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by secabeen 7y ago
>why do people sue? Because of the ridiculous cost of healthcare. At any given public school, how many of those kids' parents have $15k - $50k to cover an orthopedic injury, ambulance/ER/surgery/overnight hospital bil
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by secabeen 7y ago
True, but not everyone does, and for them, the Echo provides extra functionality. I've also added a lot of dimmable lights in my home, and voice control to set a light or set of lights at 50% is much much less impactful to whatever I&
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by secabeen 7y ago
> Citation needed. I don't think the actual process is publicly available (though I may be wrong). Call me too cynical, but given the bugs that happened to both Google and Amazon, and that the law can force compel companies to do th
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by secabeen 7y ago
Do we know how much the speed was a factor? Would slowing down have reduced the forces to make cranking the manual trip possible?
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by secabeen 7y ago
I don't think there's any state that allows you to change the locks and not give the landlord access. I've rented an over-the-garage studio in the past, and the landlord came in one time without notice when I was away because
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by secabeen 7y ago
The key is the voice control. Trying to do it via an app, a remote, or even remembering the switch UI isoften too heavy-weight. Being able to say just "Alexa, living room 50%" is very nice. Same thing with being able to turn of
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by secabeen 7y ago
> Once everyone who wants a house at a price point gets one. Same applies to roads: if you build them big enough eventually there are enough lanes. Here is a report from UC Davis that shows otherwise: http://www.dot.ca.gov&#x2
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by secabeen 7y ago
> But seriously, has anyone ever empirically verified that the Debian Stable/RHEL model of shipping a bunch of really old packages and then layering years of patches over top actually generates more stable, more secure code? Debian
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by secabeen 8y ago
In a healthy, actually competitive market, I think that would work, but there are so few insurance operators in each market, it's really easy for them to quietly collude with each other rather than compete. Additionally, everyone else
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by secabeen 8y ago
The insurance companies and the AMA were vehemently against Medicare when it was initially proposed. They fight for it now. Given all of the established interests in the medical system, and the amount of money flowing around, any reform t
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by secabeen 8y ago
> As far as I am aware, the ACA actually introduced limits on how much mark-up health insurance can have, where 80% of the cost must go to actual medical expenses, and administration, marketing, etc must be no more than 20% total. So how
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by secabeen 8y ago
When I've read about flipped classroom, a lot of the instruction is described as teachers working closely with students, given the importance of individualized instruction. However, that does also result in a lot of solo learning. If
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by secabeen 8y ago
The challenge is that even when clearly marked as opinion, they still accrue to the reputation of the publication. If you look at the Most Read links on WaPo or NYT, the opinion pieces are often more than half.
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by secabeen 8y ago
AP/Reuters for basic stories. https://www.adfontesmedia.com/
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by secabeen 8y ago
Do we know if that's needed with the new drivetrain?
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by secabeen 8y ago
That's fair, but it doesn't change the argument much. If you add the Institutional Support, you get these costs being 87% of Instructional Costs in 1999, and 94% in 2016. That is an increase of 8% as compared to 5% by my origina
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by secabeen 8y ago
Interesting. The one thing that I didn't see mentioned in the article at all was the Faculty Senate. At most universities I've been at, Shared Governance between faculty and administrators was the rule, and big decisions like th
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by secabeen 8y ago
I think there is value in flipped classrooms, but they do have an impact on the classroom experience. Did you see this NYT article from last week? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/technology/silicon-va
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by secabeen 8y ago
I'm not sure the data backs that up: Average expenditure per student: Instruction: $17,996 Student Services and Academic Support (Not all of which are administrators): $9528 That results in $0.52 spent on Student Services and Academic
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by secabeen 8y ago
MOOCs as they are currently structured really only serve the most motivated students. When I was a young person, I needed the structure, culture and environment to succeed as a student in tertiary education. If I had been trying to do my
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by secabeen 8y ago
That mainly seems to happen at the large scale. At the small, community scale, there are plenty of examples of communal societies with many decades of history that continue as an ongoing concern. For example, the Bruderhof's in New Yo
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by secabeen 8y ago
Yep, and given that some big percentage of car seats are not properly installed, do you then have to take the requisite minutes to install and uninstall each seat properly? There are a lot of challenging edge cases.
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by secabeen 8y ago
Amazon is also pushing hard on gathering data. They've offered free photo storage for prime users for some time; earlier this week, they offered me a $15 gift card just to install and setup auto-upload of pictures from my cell phone.
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by secabeen 8y ago
Indirect costs are everything that you need to do research that can't be directly allocated to the research. So you use research funds to pay a researcher, buy chemicals or equipment, etc. Indirect funds cover everything else: real e
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by secabeen 8y ago
Roblox has a nice parental control system, and is totally playable with chat disabled (and the preference password-locked with a special parent-held password).
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by secabeen 8y ago
Interesting. Very much like the milk boards and other agricultural councils that promote specific largely-fungible products.
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by secabeen 8y ago
Right, but to be human is to be fallible. For example, I left my garage door open all night last night (I was preoccupied when I went in, and just forgot to push the button). I've had a smart garage door for a while, but I just now a
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by secabeen 8y ago
That is true, and established now, but in the early days of VHS rental, it wasn't so clearly established, and the movie studios did issue high-cost tapes that came with public performance rights. Even now, any film display outside of t
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by secabeen 8y ago
I'm not objecting to all marketing spending, but I do think it's out of line with the benefit. I would prefer to see prescription marketing be much more low-touch that it is today.
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by secabeen 8y ago
They do spend some of their patient revenue on R&D, but they spend more on consumer and physician marketing.

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