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The US government has no authority to break up a monopoly just because users don't like its ads. Google continues to provide a valuable service, and your cost is the ads you're served that you don't want. Google's not a charity. I'm tired of opinions about "user hostility" and so on from tech people about valuable services as they ramp up user revenues. If you don't like Google's ads, use DuckDuckGo or Bing.

Kind of predictable. Google's a business. Surprise, surprise, you can't rely on its free services long-term.

LOL. The article completely ignores that today's 40-somethings will be 60-something 20 years from now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...

edit: Seeing the flood of downvotes I'll give some data. Home ownership increases with age. 60+ers leaving their homes from death, poor health or inconvenience will be supplemented by today's 40+ers over the next 20 years. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2018/08/homeownership... . We were in the same situation 20 years ago, 21 years ago, 22 years ago, and so on.

If I yell "he's got a gun" as a prank intending people to stampeded out of a movie theater, trampeling and killing a someone in the panic, I'm responsible for the very predictable consequences. If I promote tea leaves as an effective innoculation to measels preventing people to get a life-saving vaccination, I'm responsible for the predictable consequences. There's a fine line somewhere and probably has something to do with opinion vs fact, but it's not crossed here.

It's a plausible mechanism but a bogus study. With most of their confidence intervals including hazard ratios of 1.0 (or very close to it), they need to rule out even slight correlations like smoking and (low) income. Recall bias of the survey participants is another major factor in cancer cases. Overall this reads like they collected data of a bunch of chemical exposures setting their p to < 0.05 and found this one that they could publish on.

In theory, sure. But according to most of my domain WHOIS records, the technical contact is somebody named asdflkj_34890f@privacyprotection.com.

Exactly this. It's mostly just the ivory-tower kind of docs that say "acetaminophen" over "Tylenol." If you use the generic of something like Zosyn "Pipercillin/Tazobactam" you'll firmly go in the weird category. Same with most (but not all) antibiotics. The normal parlance changes from generic to trade with each drug and even region of the country.

The actual medical shibboleth is knowing your dose and dosing interval, total doses over time period X, dose adjustments, that gives doctors the information they need about your drug. Basically just know your history down cold. You'll be forgiven for mispronouncing med names, using the trade or generic name when the other one is more common, etc. Nobody cares. All (yes, all) doctors have a specific framework when it comes to history taking, and it's easy to get. And it's easy to tell when people don't get it. It goes something like, "I (or pt Y) have med problem x, y, z. Recently, I noticed u happening. I tried a, and then b but neither worked." Boom. You're now miles ahead of everyone else seeking care, you're not wasting time while the doc tries to organize and digest everything you're saying, it's that simple.

How is this different than a standard opening database? Chessgames.com has had this for probably at least 10 years-- https://www.chessgames.com/perl/explorer as do a bunch of other sites and software packages.

> I can assure you that the general population has no idea what half the nouns in that sentence mean, let alone how to do any of that.

Keep in mind you're on HN-- we tend to be a more technical population :). If you're interested I found this on StackOverflow via Google: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/144482/iptables-to-...

You'll have to Google how to set up iptables/telnet or ssh on your router yourself, assuming it supports it.

Just use iptables on your firewall/router to reroute all traffic on port 53 to your DNS server.

There's so much effort put into timing the next recession. It's not just that they can't even do that with meaningful certainty-- it's that they also can't tell you how significant the recession will be. I mean, with full employment right now, of course a recession is on the horizon (who knows when). But, going from full employment to 1% less doesn't mean the economy or its people is even worse off than they were 2 years ago. Same thing with virtually any thing else that plugs into GDP.

IANAL but the basic sniff test is could "Postwoman" be confused with "Postman?" I think the answer is yes. With the author calling it an alternative to "Postman," you have the author acknowledging Postman is a strong trademark. And it's not like it's the only one available fitting the "{HTTP-METHOD}{MAN|WOMAN}" construct-- you could rename it "HeadWoman" and probably be okay.

