darthvoldemort

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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
I think Siri gets some of its results from Wolfram Alpha.
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
Dan, you're protecting tptacek from criticism which is absolute bullshit. I very fairly criticized his lack of reading comprehension, and the fact he's not an expert in anything except for security. What he accused me of in his co
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
I have this book, it was such an important and informative book at the time. It's so interesting that such an important book filled with a wealth of knowledge doesn't have much use these days.
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
I'm suggesting that sometimes a very small amount of a substance can cause catastrophic effects a decade later. That's why we do testing before we release drugs. And Pfizer isn't the hero here, they never have been. https:&#
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
Pfizer also made Celebrex, the anti-inflammatory that they knew caused health issues but they buried them and claimed it was safe. We are living in an upside down world now. All of a sudden the drug companies are the "good" guys.
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
Prions are "just" proteins that should get broken down by the body. But they don't, and they cause ‎Creutzfeldt-Jakob in over 10 years after ingesting.
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
I'm skeptical about the idea that Substack has poor support. I just listened to Chuck Palahniuk on Joe Rogan. He still writes on pads of paper, but he said Substack hand-held him and he loved it, and called Substack a "concierge s
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
It's a huge pivot to go from flipping houses to becoming a landlord. It would essentially be a disaster for them. That's a high-touch business and probably the costs associated with it, and the legalities around it are too complex
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
Actually your comment is pretty bizarre. You're distilling your impressions from thousands of people into a single sentence, and then you're taking a single person's response and using that to push your agenda that "peop
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
Have you asked your coworkers for advice? One thing you have to accept is that there is a problem with the way you communicate. People would not be going to HR if you were as unemotional as you think. So seek out advice and honest feedback
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
Libertarians are absolutely not neoconservatives or fundamental Christians. That's like comparing a Democrat with Antifa.
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
Same thing happened with Tom Cruise a while back. He fired his publicist and started to go on interviews, and it turns out he's fucking wacky. He was jumping on couches on Oprah and laughing maniacally, and doing other really weird stu
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
You don't have to be a social butterfly to be liked. You just mainly shouldn't be an asshole. And the key is to consistently not be an asshole, otherwise those things will accumulate and you will eventually get rejected. (I'm
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
How can the SEC and the Treasury let these crypto coins continue to exist when it's so rife with scams? Based on the TOS of Tether, it's clearly as scam with no protections for any investors. Why hasn't the US government regu
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
NTSB and NHTSA can't investigate every single complaint. That's unfortunately not scalable. They would need to talk to the driver, talk to Tesla, get the data, etc. All for something that's handled through civil lawsuits. You
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
Yes, it's a little. A 20% increase over a small number is still a small number. I'm not talking relative risk, I'm talking overall risk. Most overweight people still have mild symptoms or were asymptomatic. The single factor
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
Except most obese people don't have issues with COVID. This is the thing that is most confounding about COVID. Most comorbidities only increase the risk factor by a little. The biggest and most reliable risk factor is age. We know ther
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Ask HN: To all interviewers, please don't interrupt candidates while coding
4 points by darthvoldemort 5y ago|3 comments
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
I collect comic books, and I collect limited edition rock n roll photos. I do have a vast collection of digital comics, probably 250GB worth, but I also want the joy of actually owning some of them, looking at them, and reading them.
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
What they really mean is that they need a new generation of Greater Fools to sell their collections to, otherwise the value of their collections will completely deflate. I've seen this exact same discussion on comic book boards that I
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
Maybe I'm too old, but I don't know a single person with Oculus, not even among my younger coworkers. I don't discount that it could be the next big thing, because wtf do I know, but it feels very niche to me, and certainly n
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
Borrow money from friends and family if you have to. Expensive lawyers can do a lot of things that ordinary people can't do. I would do thorough research on this to figure out who can do this type of work for you. I think it's the
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
You should invest money into fighting this legally. If you are the victim of cyber bullying then I would suggest contacting the platform that is housing the libelous posts. I think there are ways on every platform to remove libelous posts.
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
I have a VERY similar experience with my first job, except 10 years earlier. My first job was in IT at a bank. I was working with Windows NT and a migration to Windows NT 4.0 across the entire company. I learned a hell of a lot about Window
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
I wonder if you could track down who Satoshi is based on someone's search queries about Secp256k1 specifically
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
HN is HN. It ebbs and flows like the tide. I love HN for what it is, a news feed of interesting articles, with a bias towards technology but not always. I've been introduced to so many things because of the wide range of articles that
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
After your question, I asked me friend, and she said it's so damn confusing what the rules and borders are that it's easy to get confused.
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
You are exactly the type of person who is pushing out the best kids into private school. Private schools in California are getting record numbers of enrollment after how horribly public schools handled the pandemic, and after how it wants t
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
old.reddit.com
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by darthvoldemort 5y ago
100 years ago China was barely a country, ripped apart by opium, politics and various countries that occupied China. It took Dr. Sun Yat Sen and subsequently Chiang Kai Shek and then Mao to get China back on its feet and now is a global pow

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