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by interlocutor 8y ago
It is not just insulin. Prices of all drugs have been rising in the US, from 2x to 3x at a minimum, to 1000x in some cases. The reason is insurance. When individuals are paying for drugs, drug companies can only charge what individuals can
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by interlocutor 8y ago
Without H-1B the tech industry would not be a major industry in the US. Think about it: Yahoo would be a Taiwanese company, Google would be a Russian company, Tesla would be a South African Company, eBay would be a French company, Sun Micro
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by interlocutor 8y ago
>> However, to do that, you have to have the entire JQuery library loaded as well. But you didn't have to write that code or debug it.
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by interlocutor 8y ago
jQuery still does a lot of useful stuff. The best advertisement for jQuery, ironically, is this site: http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ Look at how simple things are in the left column, and how much more code is needed in t
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by interlocutor 8y ago
If EssilorLuxottica was an American company the EU would have fined them a few billion dollars, and split them up a long time ago.
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by interlocutor 8y ago
The reason glasses cost so much is because one company owns: (1) nearly all brand name frames including Ray-Ban, Oakley, Prada eyewear, Armani eyewear and so on, (2) nearly all retail stores such as LensCrafters, Pearle Vision, Sears Optica
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by interlocutor 8y ago
Whoever is determining credit worthiness needs to have skin in the game. This is what Dodd-Frank did. It required security bankers retain 5% of the overall risk of the security. Known as the Volcker Rule, it is now being rolled back: https
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by interlocutor 8y ago
This is the key phrase in the story: "packaged into securities and sold to investors". This is exactly like the mortgage crisis. Back then banks knew many of the borrowers are not being truthful in their loan applications but lent
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by interlocutor 8y ago
> I think also the author is showing off his nice keyboard I think I have a better keyboard. This is what it looks like: https://www.svethardware.cz/klavesnice-acer-future-keyboard/... What is great about this keyb
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by interlocutor 8y ago
No one has mentioned Lucida Sans Typewriter. It was the default console font on Solaris, and it was may favorite code font for more than a decade. I even made a Windows version of that font, for my own use, using a bitmapped font editor. He
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by interlocutor 8y ago
Yes, highly concerning but not because biological organisms are more complicated, but because biological organisms reproduce. Any "hacking" mistake will reproduce for eternity.
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Samsung to Show Off Its New Foldable Phone in February(wsj.com)
1 points by interlocutor 8y ago|0 comments
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by interlocutor 8y ago
The reason healthcare costs so much more in the US than other countries, is health insurance. When insurance pays for everything patients don't care how much the medical providers are charging, or whether they are providing unnecessary
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by interlocutor 8y ago
Facebook is launching their own satellites to beam down high-speed internet. (See https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/21/17598418/facebook-athena-... ) Why isn't Apple doing that? More than anyone else
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by interlocutor 8y ago
> wasn't Jony Ive largely responsible for leading many of the great designs at Apple, including the iPhone Steve Jobs was the tastemaker. Without Steve's input Jony is apparently not able to produce insanely great designs.
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by interlocutor 8y ago
Apple's problem is that their rate of innovation has slowed down. iPhone generates over a 100 Billion dollars in revenue. Per year. If any company has the resources to innovate it is Apple. Apple, here are some free ideas. Some of thes
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by interlocutor 8y ago
"Now, if the market isn’t growing fast enough anymore that means that there are generally only two ways to continue to grow — either increase your market share by drawing the customers away from competitors, or raise prices." In
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by interlocutor 8y ago
The problem with OneNote is that its file format is proprietary (though documented). I have random notes that are 20 years old. Notes I take today need to be readable 20 years from now. Will OneNote be around 20 years from now? I prefer to
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by interlocutor 8y ago
If you like Web Components and TypeScript, think this 200-line library gives stiff competition to LitElement: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder UIBuilder brings JSX to Web Components.
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by interlocutor 8y ago
There are simpler ways to do global state management than redux. The scenario you described is nothing new. Redux is new. How do you think people solved this problem before Redux? Does redux have a better way of solving this old problem? Ho
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by interlocutor 8y ago
As an AAPL investor, I want Apple to raise prices for their top-of—the-line phones, otherwise the cheaper phones (like the one I purchased) will lower the average selling price. Of course people are not going to pay higher prices without ge
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by interlocutor 8y ago
> Smartphone market is nearly saturated. It's time for more realistic pricing. Just before Christmas I bought an iPhone 6S for $99 from AT&T. That’s a very realistic price for a very nice phone! Fine print: I had to pay $145 p
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by interlocutor 8y ago
Here are some examples of how flat design has made things worse in MacOS and iOS: http://uxcritique.tumblr.com
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by interlocutor 8y ago
"Supplementation of 500 mg of Mg has been associated with significant improvement in the insomnia severity index, sleep time, sleep efficiency, sleep onset latency, serum cortisol concentration, serum renin, and melatonin" https:
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by interlocutor 8y ago
I have seen many doctors, including sleep specialists, regarding insomnia. They all pointed to one source as the reason for the sleep issues: stress. And they all wanted to put me on prescription sleeping pills. I said no to that. Sleeping
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The Deadly Recklessness of the Self-Driving Car Industry(gizmodo.com)
3 points by interlocutor 8y ago|1 comments
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Shadow DOM and custom elements come to FireFox(developer.mozilla.org)
1 points by interlocutor 8y ago|0 comments
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by interlocutor 8y ago
Yes. Steve Kroft: "You signed on. You made the deal." Max Schrems: The individual doesn't have the power, the time, the legal expertise to understand any of that. And then you're sitting at home at your desk and have th
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by interlocutor 8y ago
>> Which country do you live in and specifically which "right to privacy" do you mean? All European countries. If you live in Europe you own your data. >> Are you sure you haven't already given it to them? "A
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by interlocutor 8y ago
This should be illegal because I have a right to privacy. Corporations should have my permission in order to store, process and sell information about me.

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