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by bjtitus 5y ago
The fact that these browsers exist is very pertinent to the original comment, though. The anti-trust case against Microsoft with IE may have gone very differently if it had been about rendering engines on Windows. This also completely ignor
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There's still 3 years left until the end of his first term. A lot can change when there's still 3/4 of your term left. When he was elected he was 4 years older than the oldest sitting president (who preceded him). What makes
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by bjtitus 5y ago
> Biden likely won't be the one to run Why is this likely?
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> There are literally over an order of magnitude more adverse effects and deaths reported since the rollout of the covid vaccines than for all vaccines in the 20+ years before that (including the flu vaccine that roughly half of American
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by bjtitus 5y ago
In 2019 the defense budget would have been #3 on your list, under only Social Security and Medicare + Medicaid. Perhaps using a pandemic year with extra outlays to avoid economic collapse is not the best way to discuss overall government sp
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In 2016 "22% of Serbian citizens who had contact with public institutions included in research (traffic police, public health, educational system, courts - civil litigation, public services that issue official documents, departments re
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by bjtitus 5y ago
This seems kind of like taking antibiotics to help with stomach bugs. I wonder how the nasal microbiome [1] is affected by this and whether chronic prophylactic treatment would be more harmful than helpful on a large scale. Early on there w
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by bjtitus 5y ago
> the flu was somehow eradicated at the outset of mass covid testing, many of the covid tests did not distinguish between the flu and covid. What do you mean when you say that tests did not distinguish between COVID and the flu? Are you
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by bjtitus 5y ago
> cannot be attributed to a party allegiance in the US. There are as many if not more liberal vaccine refusers as there are conservative ones Why must there be a single attributable factor? It seems likely that there are multiple. Party
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I don't know, I've had some horrible FOMO for shoes. ;)
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The problem with this theory is that the current top-weighting is not all that much higher than during previous historical periods. There's a decent overview [0] covering the historical S&P 500's highest concentrations of the
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by bjtitus 5y ago
Oh wow, this is fantastic! Thanks for the tip and I'd like to thank you for all of the work you do on nix + Darwin. I'm using your `nix-env.fish` package and it's made things much easier than when I tried this setup a few yea
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I've set up my new M1 MacBook Pro using Nix and it's been going relatively well. Home Manager manages global tooling like Neovim, random CLI tools, and config files while I've set up `default.nix` files to use with `nix-shell
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by bjtitus 5y ago
The top 5 states for COVID infection per-capita ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/corona... ): North Dakota Tennessee Alaska Wyoming South Dakota I don’t believe any of these states even h
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by bjtitus 5y ago
Already tried: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1256239815256797184
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It seems like most are doing that but some are dropping rapidly, although not in a freefall.
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Damn, just throwing Israel Kamakawiwo'ole right under the bus there.
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by bjtitus 5y ago
This looks really awesome! I always find myself looking for a mobile companion for these types of apps, though (it's what made me stop using Roam). Do you have any plans for a mobile app in the future? I assume the files could probably
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by bjtitus 5y ago
This would have been reckless from a human driver and was just as reckless for FSD.
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> Natural immunity should be better because you are exposed to all the same proteins in the vaccine plus more This directly contradicts what immunologists seem to be finding as in the "Antibodies elicited by mRNA-1273 vaccination bi
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Good luck getting this rolled out in even a fraction of the emergency vehicles on the roads. There are literally tense of thousands of these emergency departments and even more when you consider other vehicles which may be stopped roadside.
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by bjtitus 5y ago
The really shocking thing is the lack of any delay with email changes. I've known several people whose accounts were hacked and properly flagged by Facebook within hours but the hacker was able to change the email address immediately w
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by bjtitus 5y ago
The real moral is to not build your company without any modicum of user support. The users who have any clue what 2FA is are not the ones getting their account hacked. They are the 60+ year olds who use Facebook as their only contact with f
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by bjtitus 5y ago
The account of one of my relatives was hacked in a password breach recently and I've been trying to contact any support representative at Facebook for over 2 months. We noticed this within 5 hours of the hack happening and the email be
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by bjtitus 5y ago
GitHub Discussions is a much better place to handle Q&A: https://docs.github.com/en/discussions
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I'm curious what the details around the anonymous IP address assignment are. Protecting copyright holders seems to be the point of the IP assignment to not break content restrictions. Are they able to assign a set for an entire country
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> the proposed “hosed" bracket bracket is about about 92nd-98th percentile by individual income The figures get even worse in this case. The 95th percentile of individual income has far greater wage and wealth growth over the last 4
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I'd be really curious what your opinion is informed by since I don't see any data to back it up. Those in the Top Quintile (~200k in 2010 and ~250k today, so right in the middle of your proposed hosed bracket) have seen the greate
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by bjtitus 5y ago
There has been a fair amount of research and (seeming) success in this area: https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/mit-researchers-... Not sure how close it is to being out of the lab but it definitely seems doable.
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Exactly, this is backed up by individual income stats on short term and long term capital gains: https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-sales-of-capita ... It routinely shows >7x long term vs. short term capita

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