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In the US my insurance covers the 4 test strips per day my endocrinologist prescribes for type 2. This was true for the 3 years I was able to use oral medication before switching to insulin.

CA is a big market, so harder to write off; Rhode Island is easy to write off.

There are certainly differing opinions on what constitutes animal cruelty and is moral or immoral [e.g., killing and eating them]. So what is "right" is not so clear cut.

The federal minimum wage is only $7.25. By paying $10, they are paying 38% more than the minimum. Even at 9 they are 24% above the minimum. I expect that they would prefer a minimum wage exactly equal to what they pay as a minimum, because that would disadvantage less efficient competitors.

Long haul truckers also have a difficult job, and are squeezed by large shippers.

People associate used glamour with flying, but I think that is because it was so expensive and most people were shut out. I think of a passenger airplane as a greyhound with wings. There's no reason not to think of a cargo plane as a semi with wings, in which case you shouldn't expect the pilots to be much better off than truck drivers.

I visited BB-62 New Jersey this weekend, and they have an analog electromechanical rangekeeper computer. It's really cool to see the gears and shafts turn, as it continually updates its output (bearing, azimuth) in response to 14 input variables. It accounts for the target bearing, target speed, own speed, own bearing, even the latitude is an input to account for the Coriolis effect.

If you don't cheat, but do something the casino doesn't approve of you are kicked out. If you actually cheat, and the casino decides it is worth it, you'll have the government come down on you too.

Depends on the manufacturer and your area too. Something likea Honda Accord or Pilot has about 5 choices. When I bought my Accord it was LX, EX, EX with Leather, EX V6, EX Leather V6. If you look at some of the Ford or Chevy trucks, there are probably 100 different combinations.

It also helps that in the NY suburbs there are about 4 or 5 other places to buy that same exact car within a 30-45 minute drive.

I have a Sawstop, it is a top notch saw, with excellent fit and finish; but it is made in Asia. It was designed by a company in Oregon.

I've had very decent results with a DW735 and Ridgid JP601, which all in you would have for $1,200 today. I was fortunate in that I got them both on clearance for about $200 each. It is frustrating being limited to 6" boards, but a sled would be an alternative for that. You don't need $10,000 to get good results.

> Having the equipment ready and in action first is somehow a disadvantage by this argument, and now you're better off being later to market.

So I think it might be from an investment standpoint; just think of Tivo they made the DVR, but once others saw what they were doing there are plenty of other DVR choices and Tivo didn't win the category.

Tesla might be forging ahead and blazing the trail for others, who will actually capitalize on it.

I think that the Tesla brand is sexy enough that they'll maintain their niche (as Tivo has to some extent), I'm not sure if that will translate into investment returns.

I'm very curious what the pickup offering will be like, and compare to existing offerings from the big 3, since it is a "a new kind of pickup truck". I think the segment of the pickup market that is mostly an SUV, but occasionally needs to haul/tow stuff could be well served by Tesla. They also have plans for a semi, so maybe they'll actually be able to compete for actual work trucks that haul/tow on a regular basis too; but the energy density of the battery compared to gasoline/diesel makes me doubtful.

Interestingly enough, when I used to drink Coke Classic, and tried a Mexican Coke which uses real sugar I did not like the taste compared to HFCS coke. Now I prefer Coke Zero, which tastes very similar, but when I would go back to Coke Classic I would find it too sweet.

I think a lot of it is just which taste you're accustomed to.

SpaceX confirmed they "lost the vehicle."

I find the beginning and end of the article quite contradictory. Basically that C++ is too complicated; and oh by the way we should start programming FPGAs, which are much harder to get right.

I like modern C++, because I think it simplifies a lot of things (RAII for the win here). Templates let you engage in duck typing, but with (if you are careful) very performant results.

People do commute to NYC; but it sucks from Poughkeepsie. The train is not 1 hour, it is 1 hour 45 minutes. You need to drive to the station and park, figure at least 15 minutes. That also assumes you're going to be working very close to 42nd street. Otherwise add another 20 minutes for the subway/walking.

You're lucky if this is going to be less than 2.5 hours each way.

I live 38 miles north of the city; Poughkeepsie is 73.5. It takes me about an hour and 45 minutes door-to-door to get to work at 22nd street. 10-15 minutes to the train station, probably about 5 minutes of waiting [because if you miss one train, you have to wait 20-30 minutes or so for another depending on the time of morning], 60 minutes on the train, then about another 25 minutes of walking (or alternatively 5 minutes to get to the subway, 2-5 minutes to wait for it, then 5 minutes on the subway, and another 5 minutes of walking).

I think Matt Levine points out that most of the comment letters from individual investors should not be taken with much weight.

Presumably that power is reciprocal. My wife and I have shared assets/cash flow; there is no way we could have made our budget balance earlier in our marriage without it.

