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Re:Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:49PM (#16927080)
And the US system is one of the main reasons there's resistance to loosening single-payer in Canada. Wait times for MRIs (and other procedures) depends on need -- low priority cases will get bumped for more immediate issues. Psychiatrists _are_ covered under MSP (with a referral), although psychologists & counselors are (generally) not. But non-government insurance plans will often cover them as well as prescriptions and other non covered services. Such extended medical plans are often a work benefit (like in the US).
If your employer has an RRSP matching plan, any matched contributions (both your contribution and the employer matching funds) are generally tied to a specific provider with limited options, relatively high fees, etc.

But any separate contributions can be managed as you want, with some (broad) limits.

Re:Conservative GC: Is It Really That Bad? on Thursday February 22, 2018 @04:14PM (#16441446)
Could you use debug information for this? I think the stack frame layout should already be included there.
Re:Thor Electric Truck Will Probably Beat Tesla’s to Market on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @06:35PM (#15918723)
Apparently it scales with the fourth power of axle weight (http://www.nvfnorden.org/lisalib/getfile.aspx?itemid=601), roughly.
Re:I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived on Monday October 16, 2017 @01:14PM (#15484874)
When I did avalanche safety training, we were told your chance of surviving an avalanche with (shovel/probe/beacon) is about 50% overall. Roughly 25% of people are killed in the avalanche (before it stops). If you survive the initial avalanche, if you're buried your buddies have about 10 minutes to dig you out. After that, survival rates drop rapidly.
Re:Where Are the Fins? (2009) [pdf] on Friday September 15, 2017 @06:59PM (#15261553)
With the square root of the length.
If there's no APM limit you can do things like micro every worker's resource gathering. See http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/brood-war/484849-improving-m....
Re:Training a neural net to generate British placenames on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:16PM (#14824899)
I'm partial to Upper and Lower Slaughter myself.
Re:153k Ether Stolen in Parity Multi-Sig Attack on Thursday July 20, 2017 @02:25PM (#14815080)
Contents may have been unimportant. Apparently books could be ordered by the yard for decorating manor libraries.
Yes. Youtube tries (tried?) to autocaption videos, and the results were infamously bad.
Re:Why Tesla Is Worth More Than GM on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @01:03PM (#14696989)
That's the same thing they said about web companies in the mid 90s.
Re:Zillow forces McMansion Hell to delete posts on Monday June 26, 2017 @04:37PM (#14640157)
I believe in some cases a licensee also has standing to sue over copyright; e.g. if the licensee is granted an exclusive license.
Generally people would rather live in a city, so companies offer higher pay and possibly other benefits like 2 weeks on/2 weeks off.
Re:The Future of the Word Processor (2016) on Thursday June 08, 2017 @04:03PM (#14516796)
Per Wikipedia the different New Testament texts have a 99.5% accuracy with each other, and the oldest existing manuscripts were written ~200 years after the original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textual_criticism_of_the_New_T....

Modern translations are done based on analysis of the existing Greek manuscripts, not based on the KJV so any political meddling with the KJV doesn't affect the NIV, ESV or similar.

Re:Declaring C String Constants on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:22PM (#14361898)
I think it's backward compatibility, not speed. Functions with no arguments lists were supported in C89, so changing it now will break someone's code somewhere.

In fact not specifying a parameter list may make your code slower, as (IIRC) default argument promotions are always applied to parameters passed to such a function.

Re:Google Cloud Prediction API End of Life on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:10PM (#14344240)
Which is one thing if your product is on a yearly (or quicker) release cycle. But it's a whole different level of pain if the project is in maintenance mode and the development team has already been reassigned to other projects.