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by KMag 5y ago
Having lived in Hong Kong for the past 9 years, the US medical insurance situation is the main thing that gives me pause about moving back to the U.S. The whole situation is a tragic mess. It's not even a free market run amok. There&
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by KMag 5y ago
More importantly, IMHO, Schindler also made a wide-eyed conscious choice to put his life in danger to help strangers. Lots of heroes are assholes. Real life isn't a Disney movie or a war propaganda reel. I hope we're capable of
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by KMag 5y ago
> standard of American healthcare in price-gouging patients They were charging MediCare, not patients, and they were charging MediCare according to the price schedule dictated by MediCare, which was significantly less than insurance comp
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by KMag 5y ago
I should also point out that Bacon-Rajan-style concurrent reference counting with cycle detection[0] can in some cases dramatically out-perform tracing GCs as found in Oracle's JVM, .NET, and most JavaScript engines. The cost of tracin
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by KMag 5y ago
> I wonder if I'm the only kid who expressly did not do what their parents did in this thread. My father and my father's father were both anesthesiologists. I'm a software developer with a degree in mechanical engineering
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by KMag 5y ago
> To be fair, what I'm usually hunting I don't eat, Well, you don't know what you're missing, and it might be part of your problem. Just say'n.
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by KMag 5y ago
Giraffes can kick lions hard enough to kill them, or at least injure them enough to prevent lions from returning to effective hunting before starving to death. In my very limited experience (4 or 5 day safari in Kruger), Giraffes are pretty
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by KMag 5y ago
There are some design tradeoffs in garbage collector design, particularly for moving/compacting collectors. If programs in your language tend to create lots of objects and rarely mutate them, then you'd want to make tradeoffs tha
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by KMag 5y ago
Also, I remember web rings being helpful for content discovery in the mid-late 1990s. Different authors for a given subject would cooperate with each other and put something like a banner add at the bottom of their page with "next&quo
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by KMag 5y ago
Yes. I'm aware that zip, gzip, and PNG all use zlib DEFLATE compression.
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by KMag 5y ago
It's also pretty uncommon in the U.S, largely due to there not being a lot of canals relative to land area.
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by KMag 5y ago
Ahh, a fellow soul feeling the burden of knowing the difference between mass and count nouns.
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by KMag 5y ago
> According to that last article a large number of them were planted along Cambodia's western border by the Vietnamese to keep the Khmer Rouge at bay. It seems odd that the Vietnamese would expend much effort to keep the Khmer Rouge
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by KMag 5y ago
> It's funny how Americans think that "It's funny how [a tiny percentage of very vocal] Americans think that"
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by KMag 5y ago
> Archives will probably be compress later on anyway What do you mean by this? Zip, 7zip, gzip, zstd, etc. get little to no compression on PNG. JPEG, or JPEG2000. Presumably you mean something other than zipping up directories of image
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by KMag 5y ago
With apologies to Cardinal Richelieu, give me 6 items from the policies of the most functional large organization, and I will find something in them which will hang it. If you don't see dysfunction, you're not looking closely enou
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by KMag 5y ago
I think instead of firewall rules, it's better to use WireGuard pre-shared keys. WireGuard supports per-peer 256-bit pre-shared keys that get hashed with the ECDH result when setting up the session keys. If you've set up WireGua
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by KMag 5y ago
> You seem to assume a bio-weapon has to cause mass death to be effective and meet the deployer's objectives...you are wrong in the case of economic attacks. https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/morbidity
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by KMag 5y ago
> That being said, have you heard of long covid? The number of people with long COVID symptoms is a tiny tiny fraction of those exposed to SARS-CoV2. If it's a designed feature of SARS-CoV2, it's very poorly implemented, unles
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by KMag 5y ago
> involved in a biological attack on China. It's very unlikely anyone was doing any research on directly using SARS-CoV2 as a weapon. It kills or maims too low a percentage of people to have tactical value, and it's too diffic
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by KMag 5y ago
The question wasn't historically if the place-of-origin names were accurate. The question was if they were historically common. I think naming diseases after places is a bad practice we should probably do away with, but it certainly h
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by KMag 5y ago
I'm not sure what it is in Washington. In New York 10 years ago, my marginal tax rate to the state was around 10%.
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by KMag 5y ago
Please explain the obvious sexism here. She's being penalized more than her male competitors (who aren't allowed to compete against her)? (Though, maybe gymnastics rules don't actually prohibit men from competing in women&#
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by KMag 5y ago
All of the MS engineers in the U.S. have an effective income tax rate of 40%, not a marginal tax rate of 40%? Assuming Washington State takes about 10% marginal tax... that's about half their income coming in above the 32% federal tax
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by KMag 5y ago
The disadvantage of an S. Corp is that you don't have any flexibility in evening out profit distributions between good years and bad years, right?
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by KMag 5y ago
I totally agree w.r.t. password managers. Luckily, with browsers now having built-in password managers, it's less UI friction if we come up with some standard for user certificate workflow that's close to password workflow. In a
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by KMag 5y ago
I think that a bunch of things like the JavaScript console, DOM editor, etc. should only be enabled when a browser developer mode has been activated, and such a mode would also enable a variety of warnings like this. It shouldn't be d
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by KMag 5y ago
Disabling these features for expired certificates and limiting secure cookies to a single session sounds reasonable as a "limp home" degraded functionality mode. Obviously one wouldn't want the padlock icon to be displayed i
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by KMag 5y ago
> Lenses bend EM waves proportionately to their frequency Is this exact? I was under the impression that it's a linear approximation that's generally good enough for optical component glasses over the range of visual wavelengt
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by KMag 5y ago
The UUID RFC is from 2005, but they're also documented in the ISO/IEC 11578:1996 standard. As I mentioned, a good type-1 implementation uses a counter to simulate a higher resolution system clock to get around the system clock res

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