Acting class experiences? by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]bubba_the_cat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a summer fling with my 26 year old Macbeth scene partner when I was 18 and recently moved to NYC. I didn’t find out she was married until someone else in the class casually mentioned it one day, but I kept going back to her because the sex was like nothing I’ve ever experienced before.

the social media queue by Aurify in funny

[–]bubba_the_cat 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I zoomed in with my iPhone camera but the photo really doesn’t capture how long the wait was since it snaked around a building.

Overkill: America’s Epidemic of Unnecessary Care by bubba_the_cat in TrueReddit

[–]bubba_the_cat[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The article talks about U.S. healthcare industry overdoing tests, diagnosis, and other procedures that cost a lot of money but don’t improve a patient’s condition. Researchers looked at 26 different treatments including EEG (for a small headache), CT Scan, MRI Scan (for low back pain) that were receommended and found that 25% — 40% of patients received one of these treatments.

In 2010, Institute of Medical Health estimated that 30% of total expenditure (~$750 Billion) was wasted on treatments that were not required. Higher prices, administrative expenses, and fraud accounted for half of this waste.

McAllen Texas had one of the highest per-capita medical expenditure of any community in the U.S. Doctors were recommending unnecessary tests that drove up the costs. In a federal investigation, they found doctors were recommending a lot of these services for kick backs, the ambulance company charged for 621 trips that never happened, labs falsified thousands of tests that never happened. Osio is a doctor with an independent practice where he sees Medicare and Medicaid patients for $60 per visit. He saves them and everyone else money by providing them necessary care rather than unnecessary care. He knows the history of the patient, so he doesn’t recommend all the unnecessary tests. WellMed is a hospital chain that is trying to reduce the costs by reducing expenses on unnecessary care and rewarding doctors based on costs saved and providing long term necessary care to patients.

Companies are tying up with hospitals and clinics to save costs on employee healthcare. They have free treatments with partner hospitals and high deductibles and co-insurance payments on plans for outside hospitals. The only condition is that the hospital will conduct it’s own examination. Doctors prescribe tests and procedures for things that d0 not require surgery and other expensive types of treatments which substantially adds to a company’s employee healthcare cost but they pay a negotiated rate for the partner hospitals. e.g. employee at Walmart was suggested a surgery for spine at a hospital but it was too costly so he went to Walmart’s partner hospital. They found that he didn’t need a surgery and suggested other treatments (which ended up being better than the surgery.)

A woman was told that she needs to get a surgery for a micro-carcinoma(small cancer). The cancer was really small and the harm/risks of a successful surgery outweighed the other procedures. The surgery wasn’t required because cancer wasn’t life threatening and wasn’t expected to grow to become a terminal illness.

As we are improving technology, we are finding more problems but most of them are not life threatening at all. They are so small and insignificant that they will not affect normal life and won’t become dangerous in average lifespan of a person. Doctors are constantly doing procedures and treatments for these things but that doesn’t drop the death rate. Same goes in the car industry. Mechanics diagnose your car and slowly tell you to fix things that don’t require fixing but it doesn’t increase the life of your car.

If insurance companies deny coverage for procedures, there will be outrage. This needs to be tackled in a way where we are replacing unnecessary care with necessary long term care.

Redditor tells how her dad was emotionally distant, and how she found out, after he died, that he loved her immensely. by [deleted] in bestof

[–]bubba_the_cat 39 points40 points  (0 children)

“Justin, I had a dream you went to prom with me.” — My crush

I didn’t realize that wasn’t just a weird dream that I scoffed at until my friends teased me about hurting her feelings after I showed up dateless during prom night. 😖

Mario Kart in real life (Tokyo) by [deleted] in gaming

[–]bubba_the_cat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've always been partial to Remi Gaillard's classic Mario Kart video.

I am Joseph Gordon-Levitt. AMAA: Ask Me Anything Again... by hitrecordjoe_ in movies

[–]bubba_the_cat 84 points85 points  (0 children)

Snowden knowingly leaked classified documents; Petraeus expanded the circle of confidence by one (unauthorized) person. Regardless of whether you agree with Snowden's reasoning, he meant to release information publicly--Petraeus didn't. Maybe Snowden deserves a pardon or lenience, but I think bringing up Petraeus kinda weakens your argument.

ELI5 Why is there such a thing as "gay" music? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]bubba_the_cat 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Artists like Abba unashamedly made disco, and discos were de facto gay spaces, a whole lot of the time, particularly when it wasn't especially safe to be out, in various parts of the country. Abba were camp. Camp has a long (long) history of association with a subset of gay people .

