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by trendia 10y ago
Health insurance originally was for managing risk -- it only covered emergency healthcare like being in an accident or having a heart attack. But now we want healtchcare to cover everyday costs, including routine doctor's visits and
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by trendia 10y ago
There are two points to my argument: 1) the administration cannot properly value IT because they (likely) do not understand how it works 2) the administration likely values their own staff and their athletics much more than the revenue they
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by trendia 10y ago
I have no problem with this outsourcing as long as they first outsource the football coach and the President's personal administrative staff. On second thought, why would the University President neef to be in campus anyway? I'm s
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by trendia 10y ago
Programmers will still work 70 hours a week (or more). How else would we get the money to pay for basic income?!
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by trendia 10y ago
> Rendering from the command line uses the cpu by default. I don't believe this is still true. When I render from the command line, it will use the GPU if my user preferences are set to GPU. (confirmed by render timings)
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by trendia 10y ago
> When this happens, it usually means that Amazon Web Services is having a technical problem, most likely in their US-East region. When I got to this I had to look up at the publish date to see if it was written today. Nope -- it is a ye
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by trendia 10y ago
Pretty much. If you want to compare two floats a and b within some precision eps , use: abs(a - b) <= eps*0.5*(a + b) or even (abs(a - b) <= eps*abs(a)) && (abs(a - b) <= eps*abs(b)) which is implemen
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by trendia 10y ago
"Eating their meals" Well, the ones who are still eating their food rather than drinking Soylent.
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by trendia 10y ago
TSA asks for identification when you show boarding pass. How would I confirm my identity without ID? (e.g. driver's license or passport)
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by trendia 10y ago
Is there a reason the check didn't happen at TSA instead? Everyone is required to show ID when they go through security, making a second check when exiting the plane unnecessary. The only scenario in which CBP would check deplaning pas
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by trendia 10y ago
Well according to this article, crime across the whole country has gone down, so who really cares if there are pockets where the violence is so bad that police can't do their job? I mean, who cares if there are 30 gernade attacks in Ma
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by trendia 10y ago
The way this is worded is weird: Claim: "In Sweden there are a number of 'no-go zones' where criminality and gangs have taken over and where the emergency services do not dare to go." Facts: No. In a report published in
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by trendia 10y ago
> The micro energy cost at the individual level The impact to people won't be the cost but rather the decreased battery life.
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by trendia 10y ago
I can hardly stand Reddit any more -- so many people seem to have agendas that drown out most authentic conversation. Which reminds me of a quote from the book "Schitt Happened": > So, social media is less and less about "
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by trendia 10y ago
Well, I read your comment, if that's worth anything.
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by trendia 10y ago
I own one of these for hiking at high altitudes. Very useful to know if it drops below 90%!
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by trendia 10y ago
Whitespace [0], where whitespace is the cause of, and solution to, all of your problems. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...
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by trendia 10y ago
Let's suppose we want to introduce other factors. We now have to ask: * who gets to choose the factors? * when and how can they be changed? * how do we measure them? Let's suppose we go with the "community of interest" a
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by trendia 10y ago
The problem with the efficiency gap is that relies on voter patterns, but voter patterns are affected by gerrymandering. So if you know that your vote is unlikely to affect the outcome, then you won't vote, which distorts the efficienc
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by trendia 10y ago
Lurking?
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by trendia 10y ago
Thanks for the link -- that would explain why so many apps need access to the mic.
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by trendia 10y ago
The Economist magazine not only requires Google Play Services, but also access to your microphone. There is no way to disable that. I cannot figure out why they would need such intrusive access -- there is no "speak" feature in th
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by trendia 10y ago
> mostly in the rates between the dollar and European currencies I think this might be true in some countries -- it used to be way cheaper to go to countries in Eastern Europe before they joined the Euro. But I believe that Germany and F
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by trendia 10y ago
> If you put it on the internet, it isn't private. Access to social media accounts includes access to private communications, e.g. messages that were sent with the understanding that only the recipient would receive it. But those nu
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by trendia 10y ago
Strangely, he forgot to mention: 9. Donate lots of money. A study found members of Congress are way more likely to meet with you if you've paid them [0]. > "The offices who just thought they were being asked to meet with normal
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by trendia 10y ago
And after they read Marx and Rawls they can read about what Stalin did to the revolutionaries that got him into power.
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by trendia 10y ago
The guy who we liked expanded executive power and now the guy who we don't like inherited it.
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by trendia 10y ago
The companies should just admit: "There is a shortage of STEM graduates at the price I want to pay."
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by trendia 10y ago
Damn, it'd be nice if our brain were stack-based and automatically called destructors.
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by trendia 10y ago
According to Wikipedia, he has $2b in wealth [0]. I have no idea whether $900,000 / year is high or low for someone of that net worth. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Spiegel#Personal_life

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