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The initial partnership was with Stanford hospitals. Many in the HN community live in the Bay Area and may have used these medical facilities. If you are concerned, other boards ar…

Do you have a source for this? It sounds a bit hard to believe. If the police believe that evidence was/is at risk of being destroyed (as you are implying), they could get an emerg…

It's not just Intuit and H&R Block. A lot of us small business owners don't want the IRS knowing every detail of our businesses in order to just magically send us a pre-filled retu…

The fact that all these sites exist (4chan, 8chan, Voat, Gab, etc) suggests that there is demand. You may find their content objectionable, and I may agree with you, but that doesn…

Why did you have to throw in a random criticism of hunters? The article is referring to "extremist" content. In many places in the U.S., hunters are among the most effective conser…

Beautiful! Of course, no finite probability could ever prove that no solution exists, but being able to say that the odds of a solution are 10^-31 is, for all practical purposes, a…

A 10 μCi 137Cs source is not dangerous. Even here in California, you can legally throw these away in the regular trash (if solid) or wash them down a sink drain (if liquid). Compar…

Real world RNGs get randomness from two sources: (1) the timings of random events on the machine (primarily network traffic), or (2) a hardware device that runs several oscillators…

tptacek is right. It's a cool art installation, but for practical purposes this is utterly useless. A modern hardware RNG (which is entirely silicon based) generates random bits at…

Not only that one scene, but a lot of the ideas in The Matrix are inspired by the writings of Baudrillard. That's presumably why the Wachowskis put the book in that scene, a subtle…

Thank you for the suggestions. I will definitely study these.

Agree on everything except Zizek. He's an entertaining provocateur, but there's no way he's at the level of Hegel and Kant. His interviews in the British news media are hilarious t…

I read the book in college decades ago. It's very famous and he predicted a lot of stuff about media and culture that has become true in the modern era of Internet / social media /…

The conventional wisdom is your #2. The idea is that for the past 6 years, interest rates have been close to zero, and as a result, people who would traditionally want to park thei…

We're seeing a lot of anti-unicorn sentiment recently. In addition to Gurley's comments here, Sequoia's Mike Moritz wrote an op-ed saying most unicorns are a joke [1]. And today's …

The article uses terms like "epidemic," but the map graphic suggests a national mortality rate of around 2.5 per 100,000. That's 0.0025%, or 7,500 people per year.

Firefox has no problem with %00 links

Just as the restaurant owner sounds like he has a tendency to take credit for more than he actually did, the software engineers here sound as if they have an irrational belief in t…