andlarry

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by andlarry 22d ago
Here is the State Department's rationale: https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20...
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by andlarry 3y ago
We do not have universal single-payer but we have a few very large government-run single-payer systems. If you have an example of a country with a single program that has more effective outcomes for a population of similar makeup and size,
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by andlarry 3y ago
Medicare: 65,748,297 people enrolled [0] Medicaid and CHIP: 85,614,581 people enrolled [1] Military: 9.5 million people covered [2] The US has not one but two of the largest single payer health insurance programs in the world. Medicare alon
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by andlarry 4y ago
> Before that we also had various moral panics, like the one about roleplaying games pushing "the devil". Ahh, ok. So the moral panic of the early 80s, about 40 years ago. The "video games cause real violence" argum
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by andlarry 4y ago
> For example, 15-20 years ago we had conservatives yelling video games are the devil and they need to be censored and some topics not even touched. My memory of the 2003 to 2008 time frame is different. I recall mainstream complaints ab
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by andlarry 4y ago
Ahh, ok. I was under the impression that the vaccines were to prevent a severe reaction in those at risk due to age or comorbidities, which is why some areas gave priority to the elderly. Are there places where herd immunity was achieved d
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by andlarry 4y ago
Why would avoiding the covid vaccine mean someone doesn't care about the safety of others?
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by andlarry 4y ago
There are cultural and legal reasons. One legal reason is fuel economy regulations (CAFE standards) encourage car makers to make their cars large enough to be classified as "light trucks", leading to less stringent fuel economy st
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by andlarry 4y ago
> I don't think the other 22 states would be wild about that admission standard. We have a well established process for asking states about this sort of thing, the US Congress. They don't seem to be wild about the minimum popu
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by andlarry 4y ago
Why choose the least populous state as the standard for admission instead of, say, the median?
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by andlarry 4y ago
Indeed. 436 states, here we come!
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by andlarry 4y ago
> DC statehood has been a hugely locally popular movement for quite some time. I'm sure many locales with 670k residents would love to become states, that'd be a pretty sweet deal.
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by andlarry 4y ago
An appropriate way to welcome visitors to the city they fund.
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by andlarry 4y ago
> I now designate daily subway rides for reading New York Times breaking news emails so that clients don’t find me in an anxiety-ridden state when they arrive for tutoring sessions. "Intellectuals [are] virtually the most vulnerable
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by andlarry 4y ago
There was a lot of discussion [0] of that point when the Model View Culture article was originally posted 7 years ago. It's complicated, but the author of the piece seems to take issue with how the character set was designed by the lan
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by andlarry 5y ago
The City of London has an interesting governance structure. There are two types of voters, resident and business [0]. [0] https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/voting-elections
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by andlarry 6y ago
> they don't have any intention to develop this software without a profit, then they shouldn't have positioned themselves as a free-and-open-source product in the first place. If something satisfies the four freedoms [0], it is
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by andlarry 6y ago
You can run the SSPL'd code, you can view the SSPL code, if you change the SSPL code then contribute back if you distribute your changes. If you run a service providing the SSPL code, contribute the management layer back as well. It g
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by andlarry 6y ago
High schools here start at 8:15, it’s earlier if you have a bus. How late is the proposal? More importantly, why tie recent science (which can change) about the high school population with our standard of time. Solve that problem separately
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by andlarry 6y ago
I’d rather have more daylight in the afternoon than bend time around a poorly chosen schedule set by schools. You make a compelling argument for the schools starting later, they should do that.
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by andlarry 6y ago
I just posted the guardian version because I didn’t see yours. “maga2020!” and no proof, ridiculous. Easy to believe something crazy if you want to believe it, I guess.
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by andlarry 6y ago
> Twitter, however, denied the report. “We’ve seen no evidence to corroborate this claim, including from the article published in the Netherlands today. We proactively implemented account security measures for a designated group of high-
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by andlarry 6y ago
It seemed to help with severance when they got rid of 40% of their staff a few months after the union was formed [0]. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/13/21257585/kickstarter-layo...
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by andlarry 9y ago
> But persistently low achievement rates of African-American, Latino, poor, English-learner and disabled students, who together make up a majority of the state’s public-school students, fuel criticism of the educational status quo. Perha
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by andlarry 10y ago
> I really wouldn't want to go back to a laptop screen with a wide bezel again. Yeah, those are real sexy. Only downside is the terrible location of the webcam, I suppose you can use an external, though. > It's also unclear
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by andlarry 10y ago
> Sniff, that's a Maxwell chip not Pascal. Is there a substantial difference? This is a development laptop so I only cared about it being able to push enough pixels. Perhaps there's a difference for gamers?
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by andlarry 10y ago
Folks considering this should also check out the HP ZBook Studio G3. It has Quadro M1000M 4GB graphics, 32 GB of ECC RAM, quad core, Linux certified by HP, 4k screen, can handle two external 4k monitors and drive the panel at about 4.5 poun
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by andlarry 10y ago
Yeah, and those private organizations (mostly non-profits) are very effective at lobbying, so it's hard to terminate contracts to consolidate services. One thing to clarify is that, because some (~$60 Million in 2015 [3]) goes to housi
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by andlarry 10y ago
San Francisco spends $241 million[0] of it's $8.9 billion budget[1] on programs to help the homeless and to help folks avoid becoming homeless (through housing assistance, etc). The 2015 count of homeless people in San Francisco is 7,
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by andlarry 11y ago
In my experience lawyers are very conservative about this. I can believe that's the advice they're getting, but it's obviously not the full story. According to the eff[0] (article starts with some discussion irrelevant to th

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