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Here is the State Department's rationale: https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20...

We do not have universal single-payer but we have a few very large government-run single-payer systems.

If you have an example of a country with a single program that has more effective outcomes for a population of similar makeup and size, that would be a useful comparison.

Medicare: 65,748,297 people enrolled [0]

Medicaid and CHIP: 85,614,581 people enrolled [1]

Military: 9.5 million people covered [2]

The US has not one but two of the largest single payer health insurance programs in the world.

Medicare alone has more people enrolled than any European country's single payer programs other than Germany (pop 83,294,633) and the UK (pop 67,736,802).

[0] https://medicareadvocacy.org/medicare-enrollment-numbers/ [1] https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/program-information/medica... [2] https://www.health.mil/Military-Health-Topics/MHS-Toolkits/M...

> Before that we also had various moral panics, like the one about roleplaying games pushing "the devil".

Ahh, ok. So the moral panic of the early 80s, about 40 years ago.

The "video games cause real violence" argument was personified by Tipper Gore in the 90s, more than 30 years ago.

I don't recall anything from 15-20 years ago particular to conservatives. It has been mainstream since the 90s.

> For example, 15-20 years ago we had conservatives yelling video games are the devil and they need to be censored and some topics not even touched.

My memory of the 2003 to 2008 time frame is different.

I recall mainstream complaints about GTA 3, released 2001. Famously, Senator Clinton asked the FTC to investigate GTA 3 over the "hot coffee" mod in 2005.

There was also the 2005 California Law [0] that banned the sale of violent video games to minors.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Entertainment_Merchan...

Ahh, ok. I was under the impression that the vaccines were to prevent a severe reaction in those at risk due to age or comorbidities, which is why some areas gave priority to the elderly.

Are there places where herd immunity was achieved due to vaccination?

Why would avoiding the covid vaccine mean someone doesn't care about the safety of others?

There are cultural and legal reasons.

One legal reason is fuel economy regulations (CAFE standards) encourage car makers to make their cars large enough to be classified as "light trucks", leading to less stringent fuel economy standards.

A larger footprint also reduces the fuel economy standard, incentivizing larger vehicles.

See: https://www.thedrive.com/news/small-cars-are-getting-huge-ar...

> I don't think the other 22 states would be wild about that admission standard.

We have a well established process for asking states about this sort of thing, the US Congress. They don't seem to be wild about the minimum populous state standard, we should ask about the median populous state standard.

Why choose the least populous state as the standard for admission instead of, say, the median?

Indeed. 436 states, here we come!

> DC statehood has been a hugely locally popular movement for quite some time.

I'm sure many locales with 670k residents would love to become states, that'd be a pretty sweet deal.

An appropriate way to welcome visitors to the city they fund.

> I now designate daily subway rides for reading New York Times breaking news emails so that clients don’t find me in an anxiety-ridden state when they arrive for tutoring sessions.

"Intellectuals [are] virtually the most vulnerable of all to modern propaganda, for three reasons:

1) they absorb the largest amount of secondhand, unverifiable information;

2) they feel a compelling need to have an opinion on every important question of our time, and thus easily succumb to opinions offered to them by propaganda on all such indigestible pieces of information;

3) they consider themselves capable of 'judging for themselves'.

They literally need propaganda."

Konrad Kellen in the introduction of Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes by Jacques Ellul

There was a lot of discussion [0] of that point when the Model View Culture article was originally posted 7 years ago.

It's complicated, but the author of the piece seems to take issue with how the character set was designed by the language authorities the UTC delegated to.

The whole comment thread is an interesting read.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220147

The City of London has an interesting governance structure. There are two types of voters, resident and business [0].

[0] https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/voting-elections

> they don't have any intention to develop this software without a profit, then they shouldn't have positioned themselves as a free-and-open-source product in the first place.

If something satisfies the four freedoms [0], it is free software.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.en

You can run the SSPL'd code, you can view the SSPL code, if you change the SSPL code then contribute back if you distribute your changes. If you run a service providing the SSPL code, contribute the management layer back as well.