I bought a FLIR one for the iPhone; and it found an uninsulated section of wall in my house. The actual reason I purchased it was to help locate an under-slab leak. $250 to not break the wrong bit of concrete would be well worth it.

For the CAT phone, I think the bigger selling point is the ruggedness.

He has 0 risk once his check for $500K clears. Every month he keeps the app there is a risk that something goes wrong; and that 1 hour a month probably doesn't include time that is spent thinking about those things going wrong. Getting the money all at once reduces his ongoing cognitive load.

Compared to the energy you will use throughout your life, the energy used for a cremation is trivial (about a 5,000 mile drive).

The alternative (burial) impacts the environment considerably as well. There is plenty of land devoted to cemeteries. Trees or metal are used (once) for the casket. In many places, you also need a concrete vault, which would add to the impact.

The initial setup of the PC4212 is certainly fiddly and takes some test joints; but so does the panto router. Once it is dialed in for the particular thickness you're using; I find that I can cut as many joints as I want. I've never had a problem with the length of the boards, since I mount mine on a 36" bench and that is plenty for the drawer sides that I'm doing. With the panto router, you can't cut both sides of the joint at once, so you're going to need to get all your tails, then all your pins.

I don't deny that this is a nifty and versatile machine, I just don't think it is going to be better than the special purpose jigs. Thankfully, no one tells me what machines I can use, and no one tells you what machines you can use. Improving your own personal methodology for things over the course of different projects is half the fun.

Its a nifty machine, and he has some really interesting videos on his site (woodgears.ca); one of the fun ones is his experimentation making a better mouse trap.

For the joints that he's making with the machine I'm a bit skeptical that this is really the best way to do it. At about $1000 for a pre-built metal one shipped to the US, you can avoid some of the fiddling you would have to do to construct the machine itself (but still need a router motor). However, this is more expensive than the special purpose jigs, and I'm not convinced you're going to have better results.

He demonstrated the integral dowels, but frankly, with glue being stronger than wood, I'm not sure that it really is better than just a doweling jig for that purpose.

For example, with the $150 Porter Cable dovetail jig, you are going to get a few patterns and be able to do dovetails much quicker than with this machine.

He clearly enjoys working with his machinery (e.g., he built a dust collector and band saw from scratch), so I'm sure he had a lot of fun designing and building it. And there are many reader-built panto-routers too, so some people certainly like it.

I worked on BowieNet in around 2000. He was really very involved in the site and content. The biggest draw was the members-only concert.

Regarding the content. There was another company that did the design work, a bunch of it in flash; but also in HTML for the message boards and stuff that we integrated into our PHP forum that had all the actual messages stored in MySQL. I'm not sure what would have happened to any of that when VillageWorld (the company that did the backend at least initially) went bust in 2004; or if it was migrated away or shut down before that.

The live chats were either IRC with a Java web client or we also had an NPH script that we could of used, but I don't remember which ended up being "real" at this point. There were definitely some that were organized and others that were not.

Until they aren't, at which point the building is still a liability even if it is empty.

"G.M. will also work with Lyft to set up a series of short-term car rental hubs across the United States, places where people who do not own cars can pick up a vehicle and drive for Lyft to earn money. Daniel Ammann, president of G.M., will join Lyft’s board of directors."

This reminds me very much of the taxi model; where the driver is going to start the shift in the hole and has to work their way out of it.

It would be fine for him to share the profits, if the profits were his to share. The lawsuit seems to be that he was paying himself salary instead of distributing profits to cut out the minority shareholder's from their rightful percentage of profits (turning profits into his own salary).

Then it sounds like to spite his brother (the minority partner) he came up with a self-promoting way to give those profits to other people; and enrich himself through speaking deals, etc. again at the expense of the minority partner.

My bank's web portal actually provides a good aggregator service for the checking/savings/investment/loan accounts I have both there and elsewhere. I find it very convenient when I do my monthly "what are the state of my finances" spread sheet.

CR didn't say the car wasn't good, they said it wasn't reliable. The car performed very well on their tests related to the road; so it is fun to drive, safe, comfortable, etc.

The problem is that it breaks; and then you need to get it fixed. It seems Tesla is pretty good about fixing things without giving you trouble about it; so they make the negative experience into a positive/neutral one.

This leaves you with a good car, not reliable, but still with happy owners; so everything makes sense to me.

And the stock overreacts to all kinds of news, and it is true that reliability will matter as far as their future profits (if they keep everyone happy it costs a bunch; if they don't, they'll lose sales).

Seems like a bad choice to me given that ISE already has an Options exchange called Gemini.

I think they should be transferable, but they should only last for 5 years or some other reasonable fixed term. Make it long enough that there is some stability; but not so long that it becomes something that is like a real estate or mineral rights investment. Let the city auction the fraction of them that come up for renewal each year; so that instead of a private entity making money off a scarce city resource the city would.