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iab··on Virtual classes allow school districts to do away with traditional snow days
This will be replaced by us-east-1 failure days
iab··on What the Hell Is This Company the 76ers Just Partnered With?
Given that you have to infer meaning from context (which can be subjective; in this case, are you being snarky or not? (Not so, but there is ambiguity)), it is better to assume good faith in the question and respond directly. It lacks sophistication, but minimizes cross-talk as much as is feasible.
iab··on What the Hell Is This Company the 76ers Just Partnered With?
How would you differentiate between what you wrote, and someone genuinely asking the same question?
iab··on “Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)
What status is conferred by having autism?
iab··on People are giving NFTs as gifts
https://i.redd.it/totv41t96e781.jpg
iab··on The Risk of Vaccinated Covid Transmission Is Not Low
I actually agree with the sentiment, but there is just no way to realistically apply this. There will always be a significant number of people in the "gray" zone (can't get vaccinated because of some other health condition, as a simple example) and so the burden of determining who is "good" and who is no tis on the already over-burdened staff. This is why triage has historically been, and will conceivably always be, the way hospitals adjudicate care .
iab··on Scientists and Engineers Letter to President Biden on the Nuclear Posture Review [pdf]
> there would be no pressure to use SLBMs quickly in response to warning of an incoming attack because they are invulnerable.

This is an incredibly strong statement, no single system can be said to be invulnerable

iab··on The Risk of Vaccinated Covid Transmission Is Not Low
Whether people agree with you or not isn't the real issue here IMO. If this approach were to be adopted, it would be up to the physicians and other front-line workers to make the prioritization call, which adds too much of a burden to them.
iab··on People are giving NFTs as gifts
"Here grandpa - it's an NFT! No, not just a picture of a monkey. Well, not even the picture because the copyright wasn't transf... no, you own a verifiable entry on the blockchain that... What is a blockchain? Well it's a distributed ledger system that allows people ... ok yes I can see if I can get a refund"
iab··on I’m the “SpaceX intern” who said Satoshi is Elon Musk. There's more to the story
Turns out there wasn't that much more to the story
iab··on Alternative rocket builder SpinLaunch completes first test flight
That launch exit was not clean at all
iab··on Non-Fungible Olive Gardens
HighSea? BeamSea? BeSeaGe? DejaView? Let's brainstorm here
iab··on Disney NFT Collection (Unofficial)
This was absolutely the wrong company to try this with
iab··on Bitcoin ‘may not last that much longer,’ academic warns
Easiest over I've ever taken
iab··on Melania Trump announces NFT venture
NFTers gonna NFT
iab··on Man Searches Through Landfill for 8 Years for $350M Lost Bitcoin Wallet
Is it better to have mined and lost, than to have never mined at all
iab··on Moderna a.k.a. Spikevax Covid-19 Vaccine
BooBoosBeGone (tm)
iab··on California halts Pony.ai's driverless testing permit after accident
That software bug will buff right out
iab··on SpaceX plans to take CO2 out of atmosphere and turn it into rocket fuel
I plan to turn common household waste into gold-bars, please join if interested:

twitter.com/vap-o-ware

iab··on Better.com CEO Vishal Garg steps back as employees detail how he ‘led by fear’
One of the wildest things I have ever read
iab··on To Avoid Armageddon, Don’t Modernize Missiles–Eliminate Them
This is the continual tension between efficacy/safety. This approach would be similar to something like the PAL 0...0 issue[1] and is something that the military chain-of-command would bristle against aggressively I would think.

1. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nuclear-missile-code-00000000...

iab··on Can we hire based on whether the applicant rents or owns?
Inflection? Grosse? Needle??
iab··on The Math Is Bad for MAD
Previously ;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29203763 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29314236

iab··on [dead]
Wouldn’t business cards be the definition of fungible, and pictures of them even more so?
iab··on Baldwin in Brahman: A trip to the hospital is more real than your politics
The writing here hit me like a ton of bricks. Thanks for posting.
iab··on Ridley Scott Pins ‘The Last Duel’ Bombing on Apathetic Millennials
I have been looking for a name for people not understanding which is the millennial generation - maybe “Ridleys Law”?
iab··on [dead]
The number, and frequency, of these articles on HN has increased significantly over the last few months.
iab··on LinkedIn breaks because of too many tracking cookies
This is actually incredibly useful
iab··on These Americans Are Just Going Around in Circles. It Helps the Climate
It seems that swapping out n-way stops for circles is almost always better, unless they have signals on them IMO. Or unless you have the circle turduckien one Swindon.
iab··on Rise of Crypto.com: from university blog to home of the LA Lakers
I’m trying to decide on whether “the crypt” is a marketing flash of brilliance, or a giant mistake
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