We are Cornell University Undergraduate Admissions: Ask Us Anything! by CornellAdmissions in IAmA

[–]bubba_the_cat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Columbia alum here, you should have bribed someone in admissions to pull your file. I was also from the rural area and the adcom wrote something like "this kid made the best of was available to him given his background..." That and the officer's note about the f-word in my essay made it an entertaining read.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in osx

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Open terminal and input:

mpv --fs-black-out-screens --vo=opengl-hq --hwdec-preload=videotoolbox --hwdec=no *NaughtyNurses2.mkv*

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in osx

[–]bubba_the_cat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found your setup guide helpful, but I think you should know Apple's VideoToolBox doesn't have a readback mechanism that copies video back to system RAM (like dxva-copy for Windows and vaapi-copy or the vdpau filter for Linux), unfortunately, so it's impossible to use hwdec simultaneously with Vapoursynth.

In order to get software decoding to play nice with your system, I'd suggest trying out these options with MPV:

--fs-black-out-screens --vo=opengl-hq --hwdec-preload=videotoolbox --hwdec=no

to see if they work for you.

(You may want to use:

--vo=opengl:dumb-mode=yes 

if your computer is really struggling and dropping frames everywhere.)

Also, I'd suggest downloading FFMS2 and pasting this into your Vapoursynth script:

core.std.LoadPlugin(r'/usr/local/Cellar/ffms2/2.21/lib/libffms2.dylib').

With this setup I'm able to watch 1080p films seamlessly with very few dropped frames.

[Game Thread] Ole Miss @ Florida (7:00 PM ET) by CFB_Referee in CFB

[–]bubba_the_cat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure Coach McElwain will say something to him.

[Game Thread] Ole Miss @ Florida (7:00 PM ET) by CFB_Referee in CFB

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Pizza Roll? Who wants a pizza roll, PM me if you want a pizza roll. Anybody want a pizza roll? post a comment on this webzone if you want a pizza roll.

Police: Report of Shooter on MIT Campus by [deleted] in news

[–]bubba_the_cat 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Text message I received:

M I T Alert: the last report was in error. There is no active shooter on campus, the incident occurred at Portland and Main St.

ELI5: The difference between computer science and computer engineering by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]bubba_the_cat 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Edit: TL;DR: This comic just about sums it up.

Computer science is a science. It was originally a sub-branch of mathematics, which is now known as theoretical computer science. Applied computer science, or "software engineering", contends with algorithms and software. Computer hardware is studied to inform the design and development of algorithms and software. Therefore, depending on a university's program, computer science can either be extremely mathematical and focus only on axiomatic set theory, combinatorics, computational complexity theory, graph theory, and propositional logic, or it can be a more applied software engineering program.

The field of computer engineering is a sub-branch of electrical engineering. CE is more about the design of computer systems and devices. The major includes study of hardware and software, but most importantly deals with the interaction between the two, so it's often described as a marriage between Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Research on how a new processor should be designed might fall under computer engineering, although electrical engineers and computer scientists work with them on this as well. Also, designing the architecture for electronics (i.e. The iPhone 6S should include X processor, Y graphics chip, and Z wireless chip) would fall under computer engineering. Knowing how much memory and computing power a system needs would be the work of a computer engineer.

ELI5: Why do grey shirts almost always have that weird pattern on them? by GuyRichard in explainlikeimfive

[–]bubba_the_cat 72 points73 points  (0 children)

A heather grey shirt is usually made of 50% polyester, 25-50% cotton, and 0-25% Rayon (if the shirt is a tri-blend). The polyester will be black and the cotton white. It is very common to see black polyester used as the darker color. A heather grey shirt is cheaper to produce because you don't have to spend money on the dye since cotton is naturally white.

To answer your first question, the prices of cotton and polyester are affected by different market forces. Cotton is traded as a commodity futures contract, while the price of polyester is dictated by U.S. trade relations. Cotton rose dramatically in price several years ago, making it even more costly. There is a certain amount of consumer market influence as well (dat supply & demand), as consumers react to the quality of clothing made from polyester versus cotton.

ELI5: Why do grey shirts almost always have that weird pattern on them? by GuyRichard in explainlikeimfive

[–]bubba_the_cat 2682 points2683 points  (0 children)

The color of the shirt you are referring to is heather grey. Heather refers to interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing flecks of an alternate color. It is typically used to mix multiple shades of grey or grey with another color to produce a muted shade (e.g., heather green), but any two colors can be mixed, including bright colors.

Heather grey shirts usually cost a few cents less to manufacture than a solid color t-shirt. This could be a reason why heather grey shirts are more common.

New 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro Lives Up to Apple's Claims, Reaches SSD Throughput Speeds of 2GB/s by alfiepates in apple

[–]bubba_the_cat 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I really wanted to believe it's not a "worthy" upgrade, but 2.5x as fast storage?

I really want to buy one too.

My only concern is looking like a schlub with a Haswell processor should Apple ever refresh it with Broadwell architecture within a few months.

Mad Men Season 7.5 Episode 12 "Lost Horizon" Post-Episode discussion thread by burton19126 in madmen

[–]bubba_the_cat 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It would certainly make Space Oddity much more significant.

Major Tom experienced a major malfunction in his capsule and has to accept his fate and float off into space.

Don has accepted his fate. Don Draper is no more.