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by ska 3y ago
Blade Runner is less of an adaptation and more of a "inspired by", I think. The book and the film(s) stand on their own just fine.
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by ska 3y ago
The "big burst" problem is usually solved by a few (say 4) plants, not one. But another thing about growing anything is that it works better if you work around it's schedule rather than the other way around. Hothousing an
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by ska 3y ago
Absolutely. IIRC most tax codes have specific rounding rules. Also e.g. some countries have done away with pennies or penny equivalents and have rules about how you are supposed to handle that, etc.
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by ska 3y ago
I think what you mean here is that floating point numbers and the usual operators (+,*) and inverses (-,/) do not work the same as Reals (i.e. they don't form a field), but people often behave as if they do. This is a common confu
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by ska 3y ago
It's always been cyclic though, cheap capital is probably a red herring. Agree UBI etc. idea is not that relevant.
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by ska 3y ago
Startups in the valley were a thing well before low interest rates were even imagined. Interest rates change the landscape, but it's hardly a prerequisite.
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by ska 3y ago
That's more a feature of the messed up way US ties health insurance to employment, isn't it? Very few layoffs venture close to criminal territory, more part of how business works.
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by ska 3y ago
The total impact of non-violent crimes can be much worse; a blanket rule like that wouldn't make much sense. Would you rather be robbed at gunpoint with no physical harm and lose $100, or have your retirement savings entirely disappear
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by ska 3y ago
> I think I even find it a little disturbing that fees paid to Isn't it pretty typical in many (most?) industries that dev cost is not the dominant part? Even pretty "pure" development like a movie or a game can have a bi
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by ska 3y ago
It gives a consistent CLI, which can be wrapped easily by e.g. VScode. It also gives a reasonable cross platform config and library management.
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by ska 3y ago
One option is to use an arduino framework, but it's not the only one.
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by ska 3y ago
> nd that even older, leaky MRI's might be using (losing) at most ~$20k helium per year. It can be a lot more than 20k but you are correct it isn't the driving cost.
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by ska 3y ago
> they can get an MRI as a direct result of a lack of helium. It's a ~1mm machine with ~10k of helium in it, and modern ones don't need much refill. Even with old ones it's expensive, but not out of whack with other costs
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by ska 3y ago
No, it's pretty much all helium for clinical work. Short of a quench (catastrophic heating, effectively) the most modern units hardly lose any, and often need less in the first place. An old machine might cost you near 6fig/year
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by ska 3y ago
You are supposed to get it through eating a varied diet including potassium rich foods every day, typically. This is part of the "5 servings per day" idea for fresh fruits and vegetables. For example a banana and a cup of cooked s
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by ska 3y ago
ironic, isn't it. "virtual signalling" as a phrase now primarily seems to be used as a virtue signalling mechanism, and hence not very useful.
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by ska 3y ago
This is a good point. The actual advisory amounts to "don't assume everything is the same as Canada, or that all states are the same". Link [2] is far more general travel advice for these people, and talks about things not r
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by ska 3y ago
The social skill is having different communication styles, and applying them appropriately. Only having one is a form of poor social skills.
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by ska 3y ago
Large SUV's are actively make the roads less safe overall though. It's a tough collective action problem. It probably makes sense to at least remove the implicit subsidies of them though (they should never have been allowed sepa
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by ska 3y ago
Ah, I think I see where we diverged. You were focused narrowly on the technology, I was focussed on the broader situation, where I don't see the equivalent of the franchise owner or the ice cream consumer in your dialysis example; if n
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by ska 3y ago
Ok. I am very familiar with the medical device industry, and how they are used in healthcare. I am not familiar with food services equipment. What I’m having trouble with is seeing a parallel with the franchisees position in this story, in
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by ska 3y ago
This isn't about the regulations (which must exist and do have some parallels) but about systemic differences in how the industries work which mean that it wouldn't play out the same way it has in fast food franchises, is all.
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by ska 3y ago
Ok, I confused myself somehow about who I was replying to, my apologies. The OP is jmsflknr though, no? However, my point was not meant to be about the pump design nor the regulatory bodies involved, so I think we are just miscommunicating.
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by ska 3y ago
I shouldn't have been so terse. I didn't mean to suggest that the regulatory side didn't exist in commercial food equipment, obviously it does. OP seemed to suggest that medical devices was rife with situations parallel to M
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by ska 3y ago
Not saying it doesn't happen, but the situation in medical devices is more complicated.
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by ska 3y ago
If i remember correctly the Canadian system for this seems sensible; there is a tax deferred account but you can pull it out at any time without additional penalty (you pay income tax of course). I think you can't put it back in tho
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by ska 3y ago
If you want to do physics, you can do physics. That's not what color in this context actually is though.
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by ska 3y ago
>The simple fact that you never ever heard about something like that actually there are lots of examples, so it can't be that simple.
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by ska 3y ago
> unless a majority of the workers have a lot experience with business, That may be the wrong way to think about it. Vanishingly few people have enough experience in all aspects of any business to make good decisions without others inpu
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by ska 3y ago
That’s always an option I suppose . Canada is huge, and its population isn’t. As a result there are unincorporated billages/whatever you want to call them, where you are on your own for services. I suppose it’s not a bad arrangement

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