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>we rarely spend $20K a year on actual dental and miscellaneous medical expenses

Yes and no.. I'm estimating $20k/4 = $5k/person for dental/medical. I mean.. with the arbitrary costs of things, that's not too insane. To say "rarely" doesn't do it justice.. pregnancy+kid? That's probably AT LEAST $15k without complications, so that boosts up the average. Young kids need a lot of visits/stuff..

Anyway, yeah I still agree that $5k/person is a bit high on what is actually spent by people if we took the whole population. Although there are so many extremes that bump up the numbers that maybe it isn't?

>Its the catastrophic stuff that's the real, entire reason for the insurance.

I agree with that.. sort of. But I think it's a misnomer to call "health insurance" just insurance.. I'm also supposed to use "health insurance" for annual visits to make sure everyone is ok. That's not insurance, that is simply keeping people healthy and a NECESSITY.

"Life insurance" is for the very unlikely situation that I will die in my 30s, and I want my family to have some security if I do.

"Health insurance" is an absolute NECESSITY because people get sick, they break bones, they have babies. We lump all this normal stuff to stay healthy in the same category as "cancer" or a massive car accident.

>Clear?

Not at all. Because you haven't given me any options. I 100% NEED "health insurance" or rather "regular health care + health insurance for the extreme" for my family. Agreed? My options are to either pay this ridiculous amount of money or have no insurance and "hope for the best". What a great country we are!
This is nothing new, in the Tim Cook era they've been overly eager to shout loudly about social issues on stage and in the press.

Yet when it comes down to rich markets like this situation, the Taiwan's flag emoji being disabled or disabling the pride flag/watch face in Russia and the Middle East, these ideals go right out the window.

Only happy to shout loud on these issues when there are zero repercussions about them, second it could possibly mean a dip in profits they roll over in an instant.
I don't really understand. What could I do with this that I couldn't do with cron? Or is it that somebody who can't use cron could use this? Or that this is more reliable than cron?
Using all your cores for the same workload would mean it finishes faster or finishes in the same time with significantly lower frequency. It saves power and heat. Your example would mean using more cores for the same amount of time, which makes no sense in this comparison.

Do you also buy single core computers to save power?

It is clear that what you are saying has nothing to do with javascript features at all and just boils down to not liking bloated web pages.
It wouldn't work - you would just get arrested. I think that's part of the point - there are consequences for adults exhibiting this sort of behavior where there are arguably very few/none for children.

As much as I love watching the "Ray Velcoro Beats Up Bully's Dad" bit, it's just Hollywood. If someone pulled a stunt like beating up a principal, or an abuser's father, you would immediately be a criminal and you'd be legally destroyed to the full extent of the law. You'd likely lose your job, etc etc. These same legal consequences just don't exist bullies - and I think they should (with obvious due process and clear evidence).
That's not how herd immunity works.
Isn't sucking what a vacuum cleaner's supposed to do ? :)
> Most of the support for Brexit came from tabloid newspapers owned by the ultra-rich.

Aren't most newspapers owned by the ultra-rich? Couldn't you just make the exact same arguments you leveled against your political opponents (that they were hoodwinked by "the media") against your own position? At the end of the day, people showed up and voted for something. Twice (basically). That means something.
You just know there's a joke about making the entire car out of plastic in here...
Really nice. Having to convert ipynb files was a bit awkward. VS Code is really growing on me.
> if any one person at Apple (including the CEO) is not at all times acting solely to maximize the profit to their shareholders they will be replaced by someone who will.

Google apple largest shareholders
100 years seems like an arbitrary cutoff, and we sure as hell "antagonized" Mexico on our way to becoming a superpower not that much earlier than that by... Taking half their territory.

Canada has almost always been a virtual non-entity due to things like their incredible population sparsity and longitudinal cultural/economic integration with regions of the US. They are a counterexample, but the pattern very much points in my direction IMO.

