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Antibiotic resistant MRSA kills thousands of people a year in the US. The idea that he went to the hospital with pneumonia and then contracted antibiotic resistant MRSA from the ho…

SETI received ~$28m in donations and contributions in 2022, according to their tax filings [1] As mentioned in the press release, contribution will be used at least in part as an e…

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Most of Comcast’s internet is exchanged through transit-free peering agreements, so only about 1% of Comcast’s outbound traffic requires them to pay for IP transit. And that traffi…

US Internet (private fiber ISP in the Twin Cities) is an anomaly, not the norm. Minneapolis is incredibly lucky to have a local, private ISP that offers fiber to the home at up to …

> that blog post for the past week https://blog.cr.yp.to/20231003-countcorrectly.html

MDMA was first synthesized in 1912 by Merck. Merck and US Army did several animal trials in the 1950s, but by the end of the decade MDMA was shelved and thought to have no therapeu…

The American version of the BBC: PBS

If someone is already in the middle of no where, 2.4 GHz congestion isn’t a problem for them. I’m always for more unlicensed spectrum. But I strongly disagree with your distaste fo…

Finally, somewhere that is covering the issues I care about but that the mainstream media refuses to cover.

From an SLA uptime perspective, it’s also worth considering that you don’t have a whole team working to fix your self-hosted Gitlab server when it goes down. So one outage overnigh…

The increasing prices of IPv4 address blocks will probably drive adoption of IPv6. The increased complexity will be outweighed by the elimination of scarcity that IPv6 brings. If w…

“Hexagons are the bestagons” https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY

> “It’s just like building on top of AWS or GCP.” If you applied your logic to the use of cloud services then companies like Vercel shouldn’t call themselves a hosting provider bec…

This is AI research, not product development. The project’s goal was to apply deep reinforcement learning to a complex and varied real world task. Google has no desire to sell tras…

and then in 2017 Friedman’s former department was renamed the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics after he donated 150m

He previously donated $150m to Harvard College so his children are already all but guaranteed admission. He already has all the benefits Harvard gives mega donors, there isn’t any …

If it was shut down due to a civil injunction for copyright violation, I don’t think the Internet Archive would be able to transfer the Wayback Machine’s data to anyone else withou…

While some of the recent hype around AI may be due to VCs and the industry looking for the next big thing, it’s a bit absurd to think that AI orgs like OpenAI and Stability were ho…

No one should be learning Vimscript at this point. That language should have died a long time ago. A new user coming to the Vim ecosystem in 2023 would be best served by using Neov…

It depends on how you’re defining “the spectrum” of healthcare policy. If you placed all European nations on a spectrum comparing their healthcare systems, Germany would be on the …