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by binaryorganic 6y ago
Your math doesn't check out. 5% of people that get it (among a wide range of ages) require serious medical care for weeks. And if we send 5% of any population to the hospital in a given month the death rate for ALL diseases goes way up
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by binaryorganic 7y ago
Preprint and not peer reviewed. The WHO had it at 1.4-2.5 a few days ago. https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/23-01-2020-statement-on...
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by binaryorganic 7y ago
I would really dislike it if somebody had the power to swap out links like that. The whole purpose of social voting sites is that we get to to decide what links we see as a community . Plenty of folks prefer casually summarized content, ad
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by binaryorganic 7y ago
Oh, I’m sure many a traditional gaslighter had every intention of helping their victim. The issue I take is with the complete lack of informed consent at play here. I’m not willing to see that as a positive. The toxic behavior in secretly m
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by binaryorganic 7y ago
Form of manipulation? Check. Sowing seeds of doubt? Check. Targeted individual? Check. Make them question their own perception? Check. I’m pretty okay with their use of the word by your own definition.
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by binaryorganic 7y ago
The thing with those tanks is that it’s effortless to do a sanity check and receive immediate input anytime you like. You can touch the tank, lift the lid, etc. Your point still stands of course.
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by binaryorganic 7y ago
There are Rubiks Cube solvers that do this, and they’re great.
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by binaryorganic 7y ago
My favorite prediction from a similar site: http://longbets.org/601/ Jeremy Keith bet that “The original URL for this prediction (www.longbets.org/601) will no longer be available in eleven years.” He looks set to
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by binaryorganic 8y ago
Most modern checkout experiences can identify you with very high accuracy sans-camera, so I doubt it.
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by binaryorganic 8y ago
Women in America are fighting for a fraction of what much of the developed world already has in place with regard to things like paid maternal leave, so yes, you can think like a manager and say “why is this my problem?”, but the future s
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by binaryorganic 8y ago
I built their Hurdy Gurdy model. The construction techniques were impressive, the plans and assembly process were intuitive, and the experience itself never became frustrating or tiresome. I was surprised by all three. Highly recommend. Sid
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by binaryorganic 8y ago
Sure, as it reduces overall filesize. They could have achieved similar efficiency by compressing full-color images though.
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by binaryorganic 8y ago
Online-go.com is, for anyone that played go online before its inception, a breath of fresh air. There’s really no way to overstate how it’s changed the experience of online play.
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by binaryorganic 8y ago
I agree with everything you’ve said from the consumerism perspective, but there’s something to be said for just... exploring the ‘other’ regardless of upbringing. People from cultures completely detached from capitalism have been altering t
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by binaryorganic 8y ago
You’d think that an app that had the foresight to ask which pronouns their users preferred would not limit it to two options, or at the very least wouldn’t require an answer. Also strange that an app asking me for my real name isn’t being l
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by binaryorganic 9y ago
There’s absolutely nothing illegal about paying for oppo research, and there doesn’t look to be anything illegal about the research itself, so I’m not sure what you’re suggesting.
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by binaryorganic 9y ago
“We were surprised when we saw [the correlation] and then we were surprised no one had noticed it before“ Seems like lots of women noticed it. Just sayin’.
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by binaryorganic 9y ago
There's beginning to be a lot of movement in the alt-coin space where people are trying to DO things with the blockchain, far beyond just a store of value. There's not a lot of love here on HN for a lot of that effort, but it&#x27
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by binaryorganic 9y ago
Wow, this article kind of makes we WANT to play it. I had read about it (before it was released, so didn't see a wall of complaints about difficulty) and watched the trailer, but the aesthetic and the core game mechanic led to a false
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by binaryorganic 9y ago
Article makes clear they just pushed a big update to Steam
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by binaryorganic 9y ago
The ACLU will be part of the winter batch of companies in YC, where it will receive mentorship, a network of powerful connections in tech and a chance to present itself to investors on Demo Day. Y Combinator will also provide some funding,
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by binaryorganic 10y ago
I think it's less that they're charging "too much" money, and more that costs are too high (which can be true for plenty of reasons other than profit). I believe that single payer systems can bring prices lower with more
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by binaryorganic 10y ago
The folks at CaH have a history of pranks around Black Friday. They've invited people to send them money in exchange for absolutely nothing. They've sold boxes of actual bullshit. My personal favorite was when they raised their pr
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by binaryorganic 10y ago
It's not for charity.
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by binaryorganic 10y ago
Unless you're in a flourishing coastal city (there are exceptions, sure), many cities in this country have huge housing surpluses.
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by binaryorganic 10y ago
I have cat hoarding neighbors. It can be a real problem. Feces. Hair. Mice (read: flies). Also, I have a son with a flea allergy. A cat or two never bothers me. But when my neighbor gets to putting out 5 or 6 food dishes for the strays each
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by binaryorganic 12y ago
Healthy people with healthy immune systems aren't supposed to get the flu shot to prevent themselves from getting sick. They're supposed to get it because it drastically reduces the chances of passing the virus to at risk populati
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by binaryorganic 12y ago
Tried to signup... it said I already had an account. Did a password reset... it emailed me a new password in cleartext. Clicked on the login link... Bad Gateway.
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by binaryorganic 12y ago
Prompt has been my experience with them on iOS as well. It still works just as good as the day I bought it. But for some reason seeing the old iOS keyboard boils my blood. It's a weird nag, but my soul confirms it's legitimacy.
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by binaryorganic 12y ago
Screencast says it's open source. It's on Github ( https://github.com/structr/structr ) where it says it's GPLv3, unless I'm missing something.

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