Seriously, a fully public audit is the best possible approach. You can never be 100% sure, but you can get close enough if the audit attracts enough talent. This is the true promise of open source: moving from "in theory, you could look at the source", yahright, to "here's the crowdfunding for experts to openly audit the open source". That's something.
I see a lot of rules that treat boys as misbehaving girls. If you have a boy who draws in class the sort of things boys normally find cool, you'll inevitably get The Call from the school about the dangerous violent imagery your son is drawing (monsters, ninjas, etc). I don't think it's a deliberate conspiracy on anyone's part, merely that there's to much focus on younger children being perfectly behaved and non-disruptive at all times, which just doesn't come naturally to boys.
Japanese has a phrase "Sony timer", pretty much pronounced that way, to described electronic gear that break the day the warranty runs out. Sony was so bad at this that their name has become the catchphrase for low quality now.
But everyone agreed the PS3 was the one thing where they left the sonytimer out (because they want to sell games).
still cannot believe that in order to run streaming apps like Netflix or Hulu I have to purchase xbox live just to get the ethernet adapter to work.
That does seem hard to believe. Are you sure you'll need Xbox live gold, not the free version, for this? I need an Xbox live account to play a few of my PC games, and I definitely never paid for it!
I find it easy to believe MS claims of repentance this year: they're doing a huge re-org, and didn't they actually fire the guy in charge of Xbox when they changed?
Well, overhead+fraud in private insurance is similar to overhead+fraud in Medicare. Make of that what you will. We do have very high "medical research per capita", however, as most the pharma research happens here (which is a huge cost), and a high share of the device research as well.
Millions of people who had insurance that worked for them are discovering that that plan is gone, and the cheapest plan on the exchange costs twice as much, has deductibles far higher, and coverers a smaller network of doctors. This is a very common story.
Something is deeply wrong here the entire premise here was that normal people could find a better plan on the exchange, and if they didn't they could keep the plan they had. Both claims were lies, and predictably so: the ACA is designed to push healthcare costs for the old and sick onto the young and healthy, so everyone young and healthy must, by design, pay a lot more to make the system work.
You high UID and claims of "fake insurance" make it pretty obvious you're a paid astroturfer. We don't like your sort here. Please go away.
Most of the medical research in the world happens in America. Of course care is more expensive here. Of course care will be cheaper when we inevitably stop paying for that technological advancement. Cheaper short term.
Long term technology is everything for price, and if we were motivated by more than short-term greed, we'd favor whatever system produced the best technological progress, rather than the cheapest care this decade.
You've misunderstood my very simple point: congress sets the amount, but then let the experts determine how best to use it. That's the pattern that works almost everywhere, from software development to NSF grants.
Self-driving cars will have exploitable defensive behaviors. These will be discovered, and used by people in a hurry (especially teens). Hilarity will ensue.
Ask anyone who live through the Carter years. High inflation destroys savings, while wealth is mostly inflation-proof. Own a rental property? Rents go up with inflation, and your debt on the property suddenly matters a lot less. Own a factory? The price of goods you sell go up with inflation, and the debt on the factory suddenly matters a lot less.
Have a savings account at the legally capped 5.25% interest while inflation is 12%? You're fucked. Have a pension that's not inflation adjusted? Watch the poverty line march past you.
Why do you think the very wealthy people who run the government are so comfortable with endless money printing, and Wall St wants it to never end? Stocks drop whenever the Fed hints at printing less, and rise when the Fed confirms it will continue.
Maybe taxing the rich would help. But the rich collectively don't have all that much income. But clever ideas for future tax scheme won't change how much money we have now.
Spending a bit less than you actually make is wisdom; spending what you'd like to make is folly.
There's no competition between those two things. The vast majority of government spending is mailing checks to supporters, mostly retirees. All the things you list? Done at the local level, and not made any better by federal participation.
If you live within walking distance of a DVD rental place, that's really quite nice. That's why Redbox does so well: their kiosks are everywhere. I didn't appreciate Netflix's deep library of older titles until I'd used it for a couple of years.