On top of that, we're talking about _becoming_ a superpower, not being one. Once you're already a superpower, your neighbors often become varying degrees of vassal, which is why Mexico and Canada are among our closest allies. You're hardly a superpower if you haven't neutralized your neighbors (diplomatically or otherwise). Look at the blood feuds over tiny bits of land in the rest of the world, and consider how cool Mexico seemingly is with their land's massive, unprovoked conquest. They accepted it (and their good relationship with us) because they didn't have a better choice.

How many superpowers can you think of that didn't antagonize their neighbors, especially on their way to becoming one? Rome? Persia? Britain? Russia?
Why? You want to meddle in politics of foreign countries?
Where are all the Hollywood stars, NBA players and silicon valley software engineers fighting for SJW causes, bravely protesting Trump, cheering for other people to loose jobs. Oh, right this is now about their money and their livelihood. I guess not so brave after all.
Yeah, I actually like the speed with which it can build images. But it's a risk that it's an entirely different implementation. If you have a team of people to deal with maintenance, then it's worth it. If you don't, then when an incompatibility crops up, you're stuck until you can hack around it. Having a really well maintained docker ruleset is crucial if you don't have that team
You didn't try iOS? =)

The XCode cross-compile is incredibly smooth, and the runtime is complete ass. Qt really messed up high-DPI support and it has no better example of this than iOS.
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I think in-part because Apple was able to move into the smartphone business and grow so much as a result it has other companies thinking they could do the same.

Also, it could be some of these companies have existential threats that they must try something big and new or risk going out of business or being forced to sell to a rival.
i could not find a simple/minimal d3 timeseries example. these are huge and very explicit:

https://bl.ocks.org/d3netxer/10a28b7aee406f4e7fce

https://bl.ocks.org/robyngit/89327a78e22d138cff19c6de7288c1c...

if you know d3 well enough to faithfully match what the benchmarks do, then please submit a PR. or at least point me to a minimal demo.

maybe i can do one using c3.js, which is d3-based: https://c3js.org/samples/timeseries.html

this demo uses SVG, so it will very likely be poor. i don't know if there's an option to use a d3 canvas-based backend?

it does not appear so: https://github.com/c3js/c3/pull/1436#issuecomment-302930456
Admittedly that excludes housing benefit, but again, when they are forbidden from working, where and how are they supposed to live?

The stipend is for food and all other living expenses - clothes, heating etc.
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This does not work. Vaccinations aren't just for those being vaccinated, they're also for people like my mother and sister who are immuno-compromised and can't risk being exposed by some unvaccinated kid whose mom was scared they'd develop autism.
How short do you think those "short bursts of rapid change" are?

Even the wikipedia article has an section on how common your misconception is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium#Saltati...
> cure himself of lactose intolerance

Which is funny, because lactose intolerance is actually the norm, before a bunch of ancient Europeans decided that they'd figure out how to live off cows and there was selection pressure to extend lactose tolerance out of infancy where it normally remains
If their customers want it, it should not be removed.
Do you have any concrete evidence to back this up? Labeling other as bots/shills or propaganda accounts is a common tactic to silence people you don't agree with.
Lots of small teams make prototype/custom cars. The harder part is scaling up production to make thousands.
He didn't say the infrastructure wasn't fast enough, he said it doesn't exist. My garage is where my electric vehicle refuels, and it only needs to handle 1 car per day at peak usage. Public fast chargers don't need to handle the same peak usage as petrol stations when less than 1 in 100 cars are electric. You need some infrastructure, but you don't need to build it for 2050-level usage in 2019.
I am Jeremy Soller, Principal Engineer at System76.

Let me know if you have any questions. The source for this can be found here:

https://github.com/system76/firmware-open

There are instructions there for building and testing the firmware in QEMU, you do not need to have our hardware to try it out.
> The next generations of humans won't have it as easy as those of us lucky enough to live in the developed world today.

