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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Every insurance company in the United States, along with Medicare and Medicaid, already has a fixed amount that they will pay the caregiver for administration of TPA. I guarantee it, even without bothering to look up what TPA is. If the p
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> Orthopods might be able to replace knees on a fixed budget, but I'm thinking neurosurgeons and trauma surgeons would have a heckuva time. Why would they? That's basically how existing insurance companies work, dude -- they ty
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Nice. Feedburner was nasty, even when it was still well-supported. After your feed had been...err..."incinerated", it would work okay in a basic reader (sometimes), but god help you if you needed to do anything beyond displaying t
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Also Russia still has a navy and an air force.
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
>In fact, given the government can borrow money at 2% while student loan rates are like 4-8%, it might not even be a bad idea to have the government issue treasuries and buy more student loans. If 40% of the loans are in default and&#x2F
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
What happens if Mr. Putin (or one of his successors) suddenly decides that he wants Bulgaria back under Russian control?
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Even more pedantic: The United States has been at war with North Korea since June 27, 1950. The war has been in a ceasefire state for a long time, but there has never been a formal peace treaty. Although a still more pedantic person might p
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Essentially every country in the world asserts the right to carry out a thorough inspection of anything crossing its border. I'm not sure why people think electronics would be an exception to this general rule (which has been in effe
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
I just routinely block any political page (of any kind) that someone shares, and have unfollowed anyone who feels the need to go on political rants more than once or twice a week (including, sadly, some family members and long-time friends
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Yes. There is an unstated assumption that giving in to a screeching outrage machine is somehow "better for business" than standing up for free expression (even if that expression is offensive). That assumption is...unwarranted. Th
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Then maybe you should be lobbying your idiot Senator to introduce a federal legalization bill, rather than complaining about laws that are on the books being enforced. The problem with laws that "aren't enforced" is that they
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Laws that aren't enforced should be repealed. Selective enforcement is a recipe for tyranny. Though I personally think that weed should be legal, I'm not going to fault Sessions here. The ball's in Congress's court.
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> No true stereo at all though with the cone. The video shows them using anaglyphs for this. Presumably shutter glasses could also be used if you wanted better color rendition.
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
The Red Language (which I just learned about yesterday) looks pretty good in that respect. One binary, no dependencies. http://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html I gather the GUI story on Linux isn't great at present,
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
"Jingoism is an american word." And fascism is a European one. The level of overarching government control popular in Europe leads to people being killed by millions, rather than in ones and twos. "not wanting outsiders telli
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> Books that are cringe-worthily bad in every possible way are sometimes, unaccountably, wildly successful Actually, it's quite easy to account for it: not everyone has the same tastes as you.
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
For those who (like me) hadn't seen the Red Language before, there's a lot to like there: http://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html Not having a baroque toolchain with fifty dependencies has in itself already pers
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> Once your country has been around for a bit longer, With the sole exception of the U.K., our government has been around longer than every other representative democracy on the face of the earth. Note that France is on its fifth attem
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Paintings aren't really good evidence. Note that until Muybridge did his first time-lapse photographs, pretty much every single painting of a horse in motion was grossly inaccurate. Compare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
"It worked in Australia." And it didn't work in Mexico, Honduras, or Nicaragua, all of which have more in common with the United States than Australia does, and all of which have a) strict gun control laws and b) breathtaking
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Millions of Europeans were murdered by their governments within living memory, with records of similar atrocities going back hundreds of years. Just because there's a temporary lull doesn't mean that the problem has gone away perm
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment#Project_Th...
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Step one: add a tax to exploit people who can't vote you out of office -- crazy high parking fees, hotel room taxes, convention center scams (e.g., requiring that you hire a licensed electrician to plug in a computer), etc. Step two: g
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Hmm... if you didn't care, why would you be reading the Italian quibble on a history site written in Italian? I mean, this was quite clearly a page about the history of the terms, right?
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
"The world isn't all English" But the history of computing largely is (not totally of course, but largely). If we were discussing sushi, or katanas, or bushido, or netsuke, would you complain about the language being "
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> You do realize that most people won’t accept that, right? That's why we have courts (and insurance). Conventional vehicles kill people all the time , sometimes through provable manufacturer negligence. But we still have them.
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> outside small well-mapped neighborhoods will not be ... economically viable. Hmm... but aren't the small well-mapped (and high-density) neighborhoods where almost all the money is? You see way more conventional cabs roaming Manhat
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Yup. It's interesting how many modern drinks came from medicinal origins. Original formula Coca-Cola, of course, famously had a healthy dose of cocaine. Tonic water still has a bit of quinine in it, but originally it had much more, and
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Spirulina is not a good source of iodine anyway. Unlike kelp, which grows in iodine-rich ocean waters (and which is a decent source of iodine), spirulina is generally grown in alkaline inland lakes (read: iodine-depleted).
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Plutonium? Seriously? Total crap.

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