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by readams 5y ago
Actually regulations limit the number of beds hospitals can have. The theory is that this will cut health care costs to insurers and the government because they assume hospitals will find a way to admit patients until they are full.
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Teflon won't react with anything in your body. It's totally inert. It's one of the most inert things we know about. That's the whole point of the article.
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The biggest ones are blood clotting and the mechanical action destroying blood cells.
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The Google front loading is because you'll get annual refresher grants after the first year (and no "big refresh" after four years), and it makes the total comp more even overall as a result.
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You'd need to be able to process all the orders also. Every company needs support to pay the random and unlock. Also, at some point the military gets involved.
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APKs don't magically stop existing. This doesn't have any effect on other app stores.
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The size savings though are real in actual apps and they are generally around 15%. People are really desperate here to find ways to make everything a bad thing. Apple does stuff like this regularly.
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Worth noting that even if it's good for literally only infectious disease vaccines, we're still taking about an enormous breakthrough with the potential to save hundreds of millions of lives. Imagine vaccines for malaria, HIV, Zik
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This is fixed in Android 12
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You forgot the part where it refuses to toast your unlicensed bread.
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Looking at a full lifetime you need to reuse cloth bags thousands of times to break even on their higher impact. For sturdier plastic reusable bags you need to reuse them a few hundred times to break even.
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The paper uses a custom memory controller based on SoftMC implemented on an FPGA. The DRAM modules themselves are off-the-shelf. It appears you need precise control over DDR4 command timing that would not be possible with a normal memory co
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Ponzi schemes always seem great until the final collapse.
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They bought a warehouse robot company Kiva Systems in 2012. They have lots of robots.
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Only if you make untrue claims. If you claim only what is proven, then it is not fraud.
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They don't know the theoretical best time but they know what is possible using tool-assisted speedruns (TAS) using the current set of known tricks. So it's possible there are still tricks to discover that will improve the speed fl
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Google cloud has huge year over year growth, and does really well especially in retail sectors. The losses are an investment. Also, not sure where you get that is a guaranteed golden goose. Most companies that are in this space don't d
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Pretty frequently in these scare-generation articles there's no attempt to differentiate between someone using Google Cloud to do something, and Google itself doing something. Is this just a hospital chain making a deal for Google Clou
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Except you have to pay capital gains tax when you move after 250k or 500k for married. So it's not a wash. Especially if you're talking about more expensive markets.
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Note: "Now with that said, the net impact of this change is likely to be limited as AMD was already free to pursue other fabs for 7nm and smaller nodes – which will be the vast majority of AMD’s needs over the next three years."
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The coins were not really worth 1 billion in the sense of being able to convert them into a billion in covid relief, since the market for them is very thin. They are worth far more as a mark to market charitable deduction. Now the puzzle of
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The only way to know your value in the market is to get multiple offers and then negotiate against them. You'll do much worse if you just pursue one option, especially the option where they tell you that everyone gets the same (low) pa
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The taking off from Earth in multiple stages but not other planets is actually pretty realistic. Earth is big. For example, Starship plans to do exactly this: using the super heavy booster to take off from earth but single stage from mars o
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This is a completely separate problem and not related to the root DNS servers. As an individual user, you do not contact the roots.
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In this case if it's not phone number based. It's based on an app prompt on your phone.
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Net metering makes sense but people should be paid spot wholesale price for their electricity not the retail price.
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Plastic in landfill is sequestered carbon dioxide.
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Just imagine how much easier it would have been if they were all in the same place.
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The first amendment does not require that churches be exempt from tax. Only that they be treated equally.
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I think people here are fundamentally misunderstanding what happened here. There is a nonprofit, the "Freedom Forum Institute" that awarded this award. Only the award ceremony was sponsored by YouTube. It's common practice fo

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