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by cabaalis 6y ago
The US health system is not well positioned for command-and-control from a centralized source. This has various advantages and disadvantages, but is a severe hindrance in a pandemic. There wasn't even a unified diagnosis code for COVID
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by cabaalis 6y ago
I assume you're talking about RIP Medical Debt. As I've found success in the healthcare technology industry, they were IMO a good choice for a portion of a recent windfall. I recommend donating to them as well!
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by cabaalis 6y ago
Thank you, this was very helpful. Also glad to see a link to my alma mater.
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by cabaalis 6y ago
> there are laws which give these powers IANAL, but I know some of you are so I'm asking here. I've read that challenges to these orders will not succeed because of emergency declarations. The emergency declarations are suppose
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by cabaalis 6y ago
A proven successful use of this drug would be very inconvenient for multiple media outlets who jumped at the (described as) unfounded claim. It would mean that either (a) the authorities had more information than they did, or that (b) the a
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by cabaalis 6y ago
Geez. I wish they would ask for permission to do this. They'll just get every day "Default Browser: generally not Firefox." What they are doing here is one method to keep it that way.
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by cabaalis 7y ago
Not sure why this would turn you off to an organization as this is a very common problem. My money is on your suggestion being what most organizations actually do, though perhaps with a workflow process to manage it. Legacy systems are hard
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by cabaalis 7y ago
I am no economist. What is being solved here? Allowing loans? Who will take out loans in the economy as it is? I'd think a reserve at the banks is a good protection of solvency, and should be increased instead of decreased. Is my layma
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by cabaalis 7y ago
Three (edit:Two) full seasons of Salute Your Shorts makes this very much worth it.
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by cabaalis 7y ago
The best part about RLM's Best of the Worst is that they all seem to hate doing it. There was one episode where they got terribly drunk and had to stop filming and come back a few days later.
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by cabaalis 7y ago
Did I say anything about C-suite? Your point is nearly word for word the same as mine, I'm not sure why you're replying as a refutation.
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by cabaalis 7y ago
You may be right, but knowing "who's who" is very largely how general business gets done. Buying services over the internet from an anonymous black box with no support is a recent disruption.
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by cabaalis 7y ago
States solving their own problems. If it's also properly funded by the state, it's the way it should be.
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by cabaalis 7y ago
I see this also for Bernie, in odd locations. I've been playing Warcraft 3 reforged lately, and the general chat that shows up on the main menu in-game has been all kinds of people extolling the values of Bernie Sanders. Of course, it
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by cabaalis 7y ago
Playing in mobile with the Gameboy-like interface is a joy :)
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by cabaalis 7y ago
I don't think I did. There are misses due to bad algorithm. And yet some of the tweets highlighted are indicative of a highly toxic mindset. I do want to live in a world where statements akin to "shut up you f'ing boomer&quo
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by cabaalis 7y ago
It seems against the grain on this board, but people actually think airing all their little annoyances publicly online is a good idea that will never affect their actual lives?
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by cabaalis 7y ago
Another thing I never thought I'd see on HN, Gomer Pyle, USMC. I didn't exist in the original airings, but Nick @ Nite and TV Land gave me all those awesome shows when I was a kid. Dick Van Dyke, I Love Lucy, Bob Newhart, Rhoda, M
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by cabaalis 7y ago
> perhaps the owner of the site has a case. Except it sounds like the owner doesn't. If the information is on the page made public, the owner of the page can't place terms on what is done with the data downstream. They'd h
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by cabaalis 7y ago
I don't use twitter much but it does feel cleaner with these in place. I'm assuming though that this is a technicality of implementation. Since it changes their preferred experience, I can't imagine these keywords will remain
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by cabaalis 7y ago
Aside from some simple BASIC, I can attribute the beginning of my development career to being a kid playing with the text-based config files of Civ 1.
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by cabaalis 7y ago
This is very useful insight that I want to apply to my own planned side-projects (like 30-something domains registered as ideas...) Too often I've thought "that's a great idea" and then focused on the tech of implementat
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by cabaalis 7y ago
It's Bing. I've noticed the slightly lower quality. It's something of a conscious choice: unfettered tracking and advertising practices but good search results, or less tracking and OK results with profits used for a cause.
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by cabaalis 7y ago
I like DDG, but have been using Ecosia for the past 6 months or so. I like that I've contributed to planting 25 trees (by the averages) just in my normal course of searching.
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by cabaalis 7y ago
Your read is probably more practical than mine, and fits in better with a "don't assume malice" standpoint. I just know that social media (of which HN is begrudgingly a member) can very effectively be swayed.
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by cabaalis 7y ago
Curious.. does your employment agreement not put you at very, very significant personal risk for putting information out like this? Throwaway account or not? I'm inclined to trust HN and it's community to a pretty strong degree. B
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by cabaalis 7y ago
I never thought I'd see Dickson, TN mentioned on HN. If you're around the area you should visit the Renaissance Center. I remember it mostly from the planetarium when I was a kid.
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by cabaalis 7y ago
I knew I recognized his name, so I looked him up. Turns out that his book Louie was one of my absolute favorites as a kid.
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by cabaalis 7y ago
> No longer can massive tech companies like Google be permitted to operate relatively free from government oversight. It seems to me that if the actions you take are legal, it doesn't matter your size. Who is the government to decid
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by cabaalis 7y ago
At least in the US, doing this would already be illegal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...

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