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$1,000-a-day miracle drug shocks U.S. health care system

The treatment for hepatitis C is so effective that patients and doctors are clamoring for it, but heath insurers are balking at the steep costs

Click to view the original at cbsnews.com

Hasnain says:

I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, pharma needs money to fund expensive R&D to develop drugs (one estimate says the acquisition cost $11B). On the other hand, paying $90k to get rid of hep-C is a bit crazy.

Posted on 2014-04-04T16:41:43+0000

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5-year-old Ocean Beach exposes Microsoft Xbox vulnerability

An Ocean Beach boy is in the spotlight after he discovered a back door in to one of the most popular gaming systems in the world.

Click to view the original at 10news.com

Hasnain says:

All spaces? Really, Microsoft?

(and yes this is genuine, he's acknowledged at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc308589.aspx)

Posted on 2014-04-04T16:30:45+0000

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Sysdig: The New (Definitive) System Troubleshooting Tool

Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze. Think of it as strace + tcpdump + lsof + awesome sauce. With a little Lua cherry on top.

Click to view the original at sysdig.org

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Hasnain says:

This is a great piece by Jeff Atwood.

"What’s the most consistent piece of advice you get as a startup?

Always hire the best people. Never compromise in your hiring standards, no matter how big your company gets.

And it’s true. A great team can take an okay idea and transform it into an incredible, world-beating product.

But something has always bugged me about this advice. There’s an elephant in the room in the form of an implied clause: Always hire the best people… who are willing to live in San Francisco."

Posted on 2014-04-03T19:23:48+0000

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lelandbatey/whiteboardCleaner.md

Whiteboard Picture Cleaner - Shell one-liner/script to clean up and beautify photos of whiteboards! - Gist is a simple way to share snippets of text and code with others.

Click to view the original at gist.github.com

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A nation of slaves - Charlie's Diary

George Osborne has committed the Conservatives to targeting "full employment", saying that tax and welfare changes would help achieve it.

Click to view the original at antipope.org

Hasnain says:

"Today, in the political discourse of the west, it is almost unthinkably hard to ask a very simple question: why should we work?"

Posted on 2014-04-03T16:49:02+0000