Hacker News Reader

excannukon U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982

Read up on the why, I didn't get it either. Its fascinating though, basically the caverns would collapse.

Also, the bottom of the reserve is mostly sludge.

excannukon An airport cooled by natural ventilation

At 35 C moving air heats you up. Like in a convection oven.

excannukon Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless

No, that's illegal. Thats what single payer means, only one payer is allowed [1].

Is meant to encourage rich people to support the health system since everyone's in it. But in reality the very wealthy go to Buffalo and immigrants visit their home countries.

It's also not lost on public policy experts that MAID has the potential of "solving" a lot of structural problems in Canadian health care and... long and behold MAID has expanded tremendously in ten years.

[1] with some exceptions largely grandfathered in