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by csense 7y ago
The government will like being able to track every citizen too much for that to happen.
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by csense 7y ago
This is kinda a side question. But how do we know the NSA doesn't already do this?
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by csense 7y ago
The government's actually seizing this kind of stuff from hospitals, and won't tell anyone what they're doing with it [1]. Some hospitals are reporting protective gear from stockpiles that is completely unusable: masks 10 ye
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by csense 7y ago
Does this mean that https://www.predictit.org/ isn't authorized to operate in any state?
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by csense 7y ago
Some HN readers who seem to be knowledgeable about genetics were discussing the spread 73 days ago [1]. If you don't want to read the whole thread, I'll also link to a couple specific sub-threads [2] [3]. However, I will note tha
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by csense 7y ago
> carry a government approved ID showing your immunities Bill Gates is funding an effort to tattoo it into your skin [1]. At best, Mr. Gates is dangerously naive, assuming that because he has good intentions, governments will never abuse
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by csense 7y ago
My main complaint about Zoom is that, when using it on PC, you have to install something. You can't just use it in the browser. At best, Zoom's devs need to RTFM for WebRTC. At worst, they want to do some kind of intentional sur
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by csense 7y ago
If it's a test you run yourself, it's absolutely true that some people won't test, or will test positive and lie about it. As long as a large majority of people do the right thing, and report / self isolate if positive,
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by csense 7y ago
MIT has a UNIX-like operating system called [XV6]( https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html ) for teaching OS design. It's in the spirit of UNIX v6, but it's written for multicore Intel x86 machines
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by csense 7y ago
One friend I had in school qualified for free school lunch, so presumably below the poverty line. His parents had a house , with a yard . There was air conditioning, cable TV, and each child had his own room. I distinctly remember a nea
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by csense 7y ago
How in the world do they plan to be able to stop a student taking the test on their PC from Googling the answers on their phone, or vice versa? Or asking a friend instead of Google?
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by csense 7y ago
If you're not transacting for physical cash, isn't your money going directly into an account at another bank? Unless people are withdrawing mass amounts of cash, I'm relatively certain you can't have bank runs against
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by csense 7y ago
For those who are unaware, ZZT was a text-mode DOS adventure game written in 1991 by the founder of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney. It included a level editor and scripting language, which allowed anyone to unleash their creativity and design thei
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by csense 7y ago
I know an electrician who was doing a job in a hospital last week. Even if an electrician doesn't work for a utility company, isn't it pretty vital that medical facilities are able to call him/her in if needed? I'm also
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by csense 7y ago
So people are willing to accept small negative rates if it would be less than the operational costs of shipping enormous truckloads of bills around, storing them, securing them, and insuring them against theft / fire? Is that's w
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by csense 7y ago
Does anyone here understand how negative interest rates would work? Why would anyone buy a negative-rate treasury bond instead of just hanging on to their cash?
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by csense 7y ago
> new implementation of TLS in the kernel This sounds like insanity to me. Is there an old implementation of TLS?
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by csense 7y ago
Previous submission at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22559045 I thought HN was supposed to collapse duplicate submissions to a single topic? URL appears to be identical. Is there some kind of cache issue in HN&#x27
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by csense 7y ago
Microsoft should open-source Visual Basic. I'm sure a community would quickly form and take care of keeping it up-to-date.
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by csense 7y ago
Neural networks are basically graphs with weighted edges. As you increase number of nodes N in a graph, the number of edges grows at most quadratically, but the number of possible subgraphs grows exponentially. So even if you use totally ra
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by csense 7y ago
Basically these kinds of bills push 9 out of 10 people into bankruptcy. So part of the reason you're paying $3000 for a test that actually costs $300 is because you're paying for 9 other people who couldn't pay.
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by csense 7y ago
> it strikes me as very insensitive It's a physical fact that older people's bodies aren't as able to fight off diseases, and they are likelier to have mortality rates. If no one's allowed to actually explain the phys
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by csense 7y ago
This reminds me of the article talking about the four different kinds of documentation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21289832 I found that four-way distinction to be quite useful.
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by csense 7y ago
The point I was trying to make is that sorting networks restrict your algorithm to a data-independent memory access pattern. For some particular N, you might be able to find the smallest sorting network that sorts N elements. And then you
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by csense 7y ago
I never understood why people bother writing, or enjoy reading, poems that don't have strong rhythm and rhyme. If you did the actual work of solving the constraint satisfaction problem of making syllable counts, stress, and rhyming wor
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by csense 7y ago
> If somebody could find a way to generalize the sorting network algorithm for any number of input elements In section 2 in that Wikipedia article, it links to many constructions that do exactly that. A couple are O(n log(n)), but compli
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by csense 7y ago
What in the world is forkliftohio.com? It's a very insane website. I don't get it.
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by csense 7y ago
Dunno about "unprecedented." Wasn't the printing press kinda similar?
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by csense 7y ago
Why is BCH listed here?
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by csense 7y ago
Is it possible that drug companies will all decide to stop selling insulin in Illinois as a result of this, forcing every diabetic to travel to another state every time they need an insulin refill?

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