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by intro-b 5y ago
damn i checked ur profile and ur actually based respect
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by intro-b 5y ago
bc log4j isn't some random library people found on the street it's been used in industry forever lol yea literally any library/dependency can introduce risk, including stuff coded internally for those purposes
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by intro-b 5y ago
Working on cancer treatment discovery. Hoping to pivot into technologies for early detection and screening.
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by intro-b 5y ago
Based.
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by intro-b 5y ago
Kind of. The only issue is that I only use Twitter/IG for personal friends and not "influencer" level people. I think some of kind of organized curation would be nice. For instance, I follow https://fivebooks.com&#
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by intro-b 5y ago
I think there's still a niche for a Wirecutter-like site. But I don't know what it should look like, and how it should function without invasive affiliate advertising. I like reading high quality reviews of practical goods as well
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by intro-b 5y ago
i feel like "traditional" events for casually connecting and meeting with others have become somehow underrated — things like attending trivia events at a local pub, pick-up sports leagues, book signings, meetup groups, local volu
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by intro-b 5y ago
what kind of future do you think Thiel is pushing the world towards? a lot of his writing involving Girard and other political philosophers reads as studying mimetic desire as a means of avoiding absolute total war in society and maintainin
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by intro-b 5y ago
absolutely — my few sentences is just a rough summary of a small part of Thiel's thinking and ideology summing his life as a Silicon Valley bad guy is a gross oversimplification — his actions and work is the product of decades of his s
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by intro-b 5y ago
through Zero to One, his other writings, and by developing his own personal history, Thiel has created an alternate will-to-power mythos for those who feel alienated by whatever they believe the prevailing Silicon Valley technology & st
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by intro-b 5y ago
It's fun to learn about the different origins of flower meanings, and how they differ from culture to culture. Ikebana, Japanese flower arrangement, also has an interesting history for those who enjoy learning about the different aesth
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by intro-b 5y ago
Did you even read the article? The author doesn't say anything like that all.
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by intro-b 5y ago
How do you stop millions of users on Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms from clicking on the link, engaging with the material, leaving likes/dislikes/reactions, and arguing with each other in the comments section? As long as t
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by intro-b 5y ago
Well the op-ed is written by one of the founders of the movement conducting the lawsuit and their attorney, so I guess they wanted something arresting and attention-grabbing. I do hate now this kind of rhetoric style has become the norm tho
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by intro-b 5y ago
It sounds about right — finance engineering interns from our school like 5-6 years ago after our 2nd/3rd years fielded offers for $12k-$14k a month, with a housing stipend included
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by intro-b 5y ago
> The user told the hackers to try depositing the stolen tokens without Tether, which the hackers did successfully and they deposited all the addresses into Curve. The hackers then sent the anonymous user about $45,000 worth of ethereum
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by intro-b 5y ago
If you're really concerned, just use a candle snuffer to blow it out and don't huff the fumes
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by intro-b 5y ago
did you even read the article? it goes somewhat deep into how they plan and orchestrate it, especially for a normal publication
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by intro-b 5y ago
that's like the least weird part of this article kid running around the house looking for a towel after showering? asking parents about a weird rash/redness in that area to check out? quickly changing in the family/living roo
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by intro-b 5y ago
welcome to the world of activist investing
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by intro-b 5y ago
yeah true - we really need an ethnicity/nationality test for new accounts before they post to really make sure HN has no foreign CCP influence
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by intro-b 6y ago
The day before the colonoscopy, patients are asked to drink a laxative solution that's generally some combination of magnesium citrate or another compound. The taste is generally pretty bad, but you can mix it with some kind of non-col
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by intro-b 6y ago
I was surprised to hear this, but found some additional sources: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/19/407760579/wh... https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/P
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by intro-b 6y ago
What? Every language/society has its own version of social cues, conversational filler phrases, and general etiquette for various situations. People can argue its pointless or whatever, but it definitely has established roles in busine
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by intro-b 6y ago
Garmin's stock price has dipped slightly since the beginning of the reported outage and ransomware news and may continue to do so - I speculate perhaps these actors might also double-dip on their attack by both ransoming the data and s
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by intro-b 6y ago
Since it appears the victim and perpetrator were strongly familiar with each other, the interaction could have been as simple as the perpetrator asking to meet up and suggesting that some of the money that he had been asked to repay was in
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by intro-b 6y ago
Previous theories concerning hitmen from Saudi Arabia, Nigerian gangs, Chinese government involvement, and other salacious tales were really something.
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by intro-b 6y ago
What? You're literally using the LinkedIn profiles out of a hand-selected cohort of engineers who happen to be from Chinese universities as strong evidence of a company being part of your conspiracy. Is every F500 American company that
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by intro-b 6y ago
Lamenting about complexity just for the sake of lamenting about complexity and then adding a few potshots at Google/FB/etc. doesn't exactly make for a thought-provoking, nuanced, or interesting argument, though
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by intro-b 6y ago
> For me, if I stray into a problematic food, I am intensely depressed for at least a day or more, reminding me of what I worked to 'cure'. Out of curiosity, do you believe there's a possibility of this effect being mostly

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