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by abnry 7y ago
I couldn't imagine it mattering to any random individual, but I could imagine some American diplomat or defense contractor being concerned.
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by abnry 7y ago
The thing that annoys me about people who complain that they can't make a living being a musician is that it is like complaining they can't start a business selling air. That's a bit harsh, but that point is that the supply i
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by abnry 7y ago
The issue is that there is a measurement problem with many depression symptoms. You can have multiple people independently measure the blood glucose level of a patient and get the same result. And this result compares with other patients. W
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by abnry 7y ago
OTOH, getting that much attention for depression seems quite rare, and given that there are strong learned behavioral issues with depression that require a lot of retraining, that means high frequency intervention is needed. Talking to a th
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by abnry 7y ago
Which is one of the reasons why I wish we, collectively as a society, would stop blaming the blame game in this crisis. Almost everyone got this wrong.
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by abnry 7y ago
Find a problem in your life you can improve/solve with software. Then work on that.
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by abnry 7y ago
Which is really, really a shame.
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by abnry 7y ago
Add to it that it has been known for a long time that this paper would be published in this journal.
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by abnry 7y ago
Yes, one of the things we need to do to get past all of this is to widely test for antibodies. I am really hoping that comes soon.
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by abnry 7y ago
This sort of thing reminds me of a story about the Seattle windshielding pitting phenomenon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_windshield_pitting_epi... The point is, often things that are quite common but otherwis
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by abnry 7y ago
Ah, so legal liability is to protect the company from prosecution? It is not clear to me that a company needs to say they don't support illegal behavior by the users. It also isn't clear to me that a non-paying user can ever prose
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by abnry 7y ago
Genuine question: if it isn't a contract, what legal purpose does a terms of service serve then? I assume any website serving a non-paying user has the right to terminate any services at any point, no reason given. A ToS might establis
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by abnry 7y ago
I'm really curious how such an organization can ever maintain their copyright in the future as the defense could always say the defendant obtained the pdf from the free trial.
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by abnry 7y ago
Historically the early church was persecuted, making meetings very difficult. There are plenty of biblical examples of extenuating circumstances. A theme in the bible is that a heart of obedience matters more than the act of obedience.
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by abnry 7y ago
It's definitely a problem from a public health perspective, and that's why there should be legal measures to stop such large gatherings. However, these types of articles are often used to cast aspersions on all Christians. That
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by abnry 7y ago
I consider those the more political posts, and pretty much any of those is guaranteed to be bad because modern society's political discourse is miserably bad. One thing I think is good about HN is that if you can filter those out, it b
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by abnry 7y ago
Here's my thoughts on what a healthy community is: People are basically dysfunctional, though to varying degrees, and so any congregation of people in the flesh or online will also be dysfunctional, to varying degrees. So there is no w
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by abnry 7y ago
Like some of those views are silly, but I find it hard to get worked up when someone is passionately expressing one of them. If I feel my buttons are regularly being pushed, then that is a sign of an unhealthy community. That's why I q
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by abnry 7y ago
Don't meet anecdotal evidence with anecdotal evidence.
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by abnry 7y ago
These are probably rare enough its easy to consider just a cost of doing business. The toilet paper thing seems like it would be happening a lot these days.
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by abnry 7y ago
He didn't give medical advice. He was talking about what the FDA and what hospitals could do. There wasn't oblique advice in the slightest.
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by abnry 7y ago
Yeah, but you have to be a whole new level of stupid to search for a drug not sourced from a pharmacy or sold in the medical section of the grocery store and take an unregulated amount without any medical oversight. People come up with craz
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by abnry 7y ago
Yeah, which only establishes that the baseline understanding the common person has when taking drugs is to take the recommended dose. And nowhere was Trump saying "go crazy".
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by abnry 7y ago
Advil is one of the safest drugs to take, but you can still kill yourself with it.
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by abnry 7y ago
Trump is very bad at communicating. However, as I understood what Trump was trying to say is that the drug has already passed clinical tests by the FDA which shows it is not massively risky to take, for any reason, within proper limits. So
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by abnry 7y ago
Can a government even function with meetings of 2 or fewer?
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by abnry 7y ago
Another game to check out in this vein is hypernom, developed by henry segerman, vi hart, and some other people that I don't remember: http://hypernom.com/
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by abnry 7y ago
Possibly if he had related symptoms from another illness and then caught the disease due to exposure in the hopsital. I don't know if this is more likely than a false that sent him home from the hospital.
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by abnry 7y ago
It is remarkable, it's just not civilization destroying. Lots of old and vulnerable people will die. The healthcare system will be taxed for many months to come.
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by abnry 7y ago
The advantage is that the tweet still doesn't show up in search.

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