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by carsonbaker 7y ago
I'm one of the guys who made the website, and I thought a lot about these things too. You have good concerns. My group talked to doctors and epidemiologists before starting this project and we proceeded with these thoughts in mind. If
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by carsonbaker 7y ago
Sorry! Try again.
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by carsonbaker 7y ago
Very good observation. I'll defer to our network of doctors and take their feedback on this. Thank you!
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by carsonbaker 7y ago
We might. There's some worry that e.g. showing a heat map of the data might be alarming, so we're trying to figure out where the balance is between transparency and cautiousness.
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by carsonbaker 7y ago
Yes, we get trend info. We're storing a cookie in your browser with a UUID that is associated to your temperature reading. If you submit temperatures for multiple people in your household, they all get that UUID, which we assume to be
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by carsonbaker 7y ago
Carson here, site developer. Thank you for the positive response so far, but also feel free to leave us constructive criticism. If you want to contribute to this effort, the GitHub is https://github.com/carsonbaker/take
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by carsonbaker 7y ago
You might be on Firefox. I just fixed this!
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Show HN: Stop Covid-19 by taking your temperature(takeyourtemp.org)
50 points by carsonbaker 7y ago|44 comments
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by carsonbaker 7y ago
You may be thinking of alpinism, where this is perhaps a little true. It's not true at all of rock climbing.
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by carsonbaker 9y ago
Your comment doesn't make sense. You can't choreograph the result of coin flip, but you can definitely rehearse a rock climbing sequence so that you always nail it. I can promise you there weren't thousands of moments on this
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by carsonbaker 10y ago
It's also worth mentioning that 95% of the Nose can be free-climbed by just about anyone that really trains for it. It's hard, but it's not that hard. The Dawn Wall, in contrast, is basically off limits for your average fre
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by carsonbaker 10y ago
It's just very different, to the point where you can't even compare the two climbers with the same ruler. Honnold's biggest achievements are notable because of the risk he takes while soloing. Ondra -- although he tackled som
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by carsonbaker 10y ago
Yep, that's exactly what he did.
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by carsonbaker 10y ago
There's just one safety line (it's called the lead line) and it runs through -- in the video you watch -- quickdraws (or slings with carabiners) that hang on bolts. On other pitches of climbing, it runs through different types of
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by carsonbaker 10y ago
> Apple chose to put a much smaller battery in this model (75 watt) compared to last year (100 watt) for the purpose of thinness. You mean watt-hours (Wh).
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by carsonbaker 11y ago
Yes, very sorry. "Some charlatan has stolen a Ziggy and passed it off as his own!"
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by carsonbaker 11y ago
Wow, I didn't know that in particular. I hiked the John Muir Trail last summer and often looked into the distance at some crazy steep peak and wondered how the hell John Muir nabbed the first ascent with nothing more than a knapsack an
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by carsonbaker 11y ago
I think part of the reason base jumping is banned in Yosemite has to do with the spectacle of it. The National Park system was founded with a mission to preserve the serenity of our land, and to give its visitors an opportunity to experienc
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by carsonbaker 12y ago
Free soloing does mean no rope however, which is the important bit. You're speaking of rope-soloing , which can be done either free or aid. If you don't have rope with you, whether or not you bring protection only matters in th
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by carsonbaker 14y ago
This isn't about the article, but I would like to point out that New Hive is really a _fantastic_ publishing platform. There's just an immense amount of creative content on it. It reminds me of what I like to think were the glory days of th
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by carsonbaker 15y ago
Relevant video from QI: How many moons does the earth have? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1zuAQAhhMI
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by carsonbaker 15y ago
For those interested in watermakers, it's possible (and perhaps affordable) to build your own! http://www.albin25.eu/our-a25ak-dido/34-dido-stories/60-dido...
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by carsonbaker 15y ago
This is controversial, but Alain Bombard ( http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/obituaries/24bombard.html ) sailed across the Atlantic, surviving on seawater, fluids from fish, and plankton. Seems like you might be able to drink a little seawa
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by carsonbaker 16y ago
No, I wouldn't say pricing is fundamentally an infrequent activity, although analyzing the "idiosyncratic risk" may well be. That's not all that's going on though. For example, investors in, say AAPL, do not live in a Plato's cave where not
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by carsonbaker 16y ago
In principle, you should be able to follow their progress on the project's posts page: < http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-p... . Their latest post was 5 days ago, but "for backers only."
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by carsonbaker 16y ago
Can someone comment on how the physicists detect if an element 114 atom sticks to gold? Or how they observe the decay chain? Also, is there an upper bound for synthesized elements? Will an element's half-life become so short that it just ca
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by carsonbaker 16y ago
Maybe the attachment was named hot_tub.jpg?
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by carsonbaker 17y ago
I'm halfway through his book You Are Not a Gadget and I give it very low marks so far, but not for the writing or the ideas presented -- the latter of which, however, is disappointingly nebulous. The main problem is that Lanier consisten
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by carsonbaker 17y ago
The Calluna would be alright, I suppose. However, I think a lot of users have your second preference, Didot, installed which is unsuitable for body copy.
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by carsonbaker 17y ago
For a readable font, paste this into your address bar: javascript:(function w(){document.body.style.fontFamily='Georgia';})()

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