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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
Do they scale? If a large number of people actually all together tried something else, would it work? Doesn't this line of reasoning assume that right now there is a big misallocation and some are way over capacity while others have lo
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
There is no "broad statement": There only is a specific response to a specific comment. I responded to "there is no evidence" - I don't have to show existence of 100% knowledge in the response, only that " no
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
I also recommend at least the "Conclusion" section of this document, selected as an example, not as the one definite document: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3611719/ It is a good read
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, but, okay, children and adolescents count too? OP responded to a specific comment, I responded to OPs comment. I don't understand your point in that given context. I'd think showing one study - I didn
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
There is evidence: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660619/ > Title: Cancer risk in 680 000 people exposed to computed tomography scans in childhood or adolescence: data linkage study of 11 m
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
Just as an aside, the BBC version of the quote: https://youtu.be/OVXt8jBAGkc?t=87 For the last few years I took some time off to recover from a mild heavy metal poisoning, and used the time to learn learn learn. I was prett
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
They have? Details, sure, like structure of debt and who the creditors are (things like the IMF didn't exist previously), but countries still default. https://www.rstreet.org/2016/02/22/countries-dont-go-
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
Why do you re-interpret what I wrote instead of going with what I wrote? Why do you lecture me about things that I didn't write?
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
> Occupational limits are 0.05mg/m3. A note on those limits: The medical limit is zero, and that is not fear mongering but the result of ever more results over decades of research. In a little course I took from Tuft University
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
And the US rocket program was "stolen" German technology - even including the scientists and engineers. And Germany "stole" a lot of technology from Britain during the industrial revolution. And somebody "stole&quot
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
> but this kind of subgroup analysis also runs into the multiple comparisons problem. If you test all kinds of subgroups (or just do a lot of any kind of tests), chances are good that you will run into false positives. As I said, the iss
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
A well-known German comedian has lines in his performance that are along the lines of "Doesn't anyone think of the jobs in the dynamite stick industry?" (in relation to suicide bomber prevention, which at the time was more of
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
I think this video sums it up very well, example: Bradley Fighting Vehicle evolution https://youtu.be/aXQ2lO3ieBA
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
I'm not sure how I feel about that argument, did we really just find a place where public attacks on a person are better? I would think at most people actually involved in something that relies on the person may have a valid argument f
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
My government (Germany) just "lost" (their feeling, esp. voiced by minister of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital infrastructure (BMVI) who is from the most conservative coalition partner and sees tougher standards as
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
I would extend to to "statistics based knowledge" in general. If you don't understand the mechanism it's not real knowledge. For example: You have a drug that 100% helps in a certain context (of what the problem is and t
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
The joke was not about software specifically, but about the whole system, everything. But even software feels like evolutionary forces are at work - when you work on huge systems developed and added-to over years, sometimes decades, ofte
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
I did not specify an exact scenario because that was not the point I was trying to make (it was actually meant mostly as a joke, no?). If they already have to fight with so many bugs, disabling it will be just as hard on the one hand, and t
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
What exactly do you mean? The specific scenario I described in very, very broad terms was from a lecture by Eric S. Lander about a specific bacterial cell. If you have an issue with the general description I don't understand it, since
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
They will be in for a surprise: Using those massive buggy systems is not one bit easier for the hackers than for the actual users. Maybe the many bugs in those huge systems will turn out to be the best protection against enemy takeover... n
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
To add to this, end of the 1990s I worked in the kitchen of a camp for disabled adults and children in New Jersey for a summer (as a foreign student). Before that I had occasionally had kitchen duty in the German army, and before that, at a
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
> They are definitely worried about losing their language and perhaps the cultural identity it confers. Who is "they"? As a German who also has one friend (fluent in two other languages and living abroad most of the time and
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
> "Don't always make this about you!" German: Es geht nicht immer nur um dich! Not a 100% word for word translation, but what I would yell when I meant to say something similar to the English version. Instead of "
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
The first thing I did was to change the text color from #666 to #000. It is soooo much easier to read now. I don't understand why gray - and a pretty light shade even (666 is pretty far from 000) - has become the standard text color on
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
Then it would make no sense for it to not be true either, unless one assumes the government to spread lies to damage those companies, which also makes no sense.
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
Because "getting caught"'s only consequence is that you have to use a new method. There is no punishment, no negative cost to be applied retroactively to compare it to the received benefits. The net effect still is highly pos
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
That makes no sense. What do you think is the difference in "denial levels"? Kind of like Dragonball-Z power levels? Does a "vehement denial" cost the one making it any more than a "meek denial"? If making &quo
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
Not for me. I've taken and completed well over 50 courses by now (took health-related time off work for a few years but when I felt better wanted to do something), and the most frustrating courses where Udacity courses (and a few of th
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
Would you have a link? I found those videos that I did watch pretty good, definitely not lacking in quality. That was mostly math, just a few chemistry videos (some 20?).
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by ItsMe000001 8y ago
I just found the first couple of courses on edX where graded exercises are only for those who pay for a "certificate". It's all courses in a UC San Diego "MicroMasters" program around data structures and algorithms.

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