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You can even get that without having some prescription that your insurance has made a special deal with. I currently have 3 prescriptions at Walmart and 1 at Safeway, all of them generics that I'm not using insurance for. I'm paying the cash price for the Walmart ones, and using GoodRx for the Safeway one.

It used to be all 4 at Walmart, and then something utterly ridiculous happened. For the non-US readers who won't believe this idiocy, I swear it is true. We really do put up with this nonsense.

One of them was for irbesartan. I'm supposed to take it twice a day, 150 mg each time. The prescription was written for 30 x 300 mg tablets, which I split in two (irbesartan comes in a rod shaped tablet that you can easily split it two by hand).

This is $9 cash at Walmart.

But then there were some irbesartan recalls (although not affecting the manufacturer of any tablets I had). There was a shortage of 300 mg tablets, and Walmart was having trouble refilling my prescription.

So we had my doctor change it to from 30 x 300 mg tablets to 60 x 150 mg tablets. The cash price for 30 x 150 mg is $9 at Walmart, same as 30 x 300 mg. (I'd guess that for this drug, most of the cost is in filler and binder, so that is probably not unreasonable). So I'd expect 60 x 150 mg to be $18.

Walmart filled that, and when I went to pick it up...it was something like $300. WTF!? So they double checked, and found out that it had actually been written as 180 x 150 mg. They redid it as 60 x 150 mg, which dropped the price to about $100. So, still a big WTF.

According to GoodRx it should be $24 cash (still a WTF...why not $18?). Since this is one that GoodRx thinks has a good cash price at Walmart, GoodRx does not offer a coupon for it there. I showed the pharmacist the listing in the GoodRx app, and he agreed to honor that price, so I got my prescription for $24.

GoodRx did have a coupon for Safeway, for 60 x 150 mg for around $13, so when it was time to re-fill that, I move it there. (That changed to about $18 next month).

I ran out of re-fills about 3 months later and so needed a new prescription, and by then 300 mg was readily available again so asked for 90 x 300 mg, which was $21 with a GoodRx coupon at Safeway.
This is in Bloomberg. Who themselves have announced they are Mike's propaganda. Skimmed the article and couldn't find any reason it's a story /today/. Why is it a story today? Speculate.

The US healthcare system is third world standard. Great if you're rich, horrendous if you're not. Just like say, India, for example. US is the richest country on earth. Any story about US healthcare not mentioning how much worse it is than every other industrialized nation runs the risk of impersonating propaganda.

So if this isn't propaganda they've disguised it effectively.

Remember when we used to make jokes about Pravda. Radio Moscow. Here we are in the free world. We can do better about sensible policy discussion than this. Really.
I've seen this posted all over the internet to great acclaim, and honestly, it just feels feverish and desperate to me, grasping at tiny points as if they refute the central thesis.

For example, the point that you linked to says that the official recommendations on sleep are "7 to 9 hours", which Walker simplified to "an average of 8 hours". I don't see how this simplification is so bad. The point is that these numbers are all much higher than the 5-6 hours many people claim to subsist on. It doesn't even change the numbers that much: slightly more than half of people sleep less than 8 hours, and slightly less than half of people sleep less than 7 hours. This nitpick does not refute the central point that having 5-6 hours of sleep generally impairs you, it only takes aim at phrasing.

I find point #2 (of 5) in this article especially laughable. Here it's claimed that sleep deprivation is actually a good thing, because it can be used as a temporary treatment for severe depression. Under this logic, bulimia is a healthy habit because you should induce vomiting after being poisoned.
Not sure why this links to section 5 but the entire page is worth reading. It a little ironic to say that this article changed my perspective on sleeping (considering this article is showing how you shouldn't believe the first thing you read) but given how little research I had done prior, I think I at least know now that there's a lot more that I don't know.
That certainly depends on where you are and your general health. But as it stands at the time of this writing, the mortality rate for COVID19 and Influenza are both about 2-3%.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6815659/
Oops, I didn't mean to link to an anchor! I don't see a way for me to fix that. Apologies.
I change my own oil 9 times out of 10, my point is its not noteworthy whether I do it or a dealer does it.

