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lightbyte··on What happens when patients find out how good their doctors are? (2004)
>This might be a 100th time the surgeon is removing a certain type of tumor

I think this is all OP was asking about. They want to know if you've ever removed a tooth before, not if you've ever removed the right molar from a 27 year old very tall man who has a small jaw and bad breath.

lightbyte··on Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Crypto Traders to the IRS
>any user who bought, sold, sent, or received more than $20,000 worth of Bitcoin in their accounts between 2013 and 2015.

Your own account needs to have had $20k worth of bitcoin, not simply interacting with someone else who does.

lightbyte··on Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Crypto Traders to the IRS
Mining? This is about buying bitcoin on an exchange and using it like a security.
lightbyte··on The Joy of Erlang; Or, How to Ride a Toruk (2011)
I don't know of any specifically, sorry. But you can use elixir modules by just prefixing them with `Elixir.` in erlang. So to call the phoenix module in erlang you'd just do a regular function call to 'Elixir.Phoenix':xxx
lightbyte··on The Joy of Erlang; Or, How to Ride a Toruk (2011)
>However if you come from Rails or want to do mostly web development, then Phoenix is a nice framework, so maybe a good place to start. Also Elixir has a very friendlier community for newcomers perhaps, kudos to Jose and team there, they went above and beyond to make that happen.

One of the best parts about Elixir/Erlang/other BEAM languages is that you can use something like the Phoenix framework in your erlang project just fine. You do not need to learn Elixir if you want to use any of the neat stuff developed in it.

lightbyte··on Ajit Pai is right
>To get around this in 2015 they "reclassified" ISP's from information services to telecommunications services.

telecommunication: Any transmission, emission or reception of signs, signals, writings, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems (CS). [1]

It sure sounds like ISP's should in fact be classified as telecommunications services to me.

[1] https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/oth/02/02/S02020000244501P... - Article 1.3

lightbyte··on What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today
>The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanic

Who names their covert terrorism op that? That's just asking for it.

lightbyte··on Airbnb’s Money-Laundering Problem
>It is sometimes about turning dirty money into clean money and getting it legally into your hands.

It is not sometimes that, that is literally the definition of money laundering. Stolen cards have nothing to do with it.

lightbyte··on Bitcoin Is Creeping into Real Estate Deals
>By the way, you can transfer cash without any intermediaries. You literally just hand it over.

Why would you want that? What happens if you have a fraudulent transaction? How is it reversed? What about coercion? Blackmail, etc.

lightbyte··on Justice Department suing AT&T to block $85B bid for Time Warner
>You think federal judges give a rat's @ss about what Trump tweets?

Yes, in fact there already have been multiple cases where his tweets were used against him.

lightbyte··on Clicker Heroes 2 is abandoning free-to-play
That was indeed EA, they do this type of matchmaking in FIFA.
lightbyte··on Orcas have learned how to drown great white sharks
>News

This isn't news, so it doesn't belong here.

lightbyte··on Orcas have learned how to drown great white sharks
I don't see anything new here, I thought we have known this about Orcas for years? What is the purpose of this article?
lightbyte··on Why do we care more about benefit ‘scroungers’ than billions lost to the rich?
He might not control the media in the traditional sense, but we have to give him credit for how he manipulated it into giving him endless free coverage and exposure. He turned the lack of media control INTO the powerful position.
lightbyte··on FCC plans to vote to overturn U.S. net neutrality rules in December
>Please, tell me one thing this administration has done that has empowered the majority of Americans.

It seems to have empowered Americans who were previously apathetic about the political process to get involved!

lightbyte··on On Being Jewish in State Prison (2009)
>in most prisons in the US, prisoners generally aren't actually cuffed or restrained unless they're being punished.

Maybe I wasn't very clear, this was while we were walking around among them and talking with the prisoners. I don't think any US prisons would allow students (this was for a study abroad class) to walk among and interact with unrestrained prisoners for safety reasons.

lightbyte··on On Being Jewish in State Prison (2009)
>I always find it unbelievable that they let these kinds of hierarchies arise in prisons, especially in American prisons (from what I've heard, European prisons have it too, but to a much lesser degree). Someone told me they allow it on purpose to help keep order. Maybe it is also a consequence of overfull, understaffed prisons.

A few years back I took a tour of the main prison in Amsterdam. The warden actually talked about this and said they specifically organize their prisoners into as diverse blocks as possible to avoid any sort of gangs/groupings from starting. He claimed it made the prison significantly safer, as everyone was looking out for only their own wellbeing. The prison was safe enough for us to walk around among the prisoners (who were not cuffed or restrained in anyway), so I think it was working quite well for them.

lightbyte··on Why do we care more about benefit ‘scroungers’ than billions lost to the rich?
Is Trump not rich and powerful?
lightbyte··on Introducing Twitter premium APIs
Is this not what 429 is for? Their docs [1] also suggest 429 is what they are actually returning

[1]: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/rate-limiting

lightbyte··on EA removes Battlefront 2 refund option as gamers mass-cancel pre-orders
I thought one of the ways they get around being regulated as gambling is that you technically can not lose and get nothing. You will always "win" at least something, even if the item is worthless to you.
lightbyte··on Amazon Developing a Free, Ad-Supported Version of Prime Video
>You bought a locked down dongle that works only with Google services.

What? Pretty much every other video app/player I can think of works with chromecast.

lightbyte··on Bitcoin Cash has Surpassed Bitcoin in global hashrate [Nov 13 2017]
I'd guess that it is large pools of miners switching over together.
lightbyte··on Face ID beaten by mask
I wonder if Apple experimented with using eye movements as a passcode? I imagine they have the technology available to do such a thing. That would make it so your face is your username and a specific movement you made with your eyes the password.
lightbyte··on Secret Service Agent Sentenced In Scheme Related To Silk Road Investigation
Are you not stealing it again at that point? I'd guess that you would be charged for a similar crime, just at a different date.
lightbyte··on Vault 8 – Source code and analysis for CIA software projects
Read the page, they moved to a new repos a few years ago. If you go to the actual source files some of them are dated as early as October 1st 2007.
lightbyte··on Vault 8 – Source code and analysis for CIA software projects
This isn't the commercial sector, these kinds of things are incredibly sensitive to time.
lightbyte··on Legal pot in 100 days? New Jersey's next governor aims for national first
Yes, like a sales tax. That is an extremely regressive tax and should be removed.
lightbyte··on Vault 8 – Source code and analysis for CIA software projects
These are up to 10 year old tools, they are not going to still be in use.
lightbyte··on SpaceX rocket engine explodes during test at Texas facility
>#2- The BFR. All over the news lately, going to be a humongous rocket that does New York to Sydney in under an hour, or take humans to the Moon or Mars.

Does BFR happen to stand for "big fucking rocket"?

lightbyte··on Nearly a Third of Millennials Say They'd Rather Own Bitcoin Than Stocks
The article cites no sources for anything, so it's safe to assume it's entirely made up.

Though I actually was able to find the source outside of this badly written article: http://www.survey.blockchain.capital/

The question (and answers) were:

How familiar are you with Bitcoin?

a) I own/have owned Bitcoin

b) Very Familiar

c) Somewhat Familiar

d) Head of it but not familiar

e) Never heard of it

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