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Re:Why American ambulance rides are so expensive on Friday July 10, 2026 @07:26AM (#48858471)
Last year I had appendicitis in Italy, where I live. I called a cab to reach the nearest hospital, since I didn't feel so bad as warranting an ambulance. I got accepted, visited, transferred to the larger nearby hospital by ambulance, appendectomy, 4 nights stay, and I was provided with the drugs for the convalescence. When I was dismissed I took another cab back.

Total expense: ~25€ for the two taxi rides.

Very happy to pay my taxes, and very happy that when I don't need it myself, they go into financing the healthcare services for others that may or may not be able to pay out of pocket.

Re:Show HN: Virtual SLURM HPC cluster in a Docker Compose on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @04:28PM (#46062547)
You can access via SSH either with password or with keys.

Our reference cluster has long queuing times during busy hours and requires 2FA for access, so we had extra incentives to have a self-contained solution to run on our development machines.

Show HN: Virtual SLURM HPC cluster in a Docker Compose

Posted by ciclotrone on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @12:33PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/exactlab/vhpc

I'm the main developer behind vHPC, a SLURM HPC cluster in a docker compose.As part of my job, I'm working on a software solution that needs to interact with one of the largest Italian HPC clusters (Cineca Leonardo, 270 PFLOPS). Of course developing on the production system was out of question, as it would have led to unbearably long feedback loops. I thus started looking around for existing...

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Re:German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manip... on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:36AM (#39397564)
I find it quite disturbing that high taxation is seen as a negative aspect of Europe. I lived in Italy, France and Germany, and I enjoyed public healthcare and education of very high standard at very affordable prices, and free in the limit that one cannot afford to pay for them.

As a relative of a person with a chronic disease I can tell you that on the one hand if we are not bankrupt it is because of public healthcare, and on the other I'm proud of contributing through my taxes so that anybody in need can have the same treatment irrespective of their economic situation.

Re:Japan will no longer require floppy disks for submitting some offic... on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @08:36AM (#39203601)
Having immigrated to both places: yes, much worse.
Re:Russian journalists poisoned abroad since fall 2022 on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @09:16AM (#37146587)
‘The most likely explanation’ At least three Russian journalists and activists appear to have been poisoned abroad since fall 2022.
Re:A frog levitating in a strong magnetic field (1997) [video] on Sunday August 06, 2023 @08:52PM (#37028625)
A fun fact is that, if memory doesn't fool me, the levitating frog experiment was carried out by Micheal Berry and Andre Geim, and they were awarded the ignobel for it.

Berry is the same one of the Berry phase for which he received a ton of non-humorous awards, and Geim went on to discover graphene and receive a Nobel without the ig in front.

Re:Rare photo booth where you can watch your photos develop on Sunday August 06, 2023 @04:37AM (#37020077)
> “The Russian company that was making the light-sensitive paper stopped manufacturing it and it’s run out,” said Azariah, who has now managed to import light-sensitive strips from Czechoslovakia.

Ok the vintage feeling of the article, but Czechoslovakia split 30 years ago.