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Matt Taibbi is a good writer to read in regards to how Washington really works. I can't remember which of his books had the best example, but the system is broke.

Talk with a lawyer is your best course of action, as a great deal of this will depend on documentation, e.g. contracts, emails; and your relationship with the company.

Best of luck to you.

See if your school has a counseling center, they can help you with strategies/techniques to make it through. Take a look at the tomato timer technique and see if you can adapt/apply it to your situation.

Very rarely will you ever do 100% of what you enjoy in life. And if all you do is what you enjoy, then it becomes ordinary and can lose it's luster.

From my perspective, academics is 'jumping through hoops' to obtain a credential. My strategy for making it through was to find things I enjoyed to use as a reward for completing what I didn't want to do. I would also do research on a topic of interest and figure out how to learn it along with good ways to apply it.

Matt Taibbi has an interesting book out "The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap."

There are issues in the US beyond just the seizing of assets, the question is how do we fix it so that everyone can prosper? The idea of the United States is still awesome, but have we as a country ever come close to the ideal? Is it possible to reach the ideal?

Regarding #3, do you have a source for that? I believe the programs are administrated by the states, but I think the funds are from the national government.

Not sure if this link is accurate or inaccurate: http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/federalbenefitprograms/a/Feder...

The article mentions the statute of limitations applies in some instances but the time frame for wire fraud has not run out.

Salary information is part of the negotiation for the job. Learn to negotiate and how to answer the question without answering the question.

Read "Ask The Headhunter's" articles/columns on salary negotiation for some background information.

If you say too large of number, you won't be hired. If you say too low of number, then you either leave $$$ on the table or they wonder why your number is low.

I've asked "are you offering me the job?" If they say no, then I ask if we can continue to see if I fit. This did not always work well.

Someone on HN posted the link to the Noel Smith-Wenkle method which is a better method and it works well, I've used it more than once effectively.

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/org/noel.html

The doctor starts on time. Patient one requires slightly more time than scheduled...repeat for other patients. Also doctors have other tasks than seeing patients: reviewing lab work (part of seeing patients?), pharmaceutical sales reps, signing paperwork, etc.

Automation would be nice, but not sure how you could remove all the time sinks in US Medicine.

/not a doctor, just observations as an end user.

Lots of bad decision making in Ferguson. There are surface reasons for the decisions, but there are underlying issues that it would be nice to address.

I don't know the answers to the issues, and while I can analyze and say this is what should have been done differently at each step of this tragedy; not sure it is helpful.

I would be interested in hacker news memberships ideas of the issues underlying this situation.

It was not meant as click bait.

To me the interesting portion of the article was the "Yes, if" instead of giving the answer of 'No.'

The tab in the browser says "Why Killing Cash is the Key to Mastercard's Competitive Strategy" but the title on the page is "MasterCard’s Ajay Banga: Why ‘Yes, If’ Is More Powerful Than Saying No." I typically don't pay attention to the title in the tabs.

Anyway, I found the comments on the article interesting even when the discussion went where I didn't expect.

And so does the National Review: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/379018/let-states-deci...

Along those lines, the census agency says most STEM graduates do not work in STEM fields: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/07/10/cens...

Unless I missed something it doesn't.

A little more complex version of hypercard?

I'm not familiar with quora and not sure I want to log in to the site to read this article.

Worthless article unless you like reading "Don't steal images."

Cringely has a post on peering issues, slight allusion to the FCC issue : http://www.cringely.com/2014/05/06/14890/

When the floating ad obscures the text and makes it difficult to read the article, not sure that it is worth trying to read the article.

Reloaded the page and the floating ad went away, but still not the greatest user experience.

90%? Where do you get that statistic?

Anyone heard if you can upgrade the SSD on these?

Interesting concept, now I'm wondering how to apply it to a typical advert where the screening is done by HR using keywords on the resume.

Can she (and you) find a way to do research/development at home in her field? Or possibly figuring out how to combine her area of expertise with computing, specifically simulations.

The ability to remotely control a thermostat has been in place since at least 2006. KCPL for example has had customers who agree to adjust their thermostat downwards during hot days for a certain amount of savings.

The only major change in this instance is Google/Nest making money on it instead of just the utility/customer.

"the utility can levels load on the grid."

Probably better stated as 'peak shaving' where the utility is lowering the peak (maximum) of its load profile. This pays significant dividends as utilities are required to have a certain amount of generation as backup in addition to the required power.

It would take a significant amount of homes to equal one heavy industrial customer.

Interesting.

The Gorge in OR has the sunken markers and I've yet to see one show up missing during the snow season.

Wonder if there is specific method to install and also for applying the snow plow to cause the reflectors to stay in place.

In AZ, CA and OR (only states I know for sure) in the snowy areas, reflective markers are placed in a divot removed from the area between the painted lane markings. It works and is not very noticeable when changing lanes.

As soon as you get to the areas where snow is minimal, the divots stop.

I've not noticed other states (WY, CO, NE, KS) doing this.

Read Graham's Intelligent Investor, there are also books which provide examples or slight alternatives to Graham's approach. Also sites similar to Mr. Money Mustache may provide guidance that is helpful to you (or not).

Regarding the home purchase, consider loaning yourself the money from the 401k rather than paying someone else interest.

http://www.tjpottertrucking.com/trucking-oversized-loads/hea... ... if a plane can carry that, then transport by air is possible. The Antonov An-225 Mriya could probably carry a large transformer.

IEEE (or the manufacturers?) have commissioning procedures. Typically the larger transformers are manufactured elsewhere, then reassembled on-site and commissioned (figure a week to a month).

Your ballpark estimate on the cost is close enough.

One point to remember is that 'if it bleeds it leads', news stories are often sensationalized to achieve more viewers/readers. Typically for power applications, the sizing of equipment is based on peak demand such that the equipment is only fully utilized in a short time period (people get upset when power isn't available or a fire is started). While this report is probably correct in essence, without knowing the exact scenario that was modeled it is difficult to determine a solution.

The Laffer curve might apply to more than taxes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve

To quote Captain Renault "I'm shocked..."