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Like the US Justice system, the best advice to give is to avoid the US Healthcare system as much as possible.

Irrelevant? I was under the impression cord cutting is pretty common. If you want to watch live sports or the news, you need CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX. We use a MoHu antenna in the attic.…

Rode the metro for 7 years. Feel like an idiot that I never noticed the waffle and arch designs had so many variations. Looks like my typical stations were either Waffle or Arch 1.…

All true, but there is evidence that rent increases for existing tenants lag behind market increases.

curious, what weird things did you see?

The tricky part is which total market index funds? The S&P based ones are too AI focused, and don't give you the diversification they once did. You also don't want to invest in jus…

Agree, that advice seems to be targeting folks who have had a 401K since they were 22. Also, I think it is basically saying the point where you start adjusting your stock/bond rati…

A dimmed incandescent bulb will shift from 2700k down to maybe 2200k. Maybe not as versatile as your LED but it worked well to somewhat mimic the sun before LEDs.

Which AI stocks suffered a rout?

> Health care, housing, and education are the big three drivers of mandatory expenses in most peoples' lives. Definitely true for my household. The mortgage, college for the kids, …

The inside traders and people who benefit from a higher oil price are winning.

I have the Forrunner 955, and also love it. It has actual push buttons all the features I need in one watch with the running, biking, swim, golf, and hiking modes.

The conjecture seems to assume the monopolist won't be patient enough, and will be "tempted" to drop the price to "mop up" extra customers. Yet it also assumes the consumers will b…

> selling a device to play pirated music. Am I the only one here who legit purchased MP3s downloads for 99 cents off Amazon? (This was the era after Napster stopped working.)

The magnesium deficiency would probably still exist if you removed the stressful job. Unfortunately switching jobs or careers is not an option in this current job market.

If scrollheight is not a performant property, than it shouldn't be a property. It should have been a method called calculateScrollHeight() or something to indicate that it is not c…

Before LLMs we didn't have time for code quality. LLMs make our jobs faster, so now we have time to dedicate to code quality, right?

Assuming the author and publisher are not evil, you want to at least give them their legitamate cut.

Wonder if he has Hashimoto's, an autoimmune condition where the immune system attacks the thyroid, causing hypothyroidism. The hypothyroidism lowers stomach acid, impairing iron ab…

Wish it was that easy. Unfortunately for many of us, our job is more about navigating roadblocks like ZScaler, negotiating with security people, and figuring out work-arounds, rath…

I like the new collection expression: var filters = ["active", "paid", ..premiumFilters, "export"]; As for the rest of the examples, I would rather stick with the old way. Sometime…

Assessment should probably a mix of all of the various forms: handwritten blue book, verbal, multiple choice, and AI assisted essay. It really depends on what is being asssesed.

I like Warren Buffett, but he can't be the best example. Who is someone the created significant positive value, themselves?

This. The gains made by Claude stock picks should be compared a reasonable alternative investment strategy over the same timeframe.

The map in hotels.com does a good job of clustering. For example, searching for hotels in a high density area like NYC. Airbnb, conversely, does not seem to have any clustering. Pr…