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  1. Re:-1 Copied from Republican Talking Points on HealthCare.gov Back-End Status: See You In September · · Score: 1

    when govt changes its measurement in the middle of the experiment, it means its policy is failing...

  2. Re:"What difference on HealthCare.gov Back-End Status: See You In September · · Score: 1

    My fix for ACA - Leave.

  3. Re: Supposed loss of insurance on HealthCare.gov Back-End Status: See You In September · · Score: 1

    These are hyperinflated cost structures or fraudulent billings in the US. In other parts of the world, prices are much, much lower. In fact, overseas, one might skip the insurance altogether and medical costs are lower than your 20% deductible. Cash colonoscopy, $600-750. Diabetes, lots of very cheap treatments, going out of control is expensive. I pay for advanced stage IV cancer chemo treatments totally out of pocket - outside the US.

  4. Diss Putin contracts... on SpaceX Files Suit Against US Air Force · · Score: 1

    Remember Alexander Litvinenko. Diss putin can get you killed.

  5. monetizing corp(se) on Verizon's Plan To Snoop On Its Customers · · Score: 1

    Base station your house and use the older tech for a few miles radius. Takes care of day-to-day needs.

  6. 1984+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4,,,, on Identity Dominance: the US Military's Biometric War In Afghanistan · · Score: 2

    Frightening. Societally, worse than the diseases and broken bodies that come home from these wars. Many third world countries will soon be more free than the USSA - time to emigrate.

  7. cagw... on Asteroid Impacts Bigger Risk Than Thought · · Score: 0

    ...hype is running out of steam. Now we'll see used meteor shield salesmen in academia looking for govt tit and power.

  8. Fermi Paradox answered... on Drones On Demand · · Score: 1

    Now we know what happens, -ed to intelligent life at a certain stage.

  9. yep on Russia Writes Off 90 Percent of North Korea Debt · · Score: 1

    ...except it might not be too mysterious. Potential win for everyone, if they half way behave themselves...

  10. Microsoft Ofc often incompatible/incompetent on Apache OpenOffice Reaches 100 Million Downloads. Now What? · · Score: 2

    At the Office 2003/2007 interface, I had better luck with Open Office displaying some documents between Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 than with either Excel. Microsoft internal document standards are a farce.

  11. old fools... on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a senile old socialist.

  12. time... on CSIRO Scientists' Aquaculture Holy Grail: Fish-Free Prawn Food · · Score: 3, Informative

    ....will tell as to the "superiority" of these prawns. For those of us that grew up with the "superiority" of margarine over butter, high carb foods over paleo etc I'm willing to watch for 5-10 years first, see what the food chemistry and real problems turn out to be.

  13. Gloomberg on Michael Bloomberg: You Can't Teach a Coal Miner To Code · · Score: 1

    We should consider clean coal plants and dump Bloomberg not so gently. CAGW is a scam....

  14. falling behind on Why There Are So Few ISP Start-Ups In the U.S. · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Parts of Asia have their act together. The US is largely a 2nd world country in terms of internet access and rates.

  15. a lot of innocent neighbors... on Florida Judge Rules IP Address Can't Identify a BitTorrent Pirate · · Score: 2

    ...and grandparents can breathe easier today.

  16. The 100 on Mute Witness: Forensic Sketches From Nothing But DNA · · Score: 1

    Imagine when they investigate 100 sperm donor siblings or "cousins"...

  17. conspiracy is irrelevant... on Survey Finds Nearly 50% In US Believe In Medical Conspiracy Theories · · Score: 2

    but there are a lot of cheaper, better therapies that are ignored or attacked by pharmaceutical, medical interests, whether natural substances or generic drugs used off label. The FDA essentially promotes expensive, less effective, often dangerous therapies that are officially blessed. I've saved $40,000+ a month recognizing this situation the last several years, with better research and results in my family when the doctors themselves said no real hope several years ago.

  18. kids' "skynet" on Medicine Delivered By Flying Drones · · Score: 1

    Better that having butterfly nets. Free samples galore.

  19. SAT abandons the most promising of undiscovered on College Board To Rethink the SAT, Partner With Khan Academy · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the College Board will concentrate on evaluating an increasingly dysfunctional middle and abandoning the top 0.1-2% with the SAT. Probably a battery of advanced, expensive achievement / AP tests for the top 2%-5% well educated students, forget about finding untrained native ability. This is a disaster to the poor but promising who can't afford to great schools.

  20. years before Fukashima happened on Why Improbable Things Really Aren't · · Score: 1

    Fukashima was a multifactorial accident waiting to happen. Never improbable. e.g. Low seawall height, aux power location, tie in location, dense packed stations.

  21. sales and use taxes on German Court Forbids Resale of Valve Games · · Score: 2

    ...use is what would apply on a lease.

  22. citizens on DARPA Seeks the Holy Grail of Search Engines · · Score: 1

    ....needed to address distributed aggregation, analysis, and presentation of citizens' content."
    FTFY

  23. Re:poor on Study: Some Antioxidants Could Increase Cancer Rates · · Score: 2

    A trivial case is folinic acid, aka leucovorin, which is used with 5 flourouracil as the 5FU-LV pair and with third and fourth adjuvants. Old hat. Note: common folic acid is an oxidized precursor of folinic acid.

    "Show" is a relative term to the level of evidence. Your tone implies you are looking for grade A evidence, with multiple multimillion dollar trials. There are a lot of lower level evidence cases and what is more important is the individual case. Extensive individualized lab work is already doable but not common. Few spend multimillions for large trials on commodities. Yet.

  24. poor on Study: Some Antioxidants Could Increase Cancer Rates · · Score: 1

    ....word choice. Some antioxidants are good killers of cancer cells, and some aren't. Like various chemotherapies, you need to know which ones in which combinations and dosages work, and which don't, for a particular cancer.

    Been there, done that, works well. This article just sounds like another pharma shill attack on supplements.

  25. Re:The real point of Detroit [3rd wld]... on Detroit Wants Its Own High-Tech Visa · · Score: 1

    ...forgot the unsustainably high, 3rd world tax levels part.