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by steve19 11y ago
I have lived in a number of countries during my career and I have personally experienced two overseas socialist healthcare systems in my life, one third world and first world. In the third world country, I had to have a very niche test that
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by steve19 11y ago
Extracts from the Lucid Energy FAQ [0] .... How does the system work? The LucidPipe™ Power System uses the flow of water inside the PWB pipeline to spin four 42” turbines that produce electricity for PGE [Portland General Electric]. PGE pur
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by steve19 11y ago
THANK YOU!!! I have been wanting to backup my extensive audible library for years but could never find an easy solution. edit: I have not tried it yet, but this script seems to extract the key from audible https://github.com&#x2F
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by steve19 11y ago
> Unions not looking out for employees but instead to show off their influence/power. Resulting in lower performance You might write off the above comment as the opinion of someone who does not like unions, but as someone who has wo
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by steve19 11y ago
It's a ridiculous soundbite which I am sure was devised by a PR hack. There are probably enough US tool makers with YouTube channels to fill a room! (I subscribe to many of them) If he were honest it's probably because China is ch
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by steve19 11y ago
GCC has been designed specifically NOT to be extended. Richard Stallman reasoned that by exposing an interface to other applications, or allowing other applications to access or modify intermediate code/trees, closed source proprietary
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by steve19 11y ago
Have you looked at Alice? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(software)
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by steve19 11y ago
When do I remember hearing that before.... back in 2008. Everyone was saying the exact same thing. If you really expect Sanders will be any different if he gets in power, you are kidding yourself. If anything he is being undermined by the D
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by steve19 11y ago
This so-called international law is often repeated online, with no evidence that random consumer maps have ever been used to resolve a dispute. If official government maps shows a certain boundary it is evidence that the government at some
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by steve19 11y ago
We had all the technology and intelligence we needed 2,000 years ago to make the world a better place. Yet our ancestors did not. For many 1000's of years different religions, some on opposite sides of the world from each other, have b
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by steve19 11y ago
Could someone explain the tax situation to me? If putting the Alibaba holdings into a separate company would incur tax, why can't they just put everything else into a separate company, called say "Yahoo Media", and leave YHOO
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by steve19 11y ago
So I am hearing ... 1) Get a job at Google 2) Write a Compiler in Spare Time 3) ... 4) PROFIT!!!!
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by steve19 11y ago
I would happily buy pre-made decks, but for decks I spend hours crafting myself, I want to know I have access them forever and not lose them if you get bought out or go bust. Do you have export functionality?
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by steve19 11y ago
There is nothing clever or special about how you or other chefs treat and abuse your employees. You seem to have successfully, in your mind, justified verbal abuse ("it's OK if they can handle it and I gave them a hug last week&q
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by steve19 11y ago
Or was the whole point of his puzzled naive persona to make the point "we could be selling these, but because we take this safety thing so seriously we are not". Most of HN, and all of Wall Street, knows they are not using their o
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by steve19 11y ago
Besides the HQ, what else is left is a $1 million/year Chair (up from $801k the year before), a Director on $874k (up from $779k) and a Treasurer on $908k (up from $613k) [0] [1] I do not begrudge high their salaries in the slighte
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by steve19 11y ago
An article on HN recently argued that we DO in fact have deflation on healthcare. Treatments from 1970 are probably a lot cheaper today but in anycase I would rather get an expensive MRI from a lab with a recent model MRI Scanner rather tha
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by steve19 11y ago
Will never* happen. The Postal Union would have a heart attack at the mere suggestion. They exist to keep delivery postal workers employed, they (rightfully) don't give a damn about what postal consumers want, and they have the abilit
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by steve19 11y ago
Does this work because there is massive redundancy in the DNA soup? So if some strands of part of strands are contaminated, there are 100s or 1000s (millions?) of cloned DNA molecules floating around? Or is a single DNA molecule capable of
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by steve19 11y ago
The simple reason, at least in democracies, is that voters want charities to be tax free. If they did not care, you can be damned sure tax-free status would be dropped. I don't think there is any more complex moral reasoning than this.
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by steve19 11y ago
Debt is the state of owing money. This is the definition of debt. Kickstarters do not owe anyone money.
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by steve19 11y ago
It's not debt, there is no interest. It's just a liability. No different to Amazon taking a pre-order on an upcoming book. Judging how many largish kickstarters end in disaster, I am not surprised the people running them don'
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by steve19 11y ago
Or did they? From the article ... “For a period of time following the indictments, there was a very significant decrease” by the PLA, said a second U.S. official. “And today we are definitely not at the level that we were before the indictm
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by steve19 11y ago
To be fair to Obama, it matters little what he does or does not want. He has no hope in getting anything really meaningful approved by the Senate before his term is over. It is just not going to happen.
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by steve19 11y ago
It looks dead. Projects which hit the required 10k supporters 18 months ago are still "being reviewed" but Lego. You are right, they should allow anything to be sold if a certain number of pre-orders can be met and copyrights clea
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by steve19 11y ago
tldr; Yes (see second last paragraph). I suspect if you put some farm salmon back into the wild, they would, some generations later, end up reverting back to thier wild state.
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by steve19 11y ago
Ben Krasnow is easily one. The amount that guys knows about everything (electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, material science, chemistry and some programming) is staggering. His Youtube channel is great. https://www.yo
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by steve19 11y ago
"Ms. Mayer called a meeting with senior executives in August and asked them to sign a written agreement to stay with the company for at least three more years, according to two people familiar with the meeting." Is such an agreeme
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by steve19 11y ago
"A tiny Swiss bank .... The bank describes itself as an ethical organisation focused on backing firms investing in social and environmental projects." This is the crux of the matter. Thier depositors are paying a mich higher fee
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the problem is all to often they stop trying to govern and instead spent their time preventing any chance of revolt (see North Korea, the last Kings of France)

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