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By "scale" I'm not referring to OpenMRS capabilities t run on commodity hardware. I'm referring to a large deployment at a national level or at a large public hospital in Kenya. Most deployments have been pilots and at smaller establishments.

In this space it's worth mention OpenMRS https://openmrs.org/ which also aims to do the same thing. Most of its deployments are in developing countries (I was part of a team driving adoption of it in Kenya) but I'm yet to see a successful large scale deployment of the platform.

Another alternative is Perkeep (formerly known as Camlistore) https://perkeep.org/ and there's even a tool to extract your pics from Google Photos https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp and move them to Perkeep.

The Gmail logo looks like the Joomla one

Worth mentioning that "Imba" is the Swahili word for "Sing" :-), just curious what was the reason behind the naming?

Just joined FB and I can tell you that the company is a microcosm of what's happening in the larger U.S. right now but amplified by a very vocal majority that is hell bent on having Zuckerberg clamp down on every single item/topic they don't agree with. Other than that the company is awesome :-)

> If you look closely you can see the Adidas logo imprinted from the sandal

this just put a smile on my face..thank you :-)

> This feels like more of an effort to create a story than accurate reporting of what life is like inside tech firms right now.

This is very true. The genesis of the story is that at one of the FAANGs (I work for one of them) someone posted a question that kind of made it sound as "parents vs single employees" issue, the media (the NYTimes got the ball rolling) have jumped on this and are fanning the flames at a time when many people are tense and worked up over so many other things.

We made the mistake of letting our first born watch Mother goose club on the tablet during meals, the upside is she always at her food but then we realized that absent the tablet she would throw a tantrum and refuse to eat and if we left the house and didn't have the tablet that was another mess. We made the decision to get rid of the tablet as well as any electronic stimuli during meals, food time is food time with conversation. We invested in books, playdoh, puzzles, crafts, bug catching kit etc and 2 kids later we have no complaints.

My first foray into buying stocks in the U.S. was with Robinhood, nothing about the app screamed "gamble away your hard earned money" or "make poor financial decisions" so I'm baffled how people label it as some kind of stock casino and absolve people of personal responsibility, but that's just me..YMMV

Uber app is very hyperlocal because each location has different requirements/challenges especially around fare calculation, taxes and levies, how the app works in CA is very different from London and different from New York. The Driver app in CA was reworked on extensively during Q4 2019 in response to AB5 in order to strengthen the Uber case that it is essentially a platform that matches riders to drivers. Internally those changes can be rolled out to all cities in the U.S. if the AB5 tide goes beyond CA, but to be honest no one knows if those changes will make the case for Uber or not, they are the proverbial canary in the coal mine.

> Drivers are not setting the price directly with the customers, they are getting paid by Uber/Lyft, but that doesn't make them employees.

Uber in CA launched a feature allowing drivers to set their own fares https://www.uber.com/blog/california/set-your-fares/ so there is inbuilt flexibility.

> except uber/lyft will remove you from the platform if you decline too many rides, thereby only giving the illusion of choice.

Factually incorrect for Uber drivers in CA, the platform no longer penalizes drivers for declining trips and now allows them to pick and choose trips without any impact on driver rating. (I worked in Uber Eng up until the 5/18 layoffs)

> The average walking distance to a pub

This is commonly referred to as "Staggering distance" :-)

I'm an immigrant in the U.S. and I can say, YES! Americans are entitled to these jobs more than anyone else. It is their country and immigration is a privilege they accord to those they find suitable, it is not a right as some people seem to believe.

Is there any reasonable explanation why the previous administration, which controlled both the house and senate albeit for a short period + won 2 terms, didn't make any meaningful progress to overhaul the process and make it merit based?

> They might have had more impact by sticking around to Exert some influence from the inside.

Burn the house from inside while enjoying all the benefits it provides including 6 figure salary, bonuses, perks and stock..this is what is wrong with the current generation of keyboard activists!! (I'm not accusing you of being one) if one fundamentally disagrees with the principles of a business that they willingly signed up to work for, one should at least have the conviction to walk away and advocate for change from the outside.

What are the implications of this in terms of taxes? My understanding is that the CFTB https://www.ftb.ca.gov/ will continue to tax you as a CA resident as long as your employer is based in CA. The laundry list for determining residency is long and in many cases you would end up paying taxes even if you don't live in CA.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2019/10/22/now-calif...

https://moskowitzllp.com/leaving-california-and-the-franchis...

Took your code, added a random number generator and threw it into a Go HTTP server and deployed it as a GCP Cloud Function :-)

https://us-central1-bookshelf-app-1103.cloudfunctions.net/Ra...

Voila!! Serverless Random XKCD..

> Huh? Your employer doesn't have to provide it. But I'm pretty sure that people being required to carry health insurance was one of the provisions of the ACA. I have to file a form with my taxes showing coverage. Has that changed?

Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which eliminated the individual mandate penalty, effective January 1, 2019

"..well pretty much this, the common view point is the masses are too dumb to make the correct decision and are in need of help/rescue." the rallying call of the nanny state

Re-frame is enjoyable and the concepts are straightforward, unfortunately Fulcro suffers from the same problem as Om which is that the concepts just make you feel stupid..

Did you consider re-frame?

"based on their moral judgement" this sounds like a subjective standard of morality based purely on personal judgement/feelings/what feels right to me. So what happens when the child opts to do something they feel is moral based on their subjective standard even when others have termed it immoral? How do you reconcile that?

Eisegesis Alert!!

A more suitable bible text would be Romans 13:1-3, which makes it clear that everyone is subject to governing authorities.

Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.

Bonuses just got issued at most if not all SV companies, I work at Uber and ours checked in 3/13, so more money is the last thing SV techies need at this time. The funds should have been directed to orgs supporting freelancers etc

Snapchat is one of the largest if not the largest user of memcached on GCP, a few years ago they were +100TB and growing like a weed!!

taxation is the backbone of most if not all governments, no argument there and most rational people would agree, but the foaming in the mouth "blame the wealthy for all the ills facing the world and go for their bone marrow" is what I'm totally against YMMMV. At some point you run out of the billionaires and guess who is next in line to get strip mined in the form of additional taxes? the middle class and finally the poor.

One more reason not to partake of the dumpster fire that is the NY Times..

> Unless, the UBI is highly distributive,taking money from the well-to-do and giving it to the poor.

s/highly distributive,taking money from the well-to-do and giving it to the poor/Forced wealth redistribution