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by emu 15y ago
I'm Australian, age 29, in excellent health, and living in the US. I currently have quite good health insurance. However, if I found myself in a situation in the US where I did not have health insurance, I would try to move back home as soo
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by emu 15y ago
I also just tried to log in about 6-7 times in a row (clicking the "login" link on the front page, reloading the front page in between attempts), and I repeatedly received the "expired link" page. It also reliably happens clicking the "nex
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by emu 15y ago
The majority of comments on this post are of the form "his analysis is wrong, because it doesn't take into account factors x, y, and z". That's great --- we're having a civil discussion about the merits of his argument. Linking to his blog
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by emu 15y ago
Wow. After reading this I would downvote this article if I had downvotes.
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by emu 15y ago
The author of the article completely ignores public transit. Commuting by train has at least two advantages: (1) it (can be) cheaper than driving, although the exact economics depend on a lot of things, and (2) you can do something else, su
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by emu 15y ago
To echo one of the comments on the linked post --- it is because of bugs like this that I am a firm advocate of languages with strong static checks. A few claims: * no matter how good a programmer you are, you will make stupid mistakes (suc
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by emu 15y ago
This pattern is sometimes called an intrusive data structure. For example, see boost::intrusive in the C++ world. It saves allocation, gives better locality, and allows various optimizations such as the ability to remove an object from a do