Alex3917

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by Alex3917 5y ago
If the value of crypto is that it drives down the risk of lending by bringing transparency to the assets of borrowers, then how can the interest rate be higher than in the normal financial system? The fact that there is less risk but intere
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> Hasn't TikTok been proven malicious in it's excessive user tracking and data theft? Even if you use the website?
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> It never would have hosted the kind of anti-vax-blow-up-the-government stuff and promoted it as prime content like FB. The most popular content on the service was astrology horoscopes.
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> I grew up on AOL's internet and it really wasn't that bad. It was down for a couple hours per day almost every single day during the few years when they were in hyper growth. But the actual service itself was pretty great whe
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> Fill a small plastic pot with water. You just need a shot glass.
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Feature Requests for Monopolists(seths.blog)
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Cold Call(theupsizers.wordpress.com)
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> I get a lot of candidates that can recite what XSS is at a high level, but for example struggle to explain the things to watch out for that would indicate a possible XSS vulnerability. To be fair, from a devs perspective you need to fl
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> finding devs (or any other role) that understand security is very, very difficult. At what level? Are we talking like knowing the different ways to mitigate XSS and other basic OWASP top-10 style things, or having the ability to find t
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> Software devs are awful at it (the amount of FAANG engineers I know that don't even understand what encryption is, or think that hashing passwords is unimportant, would blow your mind) But that's not because there aren't
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> "service economy" was always a meme being sold to the gullible masses, manufacturing capacity is the only thing that matters for an economy. Service economies work great in places where food and housing are free, so money is
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Food claiming to have 'wild mushrooms' rarely does, study finds(sciencedaily.com)
4 points by Alex3917 5y ago|2 comments
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HT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqauTHiPIqk Original paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8340906/
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Right, and that's not even the difficult part of doing a startup. I did a software dev interview where they asked me if I had any questions, and I said something along the lines of "I notice that if you look at Mark Zuckerberg&#x2
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> If age discrimination is real, that means that people are not valuing older people properly - they're undervaluing them While age discrimination is certainly real, I think it's also conflated with the fact that there just isn
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How many Postgres core committers are there under 60? Except for the handful of people who do a Ph.D. under Michael Stonebraker or whatever, that seems like a hobby that most people don't even get into until they're retired.
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So you're arguing that the New England Journal of Medicine article is using the word "weakness" in a colloquial sense, rather than in the medical sense, in the same sentence that the words "dyspnea" and "myalgi
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Muscle weakness is a standardized medical diagnosis. When you see the term being used in a medical paper, it always means the same thing. C.f.: https://www.aafp.org/afp/2005/0401/p1327.html
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When you have a persistent cough due to lung damage then your chances of death the next time you catch a minor illness go through the roof. It's why so many of the people who survived SARS initially are no longer alive.
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> Muscle weakness and fatigue is in no way shape or form like paralysis. Having muscle weakness in your arms mean that you can't do things like raising your hands to chest level and squeezing someone's hand. In practice it mean
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I mean if you're basically paralyzed, how does that not count as being disabled? What do you think muscle weakness and fatigue actually means in this context?
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How does this not count as evidence?: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/well/live/vaccine-long-co... It literally says: "While most of the breakthrough cases were mild or asymptomatic, seven o
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> That story was all over the headlines not because it was normal. It was in the headlines because it is normal, and some people were trying to improve the system but they failed. There are tons of existing drugs that have been approve
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Pfizer's Covid-19 Vaccine Just Got Full FDA Approval(buzzfeednews.com)
4 points by Alex3917 5y ago|4 comments
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> That's why I don't really understand why there are still covid restrictions in countries that are close to full vaccination, like the UK If you get it after being vaccinated, you still have a ~20% chance of becoming disabled.
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I mean don’t most people use private driveways and milled roads on a near daily basis?
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Connecticut. To be fair the most common issues I have are where the bottom of driveways meets the road, and also going over manhole covers during road milling. In the latter case you can obviously also just go around them, but it's muc
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The other issue is that due to the crumbling state of U.S. infrastructure, normal cars with ~5.5 inch ground clearance are basically impossible to drive without ruining them by bottoming out all the time. I have zero desire to have an SUV o
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Or it'll get split up. The point is that people shouldn't be allowed to own more property than they can steward responsibly. That said, if everyone in an area gets rid of all their invasive plants, then it'll be vastly easi
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https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/the-high-line-s-halo-... . Talks about an apartment that went from $350,000 to 3.15M. As a more general principle, try to buy any good pawpaw cultivar. If you look peacefulheritage

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