telchar

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by telchar 8y ago
1) Can you get the industrialized farm lobbies on board with this? How about 3rd world rural clinics? How about 3rd world farmers using powerful antibiotics of last resort to make animals get a little bigger? Successfully regulating antibio
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by telchar 8y ago
Supposing a manufacturer wanted to use Android on it's phones, they could pay a sum of money for the right to do that in proportion to the number of phones the software were installed on. This fee would cover Google's costs and ne
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by telchar 8y ago
I would dispute that. My experience in the hospital side of same field has been that within the framework of the existing healthcare system it's hard to reduce costs without worsening health outcomes. The costs we can cut most easily a
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by telchar 8y ago
Thanks, I hadn't thought of using Dropbox as a file sync between different OSes on the same machine.
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by telchar 8y ago
For backups I understand. What I'm curious about is what is your setup that involves multiple computers. Is it one personal computer and one at work? Do you have multiple personal computers for some reason? Just curious about usage pat
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by telchar 8y ago
Really? And I thought Dropbox was slow. I find myself asking what's the point of gigabit internet when I haven't found a service that users more than 50Mb.
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by telchar 8y ago
Can I ask why syncing files between computers if a useful thing for you? I'm on the verge of cancelling my Dropbox account since I realized the Dropbox account is not useful as an external drive, but only as a syncing tool. To me that&
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by telchar 8y ago
I prefer the music to come from the headphones because my in-ear phones can be overly loud, even on the lowest volume setting on my phone. Having music coming from them hours every day had me feeling like I was damaging my hearing. With ear
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by telchar 8y ago
You could go the opposite route: good earplugs with good noise canceling over-ear headphones. The advantage of this over the other setup is that the minimum effective volume from music is lower, protecting against tinnitus. I had the same i
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by telchar 8y ago
I think the value of pennies to the economy is negative. Every time I have to handle a penny it wastes my time and energy for no gain. I never find having a penny useful unless it will prevent me from getting more pennies. Multiply that by
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by telchar 8y ago
I fully agree with your last sentence. Sadly I don't often see that actually happen in practice. And when the notation isn't explained I personally tend to waste a lot of brain cycles trying to decide what the notation means becau
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by telchar 8y ago
Math notation is simple because it's heavily overloaded. For example, it does me no good to know about exponentials when a superscript is used in a different context. Reading any nontrivial math requires knowing what the notation means
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by telchar 8y ago
They would generate some excitement, get marginal marketshare, quietly stop updating the system, let it languish for a few years, then just ghost the system?
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by telchar 8y ago
You're not the only one bothered by that. I find school buses and small delivery vehicles to be the worst on that, given the frequent stops and starts and minimal maintenance they receive. The city buses here are marginally better but
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by telchar 8y ago
Activated carbon filters are cheap, mine cost $12. I can't speak to whether all other cars have compatible fits though.
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by telchar 8y ago
You are disputing the most basic fact of CO2 being a greenhouse gas. This is why we say "skeptics" can't be bothered to understand the science. If CO2 isn't a greenhouse gas then go write a paper about it and claim your
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by telchar 8y ago
Oh come off it. If he's indeed a saboteur he will garner very little pity from losing a lawsuit. Since when do we support people who allegedly use industrial sabotage against the very companies pushing the boundaries of reducing pollut
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by telchar 8y ago
I think you're right that AT&T and Time Warner should not be allowed to merge. What you're proposing WRT the last mile is similar to what I favor, which is banning content/copyright owners/studios from also owning th
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by telchar 8y ago
I think that's a misleading observation though. It is squinting at the macro structure of the body and saying "ah ha, encapsulation!". When you look closer the apparent encapsulation seems less and less like an accurate notio
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by telchar 8y ago
Don't forget the plants! They're dying as well through the effects of agriculture, draining swamps for new subdivisions, and such. And from the few invasive species that thrive to the detriment of many native species. Although I s
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by telchar 8y ago
It's ok to want an answer. You may have to accept though (and it seems you're on your way to this) that the answer isn't simple, can't be broken down to a simple paragraph and can't be digested in a sitting. If you&
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by telchar 8y ago
You're being down-voted but it would be foolish to ignore the possibility you bring up, especially when we consider that Tesla has competitors based in countries where the rule of law is weaker than it is in the US. Certainly if he&#x2
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by telchar 8y ago
You seem to be making an argument that I have seen a lot, in short (paraphrased): A free open competitive market is ideal therefore you should seek that instead of net neutrality. Don't ask for net neutrality. I disagree. Net neutralit
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by telchar 8y ago
I won't. The notion that Shkreli did next to nothing wrong because he only gouged insurance companies is one I have seen echoed too much. It bears refuting when it comes up lest people see such assertions go unchallenged and don't
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by telchar 8y ago
You're forgetting robo-signing foreclosure affidavits in the wake of the financial crisis. That's potentially hundreds of thousands of counts of fraud. The banks were only forced to settle, and were not prosecuted. [0] [0] https:
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by telchar 8y ago
Which makes every single person with insurance a (diffuse) victim. Let's not pretend that exorbitant pricing doesn't have any relation to the high cost of medical insurance/care, which in turn of course indirectly kills peopl
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by telchar 8y ago
Or better yet, we can work toward a future (no later than 2021, I hope) when net neutrality can be brought back into force just as it was from 2015-2017 by FCC action or perhaps with more staying power via legislative action. Ground taken o
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by telchar 8y ago
You're probably right about that. Although I can point to one very specific way the olden days were better: a Google search used to turn up lots of forum posts, which are often the most useful results on a given topic. These days I alm
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by telchar 8y ago
This is an interesting take. Would you care to speculate about what may be going on under the surface?
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by telchar 8y ago
I imagine Google has big advantage here, at least for brick and mortar places since they can use location data to determine whether the account connected to a device has physically been in a place. It would also explain why they always ask

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