It gets more code into the open, where's the disconnect?

High schools here start at 8:15, it’s earlier if you have a bus. How late is the proposal?

More importantly, why tie recent science (which can change) about the high school population with our standard of time.

Solve that problem separately.

I’d rather have more daylight in the afternoon than bend time around a poorly chosen schedule set by schools.

You make a compelling argument for the schools starting later, they should do that.

I just posted the guardian version because I didn’t see yours.

“maga2020!” and no proof, ridiculous. Easy to believe something crazy if you want to believe it, I guess.

> Twitter, however, denied the report. “We’ve seen no evidence to corroborate this claim, including from the article published in the Netherlands today. We proactively implemented account security measures for a designated group of high-profile, election-related Twitter accounts in the United States, including federal branches of government,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement. [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/22/trump-twitte...

It seemed to help with severance when they got rid of 40% of their staff a few months after the union was formed [0].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/13/21257585/kickstarter-layo...

> But persistently low achievement rates of African-American, Latino, poor, English-learner and disabled students, who together make up a majority of the state’s public-school students, fuel criticism of the educational status quo.

Perhaps repealing the English only teaching requirement via prop 58 last year had something to do with harming English proficiency in underserved populations. Prop 227, which established the English only requirement (parents could opt out) seemed successful.

> "Hispanic test scores on a range of subjects have risen since Proposition 227 became law."

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_227,_the_%22E...

> I really wouldn't want to go back to a laptop screen with a wide bezel again.

Yeah, those are real sexy. Only downside is the terrible location of the webcam, I suppose you can use an external, though.

> It's also unclear whether the SSD in the ZBook is PCIe or not. It isn't stated, so I assume it's not, as PCIe performance is a differentiator.

From the quick specs[0], two drives: one PCIe SSD, the second M.2 2280 SATA-3.

[0]http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/getpdf.aspx/c04832209.pdf?ver=3

> Sniff, that's a Maxwell chip not Pascal.

Is there a substantial difference? This is a development laptop so I only cared about it being able to push enough pixels.

Perhaps there's a difference for gamers?

Folks considering this should also check out the HP ZBook Studio G3.

It has Quadro M1000M 4GB graphics, 32 GB of ECC RAM, quad core, Linux certified by HP, 4k screen, can handle two external 4k monitors and drive the panel at about 4.5 pounds.

Yeah, and those private organizations (mostly non-profits) are very effective at lobbying, so it's hard to terminate contracts to consolidate services.

One thing to clarify is that, because some (~$60 Million in 2015 [3]) goes to housing assistance. The people helped by the budget includes more than 7,539 represented by the point in time count, so the $31K/person number is a bit high.

That said, SF spends a lot of money on homeless and the homeless population hasn't significantly decreased in over a decade.

[3] http://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/56... page 6

San Francisco spends $241 million[0] of it's $8.9 billion budget[1] on programs to help the homeless and to help folks avoid becoming homeless (through housing assistance, etc). The 2015 count of homeless people in San Francisco is 7,539[2].

This measure doesn't increase spending on the homeless issue but, honestly, the San Francisco govt has shown the ability to absorb funding increases without noticeable impact in services. This is especially true of homeless services.

My impression is that this measure is born of frustration with the governmental inaction on the homeless problem in SF.

[0] http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-record... [1] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-budget-increase-aim... [2] http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Franc...

In my experience lawyers are very conservative about this. I can believe that's the advice they're getting, but it's obviously not the full story. According to the eff[0] (article starts with some discussion irrelevant to this case).

"The circumstances under which a company could actually lose a trademark—such as abandonment and genericide—are quite limited. Genericide occurs when a trademark becomes the standard term for a type of good (‘zipper’ and ‘escalator’ being two famous examples). This is very rare and would not be a problem for Canonical unless people start saying “Ubuntu” simply to mean “operating system.” Courts also set a very high bar to show abandonment (usually years of total non-use). Importantly, failure to enforce a mark against every potential infringer does not show abandonment.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...