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> This March, a state legislator in Arkansas proposed a bill that would pay unwed, low-income mothers on Medicaid $2,500 to get an IUD. That echoes a not-so-distant controversy over the Norplant hormonal implant. After it hit the market in 1991, legislators in more than a dozen states introduced bills that would have pushed women into getting the implant as a condition of welfare, in lieu of jail time, or in exchange for cash... If more policymakers try to contort the effectiveness of IUDs into a tool for social engineering or make its use a condition for state support, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation may find itself needing to fund yet another battle—to ensure that a woman not only has access to an IUD, but that it is her choice to get one.

No doubt the Norplant case is terrible but I am unable to see the problem with offering low-income women a monetary incentive to get an IUD. It is reversible with no permanent side-effects. They can use the funds to get out of debt or get education. Even if they waste it on luxury goods, isn't it better than more impoverished children? Demographically, I can see how it will disincentivize a higher portion of minorities from having children but it might end up having a much better effect on their lives in the long-term if instead of remaining childless, more women just have children when they are older and better capable of providing for them.
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Algorithms.

You do know they exist for flying drones and likely for detecting, intercepting and destroying other objects in the sky ?
If you are interested in contributing to OSS then IRC is basically a must. Get yourself connected to freenode.net, irc.mozilla.org and irc.oftc.net to start with. Join channels related to your operating system, programming language and frameworks of choice.

Just lurking will probably teach you a bunch but you should try to interact and become part of the community.
As a layman reading about this plane for years and years and years it almost seems like the military would have had better results stacking the 400 billion dollars up in 5inch stacks and strapping it to the soldiers as body armour at this point.

They're doing some cool stuff though, the military. The new railguns and laser systems the Navys building are pretty neat and will probably end up having some civilian benefits in the future.

This unfortunately feels like a huge sinkhole which won't produce any tangible benefit for the military or civilians.
Ironic to see a particular kind of freedom we'll likely never see in the US in a country which is less free in so many other ways.
I live in Uruguay, which is not exactly representative of all Latin America, I worked (as a subcontractor) for the Equifax company here (Clearing de Informes).

Not sure what you'd like to know :), something related to the article?

There has been a HUGE personal credit boom, so basically everyone has access to credit... as long as they haven't defaulted on anything (credit or bills) in the past 5 to 10 years. The Equifax branch tries to be fair in my experience, but if it's a valid default it will make your life quite difficult.

Also, the interest rates for personal lines of credit in local currency are ridiculously high (there's a big currency risk they're hedging against though), and it's not wise for either part to loan in US dollars (the lender risks default and the person taking the loan risks not being able to pay it and being entered in the credit report).

Argentina and Brazil are different beasts altogether.

Also, whenever the company I work (an insurance company) for launched a new product, most of the first people to try to get accepted were extremely bad risks (fortunately the vetoing process worked decently well).

The rural scenario described in the article is interesting but I'm not sure if it applies, there are very few small-owner farms around, most of it are huge landowners.

There must be some opportunities but I'm not in touch with the most impoverished sectors of my society to tell you which they could be.

The product in the article sounds like it would work pretty well in Perú, Bolivia and Brazil, and maybe the most remote parts of Chile and Argentina.
Case in point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUXmqpRhTjQ

And against ISIL targets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn8R8ne9Pd0

That it can take tons of gunfire, counter missiles, rapidly disable targets (bombs/missiles), and selectively/cheaply do it (bullets) makes it ideal for current battles. Gotta imagine what beast would've come out of $1-5bil in improvements to that.
Microsoft Windows 10 invasion . Yes like Matrix, The Terminator . Wowww stop, not is the right way.

I think that Microsoft are crazy to think that can control the pcs of users because launch Windows 10 upgrade for free. Tks Microsoft for the upgrade, but not is with it that the enterprise will buy my privacy, control my PC, what I install, what I do with my computer, etc, etc, etc, the machine is mine and I want to continue owner of it. I not want show to me many things that I not want to see, install app that I not want and use in my pc, use of the my internet connection to send things to internet. Want my collaboration, ok I can think in this, but when I want, not when Microsoft want.

