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diag··on Ask HN: Do you think 'normal' working will ever return?
That's just what my wife has started doing. It's an easy division when you stop looking at emails after 5.
diag··on Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
Intellectual purity isn't good for the end user.
diag··on Five Buck Fatigue
But how is that worth the sacrifice of not having pleasure in life? Media isn't some purely extraneous feature in life, it's far more important that you're suggesting.
diag··on Five Buck Fatigue
When you say you're buying a product or result, you're still paying for the production indirectly.
diag··on ByteDance investors value TikTok at $50B in takeover bid
Youtube does a pretty good job of recommending new content though.
diag··on Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores
Cool, how accessible is that for every person needing food in every instance? Theft in this case is victimless.
diag··on Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores
Well, anybody starving is immoral. Food theft only hurts profits, not people. Also, ramen is wildly unhealthy being starch and salt with no other nutrients.
diag··on The Greatest Teaching Techniques Don't Compute over Zoom
People hate change, that's one thing I've come to expect.
diag··on The Greatest Teaching Techniques Don't Compute over Zoom
The advocacy for 100% remote is motivated by the fact that there's the need to stay away from groups for an unknown amount of time. It's not short sighted, it's necessary.
diag··on Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first
There are a lot of opportunities for the data to skewed in a highly biased manner.
diag··on Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first
How do you deal with police forces ignoring policy and performing as they deem fit all while protecting themselves?
diag··on The business of tear gas
The cops should never be escalating. That's the point.
diag··on The business of tear gas
Experiencing tear gas doesn't come without long term effects on health. There are also many varieties available, but CS is pretty rough and the most common form used in the US.
diag··on The business of tear gas
You're ignoring the fact that crowds of nonviolent protestors are being sprayed and gassed without any provocation. The cops are being blatantly abusive in their application.
diag··on Seattle to permanently close 20 miles of streets to traffic
Residential traffic and related activities are unaffected.
diag··on Scientists create antibody that defeats coronavirus in lab
Protein concentration is essentially always presented as mass/volume in every scientific paper I've ever read.
diag··on Closing The Collapse Gap: The USSR was better prepared than the US (2006)
Medicare is hardly a wealth redistribution scheme. Everybody needs healthcare.

While a fully organized single payer health system is obviously a massive expense, it is still the more financially moderate option compared to what we have today.

diag··on Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update
I find typing on the butterfly keyboard strange but pleasant. It made me change the way I handle the keyboard though due to the nearly nonexistent travel in the switches.
diag··on Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update
How long were VGA ports commonplace in laptops? Few, if any, laptop OEMs were interested in trying to refine the mobile experience until just a few years ago.
diag··on The coronavirus crisis will end, but the distributed newsroom is here to stay
It's amazing what a few blankets and a USB microphone will do for audio quality.
diag··on Stanford Student Claims to Run Bootleg Covid-19 Testing Lab
Antibody tests are also fairly unreliable in a number of circumstances as well.
diag··on Detection of Airborne Viruses
With all things RNA related, sample prep and PCR amplification are the most important steps for good detection with any sequencing platform.

Those factors alone make sequencing alone a near impossibility in rapid detection. PCR based assays are a much better candidate and could identify different strains in less than a few hours.

diag··on Covid-19 now exists in two forms, indicating it's already mutated at least once
Just to be clarify, B cells undergo somatic hypermutation while undergoing expansion after antigen recognition. On re-exposure, memory cells will be available to identify existing antigens and re-expand the B cells involved with attacking the viral particles.
diag··on Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal
At least this one is short and easy to read.
diag··on Indian police open case against hundreds in Kashmir for using VPN
History shows that nationalism has a very direct path to fascism.
diag··on Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75
What's the benefit of breaking services for a subset of your customers? I can't think of any.
diag··on Human body temperature has decreased in United States, study finds
That would be thymus, not thyroid. Those are pretty different glands.
diag··on A Navy Seal's Semester at Yale, at Age 52
It's not up you how somebody wants to be addressed after requesting it. You don't have to harbor cruel feelings about it. Singular they has been used in English for a long time historically.
diag··on A Navy Seal's Semester at Yale, at Age 52
All you have to do if you say something offensive to somebody is say "I'm sorry, I won't say that again. I'll be more accommodating in the future."
diag··on Juul Shipped At Least 1M Contaminated Pods, New Lawsuit Says
Do you mention HCN facetiously? Because there's a fair amount of that in cigarettes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4518591/

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