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Ask HN: Duckduckgo Is Advertising?
9 points by rubidium 6y ago|9 comments
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by rubidium 6y ago
This is pretty cool. Poop’s a good universal, non- invasive test. If the sample rate was high enough would be helpful to detect outbreaks, esp. if this becomes seasonal. Probably not economically feasible, but you could envision “in-line” s
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by rubidium 6y ago
That’s part of the pitch. He’s not selling to Mexico.
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by rubidium 6y ago
Or anything about PTO.
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by rubidium 6y ago
Definitely. AoE2 is a lifetime game for me. I played it in middle/high school, stopped for a while, picked it up in college for 2 years, stopped for 5 years, was amazed it was still a thing in late grad school (2013), stopped for 7 mor
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by rubidium 6y ago
We must be talking past each other, as I understand it quite well. My point (which I understand is controversial) is there's no requirement for billions of dollars and thousands of scientists to make the next big breakthrough. There&#x
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by rubidium 6y ago
The big problems in science can be solved by much smaller teams. LHC is just proving out the dominant paradigm. It’s not gonna help us understand dark matter and _that’s_ the real anomaly in the current physical understanding of the world.
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"the carrying capacity of the Earth is closed to 1 billion people" This is FUD. The carrying capacity of earth is determined by the ingenuity of humanity. It can go poorly for the environment or not, but considering it purely a fu
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by rubidium 6y ago
And that wasn't even the craziest slide of the presentation. "Information Revolution - Happiness for Everyone" I had to wipe the coffee off my screen.
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by rubidium 6y ago
Fully paid parental leave (typically 8 weeks) is becoming quite common at fortune 500 companies in the US. Many comment that they're trying to get ahead of the legislation and lawsuits, and buy some goodwill in the process. I'm fu
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by rubidium 6y ago
For married couples, the US has seen an increase in women working for pay from 30% participation to 60% participation from 1955 to present. https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2017/08/Labor-Force-Parti... So t
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by rubidium 6y ago
So your cynical view is that the government exists to serve the term rich/capitalism. Thats fine for you to think. But some of us would like to have a functional democratic republic.
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by rubidium 6y ago
If you want to pursue money, then yes both are your best options. Not really a significant difference, you’re just a cog in some billionaires machine extracting your soul for $$$. Avoid both and Choose to make a difference in people’s lives
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by rubidium 6y ago
There are lots of homeschooling curriculums of various quality levels, if that’s what you mean. Saxon math seems to be good from homeschooling parents reviews. Montessori, Charlotte Mason, great books, etc have all stood the test of time
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by rubidium 6y ago
Most people I’ve talked to pushing for government to reopen things have lost jobs and businesses... or are about to. Their basic survival needs are being threatened. Show a little more compassion. I recommend talking to some people instead
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by rubidium 6y ago
As an employee it is. As an employer it’s not.
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by rubidium 6y ago
FYI I’m not talking about the narrow spectrum of more socialist to more free market republic/democratic capitalism. There’s plenty of details to debate there of course. I mean general range of human experiments in how to structure soci
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by rubidium 6y ago
No. It’s how the economy tells you what is valuable. Economy != society. In fact (in the US) we have a terrible economic system right now for our society, but it seems to be better than anything else that’s been tried for large modern natio
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by rubidium 6y ago
Good place to ask: in addition to setting up pi-hole or https://nextdns.io/ , what browser or device based blockers should be used? Anyone have the run down on Adblock plus Privacy badger UBlock origin Etc??
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by rubidium 6y ago
That’s... a bit to simplistic of an understanding. As a researcher, there are many problems I could find interesting and get passionate about working on, either with the right colleagues, funding, world implications, etc... The scientist ob
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These don’t get built by countries. They get built in countries. The home country matters and they’ll need to put up funding, but it’s an international workforce.
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by rubidium 6y ago
Your bet is correct.
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by rubidium 6y ago
“ totally ethical in all regards“ is a high bar. But at least try building real products for real people, not scummy adtech spyware. Despite its flaws (eg drug prices) working in biotech is pretty awesome. I get to support work in treating
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by rubidium 6y ago
Counter anecdote: I’ve been on teams shipping 50 custom software projects a year. We hit 90% of our deadlines.
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Most questions of importance are not solved by google :)
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by rubidium 6y ago
Or the big one. An extended family around help out.
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by rubidium 6y ago
If you find anything post it here. Would also help with a bunch of deed records from 100 years ago.
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by rubidium 6y ago
Be careful. Avoiding oil and meat can lead to health issues over time. Hope you’re talking to a doctor and nutritionist!
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by rubidium 6y ago
This. Capitalism and consumerism reign. Nobody is interested in “fighting the machine” or even aware of what it is.
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by rubidium 6y ago
Yet another web app that’s easier to do in excel.

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