ImaCake

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by ImaCake 6y ago
Maybe I am wrong, but I feel they have published this a bit prematurely? The data is reported honestly, but their power (as indicated by the confidence intervals) is pretty terrible. I wish they had waited longer. At the same time the trend
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Does anyone else think that maybe the whole gamestop "rebellion" is just part of the snake oil? A lot of institutions will ultimately make money on the backs of those GME investors. I feel the only way to win at investing is to ju
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I refused to work free overtime for a shitty quality control job and they fired me. Best thing they could’ve done, now I have a great job with no expectation of overtime! I do much more effective work too.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Very easy to imagine a , or a \n being directly before and/or after a city name.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>millions of people having such problems with motivation Presumably the clicks are why such pointless articles continue to be written.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
The only time I, and probably many others, have used GPG is to install R on linux. So I guess you can thank the problematic installation procedure for R on linux for some exposure to GPG.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
You don't really need 10 years. Each researcher at UC might be confounded by their local network, but you could argue that is just a casual variable anyway. As for statistical power, UC has >30 researchers and each one of those rese
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Maybe the wider adoption of arXiv in other fields (taking off in biology right now) will lead to wiki's acceptance of these sources?
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>while it’s normal to put down a month or two worth of rent as a security deposit, it’s much less normal to get it back This looks insane to an Australian. I have moved house 4 times in the past 5 years and I have never not got all of my
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I have an SP4 as well and enjoyed the touchpad on it. I don't think it is as good as the macbook one, but the surface makes up for this with the touch screen. I would often mix it up between screen and touchpad touches to navigate and
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by ImaCake 6y ago
The weird thing about this anti-union stuff is that there is fair argument to be made that Amazon would do just as well if they let them unionise and get what they wanted. Australia has a long history of strong unions and the result has bee
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I personally found it really annoying. Facebook is a good means of delivering useful links to people who otherwise not see them. During this stupid fight my ability to connect friends and family with useful resources was ruined. I think thi
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Ebola infected ~28,000 people in a few African nations over the course of a few years. Knowning now just how flawed testing is for COVID in developed countries it is easy to imagine this number is understated. https://en.wikipedi
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by ImaCake 6y ago
When something with ~30-50% mortality starts doing a COVID there won't be room for anti-vaxxers and anti-lockdown people. With COVID you can get sick and live. With something like ebola you get sick and die, or you go through the most
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Well COVID is already a near-worst case scenario for human civilization. Anything much more nasty would not leave any room for denialism (and presumably would burn itself out fast), anything much less nasty would have meant double the Flu h
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by ImaCake 6y ago
HN doesn't really have a place for ad hominem attacks or people unable to hold two contrasting ideas in their head at the same time. I am more than happy to disagree with authority and yet think they are doing the right thing (or vic
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>At the same time, there is a little known "cure" that was developed in a Tel Aviv hospital that has been tried on 30 people I want to make it really clear that I am downvoting you for this last sentence. N=30 and no link to a
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I am a biologist, and not a virologist. I would suspect we are never getting rid of COVID. But vaccination could turn it into something not much worse than a cold or at least the flu. The virus will mutate and change in ways that make it mo
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by ImaCake 6y ago
This is a really uplifting chart. These trends should continue as vaccination rates increase even more.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
These links appear to be, to use a technical term, Bullshit. From my admittedly bad German skills, I can see that the level of reporting here is terrible, completely focused on the single issue of "vaccines are bad", and probably
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by ImaCake 6y ago
It is pretty rare for someone to have the killer combo of being able to generate incredible ideas and to explain them to the rest of us not on the bleeding edge. As you say, Charlie Stross is really good at communicating the thoughts of t
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by ImaCake 6y ago
While I am also skeptical of the parent comment's quotes. The Euro is still backed by a centralized state(s) which does indeed have a monopoly on violence and require huge amounts of resources to maintain legitimacy. Crypto currencies
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by ImaCake 6y ago
> This tends to drive organizations towards “checklist” security. I have seen the pharmaceutical manufacturing equivalent of this. No one actually cares about microbiological surveillance of drugs for animals, they are just forced to pre
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by ImaCake 6y ago
My anecdata counterfactual to this is that I recieved an empty package and couldn't even figure out how to make a complaint to Amazon let alone return it. It was a cheap item so maybe they care more if it passes some threshold value?
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Absolutely. Time and money are important resources. But for myself, and I imagine many other people, the single richest form of currency in life is the trade in ideas. It is how my relationships intertwine with experience and the trading of
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Instead of silently downvoting me, could someone explain why they don't like my comment. Maybe I could learn something from your disagreement instead of just being pointlessly silenced.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Although I've read this before, its nice to re-read this now that I have started to pay a bit more attention to theory of mind. I don't have much to offer here except some resources for further exploration. Currently I am reading
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Those of us in the operations sides of buisnesses or doing research at universities really only see all the terrible hurtfull decisions these MBAs are making. Constant cost cutting and understaffing tend to lead to a lot of built up resentm
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Thanks this is a great nit pick :) My knowledge on this topic is hazy at best so I jumped to the most famous populist screed writer of the french revolution.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
This has historical precedent. The far-right in the Weimar republic were treated far more softly than the communists were. The complicit behaviour of the authorities definitely played favourites and can probably be partially blamed for what

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