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by callmeal 7y ago
> Very hesitant that this is the actual problem of healthcare. What you care about is not how much the hospital bills, but how much is leftover after insurance. And that is unknown to all parties. It's a start. Right now I have no i
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by callmeal 7y ago
>At the time of, and in the location of, the testing, the legal limit was higher. As such the water with legal and within limits. >Since that time the legal limit has been lowered and consumer reports thinks they should go even lower,
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by callmeal 7y ago
>On April 26, (2019!) CR learned that the Food and Drug Administration has known of high arsenic levels in Peñafiel bottled water, from Keurig Dr Pepper, since at least 2013. Wow. Just Wow. This ties in so well with the other news articl
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by callmeal 7y ago
This was to be expected, given that apple has been slowly taking away the ability to physically turn off your device. Isn't anyone else concerned about the fact that a shutdown laptop will continue to broadcast defying convention and e
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by callmeal 7y ago
>My question was "what does blockchain bring to the table compared to a regular database?". You cannot compare blockchain with a regular database. A blockchain is more like an append-only store, or a WORM drive where each &quot
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by callmeal 7y ago
>Do you think it's as easy for those in India, China, or Kenya, for instance? Actually yes. Take a look at xoom.com and it's competitors for example (flat rate money transfers at a fraction of swift fees). Only issue is getting
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by callmeal 7y ago
>What features are missing? I use Google Docs in firefox and haven't noticed anything wrong. Tracking and cookie slurping. I've noticed that if you turn on privacy protections in firefox, all google sites start misbehaving. And
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by callmeal 7y ago
>My guess is to prevent ad-fraud by website owners. It's a lot harder to detect fraudulent clicks/impressions if all data are routed through website. Isn't the solution to that problem a flat rate fee (similar to how adver
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by callmeal 7y ago
>> I don't know if it's a promise ... >I suspect that it almost definitely is not. It's not a promise. But they don't shut it down without letting you know they're going to be shutting it down first.
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by callmeal 7y ago
Dispensaries cannot accept credit cards because the federal banking system is off limits to them. But as far as id requirements go, you can walk into any dispensary with a valid California drivers license (haven't really tried with out
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by callmeal 7y ago
When I did this for my (admittedly medium sized) collection, I used Booxter ( https://www.deepprose.com/ ) and a cuecat scanner to catalog all those books. Was a simple process of having enough boxes and labels, and I did tha
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by callmeal 7y ago
>So in order to make Google share your location with others, you have to give them permission to store your location. Sure. I have no problem with that. What I have a problem with is, why is google insisting on storing all the locations
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by callmeal 7y ago
> CA is a terrible place to do business (because of all the overhead associated with complying with CA's labor and environmental laws) Thanks for letting the cat out of the bag on what business is: exploiting labor and the environme
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by callmeal 8y ago
That's the icon I was talking about. It was present on my Nexus 5 with Android 6 (marshmallow), but disappeared when I upgraded to android 7 (nougat) and there's no way I can see to bring it back. It's possible that other car
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by callmeal 8y ago
>You can turn off the collection of location data for Google. If you have an android phone, please try turning off the location service and see what happens. The sheer number of dark patterns google uses to get you to turn it back on is
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by callmeal 8y ago
>> When it comes to those who wants to run political ads on Facebook, the company verifies residency of advertisers either by physical verification (by sending someone to the address provided) or by sending a code in the post. That s
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by callmeal 8y ago
>Didn't they just go and knock on his door? Anyone can knock on a door. There's no law against this. The Aadhaar card is the equivalent of a social security card. Imagine a FB team knocking on your door demanding your "pap
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by callmeal 8y ago
CPR done correctly can break your ribs. Those broken ribs can then puncture your lungs. What he means is that they did everything they could medically, at the cost of broken ribs and punctured lungs. But that it was probably not the right t
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by callmeal 8y ago
>I think Steam is a really good (not shitty) DRM enforcer. It may be a good DRM enforcer, but as a UI it's terrible and intrusive. There's no way to turn off all those popup messages and game related alerts. I had to give up on
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by callmeal 8y ago
Not if you're working for a company that has an "unlimited vacation" policy.
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by callmeal 8y ago
It's a way for companies to eliminate their vacation payout when you're fired. If you have a defined vacation policy, then by law the company is obligated to pay you out for the unused vacation days in case of termination/res
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by callmeal 8y ago
Eyewitness testimony is some of the most unreliable there is. See the gorilla experiment for instance. It's likely that people rewrote their memories of the event. It's also likely that the MCAS induced stresses on the plane cause
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by callmeal 8y ago
That depends on your memory usage. There is an awkward range (32GB - 48GB) where the increase in heap size does not give you a proportional increase in available memory because of the doubling of references. That is where you're better
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by callmeal 8y ago
>Don't they need that info to perform the basic functions of the service? That is a limitation of the OFX version 1 protocol that is used by banks to exchange that data. OFX v2 does away with real account numbers in the api in excha
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by callmeal 8y ago
>>Fat Consumption is the Only Cause of Weight Gain (2018-07-14). https://neurosciencenews.com/fat-consumption-weight-gain-957... Wow the sugar industry is still at it. Read the abstract. The study concludes that mice
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by callmeal 8y ago
>Firstly, there is no single equivalent to "slamming on the brakes" for uncommanded nose-down. Actually in the "old" version, there is. From TFA: Older 737s had another way of addressing certain problems with the stab
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by callmeal 8y ago
>Dedicated lanes don't do much to help; Actually, they do. Take a look at the MetroBus infrastructure in Mexico City[0] for example. Buses run on time, on an extensive, dedicated lane network. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by callmeal 8y ago
>What was a bit offputting was how quiet Colbert was when the camera was not running and how much more energetic he was when it was. That's normal for introverted performers. There's a whole lot of them, from George Harrison, K
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by callmeal 8y ago
There's commafeed: https://github.com/Athou/commafeed
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by callmeal 8y ago
There is. It's just called continuity errors, or retroactive continuity. Not something that you can easily fix given the type of industry.

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