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aeries··on Quebec provides universal childcare for less than $7 a day
Isn't OP just arguing that, on balance, the other provinces subsidize Quebec via federal taxes?
aeries··on 'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket
Your proposal is so bizarrely out of proportion with the harm caused that I can’t tell if it’s parody or not. Why not execute them while you’re at it?
aeries··on The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died
For services like this, I always use my own domain which can easily be re-mapped or hosted myself. E.g. "checkip.mydomain.com"
aeries··on Jump Trading, Virtu and the 'hidden optical fibre cable' under an Ohio field
You could randomize the batching deadline.
aeries··on Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)
Watching Youtube videos can make us believe we understand a topic better, but that's not necessarily the case. And without a good understanding of that topic to begin with, it's hard to know why we're wrong.

Imagine watching a super compelling Youtube video explaining why dinosaurs never existed, and so you now think that's a credible hypothesis. You would probably know more facts about dinosaurs and paleontology than the average person, but I'd argue that your understanding of dinosaurs has actually gone down.

I see a similar thing happening here. You and Paul are able to cite lots of facts about Linoleic Acid. But there's a whole body of experimental human research showing that, if anything, LA-rich oils probably slightly improve insulin sensitivity, inflammation, lipids etc. But Paul either isn't aware of this or chooses not to show you because it contradicts his claims. So you're left with the wrong impression about LA and seed oils, despite thinking that your understanding has gone up.

aeries··on Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)
Paul Saladino isn't a credible source of information or theories. He's a non-practicing psychiatrist and social media influencer who's gotten rich making contrarian videos and selling supplements.
aeries··on Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)
Except the human studies we have suggest that seed oils are probably not inflammatory. A few examples are listed in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xTaAHSFHUU
aeries··on Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)
More than simply a marker, it's a causal risk factor for ASCVD.
aeries··on Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023
Unfortunately Backblaze requires[1] you to provide them this private key to restore.

[1] https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038171794-Wh...

aeries··on Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023
Arq is the best set-and-forget option I know of for macOS.
aeries··on Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states
I'm not following the point of this comment? TurboTax's correctness is battle-tested by millions of people every year- the odds of you making a mistake carrying over numbers by hand are way higher than TT making a calculation error.
aeries··on Ask HN: Best practices for safeguarding master password in organization?
Can we please keep these low-effort flames off of Hacker News? 1password is clearly offering value to somebody, as they have millions of users. Feel free to criticize it, but at least give specifics.
aeries··on Health Services as Credence Goods: a Field Experiment (2020)
Please leave this knee-jerk vitriol off of Hacker News. We come here from other sites to avoid this stuff, not to see more of it.
aeries··on RDP Clients for Debian: An incomplete review
You're probably aware of this, but once the connection has been mediated via the cloud, data will usually flow directly between client and server. But yes, to avoid this initial connection mediation, you'll need the "Cloudless Fluid Connections" from the Enterprise team plan[0]. I use the basic $35 single user macOS program which requires cloud mediation.

I don't like the forced cloud mediation either, but the protocol is just so much better, almost comically better, than NoMachine, RDP-over-macOS, VNC, X11-forwarding, Screen Sharing.app, etc.

[0] https://app.jumpdesktop.com/pricing

aeries··on RDP Clients for Debian: An incomplete review
The best alternative I've found for macOS is Jump Desktop's Fluid protocol.
aeries··on RDP Clients for Debian: An incomplete review
Jump Desktop’s Fluid protocol is shockingly good- by far the best remote desktop solution I’ve ever found for macOS.
aeries··on Get better sleep – Anecdata and sleep tech
This is exactly what happened for me- optimizing my light and sound just made it harder to sleep under all but the most perfect conditions.
aeries··on No One Wanted A&W's Third-Pound Burger (2016)
In the financial world we think in bps (units of 0.01%), so it would be standard to write percentages with 2 decimals so you can easily see it's 10bps at a glance.
aeries··on 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App
A-10 Attack! was a truly wonderful game- the flight model was so impressive.
aeries··on Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack
maps.me has saved me many times in places with zero connectivity. I can also import my planned adventures as kml files to be sure I'm on track.
aeries··on Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes
Basic econ theory shows that tax burdens are shared by consumer and producer, regardless of who legally pays.
aeries··on The life and death of a laptop battery (2015)
It had probably already lost the 3% but now realized it after your unintentional "calibration".
aeries··on MacOS command line version of the WireGuard VPN is now available for testing
When both sides are OpenVPN 2.4+, AES-256-GCM will be negotiated by default.
aeries··on MacOS command line version of the WireGuard VPN is now available for testing
I've found UDP over OpenVPN to work fairly well even on bad networks. Well-supported on iOS too with the OpenVPN Connect app.
aeries··on Basecoin, aka the Basis Protocol
I can't speak for their coding abilities (which are a poor proxy for company founding abilities anyways), but Nader and Lawrence are both very sharp guys.
aeries··on Ask HN: What is/are the best documentation(s) you have ever read?
OpenBSD's manpages are fantastic.