I don't understand, I thought the AFA (Obamacare) won and all those curmudgeons fought it all the way to the Supreme Court and lost and we now have healthcare for everyone.
What am I missing?
Why does this gentlemen have to loose his house to get medical treatment if healthcare is affordable?
I can't tell if this is snark or not, but the "ACA" does provide subsidies on a sliding scale based on income, however, I can't comment on his situation. More likely though, it would be Medicaid, not subsidized private insurance at lower incomes, and the ACA expanded eligibility to 125% of the poverty level.
But single-payer it is not.
(edit: Medicaid is very limited in recurring residential care and support, so this potentially be a contributing factor).
I haven't looked into it but I don't think so. Additionally, you should be accessing it via Tor which wipes its memory of what you type in any fields anyway so no autocomplete! You weren't searching for things you shouldn't be, were you? ;-)
That is an incredibly bad idea. The people who would use this value the data and are willing to pay a lot of money for it. Secondly they are not going to be doing many searches. The Google search monitization strategy will not work. This guys have the right idea, copy the way BuiltWith.com makes money.
I don't know, there was a lot of griping about the credits in the previous NerdyData threads on HN, and HNers are their target market.
I think having the service free, or providing 90 day free trials, would help their adoption significantly at this stage in the game.
I know Patio11 would disagree, but I think trying to monetize at this stage is unwise.
Just to be clear, I'm not really suggesting that they're going to make serious money with adsense. Maybe they could cover their hosting for the time being, though.
This is a great idea.
One thing I would like to point out is that microwaves come in different power levels. A large one may be 1200W while a small dorm microwave may be 750W. The cooking instructions in your database will need to account for this.
Looks like this was already thought of "If cooking instructions are posted for a 1000W microwave, you can request the instructions for a 700W microwave, and the cooking times will be automatically adjusted.".
Also, some microwaves are continuous power (magnetron always running) and some cycle on/off instead. Based on my struggle to find a continuous power microwave for a Senior Design Project (disposing of toxic compounds in standard microwave oven, I can't imagine this will effect too many models, but cycle times do differ between microwaves.
The Raspberry Pi microwave is awesome, though I do wonder why the 1 second buttons exist.
If the cooking is under 10 seconds, you might as well start it for 10 seconds and stop it when needed. You won't have time to turn around and forget about it.
If it's over, I doubt a one-second difference will make one (difference).
The fact that he didn't have to complete high school, (he does have a GED) to get a job at Booz paying $200k/year should be speak to his intelligence. I know people with graduate degrees from Harvard that made less than that at the same company.
There is probably truth on both sides. Intelligence work is well funded by the government. Most government contracting companies hire at salary, but pay by the hour. So, if he was working a lot of overtime, he could have expected to bring in 200K for the coming year.
In my experience they really hate to pay overtime, instead, you must put down exactly 40 hours per week. Any less and they can't bill the government the full normal maximum, any more and they have to pay time and a half or more, which the government generally doesn't go for.
Actually, they love to pay overtime and the government doesn't care as long as they have money to spend. Their budgets are mandated by law. A government contractor can cost upwards of $200 an hour for a senior level engineer. Typically $140 an hour for level 2 and 3 engineers. Anyway, the company takes a huge cut off the top and leaves $50 to $70 an hour for the employee, their benefits, and payroll taxes. So, the more overtime they work, the more money the company gets to pocket.
122k is probably the salary. Firms like this often pay discretionary bonuses that can range from 30-60% of base rate pay, often based on company profit sharing. If Booz had a good year and it was toward the upper end of that range, 200k is not far off. For reference I knew several people at various management consulting companies a few years ago who would start off with base pay of 60-70k but had annual bonuses of 30k+.
I am not familiar with BAH's actual compensation scheme though.
> The fact that he didn't have to complete high school, (he does have a GED) to get a job at Booz paying $200k/year should be speak to his intelligence.
Alternatively, I'd read the smear this way: A guy who could not even finish high school could do this much damage to the NSA, which speaks to how broken the leadership is there. Many heads should roll.
<insert smear here> could do this much damage. Well you guys hire him and you fucked up, so I'm holding your butts accountable. Clearly you can't control the surveillance monster you created.
What am I missing?
Why does this gentlemen have to loose his house to get medical treatment if healthcare is affordable?