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by mfer 6y ago
"Zuckerbergian personal information hoarder/reseller" I'm going to have to remember that one. Ha.
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by mfer 6y ago
There are studies that show a mask is effective in protecting the wearer. The one I can immediately remember is https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2020/11/16/beaumont-...
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by mfer 6y ago
I wonder how this relates to the general spread of the disease in a region. Denmark has a much lower rate of spread than many places in the US. The article doesn't say when this was carried out. Was it when there were few active cases[
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by mfer 6y ago
> When companies just throw willy nilly money at big hunking shells like the CNCF it gates projects into this very corporatized world that is quite distinct from open source culture, and again damages open source. How does giving money t
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by mfer 6y ago
How does this help with information overload? It looks like a new channel of information to add to the existing flows. What am I missing? If it's reporters notes (like the site says) it means what consumers get isn't distilled int
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by mfer 6y ago
Notice, I didn't stay buying generic staplers. One of the things recently brought up is Amazon copying the designs of patented things (not generic). Then selling copies of the patented items. Drugs are going to be a different animal an
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by mfer 6y ago
Amazon has a history of taking patented designs, copying them, selling them for less with better visibility, and threatening patent holders. This is an element that speaks to the character of the organization. So, that makes me wonder... &g
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by mfer 6y ago
There is a lot to wonder about here like... Should people be comfortable with Amazon tracking their drug purchases alongside all the other tracking they do of them? How will Amazon use the tracking information from drug purchases? Amazon ha
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by mfer 6y ago
I've been reading some books on the medical industry and one of the things pointed out is that the price controls will often not provide enough profit to R&D new drugs. That the US ends up subsidizing a lot of R&D cost that eve
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by mfer 6y ago
Most people can’t drop google at any time. They can’t afford buying a new phone, buying a new computer (all those chrome book users), and everything else. Being able to transition off google has become a privilege that’s especially difficul
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by mfer 6y ago
It would also be interesting to see what it's like in countries with different news coverage styles. Fear is a tactic used in the US to keep eyes glued to new media.
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by mfer 6y ago
Industrial espionage is real. There are many companies who are concerned about this and take active steps to keep data secret who would likely not have approved zoom use if they'd known e2e encryption wasn't to the level they were
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by mfer 6y ago
There are people at the large tech companies who will not only push for a project to make a change they want (including doing all the coding work) but will sometimes get into the space of bullying to try and force someone to do the change f
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by mfer 6y ago
It would be great to see this written into something like a Godzilla film as a sleeping monsters heart beat.
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by mfer 6y ago
I grew up just minutes from GM proving grounds. A couple decades ago I was present when someone asked an executive why they don’t sell many EVs. His response was a lack of demand. At the time there really wasn’t much demand. EVs are still
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by mfer 6y ago
I'm in none of those zip codes and I've visited numerous places that were not there. Unfortunately, I could not find the large dog run on a map. I know where it is and the signs call it out if you are there. Different places have
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by mfer 6y ago
If you work remotely you can live all over Michigan. Not just SE Michigan. It depends what you're in to. I've know teleworkers who have been in the UP, the thumb, and every place in between. Depends on what you're interested
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by mfer 6y ago
I live in Michigan so I have a few thoughts about living there... If you love urban centers than Michigan might not be for you. There is Ann Arbor but it's a college town and not likely what you want. Michigan has over 10,000 lakes. Th
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by mfer 6y ago
An announcement on one does not mean announcements and cases aren't coming against the others. In the book, The Age Surveillance Capitalism, the case is made the Google is actually worse than FB but lesser known for many of the things
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by mfer 6y ago
Who will pay into a system like that? Part of the deal for Uber, Lyft, etc is to push off expenses into others. Auto maintenance and repairs is another example. Changing the system doesn’t deal with the funding. Uber, Lyft, and others are t
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by mfer 6y ago
Who gets to choose who gets pick the things amplified or not? In today's world these folks get to have a strong influence over how people are influenced. Handling this well is very important. If people misuse that position than they ca
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by mfer 6y ago
Is the source for waypoint.run open source? Can we run our own? I've not had a chance to dig for the source and it wasn't obvious when I skimmed the project.
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by mfer 6y ago
A big problem with this documentation is that it's not with the rest of the docs and isn't found in search on golang.org. The docs provide enough to make modules work but are far from excellent in terms of docs. These docs also hi
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by mfer 6y ago
I woke up one morning to find raccoons eating out of my dogs dish. They had broken in and trashed everything between that spot and the dogs food. The name seems fitting to me. They aren't just cute animals.
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by mfer 6y ago
If you print out the API docs for all the resources you might deal with for running apps at A4 (8.5 x 11) it comes in at over 1,000 pages. There is just so much and few really know it. A UI like this is useful to so many. It makes the expe
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by mfer 6y ago
I suspect some of this is news coverage and metrics. People tend to chase after what is measured. Most of the metrics are rates of people who get it and rates death. This is further broken down by region and demographic. So, we talk a lot a
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by mfer 6y ago
Or, might Chrome start censoring... If this is the Google policy they may want to bake that policy into the way Chrome operates.
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by mfer 6y ago
Where I live there is no bookstore with their web store within a close distance (it's greater than 30 minute drive). So, it's not an option. One bookstores within 30 minutes all have very limited selection essentially tied to thos
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by mfer 6y ago
https://bookshop.org/ is now an option to use instead of Amazon. It also raises money for local bookstores.
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by mfer 6y ago
One consequence is the accidental deletion of AWS things... If a CRD is deleted the CRs described it are also deleted. So, deleting a CRD (even accidentally) could end up deleting resources in AWS (e.g., backups). So, be careful. Some thing

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