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by peter303 5y ago
This might help with [semi]elective procedures. But not with emergencies. For the latter the best I hope for is an ER on my insurance list.
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by peter303 5y ago
I would think you would need legislation to implement this rather than a regulation. The inurance-hospital-doctor lobby is rich and strong. When Colorado was considering a public insurance option, this lobby ran non-stop Fear TV commercials
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Special purpose CPUs ran faster than general purpose. However they had upgrade cycles of 3-5 years compared 1/2 to 1 year for commodity chips. The commodity chip almost always caught up in the meantime at a lower cost. My research grou
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by peter303 5y ago
People lived in small groups most of the time. Harder to spread.
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by peter303 5y ago
Toxo was one of major diagnosis of AIDS way back when. Lots of people may have it. But a weak immune system may let it grow.
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Scheduled for Halliween this year, but could slip.
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NPR had a story about a neurologist who had a severe stroke and lost ability to speak or hear language for several months. She said her mind went silent and heard no words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Bolte_Taylo
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by peter303 5y ago
Amazon is trying to automate the shit jobs as fast as they can. But robotics and AI are only advancing so fast.
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by peter303 5y ago
Peter Hubers tome The Bottomless Well considers software as the apex of the energy pyramid. Each level of the pyramid- animal, wood, coal, gas, electricity, nuclear, software- (I may have recollected the order not entirely correct) is more
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Great! Hope the rest of the US and World catches up soon.
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100% agree. ProPubluca author seems to not know difference between income and wealth.
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Their navy should seize such vessels and charge significant fines.
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Stanford Law and Biz schools both offer ethics courses.Butdoesnt look like any are required.
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I visited Boom at the Denver suburban airport facility in 2017 as part of a MIT alumni club tour. They had a 1/3 size mockup then- no passenger seats. I wasn't sure if that was the one they were going to use for flight testing or
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Irony: I got an "accept cookies" button when reading the article.
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Also comcast: they assign 1/5 your router to xfinitywifi. Theoretically you can opt of sharing. But they always turn sharing back on after a while.
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They use MicroSoft OSes. That means they buy huge vunerabilities.
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KJR! Expect half your staff to be gone next year after massive cost cutting and leveraging.
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by peter303 5y ago
DR has two points: 1) Any debt is bad including purchase mortgages and college loans. More sophisticated financial advisers believe some debts are better than others. 2) DR has a multi-step solution for paying off debts. This I believe is p
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People can file a suit for just about any reason. Doesnt mean they have any chance of winning.
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One of the ancient Greek craft of mnemonics is to spatialize what you wish to remember. For example, use the rooms of a house to contain sequential items of a speech.
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by peter303 5y ago
An international scientific seafloor drilling project has drilled over 1500 deep holes in the past half century. The oldest seafloor sediments go to 220 million years. Anything older has been consumed by plate tectonics subduction. Scientis
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by peter303 5y ago
I check a 100 books out of the library each year. But probably read just a third before they are due. Book greed! Pre-covid I'd mainly use the new non-fiction shelf. Since our libraries arent open in person yet, I mainly get book ideas
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by peter303 5y ago
I often attend the annual literary scifi convention. They have plenty of panels on how to increase sales. Becoming a popular "brand", e.g. Asian zombie novels, helps. Writing sequels and prequels to a modest central hit can help.
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Hydrogen works fine in ICEs with modest modifications. Hydrogen can be created with nearly any energy source: renewable, natural gas, etc. There is a large infrastructure for moving fuels.
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Seven colours too. Added final rainbow colour purple.
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In the 19th century there were boarding houses aimed at working men. They bedded like this and had communal meal service.
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There is dorm style co-living housing aimed recent college grads. Private bedroom, but most every other kind of room is "community". I have wondered if these places could discriminate against frugal older adults.
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They are already used as earthquake detectors. Each one is not as sensitive as a professional seismograph. But thousands of times as many make up for that. https://blog.google/products/android/earthquake-detection-
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British naval signal and letter flags codified 1817. Morse code from 1840s. Ham radio still uses it when signal took weak fir voice. Proficiency was required for a ham license until 2006.

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