If it's practical and useful it is gonna be hit. Else beyond the headlines it would only be biting the dust in the labs.... a privilege that until now, solely belonged to Microsoft
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Sorry you've gotten cancer. Cancer sucks.

Get it treated aggressively using science and medicine. A great many cancers can have good outcomes. Worry about yourself first and foremost.

But start the job. You may be surprised at how little time good treatment will take. If your employer is set up correctly, you'll have good insurance, good vacation policy you can use and long-term disability in case you need to be away for an extended period while you take care of yourself -- don't worry about their premiums or any of that other stuff tptacek has it right, it won't be a huge problem for them.

Also, being sick sucks, having some place to go where you are needed and having things to take your mind off of being sick can help. But remember, and this is hard to do with startups, put yourself and your health first, then the company second. Nobody can reasonably blame you for that.

Now go kick cancer in the ass!
The minimum is 1 character excluding the TLD. Like Twitter has http://t.co
Should've added a note saying what it does too seeing how you did the old "power it down & wait for someone to get angry" already.