alacombe

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by alacombe 9y ago
> You gotta have buffers for bad weather, malfunctions, changing stuff when it turns out some worker did bad job, yadda yadda yadda Private projects face the same issues, but do not necessarily stop for these reason. After all, time is m
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by alacombe 9y ago
> That is why in every country that has single payer there are additional coverage plans that allow you to have even better coverage... No there isn't, unless you go private, speaking of which France has pretty much made private &qu
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by alacombe 9y ago
> The problem in the U.S. isn't that costs are hidden--in Canada, with fully socialized insurance, health care consumers are actually much less wasteful of resources because they pursue health care in the degree they feel they need
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by alacombe 9y ago
Obviously, we're not living in the same "Canada". For exemple, there is a recurring problem with homeless (most generally men) with mental illness in the lower mainland since the Riverview Public Mental Hospital got CLOSED .
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by alacombe 9y ago
there is still a watermark at the bottom left corner of the downloaded content, so they do modify the original documents. Not good.
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by alacombe 9y ago
So, we do agree that NATO is a thing of the past and that the US, as well , can lower their payment to the organisation ? [the answer to this question is of course "no", European countries still want the US to be paying for their
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by alacombe 9y ago
Do you mean overspending as the US currently do, to compensate for European countries are not paying their fair share, while getting most of the outcome ? Because this is the bottom of it. European countries want the protection, while not p
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by alacombe 9y ago
Perfect, then they don't need US' $$ (or NATO) either, so... everybody's happy ?
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by alacombe 9y ago
Mentioning the Paris "agreement" in a thread about NATO is a red herring. Moreover, the "collaboration" you mention implies that everybody is contributing fairly, which is not what is happening with NATO (or even the UN)
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by alacombe 9y ago
The real question is: why should it be otherwise, and why is this newsworthy at all ? European countries all claim to be sovereign countries, but surprisingly, not when it's time to pull the credit card out.
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by alacombe 10y ago
All the plumbers, electricians, welders, drivers & construction & assembly folks who build the infrastructure you rely on will appreciate.
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by alacombe 10y ago
and the file was... stdio.h. Damn !
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by alacombe 10y ago
Another Christopher Mccandless, it would seem.
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by alacombe 10y ago
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by alacombe 10y ago
> 2. We will test and leverage the Freedom of Information Act. Wait... isn't Obama's administration already the worst ever when it comes to FOIA denials ?
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by alacombe 10y ago
How are they preventing engine knock ? At 14:1 compression you'd have to be running premium gas, which would pretty much cancel the efficiency saving, in a $$ perspective.
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by alacombe 10y ago
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by alacombe 10y ago
then maybe hardware vendors should contribute their code so that API could be changed all along, instead of keeping it paywalled. Though, I doubt they want people to look at how poor quality they are. And yes, my job was also to "integ
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by alacombe 10y ago
My experience is not limited to the e1000(4) driver. The device tree driver subsystem is based on hardware model from the early 90s, the mbuf API is plagued with code duplication. Nobody want to touch this because the old guard is pretty mu
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by alacombe 10y ago
> FreeBSD Has a Closed Development Model Given that it took me 3 month to have Jack Vogel (then maintainer of the driver) acknowledge there was an uninitialized variable bug in the e1000(4) driver, leading to countless user frustration,
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by alacombe 10y ago
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by alacombe 10y ago
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