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by uxp 3y ago
My mother in law works for a company that allows her to work from home from a personal device running Chrome. Several times a year I get a phone call at 6:30AM from her asking to quickly drive to her house before her shift starts at 7 to fi
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by uxp 3y ago
> One really wishes to know: who is the guy with deep pockets that Eshelman upset and what are they beefing over, and how did he get the wholesome quartet of hunters to go along with him. What are you talking about? Access to public land
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by uxp 4y ago
Validating any contact method that has the potential of sending PII, Health, or financial data should be mandatory by law. At least once a year I get an automated phone call from a regional hospital letting me know some minor's test re
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by uxp 4y ago
Yes. Here's a non-crypto instance of using a seed value to deterministically identify the output of a random number generator. This only works in Python 2.x: import random for i in range(0,50): if not i % 15:
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by uxp 5y ago
It would be one thing if it was _just_ a little demo utility used to showcase packaging and distribution of a trivial use case, however the creator of this has also created a number of packages which pull in these "demo" packages,
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by uxp 6y ago
For what, though? And I'm 100% being honest here, what is the specific situation you are envisioning that requires a face shield in your home? In a medical setting, shields are typically used in conjunction with eye goggles and respira
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by uxp 6y ago
It's not about the money. PPE like face shields are specifically used during procedures that involve significant bodily fluid, like intubation, which is the process of pulling or pushing a tube down a patient's esophagus. Going to
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by uxp 6y ago
Yes. This is my position.
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by uxp 6y ago
ceejayoz, I generally respect most everything you write on this site, but I'm amazed how dismissive you are of this. Can you point me to a study stating that the flu vaccine is 100% safe and effective? Not mostly effective, or mostly s
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by uxp 6y ago
Nope. Like I just stated in my edit, I'm not advocating that anyone forgo the flu shot, but that the flu shot is not 100% effective or 100% side effect free. It's not bias. It's a fact. My GP is the one that has specifically
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by uxp 6y ago
I've received the flu shot three times in my life. I've been hospitalized for influenza three times in my life. Please tell me more about how I've deceived myself. Just as the MMR vaccine is less about you contracting measles
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by uxp 6y ago
You can also ration your intake of food when it starts to become more scarce. People do this every day due to income constraints during non-Coronavirus times. It's a little harder to ration your bowel movements. It can be done, but it&
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by uxp 7y ago
I'm a .NET developer and I can't tell you how many times I've searched for documentation and come across something that's targeting UWP which is different than WPF and entirely not the same as WinForms and it takes way t
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by uxp 7y ago
Based upon this article were the retail costs of a cheap flickering LED bulb is approaching the single dollar mark, the cost increase to use a proper AC/DC converter could be orders of magnitude more expensive (at a rough minimum). Hon
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by uxp 7y ago
This is a common problem in healthcare insurance. API connections will stop working for about 3 weeks every year as each side performs a complicated dance of noticing the expiration and updating the systems to accept a new public certificat
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by uxp 7y ago
Do I have some weird rendering issue with this website, or do both of these snippets of code have terrible readability and highlighting? If I had to write code using an IDE or editor with this scheme I'd quit my career and go into smal
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by uxp 7y ago
> whitelist the few that are actually real I'm speculating that the balance is in the reverse favor. Last night I was looking at some file on GitHub which was redirecting to what looked like an S3 bucket subdomain named with a patte
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by uxp 7y ago
PBMs are rent seeking middlemen. Their desire to seek the lowest drug price is arguably what contributes to things like quality standards at pharmaceutical manufactures slowly loosening and contaminants getting into the supply line. Honestl
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by uxp 7y ago
In PG&E's world in context of this comment thread. Dividends are any payout amount that was not captured in the regulatory framework. Salary is a captured expense. Bonuses are paid from a pool when a surplus is created, or rather a
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by uxp 7y ago
Employee bonuses are dividends.
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by uxp 7y ago
> PG&E can’t pay out more in dividends by shortchanging operations and maintenance. They have before. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/PG-E-diverted-safety-... edit: obviously this is a lot more nuanc
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by uxp 7y ago
At least in the US, we would also need extensive regulations and caps on the cost of products. As a commonly cited example, when Pell Grants (Federal student subsidies) were increased to adjust for inflation and costs of living somewhat rec
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by uxp 7y ago
I think it was Tim Minchin's Storm that brought the quip "You know what they call Alternative Medicine that works? _MEDICINE!_". This is an entirely true statement, but also seems to miss the R&D period. And I'm not
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by uxp 7y ago
A coworker and I went to lunch randomly a number of months back and I discovered that he and his wife are avid WoW players on the server that I played on nearly 10 years ago. This sparked me to impulsively purchase 30 days of game time on m
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by uxp 7y ago
I've seen the same architecture implemented in MSSQL and MySQL. It's pretty easy to paint yourself into a corner where your one database is doing all sorts of stupid things because you never sat down and identified the problem spa
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by uxp 7y ago
The media is generally regarded the same when publishing both medical history information and classified materials. If they obtain the information during their regular course of business and report on that obtained material, then they are p
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by uxp 7y ago
> including some that the CEO owns and they lease from him Did you see the part of the filing where, in case of death or incapacitation in the next ten years where the CEO is unable to fulfill his duties, a group of two board members _an
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by uxp 7y ago
It really depends on how the SSN is used, but using a false SSN is considered fraud. If the party requesting it is using it for billing and collections, and you fail to pay a bill and they send it to collections, and subsequently report the
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by uxp 7y ago
> [Warning] [blocked] The page at https://wybiral.github.io/localtoast/ was not allowed to display insecure content from http://127.0.0.1/ . (index.js, line 172) You sure about your claims? Your own
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by uxp 7y ago
A bit late, but I did want to point out that I enjoyed the article and found it engaging. I was not trying to diminish from you in any way. My comment was much more a semantical argument over the comment than a logical disagreement with you

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