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Sure, I get that things like Huntingtons would certainly be worth knowing about. But for genetics like that simply looking at your own previous generations would give you the answer there. (And of course, that assumes you have access to tha
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This is perhaps an off topic question, but I mean it seriously. What do you hope to gain from knowing your potential genetic health issues? If the report showed you had a chance of developing say Parkinsons, how would that change your life
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Business is hard. It's hard enough to "start a bookshop". And while I admire folk who have a bigger vision, the whole thing rests on the business being successful. Given the right priorities, it can work. A business can be pr
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I guess it kinda depends on what you mean by "cultural weight". Alphabet characters just make words, periods et al are just punctuation. @ is somewhat different. It's not punctuation. It's not a letter. It's a symbo
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Thanks for this. I'm going to Nesseby Norway next summer for 3 days over the solstice. There doesn't look like much to do there, which I guess is kinda the point. I'm looking forward to it.
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Yeah, I suspect this is very country and region specific. In my country I don't have health insurance. I've noticed that medical providers charge me less on discovering that. Party (I suspect) because I'll pay immediately so
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I'll second this. Unfortunately experience is a two-edged sword. I deal with a lot of old programmers and I continually hit the "fact" that was true in 1999 but is false today. For example, I started in DOS (as did many older
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I'll upvote you for at least laying out a coherent argument. But you're right. A lot of voters weighed the set of policies and decided that mass deportations, suspension of due process, tarifing imports to raise domestic prices, s
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This falls into the endless list of "remember you voted for this". With the ever present caveat that, no, clearly not everyone did, but he got more votes than anyone else. And it's not like this is a surprise. He campaigned w
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I'm not sure I'm mythologizing the past, more I think pointing out that it was different. I started professionally circa 1990, so that's the era I most remember. Yes, big organizations had a head-start with computers. My wife
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It only hurts the producer if they don't find alternate markets. There will absolutely be some short term pain. But in the long run it makes the producer stronger. Now it's easy to cherry pick products that are easier to move than
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The issue for the importer is cash flow. The tarifs have to be paid on entry, ie before the coffee is sold. This suits large importers over small ones, they have the cash reserves to cope. The other issue for importers is uncertainty. The t
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I was gonna write something similar. Know the audience. I've also come to the conclusion that "total beginners" (and certainly "minimal expertisers") didn't nowhere to read the docs anyway so it didn't mat
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The shelves wont be empty, the stuff is freely available, it just costs more to the US consumer. Just because there's a giant tarif on Brazil doesn't mean Americans stop drinking coffee. And of course people are still selling to t
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I don't think agreement is necessary. I think each will, in turn, come to their own conclusions. In boardrooms around the world there is of course concern to protecting the existing US market. And in the short term there are lots of no
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I'd suggest that Open Source just defines the castle differently. People outside the castle have no say. I'd also suggest that OS UI's are almost (but not quite) universally horrible. In most cases OS is about functionality,
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I'm nearing the end of my career, so take this with a pinch of salt. What I find so interesting in posts like this, is the mindset that "someone has to give me a job, else I can't work in IT". By contrast, when I started
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>> Would you pay $10 for something like this? Nope. But I'm likely not your target market, since English is my first language. I mean, I'd get the same result opening a dictionary at random.
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You're supposing that the salary cost is the only cost. That's not how it works. Firstly, are you offering this assistant Paid Time Off? Paid Sick Time? Are you making social security contributions? Health care contributions? Or d
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The problem though is that there is no market. No one wants this thing, no one will buy this thing, hence no manufacturers will care to develop or sell any of the modules. Sure there's maybe a few thousand hackers, but the phone market
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Let's leave aside the Googles of this world, and focus on mid and small companies (as you asked.) I think one of the cores to answering this is funding- as in "where do the funds for your job come from?" So a VC funded startu
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So no camera? I'll be generous and add in "standard camera" for you. But of course camera tech is moving fast. So either the standard camera gets left behind, or the "standard camera" is continually updated. Rinse a
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>> Labeling people who use ad blockers as unethical is hypocritical, to say the least. If I used an ad blocker you could say I was hypocritical. Since I don't, you can't. You're welcome to disagree on ethics of course,
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It's not the democrats job to fix this. It's the voters job. The voters decided to vote democrats out of office. They are the ones with the power here. Democracy is about majority rule. Blaming the minority for not fixing the prob
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I would add that it's a false equivalence to take the behavior of one party, and then worry about the parties not behaving that way "but they might". In other words the worth is not "what a future hypothetical democrat&q
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People who install ad blockers are perhaps not good recipients of in-video sponsor placements. So maybe not counting them as viewers is at least honest to the sponsor? With something like YouTube there are so many different parties involved
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>> I don't buy this. How many businesses are we talking about? Ten thousand? Twenty thousand? So each business commits $200 to $400 and you have a multi-million dollar OSS enterprise You're describing commercial software, no
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>> some FOSS ordering system I don't mean this cynically; but basically what you are suggesting is that some group of volunteers spend their time and effort to build out a substantial part of the business's infrastructure fo
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Yeah, "Standard" will vary a lot from one place to another. For what it's worth, flour is used almost daily here. (We keep several kinds to hand.) We make pizza (ie make the dough) at least once a week. Bread on occasion. Bat
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I get the nostalgic aspect. But it's not like there aren't a zillion from-scratch brownie recipes to choose from. And since you're doing it twice a year, honestly, get 2 boxes. If throwing away some extra premix destroys the

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