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by bcoates 9y ago
You can do an a1c test at home or in the doctor to identify chronically elevated glucose (prediabetes). It's insensitive to time of day or fasting status you can just take it every few years or so at your convenience. Continuous blood
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by bcoates 9y ago
Network namespaces, virtual ethernet interfaces, iptables rules, & union filesystems are all very cheap and have little to no overhead for normal use cases. N processes in 1 container isn't a perf win over N processes in N containe
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A thread is just a process that shares memory; a container is just a process that has a different network/filesystem/etc than the rest of the processes. Containers don't cost meaningfully more than threads unless you create e
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by bcoates 9y ago
Those people probably have your email in an inbox Facebook slurped (possibly as a CC or something)
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The busybox rm does.
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by bcoates 9y ago
The problems with full motion video are mostly not light transport problems, they're animation problems. Capturing realistic human movement is tricky enough, let alone generating it, and people are exquisitely sensitive to the creepy
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by bcoates 9y ago
The improbably named NSA contractor Reality Winner was busted recently for something like this, printing out classified documents at work and leaking them to news sources. http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-inte
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by bcoates 9y ago
In some areas juggling prepaid SIMs is a good way to optimize your wireless expenses and/or maximize your coverage. You can buy phones and wifi adapters with goofy numbers of SIM slots (like 16) to facilitate this.
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You may as well just block LACNIC IPs wholesale and save the trouble at this point
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You'd be unreachable from cloud providers, major public hotspots, residential ISPs, and countries that use carrier grade NAT to stick all their traffic on one IP or one range.
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Prices are set at the margin. This article is concerned with the average skill of investors, an entirely meaningless metric that determines nothing. The marginal investor determines prices not the mean one.
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cough C-x cough
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You get it. It's more of a dying-on-Everest-because-we-can than something you'd actually want to use.
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by bcoates 9y ago
A little googling: TANF (the last vestige of single-mother welfare) is ~$30bn/yr for the whole US, state & federal contribution. SSDI (a mix of people with severe medical problems and the work-shy) is $150bn/yr. OASI (I'm
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by bcoates 9y ago
Culture and society engage with one another. To take an extremely concrete example, our society takes every possible opportunity to treat young unwed mothers like absolute shit. "Raising up" the culture of people who are unsurpris
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by bcoates 9y ago
It's a mix of two things: The first is searching under the streetlight: both attributable digital ads and non-attributable ads are put into a media plan with (mostly fanciful) estimates and projections as to returns and value before th
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by bcoates 9y ago
The Company should be putting a property tag on everything that is theirs , or at least recording serial numbers.
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I can already imagine the future where someone slacks me "hey" in order to start a five-round conversation about if I'm busy and if it's OK for them to ask a question only to find out they were standing behind me the who
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by bcoates 9y ago
Back in my day I got nonsense stories about kids these days from local TV news fluff pieces not this internet clickbait nonsense!
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1/8 was reserved for a long time and various entities improperly used it as a private address. It was eventually given to APNIC for assignment use but a few ultra-commonly-used ranges and addresses like 1.1.1/24 and 1.2.3/som
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by bcoates 9y ago
Britain commits to power cars with its overwhelmingly fossil fuel based electrical grid and/or its even more fossil fuel heavy electricity imports by 2040. (kidding, they'll just keep using petroleum.) edit: apparently I can'
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They have appeared to have implemented disabling instant search by simply reverting all post-instant search antifeatures: No instant search No steal focus on result page (and thus, no breaking backspace) No overriding arrow key scroll into
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by bcoates 9y ago
I think the only reliable way to prevent downgrade attacks in the face of potentially arbitrarily broken old versions is to have a field in the server certificate promising that the server supports particular protocol versions. If that were
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by bcoates 9y ago
If people can BYOD they can bring an LTE connection with it. At that point you should probably stop pretending that monitoring is going to be feasible.
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Why should farm work be immune to cost disease when nothing else is?
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Ag workers are not a huge cost driver to the retail price of food, so it'll be fine.
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Calling "Insider gets the master private key list, steals all the bounties" as the way this turns out.
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Because, in practice, governance is positive leverage on power. Rich people are still more powerful than average/poor people in the absence of intensive, high-impact statist government, but the rich people:everyone else power ratio in
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But Houston is kind of a counterexample of that, no? It's the go-to thing city planners complain about when you just let people build whatever they want without regulation, but the result appears to be a decent second-tier city with a
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The local politics are always going to side with the people with power and money, that's what politics is. The point of deregulation is to lower the influence of the powerful, which is mostly expressed through their iron grip on local

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