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by mightybyte 4y ago
They had a full report from the urgent care clinic including x-ray and blood test results. They added precisely zero value. It was a completely inexcusable failure of triage, solely to extract money. I paid the $200 or so on-site, and ev
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by mightybyte 4y ago
I'm also really hopeful for this. A couple years ago I had a potentially serious injury and the local urgent care clinic said I needed a trauma center. The message got lost in translation and I ended up at a Northwell Health hospital
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by mightybyte 4y ago
Passwords, credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc are old outdated technology that can't go away fast enough. They're unfixably insecure...identifying yourself to someone by giving your secret identifying information t
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by mightybyte 4y ago
> They have extremely impressive prices, but I've always been hesitant to use them for anything important because they've historically been known for very aggressively shutting down your service if their automated systems detec
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by mightybyte 4y ago
> Having a web3 startup is just as inane as having a mongodb startup. Those technologies don‘t make anything possible that wasn‘t possible before. This is not true. The blockchain was/is a genuine technicalogical advance. It makes
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by mightybyte 4y ago
Yep. I say that because I was very recently looking into the network latency for computers on the other side of the world. I ran the same theoretical calculation of circumference of the earth divided by the speed of light and measured pin
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by mightybyte 4y ago
That line actually made me think the whole thing was satire for a bit. I actually came back to the HN comments to see if people here were taking the article seriously.
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by mightybyte 4y ago
I was contemplating surgery years ago because the first doctor I went to said if I wanted to get back to the way I was before the injury I had to have surgery. Thankfully the second doctor I went to said, "You can get surgery if you w
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by mightybyte 4y ago
> I don't say this to be discouraging but personally I've never found that "just do this one thing you're not doing" will make a dramatic difference aside from getting better at doing that thing. Oh, I definitely
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by mightybyte 4y ago
Here's a fantastic talk that describes a way to structure one's approach to this explore/exploit tradeoff that draws on research in areas like search algorithms, cognitive science, etc. https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by mightybyte 4y ago
Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41721428-can-t-hurt-me ) Also see my sibling comment above.
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by mightybyte 4y ago
I heard someone say once that one of the best things that helped them develop a growth mindset was lifting weights. Consistently doing 3x5 heavy squats, deadlifts, and presses just three days per week will make a visible change in most peo
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by mightybyte 4y ago
I was home schooled K-7 (skipped 8th grade). The flexibility was great and allowed me to start taking college level computer programming courses when I was 10 years old. I think I came out of it reasonably socially adjusted. I have two r
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by mightybyte 4y ago
> Using emacs seems to me to be an exercise in remembering, whereas using vim is more an exercise in thinking. This. This right here is one of the best characterizations of the vim/emacs debate that I have ever heard.
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by mightybyte 4y ago
> Now, over ten trillion new titles hit the shelves every month in Young Adult fiction alone. Say what? Ten trillion ? That doesn't strike me as plausible. Which raises the question...what is the correct number? Ten billion new
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by mightybyte 4y ago
Kadena | Several Roles | Anywhere | 100% Remote | Full Time Kadena is hiring for a number of roles including Haskell Developer, Technical Writer, and Graphic Designer. You can see some of these roles here: https://angel.co/
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by mightybyte 4y ago
One thing about what you wrote jumped out at me. You say "I love building and working - always have, always will." and "I'm forever building my own side projects as I love it." But then later you say "I can&#
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by mightybyte 4y ago
There is still some trust hidden away in step 10 that you didn't call out, which is that you're trusting the software wallet. The software wallet that you use to create the transaction could under the hood create a different tran
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by mightybyte 4y ago
You can use casino grade dice which are translucent specifically for this reason. And on top of that you can also test them yourself to verify.
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by mightybyte 4y ago
As soon as I heard about this formulation back in 2012 or so I concluded that this particular structure was going to be foundational in Haskell and potentially the broader (purely) functional programming world. I agree with your intuition
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by mightybyte 4y ago
In addition to the FDIC backstop mentioned by some of the other responding comments, there's also another significant factor here which is that the U.S. banking system is ultimately backed by the strength of the U.S. military. I think
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by mightybyte 4y ago
In my experience with larger applications no matter what CSS framework you use you eventually want to ditch it and move to fully custom CSS. Starting with this kind of a clean HTML base makes that easier IMO.
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by mightybyte 4y ago
Completely agree with you. I greatly prefer something like PicoCSS ( https://picocss.com/ ) which tries to use plain HTML5 as much as possible.
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by mightybyte 4y ago
Thinking carefully about loss scenarios is really important, so you're thinking about the right things. I used to have my SSH key on a Yubikey for awhile and now I have it in my MacBook's secure enclave guarded by TouchID. In bo
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by mightybyte 4y ago
"A couple digressions. I have multi-dimensional empathy for my students. Is that a thing? It is. It means that I learn more from my students than they learn from me. There are more students than me, and they have so much more stuff goi
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by mightybyte 4y ago
I completely agree with this view. However, I think it's worth trying hard to give the students the benefit of the doubt and ask how cheating might be rational. In other words, flip the assumptions and ask why we would require them t
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by mightybyte 5y ago
1. Regularly (three days per week seems to be about right) lift heavy weights using whole-body movements (three sets of five reps of back squat, bench/shoulder press, and deadlift at near maximal weights for you is the ball park of wha
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by mightybyte 5y ago
The biggest thing that helped me lose weight was subscribing to a meal delivery service and sticking to it (drink water if you need to feel more full and avoid the desire to eat more). Outsourcing my food choices to someone else made it su
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by mightybyte 5y ago
Research suggests that happiness isn't quite that simple. It's not obvious which direction the causation arrow points. See for example this podcast on the topic: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/th
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by mightybyte 5y ago
Yep. If you can survive catastrophic loss (for some appropriate definition of survive), then insurance is always a losing proposition.

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