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YouTube's algorithm and payment model doesn't reward in-depth coding content. Other services pay authors a lot more for in-depth niche content, so that's where all the content ends up. YouTube's whole deal is that (1) th
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Antidepressant fluvoxamine can save Covid-19 patients, McMaster research shows(brighterworld.mcmaster.ca)
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I love postgres and the full-text search feature works great in some use cases, but it is not really comparable to elastic search in many scenarios (huge document stores, complex text processing or querying, etc).
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I've used this to provide simple UIs to scripts for consulting projects where something more complex wasn't justified. It mostly works great. If you have a complicated UI with multi-selects, validations and default selections, it
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This is neat. Thanks for sharing. Another great tool for working with csv files on the command line is the excellent VisiData - https://www.visidata.org/ It lets you explore/browse/search all your csv/json&#x
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In the end, it probably took 3-4 weeks to get my money back for a $5k 1-day delivery package that wasn't ever delivered. I would have gone the bank route next, but since Amazon did eventually give me my money back, it wasn't neede
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I'm guessing it's more price-dependent. I'm sure Amazon would refund a headset and not really care if they got it back or not. But try getting a refund on a $5,000 studio microphone and you will probably have an entirely diff
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Keep in mind that 95% of viral "Unknown picture of a famous moment you've never seen before" posts on the internet are not actually they thing they claim they are. This is definitely not a picture of Charles Ebbets taking the
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Like most people, I've ordered a lot of packages (hundreds?) on Amazon and almost never had a problem. In the rare case of a problem, Amazon would instantly refund me. But almost all those orders are under $1000. Everything changes whe
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You can also get caught up if you move between countries that have tax treaties but where the tax years don't align on the calendar and where the schedule for paying estimated taxes are different, like the US and the UK. The US tax ye
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So true. I have the simplest mix of countries possible (US citizen / UK resident) and getting clear answers from an accountant on various questions is harder than one might expect because cross-border scenarios aren't always clear
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I mean honestly, this is pretty good stuff. Nice job!
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I would argue that you might be looking for the wrong solution to your problem. If you just try to read 'faster', you'll just make it through more text but you'll still forget most of it. How many books do you really rem
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Even if they were the case, this further shows how limited and dumb (i.e. not 'smart') YouTube's copyright voilation detection system is. You (probably) can't copyright white noise because US copyright requires authorshi
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It's not a fake craze totally pumped up by marketing, if that's what you mean. Pokemon cards are definitely at a fever pitch right now. Just go to your local Walmart and watch people camping out for them every week. My theory is t
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Turquoise Health | Software Engineer (Django/Python, Full-stack or Backend) | REMOTE | Full Time At Turquoise Health, we are working to make US healthcare pricing simpler, more transparent and ultimately lower for everyone. We’ve launc
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by ageitgey 6y ago
> At the risk of sounding cold...they seriously suspended it because four people showed issues? Out of more than 100k doses? No, not even that. Ireland has given over 100k doses and had zero reported issues. They are suspending it over 4
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If you have limited design needs and a small but actual budget, you can hire a designer on Upwork at a normal western hourly rate to design your logos and collateral. You'll need to wade through proposals to find someone good, but this
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Early in the pandemic, there was a site called "c19study.com" that claimed that every single study on HCQ showed that it was beneficial (and of course any study that didn't show benefit was 'misinterpreting their results
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Yep, you really have to have been an author during the time the switched to the non-optional optional paywall to know how much of a bait-and-switch it has been. I was so mad, I made a python script to copy my medium posts to a Ghost blog in
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I'm someone who has written a lot on Medium in the past and has grown a following in a niche because of that, so maybe I can explain the issue. Originally, writing on Medium had nothing to do with making money from the writing. In the
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As an American who lives in the UK, here are some of the daily things that you might think are someone being cute but are 100% proper and accepted speech, even in a formal BBC news story: - Vegetables are just called 'veg'. - You
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I think we are seeing code stick around longer than ever before in the personal computer/mainstream era of computing, which has led to more ways to hit buggy, unmaintained code than ever before. Hear me out: If you wrote code for deskt
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I wouldn't read too much into that small difference. This study wasn't really designed to show which one works better. The bigger takeaway is that both show significant protection even with just one dose (which presumably rises af
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The UK is giving both doses. It's just that they are spacing them out at 12 weeks instead of 3-4 weeks. The idea is that this gives more at-risk people substantial protection more quickly.
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I sorry to hear about your brother's Mother-in-Law. I just wanted to concur for anyone who is not yet aware: all the data so far (from multiple studies) shows that there is zero or near zero protection for the first two weeks after the
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The system you describe is exactly what is happening in the UK. There is a country-wide registry of everyone (already existing, because the NHS covers everyone's healthcare) and everyone is assigned a place in line to get vaccinated ba
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> If things have turned out great for you, then huzzah for you; I count you in the minority! I appreciate your experience. I think it depends on a lot on the company, where you work, your level of experience, etc. When I've done wor
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You can ask an employment lawyer if you want to know what is actually enforceable after signing. But you can also just object to any terms in the contract that you think are going too far and you can negotiate with your company to remove th
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For us, the revenue model isn't this site itself. It's other work we do in the industry - this just helps us get notice and leads to the other things we can build on top of this data in combination with other data. I'd be hap

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