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by howlgarnish 6y ago
+1. The grandparent's statement is a paraphrase of "from each according to ability, to each according to need", which is a classic communist slogan.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
> They appear, to me, to be acting from a place of fear and conservatism rather than innovation. Bingo. Here's a fun exercise: try to find the last genuinely useful feature added to the Maps API in the release notes. https:&#x2F
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
I'm not even opposed to iron enrichment for the basic flour used to make Wonderbread-type cheap staples, but mandating it for fancy imported bucatini seems more than a little ridiculous.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
The issue is not cancel culture on HN itself, but out in the real world, where saying anything that can be interpreted as "wrong" under your real name can have real consequences.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Phase 1a, basically health care workers and nursing home patients, is some 24M people. At time of writing less than 10% have received even their first shot, so at current rates it's going to take quite some time to vaccinate them all.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Great article, but I have to admit I'm a bit surprised by the adoration here: I've on occasion accidentally bought bucatini when I wanted spaghetti, and was mostly annoyed by the tubes squirting out hot water when I tried to eat t
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
In this particular case it's not even a matter of safety: pasta with <13 mg/lb of iron is no more or less safe than pasta with >13 mg/lb, and as far as I can tell (read: Wikipedia) iron deficiency does not appear to be
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Ripple/XRP is under SEC investigation for selling an unregistered security, Coinbase has to stop trading or they'll be an accessory to the crime as well.
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A Better Way to End the Pandemic Quickly: Vaccinate Everybody Once(medpagetoday.com)
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
People have been moaning about the decline of discussion on the internet since 1993. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Interestingly enough, Hans Rosling's own activism revolved around overturning accepted wisdom, so what happens when you apply this result to his own work?
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
All-time high being around 1000 cases per day in a country of 50M, and they haven't given up yet -- they've successfully beaten back two previous waves.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Those miles of jungle are crisscrossed by roads, trains and ferries, just like US and Europe. Vietnam is a country of nearly 100M people with strong trade and transport links to the world, and over in Thailand, Bangkok is the most popula
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Sigh, this old canard again. Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore are all doing fine without "locking people into their homes" and they're not islands. (Ok, Singapore technically is an island but it's connected
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Nothing, and .space did pretty much exactly this: $1.99 first year, $9.99 renewal, now yanked up to $20+/year. Existing domains were grandfathered to the old pricing if and only if you noticed and complained about the bait and switch.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
As far as I can tell almost all of it was wrong.
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A multi-million insurance fraud that preyed on disease, poverty, desperation(hindustantimes.com)
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Ah yes, the struggling artists known as the Wu-Tang Clan. You, sir, are masterfully trolling, Shkreli himself, or possibly both.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
He pulled the same trick with Thiona, Chenodal, Vecamyl and probably more -- it was on the record as his own company Turing's strategy after all. As noted, this was all legal and I agree that he was railroaded to jail for essentially c
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Yes, it's still a problem. New Year's Eve around midnight in particular is a shift that almost nobody wants to take.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Boney M is inexplicably huge in Thailand, and at one point every rickshaw driver in India had a cassette of the Vengaboys. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_in_Japan_(phrase)
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Shkreli's company didn't "design" squat, it bought existing drugs where the patent period had already expired and the R&D costs were paid off. Also, funnily enough, in an actual capitalist environment you couldn&#x27
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
There are different tiers of oncall. Needing to be online and actively debugging within 5 minutes of getting paged is far more constraining than being the third line of internal escalation that gets a phone call maybe twice a year.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
I'd be keen to hear your commentary on what the following footage on Nickelodeon can tell us about the inscrutable Occidental culture of the Nacirema. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY6SC2W5nMc
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
"There are too many myths peddled about Japan ... also due to Japanese culture itself, a culture of putting appearances before truth." Are you suggesting that this culture is somehow uniquely Japanese? Because I've yet to
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Oh, how I don't miss being responsible for building out the holiday oncall schedule. A few more tips: - Lead by example. If you're responsible for building the schedule, do a shift yourself, and don't cherry pick the least b
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." -Cardinal Richelieu, c. 1600 (attributed to, anyway) Given the political climate we're in and the
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
You're mixing up your concepts here: orphaned drugs are those that would not be profitable to produce without a subsidy. The drugs Shkreli acquired were profitable and still produced, but out of patent (so they were cheap) and without
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
And did that happen after or before the media outcry?
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Buying the rights to a series of obscure but lifesaving medications with no real substitutes and increasing their prices by anywhere from 5x to 56x is "nothing wrong"?

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