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   by athenot 11y ago

   Unfortunately I don't have the reports handy but one of things is that they achieve outcomes similar to private health systems given much less money per capita . Outcomes do take into account the starting conditions ("comorbiditi
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   by athenot 11y ago

   I am sorry to hear about that wrongful death. Nobody deserves that. On that topic, the US as a whole ranks 24th in the world in terms of preventable deaths[1], and we spend twice per capita as the highest-performing country on the list. Our
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   by athenot 11y ago

   It wouldn't be free. Loved or hated, the VA is a large HMO set up as a benefit for veterans to help them because many of them have had to sacrifice their personal health to fulfill orders their were given. Any healthcare system is ridd
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   by athenot 11y ago

   Or perhaps we will witness a return to living off of the land but with technologies to assist us. We have self-driving tractors and automated industrialized agriculture, but how about a personal yard robot that can till the vegetable garden
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   by athenot 11y ago

   This can be solved by having sensible defaults. So instead of having to specify everything, there's a baseline behavior. Most may be acceptable, some is not. Fine, then the user can change what needs to be changed. The most important p
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   by athenot 11y ago

   But there's a physiological "high" of getting the sugar fix in soda, which makes the brain desire it. It's nowhere near the strength of addiction produced by hard drugs. But it is still significant and I would guess it d
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   by athenot 11y ago

   Would it be possible to mitigate this by setting the immutable flag on /etc/sudoers: chflags uchg /etc/sudoers
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   by athenot 11y ago

   Demand is used as a proxy to measure industrial activity.
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   by athenot 11y ago

   Emergency Departments don't run on a "first come, first served" basis. Triage will assess how critical your condition is and use that to determine how fast you can be seen, in relation to how many other critical patients are
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    by athenot 11y ago

    I guess the author is also comfortable with wearing new clothes without washing them. Personally, I wash most clothes before wearing them (except for outerwear). Also, the author clearly does not have a baby—or keeps his/her baby naked
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    by athenot 11y ago

    That's because the highest US coin in practice is $0.25—even though $1 coins exist, they are not widespread and overlap with the $1 bill. Contrast with the Euro where the highest coin is €2 and bills start at €5. Also prices tend to
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    by athenot 11y ago

    That happens to be the series used for the Euro currency: [0.01, 0.02, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500]
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    by athenot 11y ago

    And when it comes to browning, or making a crust around the edges of what's being pan-fried, butter is the best. Also, I'm not sure why but I've found that adding sesame oil to butter helps keep its properties a bit longer un
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    by athenot 11y ago

    It would have been nice if the study included sesame oil. It has a high smoke point and it's used in many Asian diets. Frying in olive oil can be done if it's a low temperature fry, I've only done it for pan frying potato s
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    by athenot 11y ago

    This looks more like a transfer of credits, not of the actual power.
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    by athenot 11y ago

    We don't fully know, and I'm not a neurologist. But it appears that sleep is when memories of the day get consolidated. There's also some garbage collection that runs, for the well-being of the system.
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    by athenot 11y ago

    It is very similar to the emotions stirred up by a plane crash vs. the ongoing car accidents. I believe in both cases it comes down to not feeling in control. As a population, we over-estimate our ability to safely drive cars. Yet because w
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    by athenot 11y ago

    On that topic, never name your child "TEST" if you ever plan to take them to the doctor or hospital...
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    by athenot 11y ago

    As a father of a little girl, this is a depressing read for me. Yes in the back of my mind I know this stuff is going on but it's really sad seeing the collection of data showing people who are partaking in this stuff. Also this gave m
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    by athenot 11y ago

    I'd guess that each button equates to a feature. So nobody wants to be seen "removing features" from the product. Microwave A: - heats food for the duration you want and power level you want Microwave B: - heats food for the
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    by athenot 11y ago

    Does it also deal with uneven heating? Test with a few papadums[1]... :) [1] http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/microwave-oven-diagnost...
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    by athenot 11y ago

    Or have 2 knobs (Power and Time). I used to have one like that many moons ago. It also had a start button and a stop/open door button. That was perfect.
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    by athenot 11y ago

    I'm intrigued as to how you arrive to this conclusion. Faith explains the "why", science explains the "how". And there certainly is support in Scripture to take good care of the Earth, following a more generic patte
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    by athenot 11y ago

    The basic science research has already been conducted. What is being done now could be viewed as engineering, as the goal is to scale the process to a large size, such that the system may deliver a 10x return on the power going into it. ht
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    by athenot 11y ago

    Fusion is still in development, but the goal is definitely for it to become a major player. http://www.iter.org/mach
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    by athenot 11y ago

    There are already several HIPAA-compliant messaging apps that take care of that.
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    by athenot 11y ago

    Image recognition with visible spectrum is pretty limited. I can put a egg-based or sugar-based glaze on something and it will turn brown faster, without making the meat cook any faster. What might be more interesting is a gas-phase chromat
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    by athenot 11y ago

    I think the issue of variety of food is overlooked. My family back in the countryside has orchards of various fruits. When it's cherry season, everyone is eating pounds of cherries every day... till that 2 week season is over and you d
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    by athenot 11y ago

    That's the premise of Gary Vaynerchuck's book, "The Thank You Economy"[1], for those interested in this topic. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Thank-You-Economy-Gary-Vaynerchuk/dp/0... (non-affiliate
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    by athenot 11y ago

    > NZ is able to get drugs cheap because the US consumers are paying extremely high prices which cover the development costs. And sometimes it's the opposite, with European pharmaceutical companies covering all their costs in their h