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by thornjm 9mo ago
Anecdotally, this article seems to match with what I am witnessing regarding browsing habits. I am planning a big trip with others and everything is being found via social media apps; destination ideas, experiences, cafes, accommodation, et
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by thornjm 1y ago
The pattern of: - Some channels being affected more than others - Likes remaining stable - Revenue remaining stable Could be explained by Youtube only counting non-adblocked views. Perhaps an attempt to align Youtube's goals with creat
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CyBearsCTF 2019: Block Dude Writeup(greenbender.github.io)
4 points by thornjm 1y ago|1 comments
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by thornjm 1y ago
Source for anyone wanting to try host it themselves: https://gitlab.com/cybears/fall-of-cybeartron/-/tree/master/...
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by thornjm 2y ago
Would appreciate anyone summarising the key differences here as I can't watch the video at the moment.
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by thornjm 2y ago
Many staff in different roles, 3+ shifts a day, 365 days a year is a lot of labour costs. Replacing even a fraction of labour is likely $100K a year of potential investment. More so in expensive labour countries.
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Tell HN: your next idea should focus on aged care
130 points by thornjm 2y ago|137 comments
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by thornjm 2y ago
Not sure if you already have this but something you could steal from the medical world is shortcuts to describe relative dates / time: n+60 (is now + 60m) n-10 (is 10m ago) t+1 (is today + 1d) w+2 (is two weeks from now) m+12 (is 12 mo
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by thornjm 3y ago
Off topic because I am skeptical of the claims in the first place. As a general principle: the licensing exam is not the benchmark AI should be evaluated against to then go about calling itself a doctor. I'm from a different country bu
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by thornjm 4y ago
I found the origin of ECT quite interesting: depressed people with epilepsy had dramatic improvement in their symptoms following a seizure. They also discovered that the type and location of the seizures had varying levels of effect.
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by thornjm 4y ago
There is some evidence that "aerobic exercise" itself produces an equivalent baseline energy deficit without the performance downside. This guy[0] studies total average energy expenditure over time and demonstrates that an athlete
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by thornjm 4y ago
I worry this comment is overly dismissive of criticisms and overly optimistic about potential positives. On medicine topics I think it is important to try remain objective. 1. On DXM being an NMDA antagonist: At high concentration DXM is
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Ask HN: Can “open source” be used for evil?
2 points by thornjm 4y ago|1 comments
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by thornjm 4y ago
The article said Dolby prefers to charge on the playback side. Does anyone know if Apple pays Dolby anything? iPhones produce a lot of content so it makes sense for Dolby to provide Apple with free licensing if it popularises the formats.
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by thornjm 4y ago
Fatty liver and high fat in blood is a disease and a risk factor for serious disease respectively. This study appears to show that fasting is related to inducing the gene Slc25a51 and improving those factors. I guess this contributes to the
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Tell HN: Private Relay (iCloud) is a killer feature
4 points by thornjm 4y ago|1 comments
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by thornjm 4y ago
Perhaps the title should be editorialised to reflect that it was an extortion attempt by an insider?
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by thornjm 5y ago
You could open the link in a new private browsing window and enter an incorrect guess.
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by thornjm 5y ago
Targeting doesn’t have to occur at the cell surface does it? Perhaps something like introducing tumour suppressor genes to every cell. They’ll have no effect on healthy cells yet detect “badness” in cancerous cells and terminate them.
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by thornjm 5y ago
Neo: “Are you trying to tell me that I can alter DNA?” Morpheus: “no Neo, I’m trying to tell you that when you’re ready you won’t have to” Altering the DNA is unnecessary if you can control the expression of genes or add additional genetic
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by thornjm 5y ago
Sorry for the late reply. This is what comes up when I google News Corp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corp_Australia#Television
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by thornjm 5y ago
The easiest way to lie is with statistics. It’s also true that: News Corp earns 40% of total Australian television revenues — combining free-to-air television advertising and subscriptions — almost double that of second- place holder Nine.
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by thornjm 5y ago
Med Student here so possibly wrong but... There is a well established link between oestrogen and increased blood coagulability. Whilst it is possible females are more affected by the vaccine I suspect one factor is that their baseline coagu
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by thornjm 6y ago
I posted this in a few cancer threads with good response: the seminal work on cancer is actually a really quite approachable and short free paper - “Hallmarks of Cancer” by Hanahan and Weinberg. For anyone wishing to understand the fundamen
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by thornjm 6y ago
I have no evidence to support this, but to me, autism seems like a poor label for a broad and diverse set of traits we don’t fully understand. Over time I think the number of things autism describes will shrink and eventually the term will
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by thornjm 6y ago
Note this is a just a single case report. A single case report is an interesting starting point but in the hierarchy of evidence [0] it is the lowest or doesn't even make the scale. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by thornjm 6y ago
There is an excellent pre-packaged VM with levels of challenges that take you through the basics of exploitation to quite advanced levels called "Modern Binary Exploitation" [0]. I would highly recommend it. You can also do the ch
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by thornjm 6y ago
The column is explicitly labelled "effective vs theoretical" though. There is nothing misleading there.
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by thornjm 6y ago
It's a tough read without much prior knowledge but the seminal work is: Hallmarks of Cancer by Hanahan and Weinberg (I think this is an updated version: [1]). It introduces the fundamental features of all cancers. Every cancer ends up
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by thornjm 6y ago
Related CTF challenge you can undertake yourself: https://gitlab.com/cybears/fall-of-cybeartron/-/tree/master/... Write-up of solution: https://greenbender.github.io/ctf-writeup&#x2F

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