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by telchar 9y ago
That tends to happen when the user logs in, so they'll probably see it multiple times per day. I think that's pretty standard. The system doesn't have to be the wild west. But if someone can click through an authentication ov
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by telchar 9y ago
Exactly, barriers to looking up a patient's information can be fatal. I need to give someone medication now to stabilize them. What medications are they on now? Can't look it up? Better give it to them and hope there's no adv
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by telchar 9y ago
Somehow I never considered hover-text for math. Now I'm actually rather angry that it's not already standard, what with papers being distributed digitally. Keeping track of notation when reading papers is the bane of my existence.
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by telchar 9y ago
Your opinion here goes beyond "caveat emptor" right to "vae victus". Although you seem to support the idea of cities bargaining with Amazon here, your statements make a good argument for cities to decline.
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by telchar 9y ago
This right here is extremely frustrating to me. There is approximately zero marginal cost to distribute that back-catalog, but they just keep it locked away. I think Amazon does the best job of the legal sources I have seen, though I find i
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by telchar 9y ago
They could have used the budget reconciliation process to bypass the filibuster. Instead they used their one opportunity this year to do that to get the tax bill passed. If they hadn't insisted on forcing through a (historically unpopu
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by telchar 9y ago
I worked with electron microscopes back in the day, for that I would say 10^-6 atmospheres. But it probably depends somewhat on your application, I don't think there is a solid definition.
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by telchar 9y ago
Interesting, thanks!
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by telchar 9y ago
I'll bite.. what are the huge implications?
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by telchar 9y ago
Mostly the expensive people are, as you say, the ones screwed by fortune or those whose health declined in the past for whatever reason and their present behavior is not going to be able to fix things even if it contributed to their present
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by telchar 9y ago
Last time I had a procedure done it took 9 months before a bill showed up. It's a many to many communication problem so they only bother to figure it out when they need to, and then it can take a while for the hospital and insurer to h
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by telchar 9y ago
It's frustrating. Neither the hospital nor the insurer typically has sufficient information to give you an answer. It's even worse when your information like age or diagnosis history factors into it.
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by telchar 9y ago
In that case I may be able to look it up. Granted this isn't the area I work in but in theory I have access to the necessary data. The people who do work in this area should be able to tell you, at least for some outpatient procedures.
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by telchar 9y ago
I work for a hospital and I agree with you that the billing practices are shitty, but I couldn't tell you what a procedure will cost you even if ordered to. At best I could give you an average for a procedure but if you're in for
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by telchar 9y ago
To use a metaphor as a counterargument, if there were a 6 foot spider in my shower you'd better believe I would talk about it at least a few times a day. That doesn't mean the spider has charisma, just that it's a clear and p
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by telchar 9y ago
There's no enabling here in the usual sense of the word, they just made it cheaper. It'd be like a headline "copious butter enables little Tommy to eat vegetables". Apple could have repatriated that money at any time, an
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by telchar 9y ago
I feel this way with regard to the many, many forum posts containing the exact answers to questions I want to know. So much subject-specific, often hobbyist information seems to exist primarily on forums yet I almost never see forum posts t
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by telchar 9y ago
Can they not index bigrams or trigrams, then chain together index hits? E.g. "It never rains in december" would hit on "It never rains", "never rains in", and "rains in december". Any result that hits
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by telchar 9y ago
You may enjoy reading Ringworld - it involves life on the inside of a Dyson ring totalling 3*10^6 the surface area of Earth.
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by telchar 9y ago
It is. Sure there is a spectrum, like autism is a spectrum, but if you're insinuating that ADHD isn't real you're wrong. The medical field has a pretty good consensus about this one.
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by telchar 9y ago
IMHO I don't believe GM is serious about electric cars yet. They may be, but they haven't demonstrated it sufficiently for me to depend on it. Until they show large commitments and demonstrate that they are betting the company&#x2
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by telchar 9y ago
No, the fiduciary duty the company has to shareholders is vague in this regard and practically speaking they can define the shareholders interest broadly, for example maximising returns at some indeterminate point in the far future. Shareho
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by telchar 9y ago
That's encouraging to hear. I'm 30 problems in so far since starting ~1.5 months ago. I starting working through the PE problems to develop my python and general programming skills since I have been primarily using R as a data sci
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by telchar 9y ago
That's a useful talking point to use when Republicans are in the midst of passing terrible legislation, it really spreads the blame. But it's a nonsense false equivalence in this era when they are undoing every single that the Dem
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by telchar 9y ago
In comparison to the last few hundred years, and with a few notable exceptions in time and place, we have spent the great majority of the past not progressing. Compare the progress made from 10000 BCE to 1700 CE to the progress made since.
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by telchar 9y ago
I would argue that those things historically have drowned out actual meaning, if by actual meaning you mean factually correct and significant information. Only with the advent of science have we been able to reliably sort the meaningless fr
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by telchar 9y ago
This concerns me as well. I would downvote such comments if I could but I don't have downvote powers yet, and don't know how to get them. Can anyone shed light on that?
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by telchar 9y ago
Forgive me, but it seems that you're taking a common argument (X policy that works in Scandinavia won't work in the US because the US isn't homogeneous) and extending it to some sort of xenophobic dog-whistle (i.e. kids in th
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by telchar 9y ago
Parent's comment is copied verbatim from another comment. I'd downvote or flag it but don't have the ability to do so.
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by telchar 9y ago
Making desperate people less desperate can be pro-social. UBI could drive down the crime rate. Also you're assuming all paid jobs are pro-social. Is coal mining? Advertising? SEO for MLM firms? Lobbying for kleptocratic foreign governm

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