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by westbywest 9y ago
Guessing absolute failure rate previously not encountered by current graphing tool, incorrect scaling factor. Or, it was decided at some point that always reporting 0.000XXX% failure rate, even if correct, didn't offer an intuitive met
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by westbywest 9y ago
Illumos may stagnate further with OmniOS development ceasing. https://lists.omniti.com/pipermail/omnios-discuss/2017-April...
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by westbywest 9y ago
A physician relative pointed out the Dutch healthcare system as a compelling, hybrid public/private alternative to strict single-payer schemes. Gist of his recommendation was that single-payer systems may not be the silver bullet they
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by westbywest 9y ago
A third way is the ~20 state governments who've subscribed to this model peddled by ALEC, barring municipalities from deploying infrastructure, on the grounds of preserving competition. Given the typical size of incumbent providers, t
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by westbywest 9y ago
The ability to negotiate healthcare benefits as a group is indeed a popular justification for unions in fields not historically associated with union labor. Freelancers Union is an example, in addition to others mentioned up-thread. http
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by westbywest 9y ago
Quoted below is an except from a listserv discussion with a WISPA committee member working to draft that org's FCC filing. I'm sharing this, to fill in details on the assertion of "uncertainty in regulation" that is bei
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by westbywest 9y ago
The valid arguments I read from industry groups like WISPA cite significant uncertainty in what Title II regulations would actually look like in practice. Given that WISPA is basically a trade group of small ISPs, some mom-and-pop scale, b
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by westbywest 9y ago
The sci-fi series Three Body Problem sustains the argument that intelligent civilizations evolve into being compelled to mask their existence from interstellar detection, as a matter of survival. General idea is there are always bigger in
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by westbywest 9y ago
Despite its immense size, Betelgeuse can be described as a "red hot vacuum." The density of its outer atmosphere / corona is very thin compared to our sun, so it's readily distorted into irregular shapes by the star she
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by westbywest 9y ago
tinc is also a popular lightweight VPN, although it's targeted for embedded. It does nevertheless support the libreSSL fork mentioned upthread. https://www.tinc-vpn.org/
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by westbywest 9y ago
Counter-argument would be that permitting states to stipulate their own criteria for measuring bandwidth delivered would further motivate providers to build out infrastructure that actually delivers the quality of service they're claim
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by westbywest 9y ago
Besides reasons already mentioned above (and adding my own emphasis on suboptimal power performance), CPUs have GHz-scale clock domains, thanks to pipeline stages that minimize the number of gates traversed on each cycle. FPGA designs ofte
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by westbywest 9y ago
It is true some modernist architecture hasn't aged well due to short-sighted deployment of the building materials and techniques available at the time. Frank Lloyd-Wright was particularly bad about this, and that could be attributed t
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by westbywest 9y ago
If you're handy with software defined radios: https://github.com/Microsoft/OTP4LTE-U
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by westbywest 9y ago
The URL syntax to search comments for the docket in question is straightforward, in case you felt the desire to check on the quickness of the dead: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=17-...
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by westbywest 9y ago
Agreed. Money can't buy everything, including experience and awareness gleaned from personally facing the problems such NGOs target. The knowledge accrued could demonstrate value later.
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by westbywest 9y ago
Access to useful wireless bands for mesh topologies is a hurdle. The unlicensed bands (e.g. wifi) are such precisely because they're generally junk w/r/t to propagation and atmospheric absorption. The licensed bands are uns
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by westbywest 9y ago
There is very little about design and manufacture of ASICs that is cheap, unless you're selling them by the millions. Two previous employers evaporated because they couldn't sell enough units to recoup VC investment in building se
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by westbywest 9y ago
Agreeing with ajross above. Indeed, Chris disclosing his legal strategy may prove unwise to his own case, but his experience is becoming common enough to be relevant to anyone who may observe (what they think to be) police misconduct.
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by westbywest 10y ago
Besides its concussive pulse, the weapon is designed to draw in air from underground/fortified structures in the blast radius. E.g. asphyxiate people hiding in tunnels. It no doubt will leave a crater, but my understanding is that th
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by westbywest 10y ago
Private practices would indeed have their expenses arranged in the fashion you describe, i.e. with those qualifying expenditures counted as business expenses before pass-through. The caveat is that titling the private practice as the malpr
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by westbywest 10y ago
These data would be more informative, were they also paired with vocational costs MDs also incur, usually unavoidably. Malpractice insurance, prep for board exams, for example. Note that the latter can include having to travel to conferen
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by westbywest 10y ago
Responding, in the spirit of your comment, to acknowledge my agreement, rather than just upvoting invisibly.
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by westbywest 10y ago
Given that it's not economical for cloud providers to let too many of their customers monkey with resource provisioning, I gather such efforts on the part of the customer can only be so effective.
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by westbywest 10y ago
OpenJDK has an open issue about this in their JVM: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8165437
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by westbywest 10y ago
Under other circumstances I'd agree this is poor strategy w/r/t preparing for possible future legal defense. Detail here may be that Fowler may soon find herself gagged from disclosing further details, especially if survivin
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by westbywest 10y ago
At least from NASA's standpoint, looks like they budget single-digit $Billions for human spaceflight, out of a yearly budget in the range of $18B. I'm not sure how cleanly that can be broken down per-mission, since stays aboard t
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by westbywest 10y ago
There is a difference between shaping traffic to better fit the capacity available, and constricting traffic since you're incentivized to push alternate traffic from a business partner. The latter is what NN advocates are trying to di
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by westbywest 10y ago
For code that is generally in open source land, you may be able to get some traction cross-compiling for x86 and using tools like qemu/virtualbox to test higher-level functionality. However, it's usually the peripherals and whate
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by westbywest 10y ago
Comment made in other threads is that this particular isotope of iodine is very short-lived (8 days) and a known product of uranium and plutonium fission. So, its source is assumed to be recent fission event, or medical radiotherapy genera

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