ImaCake

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by ImaCake 4y ago
The health and demographics of unemployed people differ in very meaningful ways from the employed.
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by ImaCake 4y ago
Oh yeah. I agree with this. I am just frustrated by people saying we still need to keep avoiding COVID when the cost is much higher to continue doing so.
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by ImaCake 4y ago
>Effort is generally a pretty good proxy for respect My example above says otherwise. >can you explain what is a respectful attempt? One done in good faith. Which is a slippery and vague concept. The ambiguity would explain the state
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by ImaCake 4y ago
Why does the amount of effort make things better? By the same measure we would say spying on someone with binoculars is more acceptable than stalking their facebook page.
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by ImaCake 4y ago
>Some of the young students in my class take up these offers, and this further demoralizes other female students seeing this happen (i.e. only attractive women being offered tutoring sessions). This is further compounded by the condescen
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by ImaCake 4y ago
We know, but it’s not like there is much of a choice here. We are all going to be exposed to covid no matter what we do.
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by ImaCake 4y ago
You cant easily compare between geographically or culturally different populations as there are just too many factors to reckon with. This is a big problem in population genetics because these factors confound the already difficult to measu
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by ImaCake 4y ago
>Apparently the guy who developed it was learning Python while he was writing Pandas This makes a lot of sense. I remember trying to learn Pandas before v0.24 and finding the syntax changing a lot between versions which just confused me
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by ImaCake 4y ago
Depression is often, not always, a symptom of another disorder. This is especially true if your depression symptoms are acute or cyclical. Conditions like Bipolar Disorder or ADHD are often mis-diagnosed as depression or anxiety. Beyond tha
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by ImaCake 4y ago
Yeah I mostly agree with this. I hope we don’t repeat these mistakes but I suspect we will.
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by ImaCake 4y ago
Pretty sure this is just a racist comment. A quick look at the demographics data for Australia shows it to be overwhelmingly white european - even if we restrict ourselves to the White Australia Policy definitions.
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by ImaCake 4y ago
This is such a frustrating comment to read. There is plenty of debate in public health about what is and isn’t appropriate. A lot of effort is put into communicating the often confusing and oblique conclusions of biology in such a way that
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by ImaCake 4y ago
I feel like kicking 3rd party apps off the platform must be at least nominally illegal in some of these countries. Aside from the US, these are countries with strong consumer protections with real teeth.
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by ImaCake 4y ago
This is an excellent reply. Microblogging lends itself to absolutist statements. I guess sometimes people forget that the black and white thinking on twitter is a function of the medium and not a fact of reality.
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by ImaCake 4y ago
A lot of people with neurodivergent brains self medicate to function in the world we are in. It is hardly surprising a math prodigy did so. I would imagine there are many mathematicians who take ritalin, but I don't see them mentioned
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by ImaCake 4y ago
I only have a single AHK script (I don't use windows much) and it specifically maps WinKey + Q to close a window and WinKey + H to hide a window. Windows is basically unusable for me without this convenience script!
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by ImaCake 4y ago
The key trick here is that they do a statistical test for interaction [0] which basically asks "does one variable influence the effect a second variable has on the outcome?". This doesn't immediately trip my BS sensor, but I
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by ImaCake 4y ago
>IQ in children is a lot more reflective of environment / happenstance Yes, this study goes about measuring it instead of just shrugging their shoulders like your statement is. It is correlating three variables (predictors) against
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by ImaCake 4y ago
Thanks for a lovely comment. I am privileged myself, which makes it hard for me to see what systems oppress those less fortunate. But I often "peak over the fence" when I deal with my ADHD and face the challenges of renting in a v
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by ImaCake 4y ago
I understand this view. Unlike every other reply to your comment I am not going to suggest various 2FA schemes that I would invariably screw-up and just add my voice to yours. 2FA might be good for security, but it's also very ableist.
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by ImaCake 4y ago
As someone who has recently discovered my neurodivergence, the first few paragraphs strike me as being very cruel towards people who are different. The internet, and niche social spaces, have given those who can't fit in a means to bui
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by ImaCake 4y ago
Not really. One thing Mastodon allows is for us to have 1000s of admins with the power of Musk instead of one. You might think this is just as bad, but at least it provides people with choice .
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by ImaCake 4y ago
This is a massive problem right across biology. When we talk about heritability people assume we mean causal genetics for some trait. What we actually mean is all the genetic variation that is causal and all the genetic variation that is
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by ImaCake 4y ago
No, but OP was arguing that lack of trust was reason not to use Mastodon. But if both Twitter and Mastodon both have the same trust issues then their argument is moot.
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by ImaCake 4y ago
It seems a bit dubious to trust twitter with my data anyway? Mastodon at least is not trying to shove politics and celebrities down my throat.
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by ImaCake 4y ago
Interesting! Maybe the stereotype of a tech interview is not the common experience of most developers? This would make more sense and leads me to think that HR is just justifying it's own existence with baroque processes that then make
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by ImaCake 4y ago
Age is a multiple times larger risk factor for COVID risk than weight. So while weight is important, the real elephant in the room is an ageing population?
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by ImaCake 4y ago
I get the feeling from this comment that tech interviewers would be very upset with how I write scripts in research. Part of the reason I will never shift to developer as a job is that the interview process is ridiculous. In universities, t
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by ImaCake 4y ago
I was hoping for some interesting analysis of how big projects like wikipedia and iNaturalist are often dominated by the contributions of surprisingly few individuals. Unfortunately this just seems to be thought piece about definitions wash
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by ImaCake 4y ago
I think google maps is close to the crisis point. Where niche alternatives exist, people will use those instead. One of the reasons I bought an iphone was to have apple maps as an alternative to google maps.

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