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by Alex3917 5y ago
> But they aren't free to talk about it, because if they did it would just give more assistance to the spammers, and make the problem worse. The reality is more that some Google engineer will come up with an algorithm change that ma
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> I don't think a lot of beginners can reliably tell the difference between "gills" and "folds." Can anyone? The way you know it's a chanterelle is if it smells like apricots. The gill vs fold thing is kind
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> Personally I have found correctly identifying boletes to be much more difficult than any other mushrooms on the list. Same. I suspect the way to get good at it is to take the Eagle Hill Institute class on boletes when the Bessettes are
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> there are toxic (not deadly) boletes that can more easily be confused for porcini mushrooms. Assuming that B. Huronensis isn't deadly, which afaik is unknown: https://namyco.org/boletus_huronensis.php http:/
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by Alex3917 5y ago
35 is considered "advanced maternal age", where there is more risk to both the mother and baby. Given that it takes ~2 years to make a baby, ideally you should start having kids no later than 35 - 2n, where n is the number of kids
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> I view NFTs as one of the dumbest things to come out of the crypto space. To understand the space, you need to come to terms with the fact that asking "is this a legitimate human need" isn't a useful or relevant question
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> Is there any reason to believe these same folks would willingly take this? There are also a lot of folks who can't get vaccinated, who would take this. I suspect a lot of the folks who refuse to get vaccinated would take this if t
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by Alex3917 5y ago
IMHO my definition here is both better and earlier, and also better nails the key promise of distributed ledger technology, in terms of it being a mechanism for better allowing large organizations and societies to reach consensus: https:&#
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by Alex3917 5y ago
The vast majority of the dams being torn down are from old mills, not hydro dams. They serve no economic purpose and are highly dangerous, in addition to preventing millions of fish from living in the rivers.
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Pfizer and Biontech Provide Update on Ongoing Studies of Covid-19 Vaccine(pfizer.com)
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Pfizer Trial of Low-Dose Shot Fails for 2- to 5-Year-Olds(nytimes.com)
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> We have all the data one could hope to have, vaccines, treatments It's still going to be at least 8 months before everyone in the US can get vaccinated. And that's assuming the Pfizer vaccine gets approved for those under fiv
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> Fun fact: Amazon is so big and the churn so high, that hiring talent has become the bottleneck. This is only true because Amazon refuses to pay market rates for talent. E.g. for the folks who write their technical documentation, they r
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> Where do these high APYs come from The promise of DeFi is that it's supposed to reduce risk for lenders by letting them see the assets of borrowers in real time. If the risk to lenders is lower but interest rates are higher then h
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by Alex3917 5y ago
> I miss how every hobby had a forum running on phpBB, SimpleMachines, Invision, etc. A lot of sufficiently niche hobbies still do. E.g. if you get into rare fruit growing, a lot of the best information is in various Discourse forums.
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Scoop places a [new] tag next to comments that have been posted since the last time you refreshed the page, so that you can just Ctrl-F. So there have been popular sites doing this for 20+ years, e.g. Kuro5hin and DailyKos. HN just hasn&#x2
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Not a bad idea. Almost everything I flag or hide on mobile is accidental, and then I need to go and undo it.
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> COVID-19 survivors also have reduced cognitive abilities, equivalent to about 7 points on IQ scale Ostensibly true for those on ventilators. However, IQ is normed to those who are the same age as you. So if being on a ventilator also t
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by Alex3917 5y ago
> It’s fun to find the various species, but I don’t find that the flavor of morels is anything special or that I’m limited in the kitchen by not having them available. They can be life changingly good, or not especially special. You need
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> It seems like it’s some property of Twitter’s acquisition process? What if there are serious security vulnerabilities though? I could see having a process where founders don't turn over their source code until midnight when the de
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> function based views Class-based views, in their most basic form, are a lot easier to read. E.g. look at the DRF CBVs I have here: https://github.com/Alex3917/django_for_startups/blob/main/dj... If
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Twitter acquires Quill(quill.chat)
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> Have confidence that either you or the smart people you know can build something significantly bigger than seems reasonable Reality generally goes to par with math. So look for good math, and then actualize it.
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I have these in my roof. I certainly would err on the sides of believing the whistleblower, especially given that my former employer’s Tesla spontaneously burst into flames while his two kids were in the back seat. Fortunately he was able t
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Backup codes are a way to bypass the 2nd step, so what works that even mean?
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How long until we get T5g with Graviton3?
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The employees have been trying to buy it through an ESOP.
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Weren’t there already YouTube videos documenting this at the time? Unless they came out the next week.
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> Wasn't that the most up-to-date data at the time? No, China was already arresting doctors for warning about human-to-human transmission in December. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/world/asia
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A new KGS go client with automated AI game reviews after you finish(kgsai.com)
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