Do you really think so? We continue to make great strides in improving availability of food and clean water and reducing disease and war across the world. Yes, perhaps in ten generations, and for whatever reasons, humanity will be living in a climate 1 degree warmer than what we have adapted to today, but they will be capable of their own adaptation. They will look back at the quality of our lives the same way we look back at the quality of life ten generations before us.
I am happy, successful, married, no complaints, super fortunate.

And there isn't a day that goes by where I don't think of the teasing and physical injuries I suffered in middle school. I have no doubt it affects things like career decisions and my reactions to violent scenes in entertainment media. I am literally afraid of having children because I don't want to witness a loved one go through anything similar (or worse, have them experience cyber-bullying, which I think would be way worse).
24 core ppc64le system, 5.4-rc2, defconfig, loadable modules on and built:

real 1m55.267s

Run from tmpfs, all protections from Spectre etc. on. Not too bad, really!
>No

I asked multiple questions, I'm not sure which one you are responding to.
People sell propaganda like that because it sells. Fear and xenophobia have always sold newspapers. It’s the selling newspapers that they’re getting rich from, Brexit is just a side effect.

When he was a journalist in Brussels, Boris Johnson used to turn up to news briefs and ask his fellow hacks “So what’s going on, and why is it bad for Britain”. The papers cheerfully blame Brussels for outrageous new EU rules, eating away at British sovereignty, er, sponsored by the British government. Johnson even railed against EU transport rules he campaigned for as Transport secretary.

Bashing foreigners is ever green, as a source of tabloid outrage journalism.
The reading I did years ago stressed that you should definitely cycle batteries to as close as Zero as possible, but if you want to do long-term storage keep them at 40%. Seems like there is a lot of myth around how batteries work and proper practice. A unified resource on this would be great!
I taught Python to my 8 years old son using this book https://www.amazon.com/DK-Workbooks-Computer-Coding/dp/14654...
>If you've used one and don't get it, you may not be the target audience.

I need to clean things, I think I'm the target audience!

Maybe from what you say then the V10 could swing me (certainly sounds like it has the issues that annoy me sorted out), but that's what was said about the V6 - corded replacement, easy empty, long running time, etc!
this is a very interesting comment here because it exposes how different the chinese and american polities really are.

america is not a unified bloc, internally. nor does it aspire to be. the differences between a city in massachusetts and a city in louisiana are greater than the differences between a city in massachusetts and a city in ontario -- and ontario's in a different country altogether. in other words, social and cultural distance between two regions in the US can be significantly higher than the cultural distance from one region in the US to another country. i do not think the same principle applies to china. for china, its neighbors are decidedly alien, so the cultural distance between regions within china seems very small in comparison, even if in reality it is substantial.

to return to the OP's example: if alabama tried to secede, i'd be fine with letting them go. heck, i'd be glad they even tried to leave, because it would make a credible threat to the federal government that other states would follow along and also secede if things didn't improve promptly.

i wouldn't wish them success though, because knowing that it's alabama, i would assume that their reasons for secession were incompatible with my vision for the country. in other words, if a state liek alabama really tried to secede, my position would be that they probably weren't going to be compatible with the best iteration of america anyway -- perhaps because they'd come off as a neo-confederate or something similarly regrettable.

but in principle, i don't think i would support efforts to stop them leaving or claiming more rights. i'd prefer apple to not handicap them to appease the federal government, even if i don't like the alabamans or their values very much. why?

because i understand that a restriction targeting them today will be used against me tomorrow. and i resent the idea that a private company can dictate what my hardware runs, especially retroactively.
Things aren't so black and white behind the scenes. Whether or not a boycott is "minuscule" isn't measured in dollars, it's how the brand is perceived and the second-order effects that perception creates.
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There's been numerous studies showing that Magnesium (and the balance of magnesium vs calcium) plays a crucial role in many bodily function including brain functions and reducing depression.