It surprised me too, and I'm upset if that's what's going on, but Netflix has been trying to get rid of it's DVD business for years not (including that attempt to spin it off).
I believe it was the intro to the 4-book omnibus (gives a whole new meaning to trilogy!) where DNA wrote "this is the definitive, authoritative version - as is every other version". I liked the fact he adapted each to its medium, rather than Lucasing all over it.
"Lake street. No, no, Lake street. Aiiiiiiiii *splash*"
90% of people think they're in the top 10% of drivers. Ask if they feel safer with a computer driving, most will say no. Ask if they feel safer if everyone else had a computer driving, most will say yes.
Watch for this in the marketing when self-driving cars come to market (we'll see if Nissan hits their 2020 goal). The pitch will be all about ways it makes you safer despite you, personally, being the bestest driver evar. Plenty of ads showing loaning the car to your teenager, no doubt.
Either way, when Blockbuster was new they charged me a late fee when they clearly said "3 nights rental" but that apparently included the day you rented it, so it was really 2 days. I never went back. I've probably paid Netflix $5000 since then. Good call, Blockbuster.
Sure, whatever. I'm sure the armchair generals and admirals here on/. can do a better job of figuring out what to cut than professionals with 30 years of experience in the field. Why not, we make the same silly comments in every other specialty, from physics to biology. "Oh, in five minutes I saw the something the professional experts aren't smart enough to see, and there are no flaws in my idea!" Sure you did.
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But who will audit the auditors?
Gorillas!
Seriously, a fully public audit is the best possible approach. You can never be 100% sure, but you can get close enough if the audit attracts enough talent. This is the true promise of open source: moving from "in theory, you could look at the source", yahright, to "here's the crowdfunding for experts to openly audit the open source". That's something.
I see a lot of rules that treat boys as misbehaving girls. If you have a boy who draws in class the sort of things boys normally find cool, you'll inevitably get The Call from the school about the dangerous violent imagery your son is drawing (monsters, ninjas, etc). I don't think it's a deliberate conspiracy on anyone's part, merely that there's to much focus on younger children being perfectly behaved and non-disruptive at all times, which just doesn't come naturally to boys.
Japanese has a phrase "Sony timer", pretty much pronounced that way, to described electronic gear that break the day the warranty runs out. Sony was so bad at this that their name has become the catchphrase for low quality now.
But everyone agreed the PS3 was the one thing where they left the sonytimer out (because they want to sell games).
My DSL is half that speed. 3 Mbits down, 4 with a tailwind, so ~350 MB/sec is normal. Beats giving money to a cable company.
still cannot believe that in order to run streaming apps like Netflix or Hulu I have to purchase xbox live just to get the ethernet adapter to work.
That does seem hard to believe. Are you sure you'll need Xbox live gold, not the free version, for this? I need an Xbox live account to play a few of my PC games, and I definitely never paid for it!
I find it easy to believe MS claims of repentance this year: they're doing a huge re-org, and didn't they actually fire the guy in charge of Xbox when they changed?
We'll see what happens next year, of course.
Well, overhead+fraud in private insurance is similar to overhead+fraud in Medicare. Make of that what you will. We do have very high "medical research per capita", however, as most the pharma research happens here (which is a huge cost), and a high share of the device research as well.
Yes, OK, we all kowtow to our fiber-to-the-home overloards. But that's such a tiny group, and certainly not representative of the norm for streaming.
Millions of people who had insurance that worked for them are discovering that that plan is gone, and the cheapest plan on the exchange costs twice as much, has deductibles far higher, and coverers a smaller network of doctors. This is a very common story.
Something is deeply wrong here the entire premise here was that normal people could find a better plan on the exchange, and if they didn't they could keep the plan they had. Both claims were lies, and predictably so: the ACA is designed to push healthcare costs for the old and sick onto the young and healthy, so everyone young and healthy must, by design, pay a lot more to make the system work.
