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Mostly, yes. The newer insulins (well they've been around for 20 years) have molecules which are engineered be faster acting so that they reduce peaks in blood sugar after meals; or longer lasting, so they can provide a more predictable background coverage.

Those prices have nothing to do with subsidies. It is showing that the NHS pays a fraction of the US prices for the same insulins.

Diabetics are exempt from all out-of-pocket prescription charges though, so that part is subsidized.

The NHS pays £14 - £28 a vial for those newer formulations.

The same Edward Bernays also did a PR stunt to market cigarettes to women, calling them "torches of freedom", associating women's smoking (which was considered taboo at the time) with feminism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom

It is covered in the Adam Curtis documentary, 'The Century of the Self'.

At least with Dell's on-site service, I have had two keyboards fixed for me at my desk in about about 5 minutes.

Argos have always done 16-day no quibble money back guarantees

tip - if you want to cd into a UNC path, you can't; but you can pushd into one and it'll create a temporary drive letter mapping and unmap it when you popd out

Personally I'd say there is no difference; I've stuck out on syringes in the uk for ages just because I found them lightweight and convenient; but recently moved to pre-filled pens. The cost to the NHS for prefilled pens vs syringes is pretty negligible.

Syringes were fine for me, pens might be less embarrassing to use in public maybe?

In the UK, the newer insulins cost the NHS £30-£37 for a box of 5 x 3ml disposable pens. Diabetics don't pay any charges for the prescription.

Hmm, I could imagine that the legibility of sentences and paragraphs, where you are pretty much reading a word at a time, is different from the legibility of things like codes where you are reading a character at a time. And for short words like table column headings, I suspect there isn't much difference either way.

The whole of the NHS 'Behind the Headlines' blog is fantastic btw; taking newspaper stories, looking at the studies behind them and sifting out the truth from the sensationalism.

Indeed, a relative of mine recently died of oral cancer, which was thought to be caused by moderate drinking.

Could they be making more money from ads than they expect to make from a reasonably priced premium version?

I'm reminded of the old comment at the bottom of the man page for 'su', where rms argues for why the implementation is deliberately less secure:

"Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the rest. For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to seize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex system and keep- ing it secret from everyone else. (I was able to thwart this coup and give power back to the users by patching the kernel, but I wouldn't know how to do that in Unix.)

However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone. Under the usual su mechanism, once someone learns the root password who sympathizes with the ordinary users, he can tell the rest. The "wheel group" feature would make this impossible, and thus cement the power of the rulers.

I'm on the side of the masses, not that of the rulers. If you are used to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do, you might find this idea strange at first."

In 2012, under George Osborne, it was changed so that it is permissible for an employee to be unfairly dismissed in your first two years of employment.

Clojure has several libraries (such as https://github.com/jkk/honeysql) which basically let you build a representation of an SQL query as a Clojure data structure, and then programatically transform it. It is great when you need to do things like add joins and subselects programatically to a query based on selections from a UI, and is extensible enough to support many advanced SQL features.

The NHS pays $23 in the UK. <https://bnf.nice.org.uk/medicinal-forms/insulin-lispro.html>

Have you seen Adam Curtis's documentary, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace? A lot of it is about that

The Stress applet on Samsung Health on their phones apparently measures heart rate variability by taking your heart rate over a period of about a minute

It still does - you have to set up the from and to colour, and then use the eraser with the right mouse button

I love this one, about DirectX not trusting drivers responses to capabilities requests: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040211-00/?p=...

What if the platforms are the JVM and Javascript, and you are chosing those platforms because of their extensive infrastructure and libraries?

It is possible to implement C faithfully on these platforms, including all of C's weirdness like pointer-arithmetic and unsafe casting. But you'd end up with something that departs far from the platform's runtime model and calling conventions.

Since Clojure 1.6, Java 6 is the minimum requirement.

I'm sure there is a discussion somewhere, but I expect that there are quite a few people who run Java on commercial J2EE app servers and the like which don't officially support newer JDKs.

Github used to have a simple binary files service, this was removed with no replacement, and then the release asset system was added shortly after.

I only recently found out release assets.

But... they came last out of the three main parties, so it is hardly surprising that they weren't able to implement the entire of their manifesto. The conservatives reneged on many of their manifesto pledges too.

I suspect it is more that the conservatives have much stronger support by the media.

The court decisions weren't overturned by parliament though, they were done by royal prerogative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_in_Council#United_Kingdom

I see the same problem lots with code that claims to be MIT and BSD licensed, but either doesn't include the license, or includes the license template with the placeholders for the year and copyright holder unfilled.

It makes complying with the license impossible.

The cartridges in a new printer will typically be "starter cartridges" and contain a fraction of the ink of a standard cartridge though.

A bit like this from 2011? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.incorporat...

System.getenv was deprecated (in 1.1?), and then replaced with an implementation that threw UnsupportedOperationException (in 1.2?) because it was considered to be non-portable.

Later they saw sense and re-implemented it and un-deprecated it.