Do you know that for sure? I imagine that if you pass it a huge file over standard input you might run into issues due to physical memory, but not knowing the implementation, that's about as far as I'd be willing to go. One can certainly imagine a case where giving it a file argument instead of standard input would result in it using an efficient approach for that circumstance.
Although I've heard the "dump more traffic on the off chance they'll decide that even though they're late for work and pissed at us for making this situation, they might come in and buy something anyway" argument, cutting four lanes down to three wider lanes (1 ea. dir + 1 turning lane) does, in fact, sometimes improve the traffic situation.
Those of us who don't use facebook are also affected by the facebug like icons on every website. First we have to waste time and bandwidth downloading it, it sometimes covers parts of the page we want to read, and it almost certainly is reporting everything about us to facebook whether we want to be part of their product or not.
Is there a list of facebook's cdn's? Just blocking [*.]facebook.com doesn't seem to be quite enough.
Only a dollar or two more expensive than "old-school bus?"
Numbers weren't in the article as far as I can tell, so where does this come from? How can anything billed at $5 + $0.60/mi be cheaper than a typical bus far? Just the starting price is more than a round-trip in a lot of cities...
Finland must have some cheap cabs if cab fare is only double a dollar or two more than the bus fare for any non-trivial commute.
That doesn't mean it actually benefits them, it just means that the administrators think it benefits them.
How many cities get conned into building a giant new sports stadium, and then stuck with all the costs? Do those ever break even? Yet the lure of "jobs" and the chance of cutting into a ribbon or digging into a small pile of dirt with an impractically shiny shovel never fails to draw out the so-called "leaders."
Gaming the system is fine. If the system was simpler, it wouldn't be possible to game. The really shady thing is when they buy the complifications, so that they can get their army of clever accountants (which wouldn't be needed in a simple scheme, and which don't actually produce any wealth....) can game them for all they're worth.
Insurance is a bet. Just like Blackjack Insurance is a bet that mitigates the possibility of the dealer getting a blackjack, regular insurance is a bet that mitigates "something bad and unlikely happened to me"
If you could wait until the cards were shown, it wouldn't be a bet any more, and no one would bother getting it until they needed something paid for. Which is a fancy way of saying that no one would get it at all, because if everyone who bought insurance for some condition needed that insurance to pay for treatment of that condition, the cost of insurance would, necessarily, be equal to the cost of treatment of the condition.
Under a "perfect libertarian world" the insurance companies would not be overburdened with regulations about what they had to provide insurance for *, and would be able to offer a plan that excludes already-known conditions, concentrating on what insurance is good at - hedge bets. It would still be a good deal for someone who had an existing condition, though, because it would cover everything else, and the chance that they would also get one of everything else is not changed by having the one condition.
* Although some regulations or standards should exist to define the default level of care. Exclusions should require special extra language, and so also be easier to scrutinize. Libertarians aren't anarchists.
If you're asking where someone who, at the time of diagnosis of a condition, was not insured for that condition would get the resources to treat it, we need an answer that doesn't encourage everyone to skip trying to provide for themselves and simply run to the state solution, because the state solution is not paid for voluntarily.
That isn't always the case in any field. Sometimes it really is less expensive to just fix the stuff that comes up.
Further, you can take any preventative measure and apply it in a way that the thing it's supposed to prevent would be cheaper to handle than the measure itself.
For instance, do you own a car? Change the oil ever 5k miles (7k some models) as the manufacturer recommends? How about every 3k miles as your mechanic recommends, that must be better, right? And if that's good, how about changing the oil every trip! That'd be the most preventative, and would obviously be really effective at avoiding engine problems resulting from dirty oil, and who cares if it would be cheaper to just buy a new car every year...
To be fair, the contagious period and the visible symptoms period don't necessarily overlap enough for it to matter - by the time you're symptomatic enough to realize you should stay home, you might have already infected your coworkers.
I blame workplaces that are stingy with sick-time and work-from-home time. (especially work-from-home time. Lots of things you could be sick with that you don't want to spread, but you're not impaired enough where you want to sit around doing nothing and getting behind. (and being bored...))
Fancy suspension I can understand, but Hydraulic brakes? Does that really make a difference for comfort? What makes them any better than a decent set of caliper brakes?
That sounds like a lot of work. Couldn't these highly industrious thieves you describe make a lot more money with a lot less hassle by just operating a legitimate bike customization, sales, and repair shop?
In ten pages of google scholar results, I couldn't find a single one where someone had actually performed the famous "boiling frog experiment."
