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by cmiles74 7y ago
I was surprised to see them ban medical marijuana based vaping products. They have been part of the MA medical program for maybe five years now with no reports of any illnesses.
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MA Bans Vaping Product for Four Months –Including for Medical Use(bostonglobe.com)
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Is it possible that the manufacturers simply want to pay as little as possible to get these things manufactured, and that they can pay people elsewhere (like in China) far less that they can pay US workers? I am no expert, but this site cla
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by cmiles74 7y ago
I think the change is that Apple isn't closing the plant all-together. "Apple made the previous Mac Pro in Austin, Texas, beginning in 2013. But with the new Mac Pro unveiled this month being made in China, Apple is "shifting
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I think that is true, this is a population that has been historically under-served. In my opinion, lack of funding was at least part of the problem with these institutions; one common thread seems to be a lack of staff.
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Less staff means higher wait times, long wait times lead to frustrated and angry patients. People with mental health issues might be less able to manage a longer and more stressful visit. Exhausted providers might me less effective managing
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by cmiles74 7y ago
This article fails to mention that ER departments tend to be underfunded; hospitals typically do not generate much revenue through ER departments and they are often blamed for losing money. There are many articles out there, this is just th
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The "state hospital" in my area was shut down in the eighties. It turns out that many of their treatments were ineffective and inhumane. I believe there is still a support group for former patients that is active.
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by cmiles74 7y ago
I am totally not dancing around it, that is straight up the observable and factual reality of the world that we live in. I do think that painting everyone who commits a crime of any magnitude with the same broad brush is unhelpful if you ar
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Ethical or not people look for alternatives if they feel the cost is too high.
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I think you are oversimplifying. Everything related to health care in the US is more expensive then anywhere else, from personnell to medication and supplies, to equipment. Cost is exaggerated at every step... Unecesary tests and procedures
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I disagree. The costs of health care are ridiculously high and rising. Out of the people who actually have health insurance, how many can actually afford a serious health issue? That number is getting smaller and smaller and as it shrinks,
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That is your opinion. It does not change the facts as stated and, in my opinion, is not a helpful way of framing the issue. Certainly is isn't helping media companies sell more content nor is it helping their customers consume more con
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Do individuals downloading some television or movies here and there for their own personal use really cost these media companies a lot of money, or is it more like a rounding error? There was a post yesterday that mentioned setting up a Ple
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Maybe they would jointly fund an online streaming service with predictable prices for the product, similar to what we see in music streaming...
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I couldn't disagree with this statement more; I believe this kind of thinking is human nature and is in no way limited to "privileged people". People are willing to put up with a fixed amount of inconvenience or spend a set d
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by cmiles74 7y ago
Edward Snowden has been hitting on this point for a long time. This is from an article from 2014[0]: “It’s no secret that we hack China very aggressively,” he says. “But we’ve crossed lines. We’re hacking universities and hospitals and whol
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This is what you get when whistleblowers have no protections. If we don't want to see this happen again in the future, the answer is to protect people coming forward with information about abuses.
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by cmiles74 7y ago
The Guardian article mentioned doesn't state that he provided the information on NSA cracking attempts of civilian Hong Kong and Chinese targets as an attempt to gain legal asylum. On the contrary, Edward Snowden maintains that he prov
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This seems like a mis-characterization of the information in the article. According to the piece, Snowden provided this data to the South China Morning Post directly, not the Chinese government. This article also makes no mention of this in
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Unless the US has someone from inside Russian intelligence willing to go on the record that Snowden provided actionable intelligence, this seems like a moot point. Certainly this kind of circumstantial evidence (or, really, lack of evidence
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This isn't a technical issue, but I think that it's important: working for the government comes with less pay, but there was always the idea that you were putting in effort for the benefit of the country. In my opinion the NSA has
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by cmiles74 7y ago
Yes, it's the CloudFlare caching that is providing the site to the majority of people. For the IPFS version, people need to have a plugin installed or have the IPFS software running on their machines.
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Eventually companies will pay people to get up to speed on older technology like RPG and COBOL. For sure, they are fighting it hard, but I don't see a lot of other options. It's harder for me to imagine all of this legacy software
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Isn't the fine supposed to be punitive and discourage further infractions? If that is the case, the fine will have to scale with the perpetrators income in order to retain bite.
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Maybe it won't contain a vendor "management engine". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Claims...
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It pains me to admit it, but you are correct. I was on my phone and misread the page. Still, the life span of these cards could be managed for political gain. Perhaps if the majority part in the state house changes, the valid lifetime for o
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by cmiles74 7y ago
We have ID cards in Massachusetts, you can get one of those without needing to take the driving exam. There is a "LiquorID" card that lasts five years, I can't find any information on the "MassID" card but it's
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I agree. I think the fact that these aren't discussion points is important. Steps could be taken to ensure that everyone entitled to a card gets one but I suspect there is a significant cost associated with that. So far cost hasn'
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If the federal government was serious about these voter ID cards and the goal truly was more reliable elections then we would be seeing real conversations about cost and a deployment strategy. The very fact that they are trying to do this n

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