It's just a task that has to be done.

Some dealers will do a better job than me and some will do a worse job, but for the most part at the end of the day the task is usually done.

Likewise with cooking.

Some experiences will be worse, it might cost more it might take a while, but at the end of the day on average I will have food that is enjoyable.

And if eating out is 2x eating in, it doesn't matter to most people if they can afford both.
I think it reduces the risk to consumers, but it won’t eliminate the need. It’ll be a long while before my entire Steam library will be available via subscription.
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> The "point" of buying Lucasarts from Disnye's point of view was to apply a lot of money and some of the magic they've used on the Marvel franchise to make a truly vast amount of money, get a bunch of critical acclaim, and set up the franchise as a money spinning machine that will keep filling theatres for spinoff movies every year forever. Instead they merely made a very large amount of money, the critics said the last movie stunk, and the fanbase seems deeply disinterested in more movies, which had led to them cancelling a bunch of planned movies.

Sounds like they shouldn't care what the fans think. I mean, existing comic book readers aren't the target audience for the Marvel movies anymore. If they want Star Wars to reach similar success, then they need to build a loyal fan base an order of magnitude larger, of which traditional fans make up only a small amount.
I understand your point, but comparatively $30 for 30 minutes isn't that expensive considering you (seemingly) don't have to worry about insurance.
Also, I didn't read his point 2 as saying sleep deprivation is good. I see it as refuting the idea that not having "enough" sleep absolutely bad.
To be honest, it was way better than the prequels...
My experience with selenium is that the tests broke more often than the UI, whether through timing issues, DOM changes, or framework changes. The binding is on a layer that humans don't see, and it makes it fragile.
I accidentally kept an anchor in the URL. My apologies!
Do they? I've seen polls where he beats trump.

Let people vote for whoever they want. Whoever you have in mind to replace him will probably not live up to expectations.

Beside, I think he has a shot. Usually when votes goes hard right they usually go hard left next time.
https://sfmayor.org/article/city-san-francisco-moves-proacti...

> The declaration of a local emergency is a legal document that will mobilize City resources, accelerate emergency planning, streamline staffing, coordinate agencies across the city, allow for future reimbursement by the state and federal governments and raise awareness throughout San Francisco about how everyone can prepare in the event that COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) appears in our community. Santa Clara and San Diego counties have issued similar declarations to bolster their preparedness.

In the case of a snow storm up here in upstate NY, these tend to allow for overtime and pre-positioning of equipment. I'd imagine similar scenarios here.
Your comparison of bulimia to sleep deprivation makes no sense. Bulimia might actually be a worthwhile cure to research if people often got poisoned without realizing it and this poisoning was a problem that affected them everyday.
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Respectfully, that's not really a port.
I love The Left Hand of Darkness, but I think it’s definitely a slow burn, for what it is worth. It is worth sticking with it, though :)
NASDAQ dropped 2.77%, seems like Disney beat the curve!
Local governments in disaster prone areas tend to have significant emergency funds they can tap into. Doing so now to do an inventory of supplies, run some disaster planning, and possibly fill in any gaps is completely reasonable.

They are unusually likely to see a small scale outbreak and effective early responses could make a huge difference.
@mherrmann What would be the comparison / difference with SeleniumBase https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase ?

I'm always on the lookout for browser automation using Python so excited to try this framework. I was a big fan of https://github.com/miyakogi/pyppeteer but it doesn't seem to be maintained anymore.

There is another project by microsoft called playwright, though it's js-only for now. They don't have plan for Python bindings for now https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/1043
I don't see people talk about TestCafe which is open source and is an actual alternative without being dependent on WebDriver at all
My friend designs mobile apps in Photoshop, when I built him a new computer he opened up a 12gb photoshop file to see how it performed because his old iMac crashed. (it was buttery smooth on the new computer and opened almost instantly)

The canvas size is insane, and has like 100 different views of screens all layered with 100s of folders with 100s of layers.

