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"Molly was employed at the small NPO Knowbility as the Open Web Evangelist. Knowbility was able to put her on Family and Medical Leave which allowed Molly to retain her health insurance coverage. The FMLA time period has ended and the only coverage available now is through COBRA."

So she had health insurance, but now that she's ill and has to stop work, it is stopping? If health insurance doesn't help you when you are sick, when does it help you?

Thank god (and the Labour party) for the NHS.

"Postmodern" has it from the linked twitter thread: "they [are] probably confusing LGPL with GPL/AGPL, or are afraid of getting Stallman cooties."

There seem to me to be a lot more designs for revolutionary new nuclear plants than ever get built. Can you share any thoughts on why that is, and why yours will be different?

See e.g. http://archive.org/web/web.php

See the <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455718">comment</a> from "Semaphor" below; this type of scam is already explicitly illegal in Germany.

How can Amazon sell a book against the publisher's wishes? If true, that's the real story here.

Maybe the intended audience is already familiar with that part.

People generally make the choices that their circumstances dictate. If many people are falling into obesity because it is easy to do so, writing them off as "lazy" doesn't help anyone; it just makes you sound like an asshole.

"Language and written communication is unimportant" seems arguably OK to me. Both are mass nouns / uncountable, so the "is" there seems quite defensible to me (v.s. "are", which I assume is your contention?).

I meant that the police generally pull out their gun to emphasise their power and to reinforce their shouts, not always with the intention of actually shooting.

It seems to me that the UK police, since they are not armed, generally try to defuse situations. (Of course, they can call for armed backup if it is necessary.)

Time and again, I read of US police unnecessarily escalating situations. If your immediate response to any tension is to pull out a gun and start shouting, then things are very likely to get a lot worse in many cases.

Perhaps this is just confirmation bias though. I only get to read about the US cases where things have gone wrong.

+1 from me for a senator to disclose the government's lies, then, so there can be an informed debate about the costs and benefits of mass surveillance.

It says "except Felony". Releasing classified secrets is a felony. So it sounds like it means that a Senator who released classified secrets during a speech in the house would not be immune from prosecution for doing so.

Is that not how it has been interpreted? Do you have any examples?

Would a Senator be safe in discussing the classified details in the House? I notice that all have chosen not to. Would you say that's due to public pressure rather than the threat of prosecution, then?

I don't think they could. I'm no constitutional lawyer (I'm not even American), but someone pointed out on here recently that the clause says "[they] shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony, and Breach of the Peace [have immunity] for any Speech or Debate in either House" ... and since discussing classified secrets would count as a felony (possibly even Treason, given some of the opinions about this story), they could be prosecuted.

Is that incorrect?

In the UK, MPs could discuss state secrets in Parliament and be protected under Parliamentary Privilege, but not so in the USA, as I understand it.

We tick all your boxes. Tech: We use interesting state-of-the-art and varied technology (I just finished a Rails project; I've done plenty of Java work at Softwire). Career: We are a small(ish) company growing fast so there is opportunity to define new roles and help us manage the transition into a larger company. Work/life: We don't work long hours; generally 38-40h/week. Pay: We pay very well (I don't think we can compete with some of the financial companies, of course).

Here's the official blurb from our recruitment manager:

Softwire is an extremely successful and vibrant software company offering bespoke software development services in a diverse range of sectors including media, security, online retail, travel, finance, publishing and insurance. We are currently looking for software developers with prior commercial experience to work in our offices based in London (NW5) and Bristol. We have placed in the top twenty of the Sunday Times Best Small Companies awards for the past three years running, and employees will tell you that this is a truly great - and probably unique - place to work. We combine a relaxed and friendly environment with a superb all-round package of benefits including:

- Varied and interesting work that will keep you on your toes day in, day out. - Great remuneration – all employees reap the rewards of our joint efforts, and a guaranteed 60% of profits is distributed to staff via annual bonus. - Flexible working time and conditions and no pressure to regularly work long hours. - Focused training, rapid personal development, and the opportunity to take on elevated levels of responsibility early in your career - Frequent social events and company outings.

Applicants must have demonstrated excellence in previous employment and possess impeccable academic records - usually straight As at A-level (or equivalent) and a good degree from a top university. You will need stand-out ability and enthusiasm in order to be successful.

I think this is an American perspective. Plenty of very good jobs in Europe and London in particular are 40 hour weeks. Plenty of research shows that people are more productive in the long term working 40h/wk.

However, if you ask a consumer how much they would pay for a discretionary purchase, I would not expect their answer to match reality.

Let's say you asked me how much I would pay for a BMW. I would probably never buy a BMW at any price (except if I thought I could sell it on immediately for more), but I would happily name a price if I was asked. This would distort your figures.

I just don't believe that what people say about prices matches what they will do (except for traders in commodity exchanges, which I think is a very unrepresentative example v.s. consumers visiting a restaurant).

(Thanks for the offer of a call. Luckily, I don't have the stress of setting any customer facing prices at the moment, so I'm not a potential customer, but thanks anyway.)

As far as I can tell, they ask customers how much they would pay, and draw a pretty graph of that. What evidence do they have that people's responses to price questions are an accurate indicator of what they would actually spend? What have they done to address selection bias?