I'm left to conclude that it has never actually been attempted and odds are fair that the frog will try to jump out when it gets too hot, unless the pot has a lid....
Is the National Enquirer a junk tabloid? They offer a lot of worthless "famous people news" (not really any worse than E!...), but the do also occasionally break actual newsworthy stories. At least one that the vaunted New York Times knew about and had decided not to report on.
Choosing not to report something because of a political agenda is one of the most insidious, vile things a news organization can do.
I heard on a radio show that the agents who help people find plans (and who have personal information attached to their accounts for the people who they are signing up), were having trouble signing in prior to the opening. The guy who was talking about it was upset about the forgotten password functionality, which apparently had emailed him his password with the wrong capitalization.
I'm sure that we should take radio show information with a grain of salt, but the thing he was upset about was that the capitalization was wrong, so he wouldn't (or thought he wouldn't) be able to use that password to sign in, not that they are apparently storing passwords in the database somewhere, or that they were sending that information using an electronic postcard.
This was just thrown out there as one of many problems, but the other issues he mentioned and focused on didn't seem as serious to me. Inefficient design is annoying, but surely it is not nearly as critical as insecure design when patient health and financial information is involved.
No, that site is garbage. It's a multiple column newspaper in a window. It sort-of recognizes a part of the problem, but it is a pretty dumb solution.
I'm not sure it's possible in a web page, but I think the proper way to do multi-column might be this:
1) only allow vertical scrolling 2) each column is continued on the next column in the same screen. No scrolling down then back to the top then down again to keep reading 3) scrolling works per column, each column flowing up/down and into the column to its left/right.
I think it would look weird at first, but would really be the proper way to go.
Either way, the beta does make the following improvement that I really want to praise:
It wraps text at the browser boundary. I can finally make my browser as narrow as I want and not have to 2D scroll all over the place (or change my user agent to iPod....) to have a nicely formatted column of news and comments to read while I do other stuff on the other side of my monitor.
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Do you know that for sure? I imagine that if you pass it a huge file over standard input you might run into issues due to physical memory, but not knowing the implementation, that's about as far as I'd be willing to go. One can certainly imagine a case where giving it a file argument instead of standard input would result in it using an efficient approach for that circumstance.
But that's also the point...
Why make boring parts?
Do the bookend cylinders in an oreo taste any different from rice cakes?
if they can pull some meaning out of data-mining my text replies to other people's posts, then more power to them.
Yes, you have identified the problem.
Although I've heard the "dump more traffic on the off chance they'll decide that even though they're late for work and pissed at us for making this situation, they might come in and buy something anyway" argument, cutting four lanes down to three wider lanes (1 ea. dir + 1 turning lane) does, in fact, sometimes improve the traffic situation.
Those of us who don't use facebook are also affected by the facebug like icons on every website. First we have to waste time and bandwidth downloading it, it sometimes covers parts of the page we want to read, and it almost certainly is reporting everything about us to facebook whether we want to be part of their product or not.
Is there a list of facebook's cdn's? Just blocking [*.]facebook.com doesn't seem to be quite enough.
Only a dollar or two more expensive than "old-school bus?"
Numbers weren't in the article as far as I can tell, so where does this come from? How can anything billed at $5 + $0.60/mi be cheaper than a typical bus far? Just the starting price is more than a round-trip in a lot of cities...
Finland must have some cheap cabs if cab fare is only double a dollar or two more than the bus fare for any non-trivial commute.
If we had real competition, the overhead would tend toward zero....
That doesn't mean it actually benefits them, it just means that the administrators think it benefits them.
How many cities get conned into building a giant new sports stadium, and then stuck with all the costs? Do those ever break even? Yet the lure of "jobs" and the chance of cutting into a ribbon or digging into a small pile of dirt with an impractically shiny shovel never fails to draw out the so-called "leaders."
Gaming the system is fine. If the system was simpler, it wouldn't be possible to game. The really shady thing is when they buy the complifications, so that they can get their army of clever accountants (which wouldn't be needed in a simple scheme, and which don't actually produce any wealth....) can game them for all they're worth.
Insurance is a bet. Just like Blackjack Insurance is a bet that mitigates the possibility of the dealer getting a blackjack, regular insurance is a bet that mitigates "something bad and unlikely happened to me"
If you could wait until the cards were shown, it wouldn't be a bet any more, and no one would bother getting it until they needed something paid for. Which is a fancy way of saying that no one would get it at all, because if everyone who bought insurance for some condition needed that insurance to pay for treatment of that condition, the cost of insurance would, necessarily, be equal to the cost of treatment of the condition.