You high UID and claims of "fake insurance" make it pretty obvious you're a paid astroturfer. We don't like your sort here. Please go away.
Most of the medical research in the world happens in America. Of course care is more expensive here. Of course care will be cheaper when we inevitably stop paying for that technological advancement. Cheaper short term.
Long term technology is everything for price, and if we were motivated by more than short-term greed, we'd favor whatever system produced the best technological progress, rather than the cheapest care this decade.
You've misunderstood my very simple point: congress sets the amount, but then let the experts determine how best to use it. That's the pattern that works almost everywhere, from software development to NSF grants.
The English word "average" is not a synonym for the technical term "mean". English is fuzzy - get used to it.
Self-driving cars will have exploitable defensive behaviors. These will be discovered, and used by people in a hurry (especially teens). Hilarity will ensue.
Ask anyone who live through the Carter years. High inflation destroys savings, while wealth is mostly inflation-proof. Own a rental property? Rents go up with inflation, and your debt on the property suddenly matters a lot less. Own a factory? The price of goods you sell go up with inflation, and the debt on the factory suddenly matters a lot less.
Have a savings account at the legally capped 5.25% interest while inflation is 12%? You're fucked. Have a pension that's not inflation adjusted? Watch the poverty line march past you.
Why do you think the very wealthy people who run the government are so comfortable with endless money printing, and Wall St wants it to never end? Stocks drop whenever the Fed hints at printing less, and rise when the Fed confirms it will continue.
The more you know.
Maybe taxing the rich would help. But the rich collectively don't have all that much income. But clever ideas for future tax scheme won't change how much money we have now.
Spending a bit less than you actually make is wisdom; spending what you'd like to make is folly.
There's no competition between those two things. The vast majority of government spending is mailing checks to supporters, mostly retirees. All the things you list? Done at the local level, and not made any better by federal participation.
If you live within walking distance of a DVD rental place, that's really quite nice. That's why Redbox does so well: their kiosks are everywhere. I didn't appreciate Netflix's deep library of older titles until I'd used it for a couple of years.
It surprised me too, and I'm upset if that's what's going on, but Netflix has been trying to get rid of it's DVD business for years not (including that attempt to spin it off).
Are you paying a cable company each month? If so: stop that; if not: impressive speed!
"Tim, Tim Benzedrine!
Hash! Boo! Valvoline!
Clean! Clean! Clean for Gene!
First, second, neutral, park,
Hie thee hence, you leafy narc! "
Man, I'd pay to see that movie!
Wow, I agree completely with geekoid about this (brief pause to check for rain of frogs orother signs of the apocalypse).
I'd vote for a constitutional amendment banning prequel movies with cartoon rabbits. Take out this and SWep1 with one stroke!
I believe it was the intro to the 4-book omnibus (gives a whole new meaning to trilogy!) where DNA wrote "this is the definitive, authoritative version - as is every other version". I liked the fact he adapted each to its medium, rather than Lucasing all over it.
"Lake street. No, no, Lake street. Aiiiiiiiii *splash*"
90% of people think they're in the top 10% of drivers. Ask if they feel safer with a computer driving, most will say no. Ask if they feel safer if everyone else had a computer driving, most will say yes.
Watch for this in the marketing when self-driving cars come to market (we'll see if Nissan hits their 2020 goal). The pitch will be all about ways it makes you safer despite you, personally, being the bestest driver evar. Plenty of ads showing loaning the car to your teenager, no doubt.
Either way, when Blockbuster was new they charged me a late fee when they clearly said "3 nights rental" but that apparently included the day you rented it, so it was really 2 days. I never went back. I've probably paid Netflix $5000 since then. Good call, Blockbuster.
Sure, whatever. I'm sure the armchair generals and admirals here on /. can do a better job of figuring out what to cut than professionals with 30 years of experience in the field. Why not, we make the same silly comments in every other specialty, from physics to biology. "Oh, in five minutes I saw the something the professional experts aren't smart enough to see, and there are no flaws in my idea!" Sure you did.