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by bhickey 10y ago
Uh... I don't know what hospitals you've been going to. A few years back I brought a friend with a perforated ulcer to the ER. They had her under the care of nursing in about sixty seconds.
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by bhickey 10y ago
That's exactly the point. Preferences are preferences and we don't know better than the user. The user's computer works in a certain way. They're used to it. Don't screw with the user.
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by bhickey 10y ago
Ugh. Yet another website that decided to hijack scroll.
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by bhickey 10y ago
It may make no sense, but the IRS disagrees with you. Exercising is a taxable event.
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by bhickey 10y ago
Or smooshing you into the wall? Or just pinching your hand when you bend over to get something that fell under the bed?
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by bhickey 10y ago
Framing it as an appetite for risk is too simplistic. Risk adjusted returns matter. For example, I've got a friend who's been working at a startup for about eight years. They have a looming exit. If it goes through, he'll pro
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by bhickey 10y ago
I bought tiger repellant from a door-to-door salesman. No tiger attacks to date.
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by bhickey 10y ago
You're misrepresenting what the GP post said and being obnoxious about it. Given that there are different regulatory regimens, locking down hardware to a particular locale may be inappropriate. For example, Channel 14 is fine in Japan
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by bhickey 10y ago
> [C]an someone tell me exactly what purpose at all non-competes still have that makes any sense? EMC doesn't want to lose their employees to more desirable companies.
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by bhickey 10y ago
Thanks for your condescension. http://www.saprp.org/pm_keyResFind.cfm https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/08/21/house...
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by bhickey 10y ago
Poor people use illegal drugs at a lower rate than wealthy people. Probably because drugs are expensive and they don't have as much leisure time. The notion that we should drug test welfare recipients is just an outgrowth of condescend
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by bhickey 10y ago
No, he didn't. This stereotypical depiction of welfare is a racial dog whistle. The whole point is to say "black" without saying "black".
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by bhickey 10y ago
Does anyone have a good argument for why carbon emissions should be zero rated?
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by bhickey 10y ago
The raw density numbers are misleading. Somerville has a relatively low proportion of commercial real estate. It's also a small city. Carve up Boston into Somerville sized chunks and you can beat Somerville. Roxbury and Roslindale do a
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by bhickey 10y ago
Yes, the fact that you couldn't raze and rebuild Somerville does imply that the existing zoning laws are illegitimate. Proponents of zoning talk about things like reducing congestion and preserving the character of the neighborhood. If
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by bhickey 10y ago
I really doubt that zoning laws improve quality of life for people in your average randomly selected town. Zoning laws give us things like parking requirements which drive down density and force everyone to drive. Then there's frontage
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by bhickey 10y ago
Depends on how long it was there. Adverse possession takes 20 years in Massachusetts.
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by bhickey 10y ago
Permit delays introduce huge costs. While a developer is durdling around waiting for building approval they still need to finance the damn thing. At current interest rates every month in delay should work out to something like a 0.3% increa
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by bhickey 10y ago
I have a handful of friends who left Russia in the early 90s and the pictures they paint of the USSR are highly unflattering in this regard. One, the daughter of Lenin Prize winner, grew up in a cramped two bedroom apartment. My guess is th
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by bhickey 10y ago
The city council is currently considering an expansion of inclusionary zoning. The gist is that 20% of new apartments in buildings with six or more units will be reserved for people earning between 50-80% of median income. Put concretely, a
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by bhickey 10y ago
We're talking about this a lot in Cambridge and I'm hoping to put together an analogous map for us. For example, here's a map of parcels where the floor-area-ratio exceeds 0.75: http://i.imgur.com/D9m9Gx2.jpg
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by bhickey 10y ago
Thanks, dang. The Yglesias post is basically a regurgitation of our discussion on /r/boston.
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by bhickey 10y ago
It's your code. Anyone who thinks differently can go pound sand. In general I'd prefer to see security relate libraries LGPL licensed to encourage their widespread adoption.
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by bhickey 10y ago
Yes, and? The entire website stinks of snake oil. The AJHG paper they cite to is talking about folate and methylation in the context of fetal abnormalities. This is a whole different beast from feeding adults B12 vitamins and hoping for the
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by bhickey 10y ago
Genetic Genie is setting off a lot of bogosity warning bells in my head. Yes, epigenetic methylation is associated with increased risk for all sorts of chronic illnesses. And, yes, oxidative stress influences heritable methylation. At the s
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by bhickey 10y ago
On mobile this page attempts to push malware.
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by bhickey 10y ago
> Assuming insurance companies are profitable, insurance is a -EV bet for the consumer. This isn't sweepingly true. Consider: * two actors who are trying to maximize the rate at which their wealth grows (expected utility) * they hav
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by bhickey 10y ago
I once tried to grow magnetotactic bacteria. For the growth media, you had to prepare a witch's brew of unusual chemicals which sent me on a goose hunt around a few friendly chem labs. The protocol called for making a couple of litres;
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by bhickey 10y ago
Phage therapy is super interesting, but there are a lot of technical problems. If I ever leave software engineering, it'll be to go back to mucking around with phage. Immune clearance: The immune system really enjoys soaking up phage.
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by bhickey 10y ago
> I would be very afraid it ends up like the introduction of Mongoose to Hawaii to control rats in the 19th century. There's no way for them to jump domains prokaryotes to eukaryotes. It's just biologically implausible. Phage a

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