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by cbr 11y ago
The browser could do something with this, but I believe it doesn't. Instead the algorithm is just: 1) Load the resource specified in src (from network or cache) 2) If there's an integrity attribute, verify its hash
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by cbr 11y ago
Your parent wrote: "You're essentially making a bet that someone will find something useful to do with a frozen brain -- and that your estate will be able to afford the procedure -- before the company you've entrusted your br
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by cbr 11y ago
"In what kind of bleak world would no one be willing to pay for a probable return to full health?" This one. People are dying now because of diseases we have basically eradicated in rich countries. The choice you're talking
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by cbr 11y ago
"that your estate will be able to afford the procedure" reads to me as being about revival? Which ALCOR etc don't attempt to cover.
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by cbr 11y ago
> the fed/government backstops the s&p How so?
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by cbr 11y ago
Well, you'd know if your siblings died, but you're right, there's some survivorship bias in the "and I" portion. The main issues, though, are very small sample sizes and the difficulty of knowing if people really we
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by cbr 11y ago
Eh. We still know about people who didn't survive. Survivorship bias is when you are only seeing the successes.
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by cbr 11y ago
The form of the vaccine that allowed us to undertake global eradication was much newer: " In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Leslie Collier, an English microbiologist working at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, developed a
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by cbr 11y ago
> stick built 2x4 construction In 1900 people were already building like that. I live in Somerville MA, which is pretty close to what the OP describes, and it's pretty popular despite everything being balloon framed and covered wit
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by cbr 11y ago
> most impactful technology of the 20th century was probably the bicycle The smallpox vaccine is a strong contender. Smallpox killed 300m people in the 20th century, more than all wars combined. And we wiped it out.
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by cbr 11y ago
That's really a problem with the word "Google", which has round open shapes in the first half, and then a tighter second half. Perhaps "Googol" would have been better?
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by cbr 11y ago
> hotlinked from another site even I was curious and checked whois: aboveaverage.com and citizensagainstremoteworking.org don't seem to be related at all.
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by cbr 11y ago
Looks like Debian is mostly on top of it: > To me the problem suggests that it is important from a security and > accountability perspective to 1) include the human-readable source > code of JavaScript in Debian pack
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by cbr 11y ago
I think popularity, from most to least?
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by cbr 11y ago
Or SF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_San_Francisco
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by cbr 11y ago
It can be a euphemism for discrimination.
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by cbr 11y ago
> Google's own Pagespeed shows me that they [Google] are not doing basic things like caching immutable resources or minifying javascripts - which to me is really baffling. If you give me a link I can file bugs and follow up with tea
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by cbr 11y ago
That's not a super high bar. Most of these founders could get $200k jobs at top tech companies, invest $100k/year, and be a millionaire in ~10 years. Much better than 10% odds!
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by cbr 11y ago
I just skimmed your comments here between 118 and 250 days ago, and I don't see anything predicting a crash to come in September or any other time.
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by cbr 11y ago
Perhaps try other social activities? Pick three very different sorts of meetups and go to them? Ones where you'll be interacting with people, but in a structured way where it's ok if you don't have anything interesting to b
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by cbr 11y ago
David Roodman at GiveWell has an excellent series looking into geomagnetic storms, and published the last of four posts today: http://blog.givewell.org/2015/08/21/coming-down-to-earth-wha...
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by cbr 11y ago
You can identify specific search results that are about you and ask for them to be removed. If anything I would expect the author to be in favor of this, because now more of the remaining results will be about them.
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by cbr 11y ago
Not a lawyer: in this case it was newsworthy, and out of the applicable defences that's the strongest.
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by cbr 11y ago
The Herring: What do you think about Netscape’s vision that someday soon we will all be automatically hooked to the Net when we boot up our computers, and their Navigator platform will be our primary interface to the world? Jobs: I wish the
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by cbr 11y ago
working on a giant campus that's isolated from the outside world You don't have to work in Mountain View! The remote offices are really nice, and are generally well integrated into their cities.
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by cbr 11y ago
Are you sure that's SMS and not MMS or one of the other upgrades to SMS people still call SMS?
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by cbr 11y ago
That's $4B for construction and $1.5B for operating costs over 25-30 years. Let's say 25 years to be conservative. So $220M/year. It's expected to produce 150B liters/year. That's $0.00146/L or $0.0055&
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by cbr 11y ago
> desalination (at great cost) Desalination for human consumption isn't a huge cost. It's only huge compared to the current incredibly low cost of agricultural water.
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by cbr 11y ago
A shortage due to med school controls won't be relieved by more people deciding to apply to med school, because the numbers there are fixed. To fix that you need to get the controls relaxed.
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by cbr 11y ago
> > I want to study medicine because of a desire I > > have to help others > > Let's get real--this is said over, and over again, > and I've never bought it. The article is aimed at p

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