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by tbihl 8y ago
The failure of Americans to recognize death panels as a feature rather than a bug are why American healthcare can't be done on a nationalized basis. As to the misunderstanding, I assume that's based either on a misstep in logic, o
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On the other hand, I live in San Diego, and cars act as menaces far more often than scooters when I'm around, probably at a 5:1 ratio. They do menace differently, but I do appreciate how much less dangerously the scooters do it. For ex
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by tbihl 8y ago
You're being ironic, right? Amazon o-rings are a terrifying idea.
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by tbihl 8y ago
I suspect the policy's inclusion of things outside the gate is more likely addressing traffic concerns. Military gates are serious choke points, and the bulk of people going through them have very similar hours, so irregularities can h
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by tbihl 8y ago
It would not. That interest rate doesn't even cover inflation, let alone the significant occurrence of default that you would see when using 'low income', with its high correlation to 'credit risk', as your criteria
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by tbihl 8y ago
A Panasonic toughbook cf-53, a pen, a binder, a notebook, and 6 folders.
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by tbihl 8y ago
Any solution for imposing a relatively high barrier to get to the 'smart' functionality of the phone? I'd like to have texting, camera, phone, maps, and music, with everything else requiring a decent effort to access. That wa
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by tbihl 8y ago
I checked it out, but I didn't see any way that it helps. It actually seemed worse than Nova in that there is a feed screen (read: endless scrolling distraction) if you swipe right.
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by tbihl 8y ago
That was certainly my experience. I used to ask if I could just report only 2/3rds of my overtime hours to get the same effective rate. Of course, I had no awareness of the software that would be flagging the 'ineffective manager&
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by tbihl 8y ago
Grumble about illegal work practices on the subway ride to work, one would assume.
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Ask HN: Android launcher or that supports a dumb phone profile?
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by tbihl 8y ago
Have you been to a game yet? How is it?
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by tbihl 8y ago
Back when I used to live in DC, the soccer team played in an old football stadium (RFK)(and they may still). It was cool in a sort of eerie way, watching in a mostly empty hulk of a stadium that was clearly progressing in partial decay. Plu
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by tbihl 8y ago
Mine starts at 27 cents for the cheapest tier, then jumps to 48 and 55 cents for higher use. I'm looking forward to paying the US average some day.
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by tbihl 8y ago
Well, I guess I'm in for a price cut someday when I move to a different part of the country. My electric starts at $0.27/kWh, then goes up to $0.48, then $0.55 for higher usage. I have no idea what the cutoffs are for hitting thos
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by tbihl 8y ago
I had classes with the same structure. The homework was one of those online setups, and our professor had a policy that we should be ready with questions. If the questions stopped during class, the homework grade would be replaced by the gr
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by tbihl 8y ago
This is a pretty universal thing in complex tasks. As you get used to things and your brain translates them into familiar patterns, they take less effort to anticipate (or produce,) so you can string lots of them together without being over
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by tbihl 8y ago
Yeah, you nailed it. I think of managing as keeping a bunch of freight trains from smashing into one another. The manager can't claim to be making things move twice as fast, and it's hard to recognize the absence of disaster as a
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by tbihl 8y ago
That's ridiculously cheap electricity! I assume that's just the lowest tier? Can most people make it through the month at that rate, or do the rates typically jump mid-way through?
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by tbihl 8y ago
In the cases that your traffic is unencrypted, yes, but that should be rare enough that you worry about it each time it happens. Bigger in this case is the pattern of life rendered by just inspecting headers. And they can get a lot of heade
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by tbihl 8y ago
If there is any floor whatever in how unproductive an industry can become when faced with a destabilizing government, it would probably be tied to old technology. In other words, how much production can they get with really old, disused equ
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by tbihl 8y ago
And any attempt to turn it into a business will probably only set the bar higher for doing it in earnest.
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by tbihl 9y ago
Why not use Hangouts? Seems like it meets all the requirements you've listed (desktop client, sync with email account messaging, video chat, phone calls.) I'm not trying to promote the product so much as wondering what I'm mi
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by tbihl 9y ago
I count myself among the group I believe you're alluding to, though not as you've described it. If I'm spending my time playing a game, I don't want to waste queuing time only to discover that I've been placed in an
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by tbihl 9y ago
Agreed on everything you said. I'll add one thing: normally you hear Doppler effect with a nearly constant sound (emergency sirens.) Here the pitches are changing, but because our minds instantly recognize the 8-step Western scale we c
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by tbihl 9y ago
And based on the last 3 providers I've had, you were getting a steal at $60/yr
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by tbihl 9y ago
Of course, securing your home is only easy because of geographic separation between yourself and the types of places where thieves will break through a non-reinforced wall while you're out of town.
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by tbihl 9y ago
At this point, if you're reading an Akamai report, APT probably stands alone as a term. On a list of abbreviations their readers should know, it's not quite 'IP address', but surely it's ahead of 'DNS'.
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by tbihl 9y ago
Most of my long-haul flights in life were in college, so my answer is 'get over hangovers', and I cannot strongly enough discourage this irresponsibility. It's preparation in reverse.
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by tbihl 9y ago
I work rotating shift work, totalling 25 days working per 35 calendar days, done as 3 7-day weeks and a 4-day week with weekends of varying lengths interspersed. I average 56-60 hours per calendar week, which works out to be approx 7x11hr i

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