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by md_ 5y ago
Entirely possible, but defaults tend to be higher when debt is in a currency that cannot be debased, for somewhat obvious reasons.
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by md_ 5y ago
I’m confused. If you mean public debt, doesn’t central banking free the public from meeting debt obligations when those obligations are denominated in the national currency? Countries can and do issue public debt in other currencies. If w
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by md_ 5y ago
What really gets me is how, in narrative fiction, the author knows what's going to happen in the plot at the very beginning, but they only gradually reveal it to the reader throughout the story.
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by md_ 5y ago
She was charged with defrauding patients and acquitted of those charges!
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by md_ 5y ago
Definitely this. For many (though certainly not all) of the investors victimized by Holmes, I'm not terribly sympathetic. As implied by "qualified investor", if you write such a big check, it's sort of up to you to do th
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by md_ 5y ago
This might be overly handwavy of me, but I struggle to see a scenario where a rationale Elizabeth Holmes thinks the expected value of what she did is positive if the standard sentence is 10 years, but thinks it's negative if the senten
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by md_ 5y ago
I don’t mean to be stupid, but what’s the manifesto? All I get on this page is a form to sign the manifesto. The actual manifesto is…what?
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by md_ 5y ago
On average the US has higher prices than most EU countries: https://data.oecd.org/price/price-level-indices.htm . This is also true if you look at average prices vs average income (though that’s a really crude metric):
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by md_ 5y ago
The entire premise of up- and down-voting is that some comments are more valuable _to read_ than others. “Let’s just have a debate” isn’t really a fair criticism; we can’t afford to debate everything, so ultimately there’s going to be a pre
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by md_ 5y ago
Martin Monti is somewhat well-known for exploring similar cases: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5741595/ . While it seems highly likely that at least some “minimally conscious” patients do, in fa
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by md_ 5y ago
> Best estimates of IFR for SARS-CoV2 by age indicate a risk of approximately 0.004% for those under age 34 Yet broken down more narrowly, the same paper suggests 0.01% for 25 year olds, which would seem to still strongly support vaccina
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by md_ 5y ago
> Also, you don't understand the meaning of CFR Friend, you don't know what I don't understand. :) Maybe in the future try something like, "In case you aren't aware..." or "You may already know this, bu
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by md_ 5y ago
I think it's understandable, but not necessarily accurate. First, in the US, seasonal flu vaccines are used by >50% of the population ( https://www.cdc.gov/flu/fluvaxview/coverage-2021estimates.ht... ). Yes,
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by md_ 5y ago
> This is a dumb policy. Covid presents essentially no risk to young people. We also now know that the risk of myocarditis to young men from vaccination exceeds the risk of same from the virus itself: You're the second person here t
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by md_ 5y ago
But...doesn't covid infection entail all kinds of other potential risks aside from myocarditis? Looking only at one particular risk--which is extraordinarily rare for both covid and vaccine subjects--and ignoring the risk the vaccine p
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by md_ 5y ago
This is an excellent analysis, and I wish we saw more of these comparisons. The status quo (which differs by country!) for compulsory or somewhat-compulsory vaccination provides a great benchmark for what's seemingly "reasonable.&
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by md_ 5y ago
Sure, I'm with you, but this is pretty par for the course on incident comms.
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by md_ 5y ago
I have not checked 1Password's math--they just come up in the results for "PBKDF2 cost of brute forcing". ;) But yes, it matches my intuition--brute forcing human-strength keys is surprisingly cheap. (And I don't know if
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by md_ 5y ago
> There exists no computer system than can crack an AES256 encrypted document. The weaknesses are in the protocol. Well, or in the human-chosen passphrase. There are plenty of systems that can brute force an 8-character alphanumeric pass
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by md_ 5y ago
It's easy for me to imagine how you get here. - Eng are still writing the postmortem - Marketing want to put out a statement - Eng know or suspect a bug exists that can trigger spurious notifications, but don't have sufficient log
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by md_ 5y ago
Sure, if you want to put it that way. Presumably they've got some prior experience with archaeology if they're able to say that this isn't it.
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by md_ 5y ago
Genuinely curious: what's your background with archaeology? I assume you're pretty well-versed to make such a criticism?
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by md_ 5y ago
"Dog whistling" implies subtlety. Black Panther...was a good movie? And people liked it? I'm a little confused about your "in the media" comment--wouldn't the box office receipts represent, you know, what the m
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by md_ 5y ago
> If you have the hash and algorithm used to generate it of a human generated password you can in the vast majority of cases get the password. I mean, technically this is true, but it's also true if you have the ciphertext of the st
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by md_ 5y ago
I can't parse this. Is your point that "closed source" is a synonym for "insecure"?
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by md_ 5y ago
Cool. From what I find online, it seems like PoE and SFP (with the X-SFP) are both supported? Any experience with those?
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by md_ 5y ago
Apparently can also run OpenWRT, though I haven't tried and it's not clear to me if everything is well-supported.
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by md_ 5y ago
Yeah, I think this is what freaked everyone out, but it's pretty clear the intention of on-device scanning was that it would work even if they had client-side encryption of photos before upload . The whole point of the protocol (as des
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by md_ 5y ago
As does Dropbox, Aol, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, etc, etc. Whether this is good or bad is a topic for fair debate, I think, but it continues to astound me both how little people are aware of this and that, in comparison, Apple's relat
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by md_ 5y ago
I think that's just imprecision on the part of noted tech news outlet CBS. Apple clearly documented that this was only for iCloud uploaded photos, and indeed the technical description makes clear that this is only designed to work with

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