He used to do 1 photoshop file per screen until he took that idea from someone else.
Hey new emperor of mouse, how about put starwars charactet into marvel universe, we can make all these even worse.
If I can walk in without an appointment, see a doctor after a reasonable wait, and then get a prescription for antibiotics that can be filled on the spot, then I’m 100% on board with this.
> Powershell Core is not, however, a good experience on a Linux machine

Or on a Mac.

There is the Azure CLI, but it is pretty limited on what it can do. Both GCP and AWS have good command line tools (AWS can be awkward sometimes). GCP will even give you a CLI right there on the web console so you can run CLI commands even if you don't have them locally installed in whatever system you are coming from.

Assuming the provider won't break in mysterious ways, or that Azure won't return a 400 error for no discernible reason, you are better off doing whatever you can do from Terraform. And then you have a repeatable environment and won't have to remember Azure quirks every single day.

API responses are inconsistent, it has the slowest VM spin up time of the big three(also inconsistent). It has lots of confusing names for instances (and a shit ton of them), weird limitations on SKUs.

Anecdote: I almost threw my keyboard away once I figured out why the instances I had deployed suddenty lost network connectivity. I had added a load balancer pointing to them. Really. That's all it was. Once I did so, all traffic started flowing through the load balancer. What kind of design is that? And AFAIK you can only add one. That may differ between Basic or Standard load balancer SKUs, I don't remember, don't care.

On either GCP or AWS, one can attach as many load balancers they want, nothing else is affected, only traffic flowing through them.

That's just one example. Next time you try attaching some premium disk SKU to some non premium VM SKU (or is it vice-versa?) and a Premium/Standard Storage Account and the Azure API yells at you, you'll understand. The storage account has SKUs too. Premium cannot have blob storage. Or is it the standard that can't? Meh, I don't care. You have to keep track of all of this. Which may or may not be clear in the documentation.

Simple things like health checks terminating scale set instances automatically are not there. Heck, until some point in time you couldn't even terminate specific instances in a scale set. They have improved that.

You have to do a bunch of work to "generalize" instances for use in Azure. In true Azure fashion, the disk has to be a VHD (not VHDX). Image can only be up to 1023GB in size. Sizes must be aligned to 1MB. And probably more stuff.

At the end of the day, things will eventually work. Just budget between 3x to 5x extra development time versus AWS or GCP.
why do they get to start the annual temperature anomaly graph at around -.3 in 1900.
I was thinking of the Equal Protection and Race in the constitution, aka the 14th amendment, but you are right. It was the Federal Civil Rights Act that actually made it a crime to discriminate.
> If they don't trust you to think the right things about their artifacts

It's not about you or us, it's about anyone who might complain that the Smithsonian Institution is (as they see it) "endorsing" unethical practices by releasing that particular content (a minor part of what they currently hold, since "much" is in fact up for release) out in the open. Whether people "think the right things" about the Smithsonian's actions can have real consequences, so it makes sense for them to care quite a bit about that.
Ublock origin has less friction associated with installation and is arguably more private (no BAT).
Is having a cohesive tech ecosystem for all students really a waste of money? What is the alternative? Rely on children to provide their own devices? That has its own challenges and costs.
After reading an article here on HN, I gave Brave a crack for a week but returned to my regular browser. The thrill of dopamine hits from earning a BAT oken for viewing a brave-blessed ad for the underprivileged wasn't worth changing a browser for.

A "drop in replacement for Chrome" just isn't my thing as a Firefox user - I just didn't love the browsing experience otherwise.

