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by mcphilip 7y ago
The rate is hard to determine since it’s per state. There have been many reports of online systems going down and phone queues being insanely long: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/business/coronavirus
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by mcphilip 7y ago
If you’re in the mood for some more punishing difficulty that’s still fast paced, definitely give Spelunky HD a try! It’s a classic for a reason. I finally started playing it recently and am hooked. I’m still working on the zero gold run
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by mcphilip 7y ago
Reuters reporting employees showing up at work today: https://twitter.com/deitaone/status/1240287646825558016?s=21
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by mcphilip 7y ago
I think there will be some pent up demand, but some parts of the economy don’t benefit from that —e.g. I’m not going to buy more lattes when things return to normal, I will just go back to my daily fix.
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by mcphilip 7y ago
Interesting that S&P futures have fallen 3% as of 5:00pm in Asia. Are markets interpreting this less as the Fed signaling it will do whatever it takes and more as the Fed is panicked and the financial system is under a huge amount of p
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by mcphilip 7y ago
Mixed feelings on this one. Suggesting readers could “pay a visit” to the doctor isn’t cool, but is it really doxing if the info is publicly posted? Regardless, I’ve followed ZH on twitter since the beginning back in the financial crisis w
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by mcphilip 7y ago
-A massive electronic medical records breach due to a security misconfiguration in the cloud gets posted on the dark net and reignites conversations around privacy and flaws in HIPAA regulations. -The AI job market dramatically shrinks due
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by mcphilip 7y ago
Anecdotally, on both mobile and desktop I’m able to hit the X button on Chrome after the content loads but before the paywall shows and read the entire article.
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by mcphilip 9y ago
> My hunch is that the Facebook crawlers send user-agent strings that Facebook has seen in requests to their own services. This allows them to crawl content in linked posts masquerading as a device that their users would actually use. Ve
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by mcphilip 9y ago
This is just an op-ed
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by mcphilip 9y ago
The volatility aspect attracts more and more quants when compared to the death of volatility in the US equities markets. Or so I’ve been told by friends in a quant lab...
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by mcphilip 9y ago
https://www.fundable.com/lucabe-coffee-co ~37k raised from this campaign
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by mcphilip 9y ago
>Fucking heartbreaking for me, but whoever he'd turned into seemed at peace and satisfied with life for almost all of that time. I've witnessed the flip side of this: a grandparent with a hard life plagued by worry amplified by
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by mcphilip 9y ago
>I would likely consider suicide, and I don't know whether that makes me weak or silly... Up till the end of his life after suffering from early onset Alzheimer's, Terry Pratchett argued that such an option is certainly not wea
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by mcphilip 9y ago
Buzzfeed has some surprisingly good long form pieces. A recent one discusses in detail what's going on in Myanmar[1]. I found it interesting, but depressing. The cesspool of fake news, Trump gossip, etc, turning into hot topics amongst
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by mcphilip 9y ago
I found the shaman's perspective fascinating from an evolutionary psychological point of view. Cultures have had to decide how to treat the mentally ill long before science was around to try and explain it. The shaman's perspecti
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by mcphilip 10y ago
I work at a top 10 EMR on the interface engine team. Messages between products require a lot of custom work to align message types and IDs, establishing a compendium of identifiers for external labs and identifiers, but it's not uncom
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by mcphilip 10y ago
>Rather than trying to find a system that could be universalized, the (idiotic) plan has been to give millions of dollars to multiple corporations to develop systems, then subsidize the purchase cost to providers to encourage adoption. T
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by mcphilip 10y ago
I work in the healthcare industry and there's a big push from AWS into offering HIPAA compliant services for things like patient records. It's becoming much more common to tie in third party services into electronic healthcare so
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by mcphilip 10y ago
A doctor's office that's unable to process patients due to the outage: https://mobile.twitter.com/drjincali/status/8366578638879989...
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by mcphilip 10y ago
>Why is Cloudflare underplaying the issue? I suspect the random nature of the overflow plaintext spewed out into caches will be difficult to leverage into a statistically significant attack against any particular customer. If CF's
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by mcphilip 10y ago
CF should be clear in its response that working with third parties such as google to clear cached responses with overflow data is an ongoing process and that other parties may have cached responses that CF has no control over.
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by mcphilip 10y ago
Indeed, this is the point in the comment thread where you get the feeling the internet is broken.
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by mcphilip 10y ago
The article seems to posit that Facebook is structured in a way to much more quickly implement advances in the field into production than Microsoft. Microsoft attracted a lot of talent in the area but said talent gravitates towards whichev
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by mcphilip 10y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, but calling out cocaine usage at a private all hands party in Vegas seems tabloidish to me, too, but it's buried far enough below the fold that I don't think it had much to do with clicks.
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by mcphilip 10y ago
Back in 1993 when this was released, in the pre gamefaqs era, I found a glitch where pausing the game while transitioning to then next screen would warp you all the way to the same position on the next screen. E.g. Leave screen on the lef
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by mcphilip 10y ago
Some outsource the problem: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/
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by mcphilip 10y ago
No joke, just finished watching HyperNormalisation[1]. The most depressing part to me is that Adam Curtis isn't off on an easily dismissed tangent in this documentary, he's essentially cross cut the last 40 years into a 3 hour cli
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by mcphilip 10y ago
Depends on the skill level of the grader, I suppose, but phrases like "postsemantic nationalism" are a red flag to me as an armchair philosopher with some knowledge of the history of postmodernist thought.
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by mcphilip 10y ago
A long, but good read if you have 30 minutes to spare. There's an interesting bit of context at the end of the post that put the whole thing in a new light, for me[1]. The careless presentation of misinformation has very real impact

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