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by tcbawo 10y ago
Isn't the dream of a reflection library to build serialization using an Observer pattern, where the serialization logic is unbounded and business logic never mixes? It would be great if the standard came up with something that would b
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by tcbawo 10y ago
Has Microsoft made any inroads into the embedded space? Maybe embracing Linux is part of a long term strategy to becoming a player in the IoT/embedded space.
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by tcbawo 10y ago
I think what he's suggesting is that paying down debt through austerity can be more costly than growth, since austerity hurts growth. The trick is, where does growth come from?
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by tcbawo 10y ago
A friend who works in banking says that around the office, they call it the e-communist, because of its left-leaning stances.
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by tcbawo 10y ago
A feature like that is nice, but could ultimately be abused/misusued. Sometimes is nice to have text just be plain old text. It's one of the reasons I never got into PowerShell.
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by tcbawo 10y ago
I use LastPass, and features you mentioned also apply. LastPass also unfortunately has in-pane banner pop-ups which I do not trust at all. Blind and automatic autofill is dangerous. I'm not sure if you can enable that. Another featu
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by tcbawo 10y ago
Why not use auto fill? I consider that a decent defense against phishing attempts. Now I always think twice before entering my name and password.
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by tcbawo 10y ago
It's interesting that the article points to a high carbohydrate diet as being one of the takeaways. I suspect some people will glom onto this data point (see, sugar isn't bad!) despite their largely unprocessed diet and constant
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by tcbawo 10y ago
I find it odd to compare the nations of Europe individually, but taking the United States as a whole. Availability of subnational metrics probably makes this difficult, but averaging West Virginia and California is probably distortive.
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by tcbawo 10y ago
From what I've heard, patients are often more aware of their own bodies than people give them credit for. Ie. If someone thinks they're dying, you should believe them. Having another human there to reassure a scared patient that
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by tcbawo 10y ago
I liked one that involved implementing a graphing library for a memory-mapped bitmap display. It started with drawing a circle of radius R with origin X, Y but involved several iterations of optimization. You can get into a lot of interes
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by tcbawo 10y ago
Perhaps America still views itself as needing the world's most powerful military indefinitely. We continue to push the American capitalistic model everywhere possible. We may have the most diversified economy on the planet. In other
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by tcbawo 10y ago
What is the mitigating factor with cleanup? Do we lack materials that can survive the extreme levels of heat and radiation? Are we unwilling to pay the cost? Or, is the problem a lack of sufficiently complex robotics that can perform the
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by tcbawo 10y ago
I have kids that watch copious amounts of Disney Jr. Their app allows watching the live stream in addition to on-demand content. We were close to going 'headless' with our satellite cable provider, but held back due to Comcast b
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by tcbawo 10y ago
I have not used an Xbox, but I vastly prefer our Roku to the others we have tried (Chromecast, Apple TV, Fire stick, 'Smart TV'). It's just so refreshingly neutral. We use several services (Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime,
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by tcbawo 10y ago
This definitely seems true. Although, it seems that a shared experience of a known duration can create a stronger bond. Lots of people make strong friendships during specific time-bound periods (high school, college, military tour).
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by tcbawo 10y ago
In general, I've found that people will not invest as much in a friendship given an upfront, known shelf life (duration of grad school, year abroad, etc.) unless they are bound by a similar constraint. How often does chatting with som
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by tcbawo 10y ago
There has to be a happy medium. Selling yourself short to appease a large corporation which may turn around and leave at a moment's notice is a race to the bottom. Having home grown small businesses and entrepreneurs is the best path
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by tcbawo 10y ago
Medicare is a large and complex beast that typically underpays doctors and hospitals. My specific point, is that supply and demand allows the producers of vaccines to charge prices above what Medicare reimburses. In a single payer system,
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by tcbawo 10y ago
This does seem like the way things will need to go. The system may need to break down completely in order to be recreated. Perhaps it will start in a state with sufficient size to achieve price bargaining power. Perhaps some combination o
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by tcbawo 10y ago
On another thread, it was explained to me that Medicare reimbursement for a vaccine doesn't even cover the cost of the vaccine itself. I'm sure there is a Byzantine reimbursement model, but something tells me that if the entire c
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by tcbawo 10y ago
Do you have any idea of the distribution of vacine prices between providers (ie hospital networks vs private practices)? Is there a large discrepancy, or do hospitals use this as a 'loss leader'?
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by tcbawo 10y ago
Perhaps we need to borrow a tactic from countries fighting currency inflation and introduce an alternate 'chargemaster' with more realistic (ideally public) prices.
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by tcbawo 10y ago
When you say insurance isn't paying what it costs for a vaccination, what determines the cost of the procedure? Is it the vaccine itself? Office overhead? Liability insurance? I know pediatricians are generally overworked and under
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by tcbawo 10y ago
I see this argument in many places. Who dictates the cost of providing services? Why are these costs so high? My pet theory is the insane costs (money, time, high selectivity) of medical training and office overhead. Medical professiona
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by tcbawo 10y ago
I used Clearcase (on Solaris) in 1999 and was not a fan. It slowed our build times by at least 10x. I'm sure it was probably set up wrong, but this was a Fortune 100 company with lots of dedicated resources.
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by tcbawo 10y ago
I have worked in the finance industry. The people making 500K all have a pedigree. Those who come from humble backgrounds are exceptionally rare.
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by tcbawo 10y ago
I wonder how many people in the top 1% appear as a one-time blip (eg. due to sale of real estate).
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by tcbawo 10y ago
Some people believe in equality of opportunity (as opposed to equality of outcome). When privileged children are protected from their bad behavior and decisions, the class gap widens.
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by tcbawo 10y ago
I wonder how long before we start requesting visitors to this country begin wearing tracking devices.

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