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by tominous 9y ago
I can't stand the chromatic aberration theme of the site. Please stop giving me a headache! On my phone I had to copy and paste the contents into a note in order to read it.
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by tominous 9y ago
Don't worry about the bookmark collection you already have. There's no pressure to read through it and no pressure to throw it away. That's the great thing about a digital hoarding habit -- it doesn't fill up your house
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by tominous 9y ago
That took a sudden turn! Normally I just go to Slate Star Codex when I want a mixture of sparkling insight and teleological fiction -- though at least there the fiction is clearly labelled. Back in 2010 I made the prediction that (regardles
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Solaris: working remote root exploit leaked in Shadow Brokers dump(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by tominous 10y ago|0 comments
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by tominous 10y ago
Isaac Asimov anticipated the idea of a research distiller in "The Dead Past" with the character of Nimmo, a professional science writer: "Nimmo received his first assignment at the age of twenty-five, after he had completed h
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by tominous 10y ago
Meanwhile Snowden allegedly got access to classified info by convincing 20 people he needed their passwords for his job as sysadmin.
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by tominous 10y ago
This was a solved problem 15 years ago with multi-protocol clients like LICQ, Gaim/Pidgin and Trillian. Maybe it's harder these days to keep up with the engineers at Facebook, Google and Microsoft but surely simple texting can&#x2
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by tominous 10y ago
See prospect theory [1]. But I think GP is approaching it in the right way to avoid these suboptimal biases: set reasonable limits up-front but otherwise treat it as a game. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_th
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by tominous 10y ago
I just want to add another story, albeit second hand. My wife went through surgery three times. The first times, pain relief (after the initial nerve block) was mainly via a Norspan patch. The patch was great except it took so long to ramp
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by tominous 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blaine
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by tominous 10y ago
I think it's a bit misleading to put your advice (which is good advice) in the context of experimental treatment. In my experience the cruelty is more likely to come from applying standard treatment that is either hopeless or unnecessa
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by tominous 10y ago
Embrace it like Philip Greenspun. The tag line to his blog: "A posting every day; an interesting idea every three months..." (Which is about right. Most of his posts these days are trolling but there are still gems in there.)
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by tominous 10y ago
True -- at the right threshold one upvote can mean the difference between a post sinking without a trace or making it to the front page and gaining many more votes and views. In that way one upvote can trigger much more than 100 views.
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by tominous 10y ago
Your comment is basically Anselm's ontological argument. Very strange to see it applied to medical imaging!
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by tominous 10y ago
As a counterpoint to Finland being a consensus culture, they also have "management by perkele" [1]. In particular Linus Torvalds has said his direct style is part of Finnish culture [2]. [1] http://www.rmci.ase.ro/
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by tominous 10y ago
This is a huge deal with drugs that can cost $10k per vial. The manufacturers have no incentive to test for longer periods: it would just mean less revenue and more risk. And as I've mentioned before, physicians are very conservative a
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by tominous 10y ago
I love the way you write, very entertaining. As a consumer, as long as there is one good self-service option I'm happy. When I'm in the car with two kids and need to get petrol, I'll drive the extra distance to pay at the pum
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by tominous 10y ago
Johnny Depp would disagree with you that the laws simply don't apply: https://youtu.be/ORpBAIB9j64
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by tominous 10y ago
Not to take away from the specific challenges of blind people, but this is a broad problem whenever there is a mismatch between the map and the territory . The mismatch can come from sloppy work or just from the way the world changes ove
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by tominous 10y ago
I wrote my thoughts about how to work with your doctor here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12266170 My wife has since passed away unfortunately. I really need to write this all up at some point to close it off. Anywa
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by tominous 10y ago
Funny, just last night I re-read my diary from a bus trip to St Petersburg and Moscow as a student in 2002. Just before we left St Petersburg we heard rumours of the theatre siege which had just started in Moscow. A few people on the bus ha
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by tominous 10y ago
> it's the fight or flight response One time I was watching TV, a nature documentary, with my pet rabbit hopping around nearby. You should have seen her reaction when they played the sound of a rattlesnake on TV! Poor bunny was ou
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by tominous 10y ago
The cool thing about being a founder is that you get to choose what to do with the equity in your company. So if Stephanie Hurlburt wants to offer a greater share to late employees for reasons of fairness or justice then more power to her.
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by tominous 10y ago
It's easy to talk about a corporate death penalty, but that's not really in the interest of society. Take Arthur Andersen. After the Enron scandal, Arthur Andersen was basically split up and absorbed into the other accounting firm
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by tominous 10y ago
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it's enemy action. -- Ian Fleming
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by tominous 10y ago
I can think of four reasons for Oracle staying at Solaris 11.x instead of planning a new Solaris 12 release: 1. Some enterprises have a general policy of only running versions N and N-1 of software. The release of Solaris 12 would trigger a
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by tominous 10y ago
Recent research suggests that chronic inflammation may cause depression [1]. Therefore the root cause may be inflammation, leading to both depression and heart disease. (Of course biology is never that simple and there are probably loops an
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by tominous 10y ago
From eyeballing exhibits 2 and 3 in the paper, it looks like pain medication doses dropped 5-10%. That seems like a lot in only a couple of years.
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by tominous 10y ago
People do turn to weed when it is legal [1]: "The researchers found that doctors in a state where marijuana is legal ended up prescribing an average of 1,826 fewer doses of painkillers per year" [1] http://time.com&
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by tominous 10y ago
You're right, it is a stretch. I think Thiel was saying something a bit less strong: that in the pursuit of a boring administration with no conflict-of-interest scandals, you can be too conservative. You risk having no-one who actually

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