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721.
by HillRat 11y ago
8.2% of a Big Dig, for instance.
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by HillRat 11y ago
Interestingly, recently either there was a problem with my Ring's clips or someone tried to pry it off (and ironically wasn't captured on video). Any kind of exterior security device is vulnerable unless you can drill the access p
723.
by HillRat 11y ago
Only if your business is "writing files in plaintext and SFTPing them." Payers are basically immune to technical disruption, and it's really not worth the effort trying to create friendlier facades on what are essentially 196
724.
by HillRat 11y ago
I've hired some great former Yahooligans (or whatever they used to call themselves before the grey malaise descended), especially analytics-focused developers. Granted, they all left Yahoo before things got really awful, but just becau
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by HillRat 11y ago
Your first link claims that "doctors have flocked to [Texas]," but -- if physician supply is a key metric of the success of tort reform -- the evidence shows that there was no net effect on supply[1]. On the other hand, we have ha
726.
by HillRat 11y ago
Actually, based in the stats I've seen in the past (I can go hunting for them if needed), you would be crazy to download "anything at all" from the Play store, in the sense that the probability of a randomly-selected app ha
727.
by HillRat 11y ago
A surprisingly large number of SMBs in my experience don't have capital transfer controls, especially when the CEO is used to doing financial transfers on the fly. I can think of half a dozen reasonably-sized businesses I've worke
728.
by HillRat 11y ago
Your ability to communicate is actually quite exceptional. Whatever has led you to lose faith in yourself, I assure you it should not be because you fear you lack intrinsic merit.
729.
by HillRat 11y ago
That's what bundlers are for -- it's amazing how many corporate employees are willing to ante up to the maximum limit amount. Sometimes even folk making fifteen bucks an hour. Very civic-minded, they are. Less cynically, most cont
730.
by HillRat 11y ago
The ASCIZ directive on the PDP-11 assembler took a string literal and blitted it to memory with a trailing NULL, so there was a convenience factor there. BCPL and B used null-terminated strings, so it made sense for C to inherit the practic
731.
by HillRat 11y ago
Having done my time in health care startups with an emphasis on billing and reimbursement flow, let me say that I would have been overjoyed to have been put out of business by single payer (or by a U.S. version that, like Medicare, would
732.
by HillRat 11y ago
I believe 8% annual inflation has been the normal rate for many years -- slightly decreased following ACA enactment, but rates then increased by a few points due to less-healthy enrollees, so it's a bit of a wash (not counting all the
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by HillRat 11y ago
Wireless solutions would introduce too much latency, so you're always tethered to a box. It takes some getting used to, and I definitely wouldn't recommend a lot of running and jumping, but it's not a major complicating facto
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by HillRat 11y ago
If Berkeley isn't too far, try Amphora Nueva as a source. Once you taste test a few high-quality olive oils the difference is immediately apparent.
735.
by HillRat 11y ago
If the olive oil is marked as "U.S. Extra Virgin" or "U.S. Virgin," then USDA is randomly sampling the product to determine conformance. However, if the product is just marked as "Extra Virgin," then it hasn&#x
736.
by HillRat 11y ago
My advice is to buy Californian olive oil -- it's becoming more expensive as people realize most European EVOO is adulterated, but it's still often cheaper and usually better than European imports. Good olive oils are a little bit
737.
by HillRat 11y ago
A surprisingly large number of the 2000 Super Bowl ads were for companies that didn't have products, or whose products were never really explicable to the public. Some kind of spammish email marketing company, a website for announcing
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by HillRat 11y ago
"...Instagram is one of the most toxic internet substances out there are the moment..." Social is the weapons-grade plutonium of online design; you can use it as part of a stable fuel source, or as the components of a weapon, bu
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by HillRat 11y ago
Ah, schadenfreude at work: Pete Hoekstra: Obama Stopping Key Surveillance Programs Dec 11, 2015 Pete Hoekstra: New Spying Scandal Biggest of Obama's Presidency 13 hours ago Not that Hoekstra is going to change his tune on surveillance;
740.
by HillRat 11y ago
It happens all the time, though, especially when it's an off-label channel (Windows Phone, for example). It's not unusual for a company to decide that it's cheaper to fund CAPEX for a product than to spin up the managerial in
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by HillRat 11y ago
That's truly tragic. It's wonderful that he released his code into the public, but terribly sad circumstances. Thanks for letting us know the story behind this.
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by HillRat 11y ago
I don't think you deserve a down vote for being factually correct -- though a little hyperbole ain't gonna kill you. :) But ORCL has gone from being an innovator to a rentier, and they're not averse to using hardball tactics
743.
by HillRat 11y ago
Yeah, but this is Oracle we're talking about. They do evil and stupid before breakfast and short-term thinking for the rest of the day.
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by HillRat 11y ago
Link to Springer's main open access page: ( http://www.springeropen.com/books ). More than math texts up there!
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by HillRat 11y ago
I don't know -- Wim Delvoye is probably the apotheosis of the "nihilistic" movement you describe (he's not to my taste, certainly), but he's been quite the hit in Iran, where he's both exhibiting and teaching (
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by HillRat 11y ago
I think those are totally valid objections -- the microeconomic research remains equivocal on gender pay gap differences and, while I firmly believe that American politics and policies regarding women's rights are marching boldly backw
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by HillRat 11y ago
UNHRC isn't OHCHR. The former is more like HFAC, the latter more like a State working group -- in other words, politicians vs professionals.
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by HillRat 11y ago
To be fair, OHCHR has a lot to say about those nations as well (including, showing a markedly professional lack of favoritism, Jordan), but their well-intentioned "guidances" are diplomatic damp squibs. But while I generally deplo
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by HillRat 11y ago
While I actually sympathize with the author's intent, Nabakov is not the best of literary targets, as even his most sympathetic characters form a cabinet of grotesqueries -- vide the protagonists of Pnin, Bend Sinister, or Pale Fire
750.
by HillRat 11y ago
An effect of browsing HN on a phone at 6AM while packing for a trip, I'm afraid. Using the 6502 (though I know nothing operational about either processor) is a great idea; I'm sure there are some good systems programming texts kic

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