rKarpinski

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by rKarpinski 1mo ago
This is a common misconception. BMI while an ok population metric, for individual's the biggest problem with is its poor sensitivity - it fails to classify people as obese who are obese. Using your 6 3" male as an example, they ar
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by rKarpinski 7mo ago
When the Arch Duke was Franz Ferdinand was assassinated would the comments have just been about policy position in the Balkans? There are now 3 active hot conflicts in Eurasia involving different Nuclear armed powers. This is a scary and un
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by rKarpinski 7mo ago
> but at most China will sell some weapons—it won't get too involved. In the Middle-east theatre, no telling what will happen in East Asia.
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by rKarpinski 7mo ago
> I don't know if you're being flippant but the information at universities is neither secret nor sacred. Sure, there is a stupid price for academic journals but most of it can be found freely on the internet. Those institution
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by rKarpinski 7mo ago
Was referring to the SAT and existing credentialism from the college and university system.
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by rKarpinski 7mo ago
> I do wonder if our society would be better if we had more honourifics and formality. China has instituted social media rules based on qualifications. Many indigenous societies have forms of secret and sacred knowledge. In the US we adm
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by rKarpinski 7mo ago
> People tell me that I'm over training, which is ridiculous, because anything less would be easy and contravene the purpose of the workout. This doesn't mean you aren't over training. If it's strength training... Wi
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by rKarpinski 9mo ago
"Globally, Abbott has received reports of 736 severe adverse events (57 in the U.S.) and seven deaths (none in the U.S.) potentially associated with this issue."[1] [1] https://abbott.mediaroom.com/press-releases?i
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by rKarpinski 9mo ago
> Western shows are all about the "you don't have to sacrifice anything to win" and Eastern shows are all about the "you're the chosen one" This probably has more to do with the type of content you are consu
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by rKarpinski 10mo ago
Steve Jobs taking Calligraphy [1] comes to mind [1] https://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc?si=339qOh2AlIr5QC2f&t=204
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by rKarpinski 10mo ago
Whats the context to wanting to stop "bad guys" from using your open source project? Might want to elaborate while you're on the front page!
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by rKarpinski 11mo ago
You basically just described what the NYC "G&T" program is. All it is smaller class sizes and less disruptive students. There are only like 4 actual accelerated learning programs out of the hundreds in NYC's "G&T
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
> the company started as the anti-Oracle. The company was founded by an Oracle executive...
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
Of course!
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
Is that the most provocative thing in the article? I thought it was just puffery.
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
> Bobby Kennedy made that speech, was assassinated shortly afterwards, and Nixon won, prolonging the Vietnam War for another 6 years. Bobby Kennedy, also made a historic speech in Indianapolis that quelled rioting after the MLK assassina
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
I didn't watch more than the first season of the show... but the setting for the novel is an alternate history in the 1960's where FDR had been assassinated in the 30's (failed in our timeline) and the US was isolationist and
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
> (this is one of the premises of The Man in the High Castle, which is likely to age better than most sci fi TV series) The Hugo award winning book it's based on is much better. > FDR’s New Deal saved the entire planet from a des
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
> Well, now that the US has a War Department That was the department's name for 150 years.. until doublespeak became popular in the 1940's
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
> is there an easy way to verify it? No, because they don't enforce their rules against obfuscation. Even if there was it wouldn't help you - extensions regularly get sold to scammers who can push whatever update they want. I d
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
Well aware it's absurdly expensive. I was just highlighting that whats taking 10k/year in public school tuition (18k for Michigan (!) ) to ~130k for the degree is the living expenses, which exist wether or not they attend school.
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
> a decent state university ... He is looking at ~$130K in costs 130k seems high for public school. How much of that is room and board?
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
Whats wrong with verifying the ID? The issue is they decided to roll their own extremely questionable service and insecurely store sensitive images in a public bucket Multiple SAAS vendors provide ID verification for ~$2/each. They sho
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
They make a case for not trusting Hims but not sure why that means I should trust Novo Nordisk
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
-> I'm unsure as to how the US installed him in 1953. He had been Shah for 11 years. Operation Ajax
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
> But every year a small handful of dum-dums made it all the way to exam without having connected two dots, and I have to fail them and tell them that the three semesters they have wasted so far without any teachers calling their bullshi
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
PSA is only one of several diagnostics that would have caught it at the level of care POTUS gets.
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
That might be true in a triage/ER context. Doesn't track when we are talking about a slow, years long chronic illness and someone who over the last 4 years has had personalized healthcare to the tune of 8 figures.
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by rKarpinski 1y ago
Presumably bypassed by turning off hardware acceleration? Like with many streaming sites that also block screen capture.

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