If the company were to expand their market for postive-ads and crypto coins by releasing a Firefox plugin as a "drop in replacement for uBlock Origin" it might tickle my fancy.
The first movie I remember ever seeing was the first star wars movie at a drive-in when I was 5 years old. I love the Star Wars movies. But, I haven't even bothered to see the one that came out this past December. I'm not even sure of it's name. I was severely underwhelmed by the previous ones in the most recent trilogy. They weren't as bad as the prequels, but bad enough that I honestly don't care whether I see the most recent one or not.
Reader (you) is illiterate. What the article says:

> After being completely dismayed with our local school’s stance on Chromebooks and figuring we wouldn’t make any headway asking them nicely to stop using them, we decided to check out some private schools in the area, just for kicks.

> The offerings weren’t much better.
Respectfully, who cares? In biology, nothing is an absolute. All good things have bad sides and all bad things have good sides, and that shouldn't stop us from identifying things that are generally good. Nobody giving general advice can or should be expected to cover every edge case.
My process and toolset for (free) market research/validation
<Shameless plug> The company I work for, Particle [1] has set out to do exactly that, and we have built up quite the community of developers and enterprise customers who needed to solve this problem. Our founder started the business after trying to build an IoT product and realizing how much value there was in the common underpinnings of every IoT product.

Our offering comes down to three things:

1. Pre-certified hardware modules (open source [2]) that support WiFi or Cellular in a few form factors.

2. An on-device OS (also open source) that handles communication in the background and abstracts away the hardware using an Arduino-like API.

3. A cloud-based "command center" (closed source) that allows you to link up your backend services with events flowing to and from your devices via webhooks, manage over the air updates, and see connectivity metrics across your fleet. No data is stored - just ferried between your devices and the other end of the pipe that you configure.

Oh, and you can buy our devices off-the-shelf in small volumes and get them up and running in a few minutes!

[1] https://www.particle.io

[2] https://github.com/particle-iot
That's not saying much ;-)

The best part of the prequels was making out with my wife in the empty theater.
I tend to agree. I run a QA team for an e-commerce startup and started using Brave for manual testing about a year ago. Chromium means the same dev tools I know and love, the extensions I use for debugging in Chrome work out of the box, Brave ads/BAT is all opt-in, and the the default "Shield" settings are great for sussing out analytics implementation issues. It seems like most of the arguments against Brave hinge on the token economy and the business model, which I really could not care any less about. Make your money, Brave.

The Wayback machine feature is an interesting move, especially in the world of A/B tests and feature flags. I hope this bolsters support for IA initiatives and ends up powering some cool products, because I can think of a few ideas already (leaning heavily on competitive intelligence, inferring feature performance based on longevity/time-in-test, etc.)
At least brothels tend to have quiet clientele who want to arrive and leave without attention.

Tannery would be fine as long as it doesn't smell. Externalities are reasons for regulation and licensing, but zoning is just one extremely crude tool for enacting such.
Walker wrote that 2/3rds of adults get less than the recommended 8 hours. But 8 hours aren’t recommended, 7-9 are. And that means far less than 2/3rds of people are failing to meet that. That’s a huge deal for a fundamental claim.
This is the brave new world.

Sign up to beta test a system called "Autopilot".

Sold with a package constantly called "Full self driving" when it's "FSD... Capability" (https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/11117625335205314...)

Where "your hands are only on the wheel for regulatory reasons"

The when you die you'll get victim blamed to top it all off.

Crazy how crusty old boring old failure of a carmaker GM could figure out how to detect eye focus and disable comparable features if you're not actively watching the road... yet Tesla couldn't, isn't it?
I don't know if it this blog is related but there is a stats podcast from the BBC where they look at the studies and even talk to Matt Walker [0]

at least the dying from too little sleep part is wrong(at very least wrong in the way it's presented ). And no it is not enough for the central thesis to be right to either deliberately or mistakenly lie or make up facts or quotes to undermine your story.

Sure you can do that but then it shouldn't be considered scientific

[0] More or Less: Behind the Stats: WS More or Less: Dozy Science http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0819trp
If you have no food at all for seven days, that won't really cause problems.

