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by mlac 5y ago
Strategically reducing the attack surface.
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by mlac 5y ago
> 10 full blood panel samples a year Also, because we haven’t done this at scale, we don’t know the true baseline for most people who may have something on the blood panel samples but never get tested because they are asymptomatic. So th
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by mlac 5y ago
They do recommend having two keys associated with the account. It’s not cheap, but you can pick up a USB-C small format one and leave it in your computer & get one for your key ring that does NFC / Bluetooth. One is always with you
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by mlac 5y ago
This is surprisingly hard for some people (including myself) to do. I make my work high quality, and I want to spend the time I have using things that are well designed and well thought out. In some small way I hope that seeing those things
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by mlac 5y ago
> There is also the other case where someone may go to the office 10 hours a day, punch some time on the weekends, claim they "worked" 60 hours, but in reality only got 4-5 hours worth of work done per day. They spend the other
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by mlac 5y ago
As long as you stumble forward with enough momentum, you’ll get there eventually. Even if you don’t, you’ll do so joyfully.
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by mlac 5y ago
The government will always have a monopoly on public schools, that are, by definition, publicly funded by the government.
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by mlac 5y ago
Statesmen saying “alcohol is legal, might as well legalize everything else that is less harmful on some dimension”. Where the alternative may be just leaving alcohol as an exception, or outlawing it (but yeah… don’t mess with Americans and
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by mlac 5y ago
And I think (hope) they will ship it.
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by mlac 5y ago
And the hundreds of hours of YouTube videos learning about tools and techniques to fix the house.
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by mlac 5y ago
Not op - but it’s all relative. And if it’s enough for you to go into the trance state then I would think that’s what matters…
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by mlac 5y ago
Everything you mentioned to provide a dignified life requires labor to produce. If you have enough people who don’t find building houses, studying medicine, researching, and farming to be what their life is about, then those resources becom
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by mlac 5y ago
Everyone works for someone else. You can work purely for yourself, but if you don’t have a customer you will starve. Even a solo company works for other people - it’s just that they can fire bad customers and it doesn’t take away their enti
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by mlac 5y ago
I’ve wondered how much real-world change it would lead to, given it may be co-opted or is already largely made up of people who don’t want to work.
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by mlac 5y ago
I use Tailscale to run pihole in the cloud on gcp as my DNS server. Pennies a day - $0.38 in January so far. This would definitely be free-tier level stuff, but for some reason they are charging me for it and it’s not worth my time to figur
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by mlac 5y ago
If the person can rick roll them, he can put up a YouTube video explaining they are compromised and with instructions on how to fix the vulnerability, and then play it.
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by mlac 5y ago
To someone burning out, “a)” is really not great. I get what you’re trying to say, but it comes across like “you suck or you wouldn’t be burning out”. People do succeed and burn out - it’s a pyrrhic victory. I usually find burnout can be ca
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by mlac 5y ago
You could set up Inoreader with a filter on it for COVID.
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by mlac 5y ago
Yeah. I’m not sure how an additional 3-4 years in an academic environment early in a career makes a difference in one’s leadership ability 20-30 years down then road. And humble PhDs realize their limitations, which is required for continue
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by mlac 5y ago
Industry is still moving from excel / spreadsheet modeling to tableau and python and alteryx in the workplace. Knowing python today is knowing excel 20 years ago. Most companies aren’t ready to do real data science, and the transition
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by mlac 5y ago
I wrote the above, but I think the problematic ones are the “text book MBAs” (I just coined that) who go to mediocre, money-grabbing programs and think they are good to go because they read text books and have the degree. There are too many
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by mlac 5y ago
You haven’t met good ones, and that’s likely why they were replaced.
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by mlac 5y ago
Good MBA programs have courses in linear programming and optimization, complex financial modeling, and supply chain that are quantitative in nature. There are also technology components that review basic IT setups for a business. They teach
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by mlac 5y ago
Public speaking, writing, networking, reading primary sources, and independence are all useful. I’ve met really good PhDs, and awful ones. Awful ones wanted respect because they had the PhD. Really good ones realized how much they didn’t kn
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by mlac 5y ago
Kind of. I feel like I normally feel when visiting my in-laws because they had a dog and I’m allergic to dogs. It’s hard to tell if these are COVID symptoms or allergies. I forgot to mention the reason I tested was a known contact. Otherwis
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by mlac 5y ago
Feeling almost completely asymptomatic with a positive test, wrecking multiple family holidays and trips (everyone I contacted now has to isolate), and sitting here not knowing if I should use the time I’m feeling OK to revise my will or if
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by mlac 5y ago
Thanks. I wrote my doctor about it and he basically said “you’re in as good a position as you can be, we need to save the monoclonal antibodies that work on omnicron for someone who will definitely need them”. I’m borderline high-risk based
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by mlac 5y ago
I… currently am isolating with COVID and don’t know how to feel. I was fortunate to get both Moderna shots and then get a booster in November. So far symptoms have been overwhelmingly mild (sore throat, allergies, mild cough, no impact to b
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by mlac 5y ago
> If you know anything about me, you know that I am extremely sensitive to user privacy issues. … should the recruiter know that much about them? And if they were that good, they should have stayed at the company and kept Google from goi
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by mlac 5y ago
It wasn’t about the mechanic telling me, it was about the car not starting anymore and the battery not taking any charge. And that’s why I asked - I honestly don’t know what steps are recommended to maintain a car battery (or if given the p

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