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by redler 10y ago
Clinton won the electoral college vote — except for Texas.
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by redler 10y ago
This glib literally/seriously trope will not be judged kindly by history.
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by redler 10y ago
It's not perfect, but something like the Sleep++ Apple Watch app can get you part of the way there.
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by redler 10y ago
Let's say you think stress causes ulcers. The NIH runs some studies that seem to correlate the two. So you put out a new health policy advising people to take steps to lower stress to combat ulcers. Doctors begin following the policy.
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by redler 10y ago
That's possible, but the premise of these three points is how they deal with facts that they -- ok, almost certainly "he" -- does not like. That they are willing to outright lie to the world about simple facts that are plai
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by redler 10y ago
No. Who said anything about BS results? One party is now actively erasing information they don't like -- information that is accepted by virtually every scientific body in the world. The Democrats as a whole will accept the results o
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by redler 10y ago
There are only three possibilities I can see: 1) The President and his staff are mistaken, but honestly believe what they say 2) The President and his staff are lying, and know they are spreading falsehoods 3) The President and his staff ar
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by redler 10y ago
I don't recall where I saw it, but someone put it this way: The Republicans and Democrats were playing a board game. Not liking how the game was progressing, the Republicans set the house on fire. The Democrats are still sitting at the
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by redler 10y ago
Anti-vax lunacy trickles through both parties, and gets little mainstream traction (although that may change with Trump injecting oxygen into the movement). But if you're running as a pro-science Democrat who is not an anti-GMO bandw
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by redler 10y ago
Here's my favorite part of Dow Theory: "Trends persist until a clear reversal occurs." In other words, if you find yourself falling, you're no longer rising. Useful.
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by redler 10y ago
> there is no way they would support him simply for competency and rationality reasons It's disappointing, to say the least, that this turns out to be untrue for the Republicans. The staid, rational, methodical, conservative Republi
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by redler 10y ago
It's certainly untested. One scenario that might be trouble for Trump would be, for example, an easement, tax credit, extraordinary incentive, or other streamlining of a Trump project in a foreign state. What nation, looking to create
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by redler 10y ago
He may eventually be a millstone, but right now he's a vehicle. They're on the mechanical bull. The focus of many congressional Republicans is narrow. This is owing primarily to the specificity of their remit from heavily gerryman
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by redler 10y ago
You might try "Seven Databases in Seven Weeks". It's a few years old now but still solid.
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by redler 10y ago
> Even Obama admits this Probably more than anyone, Obama understands that politics is the art of the possible. The fact that the ACA was passed by a margin of one vote is some evidence that, in the face of raging blind opposition, they
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by redler 10y ago
For many people, health care is a service that must be consumed or they will die, or their children will die. Demand is highly inelastic. People in this situation are looking for a way to stay alive. Your selection of the best auto insuranc
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by redler 10y ago
First, nobody is paying tens of thousands of dollars to a doctor, because there's an out-of-pocket maximum cap. If they have insurance. Without guaranteed issue they may not. With guaranteed issue they may have "access" to
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by redler 10y ago
Right. The political power of the insurance companies ensured it was framed as "access to insurance" instead of access to health care itself. Health care is a general ledger category under "loss control". Likewise, the A
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by redler 10y ago
> the majority of people who don't have insurance, they don't pay it Exactly so. They don't pay it because they can't. And they're ruined. Even people who have insurance -- good insurance -- can be ruined. This s
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by redler 10y ago
The problem is what "best" means. In an unregulated environment it would mean what's best for the insurance company, not the patient. There are substantial challenges. One is that insurance companies don't actually provi
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by redler 10y ago
If your work has to support "enterprise" clients, you'll find no shortage of companies still living in the smoldering compatibility crater where tens of thousands of old desktops met their demise. The coal-fired machines them
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by redler 10y ago
You're in luck: Maximum-speed horses are indeed still available.
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by redler 10y ago
> The cognitive dissonance that comes from having to interact with Java when using Clojure is very damaging I don't use Clojure, but isn't relatively seamless Java interop -- and thus access to the massive Java ecosystem -- con
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by redler 10y ago
No, I wasn't suggesting nobody compete. By all means, compete. But I don't think measures like 35% tariffs, local tax abatements, overseas profit repatriation discounts, or political bluster are likely to mash more than a little b
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by redler 10y ago
Yes, but since China is the manufacturing hub for so much of the world, its local surrounding galaxy of expertise, supply chain, and related resources will exceed the size of such a galaxy built only in the US — especially if the US efforts
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by redler 10y ago
This actually bodes well for battery life once Safari is cleaned up. Safari is a much better energy consumption citizen than Chrome on other Mac laptops, and it's very unlikely something about this new hardware will reverse that relati
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by redler 10y ago
buttons reacting at press rather than at release potentially purchasing pay2win stuff unintendedly If that's intentional it's quite an insidious dark pattern.
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by redler 10y ago
Good point on SERPs, and certainly nobody should force Wikipedia to act against what they believe is their strategic best interest. But isn't "the way Google prefers Wikipedia articles over other sources in its SERPs" an epip
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by redler 10y ago
I think we're on the same page. Apple's relatively costly products will be seen as an especially bad value by those who do not see value in polish and attention to detail (or who believe polish and attention to detail -- particula
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by redler 10y ago
Perhaps Wikipedia should approach this from another angle: loosen their baseline criteria, and then treat "notability" like Twitter's "verified" tag. Let the debate be whether or not an article should have the notab

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