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Ask HN: Do You Have an On-Call Schedule Calculator?
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by dzink 8y ago
Sleep depravation releases a stress hormone that can also cause migraines. Check if they correlate to times she has missed on usual sleep and just taken a nap to restore it ( frequent culprit).
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by dzink 8y ago
This tech can easily be used to flood humanity’s shared brain with auto-generated propaganda. Schizophrenia of the internet in a way. There is plenty of incentive with Google algorithms favoring number of words and relevant keywords in cont
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by dzink 8y ago
Could be correlated if it is transmissible. Gum disease could be an access vector for prions into the nerve system and the brain.
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by dzink 8y ago
If they want to actually succeed in making this ubiquitous, it cannot be a grammarly-like plug-in that sends text back to the motherland. It has to be standalone and locally hosted. Otherwise it’s just another MITM / spying prone libra
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by dzink 8y ago
All licensed. Even so, our adobe account emails end up filled with crap.
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by dzink 8y ago
Not sure I’d trust this list. All my email addresses submitted to Adobe and previously Macromedia have come back with scammy spam of epic proportions compared to any other company I’ve submitted emails to. This list has them at 5 stars. Cou
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by dzink 8y ago
If you want a sound in your year, you get a device for that. If you are a business wanting to notify people who trust you, you can give them devices or blast a speaker. This fills the use case of an actor distributing information to people
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by dzink 8y ago
What a great incentive for top Chinese scientists to immigrate elsewhere.
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by dzink 8y ago
I created DreamList https://www.dreamlist.com as a parent because I was appalled by the practices of baby registries and wish lists out there. Without naming competitors we saw: - A major retailer hid the actual wishlist behind
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by dzink 8y ago
1. Wrote and optimized DreamList https://www.dreamlist.com (solo founder) in Go for the fastest Time to First Byte so it naturally outranks much better funded and staffed competitors in SEO. Some other tricks: 2. Channel many no
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by dzink 8y ago
Is there a risk that the planned explosion changes the trajectory of the 1km wide asteroid? Odds of it swinging closer to Earth as a result?
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by dzink 8y ago
The financial incentives have become stronger for building walled gardens than a semantically open web. The semantic data has been more useful to giants that monetize it, than to millions of small publishers who are supposed to abide by the
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by dzink 8y ago
There is a substantial performance difference in SSL handshake speed and site performance if you have a central server, vs multi-edge storage before you get to Cloudflare. The closer your edges are to Cloudflare's edges when the handsh
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by dzink 8y ago
The article talks about Japanese discriminating against female candidates for medical training. There are likely high workhour requirements and poor childcare support systems / cultural norms against childcare done by non-parents that
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by dzink 8y ago
True, though small companies can be held as LLCs or taxed as SCorporations if they have less than 100 investors, and they wouldn't pay corporate taxes anyway. At that point taxes on gains trickle to the owners/partners and are tax
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by dzink 8y ago
Technically the FAANG profits are somewhat reflected in the stock price. With their 20-50% in annual gains, holding stock in some of these allows you and retirees and other US stockholders to partake in the gains. The stock growth then rewa
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by dzink 8y ago
They have become the showroom for new or high-margin tech like Oculus, Dyson, 7K refrigerators etc and they collect a hefty margin and shelf fees for the effort. They make more money B2B than B2C probably. On smaller stuff their markup is r
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by dzink 8y ago
The issue here is that the head hit was activated as a trauma. Trauma activation criteria are different for every hospital. If the criteria is lower, you get situations like these. Trauma teams legitimately require such expense. There are s
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by dzink 8y ago
I wonder how much of that is gray economy. Greece has massive underreporting of anything tax and business related, because they don’t verify it. Farms and businesses don’t report actual sales, earnings, probably even employees (anecdotally
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by dzink 8y ago
It’s correlation vs causation. The presence of income inequality makes the city more and more liberal. Politics is a dial between fairness and freedom. There are downsides to both, so elections tune the setting depending on your current con
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by dzink 8y ago
True, and the mental gymnastics in Law, Surgery, and a number of other fields are also hard, if not harder, but they still attract =>50% women these days. Maybe we could draw some of these women by showing the broader purpose behind codi
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by dzink 8y ago
He argues that the 30% share current top US CS schools are getting is the global maximum. I think he is missing the “Whys” for women in tech and “perceived sense of individual strengths being too good for tech”, is not one of them. Coding i
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by dzink 8y ago
Depending on your brain structure and circumstances travel can have a different effect on different people. I have some form of 4D memory - I can go back to any place i’ve seen, including my dreams and spend time there any time I want. The
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Buying a bank exposes you to being regulated and restricted as one, just as doing business on Government contracts adds a bunch of friction and overhead to every transaction and to your business (ask Google/Alphabet). The key to mass p
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Any Deepfake detection tool would also be a GAN sparring partner for the Deepfake makers.
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Regulation in the US makes it harder for this to happen but 3 stepping stones will let the tide turn and Amazon is very close to crossing them. 1. Money transmission regulations require at least $2 million in reserves and 2 years to get a l
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by dzink 8y ago
Teaching CS by simple analogs is the most intuitive way for people to grasp it. I wrote lectures for a 8 week 3hrs a week CS50 level course and completely nontechnical people loved every analog. Example: Front end vs backend vs middleware d
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by dzink 9y ago
Your name is transferred to other relatives (your spouse, children, parents), and it does end up in press, documents, reports, yellow-page type sites, and other locations you haven't touched. Depending on your level of celebrity, it ca
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by dzink 9y ago
Genealogy sites have no way of confirming the DNA submitted belongs to the person submitting it. Trash left on the street is considered abandoned property, so fair game for identity thieves and insurers alike. However, unless you know the p

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