CogentHedgehog

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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
"You code like a dairy farmer!" "How appropriate, you code like a cow!"
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
I've found that most of the mock-chicken products are pretty good. For some reason, it REALLY IS easy to make things that "taste like chicken." Does anybody know why? Making a good approximation of beef seems to be quite dif
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Yup, the data is right there. HN commenters just want to "but aktsualllly..." The spike in deaths from the UK's first wave is pretty visible in the graphs, and the spike from cases we're seeing now will probably take a
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
I had no idea how many of these experiments there were. "Early in the Cold War, in studies known as Project GABRIEL and Project SUNSHINE, researchers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia tried to determine how much n
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Yeah, that sounds about right. I remember MS DOS used to fit on a 720k floppy -- back when they were literally floppy...
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
That's definitely true too -- the rates of mental illness are something like doubled in the base population. But the frequency for people who have been sick is much higher than the general population, even accounting for the spike in
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Yes, the long-haulers and COVID-19 heart damage are particularly concerning. Also there is some evidence suggesting that a large fraction hospitalized for COVID-19 end up with mental health issues even if they did not have them before. Som
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Key point: > The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the number of deaths registered in England and Wales in the week ending 6 November 2020 was 14.3% higher than the five-year average. But it is good to kno
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
In some ways it's interesting to think that a modern website is larger than most operating systems used to be. I can understand why (frameworks, rich assets, etc) but it puts us in an interesting place. I wonder what the web will look
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Grubhub is so shady. Although they're not alone -- the "service fees" some of these food delivery services are charging are highway robbery.
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
I don't have enough datapoints yet to tell if there's anything suspicious happening around hydrogen tech. The volume of discussion has only started to get high recently. I'll say that on technical merits there are pretty soli
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
This is true. Engagement -> Ad Views -> $$$ If they down-weighted negative engagement they could easily solve this though. There are pretty trivial content analysis tools that spit out a hostility score for a corpus of text. Facebook
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Hot take: subtle differences in algorithm choices have huge real-world implications. Facebook prioritizes engagement as their top metric. This means that divisive content which inspires strong emotions bubbles to the top of the feed. This
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
> People shilling for nuclear is an entirely distinct issue, regardless of the data sources they're using to make their claims. These are people whose behavior shows they are very clearly acting in bad faith -- throwaway accounts th
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
> People popping up out of the woodwork to argue passionately for an out-of-favor technology reeks of a dying industry trying to revive itself with public relations. Yes. I'll probably get downvoted for saying it, but I want to get
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
BS. Nobody who is involved with the energy sector thinks ElectricityMap has any credibility. The datasets are extremely fragmentary and have huge yawning gaps with no data available, which should be the first red flag for anybody citing it
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
This is FALSE. The World Nuclear Industry Status Report[1] "estimates that since 2009 the average construction time for reactors worldwide was just under 10 years, well above the estimate given by industry body the World Nuclear Associ
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report[1] "estimates that since 2009 the average construction time for reactors worldwide was just under 10 years, well above the estimate given by industry body the World Nuclear Association (WNA) of
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Worse, it's a total gamble on whether or not we'll even be able to BUILD a given reactor. Reactor construction projects have an absolutely gobsmacking rate of delays and massive cost overruns, and many end up getting canceled. Fl
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
The problem with nuclear energy is that it's 3-4x the price of solar/wind per unit energy[1], and it takes 10+ years to build most reactors. If you want to cut carbon emissions ASAP it's important to pick the fastest, cheapes
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
People that support political propaganda don't get a right to be offended by fact-checking in credible journalism. People that support fascist leaders don't get to complain about "censorship." Not now, not ever.
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
I phrased that poorly. Fascism uses economic and class features that largely do not exist in a far-left society, such as a sizeable middle class and corporate power. From Umberto Eco's definition of fascism: "'Appeal to a Fr
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
A lot of the commentators don't WANT sane publications. For this exact reason. They like that candidate and would rather burn sane journalism down then see him lose.
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
My conclusion is making sense of both of these. Why didn't I believe Greenwald initially? Well, I have had the dubious pleasure of seeing many people behave badly and then play the morally-outraged victim to try to legitimize it. The
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
You clearly know how easy it is to take someone's words out of context and twist them into something they aren't. A good editor brings clarity and brevity. The editor was telling Greenwald to focus on the story he could prove and
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Sure, there's TONS of things that are 'not fascistic' but are bad.
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
That's not true either though. Fascism is by definition a right-wing form of authoritarianism, because of how it uses class divides to build its political power. The corresponding left-wing authoritarianism would be "leftist popu
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
I will agree that people intentionally misuse the word "fascism." For example, the people in this comment thread claiming that editors making editorial decisions are the "fascist left" are pretty clearly misusing the wor
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
If anything, Greenwald comes off as compromised by his own political biases. The editor says fairly gently that there are concerns with poorly-supported claims and omitting key information -- such as the media reporting on corruption claim
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
I'd bet on bot-busting or possibly something that de-ranks stuff with political keywords close to the election to avoid spam and noise. Human moderation and content curation is a lot rarer than people think online. Primarily because

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