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by athenot 9y ago
Larger organizations use ISO-27001 and SOC-2 to audit this kind of stuff. But even so, sometimes the devil is in the details and it's possible to comply with the letter of the regulation while still being unprepared for the kinds of at
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by athenot 9y ago
I get the idea their trucks are also very easily serviceable. Found this[1] after a quick Google: apparently they are called Long Life Vehicles precisely for that reason—but yes there are caveats and they might strongly benefit from EV vers
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by athenot 9y ago
While I'm generally a fan of leaving foods as untouched as possible, I have not seen any link between vitamin D3 in the dosage applied to milk and cancer. Conversely, vitamin D deficiency is a population health problem (widespread), so
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by athenot 9y ago
At night the ED is the only place open. I believe there should be 24/7 Urgent Care centers, where people like the person in the opening of this article could go and receive care that (1) is not life-threatening but (2) can't wait
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by athenot 9y ago
This is also an issue in the medical field. e-prescribe lets doctors order medications directly from the EHR, including—in some states—controlled substances. The software ensures it's the doctor by requiring the password to be entered.
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by athenot 9y ago
> The best engineers I know all strike a balance; keeping things simpler than a lot less experienced engineers would expect, and shipping something sooner. Yes. Because experienced engineers know that there is an exponentially-growing co
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by athenot 9y ago
This is definitely a luxury in contrast to airplanes whose boarding often closes 15 minutes prior to departure time (giving extra exta time to fit in standby passenger, etc).
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by athenot 9y ago
Houston is proud of their low regulation and unrestrictive zoning. Requiring flooding insurance would be at odds with their philosophy. However you can't have your cake and eat it too. Other regions have come up with regulations specif
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by athenot 9y ago
The arabic version of the wikipedia entry has a picture of the tablet. https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/لوح_شكوى_إلى_ايانصير
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by athenot 9y ago
Gas stations make money on selling snacks and other convenience store items. Successful commercial charging stations will be judged by the quality of their coffee and lounges.
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by athenot 9y ago
I find the hexagon version slightly more visually pleasing since it breaks up the straight lines—see the link for comparison. But either way, both are a huge improvement over the surface-based shapes when conveying data that is totally unre
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by athenot 9y ago
> In my opinion the scarcest human resource is nuance . Indeed. But our society is dominated by story-telling which has much to gain by underemphasizing the nuance of reality and overstating the choice elements that happen to fit a narr
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by athenot 9y ago
Affordable housing and good salaries are usually on the conflicting ends of the same scale. A place that has high-paying jobs will have residents out-bidding each other, driving up the prices of the housing market. Conversely, super cheap h
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by athenot 9y ago
Obviously I wouldn't stand downwind (there's almost always a little breeze outside). Also my smoker coworkers were considerate in that they wouldn't blow their smoke in people's faces. So that wasn't an issue.
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by athenot 9y ago
As a non-smoker I used to go on the smoke breaks with coworkers. Not as an excuse for time away from work but rather to get up and brainstorm things. That turned out to be more productive than stay seated and let my wheels spin in my brain.
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by athenot 9y ago
Language is also a connection to culture. More and more I think many places would benefit from embracing two languages—the utilitarian/economic one and the cultural/human one. Regional diversity is a good thing, and certainly does
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by athenot 9y ago
Errata: sorry I went back and checked and I believe they also required some proof of incorporation. My apologies for the incorrect cynicism. :(
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by athenot 9y ago
> "a bunch of business documents and legal proof" In my case they just needed me to put an entry in the Yellow Pages...
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by athenot 9y ago
This is one area that Perl's CPAN really got right. Pick just about any random module, and you're immediately greeted with a short synopsis showing the use-case. When you search for something and find 5 matching modules, you can q
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by athenot 9y ago
The opposite of on-board. It's a ship metaphor.
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by athenot 9y ago
> There are a great many things in Seitz’s conversations I would prefer never be public, not because I did wrong by Seitz, but because where I have said I don’t really care about privacy online, I don’t feel that exposing my sexual fanta
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by athenot 9y ago
Solar easements exist in many jurisdictions now (typically for solar panels). For Georgia: https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2010/title-44/chapter-9...
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by athenot 9y ago
Only if you use the `standup` plugin. ;)
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by athenot 9y ago
> The only way to stop corruption is to ensure a free press with an empowered and informed population. Unfortunately, populism can thrive even with free press. And with it, corruption can remain anchored. As an American, I sigh as I&#x
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by athenot 9y ago
> We have become a rent-seeking society It just dawned on me while reading the article that this accurately describes the shift from licensed software to SaaS that has been happening in the past decade.
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by athenot 9y ago
I get the point of not hanging on to mediocrity but I don't think the term "losers" is what's most appropriate here. It's too reductionist.
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by athenot 9y ago
It also depends on which side of the Gnat Line you're driving. :) http://southofthegnatline.blogspot.com/p/gnat-line-101_28.ht...
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by athenot 9y ago
Last week's article motivated me to plant Milkweed ( Asclepias tuberosa and Asclepias incarnata ) in my garden next year, to help with the population of Monarch butterflies and bees. On the other hand, I'll still be deploying my
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by athenot 9y ago
That's because the "new world" was already livable by the people who, um, were native. Things that we take for granted on earth (and which allow a simple tribal existence): - air with enough oxygen - most radiation is shielde
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by athenot 9y ago
Same here. Nim has this elegance that is hard to qualify and impossibe to quantify, but it makes it a real pleasure to write code in it. Can't wait to get deeper into it.

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