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by hire_charts 5y ago
If the tests are cheap and can be performed as frequently as necessary, I could imagine a system where a test isn't considered positive until a statistically significant number of them have come back positive. If there is an abundance
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by hire_charts 5y ago
I never really understand this argument. People make it about increasing the frequency of blood tests too. Or MRIs. Doctors are afraid of finding "incidentalomas", but why can't we instead just change the way we think about t
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by hire_charts 5y ago
And I'll happily fill out a form to tell you any information I feel is relevant to my purchase. If you want to covertly fingerprint and track me, I'll gladly take my business elsewhere.
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by hire_charts 5y ago
It's nice of google to respect the choice to effectively become undiscoverable to anyone searching for your product.
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by hire_charts 5y ago
Who do you think convinced the politicians to make it happen? Lobbyists? (Ha.) It came out of labor movements! Strikes and walkouts! In 1867 workers shut down the entire Chicago economy for a week! (Congress then passed an 8-hour law in 186
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by hire_charts 5y ago
See my edit above. Looking at a country's overall death rates is not how you should compare virulence.
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by hire_charts 5y ago
It doesn't need to be a global/political conspiracy for people to be more sensitive to a large amount of people dying after almost 20 years of significantly lower death rates. Edit: Also, looking at overall deaths per million is n
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by hire_charts 6y ago
What makes you think it has ended?
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by hire_charts 6y ago
My use of the words secret and conspiracy was, at least in part, in response to the parent comment: > everyone else is loosing their minds and ushering an authoritarian pseudo-communist state in the United States. Glenn sees it, and
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by hire_charts 6y ago
Except this exact same argument, nearly verbatim, was one of the alt-right anti-Obama talking points! It's a solid criticism too - don't get me wrong. But it's a single argument, reused over and over, to do more than simply c
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by hire_charts 6y ago
A third possibility: Greenwald has bought heavily into the same cultural zeitgeist that is extremely prevalent on this forum: that "SJWs" and progressives will somehow destroy the fabric of neoliberalism. He's not warning us
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by hire_charts 6y ago
Amazon is not banning Republicans. Amazon is dropping a risky client after having more than reasonable doubts about that client's ability to operate in good faith. Republican views are not being censored. The fact that this site happen
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by hire_charts 6y ago
Something can be taxpayer-funded without being an arm of the government. Government grants and public funding sources can be divorced enough from what they fund that you can get things like NPR and PBS, which I don't view as authoritar
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by hire_charts 6y ago
There's a reason that phishing is the go-to infosec attack vector. It's because we still blame users for being tricked into doing things they shouldn't, rather than taking the time to build systems that prevent such vectors
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by hire_charts 6y ago
It's far easier to live off of ramen when the worst that can happen is that you fall back on your savings, or your family (for a home), or your MBA network (for a job), etc, when your business bottoms out. This means that it's nat
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by hire_charts 6y ago
These blacklist tags are "not new"* and are, for the most part, a necessary moderation tool to keep explicit and/or harmful content from trending. Now, is this potentially something that could be abused to truly curate away (
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by hire_charts 7y ago
What kinds of feedback loops is the IPCC known to exclude, and is there any serious study into what the potential consequences are? Like, how possible is it that there is a feedback loop that will push us well beyond the RCP8.5 scenario?
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by hire_charts 8y ago
Can't you essentially fabricate this statistic by controlling for the amount of time that counts as "before", assuming the inverted curves happen more often than recessions?
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by hire_charts 8y ago
On the other hand, what better way to give your immune system a head start?
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by hire_charts 8y ago
If the regulations had been enacted before the incident, how would anyone know whether or not they even worked?
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by hire_charts 8y ago
In one of my early jobs out of college I had a manager who really got this. He knew I was getting my work done, so our 1:1's turned more into career coaching, and his focus was almost always around improving my "visibility" w
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by hire_charts 8y ago
Infrastructure requires a continual investment, which means that at any given time you can always point at something that is, quite literally, crumbling away. That's just the nature of the modern era - that we rely on such projects for
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by hire_charts 8y ago
> Best solution is no code or a simplification of the problem to existing solutions. This results in zero liability, while the revenue the solution generates is pure assets. Not exactly zero liability, but the source of the liability i
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by hire_charts 9y ago
A long time ago, around when I was first taking systems programming courses, I had this vision for a filesystem and file explorer that would do exactly what you say. I imagined an entire OS without any filepaths for user data (in the tradit
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by hire_charts 9y ago
Even then, can you guarantee that the person behind the account isn't being paid to say things they wouldn't otherwise say?
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by hire_charts 9y ago
On top of that, I'd consider adding a bit of idempotency to the form submission -- to make sure that if the request did in fact succeed even though you did not get the confirmation of a success, subsequent retry/resubmit attempts
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by hire_charts 9y ago
Reminds me of this other thread from a post about a CRM for keeping track of personal associations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14498633 Facebook has a huge opportunity to help people stay connected with those clos
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by hire_charts 9y ago
$350/mo seems _extremely_ reasonable for a quiet studio. I don't think that's the kind of office expense the poster was talking about. For instance, in NYC, $350/month would barely get you a "hot desk" (i.e. ch
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by hire_charts 10y ago
I wouldn'tve found that funny before I stopped watching broadcast TV. Now that I've cut cables I notice "organic" ads like that right away.
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by hire_charts 10y ago
From what I can tell, they have slightly different aims. For instance, Cutestrap follows BEM naming conventions and uses KSS to generate its own documentation. KSS is a nice way of generating a pattern library of your own, as you start to e

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