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by _qbxp 6y ago
Mine is a Panasonic and I’ve been using it for thirteen years now. It’s bulletproof and cooks rice like a champ.
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by _qbxp 6y ago
Tangential to the content of the blog, I’m always weary of anything being labeled “anonymous” if it contains a lot of text that you personally wrote. Stylometry is a thing and it apparently works (I do need a citation, but on mobile and don
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by _qbxp 6y ago
I had bad insomnia during graduate school, tried just about everything under the sun (medication, sleep studies, lifestyle changes, herbs) and eventually did CBT-I with a therapist, and that was my ultimate solution. She had me start with g
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by _qbxp 7y ago
Some of these salaries are hilarious. I work in a small city in the Southeast at about 250k cash comp and feel blessed because of it. Leave it to HN to make me feel that tinge of envy. The weird thing is, I never get jealous/envious of
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by _qbxp 7y ago
I store moderately sensitive files in VeraCrypt containers. Are there post-quantum encryption algorithms on the roadmap for this type of storage software?
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by _qbxp 7y ago
Methamphetamine is a prescription drug in US, brand name Desoxyn.
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by _qbxp 8y ago
I get the same weird anxiety reading these threads. I was making 50k base as a post-doc, anxious about ex-academic friends making 80k in the "real world". Then I got a corporate job making ~$120k, and felt anxious that I wasn&#x27
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by _qbxp 8y ago
I posted this on the other discussion related to this, but would love to get feedback here. ----------------- I can understand this position, but I'd be curious what your thoughts are on how to best (I realize there is no perfect) keep
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by _qbxp 8y ago
I can understand this position, but I'd be curious what your thoughts are on how to best (I realize there is no perfect) keep your data private from snooping employees, hackers, or law enforcement. I've thought about this over and
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by _qbxp 8y ago
I'll be completely honest, as your standard "data scientist" who hopped on the bandwagon and came from having a PhD in academia in an unrelated field, I cringe at these articles. I'm not entirely sure why. I think it may
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by _qbxp 8y ago
I have always had impostor syndrome, but also a somewhat revelatory idea that most people are just human beings full of shit too. Let me explain. In college, I revered my professors - always thought of them on a higher plane, so much smarte
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by _qbxp 8y ago
I'm genuinely interested in hearing pros and cons on the Chinese government from Chinese who are currently living in mainland China. Particularly on the topics that are the biggest flash points on HN - government censorship/great
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by _qbxp 9y ago
I've wanted to run forensics tools on my computer for a while, just to see what type of information I leave behind. Will that old resume I deleted 5-years ago show up on my HD? Will my personal backup SMS files that I copied to a Verac
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by _qbxp 9y ago
Isn't the issue that they are discussing getting rid of term limits altogether? As opposed to setting a higher term limit? If so, how is it a fair comparison to Germany or Japan? I'm sure we'd have even more outrage if any nu
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by _qbxp 9y ago
I was in graduate school in the biological sciences, and the vast majority of papers were formatted using word and some extension for reference management. At one point I really wanted to switch to LaTeX, but it was too much of a learning h
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by _qbxp 9y ago
I've started my search to buy a place in Midtown, precisely because of the walkability. The prices really do reflect it..
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by _qbxp 9y ago
Can someone more knowledgeable than me in regards to this vulnerability tell me: 1. How to best protect my local personal data from being subject to this? 2. Whether I should seriously consider pulling all my cryptocurrency off of any excha
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by _qbxp 9y ago
My entire life, but especially in graduate school, I've had horrible sleep. Both falling asleep, and staying asleep. I did multiple sleep studies, used sleeping medications, took supplements, tried to meditate, etc. and had no luck. I
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by _qbxp 9y ago
Devil's advocate on this - what if the general population of your customers don't want to support a company that pays the salary of a murderer? Then it affects your bottom line. Would you still be ok with it?
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by _qbxp 9y ago
I grew up next to (literally) the Yamaguchi-gumi headquarters. Never once did I feel unsafe there, or anywhere else in Japan. It really is a night and day difference.
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by _qbxp 9y ago
What's the VeraCrypt container for? Isn't the DB already encrypted?
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by _qbxp 9y ago
I was doing fMRI work around the time this paper was published. It astonished me that people would simply set an uncorrected voxel-level threshold and call it a day. No FWE-correction, no cluster-threshold - just an 0.001 uncorrected thresh
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by _qbxp 9y ago
I always ask this on the VPN threads here, and don't feel like I get a solid answer (I'm not particularly well-versed on the topic so I'm genuinely curious and would love to be corrected). If I go to Bob's website on my
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by _qbxp 9y ago
I think there's different things going on here. If I were to point out women that I find physically attractive solely from a set of pictures, they'd probably skew to the younger side. But in reality, the important aspects of a lif
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by _qbxp 9y ago
This is something that's always been fascinating to me. In any thread about privacy, there's always a comment along the lines of "if your threat model is a nation-state, then you're screwed." You hear it about DDG,
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by _qbxp 9y ago
Sort of tangential, but I felt this exact same way when I moved from being a post-doc in neuroscience to being a data scientist. The impostor syndrome was so strong it was painful. It has subsided now a bit because I know I'm able to b
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by _qbxp 9y ago
Question: I use a commercial VPN primarily so that my IP is shared across hundreds of other users (as opposed to using it so that my data is safe being transmitted through coffeehouse WiFi), and thus would make it at least marginally more d
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by _qbxp 9y ago
I had a much different experience applying for jobs as a data scientist in Atlanta - of the companies I got offers for, the base salaries + total comp were similar to what glassdoor reported for data scientists in silicon valley, albeit jus
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by _qbxp 9y ago
I'm not super knowledgeable in this field, so maybe somebody can set me straight regarding VPNs. I have always assumed that VPN services like PIA, AirVPN, etc. are useful for, among other things: 1. To make the content you are viewing
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by _qbxp 9y ago
How does this compare to something like VeraCrypt?

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