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by ef4 14y ago
It's true that the patient records use disparate standards, and that it's not trivial to convert them. But even when you have systems that adhere to the various existing data exchange standards, there are deeper structural reasons that orga
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by ef4 14y ago
The fact that schools as we know then can't tolerate much critical thinking tells you everything you need to know about their true function. Any kind of "teaching" that is easier the less your students question isn't teaching at all, it's i
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by ef4 14y ago
> Insurance companies need to know their maximum loss exposures. Yes, but a dollar cap is only one way to do that. In my case, my policy has no dollar caps, but of course it only covers reasonable and necessary care. I'm sure the insu
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by ef4 14y ago
Mostly I think the barrier (for non-emergent conditions) is just ignorance. But that's changing. Health tourism is growing. I keep waiting to see when somebody will open a hospital cruise ship, park it just outside US waters, and provide Th
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by ef4 14y ago
I wish I could buy such a policy, but it's actually illegal in Massachusetts. Insurers are not allowed to sell a plan that doesn't cover a long list of routine preventative care. And they're not allowed to offer deductibles greater than $20
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by ef4 14y ago
If you want a practical takeaway from this article, it's don't buy cheap health insurance . It just gives you a false sense of security, when in reality you're still uninsured against the biggest health expenses. Any health insurance polic
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by ef4 14y ago
I actually had to write some Java recently for the first time in about ten years. I was hoping that the evolution of the language would make it less painful than it used to be. I was unimpressed. Generics are better than nothing, but still
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by ef4 14y ago
This is a startup that's trying to apply new materials (think high-tech athletic wear) to dress clothes: http://ministryofsupply.com/ So far they have some dress shirts.
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by ef4 14y ago
> it has sequential commit numbers That right there illustrates the disconnect that causes some people to dislike git while others love it. Git is truly distributed. In a distributed system, commits are not totally ordered . It is fund
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by ef4 14y ago
This kind of traffic optimization happens more frequently than you might think. Particularly among CDNs. CDNs don't optimize solely for performance. They optimize for a balance of performance and cost. That means saturating a given 95/5 lin
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by ef4 14y ago
That's the beauty of this nginx feature. Up until now, the easiest way to add websockets to an existing application was to put them on a separate (weird) port. But now nginx lets you multiplex those websocket connections over good old port
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by ef4 14y ago
As a geek, I actually think Excel is one of the few really nice things Microsoft has created (I realize it wasn't the first spreadsheet, but MS gets credit for taking it mainstream). It's one of the few general-purpose programs that really
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by ef4 14y ago
The problem isn't "magic" per se, and the problematic components already have very clearly defined singular responsibilities (an API doesn't get much simpler than "dump" and "parse"). Security problems often happen when two components that
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by ef4 14y ago
It's not a question of learning something new. It's that there's a fundamental, philosophical split between people who hate IDEs and people who love them. It's one of those long-running holy wars of programming that goes back way further th
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by ef4 14y ago
Look at the specific sentence I quoted to criticize. Do you really agree that "The concept of entrepreneurism as a small-time life-style has evaporated from the culture"?
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by ef4 14y ago
> The concept of entrepreneurism as a small-time life-style has evaporated from the culture, and now entrepreneur and start-up means “get big fast.” No. Get yourself out of the filter bubble, because it is seriously warping your underst
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by ef4 14y ago
Link please?
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by ef4 14y ago
> Exhibit A: Wall Street investment banks. Then you're thinking of the top 0.01%. The people right at the 99th percentile are still considered peons by Wall Street investment banking standards. And the kind of money that puts you at 1%
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by ef4 14y ago
There's not, and that's one of the major flaws with the design of the SSL certificate ecosystem.
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by ef4 14y ago
Overall it has gotten much easier to report bugs and submit patches to open source projects, and I give that credit to Github. It comes down to friction: even if your system is better, it still means I need to learn your system before I c
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by ef4 14y ago
> Life is hard, and it’s most certainly unfair… perhaps more so for our generation that any previous. Absolutely absurd. You really think you have it worse than somebody born into slavery? Or worse than a medieval serf? A large fraction
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by ef4 14y ago
I have heard the same complaints, and I know several of the core contributors have just recently started their own fork. I linked to the original because I can't find much web presence for the new fork yet (PhoenixPilot, I think).
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by ef4 14y ago
Worrying about code execution at install is silly. The whole point of installing a gem is to download code that you're going to execute. So the whole gem (install code and runtime code) needs to be trusted, and should be verifiably signed b
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by ef4 14y ago
3.2.1 is not safe (you probably meant 3.2.11) 3.0.19 is not safe (3.0.20 was released to fix CVE-2013-0333) 2.3.15 is not safe (2.3.16 was released to fix CVE-2013-0333)
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by ef4 14y ago
It requires leadership from the people who already hold the prestige, which is why an institution like MIT could make a big difference. An example of this already starting to happen for mathematics: http://www.nature.com/news/mathematician
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by ef4 14y ago
If you like this, also check out http://openpilot.org . It's an open source autopilot project.
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by ef4 14y ago
So money can be converted into honey, but honey cannot be converted into money. How does that not make this strictly less useful than transacting in good old money?
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by ef4 14y ago
It's not that anyone is against it when it's possible to do it cleanly . But there are cases when that isn't true. Sometimes the branch is not ephemeral, so rewriting it becomes messy and risky. I frequently find myself fixing or extending
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by ef4 14y ago
That sounds great, I would love such a tool.
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by ef4 14y ago
Speaking specifically about fall risk in older people: if you want to ensure a high quality of life when you're older, maintain strong muscles through exercise. This may seem like a no brainer, and yet almost nobody actually does it. Balanc

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