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> I was under the impression the bundle of insurer and healthcare provider would avoid these issues.

It gets worse, bundling those two is the epitome of conflict of interests when you find yourself the victim of the hospital's negligence and expect your insurer to act in your best interest.

Nope!


Strange for that wikipedia page to not contain a single graphic representation of what's being described.


The wiki's sources have a picture: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/more-than-half-the-worlds-p...

Perhaps you'd like to be the one to ask the graphic's author for permission to add it to Wikipedia, or you'd like to create a graphic to add yourself.


I had loaded that page and didn't see one, I guess it must require javascript.


The DIAMETER of such an area is very roughly 12 percent of Earth's CIRCUMFERENCE. So you could (probably) lay 8 of these areas around the equator, give or take a a couple.


The earth’s circumference is ~4E4 km; the diameter of this circle is ~8E3 km. That’s 20%, not 2%. 2% would be utter madness.


Thanks for pointing that out. Its different now


20%, not 2%. So just under 5 would stretch around the equator.


Thanks for pointing that out. Its different now


Can anyone recommend a good and current guide on setting up and maintaining your own mastodon instance?


The official docs at https://docs.joinmastodon.org/ should do


It appears "Installing from source" is the only option?

Are there no distributions packaging mastodon and its dependencies such that I don't need to have gcc/build-essential and piles of -dev packages installed to run it?


Mastodon has hundreds of Nodejs and Ruby dependencies, so it would be a huge amount of work for distributions to package it. See https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/3576

FreeBSD's ports used to have Mastodon, but they gave up because it kept breaking https://www.freshports.org/net-im/mastodon/

You can however run Mastodon with docker, many people use the official docker-compose.yml config.


Yikes, do you know of any activitypub-compatible implementations actually packaged by distros? gnu social perhaps? diaspora?

I checked out Pleroma after seeing it mentioned on that freshports mastodon page, which seemed a bit less onerous with just the OTP component but they don't distribute an i686 build, that's unfortunately what the dusty old colo I'm looking to run this on has.


Debian Sid has Diaspora: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/diaspora , but Diaspora doesn't support ActivityPub: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/7422#issuecommen...

As for GNU Social, well... https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/GNUSocial

You might be interested in Yunohost, which is a Debian-based distro packaging popular server applications (also with an easy installer, aimed at non-technical people): https://yunohost.org/


> Debian Sid has Diaspora: https://packages.debian.org/unstable/diaspora , but Diaspora doesn't support ActivityPub: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/7422#issuecommen....

For posterity sake:

I just spent an hour trying to get that package happily installed in a fresh debian sid debootstrap running in nspawn and it seems to be broken. They're requiring an old 1.2.x ruby-zip version, and sid seems to only have 2.0. Even after kludging past that, things break down again on unmet sass version requirements.

So true to the 'unstable' name, this package isn't currently usable.


You may want to submit a bug report: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

This will more likely result in the package being removed rather than fixed, but at least someone else won't get false hope.


I emailed [email protected] FWIW


The linux kernel has been run on "big iron" for a long time now, it would be surprising if it weren't better prepared for scaling to 128+ cores.

linux/Documentation/vm/numa.rst states it was started in 1999, was windows going anywhere near NUMA architectures back then?


Since windows was mostly running on x86 and the memory controllers were in the northbridge back then even multi-socket systems wouldn't have been affected by NUMA. Moving them on-die only happened later.


There were NUMA x86 rigs long before the memory controller moved to the CPU. IBM xSeries and serverworks chipsets from around 2000 had NUMA topologies.


Windows server 2003 had NUMA support. I am not sure that Server 2000 exposed any NUMA capability, but there were a lot of things cut from that project because it was running late. My guess is NUMA was one of the things that got pushed (in terms of release) to 2003.

They used to have a "Datacenter" SKU of the server where you'd find most of these kinds of features. This was only available with OEM hardware IIRC.


Cuddling? Lots of mammals do it, and in my experience it's a very comforting and bond-reinforcing activity. It doesn't feel awkward and forced at all to me, unless with the wrong people, which strikes me as a desirable feature.


With you 100%

I chalked it up to growing up in a household where intimacy wasn't on display at all, there was barely ever any hugging even. My parents kept all displays of physical affection behind closed doors.

Sex is fun, but all the other stuff feels completely awkward and unnatural to me.

Were you raised in an environment where adults kissed often?


Hugging is actually something that is very natural and has a lot of measurable physiological and downright physical benefits.

That said I happen to know a person who finds all hugging awkward, and he basically told the same story as you - no hugging in his family.


It doesn't seem difficult to avg +1% per month doing relatively basic trading in my experience.

The challenge I have is remembering to actually care about it and do the trades, life gets too busy and before I realize it a month has gone by.

But whenever I'm on top of it, 1% gains have been very easy over the past decade, I'm rarely in the market for more than a few hours. But I risk having a pile of cash to trade with I suppose, the dollar could crash.

If you do +1% per month you're already +12%/yr, I consider 12%/yr the minimum acceptable yield for any kind of investment given how easy it seems to be to DIY.


1. The S&P 500 has returned about 14% per year over the past decade, so a return of 12% isn't particularly notable.

2. Market returns vary greatly from decade to decade, so we shouldn't necessarily expect this 14% rate of return to continue. (Most obviously, there were no recessions in the past decade, which is unusual.)


Somewhat related; when a friend bought his first home, he filled bookshelves in the living room with books that were popular in his circles as part of decorating and a means of social manipulation.

He never had and likely never will read any of them, it was primarily an attempt to buy social favor with guests. He'd just say he had a poor memory for books he read long ago whenever someone tried discussing them at a house party.

It was unnerving how effective this was.


Books do make great decorations. People have been doing the same thing for decades.

“Don’t have sex with someone who doesn’t own any books” used to be somewhat common dating advice. With e-readers, it’s not as applicable, but the principle is still good.


In some sense e-readers are an advantage, since it's less easily spoofed; instead you have to discuss the content of books with them, rather than be impressed by their collection of potentially unread paper lining the shelves.


Until they lie to you about their obsession with Middle Age poetry from the region surround the Black Sea.


The old joke about Suhrkamp: if you buy ten meters of Suhrkamp and display them you are civilized. If you read them you are cultivated.


It used to be possible to buy just the back covers of the full encyclopedia Britannica. Just for that reason.


This is a big part of why it's so important we support efforts like the pine phone and librem 5.

When these companies go belly up the perfectly functional devices we own shouldn't become effectively unservicable.


They need to start by having a working computer in a form of a phone that runs Android applications from Google Play, has support for 4G LTE. Until that happens, pine phone and librem are non-starters.


How many drivers didn't hit the same barrier that year?

It just seems like an edge case that's catching inattentive drivers off guard, which IMHO is a category including Tesla's on autopilot. And it seems Tesla agrees here; they require drivers pay attention when using Autopilot. If your vehicle runs into a barrier on Autopilot, you weren't paying attention.


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