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BuzzFeed News Has Won Its First Pulitzer Prize(buzzfeednews.com)
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by eganist 5y ago
> that if someone modifies their own medical device and gets hurt because of it that they legally only hurt themselves because they had the right to make that choice. Well, while this applies to medical devices, worth noting this doesn&#
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Good idea; it didn't cross my mind.
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by eganist 5y ago
I'm assuming the original title didn't fit: > Amazon reverses course, joins other Seattle tech companies in expanding work-from-home options A better contracted title than the current one ("Amazon reverses course in expand
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by eganist 5y ago
Good catch; I'd conflated viral vector with inactivated vaccines. The plurality are inactivated, but nonetheless, not the majority. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_COVID-19_vaccine_autho...
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What's stopping revocation of approval? Or is that fixed in stone now?
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> Would smallpox survive in a microscope slide? I remember my late grandpa had a microscope slide labeled smallpox in his basement. He was an old time doctor and had all sorts of neat things down there after he died. I don’t remember wh
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> You're assuming everyone has the same knowledge base as you and then inferring their decision making process from that. More likely is that people have formed broad opinions about a new event based on scattered information. That&#
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> as i already pointed out you invented the "manipulation", ie. you generated misinformation, and you're clearly acknowledge here that you're using that misinformation in order to affect "vulnerable readers"
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> Responding to skepticism with hostility does nothing except make you feel better. And further convince the skeptics that you're wrong. After all, if you'll try to tell them that their own lived experience is a lie, why should
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Given the sheer volume of doses delivered and the capability to detect clotting risks (az, JJ), the fact that clotting risk did not go up with biontech and moderna might throw a wrench into that hunch. But even then, not seeing an indicatio
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> (i was always laughing at anti-vaxxers, yet seeing all misinformation and propaganda (the smell of USSR strength propaganda is just overwhelming) around covid i think i'll pass this one) No, you weren't. A common false-flag (
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I mean, reading the discussion/conclusion via google translate, this seems to be a study on metabolism of the vaccine? Open to being fact-checked, but this doesn't seem related. In any case, the only statement I found on health ef
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> I've done enough research to know what I'm talking about The standard practice is for those making the assertion to provide their references or data. Since you've done the research, can you please link any published and
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Indeed, and my guess is that this is the general consensus (though nothing wrong with the opposite). https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Checked%20ou...
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by eganist 5y ago
This'll be hard to do when voting power in corporations is directly tied to paper wealth. Although one idea I was playing around with in my mind was around whether the tax could be made payable in public stock, provided that the voting
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I would be keen on seeing caselaw on this. Got any references I can read?
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Dang — we need a title change on this one. The article itself discusses the scam accusation but never makes that assertion itself, but the title here is heavily editorialized. (I have no known affiliation with the game or anyone involved wi
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> The nuance here is that brain-damaged appsec pentesters reported this as a vulnerability for years as a low-risk privacy defect yes, because things like bank account and routing numbers would be stored in autofills for certain banking
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I'd be quite content with the option of hiding mine. There's zero programmatic value to me or any other HN readers (we don't have sub-HNs we have to moderate ourselves), and I tend to determine credibility by reviewing a pe
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by eganist 5y ago
Hm, I can no longer reproduce this, but my first click ended 22km away in a reservoir somewhere in the midwestern United States. Colorado maybe? But it wasn't Dillon; everything running into Dillon just passed through. I only mention i
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https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Buy_n_Large It's a Wall-E reference
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BnL Corp.
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> Declaring my comment flamebait is telling. It's a completely banal observation about a conflict in someone's position. The many angry personal attacks (such as yours) are not my doing, and reflect on your own rather bizarre m
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> This tact has been plied by a dozen different replies in a dozen different but similar ways (some talking about prose, while others claim it's incomprehensible). > Groan. defaultname, I'm sorry you took offense. I'll
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Yikes. Distilled into its abstract, you're saying his primary motivation isn't right to repair; it's to extract cash from his viewers. I'm not a fan of hit jobs especially when presented as extensive prose to veil the at
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Amazon commingles all their merch when they're fulfilling a purchase, even when they're the seller. Best to avoid buying any items sold both by Amazon and a FBA seller; they're nearly guaranteed to be commingled, running yo
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I've got an equal mix of 5 year and unrestricted NDAs, no 10 year NDAs, oddly enough.
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> Since when were NDAs routinely limited to 10 years? I'm not seeing an indication that it was routine, just that all the people involved happened to have 10 year NDAs in place. Might've been RSA-specific, potentially as a con
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If anyone else is wondering as to why there's so much human drama written in what should otherwise probably have been a normal retrospective, it's (at least by my judgment) to increase the likelihood that the article gets optioned

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