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by daviddavis 1y ago
This is exactly why I’ve started only buying smart devices that work with Home Assistant and don’t rely on cloud services.
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by daviddavis 2y ago
It’s a study with Walter Willett and Frank Hu, who are probably the most highly regarded nutritional researchers working in the field. Here’s a great video about how these researchers are using big data to reveal insights into nutrition: h
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by daviddavis 2y ago
Have you tried uv? I switched to it from poetry a couple months ago. It’s not perfect but I’m enjoying it a lot more than poetry.
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Experiment Gives First Glimpse of the Internal Structure of a Neutron(sciencealert.com)
4 points by daviddavis 2y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft Teams outage causes connection issues, message delays(bleepingcomputer.com)
180 points by daviddavis 3y ago|123 comments
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by daviddavis 3y ago
> the US essentially subsidizes the entire drug research industry This isn’t entirely true. The US does pay more for drugs but a lot of this money isn’t spent on research. In fact pharmaceutical companies spend far more on advertising th
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Amazon to close Book Depository online shop(theguardian.com)
216 points by daviddavis 3y ago|115 comments
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Trillion-Dollar Coin(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by daviddavis 4y ago|1 comments
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by daviddavis 4y ago
Nutritional studies are notoriously difficult to conduct. You either have to isolate subjects and monitor everything they eat and when. Or you have to rely on self reported data and people do an atrocious job of tracking food, estimating po
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by daviddavis 5y ago
I see. Thanks for the response! Great article too.
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by daviddavis 5y ago
With the way that Apple prevents you from reusing Apple IDs, does it mean that if my Apple ID is blah@mydomainname.com and I migrate mydomainname.com (currently using G Suite free) over to iCloud that I can't set up blah@mydomainname.c
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Ask HN: How many bytes are in a kilobyte?
5 points by daviddavis 5y ago|5 comments
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by daviddavis 5y ago
There are a bunch of mypy configuration options to disallow certain things like --disallow-untyped-defs. There’s also --strict which forces typing on everything.
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by daviddavis 5y ago
And don't pronounce PyPI as pie-pie. It's pie-P-I.
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by daviddavis 6y ago
I was considering upgrading to an iPhone 12 mini. Does it have these issues too?
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The Dining Philosophers Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by daviddavis 6y ago|0 comments
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Waffle House Index(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by daviddavis 7y ago|0 comments
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by daviddavis 7y ago
Does your roof generate electricity though? A solar roof is a roof + solar panels.
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by daviddavis 7y ago
Just out of curiosity, what happens to the engineers that work on these projects that get shutdown by Google? Do they get laid off?
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by daviddavis 7y ago
No ‘Night of the Living Dead’?
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by daviddavis 7y ago
How did you do that? Is it possible with an iPhone?
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by daviddavis 8y ago
Did you read the article? It’s literally the first sentence.
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How IBM quietly pushed out 20,000 older workers [video](youtube.com)
63 points by daviddavis 8y ago|30 comments
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by daviddavis 9y ago
Never read Aldiss. Any recommendations on which book(s) to start with?
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by daviddavis 9y ago
It's right there in the first paragraph: > high intake of fruits, whole grains, oily fish and vegetables
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by daviddavis 9y ago
Forget the paleo diet. Someone ought to start the Victorian diet.
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by daviddavis 10y ago
I'm seeing the 32GB wifi one as $329.
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by daviddavis 10y ago
Prostate cancer isn't as big of an issue fatality-wise. Are you sure? It looks like they're both about 21 deaths per 100,000 people: https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/prost.html https:/&#x2F
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by daviddavis 10y ago
Scroll down a bit further and they have a list of the top 10 non-medical professions. IT makes it on the list at #7 with "Computer and Information Systems Managers". Still not great I'd argue.
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by daviddavis 10y ago
I think you miss the point of the article. It's not that technology destroys jobs but that in the next century, technology could potentially destroy jobs at a faster rate than it adds new ones. That would be an unprecedented event in A

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