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by jopsen 3y ago
> Basically, the only people who die of rabies are those who missed that they got bit or those who were dumb enough to refuse the vaccine. Lots of people are dumb enough not to go to the ER following a harmless animal bite. Maybe, if it&
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by jopsen 3y ago
> An estimated 59,000 people die of rabies each year globally. Each year of delay kills them. How many are diagnosed before it's too late? In the developed world where you're likely to get tested and diagnosed, we probably don&
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by jopsen 3y ago
Is it correct that a yubikey with U2F / webauthn can be used as a passkey, it's just the physically portable kind? Isn't this just removing the password factor, for people already using a security key?
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by jopsen 3y ago
> I'll just start storing passkeys in my password manager instead of passwords wherever possible Depends on how the password manager stores the passkeys. I noticed that bitwarden stores TOTP keys such that the secret is exportable.
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by jopsen 3y ago
While a lot of this appears to be estimates... it's pretty wild of 30% of deaths from cardiovascular are caused by lead. Mostly in low/middle income countries. > It's items in the kitchen that are poisoning them On a posit
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by jopsen 3y ago
I've been happy with kopia for a while now... But I probably ought to double check that restoring works :)
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by jopsen 3y ago
I got to ask a dumb question, but would forbidding sale of consumer debts less than 200 USD eliminate a lot of this? Maybe it's a different limit.
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by jopsen 3y ago
> The issue is that a lot of times businesses outgrow their bespoke Access app or whatever... > Of course if that never happens it’s great.. It could also be argued that outgrowing your initial business app is good thing. Lots of busi
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by jopsen 3y ago
> My attempts to submit Pull Requests for much wanted features (fully working documentation with new integration tests all passing) often took months-a year to be accepted and merged. Isn't this always going to be the case? Honestly
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by jopsen 3y ago
> Yes I said it was nationalized healthcare. But Taiwan’s tax burden isn’t oppressive either. Yes, but let's be clear: It's not 27 USD / month per capita. I live in Denmark with public heathcare, it's not horrible, bu
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by jopsen 3y ago
> Per given amount of energy generation, renewables are requiring employing more people, I don't really see that claimed backed by sources. But short-term, yes probably, it'll take a lot of work install renewable energy sources
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by jopsen 3y ago
> Taiwan, there is a first-class healthcare system that has national single-payer insurance for all residents (only $27/mo!!) How? At 27 USD/month/person, are you sure you're not failing to account for taxes and other
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by jopsen 3y ago
> at the same time GDP is real and it does matter. At least such a huge difference will have practical effects. Can we fund our welfare systems without growth? (Just imagine what we could do, if the budget was 2x)
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by jopsen 3y ago
Whether something is breaking or not can be subjective. You can change the behavior of an API in breaking ways without changing the interface. There are so many edge cases.
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by jopsen 3y ago
Why not start by supporting webauthn (Yubikeys)? How come all online VISA transactions don't have to completed through a redirect to visa.com or master.com (or may bank website), but instead we're typing card numbers into sketchy
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by jopsen 3y ago
Maybe one day we can have: <!doctype html/> :)
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by jopsen 3y ago
What is the downside to implants? Just curious.
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by jopsen 3y ago
> Not sure it's economical, Or environmentally sustainable? A solar panel has life-span of 25-30 years, will you be utilizing that? or are you just creating more waste? If you wanted to protect the environment, it's probably be
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by jopsen 3y ago
> I predict entire vehicles will be scrapped long before an equivalent ICE model would be. That's a easy prediction today with so many early EV models on the road. As the technology matures so will the life-span.
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by jopsen 4y ago
> How many hours of shop time are you willing to pay for with no guarantee of a solution, and very few (if any) parts replaced? Imagine opening a computer software support business where you bring in your old proprietary binary programs
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by jopsen 4y ago
How do potential customers find your specialized shop? Most people will give up, stop researching and buy a new car when the dealer tells them it can't be fixed.
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by jopsen 4y ago
But if you can pull out the steel beams without all the concrete, melting it will be a lot cheaper. Imagine grinding up a bridge or tunnel and trying melt all the steel out of the concrete. That sounds expensive.
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by jopsen 4y ago
Imagine if votes were weighted by life experience I guess that would sort of even things out :D
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by jopsen 4y ago
> we need to depopulate the billionaires and with the freed up wealth You don't free up wealth that way, more likely you destroy it.
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by jopsen 4y ago
If the objective was not spend on design software, why not use latex?
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by jopsen 4y ago
I live in Denmark, got 15 year mortgage at 0.5% (1% including fees).. But the variable mortgages are a bit sketchy, they could very well be a bomb under housing market -- and could cause prices to collapse.
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by jopsen 4y ago
I also wish we could call it the "master" branch, renaming the primary branch to "main" is just pointless. But it's simply less risky and less work to just call it "main". It doesn't matter, and nobod
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by jopsen 4y ago
> it seems obvious from the behavior of China's government that they know it is a lab leak. I don't think anyone in China knows what happened. It seems entirely likely that it was covered up at multiple levels until it couldn&#
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by jopsen 4y ago
> However, only advertising "usable size" is truthful, everything else is misleading. Sadly, this is extremely common for smartphones. 64 GB iphone, who knows what usable storage it has? > It is sad that the legal system tol
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by jopsen 4y ago
I think it's also fine to just say no when people ask for an escape hatch. Say, no and tell them use another tool. Not every tool, has to solve all problems. But I do think people should spend more time articulating what their tools do

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