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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
As long as none of the participants previously took another vaccine, it won’t matter. What they are reading is relative (to the control group) rates.
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
HSA has nothing to do with the quality of the insurance plan btw. HSAs are only available in conjunction with HDHP (High Deductible Health Plan). Typically, HDHPs are Bronze level plans that don’t provide a good coverage (which is why HSAs
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
When I’m able to shift my schedule a couple of hours earlier, I feel happier. Not sure why - maybe because this way I have some free time before kicking off my day and never feel I’m late at the start of the day.
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
This case seems different. Because of the tech involved, I’d wager (speculatively) cops didn’t care about the content of the article. What mattered is the technical detail like the IP which has nothing to do with intellectual interest in th
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
Quite the opposite. The HN crowd is very privacy-conscientious.
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
Personal, outsider take: it’s unlikely that US businesses will start spending sufficiently on cybersecurity, because it’s difficult to show ROI on this. The government is correct on treating this as a high priority.
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
NY Times article on the same topic: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/p...
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
I think you got "gold" and "currency" mixed up. Gold is not supposed to be cheap/free to exchange. It is a property of a currency.
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
It’s intense but not hilarious
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
I suppose it wasn’t obvious in 1996, even to someone like Bill Gates, that mobile telecommunications and the “pocket PC” would become intertwined and the former would drive the adoption of the later.
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
As someone who was in the past a salesperson, I don't see how data-hungry digital advertisement is fundamentally different from old and tried sales methods. Salespeople would kill to know as much as possible about their prospects inclu
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
To folks that are complaining of being manipulated, I always felt that if you can be coerced into impulse-buying something voluntarily, and then regretting the purchase, there is probably not anyone to blame but yourself. Putting aside the
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
This is clearly a chicken and an egg problem. You can’t have stability until crypto is used in the mainstream and has a much greater mass overall, so that short-term speculations don’t result in massive volatility.
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
I think ppl who dismiss crypto as having no social benefit don’t really get the decentralization benefit w.r.t. trust. Crypto is objectively inefficient and full of scam right now, but the fact that you can exchange value over the Internet,
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Difficult Questions About Freemasonry (2001)(web.mit.edu)
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
This doesn’t seem fair. Sure, Shell is the largest emitter, but what about other emitters? We need a carbon tax that would distribute the responsibility evenly.
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
> That... what autopilot does. Actually not true. From their website [0]: “Autopilot and Full Self-Driving Capability are intended for use with a fully attentive driver, who has their hands on the wheel and is prepared to take over at an
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
Using a good library is not enough. For a simple example, try setting “height: 100vh;” on the body, and then open the page on an iPhone. You may be surprised that the height of the body does not fit into the screen and a scroll appears (I w
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
> releasing worldwide pandemics from laboratories... Just curious, do you have some links to back this up? Seems like a far fetched hypothesis to me.
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
Not anonymous if you give your PII to create accounts on the web.
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
The GH issue is interesting. Suppose each user belongs to two flocks, and each website gets randomly shown one of the two. Will this solve the problem? I’d imagine the number of possibilities after a certain while will make it impossible th
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
Taxing unrealized gains doesn’t make any sense. Many people would end up forced to sell part of their equity to afford paying tax on the gains.
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
Mind to elaborate what kind of loopholes you’re talking about?
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
From my understanding, if someone were to do this IRL, and the autopilot disengaged in the middle of the ride, then the occupants are fucked because there is no way to force the autopilot to engage. I wonder if this has caused crashes alrea
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by poundofshrimp 5y ago
How are hierarchy of power and phycological safety related? Obviously, speaking up != your opinion is always upheld. The point made is that a culture that encourages speaking up makes for a better functioning team. It doesn’t change the rea
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by poundofshrimp 6y ago
Increased power increases security of the Bitcoin network because it makes a potential 51% attack more expensive.
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by poundofshrimp 6y ago
If you mean the hashing will stop - it won’t, because that’s how the system is secured. The creation of new bitcoins is irrelevant as far as energy use goes.
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by poundofshrimp 6y ago
It is. The source must have reported the convo.
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by poundofshrimp 6y ago
I’m curious to see if existing regulation in this regard has been effective. I know there is HIPAA, but does it actually reduce data leaks in the Health Care field?
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by poundofshrimp 6y ago
Bitcoin would be clearly a better choice. Yes, you don’t need a subpoena to view the ledger, but the ledger doesn’t necessarily provide a way to identify you.

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