"Civilization is only three meals deep." — My old boss.
To be very clear here (I missed this thread when it came up, sadly): I don't care that he's right (and I'm willing to buy that he's right!), I just believe he went about positioning his argument in the wrong way.

There is a very serious problem in any privacy/security discussion right now where, like it or not, the average person is poking their head in and wanting to learn more. There's a wealth of misinformation and paranoia strewn all over, and a tone like this is needlessly rude and condescending... which doesn't help provide a place where people can learn.

His entire point is that people ("technologists") need to stop recommending encrypted email, but the tone with which the article is written will drive away anybody who's actually recommending it. It's (IMO) effectively shouting into the void.

People seem to have this idea that I'm personally offended by what he wrote, when I couldn't care less (as I don't LARP, myself) - I genuinely (usually) like reading stuff from him, whether it's comments on here or elsewhere. ;P
Your post reminded me of the poem pruno which has always stuck with me: https://pen.org/recipe-for-prison-pruno/
Mastodon bot that toots one random Smithsonian image every 8 hours
I would actually say that the latest one is better than The Force Awakens, and MUCH better than Last Jedi. Then again, I'm in my early 20s so I can't really compare it to the original movies.
Google warns of security risks in sideloading its apps on Huawei’s smartphones
Actually, it's not as bad as you think.

tl;dr - All you need is a bathtub, a WaterBob, and 10 teaspoons of bleach.

The average bathtub holds about 80 Gallons of water, that's enough for two and a half people for 30 days. The rule of thumb is one gallon per person per day. See:
https://www.beprepared.com/blog/18680/much-water-store/

I always have a few of these things called "The Water Bob" stored in a closet, a few cause QC isn't that great. Its like a giant plastic bag that sits in your tub and holds water.

You can add 1/8 teaspoon (or 8 drops) of household bleach per gallon to get potable water. See:
https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/pdf/emergency/09_202278-b_m...

I only know this cause I lived over seas during the first gulf war, and we had to have prep stuff for scud attacks. We didn't have the WaterBob, but there were plenty of 50gal plastic storage containers. When the sirens went off, we set the jugs to fill in the showers, and hid in our inner most room. Fun times all around really. Free gas masks though! So that was nice.
Call your insurance and see what they'll pay when you need a $10,000 implant or $3,000 root canal.
Not sure what you mean — prime members get faster shipping on prime items, so maybe it showed her the vender with “prime” and that was $10 more expensive.
This can be addressed by automated, human-free system with tech we have today. Your doc sends a valid Rx, a box dispenses your drug.

Sure, what would be necessary is a GUI that was as usable and flexible as the doctor's hand-written scribble while being standard enough across the country that any doctor could use and every single drug could be dispensed by it.

Which is to say that this is a really massive undertaking and opposition from a multitude of angles, including opposition from companies that have invested in most half-assed solution. Which is to say, this likely won't happen or it will require more than one more corporation dipping their toe in this.
There also has hardly been any testing.

Source? Or are you under the impression that there's a public announcement every time someone gets tested?
> There have been no confirmed coronavirus cases in San Francisco to date

Because the health care system nationally is refusing point blank to test people who have viral pneumonia even after they test negative for flu.
I imagine the person who can't figure out why her Siri searches are on Google Drive also frequently gets unintended acceleration in her Prius and contracted lupus from 5G.
The author of "Why We Sleep" has written a blog post responding to the OP article and other questions from readers:

https://sleepdiplomat.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/why-we-sleep-...
That's cool dude! This site also shows you gift ideas https://luxegift.co and https://luxemiss.com
Johnny Cash played a concert at Folsom Prison. Can't see the public going along with something like that anymore. This isn't proof of a higher appetite for rehabilitation but it does seem that attitudes were a bit softer at the time. Conjugal visits are another thing that have been mostly eliminated, with just a couple of states still allowing them.
> people clearly do value

There's a difference in valuing something 10$ vs under 1¢. 100 of one can feed a person for a month, and a 100 of the other can buy you a single gum.