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Perhaps the Russians were involved.LOL! http://blogosqarteam.typepad.com/.a/6a0148c7b55aa3970c019b02...

If someone could just take the time to go back and flag all of my comments it would really help. Thanks. :) https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/ant...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Drudge Report. I'ts like Hacker News minus the comments, but for politics and also odd/unusual stories. http://www.drudgereport.com/

The worst piece of legislation ever to be passed in the United States of America. I am a physician. My personal health insurance rate for a family of 5 increased immediately by 66% (since I have an individual policy). I have resorted to using the Medishare healthcare cost sharing plan as traditional insurance became unaffordable.

I have seen many patients lose their doctors because the doctors were not contracted with Covered California. The reason the doctors do not contract with Covered California is because at face value the plan appears to be just like the usual say PPO plan. But in fact it pays about 33% less than medicare (in other words, no different than Medi-Cal.

These are only some of the financial problems created by Obamacare. The problem with the government effectively taking over Health IT by way of forcing Electronic Health Records to abide by bureaucrats definitions for "meaningful use" is a completely different disaster that has resulted in marked decreases in productivity and worse care for patients.

Giant Hospital systems are taking over individual and group practices and turning them into corporate mills with little to no autonomy for physicians and terrible care for patients. All the while greedily taking in government and private dollars.

This is crony capitalism at its very worst.

We need to consider that the potential for abuse on the part of the government is also great. When the car communicates with roadside electronics, you can easily be tracked, your car can be told where you can and cannot go, and (if you do not comply with state) your vehicle may not be driveable at all.

Examining the Earth, stars including the sun, living organisms and all that there is in front of us, makes it plainly known that there is a Creator.

The appearance of things does not make it so. Automobiles appear to be evolved from earlier forms. And they have in sense: in the minds of their creators. So too, animal and plant species appear to be directly related to other prior species populations. But the connection is only in the mind of the Creator.

God created everything in existence. We refuse to acknowledge it, because by doing so we have to come to terms with his moral law. This moral law is embedded in our conscience and becomes clear through an examination of the conscience. For example things like lying and stealing (which if we are honest most of us have done either or both at one time or another), become heavy burdens when examined in the light of our consciences. In denying God, we can deny our own conscience and then create our own morality.

Yes. Three evolutionary scientists are interviewed and are asked to give examples of directly observable evidence of macroevolution.

Evolution can be further classified into "microevolution" and "macroevolution". Evidence for microevolution is directly observable (e.g. bacteria adapting to changes of nutrients in their environment, viruses adapting to vaccines). However macroevolution has never been directly observed. It is extrapolated from considering what occurs after a multitude of generations of microevolution. An interesting new documentary examines this in more detail: http://evolutionvsgod.com/

40. Coding as a very enjoyable hobby since around age 9 on our Apple IIe. Anyone have advice on how to turn that into part time $ ?

I logged out first to check that. Oh well. Here is another related: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/news/news/2013-03-01-stateme...

Sorry, not feeling very patriotic about this. "by the people, for the people, released back to the people." Meanwhile those of the people who are physicians have had their fees sequestered by 2% http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/781630 and are awash in extra paperwork for trying to prescribe something as simple as diabetic test strips as funding is tightened: http://www.pharmacist.com/cms-cuts-reimbursement-diabetes-te...

Does anyone know of any good books/sites to teach basic electronics to kids (or their parents)? Thanks.

There is a real problem for a subset of people regarding food addiction - particularly to sugar and certain carbohydrates. I am personally aware of people who have lost 50 to as much as 300+ lbs through a 12 step program called FA. It is not for everyone, but for some it has been a life-saver. http://www.foodaddicts.org/

If he's interested in HTML5 game programming, checkout impactjs. It does cost $99 last I checked, but its a very nice tool for making HTML5 games with JavaScript.

Here is a site I'm going to be trying out. Has PHP 5, MySQL 5, ASP.NET. It's free. https://secure.biz.nf/order.php

I like in this particular article, how the interviewer delves into how it is possible to sustain interest in coding a single game for so long (and potentially for decades). Anyone who has coded games as a single dev probably knows how bogged down you get as the game becomes more complex. Generating graphics yourself is a huge time suck which they have neatly avoided. What's intriguing is that the game design appears to be flexible enough to spend time coding mineralogy and then jumping to say horticulture while still being manageable. It would be interesting to know more about the design to see why it is so extensible.

Thanks for the encouragement. Think I'll give it a go, or I guess begin my descent in to losing (whereby losing == fun).

I've been reading articles about this fascinating game for several days now, but haven't had the guts to invest the time into it given its steep learning curve. Kudos to these guys for doing exactly what they want to do and (yet) still making a living by coding.

I would pay for simply having a poster of this. Would love to inspire my kids with it.

It's interesting that in the 80s when home computers were new, you essentially started your computer at the command line and could code in something like Basic right away. A lot of non-technical people learned at least some programming, because of this. When GUIs came this faded out.

A similar parallel in the 90s with the internet is that people learned HTML, because in many ways tools were limited and it was relatively easy to create a page that was respectable enough. Now that so many web pages are "covered" in CSS and/or created with higher level tools, it will be interesting to see if many non-technical people will be attracted to creating their own web pages. I hope so.

It is interesting that the ancient Hebrews believed that certain animal species possessed "soulish" qualities or qualities that expressed emotion, will, mind, and the ability to form relationships with each other. The word nephesh is applied in this way to both humans and certain animals.

It took only about 9 generations to the evolve the Tron lightcycle. Way too cool. This is like the marble races down hotwheels tracks we used to do as kids while recording the times, only way less work.

I think that what you're saying is most likely what is happening.

I did read that point and find it perplexing. I would like to see hard data about that. For instance is the general diet for laboratory rats now the same as it was 50 years ago?

But also, if you have a look at my abstract, it does point to another potential cause of obesity and type 2 diabetes in humans (but naturally not the lab animals) - food addiction. The patients in this study were also successful (presumably) because they were actively involved in a 12 step program for food addiction.

On a personal note, I lost 30 lbs over 6 months by pretty much eliminating sucrose from my diet and also consuming a lower amount of carbohydrates (120 - 180 grams per day).

As a practicing Endocrinologist I will go out on a limb and say excess carbohydrates are the problem leading to obesity. Sugar (or sucrose) is a particular problem as it will stimulate insulin release from the pancreas. Insulin promotes storage of glucose and I am convinced, the growth of fat cells. I have seen patients lose a tremendous amount of weight (34 lbs over 7 months) and lower blood glucose and their amount of diabetes medication simply through cutting out sugar and flour. They also reduced their overall carbohydrate intake. I presented the data at our annual Endocrinology conference recently. https://endo.confex.com/endo/2013endo/webprogram/Paper9044.h...

I'm always a bit frustrated that Google Docs doesn't have a save icon. It simply says "All changes saved in drive". But you see this doesn't stop my habitual compulsion to press the save icon (or at least do :w in Vim).

This is very true. It's why I seem to keep looking at Clojure articles and tutorials lately. I keep saying I should master language "X" then I jump to something new...Thankfully I'm just a hobbyist.

This is great. Can anyone suggest a good place to go for tutorials or more information for writing Google Apps scripts such as this?