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I bet it's more subtle than overt (not an excuse if it's happening, of course, merely a possible explanation)... probably managers hiring unaware they're hiring people whom look like them, rather than hiring the most skilled and capable people whom fit with the company culture. I've seen this at a number of universities and enterprise shops when there's not a conscious effort to minimize useless bias.

freshmeat tried a variation of that model and ohloh did as well, it could be executed better and reduce the amount of noise in a anonymously-personalized way.

It so happens that I grew up in the south part of Silicon Valley between Blossom and Almaden Valleys: the Quicksilver mines have contaminated a number of streams and waterways in the area to the point there are permanent signs indicating fishing is prohibited due to the risk of mercury poisoning. The former mercury mines are also a local tourist / educational attraction and recreation area.

Also, there's widespread arsenic contamination of American-grown rice, due mostly to North American geology and the quirks of rice biology. [1] As such, you'll probably want to cook American-grown rice not in a rice cooker, but in a coffeemaker. [2]

Finally, another important advisory for transplanted Valley people whom enjoy the hiking the hills like the Stanford Dish area are the pervasiveness of tiny deer ticks which have been known to carry Lyme disease.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Almaden

1. http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/01/how-much...

2. http://time.com/3974793/rice-arsenic-coffeemaker-cooking/

The Onion must've renamed itself NY Times.

If there were an open-source low/no calorie formulation of MegaBrand Zero that didn't contain carcinogens, I'd try that out.

Double-edged sword of regulation:

some aspects of regulation protects monopolies, increases burdens on businesses trying to sell life-saving products, self-justifies bureaucracy and adds cost and delay. Other aspects of regulation prevents unsafe, scam and inferior products from endangering public safety. Both positives and negatives, to varying degrees, are in play simultaneously, given a particular product or issue. We need the FDA to not be lap-dogs of industry, not block dying cancer patients from trying almost any experimental, unapproved protocols and not taking forever to approve revolutionary therapies.

To modify James Madison's quote: "If everyone were angels, no government regulation would be needed and libertarianism would be as practical of an utopian system as communism."

It's balanced, expedient and effective regulation that is the primary duty of medical regulators.

Just saw more Epipen Congressional testimony. The actual unit cost of the Epipen (whether branded or "generic") is around $67 USD. Assuming that this cost were not overly inflated beyond actual overhead and unit costs, in order to be sustainable, a reasonable retail price without distributors would be $134 USD... with distributors $200-238.

That said, the more downward pressure from competitors (commercial or nonprofit projects), the better for customers; especially where a monopoly existed, it's rational to for customers to band together and attack excessive hegemony.

Enteprising folks need to jump on this to sell this as a kit (w/ or w/o the medication).

You're so incredibly naïve.

Just one example: look at states which charge overly-prosectured minorities parole fees (often for unpaid tickets and other civil matters) and reimprison them if they are unable to pay these extortionist taxes.

How did the "royal we" arrive at this "reasoning?"

If popularity were a valid signal of importance, people should only express their eternal love for PHP and Javascript, and ignore computer science, functional programming languages, computer engineering and little-known-but-really-fucking-important packages.

Call me ageist, but code churn and labeling projects "dead" adds nothing in the context of portable code which has matured to the point stability; there's zero functional value added in refactored code being "new." Ongoing support, adding features and keeping pace with platform compatibility are separate issues from judging code to be "inferior" despite working because it's "old." What may seem "dead" to people whom don't know about particular packages but may well just be stable and resting very quietly because it just works.

List of petty annoyances:

- Can't reinstall haskell-stack from Homebrew.

- Karabiner can no longer remap keyboard keys, and seems to be no longer being maintained because development moved to another project.

- CPU is stuck at 100% doing some sort of "optimization"

- Macs Fan Control stops/starts controlling fans randomly

There was a cancelled, very large proposed GPS outage (NOTAM) centered on NAWS China Lake which specifically warned that the EMB-505 Phenom 300 business jet specifically should avoid operating in the Western US during this mysterious GPS outage/jamming test event.[0] Pressure from the AOPA and others likely contributed to the scrubbing of this would-be very large outage.[1] It turns out that the EMB-505 300 lateral stability at high speed is extremely dependent on GPS.

Folks on the forums suspect the root cause is related to the Garmin GRS 77/GMU 44 AHRS part of the Garmin Prodigy G3000 package.[2,3]

0. https://www.faasafety.gov/files/notices/2016/Jun/CHLK_16-08_...

1. http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/201...

2. http://static.garmin.com/pumac/778_InstallationManual.pdf

3. http://static.garmin.com/pumac/1152_GRS77_GMU44Troubleshooti...

Another pilot forum also https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/gps-interf...