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by kongolongo 6y ago
Yeah I'm not sure this is a great example of inequality either. Most independent restaurants fail, I don't recall the exact stats off the top of my head but very very few last >5 years and the majority fail within the first yea
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by kongolongo 6y ago
>I think it's quite reasonable for a company to say we don't know exactly what our supply chain looks like and the only way anyone can build electronics is to use somewhat-questionable supply chains, but we'll do the best
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by kongolongo 6y ago
If you professionally write software that runs on or own any electronics with semiconductors or lithium ion batteries you are profiting from child slavery, war, and exploitation of workers through the rare-earth elements mining industry tha
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by kongolongo 6y ago
The food pyramid was never backed by any high quality evidence. It was primarily pushed by various agriculture lobbies. Calories in calories out is 100% valid for weight loss. The problem is that people interpret it to somehow be a claim on
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by kongolongo 6y ago
Amazon and Ebay facilitate fraud on both sides. Amazon, as with Ebay, automates customer complaints to the point of almost no due diligence. There are some very high profile schemes of fraud on the side of buyer where they either claim dama
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by kongolongo 6y ago
What sort of metrics are being used to evaluate fakespot's evaluations? I also think what fakespot does of providing a rating of ratings is a bit easier than actually addressing the larger problem. At some point wouldn't fakespots
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by kongolongo 6y ago
Having similar rates of urbanization does not address the fact that the population density is still significantly different. Even if the urban rates are exactly the same there may still be many more pockets of rural areas in the U.S. that a
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by kongolongo 6y ago
? That doesn't say anything about the costs, if you're going to claim that it's insignificant to costs than you need to back that up. For all we know that 8% could be the bulk of the costs.
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by kongolongo 6y ago
You're going to need a source on that. Are you saying that cost of serving rural areas and costs to address health impacts of cultural barriers between patients and care providers is not a significant burden on the healthcare system? N
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by kongolongo 6y ago
Yes but the point is the solution to "copy EU" countries is extremely naive and doesn't address these significant differences in needs.
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by kongolongo 6y ago
>Nor does rural areas having higher costs prove that European-style public healthcare won't scale to the US. No but now the burden of proof is to show how it does scale when the requirements and characteristics of the users are clea
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by kongolongo 6y ago
> Sure, but hospital requirements don't scale with area. They absolutely do. How can you say the requirements of getting emergency response to a sparsely populated area is the same as a much smaller and more densely populated area?
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by kongolongo 6y ago
>What would perhaps be a valid starting point for further discussions if the urban parts of the US had a good healthcare system. They aren't disjoint systems. The increased cost of serving rural areas directly impacts urban areas as
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by kongolongo 6y ago
Population distribution in conjunction with geography is what makes it difficult. Even though most of the US population lives in cities, it is necessary to serve the health needs of sparsely populated areas as well. The cost to serve those
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by kongolongo 6y ago
Responding to new research is one of reasons they list on their site for the face new mask guidelines. It was shown that asymptomatic people can also transmit the virus, so the CDC is recommending everyone, not just high risk people, wear f
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by kongolongo 6y ago
To be fair no major health organization has been completely consistent or completely "correct" regarding the pandemic, in fact its virtually impossible to do so as the situation develops and our understanding of the situation chan
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by kongolongo 7y ago
I like that settings is (somewhat) searchable.
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by kongolongo 7y ago
Oh true the shared skills with other tools makes sense. For me I find that typing numbers with the top row the home keys for the letters are still useful for centering to move between letters and numbers. Couldn't you argue only having
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by kongolongo 7y ago
Same, but I'm really fast at typing numbers without a numpad. I find moving my hand to a separate location just for numbers is a lot slower. Imo most people that could learn to type numbers quickly without a numpad as well. I wonder wh
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by kongolongo 9y ago
EE is a huge field. It's hard to keep up with new developments even if you have a broad foundation. That being said, memtransistors and memristors have been theorized and subsequently developed in research for quite some time now. Memr
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by kongolongo 9y ago
This is very much part of what science looks like today. There isn't enough funding for everyone to get large-scale long-term randomized placebo-controlled double-blind trials, you need CHEAP, simple, and flawed correlative studies to
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by kongolongo 9y ago
You don't need a Matlab license to run compiled Matlab code. Matlab provides free runtime libraries.
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by kongolongo 9y ago
Blogs by cs profs.. mostly theory of compsci guys. Always interesting to see what they think about current events/ what latest cs theory stuff is like...although often times I can only recall a couple words in their posts from the disc