I really like this idea. Seems like they'd be spending resources where they are really needed. Rural places like where I live would get less frequent deliveries than cities and I'm okay with that. Like you mentioned, there's First Class if you really need something delivered soon-ish. To some degree, this system is already appearing with the end of Saturday deliveries.

Bigby for president!

I just wanted to say "thank you" for my new favorite word! I love it and plan on using whenever possible!

Burning ethanol in your new Stihl does not void the warranty. Stihl allows E10 (10% ethanol) fuel to be used in their engines without affecting the warranty. Stihl Warranty FAQ

You are right about ethanol causing fuel to degrade much more rapidly. If it's going to sit for more than a month, you may run into trouble.

Yes, it's called peering. If you're an ISP you should be looking at your throughput metrics and finding those autonomous systems with whom you're exchanging a bunch of traffic.

"Hey look, we're pulling in 7Gbps from this operation called Netflix. I wonder if they'd be open to the possibility of peering with us. It would save both of us money since all that traffic could be moved off of the links we have with our pay-for upstreams. As an added bonus, our customers would be connected to that content via a much shorter network path... a single AS!"

"What's this, OpenConnect you say? That's exactly what we want! It almost like those wacky kids at Netflix understand how the Internet is supposed to work."

There's nothing wrong with that at all provided you tell your environment that cluster members cannot be moved onto the same hardware. Try it. You'll like it!

Hang in there, bud. It does get better. Last year, I wore sandpaper eyes. This year, we're actually getting a bit of sleep. Next year, we're doing it all over again.

Is it because you *love* wrangling utter chaos into something beautiful and organized? I know that's what often drives me. We're sick, huh?

The original comment was likely a commentary on how useful a decent in-phone camera can be to parents photographing their children. Since the phone is almost ever-present, it is used regularly for photos of the kids.

He's from Loompaland.

I agree. A telepresence robot is a poor choice for surgery. You also should not have it fetch beer from the fridge or groom your chinchilla. For robotic surgery, it is advised to use a robotic surgery robot. They tend to be more suited for the purpose (for whatever reason).

Medical credentialing makes it difficult to off shore this type of work. A hospital would have to send each doctor who might "see" patients through their state's credentialing process before they could cover a shift. This is time consuming and is especially difficult since, to make the economics of this attractive, these "doctor call centers" would need to have a bunch of docs... possibly all of which may need credentialing if the possibility exists of them seeing your patients.

In a small rural hospital, devices like this would be used to provide specialty or sub-specialty services that the hospital wouldn't normally be able to offer its community since it's tough to get a cardiologist (or whatever) to move, along with his/her spouse, out to the sticks.

But occasionally it does?