miked85

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601.
Computers Can Be Understood(blog.nelhage.com)
170 points by miked85 7y ago|57 comments
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Mozilla Installs Scheduled Telemetry Task on Windows with Firefox 75(ghacks.net)
25 points by miked85 7y ago|4 comments
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Rare ozone hole is result of low temperatures in atmosphere(theguardian.com)
21 points by miked85 7y ago|0 comments
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by miked85 7y ago
> This means that by taking this loan and spending it on a payroll for next 2.5 months, the owner of the business in a month number 3 is in a worse position than the owner of the business would have been today if the owner were to simply
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by miked85 7y ago
This is false, the plan specifically targeted small businesses: https://www.sba.gov/page/coronavirus-covid-19-small-business...
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Luckin Coffee’s alleged fraud has some silver linings (and more bad news too)(techcrunch.com)
1 points by miked85 7y ago|0 comments
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by miked85 7y ago
Inaccurate title. "CamelCamelCamel Is Temporarily Not Tracking EU Amazon Pricing due to COVID-19" might be better.
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Sometimes We Get Lucky: Projectn95.org(cringely.com)
3 points by miked85 7y ago|0 comments
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by miked85 7y ago
> "Of course?" I hope you would at least consider the opinion of the physician treating you. Sure. But if I was dying, "of course" I would want to try something with even anecdotal evidence of efficacy.
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by miked85 7y ago
Give Bloomberg some time, they may see the upside to this.
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by miked85 7y ago
A fair amount of doctors tend to believe it is promising [1]. If I was in the hospital, of course I would want to take it regardless of how anecdotal the evidence is. [1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/a
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China Is Reopening Its Wet Markets. That's Good(bloomberg.com)
2 points by miked85 7y ago|2 comments
613.
by miked85 7y ago
Not FDA approved, and even by their own documentation has a degree of error (The validation data for the kits we use at RootMD demonstrate a 95% sensitivity (true positive) and a 91% specificity (true negative) rate.), yet they state: &quot
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by miked85 7y ago
You don't understand why ignoring news during the biggest global pandemic in a century might not be wise?
615.
by miked85 7y ago
There can definitely be information overload. But ignoring everything is not good either.
616.
by miked85 7y ago
How is ignoring a major event like this in any way good?
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by miked85 7y ago
absolutely - I was asking why a poor encryption scheme would be considered acceptable just because the data is compressed.
618.
by miked85 7y ago
If the encryption scheme is poor, why would the data being compressed or not matter?
619.
by miked85 7y ago
I would. By that time, it should have been very apparent that human-to-human transmission was a certainty.
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by miked85 7y ago
> It's the fault of those in charge. While that can never be discounted, we also need to factor in disinformation from both China and WHO as late as mid-January [1] [1] https://twitter.com/who/status/121704
621.
by miked85 7y ago
1. portability, you are not locked into a provider like gmail 2. especially for businesses, it comes off as unprofessional if you are using gmail, yahoo, etc as your contact address
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D-Wave makes quantum computers free to anyone working on the coronavirus crisis(venturebeat.com)
2 points by miked85 7y ago|0 comments
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by miked85 7y ago
It always seems odd to me when owners of a domain don't use their own domain for email.
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Firefox 76 will have option to enforce HTTPS-only connections(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
2 points by miked85 7y ago|0 comments
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Smartphone data reveal which Americans are social distancing (and not)(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by miked85 7y ago|0 comments
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A new way to watch Netflix together(netflixparty.com)
2 points by miked85 7y ago|0 comments
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by miked85 7y ago
In retrospect sure, but as late as mid-January the WHO was saying there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission [1]. [1] https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?ref_src=t...
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Japanese flu drug appears effective in coronavirus treatment in clinical trials(techcrunch.com)
11 points by miked85 7y ago|0 comments
629.
by miked85 7y ago
I am curious what would you call 9/11 then?
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by miked85 7y ago
Why do you put "terrorism" in quotes? It was/is most definitely a real thing.

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