naewonawonga

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by naewonawonga 5y ago
Sounds like you're fetishizing credentials. WebMD is a terrible resource, and nobody here is suggesting otherwise. Doctors complete their CME eduction credits on sites like Medscape, which are 1) owned by WebMD 2) Are supported by d
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by naewonawonga 5y ago
A very significant portion of Doctors do not follow the latest research, but rather consume marketing materials produced by pharmaceutical manufacturers and advertising agencies which cherry pick the latest research to the maximum extent pe
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by naewonawonga 5y ago
Your understanding does not reflect the reality of the pharmacutical industry in its current form nor the Doctors that enable it.
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by naewonawonga 5y ago
Cybertruck is not real.
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by naewonawonga 6y ago
>> I live in Boston, where I think talking with your hands isn't particularly popular... What made you come to that conclusion, or are you spending all your time amongst a very particular subset of the Boston population?
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by naewonawonga 6y ago
>> What are "non-unix operating systems that don't happen to be made by Microsoft". It's a pretty big list. To name a few: Beos (and derivatives), AmigaOS (and derrivatives), GEOS, Commodore DOS, Temple OS, TRON, p
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by naewonawonga 6y ago
Metaphors and language are dynamic flexible things.
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by naewonawonga 6y ago
Sounds a bit provincial. That might have been true before mainstream internet access, but the average user these days is likely more familiar with unix style paths via URLs than local filesystem paths. Also, most non-unix operating systems
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by naewonawonga 6y ago
Do not trust the credibility of an article about drugs that conflates NDMA with MDMA.
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by naewonawonga 6y ago
I deeply regret that I only have one upvote to give.
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by naewonawonga 6y ago
>> But the people paying for the prison certainly do. That's quite a leap.
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by naewonawonga 6y ago
>> We don't target the hard core rower. Your marketing material suggests that one of the strengths of the platform is that it allows one to compete against professional athletes and Olympians. Which is it?
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by naewonawonga 6y ago
Prisons do not actually have rehabilitation as a meaningful incentivized goal.
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by naewonawonga 6y ago
>> Do that 10 more times on 10 different bridges, and I’ll be shocked if that happens even one more time. Likely it would happen another 8-10 times. Happens all the time, the bigger the bridge, the more likely.
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by naewonawonga 6y ago
>> Mission critical ML systems (G/FB ads, crime forensics, medical decision support, financial algorithms) do not work like this. Are you speaking from experience or from intuition?
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by naewonawonga 6y ago
Very important questions, deserving of an answer.
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by naewonawonga 6y ago
If there's no mechanism to bind those intentions to the intellectual property, what you're building is just another time bomb which will eventually detonate at the expense of your users.
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by naewonawonga 6y ago
It was an attempted coup. Words have meanings.
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by naewonawonga 6y ago
|| If you, dear HN reader, can't see the threat to your freedom in this then you are blind. Forcing a private corporation to provide a platform for someone else is also a form of tyrrany. || Oh, and to call that invasion of the capitol