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by JunkDNA 8y ago
I was flat out unable to use the family sharing feature of YouTubeTV. Support from gooogle was helpful but they didn’t have much to offer in the way of a workaround. They researched it and basically told me to get gmail accounts for everyon
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
I am on google’s grandfathered free tier for my domain. Recently it has gotten annoying with new google products since they have to be supported by g-suite for you to use them. So I recently was shopping around for a new host. Basically I’m
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
Yes! I loved that book. Many of these pictures are in there for sure. I actually recently got a copy of the book used and in excellent condition. My mother donated most of my books as I outgrew them over the years. My 8 year old daughter
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
As a parent I have a strong desire to raise my children with the same values that I have. For people who practice organized religion, you can’t really have the “values” part without the religion part. It all fits together into a cohesive wh
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
This is exactly how the Autobahn works today and it is indeed fine.
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
I spent an enormous amount of time on my computer as a kid, and I credit that time with giving me the superpowers later in life that accelerated my career. I had a decade-long head start on many of my peers. So I am hugely biased that &quot
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
I agree completely. This book was recommended to me as “life changing”. I was skeptical given that my experience is that 90% of self help books are a rehash of “How to win Friends and Influence People”. As I have moved into professional rol
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
As another commenter says, any semblance of the private student loan industry was wiped out shortly after the financial crisis. All the US student debt is now essentially backstopped by the US Federal government (in quasi-government run ins
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
I have dramatically reduced my caffeine dependence in the past by slowly adjusting my morning coffee on an increasing percentage of decaf: 10% first week, 20% second, 30% the third, 50% the fourth. It was completely painless.
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
Time for an old favorite: http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
And here we get into perverse incentives in scientific research distorting what you see. Public health agencies generally care more if there is a threat to public health. So if you are a researcher looking for grant $$$ over the long term,
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
This. I remember my biochemistry professor in college grinding up a bowl of cereal into a fine powder and then using a magnet to yank all the iron out. Fine iron powder like the kind present in cereals is nowhere near as bioavailable as iro
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
There’s a bigger issue than gene therapy. Precision therapies that work really well for a very small number of people are going to become increasingly common (whether gene based or otherwise). We are seeing this in cancer right now where th
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
I’ve seen a ton of them in suburban Philadelphia (Main Line). I travel to SF frequently and have spent a lot of time in Palo Alto. Model 3’s are at least as common on the roads here in suburban Philly as the Model S was in downtown Palo Alt
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
Oh you just wait! If you haven't gotten one of these yet, the latest version of this is that they actually send a calendar invitation (through a 3rd party service) for a meeting out of the blue. Gmail will helpfully pencil that time in
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
If you’ve never read this paper, you owe it to yourself to give it a thorough read. It truly gives you a sense for the problems relational databases were attempting to solve with the tech of the day. Also note the strong mathematical underp
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
Accurately simulating biological systems in the cloud to run a virtual clinical trial is like trying to predict the exact weather for Washington DC at a specific date and time hundreds of years from now using weather forecast models. It’s p
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
I would argue this is already underway. There is a concerted campaign against fast food and sugary drinks. There are all sorts of programs to encourage people to exercise. Big corporations have annual “health screenings” where they fat sham
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
I’m of two minds on this. I loved the original Falcon on the Amiga (it actually talked! “Pull Up! Pull Up!”). I thought I wanted more and more realism. But at the same time I feel like all the sims lost their way trying to be too realisti
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
I did this with my almost 3 year old. Except I use whole beans and a drip coffee maker. He tares the scale, weighs the beans, dumps them in the grinder, grinds them, and puts them in the coffee maker. The only part he doesn’t do is get the
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
The content of the data is not the issue. The point is that society has decided to pass a law stating that certain data needs to be treated a certain way or there are serious penalties because of past abuses. We in the US take for granted t
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by JunkDNA 8y ago
As someone who works in a startup in the healthcare space, I will point out that nobody lets health startups off the hook for HIPAA. You don’t get to be sloppy with people’s protected health information just because it makes your life easie
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by JunkDNA 9y ago
Taking your point a step further, I often wonder if mathematics is a local minimum for humans. It has been so damn effective in so many ways that we can’t imagine that there might be some other mechanism for solving hard problems. In cases
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by JunkDNA 9y ago
Would love to know about FDW push down. That could be really good for specialized applications where you want to use a relational db and wrap a specialized data store outside postgres with a FDW.
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by JunkDNA 9y ago
My big issue with this argument is that usernames and passwords are a means to an end. That end is (in many cases) establishing identity. One can establish identity in other ways. For example: every morning when I open the door to my house
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by JunkDNA 9y ago
I think the best take on this whole thing by far is from Ben Thompson: https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-new-customer/ (Incidentally, his podcast is fantastic)
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by JunkDNA 9y ago
If your life needs more randomness, I highly recommend having or adopting children. Having three of them 7 and under, I can attest that the entropy in my life is off the charts. I have no need for an app.
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by JunkDNA 9y ago
The reality I've learned from hiring a lot of people over the years is that recruiting is just not an objective process, no matter how much candidates and employers want it to be. I've often thought it's a bit analogous to da
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by JunkDNA 9y ago
My wife is a doctor and doesn't carry her phone around during the day when seeing patients. It sits on her desk back in her office which she rarely enters except at lunch and at the end of the day. After seeing my watch and talking to
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by JunkDNA 9y ago
Notifications and fitness tracking are the primary use cases form me. Those alone are enough but I also use mine for Apple Pay. It's a way better user experience paying with the watch than the phone. It's also a great alarm cloc

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