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by penagwin 7y ago
It looks to be a form of TMS which has already shown a lot of promise for several mental disorders. I wasn't able to look at what they changed specifically, but TMS itself is rather safe.
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by penagwin 7y ago
If you're the patient, and the doctor says "I'm sorry but we have no more ventilators. You can elect to choose this experimental device and sign away liability as a last resort. Otherwise you are going to almost certainly die
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by penagwin 7y ago
This might be one of those scenerios similar to what's currently happening with PPE - where we just have to use uncertified equipment because we have nothing that is certified left. Like many others have pointed out, if the option is t
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by penagwin 7y ago
I mean once we account for all the different types of DNS records - regardless of its original intent, isn't it essentially just a networked, hierarchical key store? For example the TXT field is "dns". This project is still d
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by penagwin 7y ago
Somebody should write this down!
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by penagwin 7y ago
Wait webrtc uses udp? Is this new? I thought there was no way to send udp packets through client side Javascript?
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by penagwin 7y ago
While this is a possible scenario- in my experience most people know to call multiple times - especially if they know that the recipient won’t recognize the number. I don’t usually answer my phone from unknown numbers, but when I get three
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by penagwin 7y ago
I’d join in too
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by penagwin 7y ago
If the original is now public domain and the replica is not advertised as the original, I'm not sure what the ethical issue is? I do see a financial issue though, cheap clones are CHEAP - and if you want something that can nearly pass
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by penagwin 7y ago
As a potential counter point - pandemics are generally rare. And are hard to test at airports for until it's too late. Also you can't test for every disease, especially new ones. The best you could do is a several week quarantine
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by penagwin 7y ago
Thanks for sharing what you could! Stay safe!
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by penagwin 7y ago
There's not a single person who would agree that the US president is handling this well - For purposes of discussion of COVID19 it's best to just ignore him (I mean this respectfully but seriously).
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by penagwin 7y ago
Yeah I'm not sure that's a good idea. I can only imagine it would cost millions to retool for ventilators - especially if you start just cranking it inventory. Before you do that you want to make darn sure that they're actual
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by penagwin 7y ago
Well there's an integrated GPU sure - it does 'technically have a real gpu'. But there no options for CUDA applications, and no options for similar applications on the AMD side. Depending on your use case, the iGPU might not
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by penagwin 7y ago
Until the ISPs decide that all freelancers and any VPN are "business use" and then the legislators don't do anything about it.
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by penagwin 7y ago
I feel like our brains are like flexible a ASIC. They're mostly preprogrammed but do have some flexibility (neuro-plasticity). I'm not under the impression that we could easily train the brain to follow some different, very specif
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by penagwin 7y ago
Well like the others said, bokeh != Depth of field. That said even if you removed all depth of field (everything is in focus somehow) it would still be missed. Depth of field is incredibly important for managing a viewers focus. Imagine a p
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by penagwin 7y ago
> This seems like a week of pay for a pretty good software dev. Wait, 6500 * 4 * 12 = 312,000/yr Might be a bit high for a week :P EDIT: Okay turns out that if you live in the Bay area this isn't unheard of - the rest of us mak
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by penagwin 7y ago
Hehe that feels like itd be a good xkcd comic - “sorry your pin can’t be used because it’s a mersenne prime”, "sorry this is the first 4 digits of Tau", etc.
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by penagwin 7y ago
> Which is exactly why everyone with those symptoms needs to be tested. This. I'm in my twenties so it's very possible for me to get COVID and only experience cold like symptoms (or less!). I'm sorry to everyone, but I won
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by penagwin 7y ago
IMO the only reason we aren't reporting large numbers of new cases is because of the lack of widespread testing currently being done compared to other countries at this moment (other countries are performing magnitudes higher tests a
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by penagwin 7y ago
It's a conversation that sometimes comes up with universal healthcare, for example (I'm not taking a stance here) - "Is it worth spending $$$$ tax payer money on an operation with a 20% success rate on 95 year old who also ha
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by penagwin 7y ago
Not sure about "death panels" specifically, but like was mentioned, this is called "triage". Basically we don't have resources to help everyone. The resources we do have need to be strategically used, spreading them
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by penagwin 7y ago
Fair enough, that's a good point. Now that you mention it, a bot-oriented twitter clone might be interesting...
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by penagwin 7y ago
> I'd be reluctant to use their API's. I'm not sure what you mean - what choice do you have? You're either building a twitter bot, or you aren't and it doesn't matter? Also this isn't much (if any?) of
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by penagwin 7y ago
But those young people interact with old people. We're partially using herd immunity to protect the older folks. At some point they'll need groceries or some other form of care - and cannot maintain sufficient isolation for what y
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by penagwin 7y ago
IMO the biggest problem is people "feel safe" with a mask on, they may not take other precautions. Also my understanding is that a N95 mask that isn't properly worn (doesn't have a good seal) then it's nearly equiva
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by penagwin 7y ago
These types of devices have existed for a while with a dish at least. You're right, at this frequency you need LOS and there's little forgiveness there. Current products don't really intend (to my knowledge) for you to connec
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by penagwin 7y ago
This has been mentioned many times about [insert large news website here] about how they're article talks about why tracking is bad yet the article is on a website with paywalls, anti-ad blockers, tracking etc. The reason is the same:
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by penagwin 7y ago
Id also be interested in a blog or any basic tips/examples! I totally understand you don't want to give too much away, but I'm sure HN would love to see it!

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