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Before we were married my wife had an MRI. Having not met her deductible they sent her a bill for 1.5k. Not ideal but we were able to afford it and paid the bill. 364 days later we received another bill for roughly the same. We thought there was an error. After months of back and forth, even after they had told us for 2months that “they took care of it and we would not be charged” we ended up having to pay another $500. This whole process was beyond infuriating.

The other bill apparently came from the Dr who read the MRI. The fun part was we were never contacted by that Dr about the results. She eventually left the hospital and she canceled our follow up appointment.

Wouldn't you need 25k in your account to day trade options without being caught up as a RH pattern day trader?

Over the summer The New Yorker had a story on the president of the NYC Transit Authority. Entitled Can Andy Byford Save The Subways[1]? I found it interesting. They had a rather optimistic take, but this article 4 months later makes me think its not going well.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/09/can-andy-byfor...

Ironically, perhaps, Yale does not take Columbus day.

https://your.yale.edu/work-yale/benefits/paid-time/official-...

Yes, there is quite the competitive scene. And many streamers on twitch. However, most of the competitive games are played on Voobly. There are guides out there about playing AOE2HD on Voobly.

There is a 60k tournament underway. Tiny compared to other games, but respectable considering the age of this game.

The game's audience is mainly international. Large player bases in china, Vietnam, EU, and south america. The community can mainly be found at aoezone.net. There is a smaller community also on reddit.com/r/aoe2

I'll share my personal use of twitch streams. I really enjoy AOE2. The game might be nearing its second decade, but its very enjoyable for me to watch personally. I will use youtube-dl to grab past broadcasts and play the games back at 1.5x to 2x speed. I can easily skip through parts I find uninteresting. I'll generally watch one or two games per day, but my time commitment is under 30mins.

Something like that was happening in New England this spring

"Buy anything at Jordan’s Furniture starting today and it will all be FREE, if the Red Sox pitch a No Hitter, home or away, after July 17th during the regular season. That is 64 games! There is an average of 3 ½ No Hitters pitched each year."[0]

[0] http://www.furnituretoday.com/article/551925-if-red-sox-pitc...

>Could you get a grant or two? --

Re:open-access? Perhaps. I should note that this area is not my expertise. However, what to do when the grant runs out?

Even so most of our revenue comes from the subscription. A grant may pay for hosting, but what about the time of the developers. Or those working on the publication side. We are already on a near skeleton crew. Especially compared to what we had here in the 1940-80s.

I work at a small non-profit anthropological database. Our primary target is academia. We can only employ a small team of developers (2) and 12-13 total staff. About a decade ago Germany negotiated with us our only perpetual access license for all of their universities.

Consortia memberships in the US and Canada are not uncommon either. However, Germany possess our only perpetual license.

A lot of us desire open access, however, we are not sure how we would fund ourselves. Our subscription rates are generally very low. Especially compared to these large journals.

it also "...does not have all the legacy things like DTD."

Ok sure, but does it have schematron,rng, or some sort of validation? How about transformations? Xpath?

you are correct. I was on my second HDD-Based mp3 player before the Ipod came around. I Also had the Nomad and replaced it with the Zen. Googling I see dozens of models, but I believe it was the Zen Xtra. I still have it in a box of old electronics.

I recall it being very difficult to explain to my peers what I was carrying. Thankfully the nomad looked like a CD player.

While I've digested with some heavy skepticism, I always was lead to believe it was for more altruistic reasons. Future profit was not his motivation, insomuch as increased competition and proliferation of electric vehicles into the marketplace. Leading to the an end of fossil fuels in vehicles.

Ultimately, both statements can be true. Increase proliferation while generating multiple revenue streams off of Tesla R&D.

No. without reopening the article, I thought one was Finnish read with an English accent. This was due to what the author had grown accustomed. In his youth screen readers did not have as many options?

