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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
This is an important perspective. Many BTC investors are unsophisticated retail investors, and are often "true believer" and magical thinking types. They're this decade's version of gold bugs.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Pesticides and other pollutants bioaccumulate. If they were easily metabolized, they wouldn't be much of a problem.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Nicotine is a stimulant, and stimulants are not without side-effects. There isn't a stimulant known that doesn't put stress on the cardiovascular system. Nicotine increases blood pressure, heart rate and vasoconstriction. Reminder
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> I have a suspicion that there is an old-boys-club of high-level military guys pushing UFO conspiracies for some purpose. At the very least, muddying the waters can help mask any civilian reports of potential classified aircraft. At th
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
We're in an era where there's an arms race in the lightweight and unmanned aircraft space between the most powerful nations on Earth. Of course there are going to be more UFO sightings domestically. Where else are we going to deve
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
The ACA was a repackaging of Massachusetts' "RomneyCare" that was passed by Republicans in that state. The reason this legislature was chosen was because it was thought to be a bipartisan solution to rising healthcare costs.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
That depends on the state they're in. If they're in a state that didn't expand Medicaid with the ACA, like the states in orange on this map[1], then no, they do not have access to government-run healthcare unless they are ret
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> May well turn out later on that AI is best modeled for speed and detail at 11 bit resolution - after all - evolution has done a lot of work that we equate as machine learning. I don't see gradient descent or back propagation in
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Chrome regularly tries to trick me into logging into my Google account via Chrome. If you try to disable this functionality, updates will include new dark patterns to trick you into logging in anyway. Now if I log into any Google service, C
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Awesome. I love the direction Firefox is heading now that Chrome is a pain to use.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Anything health related is just as bad. Just pages and pages of blog spam, sites with dozens of referral links and sites that aggressively optimize for SEO.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> But don't make the mistake that there are no kids who go for shock value or are wantonly manipulative when they know it can't come back to them. In the US, school funding is based upon standardized test results, and bad resu
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
It takes a five minute phone call with the company's legal department or a warrant to find out who the kid was. Either way it would need to be escalated to involving law enforcement.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
If you Google "EMT average salary" or "EMT average hourly rate" you'll see that EMTs are notoriously underpaid. In my high CoL state, EMTs make roughly $15-$18.75/hr, work multiple back-to-back shifts and often
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
People can already share their STD test results, and some clinics even make their patients' results available online so that they can be verified. Technology isn't going to solve this sociological problem.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Disagree. I set my parents up with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS a year ago and I've only ever heard about how fast their computer is now.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
USDA has a pretty wide definition for what constitutes as ground beef[1]: > After a months-long evaluation, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) determined in December that BPI’s signat
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Send me it.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Awesome, looking forward to trying this out on a new project.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
How easy is it to theme for when Material starts looking dated?
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Generators are a subset of coroutines, and coroutines are useful in lexing and parsing.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
In my experience, no. If it does, it's negligible.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Putting a hole in the lid and covering it with micropore tape or polyfill would allow gas exchange without allowing microorganisms to escape or infect the jar.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Doreen, I've always found your contributions to be both insightful and refreshing, especially in a monoculture like HN. As someone who comes from a similar background, I have a deep respect for your willingness to openly talk about you
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
This was my take away, as well. Bourne and Bash are everywhere and zsh will be included in macOS updates. I definitely see value in a separate set of text processing tools.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
My mistake, I hadn't checked on the status in nearly a year. Glad to hear that progress is being made. Thanks for the update and patches!
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
The pathway for foreigners to come into most countries is through a visa process, which are capital investment, work or asylum based. For example, in the US an investment of $500k (will be $900k later this year) in certain businesses will l
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Based on what I saw the last time I checked Mozilla's bug tracker, the issue has a low priority and no one is actively working to resolve it. From what I understand, it's a low level rendering issue.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Have they fixed the issue with excessive resource consumption when using Firefox on a Retina MacBook?
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
The Great Irish Famine was systemic problem, not a logistics nor corruption problem.

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