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by djpowell 7y ago
Mostly, yes. The newer insulins (well they've been around for 20 years) have molecules which are engineered be faster acting so that they reduce peaks in blood sugar after meals; or longer lasting, so they can provide a more predictab
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by djpowell 7y ago
Those prices have nothing to do with subsidies. It is showing that the NHS pays a fraction of the US prices for the same insulins. Diabetics are exempt from all out-of-pocket prescription charges though, so that part is subsidized.
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by djpowell 7y ago
The NHS pays £14 - £28 a vial for those newer formulations.
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by djpowell 7y ago
The same Edward Bernays also did a PR stunt to market cigarettes to women, calling them "torches of freedom", associating women's smoking (which was considered taboo at the time) with feminism. https://en.wikipedia
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by djpowell 7y ago
At least with Dell's on-site service, I have had two keyboards fixed for me at my desk in about about 5 minutes.
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by djpowell 7y ago
Argos have always done 16-day no quibble money back guarantees
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by djpowell 7y ago
tip - if you want to cd into a UNC path, you can't; but you can pushd into one and it'll create a temporary drive letter mapping and unmap it when you popd out
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by djpowell 7y ago
Personally I'd say there is no difference; I've stuck out on syringes in the uk for ages just because I found them lightweight and convenient; but recently moved to pre-filled pens. The cost to the NHS for prefilled pens vs syrin
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by djpowell 7y ago
In the UK, the newer insulins cost the NHS £30-£37 for a box of 5 x 3ml disposable pens. Diabetics don't pay any charges for the prescription.
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by djpowell 8y ago
Hmm, I could imagine that the legibility of sentences and paragraphs, where you are pretty much reading a word at a time, is different from the legibility of things like codes where you are reading a character at a time. And for short word
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by djpowell 8y ago
The whole of the NHS 'Behind the Headlines' blog is fantastic btw; taking newspaper stories, looking at the studies behind them and sifting out the truth from the sensationalism.
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by djpowell 8y ago
Indeed, a relative of mine recently died of oral cancer, which was thought to be caused by moderate drinking.
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by djpowell 8y ago
Could they be making more money from ads than they expect to make from a reasonably priced premium version?
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by djpowell 8y ago
I'm reminded of the old comment at the bottom of the man page for 'su', where rms argues for why the implementation is deliberately less secure: "Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the rest. F
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by djpowell 8y ago
In 2012, under George Osborne, it was changed so that it is permissible for an employee to be unfairly dismissed in your first two years of employment.
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by djpowell 8y ago
Clojure has several libraries (such as https://github.com/jkk/honeysql ) which basically let you build a representation of an SQL query as a Clojure data structure, and then programatically transform it. It is great wh
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by djpowell 9y ago
The NHS pays $23 in the UK. < https://bnf.nice.org.uk/medicinal-forms/insulin-lispro.html>
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by djpowell 9y ago
Have you seen Adam Curtis's documentary, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace? A lot of it is about that
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by djpowell 9y ago
The Stress applet on Samsung Health on their phones apparently measures heart rate variability by taking your heart rate over a period of about a minute
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by djpowell 9y ago
It still does - you have to set up the from and to colour, and then use the eraser with the right mouse button
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by djpowell 11y ago
I love this one, about DirectX not trusting drivers responses to capabilities requests: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040211-00/?p=...
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by djpowell 11y ago
What if the platforms are the JVM and Javascript, and you are chosing those platforms because of their extensive infrastructure and libraries? It is possible to implement C faithfully on these platforms, including all of C's weirdness
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by djpowell 11y ago
Since Clojure 1.6, Java 6 is the minimum requirement. I'm sure there is a discussion somewhere, but I expect that there are quite a few people who run Java on commercial J2EE app servers and the like which don't officially support
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by djpowell 11y ago
Github used to have a simple binary files service, this was removed with no replacement, and then the release asset system was added shortly after. I only recently found out release assets.
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by djpowell 11y ago
But... they came last out of the three main parties, so it is hardly surprising that they weren't able to implement the entire of their manifesto. The conservatives reneged on many of their manifesto pledges too. I suspect it is more
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by djpowell 12y ago
The court decisions weren't overturned by parliament though, they were done by royal prerogative. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_in_Council#United_Kingdom
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by djpowell 12y ago
I see the same problem lots with code that claims to be MIT and BSD licensed, but either doesn't include the license, or includes the license template with the placeholders for the year and copyright holder unfilled. It makes complying
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by djpowell 12y ago
The cartridges in a new printer will typically be "starter cartridges" and contain a fraction of the ink of a standard cartridge though.
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by djpowell 12y ago
A bit like this from 2011? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.incorporat...
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by djpowell 13y ago
System.getenv was deprecated (in 1.1?), and then replaced with an implementation that threw UnsupportedOperationException (in 1.2?) because it was considered to be non-portable. Later they saw sense and re-implemented it and un-deprecated i

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