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by gabemart 10y ago
How could you get rid of Medicare and Medicaid just by giving everyone $13k per year? What happens when someone with no other income needs life-saving medical treatment that costs more than $13k?
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by gabemart 10y ago
Intolerance (1916) is in the public domain the in USA. The first appearance of the "Babylon" set: https://youtu.be/SoaF8_dlqQA?t=18m8s "Belshazzar’s Court": https://youtu.be/SoaF8_dlqQA
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by gabemart 10y ago
Down in at least USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Ireland, Australia from my limited testing.
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by gabemart 10y ago
I would feel a lot more comfortable with a cover for the webcam on my 2015 MBP, but the anti-reflective coating on the display is so famously, ludicrously sensitive and prone to delamination that I'm really reluctant to affix anything
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We need more randomized trials in nutrition–preferably with negative results(ajcn.nutrition.org)
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by gabemart 10y ago
My mental conception of this looks like a bell curve - most successful entities require a good amount of (hard, smart, strategic) work and a good amount of (pure, random, chaotic) luck. A very few succeed with a vast amount of hard work and
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by gabemart 10y ago
Why isn't there a way for devices to indicate to a server if they are on a slow or data-capped connection? It seems like "responsive" web design is based entirely around the size or pixel-density of a device's screen. Bu
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by gabemart 10y ago
The reason smart replies seem a bit sad to me is that, unlike new forms of communication that have come before, they don't introduce any new scope for creativity. Text messages, twitter and snapchat may have made conversations lighter,
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Carbohydrates and Health [pdf](gov.uk)
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The Sumo Matchup Centuries in the Making(fivethirtyeight.com)
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by gabemart 10y ago
Often the demographic that votes on stories can be quite different from the demographic that comments on stories and forms the "community", especially for default subreddits. The majority of people voting on the story may only be
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by gabemart 10y ago
A reduction in stock market growth to 6% or 6.5% does not make me "very afraid" about long-run investing. The threat of global climate change and the resulting possibility of long-run negative returns seems a bigger threat to me.
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by gabemart 11y ago
Does anyone know why the Author's Guild has pursued this case? Do they have a good-faith belief that they are losing potential revenue from a "licensed search" market? Or is it simply a precedent case for them? Edit: https:&
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by gabemart 11y ago
This seems like very thinly veiled blogspam around http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tech...
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by gabemart 11y ago
For more comparison, here's a $5 Digital Ocean droplet (VPS) ==============================LINUX DATA BELOW=============================== CPU : GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L v2 @ 2.40GHz 2400
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by gabemart 11y ago
> BTW, if you're not a US citizen + the business is providing services + you're the only owner (single member LLC), then there are NO TAX-paying requirements. Does this mean no state-level tax-paying requirements, or no tax pay
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by gabemart 11y ago
> If you sell the generator and don't make an explicit claim over produced works, they are the copyright of the person who clicked the button. I'm not sure this would meet the "threshold of originality" standard [1].
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by gabemart 11y ago
Something I've been wondering: If I create a generator with 10 possible unique outputs, and each output is substantial enough such that it would qualify for copyright protection had I created it directly, do I have any copyright over t
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by gabemart 11y ago
>However, I am worried that it is going to be similar to how the diamond industry has been able to defend themselves from manufactured/synthetic diamonds. I think the difference is that diamonds are inherently a luxury good. I don&#
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by gabemart 11y ago
> In England, 18 year olds living in disadvantaged areas were a staggering 72% more likely to apply for higher education in 2015 than in 2006. In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the figures were 63%, 39% and 36% - lower, but still a
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by gabemart 11y ago
> They consider HTTPS and HTTP links the same. When switching a site to HTTPS you lose all your incoming links. Do you mean that they don't consider HTTPS and HTTP the same? Otherwise, I don't understand your point here.
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by gabemart 11y ago
> I think it depends on how creative you are. I wouldn't describe myself as creative, and I am not a big fan of sandbox style games. I don't think it depends on how creative you are; I think it depends on what kind of experienc
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by gabemart 11y ago
That doesn't really address the XKCD. The XKCD was comparing schemes where the attacker has perfect information about the password scheme each user is using. Password crackers therefore cannot be "on to this trick" as it is a
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by gabemart 11y ago
I think there's a moral argument that people are entitled to engage in their own culture as they see fit. We accept some limits on this right so that creative people can earn a living, but fundamentally, people have a right to the stor
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by gabemart 11y ago
> Students in the UK pay £9k (~$13.5k) per year out of pocket for the 3 year university system. Scottish students studying in Scotland ordinarily pay no fees to attend university, provided they are studying for their first undergraduate
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by gabemart 11y ago
> You can make a strong argument that under US law, works > created by computers are not copyrightable. I'm genuinely not sure what "works created by computers" means. I don't know exactly how Jukedeck wo
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by gabemart 11y ago
Additional comments on post from 14 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10700914
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by gabemart 11y ago
I feel like the discussion around this post will suffer from a lack of specificity over what a 'software developer' is. Someone who works primarily on small javascript web applications has a really different job from someone who w
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by gabemart 11y ago
I was curious about this so did some super quick modelling. With 1,000,000 people predicting 100 coinflips each, the top ten had an accuracy of: 75% (1) 74% (1) 73% (1) 72% (7)
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by gabemart 11y ago
They market themselves as healthy. > our quest to make natural, delicious, healthy drinks that help people > live well and die old. [1] > They're healthy and they're all absolutely delicious. [2] > As fruit

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