Why do you say that? With the slope and adjustable suspension I'd think it'd be easier-- you just lower the truck and brush the snow down in a few swoops.

I don't think SpaceX ever made that accusation. At the time (2016) Musk said the cause of failure was unknown. He was asked directly about sabotage on Twitter and replied that they didn't rule that out. As far as I can tell, the first time anyone at SpaceX talked about the rifle hypothesis was Musk simply saying SpaceX looked into it (the implication being it wasn't sabotage).

WaPro: http://archive.is/j8zjc

During prototype tests you don't have to target 6-sigma, obviously, but I hope we get a post-mortem without spin.

Okay but the one time you might expect "teachers" to get the documentation right is when they're throwing their kids into solitary confinement.

Sounds like you only know teachers in Illinois.

> Eli, 7, was secluded more than a dozen times in kindergarten and nearly 50 times in first grade while attending The Center in East Moline, records show

What. the. fuck?

I'm with you. You're contributing a thought piece and unobtrusively include a link to your bank at the bottom. It's not overtly biased, and it's neat you're getting attention for your banking app by, instead of describing it, simply saying you're doing something "interesting."

I think, by focusing on the $5000 emergency cash proposition, your customer segment will generate more costs and hassles than their debit card fees and whatever interest spread you eek out in today's world. You'need a way for your customers to generate more value-- what have you thought of? Ads?

In that quote the CEO's describing operating cash flow, a GAAP measure. Nothing about it is unconventional. And it includes real-world depreciation to a large degree since maintenance costs are part of operating expenditures. The problem is the article's author omitted discussing profit per se, not that the CEO's goal is having positive operating cash flow.

Which are? Having ridden on buses and Amtrak, buses go to the same places and more, cheaper, faster, with more available times, and keeping on schedule (the NE corridor may be faster and on schedule, I'm not in that part of the country-- but that would be the exception). There may be a small pollution difference but its probably negligible.

You could argue that roads ought to be fully funded according to use and therefore turn a profit. Something like a value-added tax. Just about every other essential business turns economic value into profit-- if Amtrak services were so valuable the business could raise its prices and people would pony up. But its services just aren't that much value-added and passengers have plenty of alternatives. Namely, buses.

HFTs scale their operation across a huge population of securities. These Ukranians apparently targeted just a handful.

So did Magic Leap default, or is the loan newly made with JPM to hold the patents while the loan is outstanding? Seems like the IP in this case isn't very valuable to JPM* and this is more just another way to guarantee the seniority of JPM's loan.

* Didn't read the patents themselves, but Oculus, Hololens and others are doing just fine without them. So, hard to imagine they have too much auction value.

The idea that the (whole economy) = (physics + retail + financials + other stuff) seems like somebody made a type error. You can't just add a research field to industries. I guess you could draw out 2 separate pies: 1 of GDP by industry and 1 by "field" but you're still comparing apples to oranges.

Thanks. Lately Vice has been writing more and more outrage-bait titles/leads and burying the true story way below the fold. I guess it gets them the most shares.

That's terrible specificity, but with a very high sensitivity the test may still have value as a "rule-out" type test. That is, you do this and if it's positive, you do a mammogram. Mammograms are generally very uncomfortable and read by specialized (more expensive) radiologists, so even preventing 1 mammogram for every 2 women getting the test has some value. Similar thing works with people getting Tb tests, or HIV tests. You have a cheap rule out high sensitivity test with low specificity, and follow the positives up with the more expensive sensitive and specific "gold standard" test. I don't see the misconduct based on this article alone.

Actual date: 2013. And, now submitted 7 times in the past year: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lhpedersen.com .

Ah, the whole work backwards trick.

Chrome iOS shows just the domain and subdomain-- which may help fight fishing attacks by focusing users on just that (but annoying to just about everyone else). Safari and Firefox show the whole URL, truncated on the right by the lack of space.