myroon5's comments

On: LinkedIn Larpmaxxing

[myroon5]

https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator

[Bruises → myroon5]

Been using this one for some eight years now, it's the best.

On: U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

[myroon5]

Presumably referencing https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski for anyone wondering

On: California Uber, Lyft drivers win union recognition

[myroon5]

> AMA was lobbying for more residencies for years

The AMA lobbies for more _subsidized_ residencies while downplaying that unsubsidized residencies also exist and could expand without waiting on more taxpayer funding

On: uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

[myroon5]

For those ok purging the whole newsfeed: https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator

On: Pareto Front

[myroon5]

(A few years outdated) AWS EC2 instance type pareto frontier:

https://github.com/PatMyron/cloud#compute--memory-unit-price...

On: In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years

[myroon5]

Seems more common in media fields (Van Gogh, Lovecraft, etc.)

On: Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

[myroon5]

Discounting from higher default prices rather than penalizing from lower default prices is more of a branding difference than an economic difference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952034

[timbaboon → myroon5]

Yeah but in South Africa medical aid rates are regulated by the government and all companies have to stick with that rate. The idea is that if you keep your customers healthy then there are fewer claims.

On: Regular expressions that work “everywhere”

[myroon5]

JSON schema's docs also have a recommended regular expression subset:

https://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/reference/...

On: Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers

[myroon5]

Social Security and Medicare are ~26% and ~16.5% of the federal budget (excluding the 15% of the budget that's just financing previous years' budgets):

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

[lokar → myroon5]

And?

On: Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies

[myroon5]

> no reason they can’t publish valuable work with the right collaborators

Despite h-index claiming to balance quantity and quality, it obviously incentives quantity over quality (no single publication can increment h-index as much as churning out a few worthless publications that cite each other); med students overwhelmingly follow those incentives trying to secure better residencies