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Hence the statistic where 1/3 of your lifetime medical expenses come in the last year of life.

There's always friction between covert and overt operations. For another elucidating example (and another Hillary situation), look at the CIA vs State Department in Benghazi.

I thought convention in SI units was to drop down a level when at less than 1 of a unit..?

How much of a dose do you actually get from the scans? The best numbers I can find seem to point to something in the 0.015 μSv to 0.88 μSv range. At cruising altitude, you get 0.04…

It's not germane to this discussion. The previous poster only brought it up to draw parallels between a straight person being for allowing gay marriage and a non-smoker being for l…

E85 is usually cheaper because of the subsidies. I've found the more rural gas stations stock 100% gasoline. I assume it's because the older engines in farm and sporting equipment …

If we're going to keep the analogy going... The teacher has had students over before, and unlocks his/her home by grabbing the key out of the fake rock sitting on the doorstep. The…

If she had her own mail server, it's probably fair to assume she could have set it up as her outbound mail server and to use TLS of some sort when connecting to it.

Speaking of burning man... I missed the ticket sales because my dumbass didn't check the "register try to buy tickets" option on my burner profile. Anyone have one to spare?

I've heard east coast (US) coal is dirtier than west coast (US) coal, particularly in sulfides. The acid rain fix known as the Clean Air Act of 1990 was heavily lobbied by the east…

If it's coupled, wouldn't it cross the boundary of the system, and then be included in normal entropy calculations as a flow across the boundary?

Mr. Munroe's comments on competing standards comes to mind. http://xkcd.com/927/

Wouldn't that risk driving up the market price of bitcoins, which leads to a higher competing bid on the bulk coins?

Yep. Look what happens every time a bitcoin bank folds. Everyone who had coins in that bank rather than in their own wallet suddenly loses every coin they have.

I would like to hear his "complicated sixteenth note patterns."

There are some strange regulations on savings accounts in the US. You're only allowed a set number of transactions on them per month. Checking accounts don't have these limits.

I think the complaint against is generally that they're acting more akin to front runners than middle men.

Couldn't that raise the question of if the side effects themselves are a source of benefit?

Can you throw on a screen resolution axis option?

The whole Manifold series is interesting. Each Manifold book stands in its own universe, but uses the same cast of characters with a different set of answers to Fermi. I got on a B…

I had a paper published on a model for the GRB that would have caused that event! http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504158 When the GLAST (now James Webb Telescope) data came in, it p…

Fast forward to the point where we're able to utilize this sleeping brain function to some level of usefulness. I wonder how this sort of sleep-work will affect the quality of one'…

I know this isn't the case for everyone, but... in my state/county, every car on the road has to have an annual (or semi-annual in some cases) safety check to be properly plated an…

I tend to start pacing for the zipper merge when I'm (reasonably) close to the end of the zipper. This way, I'm showing I am willing to wait while simultaneously giving myself the …

I imagine a language needs a certain rate of adoption to maintain the amount of programmers actively coding in that language. I feel like the term "momentum" accurately encompasses…