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by mkempe 9y ago
I consulted on a large healthcare data project with similar problems. Even "primary" keys were strings. Most tables had no indexes. (The developers routinely argued that they needed new servers with more RAM because they couldn&#x
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That may be one element. I think of what they do and how they talk about it as invoking the spirit of Steve, but not quite knowing what his spirit stood for. (I suppose when one approaches death knowing that cancer is eating you, one strugg
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by mkempe 9y ago
Let's keep the context: the Ethiopian famines of the last decades were all politically caused.
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by mkempe 9y ago
I agree. Something changed with their pricing strategy in the last couple of years. They used to keep and shift previous generations down the price curve to eat more of the spectrum of demand, but now they seem to be shifting new offerings
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by mkempe 9y ago
Many moons ago I worked at a consultancy that was struggling with knowledge sharing across continents and hundreds of projects. I suggested three paths: a company-wide search engine that would return results across all project files (Google
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Study finds 27 distinct categories of emotion(pnas.org)
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by mkempe 9y ago
Not the market. The FDA. If people start to pay attention to the process and the corruption surrounding EpiPen, will it blow the lid off the entire FDA system?
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by mkempe 9y ago
Would that be less than about 1/20,000 of what the candidates and their publicly-supporting groups spent? [1] Does the NYT care to discuss how much the needle was and could be moved? [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/politi
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by mkempe 9y ago
Transportation, including logistics and deliveries of course, but also innovative infrastructure to move people. Also, vertical farming.
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Denver possibly, but absolutely not Boulder. Boulder is a complete failure when it comes to transportation -- no light rail connection to Denver's system, although they collected sales tax for years claiming that was going to finance i
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by mkempe 9y ago
Sounds good. How about a $1m weekly universal cash handout?
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by mkempe 9y ago
Apart from claims of positive IQ impact, breastfeeding has many other proven benefits (as widely reported by WHO and in Sweden): "Breastfed children are at a lower risk of infections such as acute otitis, gastroenteritis, and respirato
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by mkempe 9y ago
I found this while looking for a deeper discussion than "Apple Augmented Reality Human Interface Guidelines" [1]. [1] https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/t...
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Toward UI and UX Guidelines for Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Realities(medium.com)
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Is there a more seminal document discussing human-computer interaction guidelines for Augmented Reality interfaces? I'd like to read something with the breadth and depth of thinking that was behind the original Mac HIG.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Recommended reading: Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson, plus the two other books in that trilogy: Fifty Degrees Below ; Sixty Days and Counting .
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by mkempe 9y ago
Font Awesome is mentioned in the migration notes.
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by mkempe 9y ago
It's mortem , a latin word (accusative singular of "mors"). I can't think of any latin declension or any latin word that would have ended in "om".
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by mkempe 9y ago
Indeed. Even my two-year old knows which room is my office and not a playroom.
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by mkempe 9y ago
A proper way of repealing it would be a one-page document that states all Federal regulations of the healthcare insurance market are repealed, and States are barred from interfering with that market; with an annex listing which past laws ar
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by mkempe 9y ago
There was a web page related to Mosaic that would list each day all newly created websites, maybe 5-10 of them. They had a form where website creators could submit their new domain/URL. It took less time to read than looking at a daily
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by mkempe 9y ago
In the USA, where one third of births are cesarean section surgeries. US anecdote: I know someone who scheduled with her doctor months in advance the exact day and time of birth of both of her children. The numbers are completely differen
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by mkempe 9y ago
I scouted the same area. The weather should be perfect by mid-day. Plan to drive v.early-morning a couple of hours East or West (across a mountain range in either direction) depending on a bad weather forecast. You'll know the night be
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by mkempe 9y ago
My plan is to take a long weekend, drive to Idaho (near Boise or Sun Valley). I've been thinking of renting an RV but it may be too late.
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No. Breathing is not "subjective". Shelter and food are not subjective values. Freedom is a necessity of living as a proper human being. It all relates to your standard of value. For humans, life under the guidance of reason, or r
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by mkempe 9y ago
My long-term active retirement plan involves building a year-2038 consultancy.
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Similar bills have been introduced repeatedly in WA over the last several years. Rumor has it that both Microsoft and Amazon are somehow responsible for defeating these attempts. There is a 2017 bill that made progress in March this year, n
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by mkempe 9y ago
Actually, laissez-faire capitalism is the system of freedom -- inalienable individual rights, free minds, free trade, and free markets.
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by mkempe 9y ago
Compared to the other topics covered, and to be covered, how is this essential to a successful startup?
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by mkempe 9y ago
I grew up with the metric system, hence have the opposite feeling of what is "intuitive". Same thing with Celsius vs Fahrenheit.

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