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by statquontrarian 6y ago
Rare in the sense that death is rare, but it's in the top 10 causes of death; about 50K per year: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
Agreed. That's why I put in only legal, primary sources. I was curious how those pushing for a pardon would respond.
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Ask HN: What do you think of Ross Ulbricht?
4 points by statquontrarian 6y ago|7 comments
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
For introductions, my favorite is Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy. It's a fascinating subject but be prepared to be utterly confused the deeper you dive. I've concluded, like philosopher Michael Huemer, that
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
You should talk to a doctor. I doubt there are any blanket statements that apply.
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
This is a good summary paper with some safety concerns: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243.pdf?origin=ppub > A possible concern could be that some mRNA-based vaccine platforms 54,166 induce potent type I i
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
I've been using Audacious with the classic Winamp skin and loving it. I used to use Wine but it's crash-y (e.g. media library).
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
There's also the POSIX standard which is quite readable: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/a...
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
The point is that you can get them on-demand and it doesn't require root privileges. As the Red Hat article notes: > For example, your distro might package debuginfo and source files separately from the executable you’re trying to d
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
> * Support for debuginfod, an HTTP server for distributing ELF/DWARF debugging information as well as source code. This is huge! Microsoft's symbol servers have long made it easier to deal with PDBs. This will finally help wit
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
Although there are counter-examples of Snowden, Assange, and others, I do generally agree with you that there are fewer political crimes in the U.S.; however, words are cheap, it's actions that matter. My point is about the results: th
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
> it's probably not worthwhile to have a conversation. Please don't combine further arguments (which suggest you want to continue the dialogue) with a poisoning of the well. I've enjoyed our mini-conversation so far; if yo
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
> I'm fully expecting plenty of whataboutism and false equivalencies in response to this comment and others making a similar point. Please don't poison the well. If you believe I've made such an argument, please politely p
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
I've provided historical evidence, but you've just asserted something without evidence. A mercantilist in the 1700s could have made the same argument as you, and they would have been wrong. This is why political philosophy is impo
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
Why care who "wins" or who's "bigger"? Our goal should be the greatest wealth for the most people for the whole Earth. This is accomplished with innovation and peaceful trade. One "side" discovers a new te
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
Clearly leadership isn't sufficient. Central planning leadership under Mao led to poor results. Deng Xiaoping's reformation was to reduce centralized leadership. Nor is central planning leadership necessary. The early United State
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
I've never created a reading list, so this was a fun exercise. Programming: * Analyzing Computer System Performance with Perl::PDQ - Gunther * The Mythical Man Month - Brooks Philosophy: * A Journey Around my Room - de Maistre * Anger,
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
Books. A few handfuls of them, combined, made a magnitude of a difference in my quality of life. An incredible amount of similar content is available now in video and text form for free, but I think that the same ideas non-book form wouldn&
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
I recently went looking for a USB-C hub and found very few options. Most of them are USB-A to USB-C, but I need USB-C to USB-C (multiple). There are just a handful of options on Amazon, some of which are crazy expensive.
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
Even if we suppose that you're right that the costs of forced intervention outweighed the costs without such intervention, without a control group (the analogy with Sweden is limited), the counterargument is simply that it would have b
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
I've been doing 20 hours per week (Mon-Wed) remote for nearly 3 years and I absolutely love it. I'm at a $bigco and worked there for 10 years before changing to this part time arrangement. I believe it's harder to do for smal
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
After doing some more research, it seems the major alternatives are Postmark, MailGun, and Amazon SES. I liked one comment left by Postmark on another HN post where they say they want high quality senders, so I think I'm going to Postm
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
Thanks but I host my own email so I'm only looking for an outbound SMTP server. I went to ProtonMail's business page and the pricing plan only shows full email hosting which I don't need.
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
I've been a paying customer for years on their shared server plan ($15/mo) and I've had terrible customer service and lots of emails marked as spam (e.g. to my Mom) due to a bad reputation of the shared box. I haven't mi
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
It seems odd to not discuss the more fundamental issues of trusting the infrastructure. All this virtual reality is on top of a physical reality controlled by governments and powerful interests. What happens when said powers declare cryptoc
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
This is a great point. For the purposes of queuing theory analysis, some separate out latency from response time in which case response time is just service time + queue time, and latency is transit time before arriving at the queue.
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
> Since GNU grep passed out of my hands, it appears that use of mmap became non-default, but you can still get it via --mmap. [...] using --mmap can be worth a >20% speedup. This option was ignored in March 2010 and later removed comp
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
> So commit messages to me are almost as important as the code change itself. Why commit messages rather than code comments?
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by statquontrarian 6y ago
Consider part time like 20 hours a week. That's what I do and I love it. Steady pay check and no burn out.
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The infection fatality rate of Covid-19 inferred from seroprevalence data [pdf](medrxiv.org)
2 points by statquontrarian 6y ago|0 comments

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