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  1. Re:Opioids and withdrawal on OxyContin Billionaire Patents Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    It probably wasn’t an allergic reaction. Opioids make some people itch intolerably. Not allergic at all, though.

  2. Re:Hmmm on Videogame Developers Are Making It Harder To Stop Playing (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    "If I have one conversation with one female streamer where we're playing with one another, and even if there's a hint of flirting, that is going to be taken and going to be put on every single video and be clickbait forever," Blevins said.

    And this is the source of the Pence Rule - never be alone with a woman other than your wife. A wise rule, that. I've seen minor versions of that. Had a woman accuse me of physically threatening her while I was twenty feet away (and that was about as far away as I could be and still be in the same room). My wife and mother-in-law were there, though, and so she backed down when I called her on her bullshit right then and there.

  3. Re:A better way on Sportsbooks Start Refusing More Bets From 'Wise Guys' Trying To Win (espn.com) · · Score: 2

    Poker games are purely player vs player with the house taking a cut of every pot. If you want that style of gambling, that’s your game.

  4. Momentum determines which way the objects end up moving, but you still have to dissipate kinetic energy. Two equal-mass objects at 50 have a total of 2500*m units of energy (0.5*m*50^2 for each vehicle, double it because you have two) to get rid of. Two equal-mass objects, one standing still and one at 100 have about 5000*m units of energy (0.5*m*100^2 for one and zero for the other) to dissipate. This is a rough calculation ignoring the stuff that goes flying and that the final speed probably won’t be zero, but it’s good enough to tell you that they’re not the same situation.

  5. I guess. LGW has 90 minutes free wifi, which ought to be plenty for anyone to figure out what gate to go to if they're transiting. Roaming rates still suck, but I'm looking at two weeks abroad and seriously wondering... do I try to make Google Fi work with an iPhone (still got the SIM from my old Nexus), or just pay VZW $10 a day to make it totally seamless? Given how much money I'm spending on the trip, $150 for unlimited everything doesn't seem like much to make it easier for those on the home side - I do have to stay connected for business. I know I can get a local SIM for GBP 20 or so that will more than cover my local needs, but once you add business to the matter... also, I'm a partner in the business, so the $150 is pre-tax... hurts a lot less that way.

  6. Re:full schedule for the impatient on After 60 Years, 1,900-Mile-Long Interstate 95 Is Almost Finished (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They have lines in Cairo (well, they did when I went there), they just ignore them.

  7. Probably, but it's been twenty years since I drove through there. OTOH, it was pretty easy to skip the toll by going around it. Before there was EZPass (or whatever it's called), I was passing through on a July 4th weekend. People who had blown past me fifteen miles before the toll plaza blew past me again fifteen miles after it - by skipping the toll plaza, I'd saved that much time. The closest exits in DE and MD, on either side of the toll plaza, were not more than five or six minutes' drive apart on local roads.

  8. You know, you can look that stuff up online now, using your phone. It's what I would do in such a case. If I'm traveling on my regular airline, I've already got the details in their app. I know what gate I'll be arriving at and departing from.

  9. I bought a Lexus because it's a Toyota Camry under the hood. Can be fixed by any decent mechanic. Nicer interior, nothing more.

  10. Re:Athletes don't understand either on Baseball Players Want Robots To Be Their Umps (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    You're still going to need umpires to make calls on the rules, etc. Safe? Out? That's not really something that is easy to automate. But the strike zone is like using computer vision systems for line calls in tennis. It's in or it's out, and computer vision is pretty good at doing that. You don't have the situation (as often in team sports) where a crowd can form and block the view (think of a pile in football).

  11. Re:Sucks to be in USA on FDA Approves First Generic Version of EpiPen (go.com) · · Score: 1

    But not if you write “EpiPen”. Like I said, it’s not just a drug, it’s a device. Search medical fora if you don’t believe me. I’m an anesthesiologist, so I don’t have a clinic and thus don’t prescribe stuff, but I did it as a resident, and I’m quite familiar with the usual method. Doesn’t apply to this.

  12. Re:Sucks to be in USA on FDA Approves First Generic Version of EpiPen (go.com) · · Score: 2

    There are alternatives, but the prescription must state "epinephrine auto-injector", not "EpiPen" - if EpiPen is written, the other cannot be delivered, even if the prescription states that generic substitution is acceptable. I believe this is because it is a device rather than simply a drug.

  13. Re:With that giant backlighted Apple sticker? on Putting Stickers On Your Laptop is Probably a Bad Security Idea (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's always there; I think the point is that Apple uses power to keep it lit. Yeah, they've advertised their name from day one... but not at the expense of your battery life.

