JamisonM

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by JamisonM 3y ago
> Without getting lost in the weeds, there is little protection on deidentified data once it exists. That's what I said I think.. the law is about making it exist and the standard for being allowed to make it is dictated by the RE
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by JamisonM 3y ago
You gotta pump the brakes on on the de Tocqueville worship buddy, I love the guy but he didn't unlock the secret of America, pastoralism was a fad at the time and he was as guilty of it as many others. (That said, do listen to these ex
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by JamisonM 3y ago
"In this hypothetical it is not a privacy violation under ... PHIPA (Ontario, Canada) as consent would not be required." That is not categorically true, PHIPA requires research ethics board to review research disclosures to determ
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by JamisonM 3y ago
> It’s an important distinction. Is it? New York City grew from 60,000-ish to 3 million from 1800 to 1900 - did a person from Europe that move to New York city in 1816 or 1876 immigrate or settle? They were not getting 40 acre land grant
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by JamisonM 3y ago
> Why does a Guatemalan immigrant add more value to American society than a sixth generation Appalachian? Why would a Guatemalan immigrant + a sixth generation Appalachian add less value to American society than only a single sixth gener
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by JamisonM 3y ago
If there is a publicly available picture of you that you did not consent to be published and literally nobody can currently identify it as you that is still a privacy violation. It is a violation because of the lack of consent, but it is al
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by JamisonM 3y ago
Even with 30-day mortality this can be the case, heart patients I am sure do survive risky procedures and die two weeks later because of complications due to the procedure fairly regularly. (Not that I have an opinion on the root cause here
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by JamisonM 3y ago
> 3. In May we find out apparently our government has recovered alien technologies This is a silly thing to include on the list since it doesn't seem to be true?
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by JamisonM 3y ago
They developed a new app and essentially built the business in 2022, I am going to expect that the vast majority of the $1MM is fixed and one-time costs. (Obviously they are amortizing the app cost.. but nonetheless.) But regardless of that
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by JamisonM 3y ago
I don't quite understand the logic here.. the 5.2MM wasn't fixed costs, that was costs of goods sold because they needed to provide the service to earn in income. So as far as I can tell they lost 318K, but they don't need to
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by JamisonM 3y ago
Don't get me started with aluminum wiring!! ;)
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by JamisonM 3y ago
This newspaper stand argument is really, really bad. The headlines of the physical newspaper on the front page are for the purposes of advertising the newspaper.. and the newspaper stand sells the newspapers - that's a big contribution
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by JamisonM 3y ago
> edit: I will stand by my comment. Lets see how many 70's and 80s era houses last until 2040. 2040 is only 17 years away! Houses from the 1970's and 1980's are selling for top dollar today in suburbs all over North Ameri
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by JamisonM 3y ago
Well.. I don't really know. I know that the copper drain plumbing in my house was failing and needed replacing and it was a lot younger than many abs installations in the world that are just fine? It certainly could be the case that so
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by JamisonM 3y ago
You can't assert this is absolutely false, you have not even in your comment established the criteria to say so. If "older growth wood is more stable and more likely to resist moisture" it still stands that any wood can per
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by JamisonM 3y ago
Auctioneers would simply have a standard practice with respect to disclosure to protect their reputation, not keeping secrets. I know of none that advertise that they use a computer to verify the mileage/hours on equipment - if one did
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by JamisonM 3y ago
What more raw data would you like?
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by JamisonM 3y ago
My Bahasa Indonesia is not strong enough to read that article but it seems to be referencing this: https://www.ahp.id/brighter-days-ahead-as-indonesias-ministr... Reading the details is seems like it is still pretty true th
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by JamisonM 3y ago
Calculating the difference between the 538 brand and the Nate Silver brand at the time of acquisition was probably a bit of a toss-up too. Nate can move on to a substack that generates $2MM a year with 4 staff and be happy while Disney runs
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by JamisonM 3y ago
I don't entirely disagree. We know from his public statements that he personally builds the political models. I think he is personally invested in the baseball modelling but we know it is a team effort and 538 is doing a lot. Nate is a
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by JamisonM 3y ago
> Why would Disney have agreed to a temporary license, as opposed to a purchase of this critical IP? It was probably a risk hedge from them.. he would have wanted a lot more for the full enchilada and they didn't know how it would p
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by JamisonM 3y ago
I wouldn't presume that most of it is Nate's own work. (I suspect that for most sports he is delegating but "owns" the output, he does seem to directly build most of the political stuff.) Isn't this what the Skype
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by JamisonM 3y ago
> FiveThirtyEight's political forecasts absolutely provide a desirable service—who doesn't want to know who will an upcoming election? > But is it good for people to know who is more likely to win an election? Are these pred
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by JamisonM 3y ago
End of 2025 doesn't seem like too big an issue.
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by JamisonM 3y ago
Does making all those computers still run Windows 10 make them obsolete?
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by JamisonM 3y ago
There are a lot of jurisdictions where piped natural gas is not available and 200 amp service is very common, as a practical matter it is not a big deal. Requiring new builds to have even more electrical capacity and more robust incoming in
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by JamisonM 3y ago
"You can run the blower and electronics of a natural gas furnace or boiler off a little camping generator.." Likewise for a heat pump, right? Does this "power out for days after a winter storm" thing actually happen very
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by JamisonM 3y ago
> Or am I missing something. One of the things you may be missing is that the article is about "efficiency" as opposed to total impact. "researchers found that 83% of insect visits to bramble flowers were made during the d
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by JamisonM 3y ago
Seems like the obvious answer to this question is just greed and/or ambition, right? The target audience for this article seems to be white collar workers and most professionals can mostly live wherever they want, they just have to acc
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by JamisonM 3y ago
That's interesting because if you set that out as a goal.. then what, right? What you'd like is on-going productive use once unlimited access is granted if your goal is balance. My inclination would be to be giving "homework&

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