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by clairity 5y ago
the flu kills ~36K/year, so if you're ~22+ year old american, then the influenza virus has killed more people in your lifetime than covid. we don't know yet what steady-state looks like, but note that medical/epidemiolog
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by clairity 5y ago
this is a form of two-part pricing[0], which is a compromise between simple (single) pricing and continuous pricing (aka perfect price discrimination) to maximize value capture with minimal complexity. two-part pricing also tends to make ma
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by clairity 5y ago
'novel' is a perfectly cromulent term for covid-19. what's not cromulent is the unreasonable and extraneous reaction to a 'new' cold virus. every new virus will have outsized effect until we settle into steady-state
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by clairity 5y ago
ah yes, if only we had perfect foresight...
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by clairity 5y ago
(good) teachers generate great value and positive externalities into the future, but are simply unable to capture that value generation because of the time factor. many teachers accept pride and esteem in lieu of economic gain, but they sho
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by clairity 5y ago
i was told growing up that this was the difference between being honest and being truthful: honesty is about telling allcomers everything you know (or believe, with appropriate caveats) to be true, whereas being truthful is simply not advan
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by clairity 5y ago
yah, i should have specified 'common' or 'web', or something like that. i had a feeling someone would raise a more technically precise but also more esoteric rebuttal.
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by clairity 5y ago
either extension method seems a lost cause, given that most browsers/web servers don't fully support the 7 existing http verbs, even with decades to do so.
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by clairity 5y ago
it also doesn't matter whether a business offers subscriptions, because ads can (and will) always inevitably be layered on top as an additional revenue source. see newspapers, radio, tv, and even real estate for prior art in this regar
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by clairity 5y ago
found this article via the new-ish aspect-ratio css property[0], which was found via this hn discussion about avoiding layout shifts with web fonts[1]. apparently, you can specify aspect-ratio with attr(width) & attr(height) now, and th
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Setting Height and Width on Images Is Important Again(smashingmagazine.com)
9 points by clairity 5y ago|1 comments
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by clairity 5y ago
you've already lost when you buy into "left-right" bullshit, which is solely a gambit to coalesce and otherize in a way that maximizes power for party leaders. the eternal struggle is between the populace and power-grubbers,
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by clairity 5y ago
yes, please copy and paste this at the top of every covid thread. i can't believe people still believe 2 years on that there is "something" we can do to stop covid. it's endemic, assess/mitigate your own risk and mo
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by clairity 5y ago
yes, we knew in march 2020 what the outlines of this virus were going to be. the only uncertainty was how much it varied at the margins (like absolute transmissibility, reproduction rate, in vitro resilience, etc.), but we realized quickl
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by clairity 5y ago
> > "Maybe a federated comment section?" > "I’d love to see this. For a long time I’ve been wishing for some sort of social overlay on top of the web - why can’t I comment with my community on existing articles?&quot
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by clairity 5y ago
yes, tying sideloading to an apple ID would be a real blow to privacy and freedom, but sideloading at all would be a meaningful improvement. it'd be a win to be able to install and run an application- & network-level (outbound &amp
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Senate panel approves antitrust bill restricting big tech platforms(wsj.com)
143 points by clairity 5y ago|114 comments
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by clairity 5y ago
this is one of the few traffic laws that i wish were enforced vigorously everywhere (turn signals being another). it'd improve the flow of traffic, and to boot, keep people focused on driving rather than their phones.
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by clairity 5y ago
so ixnay to version 8 then. are you for sure that there's no version 7 point upgrade that's broken like that? my original license was 1password 3 (teams edition or something like that?) i believe, which i'd been upgrading all
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by clairity 5y ago
does anyone know definitively which is the last 1password version that doesn't require cloud? some folks are saying it's v6 but i have 7.8.7, and everything seems to be working fine, as far as i can tell. i still use local vault
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by clairity 5y ago
business is marketing, not some separable element. if you work, you're working for a marketer. as with any facet of socioeconomic life, the problem isn't marketing so much as it is the perceived prevalence and acceptability of e
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by clairity 5y ago
there is no market, other than the DoD (a literal monopsony). having a product for sale is for show, not a profitability move.
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by clairity 5y ago
> "Ironically, Manhattan is one, if not the only, North American city that could handle the demand that would result from a ban on cars." perhaps, but not obviously so. nyc's subway system is already maxed out at peak time
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by clairity 5y ago
boston dynamics has never even been close to being on a trajectory to build useful products. they’re a grant-harvesting company first and foremost. they simply do not know how to build efficient and useful locomotors despite at least 3 deca
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by clairity 5y ago
close to? sounds exactly like money laundering, since people who can move money legitimately wouldn’t do so through a relatively risky instrument like bitcoin. tax evasion is a likely entry-level reason, but often coupled with other sketchy
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by clairity 5y ago
yes, i wasn't trying to imply that monoclonals would be prescribed based on a home test, just that testing early would provide someone the opportunity to get more aggressive treatments if need be during the critical window of effective
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by clairity 5y ago
> "If you're vaccinated... your real risk is extremely low." in the interest of precision: the risk of serious sickness/death is low for anyone without comorbidities (like age) regardless of vaccination status; vaccin
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by clairity 5y ago
i seem to remember having issues with blocking 17.0.0.0/8 when i first tried it. don’t remember exactly, but probably with icloud and homekit at the very least. i wish we had better info on what services talk to which ip (plus port) ra
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by clairity 5y ago
ruby and rails is a much nicer, more complete, more consistent, and easier to learn ecosystem relative to js/node. and node is just the js server, so you need need a framework on top of it, like react/angular/vue/ember,
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by clairity 5y ago
for sure. we’re all adults, and that’s how we should treat each other by default.

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