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I can't think of any reason why they would do that other than specifically to prevent looping.

> The DIY community and industry are not in opposition, says Lewis. I would really like to believe that, but given how Medtronic and every CGM I have used have seemingly intentiona…

I have an AndroidAPS. This is how it works. If the phone loses contact for any reason the device just falls back to delivering insulin at a fixed rate as normal.

> put a spotlight on the big pharmaceutical companies that had brought them to market — especially Pfizer and Moderna Moderna? The research startup that had only recently IPO'd and…

Medical professionals worry a lot about "compliance". It would not be unusual for a doctor to unironically believe that "leverage" like this—forcing the patient to come in for a ch…

Yes, that's a pretty obvious confounding possibility. It's foolish to draw any causal conclusions from a correlation between 'wealth' and 'choice mindset' when the causality could …

Why Musk what? The point is that it's not about Musk. We're talking about whether Musk "deserves" his billions in profit and the answer is it's not about Musk, and it's not about "…

Providing up-front funding for crazy ideas like electric cars and reusable rockets when everyone else is too stupid and shortsighted to is itself productive activity. In fact it is…

Oh, you're right, I misread that part.

It's interesting how spot-on Coinbase's 'prebuttal' was ( https://blog.coinbase.com/upcoming-story-about-coinbase-2012... ). There's very little in the NYT article that isn't menti…

It's an online algorithm. It's meant to be used on essentially infinite streams of data, such as a live dashboard of latencies of a running server. In that context, providing a 5 e…

Parent said "influence desired career paths", which is not the same as differences in performance. People choose a career path for many reasons besides ability, such as individual …

> Everything's optimized for tiny cellphone screens optimized for text. That sounds great tbh. Not everything needs to be a 4MB bootstrap.js webshit that doesn't even load with adb…

> The team immediately spotted the tradeoffs: while Meet’s captions were built in, there’s no history, meaning each person had to dedicate their attention to the captions to make s…

To add to the other comments: because giving a placebo is essential for the experimental results to have any validity, not giving a placebo would be imo way more unethical, since i…

"Face the consequences"? What consequences? Anything you want? Is this supposed to be a license to extrajudicially impose arbitrary consequences on people? I'll note that it's main…

There are frequently comments on such threads from people discovering this fact for the first time, so it does seem to be a point worth repeating.

I screwed the base stations into a piece of wooden 2x4, and stuck the latter to the wall with two bits of Command hanging tape. Super easy. The kit ought to come with these pieces …

This strikes me as having some interesting similarity to the practice in Haskell of placing type class constraints on functions, not data types. A deprecated feature of Haskell use…

If Uber or Lyft wanted to help solve generational poverty they'd probably be better off donating cash to organisations like GiveDirectly instead of distorting the taxi market (whic…

IMO they're not even contracts . The idea that there is a 'meeting of the minds' when I click through an installation dialog or website privacy policy, without even reading it, whi…

That would be what is required for an ideal display. Current VR displays get closer to 0.1 degrees per pixel so it would be a ~3x improvement to be competitive with existing tech, …

Wouldn't the display application here be something like a scanning AR/VR headset which constructs an image directly on your retina with a small number of beams moving very quickly …

HEIC is defined as HEVC in a HEIF container. So yes, it's patent encumbered. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_For...

> This kind of "meritocracy" is more like if we held an arm-wrestling tournament, declared the victor to be our new feudal lord, the next 6 runners up to be knights, and everyone e…