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Well that would be awesome to monitor anticoagulation.

You call it 'arm-twisting', I call it 'a necessary counter-power that should be part of every patent-related legislation'.

Source?

Also, "socialized medicine" does not entail getting rid of the private sector, just regulating it. For instance, my GP runs a private practice, the only limitation is that she cannot set the price of an appointment. And if she was a hard-core free-market proponent of some kind, she could set her own prices freely, the only snag being that insurances would not cover her visits. Also, there is an argument to be made that doctors are veblen goods and that free price levels would not be optimal.

Please tell that to academic journals, especially when the published material was paid for by taxes.

Okay, I realize that complaining about pricing makes little sense, but $150/month for the "full" course, with the free option labelled as a simple "textbook"?

That changes the mooc positionning somewhat. In my case (student) I would not take the full course.

Seems that Coursera is doing something right in that respect: you can get a verified certificate for $49, or pay to get a capstone project graded individually. You also get to complete a substantial part of the course before committing to a certificate. That brings value to individual students while keeping the price affordable.

/end of pointless rant

Reminds me of those IRC bots that would automatically ban AOL subscribers...

It should be noted that France had a nice, Papert-style "programming" curriculum centered on Logo in the eighties. Specific computers (hey, it's France) were developed, such as the Thomson TO7.

And then... Nothing.

It's high time that we get user-controlled sandboxes that could enforce additional security restrictions and are application-transparent. If a third party app requires access (R/W) to my Google Drive files, I should be able to limit said access to a single folder, for instance, and any other content should simply be invisible to it. These restrictions should be tuneable at any time (before and after app install) and there should be visualization tools to control their effectiveness.

Great -- ordered!

Just curious -- how much of the book is based on blog content and how much is new?

I guess there is something to this, as right now all EHR information ends up processed by human beings in the end (?) so there is no need for an overly complicated "type system". Still, a schema for prescription drugs would bring automated interactions detection, for instance.

Popcorn time really filled a void; how is hiphop different from say, grooveshark or deezer?

To me it feels more like a kind of Vala for Cocoa.

France never passed such a law... But we did pass a 35 hour work-week law though.

Adding to my previous comment: the French health "insurance" is a bit of a misnomer. It is as much an insurance as a wealth redistribution mechanism, and the "premiums" are not a function of your health risks but of your income, i.e. it is effectively a tax. If you believe that health-care should be granted at the same level regardless of material status, it makes sense.

In other words, the French health "insurance" is meant to at most break even, or run a deficit (which it does).

Okay, I live in France, the quintessential socialized health-care system. The wait at hospitals is short, I can choose my doctor as I please, and an appointment costs me all of 23 euro. I have nothing against the health insurance being government-run, which does not entail that the whole system is government run. Most GPs, for instance, are independent.

I wonder if the Lavabit author would be amenable to e.g. a kickstarted with the goals of

- open-sourcing lavabit - making it ready for instant deployment e.g. using Docker

A kind of "just add a VPS" platform...

This. A thousand times this.

It is well explained in the article, since the point is about daily treatment compliance. I would expect the readers to grok that in context :)

This would go down so much better if the conclusions were released by the investigator, in her own words...

In France: ALMA http://www.alma.fr/

You mean waf?

I would like the same service for jobs I might enjoy.

Funny, I was just looking at Google Apps Script with the idea of making an add-on for Documents. The tool looks brilliant. It supports many Google services (from fusion tables to Gmail to...), provices simple sharing with anyone and proper authentication. But it does not provide any tool for building better models or architecture. It's VBA on the web.

Is it just hard, or downright impossible since IPv4 depletion?

The dating website where only women can start a conversation has been tried with success (AdopteUnMec in France).

I like the MTurk for cryptocurrency idea.

A JS front-end? I mean, sure, but a backend a la Clojurescript would be awesome too.

Didn't get the "A european resident has their first kiss" though. Wouldn't it make more sense to divide the frequency by two and state "Two european residents have their first kiss"?

I was under the impression that Clojure has been designed around immutability, and Racket not so much... ?

So no sound, no storage, no access to peripherals (e.g. webcam, geolocation, accelerometer)... ?