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by brenden2 7y ago
Title should be "I was a drug rep. I know how pharma companies pushed opioids.", as per the original article. Here's a tl;dr of the article (quoted from the article itself) to save you a click: > Medical students and docto
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by brenden2 7y ago
SRP is a great PAKE (password-authenticated key agreement), it can make certain types of attacks to steal a password (like MITM) nearly impossible. There's also a newer PAKE that improves slightly on SRP, called SPAKE2: https:/&#
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by brenden2 7y ago
Hype and exaggeration is just another form of falsification.
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2 different titles: "The rate of life expectancy increase slowed over time and life expectancy decreased after 2014" vs "Young people in U.S. dying at high rates" Which one seems sensationalist to you?
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by brenden2 7y ago
Here's the paper with a less sensationalized title, "Life Expectancy and Mortality Rates in the United States, 1959-2017": https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2756187 The paper co
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by brenden2 7y ago
Kind of amusing that this PDF is hosted on Google's servers, given that Google is running the largest surveillance operation in history.
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by brenden2 7y ago
> It’s better to use LinkedIn as a source for candidates, but when possible, send a short and personal email to initiate contact. You can save time by using a service like Upwork to send emails to candidates on your behalf, but make sure
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by brenden2 7y ago
If you used a different key for each datum then you wouldn't be able to do this type of analyses. This analyses depends on the property of the same values producing the same ciphertext, which also mean you're leaking information.
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Homomorphic encryption is malleable[1] in that it can, with enough information, be decrypted without knowing the private keys in some cases. For example, if you can correlate with other data it may be possible to effectively undo the encryp
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by brenden2 7y ago
This is just moving the goalposts around so that you can take advantage of the hype boost you get from calling everything "AI".
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If you can infer information from encrypted data then it's not properly encrypted. Generally you would use a salt that would render this type of analyses useless.
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It's more like complex linear regressions. The term "AI" evokes the idea of computers possessing something similar to human intelligence which it very much is not. We don't even properly understand how the human brain wo
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by brenden2 7y ago
It is an illusion, but at the same time it's not. It's 100% real to the person perceiving the shift, and in the case of treating mental illness that's all that really counts. It's not so much about how it works or why it
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by brenden2 7y ago
Anything moderately related to software and data is called AI now, because that's what gets the upvotes.
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I've been reading a book called "How to Change Your Mind"[1] which contains a collection of history, anecdotes, trip reports, and some of the science behind these types of drugs. The book mostly discusses psilocybin and LSD,
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by brenden2 7y ago
That's a symptom of the system, not voters. Reddit doesn't exactly lend itself to informing people properly before asking their opinion on an issue, and it doesn't provide any way to vet or verify facts and information aside
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I generally agree with the premise, but I disagree that any form of representative government is a good idea. Direct democracy is the only real democracy, and there's no good reason why we don't have 100% direct democracy in 2019
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by brenden2 7y ago
It would be interesting to make a unionization app for tech workers, too. Something like blind where you can share your salary history, insider stories, etc, and use it for leverage when negotiating salary. The one thing I don't like a
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by brenden2 7y ago
Dating has always been a quid pro quo interaction, and it probably always will be.
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I would just charge $10 for the app one time, or perhaps $10/year as long as you keep using it.
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I'm not convinced that's a bad thing if that's the type of interaction people want.
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It's relatively easy to prevent fake profiles by requiring basic identity checks (phone number, etc).
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by brenden2 7y ago
I've thought about making a new dating app. The existing apps suck for 2 reasons: in most markets men are at a significant disadvantage because of how men and women differ in the way they approach dating (and there's also a signif
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by brenden2 7y ago
The iMac is almost 10kg (22lbs), that's what it costs for a monitor arm that can support that weight.
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It's good, but if you can find something that fits you well for less money I'd go for that instead. If you buy Herman Miller furniture you're definitely paying a premium for the brand. A popular alternative are the Steelcase
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by brenden2 7y ago
I like having a large, flat surface, without a bunch of clutter on the desk. It's important to make sure the desk and chair fit well together, such that your elbows and arms can rest on the table without stress. I use the Apple Magic k
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by brenden2 7y ago
Cool, but I'm so tired of Python that I've started to avoid any projects written with it. Dealing with dependencies, 2 vs. 3, pip, virtualenv, etc is such a pain. I think the Java/Go/Rust model where all dependencies are
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by brenden2 7y ago
I'm using Hugo with Netlify. I've used just about every tool over the years, and I'm pretty happy with Hugo. Netlify makes deployment a breeze, and there's a free tier with 100GB of bandwidth which is fine for a basic bl
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by brenden2 7y ago
It looks weird when you write it that way, but the ' ' character gets translated into '+' when you encode the URI before making a request. If it was me, I'd prefer to see the '+' encoding than ' &#x27
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How to Talk to People, for Engineers(brndn.io)
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