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by rlt 6y ago
Huh, I feel like that’s something I’d remember learning. Did many other people here learn that?
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by rlt 6y ago
That’s a naive position to take. Hospitals employ actual people who need to access information from mobile devices, home, etc. They should, however, require those devices are locked down and connected via secure means.
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by rlt 6y ago
I assume/hope hospitals have contingency plans for if their network goes down? It would certainly make them less efficient and result in more errors, but hopefully they wouldn’t grind to a complete halt.
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by rlt 6y ago
It seems like “pride” should be reserved for things like acting ethically, being environmentally friendly, treating employees well, making a positive impact on the world. The platform you chose to build on is more of a business decision. On
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by rlt 6y ago
Will humans ever learn the law of unintended consequences?
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by rlt 6y ago
Break Out Another Thousand.
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by rlt 6y ago
Cryptocurrency seems like a natural fit. I’m half joking. It should be fairly easy to come up with a cryptographic scheme that allows centralized billing, though metered billing may be more challenging.
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by rlt 6y ago
It’s probably just a coincidence, but I find it interesting that one of Elon Musk’s companies (Tesla) has a huge demand for nickel and another one of Elon Musk’s companies (SpaceX) won a contract with NASA to explore 16 Psyche, an asteroid
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by rlt 6y ago
> the most effective way to compromise someone's connection through The Onion Router is to control their entrance and exit nodes This seems like a big problem since there’s not much incentive, other than altruism, for most people to
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by rlt 6y ago
> If this failure hadn't happened, and the same fire had happened a year later due to an "excusable" cause (like a tree falling on a line, or someone's house catching on fire) Or, say, a massive lightning storm such a
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by rlt 6y ago
I’ve worked at companies where this was done right and wrong. From my experience, if most employees are in an office and only a minority are remote, the remote employees are at a big disadvantage, unless the company (or remote employees) ac
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by rlt 6y ago
What do you mean by “non-alcoholic entertainment”? Events where alcohol isn’t present?
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by rlt 6y ago
Soda water with a wedge of lime.
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by rlt 6y ago
Reminds of the classic Onion article, “Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television” https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-d...
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by rlt 6y ago
Fortunately I don’t think the US government invested in Wag. Not surprisingly, the bulk of that was from SoftBank’s Vision Fund: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/SoftBank2/SoftBank-suffers-...
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by rlt 6y ago
I am not supportive of the riots in Portland, but it makes me incredibly uncomfortable to have agents of the federal government a) there at all, when it should a local and state issue, b) grabbing protesters/rioters off the streets, se
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by rlt 6y ago
Is it not? People get fired from their real life jobs ("cancelled") for all manner of offenses on social media these days. If you're lucky and the offense is mild you may repent, as it was suggested to Yann: https:/&#x2
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by rlt 6y ago
"Period"? It's unknown how long a vaccine will take, or how effective it will even be. Prolonged lockdowns have costs too, it's just not politically correct to compare them to peoples' lives so people like to ignore
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by rlt 6y ago
But... we did flatten the curve enough to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system. To suggest it wasn't enough now is moving the goalposts.
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by rlt 6y ago
Since they use phased array antennas they may be able to create fairly small exclusion zones around observatories.
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by rlt 6y ago
> Yes, but Republicans consistently use the term 'Democrat' instead of 'Democratic' because they don't want to imply that Democrats have a connection to the concept of Democracy If true that's petty, but on
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by rlt 6y ago
> There just aren't good arguments for noncompetes. People often bring up trade secrets, but that's not convincing -- there are already laws against stealing trade secrets, so you don't need noncompetes for that. Technical
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by rlt 6y ago
Not an ambulance, but the fire department was (allegedly) blocked from reaching an occupied burning building in Richmond (VA) yesterday: https://youtu.be/AEncQKV8k_0?t=205
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by rlt 6y ago
The lag on that touchscreen is bothering the hell out of me. It reminds me of crappy in-flight entertainment systems. Is it physically turning a camera, or is it just that bad?
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by rlt 6y ago
I'm not sure if the sarcastic tone is meant to imply AWS is just a rehash of existing tools, but that's obviously not the case. A list of actual competing software/products/services would be pretty useful.
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by rlt 6y ago
Well that was fun, turning someone else's swastikas into Windows logos and "MAGA" into "VAGINA"
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by rlt 6y ago
I don't think most people would describe their relationship with their parents as a "best friend" type relationship. It's not that surprising you don't have much in common with them. How many other friends do you ha
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by rlt 6y ago
> at least one mass grave You mean Hart Island, which has been used as a mass grave / “potter’s field” for more than a century and already contained over a million deceased? Certainly New York was hit especially hard, but it’s sensa
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by rlt 6y ago
Yes. The First Amendment is one specific protection of freedom of speech. It does not equal freedom speech, which is a general concept that private companies can also uphold (but I think everyone here acknowledges they are not legally obli
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by rlt 6y ago
See this comment which makes this point already, and the subthread discussing the differences between YouTube and Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23064505

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