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by keanzu 7y ago
> cannot really get with an float-assist device, is putting their face in the water. We used kickboards for this exact purpose. So you can float face down with arms outstretched holding the board. You can transition to freestyle swimming
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by keanzu 7y ago
A healthy respect for pools is an excellent idea. There are few activities a child might reasonably engage in where it could go so wrong it might end up in their death. Swimming is one.
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by keanzu 7y ago
You wouldn't sue yourself as the parent/guardian of the child - you look around for someone, anyone to blame. When I took a 5yo to a pool which had multiple lifeguards I put her in a lifejacket and stayed within arm's reach o
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by keanzu 7y ago
On at least one example I heard constant frequency splashing - it was the drowning person, they were going under and coming up rhythmically so the sound was helpful.
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by keanzu 7y ago
The videos are on Youtube, you can click the Youtube logo in the bottom right and gain full control. The site has an overlay where you can click on the drowning person and find out if you were correct. Hence the other controls are hidden.
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by keanzu 7y ago
Exactly, seems a bit late. Hasn't serious injury already occurred by the time a person is motionless on the bottom of the pool?
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by keanzu 7y ago
Those are toys that are fun to play with for people who can swim fine. The problem is when non-swimmers use them as boats. They are not safety devices. Without the rings non-swimmers couldn't get into trouble but swimmers have less fun
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by keanzu 7y ago
I've had severe cramps in my legs/feet many times in deep ocean water with no-one around. If you drown from a foot cramp you are not a strong swimmer.
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by keanzu 7y ago
It's 12 years apparently https://conservativehardliner.com/sites/default/files/styles...
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by keanzu 7y ago
Ah, so there we have it. The definition of problematic is: Problematic for Twitter's brand.
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by keanzu 7y ago
I misread this as "bias" rather than bios. I must be predisposed to associate the words "Reporter" and "bias".
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by keanzu 7y ago
Problematic lies in the eye of the beholder.
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by keanzu 7y ago
Antifragile: "Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. Yet, in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no
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by keanzu 7y ago
The fatality per mile rate is also wildly lower for commercial flight, so driving instead of flying is 750x [1] more likely to result in you never making it to your destination. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpo
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by keanzu 7y ago
Apparently yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
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by keanzu 7y ago
"Unfortunately, data breaches are part of life in the 21st century," Tor Ekeland, an attorney for Clearview, told The Daily Beast.
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Secretive face-matching startup has customer list stolen(arstechnica.com)
1 points by keanzu 7y ago|1 comments
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by keanzu 7y ago
Sometimes even the most minor tweaks can have massive unanticipated consequences. Just as an example, even something as small as switching to a type of lawn grass that was lighter or darker to cover 1% of Earth’s surface, so that it reflec
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YouTube: Climate Change Mitigation: Near Term Solutions 27m34s (Isaac Arthur)(youtube.com)
1 points by keanzu 7y ago|1 comments
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by keanzu 7y ago
Lions led by donkeys is a phenomenon that's been around at least since WWI.
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by keanzu 7y ago
> You may or may not know this I didn't, but they do, surprising! https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/tao-the-...
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by keanzu 7y ago
> Where is this meme that RDBMSs do not scale coming from? They don't scale to Google or Facebook operational sizes. Once you get to a billion customers or so the ol' RDBMS tends to struggle. Because everyone wants to be Google
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by keanzu 7y ago
To verify whether or not a provider keeps logs subpoenas are the gold standard, there's also audits. https://www.techspot.com/news/82259-keeping-private-5-vpns-h...
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by keanzu 7y ago
Subpoenas are the gold standard. There's also audits. https://www.techspot.com/news/82259-keeping-private-5-vpns-h...
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by keanzu 7y ago
No log DoH. The problems here are solved by the same solution that VPNs use. A VPN is a central point of failure, if their logs fall into the wrong hands or are misused they fail their mission. That's why many VPNs don't keep logs
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by keanzu 7y ago
Change "VPN" to "no log VPN" and the problem is solved. Conveniently the most popular VPNs are no log. It isn't a free lunch though, these are paid services.
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by keanzu 7y ago
There's no way to know for sure. If it was clearly illegal and Facebook's lawyers thought they were going to lose they'd settle with the IRS. If it clearly wasn't illegal the IRS wouldn't pursue the case. The courts
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by keanzu 7y ago
For mac users: gcc -Wno-all -arch i386 -o c4 c4.c https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8560127 You can compile it on 64 bit OS X with clang's -m32 option and it should work. https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by keanzu 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558822
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YouTube: Scientists May Have Found a Way to Treat All Cancers, by Accident (MR1)(youtube.com)
6 points by keanzu 7y ago|0 comments

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