nijk | 13 years ago | on: Google Glass on Saturday Night Live
Does he find the concept of a keyboard, using our amazingly skillful hands to punch out letters, equally ridiculous?
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nijk | 13 years ago | on: Enstitute, an Alternative to College for a Digital Elite
Vocational training costs less than 0.25 of college costs. So you can get retrained every 10 years in a new skill.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)
"the" language is then more of a loosely couples family of languages.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)
That is a lie. Some of the arguments are provided as global variables like $_, (no need to remember its name, since its value will be implicitly used whenever you omit a necessary argument) whose value is decided by something akin to Clippy choosing what seems most handy.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)
"Proper" MVC fashion.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)
It is insane to claim that R is a language of repeatable science.
Python is barely better.
None of these languages come anywhere near a reliable verifiable formal model of what they claim to compute.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)
You tried to make a too-strong statement and then backed down when honesty got the best of you. Perl has a philosophy, not a design.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)
Perl 5 has no spec, just a bunch of features that seem helpful. It has a philosophy, not a design.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: Taxodus – mapping assets offshore
FL has no income tax because it doesn't want retirees to rip off wage earners. It is clearly not a play to attract portable businessz since it has almost none.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: Taxodus – mapping assets offshore
If you don't want someone spending our money, you just don't give to them. You don't need to hide money to accomplish that goal. Marriage is a joint partnership, and anyone is free to not enter into one.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: I don’t understand American healthcare – doesn’t mean I shouldn’t provide it
Of you think the debate has only two major sides, you never understand it.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: I don’t understand American healthcare – doesn’t mean I shouldn’t provide it
When those young people get old, they will have paid their fair share. The transition is of relatively minor importance.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: I don’t understand American healthcare – doesn’t mean I shouldn’t provide it
When an insurance company goes banktrupt, the owners don't suffer. The customers suffer.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: I don’t understand American healthcare – doesn’t mean I shouldn’t provide it
So it is mandatory for residents of 49 states.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: I don’t understand American healthcare – doesn’t mean I shouldn’t provide it
Insurance is fundamentally a group activity --it is a shared risk pool. There is no such thing as individual insurance. The question is how groups are formed. Currently, US does it around business units. UK does nationwide.
Somalia does individual, AKA, no insurance.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: I don’t understand American healthcare – doesn’t mean I shouldn’t provide it
One issue is that the govt can relativelt easily ban you from driving without insurance. banning you from existing without health insurance is harder. ACA oa trying, though (by forcing coverage, not by killing people)
nijk | 13 years ago | on: I don’t understand American healthcare – doesn’t mean I shouldn’t provide it
Interstate immigration guarantees is a factor against single-statd healthcare.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: I don’t understand American healthcare – doesn’t mean I shouldn’t provide it
Huh? There are no private-access-only ERs, so none to compare against medicare.
Most ER waiting patients are there because they don't have primary or urgent care.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: I don’t understand American healthcare – doesn’t mean I shouldn’t provide it
That is a fancy way of saying "we don't like to share". There is no matchingincrease in charitable giving when tax burden changes suddenly.
nijk | 13 years ago | on: How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE Online’s entire economy
From then linked devblog:
"a disparity between the actual value of the item on the market and the average price we use to calculate LP."
Seems a rather newb mistake to come out off a company that has full time professional economists on staff.
Simple fix: charge sales tax for transfers of "valuable" items.