Sure have many users that not understand what are happens, but are much users that are advanced users and know what happens and how neutralize this privacy invasion.

My first impression in these day about Windows 10 is cool for other side. I think that can be the right successor of Window 7, but ... no using the unilateral ideas to force users share all with Microsoft, that Windows 10 will be a good OS. Need respect the privacy of the users. If not is like windows 8, 8.1 that not win the market because try to force all to have new hardware, etc. If go in this direction we have Linux, Windows 7 to use and who know, Android OS to PCs, is now a good time to this smiles. Yes, this is a technological war, users in a side and Google, Microsoft and others in the other. But who buy computers, OS, software are the users. The true own of market. Sorry for errors english not is my native language, but I think that is possible understand.
Any low-flying, slow ground-attack aircraft that is designed to strafe is going to be vulnerable to shoulder-mounted missiles. I would have more faith in the survivability of a flying tank like the A-10 (the thing is built with a titanium bathtub enclosing the pilot, redundant hydraulics, manual cable control backups, and the engines mounted in a configuration that somewhat confuses the thermal signature of the exhaust), which has demonstrated the ability to fly home after being shot full of more holes than swiss cheese, than in most other ground-attack craft.

Helicopters, even a similarly over-armored model like the Russian Hind, don't have that kind of durability. Maybe we'll have close-air support drones eventually, but I would imagine a drone that has the flight characteristics to be a good gun-platform for strafing is still going to be vulnerable - this is flying in at altitudes where aimed small-arms fire can do damage.
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True, it was a bold claim on my end. In lack of complete information we will be tricked by subtle clues, like the first time you visit a town you'll be driven to one restaurant and not others bases on such clues triggering your already hard-wired bias. But for the most part I can tell, and ignore, ads/coercive memes. They don't annoy me at all, I truly just ignore them.
Wikileak Shows That the NSA Indeed Engages in Economic Espionage Against Allies
A correction. it is

if ($k === '1') instead of if ($a === '1')..
I would suggest making all the text visible instead of fading in and out. It's very distracting and makes the page a lot less readable (especially since I don't want to have to scroll constantly or read things only when they're at the top of my page).
Who's saving water in Calfornia (and who isn't)
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Hey Vijaye, we definitely miss you!

You might be interested in my new work which has a very SmallBasic feel to it:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/smcdirm/apx/in...
Cloud Foundry is adopting the Docker/CoreOS runC runtime
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NextBug: a Bugzilla extension for recommending similar bugs
One of the VTOL opponents I know was my grandfather, who flew F4's. :) He loved them (unsurprisingly). He told me they did a lot of interesting stuff with them trying to squeeze out more ROI or effectiveness. The gunpods sound like an interesting example of that. Probably the best example of that idea in Vietnam, though, were the AC-130's with Vulcan's. I think the F4's might have been more cost effective, though, given how much munition the Spookies dropped vs number of kills.
Poor people selling their organs really doesn't qualify as "freedom" except in the most meaningless, pedantic sense.
Garbage site, garbage community.
More than $800? Funny americans. IUDs cost between $20 and $100 here in The Netherlands. I don't know why you're not rioting over healthcare costs...
My personal views on property are most certainly fringe. However, I couldn't get by very well without understanding its logic as it is implemented, as other people understand it, and enforce it.

If you are talking about theft legally, then clearly there is no contradiction that a transfer of wealth from A to B can occur without it being theft and without it being whatever notion of consensual exchange you hold (which I'll take for granted is compatible with the incumbent system). Taxes are legal. Judgments calling for transfer of wealth from one to another are legal. I think surely you are not saying I am contradicting myself applying the legal system as it is, are you?

In the current system, rent control isn't theft because the marginal difference, by definition does not belong to the property owner. The system that enforces their property claim is the same system that defines what their claim is. Without that system, their claim is neither justified nor well defined.

