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by checktheorder 7y ago
Quite likely. I think Americans in support of single-payer ought to look to Canada, not just as a model of how to run a fair and cost-effective single-payer system, but how to implement it against massive political opposition from incumbent
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by checktheorder 7y ago
I think it's safe to say that the savings would definitely arise if (if...) M4A is implemented in good faith. Decades of hard data from basically every other developed nation with universal health care demonstrates this. All it will ta
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by checktheorder 7y ago
I certainly hope those bulk commercial SMS fees add up. SMS spam is bad enough as it is.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Even if that scenario happens (which I would argue wouldn't happen) then American citizens would STILL be far better off. They would retain that health care coverage during periods of unemployment or while working for employers who don
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by checktheorder 7y ago
The article didn't seem to go into regulatory issues at all. I'm not qualified to speak to the technical merits of LIDAR versus computer vision systems. But coming from a business planning background, and considering the fact that
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Well put. For anyone interested in the similarities of jet engines and rocket engines, read up on the SABRE engine that the UK company Reaction Engines is working on for the proposed Skylon spaceplane. SABRE is a hybrid that's designed
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>Nobody is going to switch from Chrome to Firefox if the UI is radically different. I've actually had a lot of success getting non-techie Android users I know to switch to Firefox when they found out that it has proper adblocking av
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>I wonder why the military doesn't add "it works or else you don't get paid" clauses in these lucrative contracts they award? Any general or admiral who pushed hard for strict performance-based deliverables in procure
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Thanks, that link was helpful. The US version will work on two LTE bands on my carrier in Canada. I was waiting to order until the radio bands were finalized.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
It's time to start a CYA document cache, if you haven't started it already. Don't forgot to include call recordings if possible. They won't hesitate to throw you under a bus.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>But talking to my friends who use Photoshop, apparently the learning curve of GIMP is too steep. I'm a huge FOSS fan, so I don't say this as some sort of Adobe fanboy. GIMP has a lot of issues beyond the interface. Chief among
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by checktheorder 7y ago
...clear directives to upper management that workers' attempts to secure living wages and humane workplaces will not be tolerated, and that Rule of Acquisition number 211 must be rigorously adhered to at all times.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>Annoying when it comes to anonymity, but sometimes it's nice being able to be identified by name alone. I love having a modern-day superpower: online search anonymity. I have one of the most common firstname/lastname combos in
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by checktheorder 7y ago
I'd be interested in knowing if that's true, and if so, to what extent. My knowledge of Japanese culture - especially modern prevailing attitudes towards the Japanese government's actions in the second world war - is very lim
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by checktheorder 7y ago
It wasn't pacification. It was a nation collectively coming to terms with their brutal past and taking to heart the phrase "never again". If "not bombing non-knee-bending nations on a whim" equals "pacified&quo
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Now this looks like a fascinating idea for an article given current events. I can't wait to read about how the US and UK intelligence communities orchestrated a coup to get rid of Iran's democratically-elected leader Mosaddegh in
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by checktheorder 7y ago
I did a lot of street photography, when I lived and worked in the downtown core of a major city. I still do whenever I can, making road trips to a nearby major city from my home in a minor one. I think it's the most difficult photograp
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by checktheorder 7y ago
The only game I've bothered to put on my new phone since buying it 6 months ago is an open source Scrabble clone I found on F-droid called "Crossword". Every so often I'll look on the Play Store for a game, but I find no
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by checktheorder 7y ago
The bureaucrats and politicians who espouse the same opinions as Barr all live in a very old-school world. They believe that encryption is a product solely "built" by companies with Wall Street headquarters open 9-4 M-F. They thin
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by checktheorder 7y ago
I would bet good money that when Starship makes its first safe return to Earth after a manned lunar landing mission, there's going to be some serious-as-a-heart-attack talk within the worlds' universities about pooling cash for ma
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by checktheorder 7y ago
I've always been of the opinion that Canada didn't really become a country until the Suez canal crisis. That was the first time that we took a principled stand on the world stage in defiance of the highly immoral actions of our mo
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Yes.
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>It's sad Turkey-US relations are souring at present. Ain't that the truth. I find it quite disturbing to see a thin-skinned bully in charge, who is taking bad advice from a cohort of religious fundamentalists and warmongering
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>This is partly why I like Golang so much, they’ve been focusing on readability. Speaking as someone who's just returned to coding after a two-decade absence (mostly for fun), this is the #1 thing I love about Golang. I can actually
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by checktheorder 7y ago
Whenever I'm in the home of a friend who's enthralled with their smart speaker gadget, I like to make red-flag-raising requests to their gadget. Asking for good sniper vantage points in Washington DC, a safe rohypnol dosage for 10
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>> arranging windows >No. Just no. The smartest thing that developers of window managers on Linux can do (as many have done) is straight-up copy Windows' winkey-arrow behaviour. It's one of those things that should be sta
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by checktheorder 7y ago
>FWIW, there are quite a few things that haven't been added to the API, most importantly the ability to accept key events from pages where our content script isn't running. Speaking as an end-user, I find the eagerness with whi
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by checktheorder 7y ago
I've sometimes found myself wondering what kernel is actually running Microsoft's new "Modern OS", and if the userspace has any Ubuntu input.