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by bigbubba 6y ago
Aren't the two distinguished in the billing? And AFAIK you can get 'just an xray' from one provider then contract another radiologist for the analysis.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Lower still is no notifications, or a single notification when the result is final.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I recently met somebody who read and believed the initial headlines for that story but never heard any updates. I think science reporting has some serious problems and no clear way to hold anybody accountable for it.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Using a notification system at all for this sort of thing runs counter to the premise of low anxiety design.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Listen up country bumpkin! If you were a sophisticated tech bro urbanite like me, you'd know that food comes from grocery stores, not farms. The only thing farmers grow is inedible corn (probably just to spite the environment); they&
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by bigbubba 6y ago
As far as I'm aware, nearly all tractors much larger than a lawn mower now use diesel, not gasoline/ethanol. This wasn't always the case, but I understand it to be true particularly since the later half of the 20th century.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I know I'm not a communication expert so I have to take my own observations with a grain of salt, but I would say I only have trouble conversing with maybe half the population because of my inclination to not interrupt. But I've
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I wish I could learn how to interrupt people. Often it feels like interruption is the only way I'll ever get a single word in but I feel awful doing it. Usually I like to wait for a brief pause in the conversation, but with some group
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by bigbubba 6y ago
'Hard' is not quite the right word for it. reCAPTCHA frequently rejects objectively correct responses when they fail to fingerprint you.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It's unprecedented because recorded history in California only goes back a handful of generations; ridiculously young compared to most of the world. Paleoclimatological evidence suggests that it used to be common and climate science s
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Yes, Australia and Siberia are also particularly prone to fires. Taiga biomes and Mediterranean climates in general are associated with wildfires. To be frank I don't really see how California could deal with it. The state's pop
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by bigbubba 6y ago
There is no fixing it. California is made to burn, the last century or so was unusually wet but California is now returning to a more typical dry tinderbox climate. (And AGW will likely make it worse than ever before.) Californians will n
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> It's superficially similar as it has the same mission profile The Tu-160 and B-1 are another example of this.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Sort of a catch-22 isn't it? Maybe those experimental drugs could make a man crazy, but he'd have to be crazy already to take those drugs in the first place.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
To suppress it and those who would criticize it.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I'd say 9/11 was part of it, if not the start. And post-9/11 measures being the only 'normal' the youth today have ever known makes it less likely that demand for a return to normal will ever manifest.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Cool it with the hateful remarks... before the cops come.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I think you're restating my point.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
One man's exciting is another's snorefest. A lot of people would probably laugh at the suggestion that anything involving computers could be exciting.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
They hide first, but will rattle when they think that has failed. Sometimes they bite first without rattling, particularly when startled, but they are less likely to use venom in those circumstances and those bites will generally be to the
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> Snakes Virtually every adult killed by snakes in America was asking for it. Rattlesnakes sure as shit know they can't eat humans and would never attempt it. They are named for the mechanism they use to scare us away and bite whe
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Confusing millimeters and nanometers? How? Visible light sits between the two, they're not even close.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
A few days ago I read this comment on HN which says CSPAN is part of the problem too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24807616 I don't have the perspective to evaluate this claim though. I don't know much ab
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Often obnoxious stuff like headers that follow you down the page are implemented in CSS. It also neatly deals with sites using gray on white text, absurdly narrow text columns, etc. It also neuters most cookie notices and similar BS that
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Surely any Senate hearing is a political tussle by definition. This seems like the usual unproductive showboating and I'm not sure any of this will matter two weeks from now.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It's good to hear you aren't trying to shame anybody. Incidentally, what is the word for people who complain about free things?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
As is often the case, the article renders fine with JavaScript and CSS disabled. This sort of scenario is why I run uMatrix in whitelist mode, with JS/CSS always disabled by default. These technologies are net negatives to me, I only
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Unfortunately our secret weapon for handling heat has a weakness: humidity. Sweating just not good enough for me, even when it's dry. I can cope with it, it's not like being hot would kill me (within reason and if I stay hydrated
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Trying to shaming critics into silence might suppress their criticism, but it won't make them like you.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Or you can just get a sweatter and let the house get cold. So long as the pipes don't freeze, a furnace can easily be run less without a substantial reduction in comfort. On the other hand when it's hot, there is only so nude yo

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