  14. Would anything of value be lost if they did? Never seen one live, but I've seen the aftermath of a couple, and frankly, this old Onion article was well-aimed.

  15. Until someone picked up? 300 bps almost never dropped carrier if someone picked up, 1200 bps only occasionally. I was into 14.4k before lost carriers really became an issue if anyone picked up. Before that, it was just extra noise on the line, which I was used to dealing with because we lived in an old neighborhood with above-ground lines. If it rained, you'd get staticky lines - even worse when the neighborhood squirrels decided to run and jump on said lines.

  16. Re:Great writeup on Facebook Bans the Sale of All Kodi Boxes (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Want to buy my Ceton InfiniTV 4-tuner card? Had it running on a Windows 7 MC machine until the thing became too unstable. Turns out it was the RAM, but by the time I'd figured that out, I'd already switched to TiVo for the WAF. It's just sitting there right now.

    It really was the best thing since ReplayTV went out of business. TiVo is OK, but it's not MC. Only downside I can see to your method is that an X360 is a lot louder than a TiVo Mini.

  17. Re:Sand "soft as powdered sugar"? Interesting... on The Ultra-Pure, Super-Secret Sand That Makes Your Phone Possible (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Find somewhere with finer sand. The Redneck Riviera^W^W "Emerald Coast" of Florida has very fine white sand. Still irritant if you rub yourself in it, but one hope's you're smarter than that. It's nowhere near as coarse or rough as sand most places. Plus, it squeaks when you walk on it.

  18. I’ve been away from civilization for a few days, hence the late reply, but no: Costco and Sams do not have the same basic business model. The superficial reaemblance is just that: superficial. Sams has a much higher store density, and it has always catered to groups like farm families - people who come into town once a month to buy everything they will need until the next visit - and small businesses who want to get foodservice-sized containers of staples, or resale display boxes of candy bars. Costcos are relatively far rarer, and cater to a very different demographic.

  19. Costco has a different business model. Very few employees, relatively few SKU’s, and no guarantee that you’ll be able to buy the same product next month. Also, no stores in poor or lightly populated areas. If they tried to be Walmart, they would end up looking like Walmart. It doesn’t scale like that.

    Costco is great if there’s one nearby, and you have enough disposable income to ignore the membership fee. But if you’re in the middle of nowhere, tough. They’re not serving you. I can get to seven Walmarts in a half-hour. Two Sam’s Clubs. But the nearest Costco is three hours away.

  20. Um, if it's not end-to-end encrypted with some pretty serious crypto that I trust, then I don't discuss anything important on it. You want to listen to me ask my wife if we need anything from the grocery, knock yourself out (while trying to stay within range of my car). Sensitive business stuff? No.

    Besides, TFA says that this only works if you have two vulnerable devices that are undergoing pairing. There are target-rich environments out there (e.g., the rental car lot at a major airport), but that doesn't strike me as a major attack vector unless you're the victim of a highly targeted state-sponsored attack, in which case you're probably screwed anyway.

  21. Re:magnets how do they work? on American Airlines Is Using a CT Scanner To Screen Luggage At New York's JFK Airport (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know for sure (I'm an anesthesiologist, not a radiologist), but I'd assume it's because the emitters are too big. Even a small emitter is between a coffee can and a two-liter soda bottle in size.

  22. Re:magnets how do they work? on American Airlines Is Using a CT Scanner To Screen Luggage At New York's JFK Airport (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't move slowly any more. Currently, you can get 320-slice scanners. That's at 0.5 mm per slice, so 16 cm per rotation of the imaging ring. At $300k, these probably aren't 320s, but then again, they don't need medical certification, so they can be quite a bit cheaper.

    Also, regarding metal shadows and scatters - if you think that plate in your daughter's arm is impressive, you ought to see one in someone who has had a lot of metal fillings in their teeth.

  23. Re:magnets how do they work? on American Airlines Is Using a CT Scanner To Screen Luggage At New York's JFK Airport (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    MRIs use magnets. CT uses X rays.

  24. Re:Speed on ADHD Drugs Aren't Doing What You Think, Scientists Warn (inverse.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It was first used for eye surgery, but when it's used today, it's primarily in nasal work - it's both a vasoconstrictor and a local anesthetic. Due to concerns about diversion, though, it's almost never used. I've been an anesthesiologist for twelve years, and I've seen it used once.

  25. Re: And there's always the possibility... on Why Startups Aren't Pushing the Feds To Break Up Big Tech (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Sarbanes-Oxley happened, and made being a public company a much less pleasant experience. That was a big influence.