I suspect what's happening here is that these people are eating more veggies and nuts and whole grains thus getting more magnesium in their diet.
>Apple's expulsion from China/HK

There is 0% chance of this happening. Right now the PRC is heavily relying on the majority of the mainland China population not looking too closely at what's happening in HK, and just considering it "a few students making trouble". But if all Apple services suddenly stop working, there's going to be a huge "hang on a sec, what's going on again?" reaction, which will lead to an incredible amount of trouble for the PRC.
I wish this was true. I've had cartilage damage in my elbow from sports and have gone through major surgery over it. This technology has always been '10 years away'; from mesh or paste with stem cells, to other 'new' technology to regrow it. It simply is not there yet. I check every year, I reach out to any doctor starting a clinical trial. Hyaline cartilage does not regenerate naturally. The best they can do is get the body to reproduce Fibro cartilage which is essentially scar tissue. For those wondering about what treatments are available, check out Microfracture (breaks bone to release bone marrow cells to generate Fibro), OATs (osteochondral autograft transfer system) which pulls cartilage out of other areas and then places them in the damaged area. If this were to ever be true, it would be the biggest breakthrough in quality of life improvements for seniors as they are the most likely to experience breakdown in cartilage in joints. It severely limits their mobility.
Obviously I can't provide evidence supporting my understandings gained from personal relationships and private conversations. No, I haven't conducted some large-scale peer-reviewed survey. Of course they don't exist.

I don't know what you imagine I might have to gain from "spreading propaganda". I'm simply trying to explain, from my understanding, how "the other side" often feels. I don't know where you think "bias" enters into it. I've even explicitly said I totally disagree. I don't know what else to say?
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I agree. I wasted a lot of time and money on bagless vacuums before realizing that I spent more time cleaning and futzing with them than with the actual vacuuming. Got a Panasonic bagged upright and it is nice; cleans well and I don't have to do anything but throw the bag away after a while.
I think the Dyson hand dryers work really well, the ones where you stick in your hands vertically. No other design of blowing hot air around your hands actually does the job it's supposed to do.

And even the knockoffs of the Dyson design from other companies don't work as good as the Dysons, I recently had one that was build too short so I couldn't fit the whole hand in there.

But yeah the household appliances just seem to expensive.
> ...I think Google is making it worse and worse with each passing day. I was thinking of switching to Apple...

As you have noticed, neither one really have consumer and citizen interests at heart.

I'm planning on taking the step of opting out completely. I plan to build my own "phone". I recently purchased a low-cost Mini-PCIe 4G module, antennas, and a USB adapter. I should be able to tether it to a RasPi.

My "phone" won't actually look like a phone; it's going to be more of a "data terminal" - something to hack on, send/receive data, and have SMS texting capabilities. I pretty much never use voice calling anyway.

Everything I plan on doing, others have already done in various forms. You can find Raspberry Pi based homebrew "cell phones". People have also made similar phones using the Arduino and the ESP microcontrollers (8266, 12, 32, etc), among others (there are probably PIC and Propellor based phones, too - heck, I wouldn't be surprised if someone repurposed a modern 8051 or 52, or Z80 core controller for such a device). Some of these phones are purely basic - make and take calls, maybe some stored phone numbers. Other run entire operating systems under-the-hood.

I guess what I am saying here is that if you have electronics hacking skills, consider a homebrew phone an option. It may not be pretty, it may not be svelte, it may not even be 4G (2 and 3G modules are cheaper and more common) - but it will be (mostly - unless you have your own mad skills at FPGA design and more) yours.

Bonus points if you make it run on TempleOS!

If you don't have those skills? Well - it wouldn't be a bad project to work towards. Don't take it on as your "first project" though - instead, build up to it, then when you think you have enough experience to take it on, go thru your idea, break it down into manageable parts, and work on those individually for small successes, and later, start merging them together - just like any large project, success is more a matter of "divide and conquer", as looking at it as a whole can lead to feeling inadequate, or being demoralized at finishing, etc...
Excuse me for the misunderstanding, I live in Europe where middle and high school are one. It is not compulsory anymore after reaching 18yrs old or after getting a diploma.

