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by DataDive 2y ago
But if you look at the number-crunching process that gave you those percentages, it turns out to be woefully fragile and sensitive to a whole range of other factors Countless prior models were completely off, but this one is suddenly correc
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by DataDive 2y ago
Check those numbers. I looked at the original data, and it seems that in the report you linked, debt is defined as a credit card balance. I don't know about others, but I always float thousands on my balance and pay it off by the end o
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by DataDive 2y ago
Python, in general, would be much faster for prototyping than Java. That is the main attraction of Pyhon.
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by DataDive 2y ago
why compete in the consumer domain when Uncle Sam pays you not to
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by DataDive 2y ago
I think you are conflating two different things here: where you come up with ideas and where you produce the goods. To stay on the topic of drones, Skydio is an example of a US startup that produced drones in the US, and for some applicatio
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by DataDive 2y ago
Another datapoint to whether one can compete or not SkyDio, a US startup, entered the market producing drones with object avoidance so advanced that it was far beyond what DJI offered. Their consumer pricing was quite competitive ~ 1000, th
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by DataDive 2y ago
The author forgets to mention yet another dimension of the problem - a direct political one. Loan forgiveness ... in essence, a form of vote-buying ... vote for me, and we'll forgive your loan (aka someone else will pay the loan). If t
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by DataDive 2y ago
right, but my point was that you should need to do detective work to figure out the date of a post, especially when the title refers to a transition in time from one era to another
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by DataDive 2y ago
Articles like this need to have a date right around the title Otherwise, you will be left scratching your head about the era the opinion is from. Notably, the author has another post with a "recipe" to success (a recipe that they
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by DataDive 2y ago
I will add that I am grateful that I also got to experience a world where AI did not spew tons of code like a sausage-making machine. It was so satisfying to code up a solution where you knew you would get through it little by little.
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by DataDive 2y ago
I recall a post by Simon Willison https://simonwillison.net/2022/Oct/23/datasette-gunicorn/#be...
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by DataDive 2y ago
I read you post, I am not sure I agree with: > transforming a tool of empowerment into an amplifier of existing disparities. Which disparity are we talking about? That of non-coders vs coders? It used to be that someone who did not kno
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by DataDive 2y ago
And if you dare to use Twitter in Brazil, you will be fined a year's salary. ... how authoritarianism shapes public discourse
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by DataDive 2y ago
Having no bacteria in the gut leads to worse development ... I mean ... duh ... what is the discovery here? It is well known that bacteria are necessary to digest food.
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by DataDive 2y ago
I never thought "open access" means that an author would need to pay $10K to be published in Nature ... that is a lot more parasitic than having a library pay for subscription fees.
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by DataDive 2y ago
In my opinion the declining trust is science is due to science being far less apolitical and far less objective and less validated than in the past.
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by DataDive 2y ago
Fundamentally, the problem is today science is framed as nothing else but a competition, an olymic event, that produces winners that we celebrate and losers, rather than cooperation. If you got the grant, you won; if you did not, you lost.
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by DataDive 2y ago
I find it depressing that every time Stephen Wolfram wants to explain something, he slowly gravitates towards these simplistic cellular automata and tries to explain everything through them. It feels like a religious talk. The presentation
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by DataDive 2y ago
I don't want to dig out the reference, but it seemed pretty credible when I read it. It states that while it is true that people exposed to the sun get skin cancers more often, their outcomes are also usually far better. So are their o
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by DataDive 2y ago
lets use common sense a bit, humans have evolved while being in the sun, constantly, their skin darkened to protect them as humans moved northward, the exposure to sun was so important that even their skin lost it protective pigmentation to
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by DataDive 2y ago
not sure what's with the downvotes leaking all SSNs makes relying on SSNs as authentication unfeasible, the only way to stop SSNs being authentication token is to give everyone access to them, but yes that can cause short term troubles
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by DataDive 2y ago
And for contrast, here is another book from the early 2000s that, seems to have stood the test of time: The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It 1: the entrepreneurial myth: the myth that most
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by DataDive 2y ago
> The front camera is a big upgrade: 10.5 MP to 42 MP from the 8 Pro to 9 Pro. 42MP??? Wouldn't that just rapidly fill up the storage for most of their users with little if any other tangible benefit ... maybe that is part of the pl
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by DataDive 2y ago
I used to be a Google Fi fan (early adopter at that) for European trips ... but nowadays, with multi-ESims, it is trivial to get a local SIM card and use that. The local data plans are typically more broadly useable and cheaper than the $10
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by DataDive 2y ago
I think the example is a strawman if American manufactured automobiles were bringing in substantially more money to drive-throughs than Japanese ones - and if American made automobiles had a way to influence where you drive ... I think they
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by DataDive 2y ago
> does anybody want to argue that Apple hosting the Patreon app on iOS provides more value to Patreon subscribers and creators than the existence of Patreon itself does? There is a video link on the page from the original post where the
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by DataDive 2y ago
Some of the things you list are probably illegal because it is challenging to obtain informed consent. Especially where the repercussions are irreversible so it is more about avoiding exploitation rather than imposing a standard of what is
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by DataDive 2y ago
Why would Apple have to do consider what another company makes? What's that got to do with anything. Not trolling - and I think Apple is greedy here. Still I need pointing out how your arguments is not logical. This is like saying you
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by DataDive 2y ago
> The semantics of the word "DONATION" are frankly irrelevant to the discussion. I don't think the word DONATION is irrelevant at all. Tim Sweeney is using the word "DONATION" deliberately to make Apple look like
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by DataDive 2y ago
when you donate, you are not the one who personally receives the benefit, right? if you donate a car, you are not also using that car every once in a while. to me that is the main distinction, who is benefiting from making that monetary con

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