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onions··on Ask HN: My iOS app got stuck in review for a month. What should I do?
This happened to me once, and it ended up taking about 6 weeks before they back got to me. It was a similar “just wait” response the whole time until then.

It turned out to be a very simple change they wanted, but because of the nature of the change I think it’s something they needed to consult their legal team for.

So if they are not giving you any info, but you are able to make an educated guess about what change they might want, you can reject the binary and re-submit. Otherwise you probably will just have to wait.

onions··on Pfizer Covid Shot Bolsters Antibodies in Younger Kids
18 cases. I'm not sure I understand your point about breakthrough infections in other groups; do you mean that a significant percentage of vaccinated individuals are getting infected, compared to unvaccinated individuals?
onions··on Pfizer Covid Shot Bolsters Antibodies in Younger Kids
No, there were plenty of cases in the control group, it's just that there were zero cases in the experimental group. So they know it's very effective, but they were unable to measure the breakthrough infection rate.
onions··on Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II
At current difficulty, 2 hashes/second gives about 614 trillion years to find one block. Not quite the heat death of the universe, but wikipedia says all stars in the universe will have exhausted their fuel.
onions··on Jeff Bezos Passes Bill Gates to Become the World’s Richest Person
I guess I misinterpreted your question as, "What's the use of all that money?" Philanthropy is one use. There are many others.
onions··on Jeff Bezos Passes Bill Gates to Become the World’s Richest Person
I'm sure to a philanthropist it matters. How much would it cost to eradicate malaria? $100B?
onions··on Reykjavik Center Map
We all have different tastes, I guess. Humarsúpa, kjötsúpa, and plokkfiskur are some of the most delicious things I've ever tasted.
onions··on Wat? Scala
To understand what is going on here, note that List(()).toSet() returns true.

The "apply" method in Set introduces tricky issues for little benefit. It should have just been left as "contains".

onions··on A statistical study of inversions (slash chords) in popular music
Actually, in popular music I'd expect I6/4 not to resolve normally to V in a lot of cases, since that's a cadence that sounds characteristically old. I'd expect to a lot of I6/4 straight back to tonic (alternating bass line) or deceptively to vi.
onions··on Facebook Launches Simple Mobile Payments
Apple already rejects apps that switch out to mobile safari for payments.
onions··on N Reduce opens up as alternative to ultra-elite startup incubators
If your name comes from eta reduction, shouldn't it be "H Reduce", not "N Reduce"?
onions··on Zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation
One thing would be to try to measure entropy in a different way, e.g. run gzip on it. Right now FJFJFJFJ has the same entropy as FJGJFJGJ.
onions··on Zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation
FJFJFJFJ takes "centuries"? Probably needs a little more tweaking.
onions··on Apple has revenues per employee of 1.7 M$
Exxon (which has a similar market cap) has revenues per employee of 5.6M: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=exxon
onions··on The Batman Equation
Yes, I think a "Cartesian" quine would be pretty tough to create, because you're going from a symbolic representation to an inefficient visual representation. Could a more efficient visual representation solve it? One approach might be to output a bitmap that looks like this:

gunzip(########)

where ######## is a bitmap representation of the raw input to gunzip.

onions··on The Batman Equation
That trick always seemed incomplete to me because the output only contains part of the formula; it's missing the constant that actually encodes most of the information. Has anyone ever made one where the output contains everything you need?
onions··on The Case For An Older Woman
Portland and Austin seem to be quite the standouts.