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by kbutler 8y ago
One big step toward fixing it would be to require providers to post price lists. Another would be to prevent separate prices for different insurers and uninsured clients. Yes, there will remain distortions in the healthcare market, but at l
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by kbutler 8y ago
I picked up one of those for Black Friday last year. Nice little machine, but the 32GB drive is not enough for Windows - Windows update failed within 6 months because of disk full - even with no user data. Way too much hassle I ended up put
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by kbutler 8y ago
"My elastic block service elastic cloud compute machines are not playing nicely with elastic load balancers (but my elastic file system ones are), I think it might be to do with elastic map reduce, or maybe elastic kubernetes service.&
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by kbutler 8y ago
Even better: mail yourself a bunch of empty, unsealed envelopes, then put whatever you want in them a decade or two from now. Snopes describes the "poor man's copyright" as not useful in the US, "may" be some use i
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by kbutler 8y ago
It's absolutely hard. I just expect that a blanket "carbs are evil" is likely to be as incorrect as the blanket "fats are evil" advice. (e.g., the Twinkie diet http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH&#x2
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by kbutler 8y ago
Of course, a decade ago, the lunacy was expecting something to counteract a diet high in fat.
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by kbutler 8y ago
Are there still people who pronounce linux lie'-nucks? And Linus Torvalds[1] originally pronounced it with a bit more ee and oo (almost lee-nooks) than he does now[2] (lih'-nucks). [1] https://youtu.be/uK0xXFZtJ8Q
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by kbutler 8y ago
"goto start" doesn't make it a new story, it's just a repeat, or re-telling of the story (possibly with variations, a la groundhog day) I also disagree with the contention that all "stories" have to fit the pat
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by kbutler 8y ago
epic fantasy is just getting started at the third volume.
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by kbutler 8y ago
There are lots of addons available - here is a highly rated one: https://darkreader.org/
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by kbutler 8y ago
Computer jargon for "set up", likely from (US?) military jargon. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/125681/usage-of-...
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by kbutler 8y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/box-sizing lets you have width work the way people want. box-sizing: border-box "typically makes it much easier to size elements." The problem i
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by kbutler 8y ago
Stress-induced-flowering is well known - for example, https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/why_are_my_apples_blooming_in_... In what appears to be the source article: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en&#x
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by kbutler 8y ago
Interesting. I know what dirt, grass, various weeds, and even dog poop taste like because I did a lot of weed cutting with powerful string trimmers in high school. The "Weed Eater" brand name is more literal than I like to think
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by kbutler 8y ago
Yes, thanks for the correction - 210 million gallons, or 4.9 million barrels. That estimate puts it at the top of the range of estimates I saw for natural seeps within the gulf of Mexico. And that does put the upper range of Taylor estimate
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by kbutler 8y ago
Yes, oil in water is bad. But there's no scale - how does this 100, 300, or 700 barrels per day compare to natural seeps? "In the Gulf of Mexico, there are more than 600 natural oil seeps that leak between one and five million ba
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by kbutler 8y ago
The Model III display was only 64 characters per line (64x16), so the 2x3 blocks gave you 128 horizontal "pixels". Model 4 could operate in either Model III (backward compatible) or Model 4 mode. Moving to 80x24 on PC from a Model
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by kbutler 8y ago
Huxley got the mechanism wrong, but we are currently conditioning the children to be more interested in digital screens than in outdoor/natural activities. This isn't new - TV as a babysitter has moved to mobile device as a babysi
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by kbutler 8y ago
Cruise ships: https://www.cruisecritic.com/articles.cfm?ID=1752 It's possible to send and receive text messages at sea, as long as you have a signal through your ship's roaming network (just make sure you turn off
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by kbutler 8y ago
Going to do this right now...
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by kbutler 8y ago
It is absolutely selection bias, in precisely the context the grandparent stated - he recognized that his data sample may not be representative of the entire population. Perfect disclaimer on the limitations of his analysis because of the s
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by kbutler 8y ago
Depends on the relationship and contracts in place. If he said employer#1 and employer#2, yes, that's a problem. "Customer" implies a much looser relationship, but you should still make sure appropriate contracts defining own
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by kbutler 8y ago
Stevia doesn't affect my gut bacteria much - it affects my taste buds too much for it to get that far.
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by kbutler 8y ago
Seems trivial to disprove. Dictators have lots of power and don't follow ethical rules you assert. People destroy colonies of termites. Nobody worries about millions of yeast destroyed when baking a batch of bread. Sorry, hundreds of b
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by kbutler 8y ago
> the EU is not a nation-state on the same level as the US That's the point. The reality of brexit suggests neither the Euro nor the GB-Pound is a stable substitute for the dollar as a reserve currency. The Yuan (with China's e
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by kbutler 8y ago
...and yet, Bernie gave it Bezos's name. "I've got a bill with your name on it."
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by kbutler 8y ago
Isn't "in line with our guidance" the key phrase here? How often does Tesla get to say that?
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by kbutler 8y ago
Exactly. 9, 10, 11 in six months (total, not six months each), representing a dramatic shift from the Java 8 history - and spring boot didn't support 9 until it was already reaching end of life. Grails (built on spring boot) won't
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by kbutler 8y ago
The problem has to do with various factors in Java and Oracle history: - Open JDK has not historically been a production-ready deployment. It was a lower-performance, "reference" implementation, explicitly NOT recommended for pro
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by kbutler 8y ago
The title on HN is misleading by truncating the word "Support" from the original. Oracle remains the driving organization behind Java and OpenJDK. The change that has everyone up in arms is the cessation of Oracle support for upd

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