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by perspective1 7y ago
The US government has no authority to break up a monopoly just because users don't like its ads. Google continues to provide a valuable service, and your cost is the ads you're served that you don't want. Google's not a
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by perspective1 7y ago
Kind of predictable. Google's a business. Surprise, surprise, you can't rely on its free services long-term.
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by perspective1 7y ago
LOL. The article completely ignores that today's 40-somethings will be 60-something 20 years from now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State... edit: Seeing the flood of downvotes I'll
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by perspective1 7y ago
If I yell "he's got a gun" as a prank intending people to stampeded out of a movie theater, trampeling and killing a someone in the panic, I'm responsible for the very predictable consequences. If I promote tea leaves as
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by perspective1 7y ago
It's a plausible mechanism but a bogus study. With most of their confidence intervals including hazard ratios of 1.0 (or very close to it), they need to rule out even slight correlations like smoking and (low) income. Recall bias of th
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by perspective1 7y ago
In theory, sure. But according to most of my domain WHOIS records, the technical contact is somebody named asdflkj_34890f@privacyprotection.com.
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by perspective1 7y ago
Exactly this. It's mostly just the ivory-tower kind of docs that say "acetaminophen" over "Tylenol." If you use the generic of something like Zosyn "Pipercillin/Tazobactam" you'll firmly go in th
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by perspective1 7y ago
How is this different than a standard opening database? Chessgames.com has had this for probably at least 10 years-- https://www.chessgames.com/perl/explorer as do a bunch of other sites and software packages.
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by perspective1 7y ago
> I can assure you that the general population has no idea what half the nouns in that sentence mean, let alone how to do any of that. Keep in mind you're on HN -- we tend to be a more technical population :). If you're intere
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by perspective1 7y ago
Just use iptables on your firewall/router to reroute all traffic on port 53 to your DNS server.
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by perspective1 7y ago
There's so much effort put into timing the next recession. It's not just that they can't even do that with meaningful certainty-- it's that they also can't tell you how significant the recession will be. I mean, wit
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by perspective1 7y ago
IANAL but the basic sniff test is could "Postwoman" be confused with "Postman?" I think the answer is yes. With the author calling it an alternative to "Postman," you have the author acknowledging Postman is a
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by perspective1 7y ago
Why do you say that? With the slope and adjustable suspension I'd think it'd be easier-- you just lower the truck and brush the snow down in a few swoops.
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by perspective1 7y ago
I don't think SpaceX ever made that accusation. At the time (2016) Musk said the cause of failure was unknown. He was asked directly about sabotage on Twitter and replied that they didn't rule that out. As far as I can tell, the f
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by perspective1 7y ago
During prototype tests you don't have to target 6-sigma, obviously, but I hope we get a post-mortem without spin.
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Why the electric-car revolution may take a lot longer than expected(technologyreview.com)
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by perspective1 7y ago
Okay but the one time you might expect "teachers" to get the documentation right is when they're throwing their kids into solitary confinement.
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by perspective1 7y ago
Sounds like you only know teachers in Illinois.
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by perspective1 7y ago
> Eli, 7, was secluded more than a dozen times in kindergarten and nearly 50 times in first grade while attending The Center in East Moline, records show What. the. fuck?
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by perspective1 7y ago
I'm with you. You're contributing a thought piece and unobtrusively include a link to your bank at the bottom. It's not overtly biased, and it's neat you're getting attention for your banking app by, instead of desc
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by perspective1 7y ago
In that quote the CEO's describing operating cash flow, a GAAP measure. Nothing about it is unconventional. And it includes real-world depreciation to a large degree since maintenance costs are part of operating expenditures. The probl
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by perspective1 7y ago
Which are? Having ridden on buses and Amtrak, buses go to the same places and more, cheaper, faster, with more available times, and keeping on schedule (the NE corridor may be faster and on schedule, I'm not in that part of the country
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by perspective1 7y ago
You could argue that roads ought to be fully funded according to use and therefore turn a profit. Something like a value-added tax. Just about every other essential business turns economic value into profit-- if Amtrak services were so valu
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by perspective1 7y ago
HFTs scale their operation across a huge population of securities. These Ukranians apparently targeted just a handful.
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by perspective1 7y ago
So did Magic Leap default, or is the loan newly made with JPM to hold the patents while the loan is outstanding? Seems like the IP in this case isn't very valuable to JPM* and this is more just another way to guarantee the seniority of
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by perspective1 7y ago
The idea that the (whole economy) = (physics + retail + financials + other stuff) seems like somebody made a type error. You can't just add a research field to industries. I guess you could draw out 2 separate pies: 1 of GDP by industr
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by perspective1 7y ago
Thanks. Lately Vice has been writing more and more outrage-bait titles/leads and burying the true story way below the fold. I guess it gets them the most shares.
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by perspective1 7y ago
That's terrible specificity, but with a very high sensitivity the test may still have value as a "rule-out" type test. That is, you do this and if it's positive, you do a mammogram. Mammograms are generally very uncomfor
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by perspective1 7y ago
Actual date: 2013. And, now submitted 7 times in the past year: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lhpedersen.com .
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by perspective1 7y ago
Ah, the whole work backwards trick.

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