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people like to complain that the federal government only funds a fixed number of residency slots, as if a trillion dollar industry is just absolutely helpless to do anything

Agreed, but I would go further and say that if demand by students for the training provided by residency exceeds the demand by hospitals for the work provided by residents, I don't see why residents couldn't pay for their training just as they do for medical school. The whole "residency funding" thing seems like a red herring as an explanation.

To be clear, I'm not saying that medical graduates should have to take on more debt to pay for residency, but rather that the reason this doesn't happen is not obvious according to typical economic reasoning.

So, for your 200k downpayment, you now have 200k * 1.047^35 = 1MM as the total house value that you own even without house appreciation, so almost a 5% rate of return.

I don't understand where the 1.6 million came from. If you're talking about interest on the loan, the premise was that the rent covers the mortgage payment (interest and capital) plus maintenance plus returns some net cash. In that case, when the net cash has returned enough to cover the downpayment, you'd be richer by the entire value of the house even without appreciation.

Ad blocker extensions are a major security risk

This is only true in the sense that an all-purpose browser is "a major security risk". That is to say, it's not true in any coherent sense.

Yes, the ad blocker needs to be trustworthy, and there are a variety of approaches for furthering that goal.

Adblocker extensions need full access to all network traffic and all it takes is a single person's account or machine to be compromised to get access to millions of browsers.

Again, you could say the same about the browser itself. Even if it were infeasible for extension developers to implement more security safeguards, that would be a flaw in the Chrome Web Store, not in the concept of web extensions.

The state of the art is a blood draw, followed by detection of THC at a toxicology laboratory using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.

police are willing to pay $20 per test.

Is GC/MS (LC/MS?) really that cheap?

I've been using Hetzner Cloud and have been quite happy with it.

There's also the main Bountysource page: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/microg for donating to specific issues. If you're not ready to use this yet because it doesn't work well with X app, there's probably an issue tracking something that would make it work which you can donate to!

It looks like https://simplepostal.com is the best deal since it starts at $2.50 with tracking, for which most of the other sites seem to charge $5+.

You do. [1][2] But you have a point more generally.

[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/19/edward-snow...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/29/edward-snowd...

Right, that sounds more like a dissociative than a psychedelic.

In the 2014 fiscal year, Harvard received $608 million in research funding from the government.

Not true that Harvard can withdraw the acceptance at any time for any reason. There is a specific set of circumstances in which it can be withdrawn (in this case, where the person's integrity/moral character is in doubt); otherwise, the unconditional offer of admission could be considered a legally binding contract between the university and the student.

That isn't completely accurate. An acceptance to Harvard is usually unconditional, and can only be withdrawn under very specific circumstances (in this case, they're invoking the circumstance relating to an admitted student's honesty/integrity/moral standing). Just wanted to clear up that there is a big difference between denying someone acceptance at the time of application and withdrawing one. (Source: also admitted to Harvard this year)

Certain Live TV addons such as Plexus are based on peer-to-peer BitTorrent technology, which allows for greater scalability.

The Guardian is currently running an excellent live blog (http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jun/23/eu-refe...) which includes comparisons between real and expected results, as well as projections by experts. I wish that link were at the top of HN instead of this submission; live results are completely useless for the average observer.

Is there anything similar to this for physics? I'm taking an introductory mechanics class and I can't help but think there must be a much more intuitive, logical way to solve even complicated multi-step problems than just falling into algorithmic pattern-based resolution.

Does it matter? In what world is Coinbase a judge, jury and executioner who can determine if a Bitcoin transaction is 'legal' or 'illegal' with absolute certainty?

I have a more general question: why is ICANN such a piece of shit, and is there any way that can ever change?

Is it possible to do this for Canadian students? I don't see Canada listed on the admission assessment page.

There are some important considerations here that haven't been taken into account. For example, the United States is the only major country in the world that taxes non-resident citizens on their worldwide income, which makes it one of the most inconvenient passports to hold. Additionally, holding an EU passport allows one to work, study, etc. in any EU country, rather than simply visit it.

I think the title got changed.

The whole NewTLD project is a misguided, worthless money grab by ICANN which doesn't make sense on a lot of levels. At this point, why even expect them to apply any sort of logic for the common good?

This still doesn't do anything about YouTube's horrible bitrate settings and "resolution is everything" attitude. 4K videos play better on my 1080p screen than 1080p videos, which should absolutely not be the case with reasonable, non-skimpy bitrate settings.

(Note - here EBS = elastic beanstalk, not elastic block storage)

I, really, really don't recommend using EBS as an abbreviation for Elastic Beanstalk, since Amazon uses the actual abbreviation canonically to refer to Elastic Block Storage. At worst, just call it Beanstalk, when the AWS context is clear.

I still feel like The Right Thing for techies to do should be to oppose NewTLDs, although I have no idea why. I personally find them repugnant.

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This is a terrible idea, in my opinion. It would effectively cause users to "budget" the music they play, e.g.: "If I play that Rihanna song after playing 10 songs from my favorite indie band this month, it'll severely dilute the money going to them." The last thing Spotify wants is people not playing music for moral reasons.

Local storage (which is what I think you mean, unless no stream service runs from HDD or no user stores music on an SSD) isn't necessarily better quality, since lossless music downloads are very rare. Also, you're ignoring the fact that buying every song one plays is much more expensive than simply paying $9/month.

Hahahah nope.

I totally support this "abuse" of their infrastructure if it makes them realize that giving free access to their own social network via Internet.org isn't a charitable endeavour.