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by jmcgough 5y ago
He never claims that his code was copied - just that they used the same approach and a lot of similar patterns. Regardless of what happened, it sounds like they left him hanging without even the courtesy of a follow-up email. Going from bei
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by jmcgough 5y ago
from https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/2/21277863/microsoft-winget-... : "We reached out to Beigi to comment on the blog post and Microsoft’s overall response, but the developer says he’s still in disc
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by jmcgough 5y ago
How is he going to take out a patent for or aggressively license OSS? The code is already out for anyone to use at that point.
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There are a number of researchers now who believe that the risk of MAOIs is overblown, for example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30255284/
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I find that people who spend the most time on the internet are the least happy. The people making 20 updates a day on social media are way more likely to be severely depressed, because they aren't spending time with friends, working on
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Zolgensma comes to mind - one time gene therapy treatment for a rare disease (tens of thousands), billed at $2M. Not sure if there's as viable for OP since only a few hundred people have been diagnosed.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I've felt this way for a while, and have heard others say that as well - after OKC got bought by match group they gated all of the useful features and turned it into a swiping-based tinder clone.
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I've been coding a dating app in my free time and there's a lot of really interesting problems in the dating space imo. I did a lot of user interviews, and one of the frustrations I heard over and over again (across genders) is th
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Honestly I think the games library is why gameboy outsold game gear, and why nintendo continues to dominate the mobile console market
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Way before xbox, this has been their strategy since before they were making video games. Gunpei Yokoi, who came up with the idea (and practically nintendo's entire electronics division), called it "lateral thinking with withered t
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Related: Dr. Joan Ginther, PhD statistician, who quietly won $21M across several lotteries and has kept a low profile since. https://www.businessinsider.com/4-time-lottery-winner-not-ex...
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Makes you wonder how often this happens and someone gets away with it. If he'd quit after one or two wins (or at least not had someone try to claim Iowa's prize in the most suspicious way imaginable) he could have quietly retired.
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Nintendo of America was way more strict about content, so a lot of RPGs would heavily self-censor just so they didn't fail approval and have to go through the long approval process again. IMO this hack is only partly about censorship,
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Does the supreme court have a justice who gives interviews on hugely popular podcasts about why vaccines are dangerous?
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There are plenty of bright people who convince themselves of something that's crazy and unsupported by evidence. It's classic confirmation bias. Linus Pauling was one of the founders of molecular biology and spent part of his late
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I think you mean neurodegenerative diseases, not neurovegetative?
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Because a subscription pricing model brings in more money and a more predictable revenue stream. Most people selling apps on a pay-once basis can't afford to support it and develop new features indefinitely, so they move on to the next
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by jmcgough 5y ago
You do realize that healthy, young people who get sick can spread it to more vulnerable people, right?
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If you read the page it says "For upgrade, we support a variety of lifestyles." So there's gated paid features, like telling you if something is vegan (which would save me a lot of time sifting through ingredient lists so I&#
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by jmcgough 5y ago
Spotify has exposed me to some really good bands or musicals that I love now - it even put on an anime OST that got me hooked on the show. It's almost creepy how well it's figured me out, but it certainly lets me enjoy new music w
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There's an overwhelming amount of good music coming out right now, you just need to put in the effort to explore it. I got deep into niche online electronic artists over the pandemic and there's just so much creativity from young
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I've heard some discussion around reclassifying certain mental illness into clusters - things like depression and anxiety have extremely high levels of comorbidity.
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or that chiropracty is mostly pseudoscience
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Yeah, I think we're actually in agreement here. Sometimes I think about how, if Theranos had figured out how to make things work over the last year before the WSJ article, all of their horrible and unethical practices would have been s
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by jmcgough 5y ago
> Reverse Engineered Siemens Tech + dilution of the blood to get enough volume is mostly irrelevant to a patient Those machines weren't designed to work that way though, so the test results were wildly inaccurate when they did dilut
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They were using traditional siemens for most tests but were doing some tests with a fingerprick that they diluted - like their PSA test sometimes coming back super high for cis women, indicating that they had prostate cancer.
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I read big portions of Sociobiology while taking a lot of evolutionary biology coursework in college. As stated in the guest post, the book primarily focuses on non-human animals so it's bizarre to me that McLemore is trying to make th
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by jmcgough 5y ago
I notice this a lot - when I'm search for information on a specific topic, or discussion around a specific error message from a library, there's several sites that scrape someone else's content for the purposes of displaying
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Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)(science.org)
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Back around 2012 HN had a massive amount of polls every day on the frontpage. I even wrote a scraper to scrape them all off and write them to a hnpolls website. Glad it's not really a thing these days.

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