I wonder the same. I often listen to videos at 1.5-1.8x. I can listen to faster, but after about 2-2.5x it becomes enjoyable. As I need full concentration to parse the speech and miss out on the visual experience. Perhaps being blind the audio processing is heightened or just the visual distraction is absent allowing full concentration on the audio?

that is fascinating. I can only wonder what sort of facial expression he had during the questioning.

I have an Ethiopian colleague. Well he got his American citizenship a few years ago. But the only way to communicate with his family without ridiculous long distance fees was the internet. It used to be FaceBook but that's been shut down for awhile. This isn't good

  > Implemented the Arrow Operator (=>) from XQuery 3.1

I am unreasonably excited about this. On the whole I've found the introduction of xquery 3.1's arrays and maps to be a refreshing experience for XML processing.

watch travelers last week. Decent show. I also thought it sounded a lot like travelers.

I am not sure if this is better. But here is a scanned copy of the original journal article. I put it on google drive. Do you have a preferred PDF host?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8_iX4Icv1BmQkh3TWtqTXY5ajQ...

It sounds like you have only ever used the WayBackMachine. Their audio collection is phenomenal. But that just scratches the surface. Tv News archive, Texts, games, and so much more.

I think it is fair to include them on my list. It is not necessarily legal in some of these states yet either. It will still take some time.

Yes I think it is fair to include Canada in this list. MA, for example will still be illegal until Dec 15. But retail locations will not open until at least 2018.

Well MA and NV also voted to legalize last night. It failed in AZ. Maine, is leaning in favor but that is still within 1%. Assuming Maine holds the total are these 7

  1. Alaska
  2. Washington 
  3. Oregon
  4. Nevada
  5. Colorado
  6. Massachusetts
  7. Maine

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Non States

  8. Washington DC
  9. Our neighbors to the north. Canada.

I wish I knew what those apps were. Or what signs I can look for. I generally don't have many "garbage" apps on my phone, but I've always suspected it with words with friends--Yes, my gf have been playing that game together since we started dating 5 years ago. Every so often an Ad will come on and the volume all of a sudden adjusts itself from mute to about 33%. Its distributing that an advertisement can have that power.

edit: Hey wait, let me read the article--just poured my first morning cup of coffee and reading HN.

text dump: http://ix.io/1AfP

I was not an early fan of the Ipod. I was already on my 2nd generation of MP3 player at that point. I wanted SPACE. I wanted to be able to carry all my music with me. I have never been able to do that. The best I have at this point is the ability to stream all my music. But that requires an internet connection and unlimited data. Additionally, I found iTunes to be atrocious--still do.

I will say I have an ipod nano that is about 10 years old that is useful for when I am working outside.

maybe, in fact, reading some of these comments it feels like they have quite the collection there at Apache.

But I personally find myself using Apache Lucene by way of Apahce Solr quite frequently. If we were a bigger organization I'd likely look at Zookeeper and Kafka as well. Alas the library market can be a small and depressing market.

This reminds me of a (not so interesting) story.

In about 1997 I was really into hanging out in yahoo chat rooms and making websites. I was 11. I asked for a book on computer programming. I wanted to do something more than hack away at the perl scripts that ran my guest book. Neither my father or I really knew what I was asking. I received a nice book on PowerPC programming [0]. If I recall it read like assembly.

I still have the book on my bookshelf at home. I may have gotten 10% way through that book. It was quickly replaced with Sam's teach yourself perl in 24 hours.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/PowerPC-Programming-Intel-Programmers...

I'm sorry I don't have an answer for that at this moment. I read the comment on a different medium that had posted this story. I cannot verify it at this moment and don't have the available time to research it further.

If this is the story I recall he was mailing it via USPS and they letters originated from the house the father owned. However, this is a fuzzy memory from some time back.

>with his dad being dead --

For those unaware his father died in Prison. Why was he in Prison? Well the son committed the crime in the house the father owned. His father died 8 years into a 10 year prison sentence. Cruel.