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by bhk 4y ago
Seriously? Facebook knows their internal thoughts well enough to guess what topics they would choose when trying to pick something they "never talk about"? If FB could do that, then FB would realize that these topics are not actua
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by bhk 4y ago
It apparently can also include losing your email hosting, website hosting, domain name registration, payment processor, or book deal, and having your independent business spammed with negative reviews. But, yeah, if you don't use the
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by bhk 4y ago
Cataloging every doodle ever drawn inline with text by anyone at any time in history would exhaust any finite set of code points.
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by bhk 4y ago
Maybe it's true for remarkable people. Not true in general for "leaders".
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by bhk 4y ago
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-scientific-funda...
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by bhk 4y ago
It's dangerous to impute causality here given the potential for confounding environmental factors. Consider the chief finding that multiple such exposures had a more significant effect than individual exposure ... and what kind of hom
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by bhk 4y ago
I immediately suspected it was a misleading headline. (NPR was a clue.)
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by bhk 4y ago
Now that's what I come to HN for!
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by bhk 4y ago
If there were a way to block comments by recently-created/low-karma accounts in these situations, perhaps that would be better than burying the entire topic.
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by bhk 4y ago
Fog in channel; Continent cut off!
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by bhk 4y ago
That's the best case scenario...
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by bhk 4y ago
There has been no drop in funding that might account for the recent "soaring excess deaths". Quite the opposite. https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-... You speak of massive und
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by bhk 4y ago
Yeah, like all those cads who say "Joe Biden" instead of "Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.". Who do they think they are?
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by bhk 4y ago
A "societal" problem that somehow mainly manifests in big tech?
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by bhk 4y ago
> This article details some of the problems: https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/dutc.html That article is ridiculous. * "Most telescope pointing systems fail" (by 2027) (with 5s deviation from eart
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by bhk 4y ago
The "I've never heard of this ..." comment can also be explained by the possibility that the person making the comment is one of the fraudsters. This adds 10% to the 1/3 chance in your example. So no matter how high th
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by bhk 4y ago
According to the article, the research in question did not result in any clinical trials.
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by bhk 4y ago
I don't think that's a balanced summary of the study. "Results from prospective cohort studies suggest the possibility of long-term harm in the form of increased risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and m
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by bhk 4y ago
A DHS officer and a DHS agent leak restricted information on US persons and all they get charged on is lying about it? > Miller and Taylor procured and disseminated sensitive and confidential information from a restricted federal law enf
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by bhk 4y ago
Title is inaccurate. They are not auto-deleting searches, but location history. Also, it isn't "health clinics", but a set of places that they are not being completely open about (but which does include some health clinic
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by bhk 4y ago
Who are you to tell everyone what their goals should be?
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by bhk 4y ago
> Portals for law enforcement which likely require some kind of warrant It was recently reported that major tech companies (including Google) release user data without warrants, and without even authenticating the party requesting the da
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by bhk 4y ago
This is the elephant in the room.
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by bhk 4y ago
Not so, according to NASA and NHTSA. More mundane, physical masters were at fault.
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by bhk 4y ago
People are intercepting plastic from our waste stream and re-directing it to other countries that dump it into the ocean? Well I see your problem right there! The idea that we would not ban that and instead ban drinking straws because of
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by bhk 4y ago
He didn't say the children were vaccinated. He asked a question about a study. It would be reasonable and constructive to reply with one or both of the following: A: Vaccination doesn't appear to be an issue here: https:/
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by bhk 5y ago
I have. According to [1], "1 in 4 cancer research papers contains faked data". As the article argues, the standards are perhaps unreasonably strict, but even by more favorable criteria, 1/8 of the papers contained faked dat
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by bhk 5y ago
But Apple says "Any government agency seeking customer content from Apple must obtain a search warrant issued upon a showing of probable cause.” So what's up?
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by bhk 5y ago
> “One of the problems you have is there’s no validated master list of people who are authorized to make that demand” It sounds like there isn't even a well-defined policy for who is authorized.
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by bhk 5y ago
First, the study does not even use the term "mild". They did look at three levels of severity: non-hospitalized, hospitalized, and admitted to ICU. The "non-hospitalized" group surely includes people who would describe

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