theparanoid

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by theparanoid 3mo ago
The targeted scans and tests that we already do offer surprising little benefit. Mammogram screening based on randomized-trial all-cause mortality, has not shown a measurable reduction in total deaths. Randomized colonoscopy screening has n
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by theparanoid 1y ago
Word docs being the medium of exchange created enough of a network effect. I remember trying to use other programs but importing/exporting to Word wasn't perfect.
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by theparanoid 1y ago
I bought one for my 2020 Toyota Sienna a couple months ago. The best analogy is that it's like upgrading to Tesla Autopilot. It's great for highway and freeway driving but not city streets.
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by theparanoid 2y ago
My classmate from nursing school is an RN at that hospital, I'm not surprised.
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by theparanoid 2y ago
Intel's decline was obvious when I worked for them in 2010, their compensation package wasn't competitive with FANG and they consistently missed out or lost their better engineers.
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by theparanoid 3y ago
The article is a nicely illustrated analysis of the issues (migration policy) driving the increase.
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by theparanoid 4y ago
After a decade as a software engineer I became a nurse. It has its pros and cons. The defining difference is shift work vs project work. In California the pay is similar to tech which is a plus. Also watching all my previous teammates get l
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Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership(airwaysmag.com)
201 points by theparanoid 4y ago|245 comments
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by theparanoid 4y ago
No, if they catch you they'll ban both accounts. They banned a conservative political activist's husband's account preemptively after banning her, https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-malkin-banned-airbnb-attendi..
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by theparanoid 4y ago
It's not Republican. In the last presidential election, the county voted 60% Democrat (Pine Bluffs is the largest city and county seat).
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by theparanoid 4y ago
International travel. My bank (credit union) and cell phone provider (AT&T) both block non-US access. I also use it to get around Vietnam's blocking of websites e.g. BBC.
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by theparanoid 5y ago
Send a death certificate.
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by theparanoid 5y ago
Bruce linked to his own opinion piece in Wired.
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by theparanoid 5y ago
I tried to register via Google at https://fountaincards.com/register and received a 404.
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by theparanoid 5y ago
I doing my part by drawing it in cartoons.
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by theparanoid 5y ago
The irony considering YouTube's step up of purging channels with alternative viewpoints.
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by theparanoid 5y ago
A more interesting paper is Life Before Earth, https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3381 , analyzing biological complexity and projecting into the past for an origin of 9.7 billion years ago.
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by theparanoid 6y ago
A compelling critique that Go's embodiment of the "Worse is better" philosophy from Unix is to its detriment.
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by theparanoid 6y ago
Anything but the simplest regexes are tricky to correctly write.
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by theparanoid 6y ago
Go 2 will have generics, https://blog.golang.org/generics-next-step
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by theparanoid 7y ago
NPV is more sensitive to major than college. A Berkeley liberal arts degree has lower lifetime earnings than a Cal State nursing degree.
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by theparanoid 7y ago
How did it affect you romantically?
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by theparanoid 7y ago
I'm bearish on Intel. The culture is conservative and unwilling to compete with FANG on pay for employees.
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by theparanoid 7y ago
It's OK with CrossOver for Linux. I ended up just using Krita. If you're a heavy Adobe user Chromebooks are underpowered (except the Pixel).
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by theparanoid 7y ago
CrossOver has a beta Android version that I use to run IE, Adobe Reader, etc.
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by theparanoid 7y ago
The chances of a girl being offended by being asked out are relatively low in any case; Girls are not nice to unattractive men.
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by theparanoid 7y ago
A significant percentage of people are not financially stable enough to buy a home and pay a monthly mortgage on time for 15-30 years. But they are able to rent.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
IQ tests are one of the best-known predictors of performance in any occupation.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
This is the end of Urbit.
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by theparanoid 8y ago
Everybody at my old company was laid after 50, flexible hours: full-time, part-time, on-call, and working 40 hours a week in a cubicle gets really old.

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