jaredhansen

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by jaredhansen 12d ago
Far from it. "What if [inflammatory proposition presented without evidence]?" is not contributory to truth-seeking. As Hitchens' Razor puts it: "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidenc
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by jaredhansen 6mo ago
This is one of my favorite things about HN. I'm into rockets, and clicked the link earlier today. I shared the suggestor's view, but didn't bother to post. I came back now, saw the comment thread had updated significantly, no
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by jaredhansen 10mo ago
>The license plate, combined with cross border surveillance data providers, is enabling dragnet surveillance and enforcement of unconscionable law. [snip] Stop trying to play down how tech is enabling authoritarianism. Yes, that's t
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by jaredhansen 11mo ago
I think there's a decent chance you may have just created the ideal name for what will become one of the most important concepts ever. Bravo!
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by jaredhansen 11mo ago
Many HN readers with an interest in HFT will find the Sniper in Mahwah blog excellent reading. No longer publishing since 2019 as far as I can tell, but it was great while it lasted: https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/
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by jaredhansen 1y ago
I don't begin to understand why the bank should have to "justify" its decision to replace workers with AI in the first place. Maybe it works better? Maybe it's worse? Who cares? Shareholders bear the risk of getting it w
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by jaredhansen 1y ago
> A union carpenter with one year of on the job training will run circles around a veteran carpenter from the south with 15-20 years of experience who never had access to such training. Can you elaborate on this point? What is it about t
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by jaredhansen 1y ago
Good point, let's just shut it down, nobody should do anything
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by jaredhansen 1y ago
This is the friendliest comment I've seen on the World Wide Web today. Thank you for posting.
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by jaredhansen 1y ago
Spinnaker might be great - I don't know them - but if you're in the market for sailing lessons in SF Bay I can highly, highly recommend Club Nautique out of Alameda[1]. The quality of instruction is very high, with a focus on safe
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by jaredhansen 1y ago
> Very cool! More info on an equally charming old website here, including a remarkable letter from his wife: http://josephoster.com/billsvoyage/index.html That letter from his wife, Naomi, contains a link to her web
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by jaredhansen 2y ago
I don't understand this take. Are you saying it's in-principle impossible for them to accomplish these goals?
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by jaredhansen 2y ago
Thank you for posting this! I'd never heard it, and it's great.
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by jaredhansen 2y ago
This is the best thing I've seen on HN or indeed on the internet in general for quite a long time. Excellent work and thank you for brightening my day.
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by jaredhansen 3y ago
> 2. We can't even take care of Earth. I'm no expert but I have to believe it would be far cheaper and easier to solve Earth's problems. This is a popular view but I think it is wrong. Yes, we have problems on Earth. But i
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by jaredhansen 3y ago
Extreme Misogyny in Incels Probably the Primary Cause of Their Sexual Frustration
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Dietary creatine associated with reduced risk of depression(nature.com)
1 points by jaredhansen 4y ago|1 comments
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by jaredhansen 4y ago
>To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine the relationship between dietary creatine intake and risk of depression in a nationally representative U.S. sample. We found that MDD prevalence among U.S. adults follows a step-wise
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by jaredhansen 4y ago
This might be right, but I'm not so sure. Public perception is that dealerships are adverse to customers because of information asymmetry + price haggling, and that online sales will hurt them -- but in many conversations with multiple
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by jaredhansen 4y ago
From 'blooood filled capillaries' to closing by calling kissing a 'non-sexual intimate behavior', this was hilarious. Thanks for posting!
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by jaredhansen 5y ago
About damn time.
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by jaredhansen 5y ago
All past years you mean. It's not exactly a recent phenomenon.
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by jaredhansen 5y ago
Yep, fixed, it's 70 shoppable services and 230 they choose.
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by jaredhansen 5y ago
There is a lot of misunderstanding in this thread. I have a significant expertise on the price transparency rule and hospitals' responses to it, and will try to shed some light. Disclosure/source: I'm a former lawyer and the
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by jaredhansen 6y ago
I bought one of these during the early-access program, as my old Charge 3 had recently died. I really wanted to like it. Sad to say, it's terrible. Mostly what it did was remind me how much I appreciate stuff that actually works well (
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by jaredhansen 6y ago
>~$1.5M ARR. Isn't that a bit low for SaaS at 7 years? The median and modal ARR for SaaS businesses 7 years after founding is zero.
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by jaredhansen 6y ago
1. Pretty easy to assay the vaccine itself and the blood of vaccine recipients and figure out (1) is it what they're saying it is? and (2) does it do what they're saying it does? 2. No. Google around for this; there's plenty
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by jaredhansen 6y ago
The article doesn't go into it, but the actual paper[1] states that this vaccine has "has previously been reported to be immunogenic and protective against pneumonia in a rhesus macaque challenge model", and cites to [2]. [1]
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by jaredhansen 7y ago
I think it would be appropriate to break out the black bar for this one. For those not familiar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson
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by jaredhansen 7y ago
>I speak 5 languages (learned through school and life choices) but when I tried to learn a 6th on Duolingo I felt like the experience was not good enough for me. Well of course it isn't, but that's like saying "I'm a

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