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damn i checked ur profile and ur actually based respect

bc log4j isn't some random library people found on the street it's been used in industry forever lol

yea literally any library/dependency can introduce risk, including stuff coded internally for those purposes

Working on cancer treatment discovery. Hoping to pivot into technologies for early detection and screening.

Based.

Kind of. The only issue is that I only use Twitter/IG for personal friends and not "influencer" level people.

I think some of kind of organized curation would be nice. For instance, I follow https://fivebooks.com/ a lot, which asks subject matter experts on their recommendation. Something like that for nice consumer goods would be cool.

I think there's still a niche for a Wirecutter-like site. But I don't know what it should look like, and how it should function without invasive affiliate advertising. I like reading high quality reviews of practical goods as well as more specialized things. Right now, I just Google search "name of product" + "reddit" and browse through threads to get a general consensus of a product.

i feel like "traditional" events for casually connecting and meeting with others have become somehow underrated — things like attending trivia events at a local pub, pick-up sports leagues, book signings, meetup groups, local volunteering orgs, and stuff like that all exist and, post-lockdown in many cities, seem even livelier and more interesting than before, with many people just going out and talking to others with no ulterior motives or expectations of anything else but meeting interesting people

once you're at a physical event, you already have one thing in common with everyone there, which is your presence at the event, and it's really easy to strike up a conversation about something topical and then get to know someone better—the issue with a lot of these apps is that the initial conversation can be awkward or fizzle out quickly if both sides aren't completely engaged, which is often the case anyway

what kind of future do you think Thiel is pushing the world towards?

a lot of his writing involving Girard and other political philosophers reads as studying mimetic desire as a means of avoiding absolute total war in society and maintaining the hegemony of what he believes to be "enlightenment values" — destruction and unnecessary suffering is generally the antithesis of those beliefs

again, I don't even personally have to agree with all his ideas and writings to want to have a discussion about it

absolutely — my few sentences is just a rough summary of a small part of Thiel's thinking and ideology

summing his life as a Silicon Valley bad guy is a gross oversimplification — his actions and work is the product of decades of his study and thought, and has evolved in a number of ways over time if you follow his writings and interviews

it's clear that he holds the ideas he's arrived at with conviction, and has been in the process of enacting them through financial or political or intellectual means

through Zero to One, his other writings, and by developing his own personal history, Thiel has created an alternate will-to-power mythos for those who feel alienated by whatever they believe the prevailing Silicon Valley technology & startup culture is

"do no evil" might have been the contrarian counterpoint in the nascent early to mid 2000's, but now Thiel, and those with similar cultural, social, and political ideals, has chosen "we have chosen sides" — Thiel wants to position himself as someone who is for and against something, anything, where most technology companies have a bland, homogenous corporate neutrality

I don't think his end goal is trying to get his favored political candidates back to office or something — Thiel is cultivating a larger story and seeding his ideas about the act of choosing sides, and there's nothing necessarily wrong with that

It's fun to learn about the different origins of flower meanings, and how they differ from culture to culture. Ikebana, Japanese flower arrangement, also has an interesting history for those who enjoy learning about the different aesthetic sensibilities, and maybe even try for themselves.

Did you even read the article? The author doesn't say anything like that all.

How do you stop millions of users on Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms from clicking on the link, engaging with the material, leaving likes/dislikes/reactions, and arguing with each other in the comments section? As long as the engagement metrics on our platforms support a style of communication that values polarization and reaction over mild objectivity, this style will propagate itself and continue, as sad as it is.

Well the op-ed is written by one of the founders of the movement conducting the lawsuit and their attorney, so I guess they wanted something arresting and attention-grabbing. I do hate now this kind of rhetoric style has become the norm though — it's just the perfect type of writing that's easily shared on Twitter/Facebook posts.

It sounds about right — finance engineering interns from our school like 5-6 years ago after our 2nd/3rd years fielded offers for $12k-$14k a month, with a housing stipend included

> The user told the hackers to try depositing the stolen tokens without Tether, which the hackers did successfully and they deposited all the addresses into Curve. The hackers then sent the anonymous user about $45,000 worth of ethereum for their help.

This is pretty amusing, if anything.

If you're really concerned, just use a candle snuffer to blow it out and don't huff the fumes

did you even read the article? it goes somewhat deep into how they plan and orchestrate it, especially for a normal publication

that's like the least weird part of this article

kid running around the house looking for a towel after showering? asking parents about a weird rash/redness in that area to check out? quickly changing in the family/living room before something?

welcome to the world of activist investing

yeah true - we really need an ethnicity/nationality test for new accounts before they post to really make sure HN has no foreign CCP influence

The day before the colonoscopy, patients are asked to drink a laxative solution that's generally some combination of magnesium citrate or another compound. The taste is generally pretty bad, but you can mix it with some kind of non-colored drink or flavoring powder (or just hold your nose and chug)

I was surprised to hear this, but found some additional sources:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/19/407760579/wh...

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Propylene_oxide#se...

The amount of propylene oxide remaining on the almond after pasteurization and whether or not it would have substantial effects on humans after consumption doesn't seem clear, but I didn't know that before. Apparently organic or specialty almonds be pasteurized with steam and other non-chemical techniques.

What? Every language/society has its own version of social cues, conversational filler phrases, and general etiquette for various situations. People can argue its pointless or whatever, but it definitely has established roles in business, networking, or even just making basic conversation with strangers.

Garmin's stock price has dipped slightly since the beginning of the reported outage and ransomware news and may continue to do so - I speculate perhaps these actors might also double-dip on their attack by both ransoming the data and selling/purchasing options on the company's underlying stock, especially if they are more aware of how much damage they're able to inflict than the company themselves

Since it appears the victim and perpetrator were strongly familiar with each other, the interaction could have been as simple as the perpetrator asking to meet up and suggesting that some of the money that he had been asked to repay was in the duffel bag — unless the victim was coerced or threatened beforehand, he may not have even realized his life was at risk until after the two of them arrived at his apartment.

Previous theories concerning hitmen from Saudi Arabia, Nigerian gangs, Chinese government involvement, and other salacious tales were really something.

What? You're literally using the LinkedIn profiles out of a hand-selected cohort of engineers who happen to be from Chinese universities as strong evidence of a company being part of your conspiracy. Is every F500 American company that hires engineers from those universities compromised? I attended a CS graduate program that takes in research grants from DARPA and other American institutions — if I work for a non-U.S. based company, should I be accused of spying?

Lamenting about complexity just for the sake of lamenting about complexity and then adding a few potshots at Google/FB/etc. doesn't exactly make for a thought-provoking, nuanced, or interesting argument, though

> For me, if I stray into a problematic food, I am intensely depressed for at least a day or more, reminding me of what I worked to 'cure'.

Out of curiosity, do you believe there's a possibility of this effect being mostly (or purely) psychological? I understand that there's a robust and growing body of research linking nutrition, inflammation, gut health, and mental health, but they seem to be either over long timeframes or meta-analysis of other studies. When I read people's reviews of how keto/carnivore/low-carb/vegan impacted their mental health, I'm always wary of statements that link a one or two-time ingestion of a certain food type with a complete relapse of symptoms, although maybe I haven't been properly paying attention to my own body.