DougWebb

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by DougWebb 9y ago
That's a good point. There are plenty of Tor sites (most of them?) that are on Tor specifically because no private third party is willing to host their content. Let the bigots go to Tor and enjoy all the free speech they like, down in
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We also have three rocky planets in the habitable zone. That's not sufficient to actually make them habitable.
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Someone else can figure out the math, but I'm pretty sure the energy from all of the nukes that have been detonated, especially if you only count the open-air ones, is minuscule compared to what the sun gives off. That would mask any p
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It sounds like it's just regular Windows 10 with a few new device drivers and a different default filesystem.
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I used Blue Apron for a while, and didn't have quality issues but the meals were definitely a hassle. I got fed up with every recipe requiring that I pick tiny leaves off tiny herb stems. I don't have a sous-chef to dump that kind
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Yep, just saw that recently. I kind of knew how it all worked before, but he explains it well.
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Ah, I see. In the US a common marketing offer for credit cards is that they let you make one charge that will be interest-free for 6 or 12 months. You can pay it off whenever and however you like, but if you don't pay the whole thing b
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That's great (really) but also see: https://surgerycenterok.com/pricing-disclaimer/ Those prices don't include a bunch of things you'll also need, which makes them a little misleading. Some of those thin
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I've never heard of anything like the dividing of payments you're describing. Are you saying that the CC company doesn't pay the merchant all at once, by default? That seems really shady. They should either have enough capita
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Yes, they should be able to tell you, but they can't because they don't know. There is a secret list of prices that are over-inflated which is used to send claims to insurance companies, with the understanding that the insurance
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try asking how much a procedure is the next time you go to the doctor, you'll get a bunch of blank stares. That's probably because the people you can ask who fully understand the procedure you need don't know what the price
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Maybe the headline should have been "Plastic Garbage Patch Bigger Than Mexico, and far less dense than the air above Mexico, Found..."
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That's probably a combination of: 1) Going into debt for college makes you poor, and 2) A lot of college degrees are just not worth the cost, if you're expecting them to lead to a good income.
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Trying to decide which of your multiple cars you feel like driving today also isn't needed for a "reasonably comfortable life".
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Most of the East Coast passenger railways were laid down when trains were much slower, and even then they had to pass through many densely populated areas. So there are a lot of curves, mostly flat, and lots of surface crossings with roads.
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The use of fans is disappointing; that means it can't go outside. My first thought when seeing it is that it'd be great for doing external inspections, and could even have its own private little airlock to get in and out. Maybe th
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by DougWebb 9y ago
Is there software that you can run on a Pi that emulates a microcontroller that uses the Pi's I/O pins? That might be an easier to use way to prototype, with the ability to restart the microcontroller while the host is still funct
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A couple of years ago I had a 'failure mode' problem with my heating system. A winter storm knocked out power in my area. My heating system was a natural-gas-fired boiler that produced steam, which thanks to gravity would rise up
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by DougWebb 9y ago
That's a good analogy, but two things: 1) It's a lot easier to call a bot accidentally than to make a phone call accidentally, since the phone requires you to press your butt against it, but the bot is just listening to you talk n
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I did say that lab tests have less variability, which means they should be easier to price. My guess is that the reason the OP had so much trouble getting a price is because the lab simply doesn't work that way. It doesn't have a
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"overuse" is a tricky word to use here. Are we concerned about patients getting too much "good healthcare" without being adequately grateful for it? Should we give them "adequate healthcare" instead? Or maybe &
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A lot of that trove of existing data is locked up behind privacy law barriers, and there's no incentive for doing the work to strip out the PII and make it available for aggregate analysis. And since we're talking about the costs
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I had a similar experience. My wife was hospitalized for several months when her liver failed and she got a transplant. I have no complaints about any of the care she received; everyone did their jobs very well except for the billing depar
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Price transparency is probably not feasible, most of the time. For the software developers, here's an analogy: asking your doctor how much it will cost to treat you is akin to a product manager asking you how long it will take to imple
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Yes: http://www.mcescher.com/gallery/recognition-success/waterfal...
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I haven't been involved with outsourcing for a long time, but back when the company I was working for was outsourcing some work to Indian developers, we outsourced to a team rather than individuals. This was the standard practice at th
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1 Mbit/s is a problem? This communication network we're currently using started out at just 300 b/s, 3000x lower bandwidth. When speeds got up to 2.4 Kb/s, it really started to take off. The bandwidth back than was more
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Good engineers take the human factor into account and include backups in their designs to handle failure modes caused by the human factor. What they can't do is work around politics or budgetary constraints which force trade-offs betwe
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And bitch all you want about "western medicine", but if you have a heart attack, or need a kidney transplant, or break a bone - you're probably going to choose the western system. I think western medicine is excellent when
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In many ways this already exists in the photography world. Convincing photo manipulation is old technology at this point, and I think we've adequately adapted to it. Have we? I'm pretty sure there's still a pretty serious p

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