Re: [FRIAM] Corporate responsibility wrt health insurance

2013-12-06 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
IMHO. You would presumably be doing business as a sole proprietor and not as a corporation and would hire them as independent contractors, then I think the answer is no, because their contract will bestow no employment benefits. But I am not an attorney, so I'd consult my local friendly

Re: [FRIAM] Corporate responsibility wrt health insurance

2013-12-06 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Dear Russ, Your 500 workers will soon hopefully be covered by the Affordable Care Act. Fortunately, the President, for a change, seems to be making up for businessmen and corporations who don't think paying health insurance is in the interest of their profit making goals. On Fri, Dec 6, 2013

Re: [FRIAM] King James Programming

2013-12-06 Thread glen
On 12/05/2013 05:15 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: Charles Stross (twitter @cstross) trained up his own off the KJV and the compete works of H P Lovecraft: the strangely open doorway with the generation of poets is enormous. Nice! I can't seem to find a URL or handle for LoveBible.pl, though. Do

[FRIAM] Fwd: UTAustinX: UT.5.01x: Linear Algebra - Foundations to Frontiers | edX

2013-12-06 Thread Owen Densmore
Just curious. Has anyone knowledge of this course and/or the school/instructors? https://www.edx.org/course/utaustinx/utaustinx-ut-5-01x-linear-algebra-1162 One interesting thing in the FAQ was computer requirements: What software do I need for the

Re: [FRIAM] Corporate responsibility wrt health insurance

2013-12-06 Thread glen e. p. ropella
However, sometimes the people you think are independent contractors actually aren't (determined by audit or by filing a request with the IRS and/or your state). As I understand it, if these people are determined to be employees, then you are an employer and the rules about providing health

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: UTAustinX: UT.5.01x: Linear Algebra - Foundations to Frontiers | edX

2013-12-06 Thread Joshua Thorp
This is exaclty how we operate at my company and I have found it to be an incredible time saver. The alternative requires detective work to solve every problem for every user. If everyone is using the same Vagrant box then solving the problems of one user can be applied to all of the other

Re: [FRIAM] UTAustinX: UT.5.01x: Linear Algebra - Foundations to Frontiers | edX

2013-12-06 Thread Gary Schiltz
Here’s a new slogan off the top of my head: “If it isn’t virtual, it isn’t real.” :-) I use VMWare Fusion on my MacBook Pro, although I’ve generally been impressed with VirtualBox (the price is certainly right). Lately, I’ve been using a VM within a VM. I need to maintain an app on some

Re: [FRIAM] Corporate responsibility wrt health insurance

2013-12-06 Thread Gary Schiltz
It sure would be a lot simpler if everyone (employers and employees alike) simply had to pay into a single plan, like most of the developed world. But, we’re the USA, and we know better :-) On Dec 6, 2013, at 12:39 PM, glen e. p. ropella g...@tempusdictum.com wrote: However, sometimes the

[FRIAM] VM within a VM (was UTAustinX: UT.5.01x: Linear Algebra - Foundations to Frontiers | edX)

2013-12-06 Thread glen e. p. ropella
On 12/06/2013 10:56 AM, Gary Schiltz wrote: Lately, I’ve been using a VM within a VM. One of the problems I have with this: http://www.simulation-argument.com/faq.html is the potential for infinite regress. At that point, I think it boils down to whether you accept this:

Re: [FRIAM] Why I was wrong about the nuclear option

2013-12-06 Thread Arlo Barnes
You are bit by bit dragging me out on thin ice here (statistics and probability) which is fine, so long as you are prepared to rescue me. I think, as a matter of practice, that the strength of an inference is determined *a priori* when you define your population and select your sample size.

Re: [FRIAM] UTAustinX: UT.5.01x: Linear Algebra - Foundations to Frontiers | edX

2013-12-06 Thread Owen Densmore
Great input, thanks! I admit to being a browser fan-boy just because, beyond needing a modern browser, its config-free. But I'm definitely open to zero-config of any sort. Will report. BTW: The linear algebra course the MOOC is modeled after uses Strang's Linear Algebra. Tom: (10/11/09)

Re: [FRIAM] UTAustinX: UT.5.01x: Linear Algebra - Foundations to Frontiers | edX

2013-12-06 Thread Arlo Barnes
I am subscribed to a MOO programmers list, and someone offered a Vagrant file for MOO tools; so besides eliminating dependency problems it can be used to giftwrap goodies. However, virtualisation still takes a little setting up and although performance has improved considerably in recent times

Re: [FRIAM] Why I was wrong about the nuclear option

2013-12-06 Thread Eric Smith
Hi Nick (who started the thread, regarding induction, but teasing with current events), and Arlo who has kept it alive, For days I have been trying not to respond, but … This is about the nuclear option, not about induction. Malcolm Gladwell had a piece in the New Yorker about David and

Re: [FRIAM] Why I was wrong about the nuclear option

2013-12-06 Thread mar...@snoutfarm.com
Eric writes: There is a kind of meanness or cynicism that likes to see hope dashed and beauty destroyed, and this meanness answers me by saying that if it isn't in the rules enforced with a gun, it isn't real, and only patsies fail to know that. What a fantastic post. I would answer this

Re: [FRIAM] Why I was wrong about the nuclear option

2013-12-06 Thread Eric Smith
I would answer this way, but it isn't because I want to see hope dashed and beauty destroyed. It's because I want to destroy the destroyers. Marcus Yes. I understand. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays

Re: [FRIAM] Corporate responsibility wrt health insurance

2013-12-06 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
You might find the IRS Topic 762 - Independent Contractor vs. Employee useful at: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc762.html It says it was updated in October this year so hopefully any ACA impacts have been applied. Some links to pdf docs provide expanded info. However this tends to approach

Re: [FRIAM] Corporate responsibility wrt health insurance

2013-12-06 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Yeah, the feds are the lesser worry, though (in my opinion). It's the states you have to watch out for, especially during budget shortfalls and periods of high unemployment. On 12/06/2013 02:52 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: You might find the IRS Topic 762 - Independent Contractor vs.

Re: [FRIAM] Why I was wrong about the nuclear option

2013-12-06 Thread Jim Dunn
Thanks Joyce! I did receive the message you forwarded to me. I think I’m set. Jim On Dec 6, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Eric Smith desm...@santafe.edu wrote: Hi Nick (who started the thread, regarding induction, but teasing with current events), and Arlo who has kept it alive, For days I have been