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by tortasaur 6y ago
Dr. Fauci has since admitted that U.S. health officials intentionally lied about mask efficacy to prevent PPE shortages: https://techstartups.com/2020/06/17/dr-fauci-admits-health-e...
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by tortasaur 6y ago
Free speech is a philosophical concept and ideal that extends far beyond the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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by tortasaur 6y ago
I don't read this as saying they'll prevent further breaches. It seems to be saying that they will improve compliance with data privacy regulation.
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by tortasaur 6y ago
Yes, you should be able to.
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by tortasaur 6y ago
Costco's vitamin D softgels are 2000 IU, not 5000.
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by tortasaur 6y ago
Or they can do what they're currently doing.
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by tortasaur 6y ago
This depends very much upon your reality.
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by tortasaur 6y ago
Judging by the lack of coherency / relevance of the profile's other replies, I'm guessing it's a bot whose model someone's attempting to train on HN comments.
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by tortasaur 6y ago
If you just ask for more money, chances are the answer is going to be more. To successfully negotiate a higher salary, you generally have to point to some value you are delivering or will deliver that justifies the bump in compensation. &qu
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by tortasaur 6y ago
Isn't wearing a mask more for the benefit of those around you if you're asymptomatic? I thought most masks didn't do anything to prevent you from catching coronavirus, only spreading it.
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by tortasaur 6y ago
What's the alternative if you're going to scale salary based on location while hiring? If you only scale while hiring, you'll encourage people to "move" to Silicon Valley for a month or two, then "move" ba
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by tortasaur 6y ago
>Anyone who's seen "to catch a predator" knows that most pedophiles are borderline mentally handicapped and are way more likely to get caught by their own incompetence; no extra laws necessary. I wouldn't be surprised
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by tortasaur 6y ago
>It also doesn't hurt that the average criminal skews dumber than the average law-abiding citizen to begin with. Is this true? I'd be interested to see the research for this. I would believe that the average convict is dumber
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by tortasaur 7y ago
The guidance for keeping six feet apart doesn't apply to people who already live together. Keeping your distance isn't going to work if you're all going to touch the same surfaces at home, anyway. It can be tricky to tell if
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by tortasaur 7y ago
They aren't equipped to vet talent. If they hire a mediocre engineer for $180k, their situation has not improved.
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by tortasaur 7y ago
After reading your post, I thought "these things happen; they'll figure it out with experience." Tried going to clientsite.com/api/.env on a whim, and leapt out of bed.
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by tortasaur 7y ago
This exists; invoice factoring companies make this process relatively straightforward.
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by tortasaur 7y ago
IMO it's really obvious when someone's applying the strategies in that book without addressing their underlying behavior. One of my bosses had the dark triad traits, and it was painfully obvious that he was following the book&#x27
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by tortasaur 7y ago
Keepass does support storing the database file locally. It is the default way it works.
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by tortasaur 7y ago
Doctors aren't superhuman and med school doesn't filter out the gullible.
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by tortasaur 7y ago
An incorrect statement is not a fallacy. An incorrect statement can indicate a fallacy's presence, but in this case I don't believe it does.
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by tortasaur 7y ago
How is the parent comment overgeneralizing? The generalization jumping out at me is the grandparent's "all corporations are right-leaning by nature". The position of "corporations' executive decisions and internal c
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by tortasaur 7y ago
You're implying that an environment where people don't jokingly reference suicide would have led to a better outcome. Is there evidence for this?
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by tortasaur 7y ago
This is such a tired argument, but I'll throw this out anyway: the parent isn't claiming that Facebook is legally prohibited from selecting which content they allow through their platform. They are legally allowed to choose to blo
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by tortasaur 7y ago
You might find this useful: https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility
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by tortasaur 7y ago
Every time I see this article linked in a context similar to this one, I question whether the linker has read the third sentence within: "Popper took pains to make clear that he did not mean the expression of intolerant words and ideas
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by tortasaur 7y ago
Eh, I don't think it's enough of a value add to justify a standalone button. Double-tapping the power button works just fine.
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by tortasaur 7y ago
With the Wii, though, there were two important differences: you could call it "The Nintendo Wii", and it's spelled differently than the English word.
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by tortasaur 7y ago
I'm not sure about gitlab.com, but you could always run a self-hosted instance.
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by tortasaur 7y ago
>Even if you think MIT told him to, that would ultimately be MIT's decision, not the work of some "mob". The mob pressured MIT and the FSF to remove him from his positions. It's ultimately their decision, sure, in the

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