So let's move away from legality and law. Your original question must have been one of morality, not law. My response is that I, personally, don't think property is moral or immoral because I do not take it as a priori. It is a human system. It has consequences. Its consequences are what can be judged on morality. On this count, I am heterodox. However, I understand how others think. Others, basically the entire history of property, actually, takes taxes levied and property rights regulated by the authority that justifies them as legitimate.

What notion of property do you have?
Every Intel chip is vulnerable to the Rowhammer bug
Your argument doesn't seem to make any sense.

You say that the F-35 engine would be picked up by upgraded sensors on next-gen planes ? But next-gen planes don't exist yet. So that means the F-35 would dominate older generation planes when in its preferred position. Which makes it anything but worthless does it not ?
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You might find PyParallel interesting: http://pyparallel.org.
The article is incorrect

> In every country that does transplants — except one — patients have two legal ways to get a new kidney. One is to have a friend or relative who is a blood and tissue match donate a kidney. The other is to get on the waiting list for a deceased donor.

There are also kidney exchanges. If you have a friend or loved one whose kidney is not an exact match, they can exchange it for a matching one in an exchange market.

The NYTimes covers it some here
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/magazine/the-great-america...

There is an excellent EconTalk about matching economies as well. At 10:32 in is the kidney discussion http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/07/alvin_roth_on_m.htm...

UCLA's kidney exchange program
http://transplants.ucla.edu/site.cfm?id=112
Thanks, for all the fish ( by fish I mean awesome code ) @swannodette and team! Can't wait to use Om Next.

Also looking forward to seeing some code examples of
Demand-Driven Architecture[0]. Does anyone know of any edifying clojure code examples?

[0] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/domain-driven-architectur...
Lmao that might be true. They could've upgraded the whole military with next-gen rifles, IR, Playstations, and so on plus some new jets at these prices.

One article pointed out that the F-22 acquisitions were canceled due to cost. Yet, they did seem to be untouchable in the air. Now, we have an enormously expensive plane that can't beat F-16's in short-range and might loose to China's clones in long-range. Prior gen performance approaches F-22 prices. (slow clap for U.S. military)
Curious: why choose something like Watson over using haproxy's pretty solid built in health checking mechanisms?
Can't wait for a service utilizing this. I find finding new music hard.
While I'm thankful that wealthy men try to do things in the world they think will benefit themselves or other people, it bothers me that democracy is not able to compete with the influence of big money - even for things as simple as birth control.
It's a risk. However, it worked in our last two conflicts where enemies had both those and surface-to-air.
Irony would be if this patient got a prosthetic leg.
> China's F-35 is already better than ours for instance

Where is the evidence for this ?

Everything I've read about the J-31 has said that it isn't a match for the F-35 at all and actually isn't even a program yet (just a prototype has been built).
My theory is that the money is actually siphoned out to black projects.
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Too bad the linked YouTube video has been marked as private.
Scaevolus touted as an advantage the minimalism of variants of BASIC over Smalltalk and linked to such a variant lacking structured programming constructs like functions. I pointed out the flaws of that and certain other variants and ended up at -4 as a consequence.

Someone should really make a comprehensive list of programming languages beyond reproach here on HN so users don't inadvertently anger the mob. Obviously Haskell would be at the top, but I never would have guessed BASIC would make the cut.
I had an argument recently with someone who is anti-abortion and his opinion is that life starts when sperm and egg meet. Anything preventing implantation of an egg is essentially killing of a baby - hence IUD is not acceptable contraception method. Condom is though. Or anything else which prevents sperm from meeting an egg.
Hi Ryan, I know it's possible to use a QR Code to generate a SMS message
[1], so I was wondering if you generated QR Codes for your customers? My
thought is to avoid having (trusting) a (error prone) human being to correctly input
a phone number and a keyword in a SMS when you can automate it.

[1] just one example I found via a quick search
http://goqr.me/qr-codes/type-qr-sms.html
He makes some really god points, such as the magic pixel locations, blind alleys to the no win-scenario, and the guess-the-verb syndrome, but other points are simply opinions that are highly arguable. One is the elaborate death messages in the SQ games. Those aren't there to simply make you feel bad, they're part of the humor. One may not LIKE that type of humor, but then one probably wouldn't play too many SQ games were that the case. It's like saying Abbot & Costello or Seinfeld were bad simply because you didn't like them.
I had the same problem. The site was overloaded.
I guess it should be an Exclusive OR, although I'm not sure that is allowed in propositional logic.

