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Ghosts of the Ostfront is no less well done. https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-ghosts-os...


Perhaps not to the point, but I find more interesting pieces that I want to remember occur in Hangouts, Slack or some other more expeditious medium other than email.

I suspect that for some, email is losing priority.


Great read. If you enjoyed, you may also like Island of the Lost. https://www.audible.com/pd/History/Island-of-the-Lost-Audiob...

"Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death."


Many people think and are incentivized to think about how to optimize for today.

Thinking about tomorrow can be counter-intuitive as to the way things work today, and it is pretty easy to construct negative arguments about tomorrow that are based on what we know right now.


Prescriptions are not the highest cost item within healthcare. [1] Perhaps it is just the title that is misleading however, because this would likely affect the number of people needing to go to a hospital or other care facility as well.

[1] - https://www1.aetna.com/assets_aetnaCom/images/aetnaCom_rebra...


What is "hospitals" in that graph? Like real estate? Equipment? Secretaries?


Don't forget about hospital EMRs, which can cost as much as the hospital itself (hundreds of millions of dollars)... [ http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-... ]


Hospitals = real estate + admin staff + operational expenses.

Liability insurance for example will come under this and so will the retainer for the lawyers who will help you understand complexities of ACA.


Mostly admin salaries/profit. Hospitals suffer from a similar issue as universities. The prices are high but the doctors complain about reduced pay.


Gordon Murray designs some pretty atypical vehicles, from the McLaren F1 to the T.25 or T.27 microcars, to the recent shippable truck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_F1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.25

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


The OX flat-pack truck (Global Vehicle Trust designed) is pretty amazing and was on HN recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12440612


> Gordon Murray designs some pretty atypical vehicles

You don't say! One thing is for sure: he really, really, really loves the idea of a central driving position. All the cars you mentioned have the driver sit smack bang in the middle.


It's gotta be cheaper to make one car that can be driven on either side of the road than make a car for the UK and then another one for the rest of the world.


Japan and Aus(/NZ?) are also in that minor group!


Not mention India (population 1.3 billion). All in all one third of the world drives on the left. I read somewhere that a lot of major manufacturers make about 50% of each.


An excellent correction. I knew there were more but I was too lazy to look them up.


So the T.25 will be the iPod shuffle of electric cars? Or will they make the F1 their Apple Watch? Or maybe both?


Curious as to how badly this whole thing affects SXSW?


SXSW was in March, so not at all. By the time next year's festival comes to town, the companies mentioned in this article will have reached critical mass.


Ask a legitimate question, get downvoted.


Click --> NYT Article --> Back --> Open in new incognito window

A dark pattern if I ever saw one.


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Build to think.


Win 10 gives me an onslaught of driver blue screens. I don't have time to investigate these, so I'm happy to stay on 8.1 for now. It's hard to not be annoyed in being asked to upgrade into something I already know does not work.


Win10 has been quite stable in VirtualBox on my MacBook. Maybe they should give up on hardware :)


On my surface pro I got several blue screens, something I rarely got with Windows 7. I also got some blue screens on a new supermicro server running windows 10, which I find even less amusing.


Why did you install Windows 7 on a Surface Pro (Touch Device) in the first place? Does the Pen etc even work? Afaik Surface Pro came with at least Windows 8 pre-installed.


I didn't. I meant having blue screens on devices with Windows 7. I only ever got blue screen on windows 7 machines when debugging multi-threaded apps with Visual Studio. On Windows 10 it is way to frequent even when not doing anything specific.

Windows 10 adds some improvements over windows 7, like hyper-v and http2. But in my experience it is nowhere as stable.


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