Still then, having a high school diploma doesn't make any difference at all in the job market, it's a worthless paper most people never need. Almost everything learned in middle and high school is worth 0$, while in real life pretty much only the dollars count. When people come to my company looking for a job I only hire them when they have the skill and are nice persons to be around, I'm not interested in whatever diploma or certificates.
Maybe both of these cancer-causing things are bad.
> the CCP still manages to make life better for the average Chinese

Only if you are an average Chinese that toes the party line, and even then you've got to be careful. Otherwise, if you are Christian, Muslim, Falun Gong, Tibetan Buddhist, or any other ideology that threatens the communist monopoly on authority then you are 'disappeared' and your organs end up in some rich Westerner or a research lab.

It is a false comparison to look at whom tyranny benefits. Tyranny always benefits someone, else there wouldn't be a tyrant. The real question is who does the tyranny harm.
I find gradle is something like doing thing diligently what should not be done in first place. It seems clear though Oracle/OpenJDK have no interest in putting some fucking options in `javac` itself to compile project/module or even package. Users must wade through maven/gradle crap every time even to compile pure Java projects.
Even with the most generous imagination to the incentive toward making the system effective, that doesn't mean that the results would be good.

What happens when your kid needs a hug? You give them a hug. What happens when a ward of the state needs a hug? In the age of "me too", of awareness of abuse of the helpless by those with power, the person in charge of the children may not be allowed to give them a hug. Even if they are, they may have 30 kids. Hugs will therefore be less frequent per kid, because the adult doesn't have the time to do that plus take care of the 30 kids in all the other ways that are needed.

Kids need to be loved. Bureaucrats don't love. Even day care workers don't love in the way that parents love.

But this much is true: If all the children were raised as wards of the state, then the children involved would have average educational attainment and lifetime salary growth, by definition. That doesn't mean that the outcome would be good, though.
> Dyson hand dryers in public toilets

Just disgusting mold and bacteria traps, absolutely terrible design, just blows the water back in on itself and it collects or leaks down the side of the walls. Give me an Xlerator Dryer any day.
Spinning rust may well be the bottleneck here.
My guess is that if the object can record for itself which slit it went through, the effect would stop.
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I like the people I work with, I am still growing despite the environment, and I am in the middle of a major project and don't want to quit before it is done.
I don't know if you've used a B&O TV lately - crap
>That's not really much more information - revoke if the deal is not accepted?

If the deal is not accepted, then referendum on may's deal vs remain, and they will campaign to remain. As I said.

>What do they actually want from the deal?

Single market and customs union as per the manifesto.

>What is the party's true desired outcome, being in the EU or not being in the EU?

Soft brexit.

>It's very hard to form an accurate picture of Corbyn

It's really not, but it's really easy to hear on the news that "it's confusing" and form an opinion that "it's confusing" even if it's actually, y'know, not
This is not accurate at all.

If you want to make an American analogy, it's more like if Puerto Rico wanted independence from the US. Because the US kept violating it's citizens human rights.

That said Hong Kong is a fairly unique situation that doesn't accurately compare to any others in recent history.
.50 BMG (aka 12.7x99) is the common NATO heavy cartridge. The .338 Lapua Magnum is a more modern cartridge and briefly had several record-holding shots, but the .50 BMG again has the lead.

The equivalent Warsaw pact round woud be the 14.5x114 (.57 cal) and is the third round with confirmed hits from a rifle at over 2km.

Note that both the 12.7x99 and the 14.5x114 are heavy machine gun rounds while the .338 lapua is specifically designed for rifles (at least I'm not aware of an HMG that fires them). It turns out that for long range you want a heavy bullet moving really fast with low-drag. an HMG cartridge fitted with a low-drag bullet does that pretty well.