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billjive··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
It literally is The Onion, from their print paper last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1gz53b0/the_easiest_...
billjive··on 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
“Near” zero??

Leslie Groves, Oppenheimer

billjive··on I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
Yeah, almost pivoted to fantasy sports! Clinical trials are more interesting :)
billjive··on I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
Sorry to hear this, thank you for publishing your account.

I first found you years ago from your nfldb project: https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb and since then have used xsv and ripgrep.

Also, thank you for participating in the clinical trial. I pivoted my tech career several years ago to focus on that industry (the tech isn't great, I'm trying to help that). Along the way I've learned how important it is to participate in this research, it makes a massive difference so thank you.

billjive··on "Poetry City": Iowa City, Iowa
Any City High grads here? The School That Leads... :)
billjive··on "Poetry City": Iowa City, Iowa
I'm from Iowa City! It's awesome to see this pop up on HN. IC has a number of great older bars like this. Sadly my favorite (The Sanctuary) closed recently and may be lost forever.
billjive··on Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?
This specific quote from the article made me think of lawmaking - the more detailed the law the harder it is to pass (someone can always fine something to nitpick). Therefore, laws are best at establishing goals, principles, guide rails, etc. Nothing is perfect but the way in which laws are implemented SHOULD remain a separate part of the law passage.

Separate rant: I live on the west coast and am annoyed when I vote because of the number of ballot measures. None of them are sufficiently detailed and fall victim to vague language that's open to interpretation. I'd rather "hire" law makers to do the hard work of details law creation.

billjive··on Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?
That is right, and further - I think about IRBs like I do non-profit boards. One of the key tasks of a board is to determine what risk the organization is willing to bear. I think the IRBs at these institutions are 1) following federal laws but 2) making a judgement on the risk the institution is willing to sign up for. For example, for many clinical trials are distributed to multiple "sites" where the trial is actually administered. Many of these sites are universities. What the University of Iowa is willing to bear is different than the University of Michigan and the IRBs reflect that.
billjive··on Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?
There are different IRBs to review animal research[1]. I believe it created for an ethical framework around the use of animals in science. Same thing: what are "we" accepting of when it comes to research of this nature?

[1] example: https://animalcare.umich.edu/institutional-animal-care-use-c...

billjive··on Intel’s board, and an example of when boards and short-termism fail
Jim and I were on my company's board (Jive) and he absolutely has a technical background.
billjive··on Martin Luther King on “Guaranteed Income” (1967)
I would highly recommend "Hellhound on His Trail." Both a good look at King and the hunt for the assassain: https://www.amazon.com/Hellhound-His-Trail-Electrifying-Amer...
billjive··on Autoscaling, Welcome to Google Compute Engine
The problem with this statement is that Amazon is largely matching firebase functionality. They just announced streaming JSON out of dynamodb, and the new lambda functionality means you can trigger events on changes and push out updates. It wasn't explicitly stated but I viewed this as a firebase competitor.
billjive··on My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS
How did Amazon detect your key in the wild? Or did they notice based on usage patterns/activity in your instances?