solidsnack9000

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   by solidsnack9000 2y ago

   Then it should be mandated; but that's not really a public versus private issue. It would have to be mandated in the public context, as well.
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   by solidsnack9000 2y ago

   These hospitals are actually subject to regulation, though, and the regulation does not actually condition funding on spare capacity. That's just going to lead to broken results. A completely publicly funded healthcare system without s
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   by solidsnack9000 2y ago

   Well, it's not exactly profits that are a problem here. The author points out that these hospitals are subject to regulation and that the regulation does not actually condition funding on spare capacity. That's just going to lead
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   by solidsnack9000 2y ago

   Is it so unprofitable to provide perfect service? Consider your grocery store example... The incentives of hospitals are much more complex than those of grocery stores, because of how different their business is. One of their major customer
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   by solidsnack9000 2y ago

   Well, probably not, no -- I'm pretty sure the Daodejing was written in a literary language quite distinct from any spoken language at that time. This used to be something readily found all over the world.
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   by solidsnack9000 2y ago

   It does but it allows common names, the name of the deity, common words, &c. I suspect you have to do something like an earlier poster suggested -- strip out all the vowels to start with...
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   by solidsnack9000 2y ago

   Removing Y turns out to be important, as well...
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   by solidsnack9000 2y ago

   This is just not going work in a customer centric organization. If SABRE gave out PNRs like, I don't know, SEXGOD, it would make customers angry, and that is not even with any curse words. They are heavily filtered. https://
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   by solidsnack9000 2y ago

   That is not really translation, though, once you start doing that.
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    This is not even getting to that; but that is actually pretty simple, to be fair. The negation is: 非常道 非 -- fei, this has been a negator for a very long time in Chinese 常 -- chang, this means something like common, usual, normal, or nominal
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    Yes, so much is lost. 道可道 This is three words: 道 -- dao, it means literally a road or path; metaphorically, it used to mean a spiritual way of life 可 -- ke, this generally is used today to indicate capability, actuality or acceptability: so
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    One challenge with PNR is actually restricting the alphabet appropriately. They sure are easy to say aloud -- just five or six letters in many cases -- but how do you ensure you have (a) enough letters to get a reasonable bitwidth and (b) n
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    Compare Ruby to shell, not Python, when considering what I wrote above.
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    I'm not sure why people keep comparing to Python. Python is not replacing shell either.
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    The comparison to Python isn't the relevant one. During that time, what was it like to migrate from shell to...probably the same shell?
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    Instability. Ruby has not been the same language for very long. Migrating to 1.9 was a huge hassle for many firms. This may seem like a long time ago in tech years; but then there was Ruby 2.0; and shell scripts, meanwhile, have stayed the
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    What does that actually mean? Until "any of that" is "withdrawn"?
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    This is a challenging thing to get right. It's interesting seeing your back and forth with the other commenters on here.
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    My understanding from reading the literature around SQL/MED and related technologies is that they were, indeed, inspired by data management problems in medicine. The use cases are like those I outlined -- we can't move the data fr
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    A related functionality is "SQL/MED", a SQL specification for federated databases that has some kind of relationship to medical data historically (I believe one of the use cases is data at one site that another site is allowe
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    Ironically my old Toyota is one of the hardest to really get at sensor and dealer-software changes. In personal experience, VW manuals are atrocious to figure out while Toyota, at least around 2000 put out wonderful service manuals even if
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    I think this is basically the right insight, yes. At the level of a state, there is probably a close connection between warrants served there and crimes committed there, because most people spend most of their time in one state. At the leve
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    The sizes are different -- in America, it is pretty hard to even get a small cup of coffee -- but carbohydrates are carbohydrates: the caloric density is the same.
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    The USA also has a relatively high suicide rate for a developed country, though. The USA is closing the gap and recent data puts the USA at a higher rate than Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_su
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    The list of crimes counted includes: ...Larceny Theft, Malicious Mischief, Assault, Burglary, Motor Vehicle Theft, Fraud, Lost Property, Warrant, Drug Offense, Robbery, Missing Person and more. It doesn't seem like "Warrant&quot
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    It is a minor part of the article, but I'm surprised they introduced it only to get it so wrong. The U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968, among other things, requires traceable serial codes on guns, something that has become a key element of
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    What if most of the signs in the camp were already made by the prisoners?
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    I'm not sure I understand the connection you're drawing with human rights. Officers and men live separately -- have separate dining halls, quarters, clubs, &c -- to some degree even when they're not in camps. This is gene
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    Other languages allow much easier workarounds for immediate problems without necessarily sacrificing code quality. I really wish the author had followed this with a list and an explanation.
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    by solidsnack9000 2y ago

    I guess I would question the value of that, if the fundamentals are such that any such programs and choices have so little effect. Japan is highly centralized and yet what is so different about the depopulation situation there? It has been