Under a "perfect libertarian world" the insurance companies would not be overburdened with regulations about what they had to provide insurance for *, and would be able to offer a plan that excludes already-known conditions, concentrating on what insurance is good at - hedge bets. It would still be a good deal for someone who had an existing condition, though, because it would cover everything else, and the chance that they would also get one of everything else is not changed by having the one condition.
* Although some regulations or standards should exist to define the default level of care. Exclusions should require special extra language, and so also be easier to scrutinize. Libertarians aren't anarchists.
If you're asking where someone who, at the time of diagnosis of a condition, was not insured for that condition would get the resources to treat it, we need an answer that doesn't encourage everyone to skip trying to provide for themselves and simply run to the state solution, because the state solution is not paid for voluntarily.
That isn't always the case in any field. Sometimes it really is less expensive to just fix the stuff that comes up.
Further, you can take any preventative measure and apply it in a way that the thing it's supposed to prevent would be cheaper to handle than the measure itself.
For instance, do you own a car? Change the oil ever 5k miles (7k some models) as the manufacturer recommends? How about every 3k miles as your mechanic recommends, that must be better, right? And if that's good, how about changing the oil every trip! That'd be the most preventative, and would obviously be really effective at avoiding engine problems resulting from dirty oil, and who cares if it would be cheaper to just buy a new car every year...
To be fair, the contagious period and the visible symptoms period don't necessarily overlap enough for it to matter - by the time you're symptomatic enough to realize you should stay home, you might have already infected your coworkers.
I blame workplaces that are stingy with sick-time and work-from-home time. (especially work-from-home time. Lots of things you could be sick with that you don't want to spread, but you're not impaired enough where you want to sit around doing nothing and getting behind. (and being bored...))
That's about frogs that have had their brains removed....
That could be solved with visual indication in the game itself, though.
But in VHS v. BETA the better format did win out...
If you're spending carbon frame money, why not spend a tiny fraction more on gluing rfid to the inside of the frame....
I would love to live in a place where the #1 social problem was bike theft.
Fancy suspension I can understand, but Hydraulic brakes? Does that really make a difference for comfort? What makes them any better than a decent set of caliper brakes?
That sounds like a lot of work. Couldn't these highly industrious thieves you describe make a lot more money with a lot less hassle by just operating a legitimate bike customization, sales, and repair shop?
In ten pages of google scholar results, I couldn't find a single one where someone had actually performed the famous "boiling frog experiment."
I'm left to conclude that it has never actually been attempted and odds are fair that the frog will try to jump out when it gets too hot, unless the pot has a lid....
Is the National Enquirer a junk tabloid? They offer a lot of worthless "famous people news" (not really any worse than E!...), but the do also occasionally break actual newsworthy stories. At least one that the vaunted New York Times knew about and had decided not to report on.
Choosing not to report something because of a political agenda is one of the most insidious, vile things a news organization can do.
I heard on a radio show that the agents who help people find plans (and who have personal information attached to their accounts for the people who they are signing up), were having trouble signing in prior to the opening. The guy who was talking about it was upset about the forgotten password functionality, which apparently had emailed him his password with the wrong capitalization.
I'm sure that we should take radio show information with a grain of salt, but the thing he was upset about was that the capitalization was wrong, so he wouldn't (or thought he wouldn't) be able to use that password to sign in, not that they are apparently storing passwords in the database somewhere, or that they were sending that information using an electronic postcard.
This was just thrown out there as one of many problems, but the other issues he mentioned and focused on didn't seem as serious to me. Inefficient design is annoying, but surely it is not nearly as critical as insecure design when patient health and financial information is involved.
No, that site is garbage. It's a multiple column newspaper in a window. It sort-of recognizes a part of the problem, but it is a pretty dumb solution.
I'm not sure it's possible in a web page, but I think the proper way to do multi-column might be this:
1) only allow vertical scrolling
2) each column is continued on the next column in the same screen. No scrolling down then back to the top then down again to keep reading
3) scrolling works per column, each column flowing up/down and into the column to its left/right.
I think it would look weird at first, but would really be the proper way to go.
Either way, the beta does make the following improvement that I really want to praise:
It wraps text at the browser boundary. I can finally make my browser as narrow as I want and not have to 2D scroll all over the place (or change my user agent to iPod....) to have a nicely formatted column of news and comments to read while I do other stuff on the other side of my monitor.
And if it hadn't ceded the market by coming out a year later....