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Microcontrollers? Absolutely.

That was... very strange. I'm not sure how else you'd demonstrate a physical vocal tract model though.

I'd also be interested to hear an experts thoughts on this. Could this be asked as a question in a thread of its own?

I think he was joking.

I replied to another comment further up the chain with further statistics and sources.

I absolutely agree. Smoking a pipe does increase your risk for a variety of cancers and several other health problems. Sometimes manyfold. My main point here is that the dangers it presents are more easily mitigated and less significant than most other forms of tobacco use and that overall you're not really exposing yourself to that much more risk than you would be doing many other things.

Here's a study looking at mortality rates and causes for pipe smokers. At the absolute worst, the top end of the confidence interval, the mortality rate goes from ~1.3% per man year to ~1.7% per man year if you are currently smoking a pipe and surprisingly lowers to ~1.2% per man year if you previously smoked a pipe. [1]

Over 20 years that adds up to an increase of about 6% in your chances of death.

Like all good things in life it has risks attached. Know the risks; enjoy it in moderation. It's a risk, but I think people tend to blow it out of proportion. Probably has something to do with people underestimating the base cancer rate.

[1]https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/96/11/853/2520796/Asso...

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Interesting tangent, as I understand it smoking a pipe isn't particularly dangerous compared to cigarettes, snuff, chewing tobacco, cigars, etc. When smoking a pipe the only contact with carcinogens is the smoke in your mouth. Chances of lung cancer aren't greatly increased as you shouldn't be inhaling and rates of mouth and throat cancers are only marginally increased. The chances of mouth and throat cancers are increased much less than if you were to chew tobacco or smoke cigars as both of those involve direct contact between the tobacco product and your lip. The biggest risk due to pipe smoking is heart disease due to nicotine. If you only smoke occasionally and choose tobaccos with lower nicotine content the risk here is negligible as well.

It took me longer than I'd like to admit to figure out "blow paste" was a typo. Thanks for brightening my day with accidentally colorful language.

I wonder if it's reasonable to go even further and say there's a negative correlation between spending and what someone gets out of college. I'd say that's certainly the case when restricted to certain fields. In this case I definitely do not think correlation has anything to do with causation though.

A significant chunk of the massive numbers people are throwing around talking about the cost of college comes from living expenses.

Actually, I think this is at least part of the reason for increased healthcare costs. The consumer almost never the one paying for healthcare. It might help to lower healthcare costs if there was no longer a tax incentive for employers to use healthcare as a form of payment. If that happens it will make far more sense for employers to let their employees deal with the administrative overhead of finding health coverage and pay them higher wages to make up the difference. Suddenly the employee is much more aware of what their health coverage is costing and now has a much greater interest in it costing less. Without the consumer being the one paying for things costs can on paper get a bit crazy when in reality it costs the company a reasonable amount overall as they've negotiated with the insurer and the insurer has negotiated with the hospital.

Gross profit. Not Net profit. They made a tenth of that after all other costs are considered. [1] 13.6 billion spread over 2.1 million employees works out to about a $6500 per year raise or about $3.10 per hour given 2087 working hours in a year before they're in the red. It'd help a bit, but nothing life changing. You're vastly overestimating their ability to raise wages without raising prices.

[1]http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/wmt/financials

It's kind of interesting that we've come full circle. We started with pocket watches and moved to wristwatches when it was too inconvenient to take something out of your pocket to check the time in the trenches of WWI. Now we've transitioned back to pocket watches in the form of a phone because it's "more convenient."

I think it's more likely the bubble that bursts is in the loan market. Loads of speculators moving college debt around until everyone realizes that nobody can pay back their student loans making the debt worthless. Everyone panics and sells debt as fast as they can.

It's already been mentioned that putting cars in the tunnels increases the usefulness of the tunnels quickly without requiring a large network of tunnels right off the bat. I think it's always possible to convert the tunnels to trains at a later date with a much lower cost than the initial investment. I think having the tunnels be designed for cars makes a lot of sense for Elon in particular because he can design the tunnels as an ideal environment for the first generation of self driving cars. This would give him a good start getting self driving cars on the road.

This is really cool! Next time I need CAD software I know where to look. Maybe I'll actually buy a 3d printer and start playing around now that there's a good modeling software option.

Except the very first paragraph states that the reason for the suit was that the contractors were not appropriately following Medicare guidelines.

"...in which the plaintiffs alleged that Medicare contractors were inappropriately applying an “Improvement Standard” in making claims determinations for Medicare coverage involving skilled care..."

That case was against Medicare contractors. Not Medicare.

You can have the procedure done then sue them when they won't pay for what they're contractually obligated to. You don't generally get a hospital bill until the procedure is done.

The Moto G does this. The cover I bought from motorola replaces the entire back of the phone.

This is the best explanation I've seen so far.

Except you can sue your insurance provider if they deny you coverage for something that they're obligated to cover. You wouldn't be able to sue the government.

Edit: Let me also add this; when you sign up for health insurance you're entering into a contract with the insurer. They have to be up front about what they're providing and it's your obligation to understand what you're buying. With the government you don't get that. You get whatever the vanilla flavour of healthcare coverage is today. There's no contractual obligation, only whatever the government says is right today. You don't get a guarantee. Because there's no contract you can point to, even if you're legally allowed to sue (and I don't think you are.) you won't have a case to stand on.

Higher compression ratio allows better fuel efficiency. Supercharging forces more fuel and air into the same cylinder.

Is this code also used for the Xbox? It would be really cool if we could run linux/bsd easily on one of those.

Then we can possibly block them by matching structural elements?

They're coming right for us!!! O_O

Union of numeric and character pointer.

>We already established that property management companies do this for 10% of the rent.

Closer to 30% and that doesn't include maintenance costs and insurance which are _VERY_ significant.

>Should I charitably assume that you've just never heard of insurance?

I've been charitable by not bringing it up. It costs ~40-50% of your gross income from a rental property where I'm from.

>That 80% of the rent which goes into their pockets after...

Point me to where I can make that kind of money and I'll quit my job today. I'm sure I would have absolutely NO trouble at all getting a loan if I was pretty much guaranteed an 80% profit.

>Many landlords end up not fixing stuff that breaks.

If it's in the lease that they will (It's in mine.) Then sue them. If not, fix it or move. I've yet to see a lease that didn't include timely repairs.

>If land ownership were illegal and it were simply rented from the government...

It pretty much is. What do you think property taxes are? When you pay for land you're just providing an incentive for another party to cut their lease short.

>Not possible while they own deeds to the land. Ownership of the land is the part that lets them be parasites.

Land is cheap in a lot of places. Sometimes much cheaper than renting. The barrier to buying land varies, but sometimes renting is a better option.

More like 20% if you don't include labour. Then take out another 40-50% for insurance on the property. Then put the rest into paying the mortgage. Which you admittedly get back, but remember you're doing all the work on the house yourself and houses do wear out over time so that will eat into your margin even more.

EDIT: Don't forget about property taxes! Those eat up a pretty big chunk of the rent too. They're usually a couple hundred a month. Let's be nice and call that 10% although it's generally much larger.