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There's a big difference between "done loading" and "appears to be done loading". Google is reportedly very cautious about the latter, and pulls some hijinks to appear faster than it is. Frankly, I'd be happier if more sites paid a similar level of attention.

That said, if your search page takes over a second, you're right, it might be an issue with your network.

Years ago I worked with a developer who had a different methodology: 2x, then bump the unit of measure. Thus, 1 day -> 2 weeks; 2 weeks -> 4 months. It's been remarkably accurate over the past couple of decades.

Does this break links and lead to link rot? Other StackExchange sites don't seem to have the page rank of StackOverflow. It also makes it harder to restrict searches to a particular site when questions are spread across multiple sites inconsistently depending on what year they were asked.

I have a question I want to ask, but haven't. This is mostly because I feel that asking it properly, describing what I've tried, linking to (not) duplicates and explaining why they're not relevant, and linking to the docs to try and explain why I don't understand them, etc., etc, is a great deal of work. In other words, explain why the top 20 Google and SO results and workarounds aren't relevant to the answer I'm looking for. Doing it "properly" would take about 30 minutes. ... and thus I haven't asked.

I went with a workaround that I'm unsatisfied with because it was easier than asking a good question.

I send unauthenticated email on port 25, every semester, in front of my students, as part of a discussion on internet application protocols. I can't use "God", because the addresses are validated, but I do send "from" the school's IT director. I even give them the commands to do it themselves (along with a strict talking to about how it's not truly anonymous because their network access is authenticated).

I've been able to do it at every university I've studied or worked at.

Possibly several things going on, of which O2 may be only one. Research also shows taking breaks and exposure to nature both have revitalizing effects.

> Medicaid is a loan.

Um, ... no. Or, at least not in my case.

Our son was diagnosed with cancer at the age of three. Medicaid served as secondary insurance, and thankfully so, as the bills from the first month exceeded $300,000. This went on for nine months.

It's now been eight years since he passed, with no mention from any agency about recovery.

Besides, it seems you left a few things out of your diatribe. From the medicaid.gov link:

    > For individuals age 55 or older, ... recovery of payments 
    > from the individual's estate for [specifically enumerated things, 
    > which does not appear to include doctor visits].

Also:

    > States may not recover from the estate of a deceased Medicaid 
    > enrollee who is survived by a spouse, child under age 21, or
    > blind or disabled child of any age. States are also required to 
    > establish procedures for waiving estate recovery when recovery 
    > would cause an undue hardship.

So, at best a fear-mongering half-truth. Maybe we can agree Medicaid is for people with no money. The government seems to have a procedure that attempts to collect money from an estate, in certain circumstances, after a patient dies, if there really was money available.

My experience (as someone who was elected to public education administration) suggests it's often more about logistics. For example, adjusting how many bus drivers (and busses) are needed in a district to serve elementary, middle and high schools. Staggering start times reduces the need, but drives one of these options to be earlier than the others.

High school sports complicates logistics later in the day.

It's not just a question of learning; it's also a question of cost and resources.

I have no evidence to rebut the conclusion—indeed it aligns with similar research on high school students.

However, a big chokepoint at my current school (major state university) is the availability of classrooms. Classes are already booked in the old (and recently expanded!) building and in the new graduate building for 12-plus hours each day.

There simply isn't enough space to put off scheduling courses until 11.

Besides, just because something is good for the average student doesn't mean it's good for all students. My classes certainly have a different flavor depending on whether they're in the early morning or late evening. Even if it's the same course, the differently timed sections have their own character and attract different sorts of students.

I agree with you, but was disturbed to discover a couple of weeks ago that Google does not. A search for "define electrocute" returns a definition that includes injury, not necessarily death.

  > injure or kill someone by electric shock.

One of the more interesting lines of thought on Ars was that the request was so badly implemented (without a judge's signature; could have a been a National Security Letter instead; other similar reasons), that it was almost as if the person implementing it was doing it because he was pressured to by higher-ups, not because of true desire to see the request succeed.

Either way, I'm glad to see the negative attention the request received and even more glad to see the request withdrawn.

I had similar issues, but opted to go the route of replacing the battery rather than the whole Roomba. It's worked well for me.

In addition, Amazon reviews point to some third-party batteries that supposedly last even longer than iRobot ones.

So is content editing, in many disciplines.

I believe copyediting and layout is paid, however.