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This is great! A really even discussion of the situation and concrete ways to make sure kids stay safe. Far too much fear mongering content online already, thanks for keeping it in…

Yeah I think the big problem here is related to the scale, not the fact that it's cheaper when you pay in cash. But that insurance would pay $500 (after negotiating the price down)…

I work in the industry. Fee schedules are an upper bound, but the lower bound is very hard to get numbers on and often approaches 0. If I go in for a procedure at a medium sized sp…

One of my favorite things about the US insurance market is that the lack of transparency into pricing actually hurts both the insured and the institutions providing care. Small and…

"You should be, the Facebook app explicitly does listen to the mic unless you opt out." Evidence? Every time someone claims this it gets debunked.

From the early/mid 90s all the way into the early aughts there was a subculture in punk and hardcore dedicated to veganism and straight edge. The majority of them acted exactly lik…

This feels like pseudoscience dressed up as the real thing. "Getting stronger only takes 13 minutes three times a week" starts off with a reference to a recently published paper th…

the four listed are the biggest products in the world in their space. the first three would be multi billion dollar companies outside of Google. not to mention Search itself, Docs …

This sounds like pure marketing to me. Statements like "Cockroaches are also a raw material in traditional Chinese medicine, known to be able to promote detoxification" and "found …

You bought a billboard before launching on HN? Not sure if very impressed or very confused.

I understand that the term "growth hack" isn't well defined but still - most of these are just old school marketing techniques used by tech cos. A few novel ideas worth learning fr…

They still are, IMO.

I've paired a lot and see a lot of value in it but I disagree with most of this, honestly. Agreed on onboarding, but only if that's what works best for the incoming engineer. Two j…

It would benefit Github to own a CI/CD tool if said tool was used in the vast majority of projects and there was little worry about disrupting the rest. E.g. if Codeship was used b…

Forgive me if I read the response wrong but that seems like exactly what the author is saying? Do your computing in Python/R, export a generated CSV, and then present it in Observa…

Lockup period means this ICO will behave differently than some of the other coins that have come out recently, and there's no way to tell what the market (or regulatory atmosphere)…

Thanks for the reminder! And this is my bad because I was paywalled on my phone and didn't see that it was, in fact, a mersenne prime that was found.

1. Essentially, yes there's a list. Since there doesn't exist a higher level formula to identify primes it's been verified by some variation of a brute force method. 2. That all sm…

This was an internal email to investors. You have no idea what convos she's had with them previously about the situation but you're very quick to assume she's some self-important J…

This works for some people but not all, fwiw. I know founders of very successful companies that paid themselves well from the start because they needed to focus on the company and …

We're close with Michelin-star sushi chef and he's never tried to hide the fact that all of their fish has been frozen at some point. He finds it odd that diners care about it so m…

Unpopular opinion, but I actually think this is very good advice in certain situations. If your startup is using a technology tangentially related to your core product it can total…