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by 0xWTF 1y ago
Any opinions from cybersecurity experts? Is this concerning or over-hyped drama?
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
My wife is a pediatric occupational therapist. I showed her the Kermit page and she said "Whoever's doing this ... this is total bologna." Also, to your struggles ... she's a fan of Handwriting Without Tears.
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by 0xWTF 1y ago
There are some interesting similarities in o.g. accounts aaronsw, pg, and jedberg. - aaronsw and jedberg share danielweber - aronsw and jedberg share wccrawford - aaronsw and pg share Natsu - aaronsw and pg share mcphage
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Ginkgo Bioworks 'A Hoax for the Ages,' (2021)(fiercebiotech.com)
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
Complete aside, but love the Tufte styles.
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
S&P 500 average P:E - 20 to 25 NASDAQ average P:E - 31 NVidia's P:E - 71 That's a market of 1 vendor. That's ripe for attack.
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
did you front glass crack? How widespread is that problem? Is there a mechanism identified and has it been mitigated?
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
> many people will complain their regulation is too lax Oh, definitely. No matter how tight or lax the regulation is, people will complain any existing regulations are too lax, and too harsh. The more interesting bit how different po
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
The problem isn't that there's isn't a lab with a trustworthy result. The LDT world can make any claim in the space of biologically feasible. No lab has the resources to set up every conceivable test in biology and validate
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
The problem with lab developed tests (LDTs) is they aren't very regulated, and in a malpractice situation, a physician could be liable if they made diagnosis or treatment decisions based on unverifiable LDTs. It may well be that many L
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
I think this paper is an effect of there being not much to do in theoretical physics these days. I mean, there's plenty of work that can be done, but I think it was Feynman who said all physics that could ever affect humanity was descr
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
Dave Guarino needs to read Seeing Like a State, Seeing Like a Bank, and Seeing Like a Data Structure. And then write his own Seeing Like a Government Website. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300078152/seeing-li
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
How much you want to bet one or both of these folks saw patio11's Seeing Like a Bank here on Hacker News a few months ago, read it, then read Seeing Like a State, and then wrote this? Because I did the same thing (my version for my pro
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
> I don't think that this is a valid assessment of the underlying problem. Inmarsat is an insecure, 2 Mbps (at best) connection with satellites at 22236 miles above Earth and a latency of about 900-1100 ms. Starlink is a secure, 100
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
I still think engineering for slow internet is really important, and massively under appreciated by most software developers, but ... LEO systems (like Starlink, especially StarLink) essentially solve the core problems now. I did an Arctic
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Ask HN: What's Your NAICS Code?
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
Anyone care to bet Microsoft and other investors are actually ok with this narrative? I think they are, and in fact may be advocating for Sam to advance this narrative, because they 1) want a court decision, no matter which way it goes, and
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
Dear Apple, please stop focusing on thinner. At this point you're selling high-end breakables. To quote Katherine the Great, Huzzah!
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
Pretty sure I didn't get a Stanford job in part because I didn't submit a DEI statement. It was optional, but clearly sort of like breathing is optional. I actually wrote one, had it reviewed, rewrote. As someone in federal govern
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
My daughter was considering a McKinsey gig. A friend from Booth said "You can maintain your integrity at McKinsey, but McKinsey won't help."
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
Started on the Nagoya Protocol, then PCR of wastewater on airplanes, mechanical engineering of lavatory fittings, then metagenomic shotgun sequencing, and now Bloom filters.
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Come help build a new digital front door for Defense Health(diu.mil)
1 points by 0xWTF 2y ago|0 comments
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RFP – Help Defense Health Agency build their digital front door(diu.mil)
2 points by 0xWTF 2y ago|1 comments
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by 0xWTF 2y ago
If you know any health informatics folks in companies who might be interested in bidding, Defense Innovation Unit is working with the Defense Health Agency to rebuild their digital front door, multiple contracts are expected. Would you plea
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by 0xWTF 6y ago
The cynical side of me says this is an expectable result of a large open system so likely a submarine story placed by Republican operatives who are trying to prevent additional stimulus spending. Or maybe the service that handles trillions
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by 0xWTF 6y ago
> The time for the market to react for a product with the complexity of a mac is decades. This makes me think of the 2 slit experiment as applied to basketballs. There is a period of time that decisions need to be properly considered, pr
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JAIC, in Partnership with DIU, Delivering AI-Enabled Cancer Diagnostics(ai.mil)
1 points by 0xWTF 6y ago|0 comments
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by 0xWTF 6y ago
There's an SDK that can be used to pull the data from a Garmin to a server you control.
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by 0xWTF 6y ago
I have to say, my experience working with Google is that they actually resist the acquisition of information that's not in the public domain in a lot of ways. I've seen them fund another company's development team to do work,
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by 0xWTF 6y ago
So, like COVID, have FB and Twitter gone to equilibrium or are they still gaining traction?

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