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by showerst 13y ago
'Serious' is a strong word but I have this problem all the time. 2 of my favorite coffee shops (Filter and Peregrine in DC) are really small and constantly full of people working on laptops. I love the coffee but don't take g
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by showerst 13y ago
The specific provider data is recent, but the 'here's what we'll reimburse for what procedures' data has always been public, as far as I know. I think this is a link to it, but I'm not 100% sure - http:/&#x2F
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by showerst 13y ago
I don't think the article was exactly _lying_ as putting a spin on the truth to make a political point. What they did is totally cool, and more providers should post their pricing transparently. There are complicated, sensible reasons
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by showerst 13y ago
Medicare and Medicaid pay less than the private insurers (usually), and far less than the (wholly insane) charges to the uninsured. Generally the government pays a standardized cost plus some set profit margin, which is usually less profita
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by showerst 13y ago
Copying my comment below. The government not only allows healthcare providers to reveal their prices, it encourages it. The graf about the government is a political statement, not a policy fact, and does not belong in a news story. ----- Me
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by showerst 13y ago
Medicare/caid prices are standardized and public. They also release data on what specific hospitals bill for the most common procedures. http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Stat... Dealing with
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by showerst 13y ago
I can't really comment on the plans since DC's link is broken, but scheduling a gathering on July 4th is odd because they'll just get dissolved into the crowds who come for the fireworks. Maybe they're doing it earlier i
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by showerst 13y ago
Maybe I'm projecting too much human behavior on unknowns, but we've pretty much come to the conclusion that we when run into an uncontacted tribe of humans, we try to stay completely hands off. Perhaps we shouldn't discount t
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by showerst 13y ago
In DC and New York (and probably other places), the local unions will pay big groups of homeless people to get together and protest non-union construction sites with drums and noisemakers. If they get noise-complaint fines, the unions just
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by showerst 13y ago
Thirdly, there's also the effect of the newer policing techniques, like the 'broken windows' approach. It's likely some mix of all three.
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by showerst 13y ago
Ansible allows you to do this, it has failure modes that let you take actions, including rolling back.
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by showerst 13y ago
Aside from the other evidence that this is terribly thought out, serving 61,000 static pageviews (or if average pages per visitor is more like 2: 120,000) shouldn't be a problem on even a cheap server. Even with uneven traffic that&#x2
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by showerst 13y ago
Just noting if you're new to this you don't have to add a salt, by default password_hash with bcrypt will add a random one to each password.
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by showerst 13y ago
You're forgetting one of they key points of buses in dense places: Parking! Here in DC I can out-drive the bus on any route in the city, but when you factor in 20+ dollars/day for parking downtown, or spending 30 minutes finding a
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by showerst 13y ago
"Open to all contributions, as long as we agree with you" is a pretty slippery ethos.
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by showerst 13y ago
The interesting thing about glass is how quickly it blurs the definition of 'public'. I know that anything I say out loud on a street corner is fair game, and (less explicitly) in a restaurant or bar, but what about a house party?
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by showerst 13y ago
They do offer various specific brands on the quote page. Looks like you can get American Apparel which is what Threadless and many other use.
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by showerst 13y ago
UX. It's much faster to have JS return an instant error because you forgot an @ in your email than to have to do a roundtrip to the server and watch the page flicker (reload), especially on a crappy connection. Not so big a deal on one
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by showerst 13y ago
DC as well, although there are dozens of historical accidents in how its borders came to be. Counter-examples are St. Louis and (I think) Minneapolis. What about in other climates/non-western cities? Does north/south apply in Sydney? Beijin
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by showerst 13y ago
I think I agree with you, but I'm not so sure on the difficulties of reverse engineering. Small electronics are a good example to both our points; once a new device hits a factory in china it's as good as pirated (sometimes it's pirated in
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by showerst 13y ago
I think it's because in the modern (say, post 1900) world, many inventions that increase utility (both for individuals and for everyone as a whole) cost a ton of money to research. If your competition can instantly use that research, you ma
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by showerst 13y ago
One thing to be aware of in how all of this stuff works; oftentimes medical billing codes don't map 1:1 to exactly how things work in the hospital, so the medical staff puts together a statement of everything they did, and then the billing
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by showerst 13y ago
That usage sense is called a discourse particle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like#As_a_discourse_particle.2C... It can contain signal when used as a hedge ("The restaurant is only, like, five miles from here.") but generally that usage j
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by showerst 13y ago
This is a great looking product. You might want to have a native English speaker proofread the homepage, there are some sentences that either contain typos or feel unnatural. "Advance Error Tracking" "through setTimeout and setInternval" "T
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by showerst 13y ago
I don't see a scale anywhere; am I just missing it? It makes a big difference if red is 4-5 tweets (per what time period), or 4-5 thousand.
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by showerst 13y ago
Good points, especially the condo thing! The range thing confuses me: How often do you drive more than 200 miles in the city? I live in DC which has lots of far-flung suburbs, and can still take a day-trip to Baltimore (an hour away) and ba
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by showerst 13y ago
Looking into the code, the raw PHP is using PDO with persistent connections, and I'm not sure that's turned on in any of the frameworks. It looks like it's off by default in Redbean at least. No idea if this makes a big difference, I haven'
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by showerst 13y ago
Unless they overlaid a big opaque black block while you were driving at high speed... (Granted I'm sure they'll think about that during the design phase, and maybe not allow 100% opacity or something.)
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by showerst 13y ago
Yeah, of course. With slim in particular I notice that the benchmarks list it as "Raw database connectivity" but in the code it looks like it's using RedBean ORM. I'll look more at lunch, i'm probably just misreading something. Although obv
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by showerst 13y ago
Not that PHP is particularly fast, but I notice that Raw PHP does about middle of the pack, but all of the ORM versions seem to do terribly. Interesting stuff. I've usually had pretty good luck with Slim, I'll have to try a version with &#3

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