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They say "food grade" but don't specify further. The pumps are peristaltic[1] though so the only part that touches alcohol is the tubing so it is simple to swap out for another material.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peristaltic_pump

> My coworker tells me his android won't correct "sre" to "are" (as my iPhone will) because it assumes the first letter is correct.

Strange.

I just tested this on my two-year-old HTC phone with android v2.3.4 and it corrected "sre" to "are" just fine.

Any chance your coworker is using a non-standard keyboard (either by choice or vendor caprice)?

This is a wonderful little piece of information. Thank you.

I had the crazy idea a while back about stuffing a micro-controller, temp+humidity sensor, piezo speaker into my guitar case to let me know if the Humidity got out-of-band but I couldn't see how to get this to run for more than a few days with out having a gian5t battery pack or having to plug it in to the wall.

Now I know, and knowing is half the battle.

Also, I can't scroll the page on my android phone.

Anyone care to copy/paste the text?

One nit-pick: The Peter Jackson film shows Saruman stabbed by Wormtongue before falling to his death from the top of Orthanc.

Furthermore, I believe it is only included in the extended edition of The Two Towers (but I could be wrong on that point).

Thus ensuring all HS and College students that want to work part-time (or during the summer) can't because there are no jobs available that pay the requisite wage.

The earned income tax credit phases out a over 40k/yr for a married couple with one child. which is ~$20/hr working 255 days/yr. Other benefits and subsidies might phase out at higher amounts so the wage in question would be higher still.

If you are talking about the US "Flash Crash" that theory is little more than urban legend.

Here is one of the "b" instead of "m" stories published on the day of the crash:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/36998463

Here is the Wikipedia summary of the event which lists "fat finger trade" as one of the discredited theories:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash#Early_theories

> I would much rather a more government-backed system, where the government tallies all the automobile-related accident costs at the end of the year and foots the public the bill.

This is pure Moral Hazard. If any cost you may incur is diluted over a pool of over 100,000,000 other people what do you care that you smash up someone elses car? Every $1,000,000 of damage costs you less than a penny. And if you put your car in a ditch the government (read: other people) will buy you a new one and you don't pay a dime...

It's a great option so long as you are comfortable having ca. $50,000 of your own money on the line every time you get behind the wheel.

I'm in no way willing to make that wager though...

In some states you can self-insure your car if you have the cash.

tax deductible above 7.5% AGI is very different from tax deductible above $0. Your $100k/yr developer would pay $2,100 in tax on the first $7,500 before the deduction takes effect.

Also, the reason you can't deduct the "pre-tax" premiums is because you were never taxed on them in the first place.

> It's deductible no matter who pays.

That does not square with this[1]: If you are not self-employed, and you don't work for a company that provides health insurance with a cafeteria plan, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) allows you to count health and dental insurance premiums as part of the 7.5% of your adjusted gross income that has to be spent on health care before any out-of-pocket medical expenses can be deducted.

[1]http://healthinsurance.about.com/b/2010/01/25/are-my-health-...

No it doesn't. If I work for a company that does not provide health benefits any health insurance I buy is NOT deductible. and that is one of the many odd decisions made.

If you are self-employed (which is what the linked page is about) you are both the employer and employee and you as the employer of yourself get the decuction. People working for "the man" don't get this luxury.

Care to quote any section of that page that mentions patents?

"Patent", "Patented", "Pat.", "USPTO", "Proprietary", or "Protected" do not appear in the body of the article.

Also, there is this: "The first thermoplastic extrusion was in 1935 by Paul Troester in Germany." Looks like a decent prior-art claim.

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https://twitter.com/elonmusk

> the US Postal Service is being driven to bankrupcy by regulation as well

More correctly they are being driven to bankruptcy due to ballooning pension payments (and a congressional mandate to actually fund those obligations).

Medicare and Private insurers are two separate things.

Insurance companies negotiate rates with hospitals/doctors/etc. Medicare _dictates_ rates which providers can either accept or reject.

The reason the Medicare cost of an Xray is ~$20 is because it was decreed to be that expensive. It has no bearing on the cost to provide the service since the hospital had no input in the reimbursement decision.

You can search and easily find reports about how doctors restrict the number of medicare patients they see because the reimbursement rates for care are too low.

Care to name names? Inquiring minds, and all that...

To your first point: 1 Calorie = 1 Kilo-calorie = 4184 Joules

so 200Calories actually _is_ close to a quarter-million calories (small c)

> They accidentally deployed a test trading partner for their real trading app to the real world.

Do you have a citation for this? I saw a lot of speculation at the time but nothing that was ever corroborated.

There was a book written a while back about orange juice production called "Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice"[1]. The author did the talk-show circuit back then and you can find some articles and interviews here and there.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Squeezed-About-Orange-Agrarian-Studies...

Absolutely yes.

Four reasons off the top of my head:

    1. Dentistry
    2. Antibiotics
    3. Indoor plumbing
    4. Central Air

I'm not trying to equivocate.

GGP commment made an unqualified statement "action in government is slow" adding that the idea of "drastic action" was a "fantasy". I countered by noting that in the present day the government is moving very fast on at least one particular issue. We will know tomorrow whether the action is drastic. Full stop.

> The main point is that action in government is slow. And for good reason. If people want to hold onto the fantasy that when a bunch of people get angry, the government will take drastic action...then fine...

Sandy Hook was one month ago and the President is having a big news conference tomorrow about the administrations response re: gun violence. Is that "slow"? "drastic action"? something else?

It should be pointed out that the author is not a programmer but a college english professor so he is likely being invited to different sorts of meetings than the tech crowd may be used to.

Also, I happen to know the author to some small degree and I'm pretty sure his tongue is somewhat in cheek...

Madoff is a spectacularly bad example here. He was arrested Dec 11 and plead guilty on March 12 of the following year without even attempting to plea bargain.

>He sold gambling software while living in a state where gambling was illegal.

Jack Daniels Whiskey is made and sold by a distillery in a county where selling liquor is illegal.

>The only plywood you will find that is "actual" size...

Actual thickness you mean...

All construction sheet goods available in the US come in 4x8 sheets (drywall excepted, which I believe can be as long as 12').

Just because you can express "4ft by 8ft" as "Xmm by Ymm" (and that very well may be the official spec) doesn't make it 'metric' lumber in any meaninful way.

> And if I display the exact same frame twice in a row at 48fps I get 24fps.

Not quite. Shooting at 48fps requires a faster shutter speed than 24fps (1/48 vs 1/96) which gives you less motion blur.

The term you are looking for is "avoidance" not "evasion".