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The article is referring to ear candling[0], an alternative-medicine practice espoused by naturopaths and other such quacks. It's sadly quite common. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

Last time I was in a role which involved on-call rotation: > expected duties (only answer on-call, do other work, etc) Only answer pages. My employer did shifts a bit differently f…

I've run barebones hypervisors in production for years; KVM is head and shoulders above everything else I've tried. libvirt and virsh provide a reasonably nice interface if you don…

I'm not sure what the author thinks 'corollary' means here. (Something to do with correlation? Not the definition I'm used to, anyway.)

Loading this webpage I downloaded ~12KB. For comparison, I went to the NYT homepage and downloaded ~1.2 MB. For people with shitty downlinks like you and I, the absence of exorbita…

You mean like this? https://archive.org/download/dnmarchives

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9864152

No, for the reason outlined by Aaronson in [0] - I don't see anything in the update which addresses this. [0] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2212

I didn't realize this was ever in question - of course you can't trust Tor exit nodes not to snoop on your traffic. You can't trust your ISP or friendly local intelligence agency n…

The modern use of the word was spawned by a book by Thích Nhất Hạnh[0] called The Miracle of Mindfulness. It was then codified into clinical practice by (among others) Marsha Lineh…

What's "enterprise security"? Is it like regular security? Does it involve client-side encryption?

It always seems odd to me that every time someone makes a post about the benefits they experienced from going sober, a bunch of people feel the need to defend their own drinking ha…

I'm not sure I'd refer to psychostimulants as nootropics, although I'm aware many people do. The neurological tradeoffs involved in catecholamine reuptake inhibition are relatively…

> Israeli hackers broke into the computers of Anonymous members that attacked Israel "attacked Israel"? I wasn't aware that Israel was a computer. Anyone know where this article's …

What? I must say, this is the first I've heard of this trend. Personally, I might be a little querulous when interviewing a dev who used Windows by preference (though this would be…

This is uninformed, dangerous and wrong. Author should go back to school or crack open a first-year-med physiology textbook and learn how metabolism works. The article isn't even i…

This is laughable from a privacy perspective. So you delete the emails immediately after they're viewed? We're expected to take your word for this? Are you saying you don't back up…

Internal XMPP. Poor ejabberd isn't handling our growth in traffic very well and gets oomkilled and/or swaps itself to death with depressing regularity, so we're trying prosody (ove…

You are absolutely correct. You can also type `who` for a list of users who are currently logged in. You can even `cat /etc/passwd` for uids and home directories. That's how UNIX s…