throw-far-away

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by throw-far-away 8y ago
Bigger hospitals can afford to have a modest administrative cost because there are fixed (as opposed to variable costs that scale with patients served and departments funded) that scale and amortize in huge organizations. Small hospitals (l
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
I worked for one of those "non-profit" hospitals / higher-ed institutions. The one I was at was "non-profit" in name, but just as profit-hungry as upscale hospitals. There's a 2-D continuum of patient care qual
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
Jesus H. I ran into a gal with stage iv cancer and a nasal infusion pump who was on her way to a bankruptcy hearing. That's just insane and inhumane how insurance companies and hospitals in the US suck all the money they can out of dyi
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
It's a code smell whenever a function doesn't fit on a page or has more than 2 levels of indentation. Smaller functions are easier to test, easier to read and easier to debug. Leviathan kitchen-sink functions are a sign of slap-da
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
Disclaimer: I worked for a bit in Trimble's radio group. AMA about GPS circa 10 years ago. haha. That is really, really cool. I'm sure all sorts of jamming detectors will follow suit due to the ease-of-use.
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
It's important for sensible organizations to have a succession plan and alternates for all leadership positions.
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
Far be it from me to recommend CoC's, as they don't seem to add anything more than ostensible aspirations, but has anyone seen the social rules (guidelines) from NYC's Recurse.com? https://www.recurse.com/manu
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
Certainly there are people who seem like there's no one home or that they're innately antisocial, but I'd say that a sizable fraction of sociopathic behavior stems from the rich/affluent who are more isolated from other
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
Yes. And also: Chekhov, Nabokov. Of course: Tolstoy for those super-sized tomes that give you a free workout.
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
When at least one AV vendor has a signature, https://virustotal.com is your friend.
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
There are a range of harms that are reasonably excusable and then those that are inexcusable. It's when people are excessively or inconsistently unreasonable that you're better off not associating with them and their BS. It'
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
Apologies mean nothing without a believable promise to not behave similarly in the future. Furthermore, "sorry" doesn't excuse all behaviors. Doing something shitty like closing someone's account without warning and with
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
Definitely. Antifa/anarchists/violent revolutionaries/terrorists carry water for their nemesis: property owners and the afraid middle-class lean on government and the "tough-on crime" right to maintain order by any
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
Consider the several major factors in a given theft: - economic hardship and/or thrill-seeking behavior - the former is influenced by economic conditions, economic equality and substance abuse - perceived value of item - perceived risk
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
Smh. Poe's law disclaimer wink added.
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
It would suck to be in the control group. ;) Also, as my grandfather was a paratrooper: parachuting isn't a risk free activity even when the main canopy deploys properly, i.e., broken limbs on landing. And it's remotely possible t
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
Maybe there's a market for large organizations with public membership to buy sex abuse insurance?
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Ask HN: What do you think of employee-owned engineering consultancies?
5 points by throw-far-away 8y ago|1 comments
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
Minimum feature-set of a sensible psephocracy: - no campaigning or special interest ads a week before voting - only public funding and named individual small donations for public servant campaigns: no PACs, no super-PACs, no huge check fund
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
It's a pervasive cardinal sin for "working really hard yet still poor" people to hate on homeless people: to say they're faking, using drugs, crazy, lazy, etc. It's mean and evil, but unfortunately very common.
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
"Homeless" for 9 years in the Valley. AMA.
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
There's a spectrum of cynicism: realistic based on facts and cognitive distortions not based in reality. Any curious, conscientious, honest, non-magical-thinking human being would more or less be on the border of anomous omnicide most
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by throw-far-away 8y ago
Oh boy, let's reinvent all of the reliability, tooling and knowledge of TCP in an upper-layer protocol on top of UDP! That won't be complicated, error-prone, unreliable, break compatibility or reinventing-the-wheel at all! /s