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by samdcbu 2y ago
Antibiotic resistant MRSA kills thousands of people a year in the US. The idea that he went to the hospital with pneumonia and then contracted antibiotic resistant MRSA from the hospital environment is very plausible.
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by samdcbu 3y ago
SETI received ~$28m in donations and contributions in 2022, according to their tax filings [1] As mentioned in the press release, contribution will be used at least in part as an endowment, providing perpetual funding for ongoing programs.
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by samdcbu 3y ago
https://archive.li/oI1A1
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by samdcbu 3y ago
Most of Comcast’s internet is exchanged through transit-free peering agreements, so only about 1% of Comcast’s outbound traffic requires them to pay for IP transit. And that traffic is mainly overseas, so Comcast is effectively a Tier 1 net
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by samdcbu 3y ago
US Internet (private fiber ISP in the Twin Cities) is an anomaly, not the norm. Minneapolis is incredibly lucky to have a local, private ISP that offers fiber to the home at up to 10 gigabit/s. The only other ISPs in the US that I know
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by samdcbu 3y ago
> that blog post for the past week https://blog.cr.yp.to/20231003-countcorrectly.html
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by samdcbu 3y ago
MDMA was first synthesized in 1912 by Merck. Merck and US Army did several animal trials in the 1950s, but by the end of the decade MDMA was shelved and thought to have no therapeutic benefit. It wasn’t until Sasha Shulgin rediscovered it i
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by samdcbu 3y ago
The American version of the BBC: PBS
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by samdcbu 3y ago
If someone is already in the middle of no where, 2.4 GHz congestion isn’t a problem for them. I’m always for more unlicensed spectrum. But I strongly disagree with your distaste for the FCC’s reverse auctions of spectrum. Wireless Spectrum
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by samdcbu 3y ago
Finally, somewhere that is covering the issues I care about but that the mainstream media refuses to cover.
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by samdcbu 3y ago
From an SLA uptime perspective, it’s also worth considering that you don’t have a whole team working to fix your self-hosted Gitlab server when it goes down. So one outage overnight of your self-hosted server could be more downtime than mor
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by samdcbu 3y ago
The increasing prices of IPv4 address blocks will probably drive adoption of IPv6. The increased complexity will be outweighed by the elimination of scarcity that IPv6 brings. If we are still using IPv4 in 2100 that would be tragic. IPv4 bl
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by samdcbu 3y ago
“Hexagons are the bestagons” https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY
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by samdcbu 3y ago
> “It’s just like building on top of AWS or GCP.” If you applied your logic to the use of cloud services then companies like Vercel shouldn’t call themselves a hosting provider because they use AWS. “It’s just a UI that calls the AWS API
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by samdcbu 3y ago
This is AI research, not product development. The project’s goal was to apply deep reinforcement learning to a complex and varied real world task. Google has no desire to sell trash sorting robots.
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by samdcbu 3y ago
and then in 2017 Friedman’s former department was renamed the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics after he donated 150m
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by samdcbu 3y ago
He previously donated $150m to Harvard College so his children are already all but guaranteed admission. He already has all the benefits Harvard gives mega donors, there isn’t any marginal benefit to this donation other than a department re
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Build a secure code mindset with the GitHub Secure Code Game(github.blog)
1 points by samdcbu 3y ago|0 comments
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ChatGPT for Semantic Database Management(arxiv.org)
2 points by samdcbu 3y ago|0 comments
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by samdcbu 4y ago
If it was shut down due to a civil injunction for copyright violation, I don’t think the Internet Archive would be able to transfer the Wayback Machine’s data to anyone else without defying that injunction and risk being held in contempt. S
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by samdcbu 4y ago
While some of the recent hype around AI may be due to VCs and the industry looking for the next big thing, it’s a bit absurd to think that AI orgs like OpenAI and Stability were holding back research and then only released it once the crypt
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PrayGen: ChatGPT for Generating Prayers(praygen.com)
12 points by samdcbu 4y ago|6 comments
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by samdcbu 4y ago
No one should be learning Vimscript at this point. That language should have died a long time ago. A new user coming to the Vim ecosystem in 2023 would be best served by using Neovim with Lua.
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by samdcbu 4y ago
It depends on how you’re defining “the spectrum” of healthcare policy. If you placed all European nations on a spectrum comparing their healthcare systems, Germany would be on the right of the spectrum because the private sector has a signi
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by samdcbu 4y ago
I don’t think the NSA has ever been able to directly link any deaths to the Snowden leaks. I also don’t see how the disclosure of NSA sources and methods had any impact on the Russians ability to get John Podesta to click on a phishing emai
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by samdcbu 4y ago
The NSA’s TAO (tailored access operations), the group that wrote Stuxnet and is known to the cybersecurity community as The Equation Group, is not known to work with outside contractors to develop malware. They’re more likely to collaborate
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by samdcbu 4y ago
People with security clearances spill their guts and tell all on their security clearance forms, because not doing so is a felony that the DOJ takes incredibly seriously. People’s most personal and intimate secrets are in those forms. Never
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by samdcbu 4y ago
During the first days of the Washington Post’s reporting on the Snowden documents, the outlet misreported the mechanism for how PRISM obtained it’s data. It was initially reported, seemingly based on Snowden’s misunderstanding of PRISM, tha
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by samdcbu 4y ago
a VC told them to use a bottom-up TAM, so they started at the bottom and now they're here
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by samdcbu 4y ago
The FDIC insures up to $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank. But the FDIC claims process only begins after a bank failure (likely caused by a run on the bank). https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/quarterly-banking-profile

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