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The targeted scans and tests that we already do offer surprising little benefit. Mammogram screening based on randomized-trial all-cause mortality, has not shown a measurable reduc…

Word docs being the medium of exchange created enough of a network effect. I remember trying to use other programs but importing/exporting to Word wasn't perfect.

I bought one for my 2020 Toyota Sienna a couple months ago. The best analogy is that it's like upgrading to Tesla Autopilot. It's great for highway and freeway driving but not city…

My classmate from nursing school is an RN at that hospital, I'm not surprised.

Intel's decline was obvious when I worked for them in 2010, their compensation package wasn't competitive with FANG and they consistently missed out or lost their better engineers.…

The article is a nicely illustrated analysis of the issues (migration policy) driving the increase.

After a decade as a software engineer I became a nurse. It has its pros and cons. The defining difference is shift work vs project work. In California the pay is similar to tech wh…

No, if they catch you they'll ban both accounts. They banned a conservative political activist's husband's account preemptively after banning her, https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-m…

It's not Republican. In the last presidential election, the county voted 60% Democrat (Pine Bluffs is the largest city and county seat).

International travel. My bank (credit union) and cell phone provider (AT&T) both block non-US access. I also use it to get around Vietnam's blocking of websites e.g. BBC.

Send a death certificate.

Bruce linked to his own opinion piece in Wired.

I tried to register via Google at https://fountaincards.com/register and received a 404.

I doing my part by drawing it in cartoons.

The irony considering YouTube's step up of purging channels with alternative viewpoints.

A more interesting paper is Life Before Earth, https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3381 , analyzing biological complexity and projecting into the past for an origin of 9.7 billion years ago…

A compelling critique that Go's embodiment of the "Worse is better" philosophy from Unix is to its detriment.

Anything but the simplest regexes are tricky to correctly write.

Go 2 will have generics, https://blog.golang.org/generics-next-step

NPV is more sensitive to major than college. A Berkeley liberal arts degree has lower lifetime earnings than a Cal State nursing degree.

How did it affect you romantically?