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by secabeen 3y ago
Thank you, I stand corrected on this point.
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by secabeen 3y ago
I have not seen data that supports this claim. At the least, there is a strong correlation between cuts in state support for public higher ed, and increases in tuition. In the 60's many states paid 100% of the cost, and tuition was f
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by secabeen 3y ago
Outside of Pharmaceuticals, most of the US health-care system is non-profit, so no dividends are allowed. High salaries are allowed, but there aren't business owners that get the surplus the business generates.
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by secabeen 3y ago
I would be cautious with any argument about higher ed that focused on student pricing. Higher Ed is full of completely opaque pricing activity, where colleges publish a ridiculous nameplate price, then give enough grants and other financia
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by secabeen 3y ago
Yeah. The hardest number I've seen is that if we reduced the spend on health care in the US just to the OECD average, it would reduce overall revenue in the sector by $1 Trillion every year. That's a lot of peoples salaries and
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by secabeen 3y ago
Structural integrity is an issue. Another one is battery quality and care. When a battery pack has a high residual value, and you're taking it with you, there is a real risk of quality mismatch, fraud, theft, and abuse in and around
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by secabeen 3y ago
Even if it does wear down and doesn't meet the requirements for vehicular use, there should be some possibility of re-use or re-manufacture for fixed use, as a home or grid-battery. That should give you a core credit on the battery re
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by secabeen 3y ago
People have done this with an old Kinect. It works okay, but most people say it's not good enough to use regularly.
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by secabeen 3y ago
There is a converter from Roll20 to FoundryVTT. I've used it with great success: https://github.com/kakaroto/R20Converter
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by secabeen 3y ago
https://www.grampsweb.org/
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by secabeen 3y ago
Gramps is good, as is the spinoff web version: https://www.grampsweb.org/ Gramps Web is distributed as a collection of containers, with a provided compose file. It works really well, if you're an HN reader with a plac
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by secabeen 3y ago
> The idea that printing a backup is easy and an option for many people is often not the case. Fair enough, but that is an argument for multiple durable recovery and remediation solutions, which few of the current providers have.
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by secabeen 3y ago
> Passkeys aren't inherently un-backup-able Agreed, I'm just not willing to endorse their use until there are robust recovery and remediation processes. > For something like 1Password, you can print out a recovery kit [1] wi
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by secabeen 3y ago
> And Google refuses to create a scalable system that allows you access to your account by verifying your identity in person. People complain about government services, but this is something that government is good at. The DMV serves e
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by secabeen 3y ago
Now extend that; it's not you trying to recover access, it's your relatives or heirs trying to do so, because you are incapacitated or dead.
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by secabeen 3y ago
This is accurate, but by putting your passkey backup with that external entity, you are putting all your keys in that basket. Passwords have an obvious, backup option with zero dependencies on third-parties: A printed list in a fire safe.
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by secabeen 3y ago
They do, but they don't generally have living rooms separate from the sleeping rooms. When I had little kids, and they went to bed at 8pm or got up at 5am, having segregation between the sleeping and non-sleeping family members was gr
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by secabeen 3y ago
> Nowadays they're all made exclusively as investements, not as people sharing their own apartment anymore, so they get the cheapest connection they can get away with. It is possible to dig deeply when reviewing AirBNBs to see how m
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by secabeen 3y ago
> I found it interesting to realize that most modern antitrust theory - that consumer harm is the only reasonable basis for government intervention in monopolies - appears to lack historical basis in the law. For instance, the consumer w
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by secabeen 3y ago
The plastic stays on my wristguards probably saved me a ton of pain when rollerblading as a kid. Hit a tiny asphalt stone at high speed going down a hill; the guards saved my wrists when I instinctively took the fall on them. I'll ne
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by secabeen 3y ago
Rail Rat has a data-first presentation of this data that I like quite a lot: https://railrat.net/
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by secabeen 3y ago
> I think the time has come when android and ios should make a special versions of their online shops for children and teenagers and simply ban those types of games from those shops. This will at least prevent children from having their
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by secabeen 3y ago
Comcast has 29.6 million Internet subscribers: https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/comcast-statistics/ If you wanted to assign a single non-routable IP in the 10/8 space to each of those cable modems, the
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by secabeen 3y ago
Apple also has a pretty robust ability to dictate to their developers how and what they must do to run on MacOS, and they produce the compiler and toolchain as well. They seem to do a lot less shimming and other compatibility work on behal
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by secabeen 3y ago
No one wants to hire a below average CEO! Our CEO needs to be Above Average, so we better pay above the median! And so the salaries spiral up and up......
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by secabeen 3y ago
Interesting; that map is pretty good for my area when you zoom all the way in. I can see that it would be very hard to bring fiber to places with underground utilities that don't already have it.
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by secabeen 3y ago
Gmail launched with a minimum username length of 6 characters, so no one has ever had bob@gmail.com.
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by secabeen 3y ago
There are isolated instances of this, but it is not all that common. Nearly all Californians can go off-grid, if they want to and can afford the costs.
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by secabeen 3y ago
The grid has maintenance costs, especially in California, where there is a lot of deferred maintenance that needs to be done. Distribution costs (which don't really scale with usage) are about 50% of the average monthly bill. Is the
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by secabeen 3y ago
> Copyright terms have regularly been extended by Congress and they are astoundingly long now. There has been no appetite for extending terms in recent years, and things are entering the public domain again, including _Steamboat Willie_

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