thecyborganizer

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by thecyborganizer 7mo ago
xkcd explored this question. too fuel-inefficient to be practical. much better to use that same fuel to run a giant snowblower (and move the snow rather than melt it). https://what-if.xkcd.com/130/
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by thecyborganizer 2y ago
An enormous amount - see, for example, this study: https://www.voteriders.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CDCE_V... About 10% of eligible voters don't have the ID they would need. The people most lik
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by thecyborganizer 2y ago
Total nonsense, there are no studies that link colic to formula feeding. Some newborns have digestive problems with formula; some newborns have digestive problems with breast milk. Formula digestive problems can sometimes be helped by switc
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by thecyborganizer 2y ago
It would be safe and effective if we had a mechanism of distributing nuclear waste evenly throughout the entire volume of the Earth's oceans. But we don't have that and that's impossible to build! Dumping nuclear waste into t
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by thecyborganizer 3y ago
As a doctor, why bother spending your time learning about exotic foreign cancer treatments that aren't available in your country, and your patients couldn't afford if they were? It would be nice if doctors did anyway, but I can ce
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by thecyborganizer 3y ago
I shared this with my spouse, who worked for an ag startup in Boston (still exists, different leadership, who knows what they're up to now). They had this to say on the matter: One big competitive advantage of [company] was that we wer
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by thecyborganizer 3y ago
Paying a fee per job done, rather than a wage per hour of labor, is literally the entire point of the gig economy. Uber/DoorDash/etc. claim this is a perk, since you can set your own hours. However, food delivery gig workers in Ne
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by thecyborganizer 3y ago
From STYLE.TXT: - True=7 - Having lots of very low-level code and hardware experience, I developed a bit of tendancy to "minimize what can go wrong at low levels" - C treats 0==FALSE and !0==TRUE - most people use 0&#x2
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by thecyborganizer 3y ago
You can use Transit App in many cities around the world other than New York! It's a great piece of software, I rely on it heavily when navigating unfamiliar transit systems while traveling. https://transitapp.com/region
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by thecyborganizer 3y ago
The mugger is a deontologist, right? We're already assuming that he'll keep his promises.
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by thecyborganizer 3y ago
they do! https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/veterans-and-gold-star-fam...
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by thecyborganizer 3y ago
Your high school debates were judged by a jury of your peers? We had a bored teacher on their day off. (Or sometimes a parent, or an alumni.)
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by thecyborganizer 3y ago
New-in-box Pebbles can still be found on eBay, and a clone of Pebble's web services is actively maintained and supported by the Rebble community: https://rebble.io/
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by thecyborganizer 3y ago
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" - John Maynard Keynes
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by thecyborganizer 3y ago
If you tell a Czech that they live in Eastern Europe, they will get very upset! They consider themselves to be in Central Europe. I learned this the hard way!
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by thecyborganizer 3y ago
I don't know if they have explicit partnerships, but it's certainly a program that case workers in the foster care system are aware of. My foster daughter's case worker explored it with her as one of a range of options after
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by thecyborganizer 3y ago
Some doctors are like you're describing. I posit that the best doctors are ones who realize that the domain of "health" is broad and encompasses things that aren't germs. Geiger believed that the greatest threat to publi
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by thecyborganizer 3y ago
Dr. H. Jack Geiger famously wrote prescriptions for groceries out of his clinic in Mississippi - when challenged on the practice, he replied, "Yeah, well, the last time I looked in my medical textbooks, they said the specific therapy f
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by thecyborganizer 3y ago
Wilson discusses her choices in the translation of that first line in great detail in this interview for the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-woman-... You're we
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by thecyborganizer 4y ago
18 USC 1702 only applies if you are opening someone else's mail because you want to "obstruct the correspondence, or to pry into the business or secrets of another". Presumably the courts have determined that this does not ap
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by thecyborganizer 4y ago
Your state certainly has a law permitting letters sent to prisoners to be opened and inspected. Mine does: Incoming mail may be opened, inspected for contraband and read by authorized institutional staff within the guidelines set forth
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by thecyborganizer 4y ago
The customers who deposited $150 million expect some rate of return on their deposits - in fact, you promised it to them. In a year that $150 million needs to turn into $155 million or whatever. So you need to lend it out, and charge intere
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by thecyborganizer 5y ago
Isn't a rooftop water-cooling radiator just a swamp cooler? Common in dry climates.
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by thecyborganizer 7y ago
https://i.imgur.com/1G4oZj5.png
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by thecyborganizer 7y ago
I currently work in the laser engraving industry, and I can confirm everything you've said to be true. However, I wanted to let you know about some extremely cool technology that I had the opportunity to experiment with a year ago or s
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by thecyborganizer 7y ago
There's some interesting game theory at work here. I remember learning in the early days of ransomware that the hackers would typically provide excellent customer service to the targets. They'd always promptly respond to emails or
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by thecyborganizer 7y ago
I initially posted this story last week, and it didn't get much attention - curiously, the next day I received an email from dang asking that I repost it! From the email: This is part of an experiment in giving good HN submissions mul
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The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois(propublica.org)
118 points by thecyborganizer 7y ago|37 comments
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The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois(propublica.org)
5 points by thecyborganizer 7y ago|1 comments
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by thecyborganizer 7y ago
The victim list is a good idea, but it wouldn't have prevented this shooting - the victim in this case was simply the hapless individual living at the former address of the intended target (who gave that address to the swatter). The vi

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