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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; o…

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 presc…

The NHS pays £14 - £28 a vial for those newer formulations.

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) w…

At least with Dell's on-site service, I have had two keyboards fixed for me at my desk in about about 5 minutes.

Argos have always done 16-day no quibble money back guarantees

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

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…

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.

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 wher…

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.

Indeed, a relative of mine recently died of oral cancer, which was thought to be caused by moderate drinking.

Could they be making more money from ads than they expect to make from a reasonably priced premium version?

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 t…

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.

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 progra…

The NHS pays $23 in the UK. " rel="nofollow">https://bnf.nice.org.uk/medicinal-forms/insulin-lispro.html>

Have you seen Adam Curtis's documentary, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace? A lot of it is about that

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

It still does - you have to set up the from and to colour, and then use the eraser with the right mouse button

I love this one, about DirectX not trusting drivers responses to capabilities requests: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040211-00/?p=...

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 faithfu…

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 s…