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by cure 8y ago
It's worse. If you have insurance, the price tag will be X, and they will pay for some part (most?) of it. If you don't have insurance, the price tag can easily be 100X and it's your responsibility. If you have insurance, but
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by cure 8y ago
Very disappointing article in the Economist. Their journalism is usually quite sound, but not this time. The very conservative bend is clearly present. The article summarizes as: there are a number of studies from specific geographies (Germ
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by cure 8y ago
Yeah, we do this too in Arvados ( https://arvados.org ). All our uuids consist of three parts separated by a hyphen. The first part denotes the cluster, the middle part denotes the type of object, and the last part is a random str
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by cure 8y ago
There were only ever two major Infiniband vendors: QLogic and Mellanox. Intel already bought QLogic back in 2012. I'm not sure it would be in anyone's interest for both to be acquired by Intel, even if IB isn't very relevant
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by cure 8y ago
I operated something like this around 2005 in a big hotel building (~400 bedrooms and various offices) with a dinky internet connection and no wifi yet (very thick walls, up in the mountains, limited budgets...). So I built a dial-up pool o
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by cure 8y ago
I wonder where they have stored those alleged incriminating photos... An S3 bucket backing some sort of CMS system they use to run that website?
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by cure 8y ago
The ones with very deep pockets who own the payday lending companies, of course.
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by cure 8y ago
> If I'm Ford, I surely would have triple checked every IP angle before putting a new technology in every single vehicle I make. Perhaps they should have known in this particular case. Maybe they did and moved forward anyway. But in
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by cure 8y ago
> The problem with the large catalog on sites like Amazon is that it's impossible (at least for me) to sort through it if you are just browsing. That could have something to do with Amazon's sorting/searching features, whi
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by cure 8y ago
Yeah. If you actually want to pull something heavy - or just want to accelerate fast - that flat torque curve you get from an electric motor will leave ICE trucks in the dust.
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by cure 8y ago
+1 for VPC Gateways. If you want to get decent aggregate performance out of S3 when you have many readers/writers in your VPC, you want one of those.
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by cure 8y ago
Also, having to deal with Python packaging is a world of hurt. No thanks. There's about 16 ways to package and distribute Python, and they all are half-complete and a royal pain to deal with. Ruby's packaging isn't perfect, b
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by cure 8y ago
The satellite view is helpful: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4527175,-122.1282551,157m/da... Southbound there isn't much room. Northbound, seems like there is space directly adjacent to the bridge.
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by cure 8y ago
They've been replacing highway bridges in MA in much less time. They prefab and build up the new bridge next to the highway, then shut the highway down for a weekend, tear down the old bridge, roll the new bridge in place, anchor, and
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by cure 8y ago
There is a long-distance transmission line in California that is used a bit like this, allowing the use of power from the North in the South in summer when peak demand is there, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific
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by cure 8y ago
There is nothing that identifies a person more precisely than their genome. It is, after all, unique to each person. That means that by definition, anonymizing genomes is impossible. If someone tells you they will 'anonymize' your
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by cure 8y ago
> Even 30x would leave gaps Correct - the coverage number is an average across the sequenced parts of the genome. In some areas the coverage will be much higher, in others much lower. Importantly, what is commonly called 'whole geno
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by cure 8y ago
> Veritas Genetics were also offering a 200USD genome a while back. I think that was Illumina sequencing, but it was a very limited time offer. Yes, that was on Monday Nov 19th. Veritas offered 1,000 genomes (Illuminca sequencing) at USD
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by cure 8y ago
I know what rent-seeking means, and I understand your point, but I disagree with it. I think you are giving the MPEG-G folks too much credit here. Unfortunately, the (software) patent system does not distinguish between people actually inno
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by cure 8y ago
Okay, so MPEG-LA is clearly a rent-seeking organization, we agree on that. However, MPEG enables the rent-seeking behavior by MPEG-LA, quite deliberately. I don't think it is unreasonable to say that MPEG are complicit and a big part o
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by cure 8y ago
See also this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18207478 for what that Genomics 'standard' they are trying to push is actually like. MPEG is a rent-seeking organization that doesn't actually contrib
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by cure 8y ago
I have a mutation in the MTHFR gene, which causes my body to be much less efficient at converting folic acid to folate than most people. It is also the likely cause for why I have low B12 on blood tests. Solution: eat lots of leafy greens a
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by cure 8y ago
And it didn't include their voter registration number.
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by cure 8y ago
> Individual people's income taxes cannot be treated this way, because the closest analogy to "business expenses" for a person's lifestyle is their cost of living. If cost of living were deductible it would be highly
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by cure 8y ago
> Make the damn thing run on time and nobody will care if it burns whale oil and exhausts powdered asbestos I beg to differ; it really stinks when one of those old diesel commuter trains goes by. They are also very noisy (electric trains
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by cure 8y ago
Nagios, in combination with with check_mk 'raw edition' ( https://mathias-kettner.com/editions.html ). The Nagios configuration is automatically generated via Puppet resource collection. SSL certificate expiry is ea
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by cure 8y ago
Or you could just have the power lines under the ground . If they are low enough to be endangered by falling trees, they could perhaps go underground instead. No need to cut down trees or maintain buffer zones along power lines. No annual
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by cure 8y ago
> There is always some uncertainty in life. And yet, we're somehoe able to make decisions despite this uncertainty. However, you take this uncertainty argument to absurd levels - by your logic, no human being should be expected to b
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by cure 8y ago
Birth control is expensive. Birth control often requires regular, routine access to the healthcare system. This is a problem when you're poor. At the time of conception, nobody knows how things will turn out in their life a few years d
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by cure 8y ago
> What I don't like in this post, is the call for non-adoption when the author has a competing format (CRAM) for which the patent situation and the performance is not clear. It seems a biased opinion. Actually, the author has been p

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