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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 q…

> 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 wi…

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…

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…

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 numbe…

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 typ…

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 p…

Yes. This is my position.

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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…

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 order…

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 expiratio…

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 edit…

> 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 l…

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 loos…

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…

Employee bonuses are dividends.

> 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: obviousl…

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 increa…

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 …

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 …

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…