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mwerty··on A protein that disrupts cells’ energy centers may be a culprit in CFS/ME
Went through the same decades ago. Was prescribed Vitamin D 50,000 IU, once a week. Helped a lot. Best of luck!
mwerty··on No Man's Sky Now on Mac
Agreed. I'm surprised they release unpaid updates as opposed to paid DLCs. Wonder how they manage.
mwerty··on Apple asks suppliers to shift AirPods, Beats production to India
I'm not sure about the last sentence. India had a literacy rate of 16% when the British left and education was monopolized by non-Dalits/SC/STs AFAIK. Do you have numbers?
mwerty··on Senator Josh Hawley's Open Letter to Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom
Thanks
mwerty··on Senator Josh Hawley's Open Letter to Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom
Examples?
mwerty··on Ask HN: Why isn’t visual programming a bigger thing?
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...
mwerty··on It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen
I could not figure out what the author's overall position is on the pandemic response - understandable given the format.

Is the author saying we had all the tools ("ability") but we did not have the people in positions of power that the author approves of?

mwerty··on The software industry's greatest sin: hiring
don’t =/= can’t.
mwerty··on The software industry's greatest sin: hiring
>Half the engineers working for FB, Google etc would not get hired today.

I thought people jump around a lot these days.

mwerty··on Anthony Levandowski ordered to pay $179M to Google
What happens if you sell it, say, a year after filing for bankruptcy? Can you keep the cash?
mwerty··on Our first patent troll
Related (and covered on hn before): https://blog.cloudflare.com/standing-up-to-a-dangerous-new-b...
mwerty··on Tesla Surges Above $500, Leaving Analyst Targets in the Dust
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I did not mean to imply that they were fake reasons but they seem way less material in hindsight.
mwerty··on Tesla Surges Above $500, Leaving Analyst Targets in the Dust
Steve Ballmer points out iphone's "disadvantages": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycUOENFIBs

The bet is that the advantages outweigh the negatives.

mwerty··on Amazon takes a swipe at Honey, PayPal’s $4B acquisition
In the same boat. Each dollar I move from equity to cash I feel a little safer and a little more foolish.
mwerty··on Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics
Related: https://imo-grand-challenge.github.io/
mwerty··on Ask HN: What book to read to get a footing in CS theory?
Mike Sipser's book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/113318779X
mwerty··on How to Break into a Crowded Market and Win
Also - the results were atleast an order of magnitude more relevant.
mwerty··on Ask HN: What is the best chair for developers?
Ikea markus works well for me.
mwerty··on Servants Without Masters
Weird conclusion. The best managers/masters tend to be predictable. Institutions by their nature have norms that enforce this. It's not even close to the same thing.
mwerty··on How Discount Brokerages Make Money
Had to look up internalizer (was a bit unclear): https://jwg-it.eu/defining-systematic-internaliser-under-mif... but otherwise a good read.
mwerty··on Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users
The article was unusually well-written as well.
mwerty··on New version of Stripe Checkout
I wonder if/when they will launch a consumer product like paypal/venmo.
mwerty··on Nassim Talebs case against Nate Silver is bad math
A new kind of friendship.
mwerty··on Ask HN: Verbally abusive employer, what do I do?
This might help: https://blg.com/en/News-And-Publications/Publication_4539
mwerty··on McDonald's Acquires Machine-Learning Startup Dynamic Yield for $300M
Any book recommendations?
mwerty··on Ask HN: Articles like Sam Altman's startup playbook?
https://pmarchive.com
mwerty··on Y Combinator president Sam Altman is stepping down
http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html
mwerty··on JP Morgan rolls out first US bank-backed cryptocurrency to transform paymentsd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzLazqmVC3s&t=3m35s
mwerty··on Jeff Bezos: Amazon Boss Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail
Dont see your point. What does this have to do with blackmail?
mwerty··on Dropbox buys HelloSign (YC W11) for $230M
Reddit was a merger. I assume stock was exchanged.
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