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According to the article, a paltry 2% of your net revenue goes to uncompensated care (that's the California average). "Though hospitals’ nonprofit status allows them to reap tens o…

I prepay for many services that are still able to list prices in real currency: https://www.fastmail.fm/ https://www.tarsnap.com/ https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ The latter two d…

For me, the trivial C program appears to run faster than the empty file: $ touch empty $ chmod +x empty $ time ./empty real 0m0.002s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s $ echo "int main(){r…

I can get a good USB2 enclosure for $10-15. My 6.5 year old laptop hard drive is 120GB (and couldn't read/write data via SATA much faster than it can via USB2 anyway). A 128GB flas…

Yay! You should have have a section on installing from source too. This is part of doing open-source well.

The Arch Linux instructions are still wrong; they say that aufs3 is required but it isn't anymore. http://docs.docker.io/en/master/installation/archlinux/ Is the warning "This is a…

My point applies in the same way to a laptop you buy, use, then incinerate. Even after you incinerate it, you are still bound by the terms you agreed to (to the debatable extent to…

So, I decided to take a look. It used to be that Flash's terms forbade you from ever working on a competing Flash implementation. English is on page 87: http://wwwimages.adobe.com/…

I imagine it's sketchy enough to be illegal, but what specific laws were they accused of violating? I read the consent judgment to find out: "3. Defendants' conduct constitutes dec…

That works for technical reasons but not legal reasons. You can't "virtually" agree to the terms&conditions and then delete your agree-ment along with the VM. (Unless the terms or …

I use FastMail. They seem competent. (This is a high compliment.)

Thankfully, "A JSON-LD document is always a valid JSON document.". Section 2, http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-json-ld-20131105/

Similarly (but freer), http://www.citybik.es/ is an API for bike sharing systems around the world.

Wikipedia's citation in that section[1] says that Swedes are more likely to report crimes, but have a similar actual amount of crimes. "Sweden stands out within the entire area of …

Well, maybe people will clean their own toilets and empty their own trash then. I do those at home (as do my housemates) because I like having a moderately clean home. If nobody el…

If "moving" includes "rotating": We can tell the Earth is rotating because its shape approximates an oblate spheroid, not a sphere.

No, because you can't access that hash from https://sourceforge.net/ ( https://sourceforge.net/ is just a redirect to http). It's slightly more of a nuisance for the attacker to mo…

It's hard to download from Sourceforge using HTTPS. (Or even to use HTTPS to get the SHA hash of a download.) Can you tell me how to do it, so I can download from Sourceforge witho…

IANAL. Their letter isn't very good writing. Their only stated claim is that the word "ManyFish" infringes their trademarks on "PLENTYOFFISH", "PLENTY OF FISH" or "PLENTY OF". They…

Sadly, Intel's integrated-GPU OpenCL still doesn't support Linux, and only just started supporting OS X in 10.9 Mavericks[1]. Usually Intel's Linux GPU support is great; I don't kn…

Compose key, currently. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key )

I typed in https://news.ycombinator.com/ and it removed the https:// from my query. http and https are not the same URL, and in particular may have different "blocked" statuses! Al…

Every one of those websites has a horizontal scroll bar in my current browser window, so I can't really recommend them. I voted for "fluid" hoping for websites that are more fluid …