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brainfire | 8 years ago | on: Flaws in the clinical trials for Gardasil made it harder to assess safety

Ben Goldacre (of "Bad Science" fame) has been doing work in this area for a while: http://www.badscience.net/

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children

As far as I can tell the first specific thing that the author calls out as something that should disturb all humans is that the Aladdin characters are joined by a character from a different IP. Truly terrifying to any company or copyright holder.

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: Amazon Key is Silicon Valley at its most out-of-touch

Something very close to that did launch first: Amazon Hub. It's a shared unit for apartment buildings though.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/amazo...

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could Be Kicked Off the Site

This was flagged to death but I'm vouching it because it should be addressed.

First, I'm not sure I believe your numbers to begin with. Is there a source?

Second, a huge issue is racism in law and police policies (not necessarily in individual cops) - crime statistics need to be taken with a grain of salt. The numbers reflect what the police and courts do, not what people do- they're related of course, but there's a bias.

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: The rise of drug overdoses in New Hampshire has created a backlog of autopsies

I think you might be... extrapolating a lot from this.

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: The rise of drug overdoses in New Hampshire has created a backlog of autopsies

Those are some... pretty strange views. Where do you see them expressed?

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: Overweight and obesity are linked to cancer

Just like all those stubborn meat eaters ignoring the science that eating meat increases cancer risk.

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: IRS Awards Equifax $7.25M Contract to Help 'Verify Taxpayer Identities'

Federal employees wouldn't implement a project like that - contractors would. Like Equifax. (Or my employer, for whom I am not speaking.)

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: Is she Photoshopped? In France, they now have to tell you

Can you relate your comment to the article? What does obesity have to do with fake body shapes?

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Logo Crunch – Multi-resolution logo maker

The techniques detailed on the page (reweighting lines, removing fine details) seem like a worthwhile reason to at least use a different file for the "tiny" image. Unless SVG renderers start using those techniques at a small enough size.

It looks like only Firefox or Opera would support an SVG favicon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon#File_format_support

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: Healthcare.gov going offline nearly every Sunday for 12 hours during enrollment

Anything that can be prevented at a cost. Anything that seems like a less serious illness that wouldn't be worth missing a rent payment over.

You can get emergency care and just not pay for it if you can't afford it. You can't get preventative care if you can't afford it.

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: Winamp2-Js: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

Or if you want more manual control, Play Music can also be set to download the contents of a playlist (or artist or etc.) Add your new album to that playlist and it'll be downloaded.

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: Nestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For

It doesn't matter what it means to me, but your intended meaning is essential to interpreting your proposal that they should pay a "fair amount".

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: Nestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For

You keep using the word "fair". What do you think it means?

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: Twitter Suspends 300k Accounts Tied to Terrorism in 2017

One of those was probably mine. I was banned within five minutes of signing up, I'm guessing because I was using semi-public wifi and didn't provide a phone number (although the signup form says it's optional.) The stated reason was for "bot-like activity".

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: Gab is suing Google for allegedly violating antitrust laws

Why are you changing the subject from the reliability of the source to the correctness of a specific article?

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: How Eve Players Pulled Off the Biggest Betrayal in Its History

The developer once noted that 96% of subscribers are male.

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News

Is it possible to set Twitter (not a third party client) to show you all unread items- that is, to give you a gap-free view of your feed? Or is it still just "whatever was most recent, mostly"?

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: Some publishers are fighting AMP with “View Full Experience” link

Amusingly, the loading time for the "full experience" is long enough that it's cut off in the video. I think that says everything needed about the "full experience" on the web in 2017.

brainfire | 8 years ago | on: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

There's a configuration option in the omnibus CE config file to add additional lines to the built-in nginx configuration, it seems pretty straightforward to me - although we use a different web server so that we can integrate with our SSO, so I haven't tried it.