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by benzible 6y ago
> According to publicly available property records, the home where the fire occurred was purchased in August by a woman named Rachael Brown. A woman by the same name is a longtime employee of Zappos. per: https://www.insider.c
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by benzible 6y ago
I posted the parent comment and I agree with almost all of what you say here. If you read the thread I linked to, it's overwhelmingly positive ("exceedingly encouraging") and in no way can be characterized as "anti-vax&q
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by benzible 6y ago
Very interesting thread with some caveats here: https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/status/13283520291908771... Excerpt: > [With] these early efficacy results, we may be measuring the effects of an impressive f
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by benzible 6y ago
You too can go to prison, just like Wesley Snipes! https://www.reuters.com/article/us-snipes-sentence/wesley-sn...
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by benzible 6y ago
> I didn't grow up in a tech-centric place -- Wisconsin is full of farms, cows, and people dreaming outside of the cornfields Not to be snarky, but the currently 13th ranked UW-Madison CS department would beg to differ.
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by benzible 6y ago
I'm not sure where you can get the current code for Safari's Reader Mode but interestingly, it was based on the original Readability.js code, created and open sourced by a development shop called Arc90 [0]. As you noted, Firefox w
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by benzible 6y ago
Less qualified and less trained. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamline... > While Boeing has nurtured generations of aerospace professionals in the Seattle area, there was no co
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by benzible 6y ago
Great story about Jonathan Rothberg's current project, creating a rapid at-home COVID-19 test: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/jonathan... (or https://beta.trimread.com/art
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by benzible 6y ago
I'm glad to see mention in this article of the #1 issue with antigen test such as Abbott BinaxNOW (the one the fed. govt. just bought 150M of): 98.5% specificity = 1.5% false positives. Test a school of 1200 with an actual 0% prevalenc
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by benzible 6y ago
In the current situation where it may take 10+ days to get a lab test (for non-governors), it is an issue. For a warehouse worker making minimum wage, 10 days of missed work could lead to financial ruin. If we get to a point where most scre
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by benzible 7y ago
Seconding the recommendation to check out Surface! From the docs: Surface is a server-side rendering component library that allows developers to build rich interactive user-interfaces, writing minimal custom Javascript. Features: * An HTML
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by benzible 7y ago
I just tried downgrading from my Pro Account and got: "Your account can not be downgraded yet because one or more of your private repositories is over the collaborator limit for the free plan. Please make sure that each of the private
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by benzible 7y ago
OK, apparently it's bullshit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22734799
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by benzible 7y ago
Interesting, I've been helping with this project to crowdsource ventilator manuals ( https://www.ifixit.com/News/36354/help-us-crowdsource-repair... ) and as of last night Medtronic was saying they that they&#x
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by benzible 7y ago
Be careful - an overdose of quinine can cause cinchonism, which has some unpleasant symptoms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinchonism
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by benzible 7y ago
Yep looks like that's what happened: https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1238310742748811264?s=20
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by benzible 7y ago
Another theory: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/what-if-donald-t...
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by benzible 7y ago
Words with Friends managed an actual exit (8 figures, mostly cash): https://venturebeat.com/2011/07/05/zynga-paid-53-3m-to-buy-w...
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by benzible 7y ago
The full evolution of Flickr from https://businessideaslab.com/flickr-history/ > A project founded in 2004 by Vancouver-based company Ludicorp (coming from the Latin word for ‘play’ actually), Flickr, as we know it
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by benzible 7y ago
Not a great day for Minsky's reputation. He's been named in connection with the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking allegations: https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-unsealed-docum...
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by benzible 7y ago
Clickbait implies that this is intentionally deceptive. I think this is just uniformed reporting. This is made even more clear from this tweet by the author: https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/113052521603835
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by benzible 7y ago
That's very unlikely. The article is misleading in that the reporter seems to believe that emails / phone numbers are never exposed by Instagram. In fact "influencers" typically choose to set up an Instagram Business Pro
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by benzible 7y ago
Sloppy reporting. Email & phone number are available for Instagram accounts linked to a business profile: "Business Profiles include a Contact button near the top of their profile. You'll be able to include directions, a phone
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by benzible 8y ago
BART now discourages "stand right, walk left" because it leads to "'uneven wear' on the escalator's gears, which can lead to more breakdowns and need for repair." https://sfist.com/2017&#x2
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by benzible 8y ago
Meyer Sound has a system called Constellation that as they put it "balances the buzz of a lively room so patrons don’t have to raise their voices to converse comfortably over the din, and allows the staff to control the sound level as
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by benzible 9y ago
Per the HR article: THR made repeated requests for comment to Jones and McCormack starting on Nov. 7 but received no response. The story does quote other victims and witnesses, so I don't think your characterization is accurate. It l
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by benzible 10y ago
FWIW, I remembered reading about management issues at (Google) X during his time running Project Loon and dug up the article: http://www.recode.net/2016/8/29/12663630/google-x-alphabet-m... Sources desc
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by benzible 10y ago
"NationBuilder CEO brags that his platform helped Trump win": http://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/11/18/news/nationbuilde...