The argument made was that negligence could occur without benefit (ie. proof_of_negligence does not imply either proof_of_benefit or ~proof_of_benefit).

My argument is that `proof_of_benefit -> proof_of_negligence` and that `proof_of_negligence -> (proof_of_benefit v ~proof_of_benefit)` (or otherwise) is nonsense.
Why not? That's a serious question; I'd love to hear your opinion.

It seems to me that if they freely consent to sell their kidney, then they'll only do it because it's a better option than not doing it. Sure, in a perfect world everyone would have enough money to survive, and there would be no need for this. But is it really ethical to deny them options?
> The only pitfall we've run into was in connecting the manipulation of the rods with the manipulation of the more abstract numbers.

You could try clearly printing the numbers on the rods - connecting the abstract symbol to the physical unit of measure. No science behind this, just the gut feeling of a father of 3.
I'm saying that tests already prove outdated planes would kill it in a dogfight and there are concerns about long-range. Here's those:

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/no-the-f-35-can-t-fight-at-...

Contrary to your post, the goal of F-35 isn't to defeat outdated tech: must defeat old and next-gen tech. Performance at long-range looks like it was optimized to defeat old tech with a bit of improvement. The enemy's new tech is very improved and China straight up stole F-35 tech for theirs. With that, we must assume theirs is at least as good as F-35. Maybe more given that they eliminated its weaknesses in their version. Add Russia and the new radars to get anything but assurance that F-35 will deliver.

It might. So far it's failed on everything else, though, while specifically eliminating strengths in its design for politics essentially. Enemies's designs aren't doing that. So, I'm not betting on F-35 in any scenario.
Well, this got flagkilled off the front-page quickly...
ancient spaghetti code shell scripts and logical fallacies

Sounds like self-projection. Read this: http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/

Then again the fact that you're harping on SysV initscripts when alternatives have been around for ages makes me strongly believe you're trolling.
Huh? That's kind of funny because it has been in the media since the 1970s. There was even a movie about an Ebola like virus in the mid 1990s

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreak_(film)

It's always been out there, you just didn't notice.
One can do the same with the python console.
Being LGPLv2 was enough to get FFmpeg some income streams, because almost any shareware video converter you could find shipped it without credit or source distribution, and the SFLC would go after them for copyright violation.

Not sure if there was much contribution or acknowledgement for the longest time from any company (Google, FB, Vimeo, Netflix, Zencoder, etc) using it, and I remember the best they'd do for bug reports was say "yeah it crashes sometimes" and refuse to send sample files.

Eventually Google did have some people contributing full-time, of course. They paid me 1x GSoC (one week's engineer salary) for more than a year of work once. Um, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Ducktyping. Quack
I've worked on some of those "old, large, working C/C++ codebases" and the ones that are not clean are the ones where you are terrified of making a small change to fix a bug, especially close to release, because you have absolutely no idea what might break. Two copies of the same code? Great, which one do I fix? Both? How do I test that it worked, I can't even figure out where #2 is activated in the UI?! Is there something a little different about them that I need to watch out for? And test cases for said codebase? Hahahahaha!
> I had an argument recently with someone who is anti-abortion and his opinion is that life starts when sperm and egg meet. Anything preventing implantation of an egg is essentially killing of a baby

This is a pretty common opinion among anti-choice people. One of the many divides in views on abortion is between people who believe life begins at birth vs. before birth, with a significant number of the latter believing life begins at conception.

EDIT: Obviously views on abortion are complicated and vary widely. All I'm saying is that it's really not hard to find people who will tell you life begins at conception (and by that logic, believe that killing a fertilized egg is equivalent to killing a baby).
> The public has a right not to have information disappear out from under it.

Unless it's DMCA.
Thanks. Going to figure out tweaks for the audio. Still learning.