Jill_the_Pill

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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Innocent people are killed by the same murderers in both scenarios. In yours, they are also sometimes killed or imprisoned by the state and are therefore at more total risk.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
These are not comparable. The first must be zero, and the second should be "as many as possible while keeping the first at zero."
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A Data Scientist Is Skeptical about Data(qz.com)
5 points by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago|0 comments
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
You are my kind of anarchist.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
You probably mean this as a joke, but we often underestimate our ancestors who were as smart and curious as we are (and surely as dopey and uncurious as well).
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
And I thought it was his hubris in trying to fix American education without knowing really anything about it.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
I had read the term "winklepicker" a few times in the past, with no photo or description, and just assumed it was the snappy British equivalent of the American "clamdigger" -- a sort of short pants you'd wear collec
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Needs or wants? Could you conserve another 40% if you tried?
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Just returned to say: OS 10.14 rebooting while asleep because it's pouting about some nonstandard software or file.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Or, rather than written off, treated as mitigating factors.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
I would say curse. This article, like so many others, focuses on ways in which the tech isn't strong enough, isn't secure enough -- rather than ways in which it's not desirable at all: privacy, anonymity, right to be forgotte
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
That's an angle that had not even occurred to me to worry about -- thanks!
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Maybe I read too many horror stories when I was younger, but the concept of a "digital dark age" has stayed with me. I never fully trust online resources to be there after a wildfire, flood, or multiple changes of storage format.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Also, have a thought for the animals up the food chain, poisoned by poisoned rats and mice.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
I have thought about that, but when people shop, they pick up dozens of things at once. Having them delivered singly from different vendors seems like a lot more trips, plus the return-packaging trip.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Don't the emissions from the home delivery and pickup offset any good done by re-using the containers?
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
A couple of control freak things. I despise the junk mail folder that can't be hidden or removed and requires an extra "are you sure" click to delete messages. It refuses to copy files from my external hard drive. I have t
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
You can buy a like-new, souped-up 2015 Macbook Pro on ebay. I am very happy with mine, except for the new OS.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
I find that funny because we were taught growing up that leaving your cart out keeps the cart-collecting people employed, kind of like refusing to use the self-service checkout -- a different decent thing!
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
It seems you haven't spent much time in a "cheap neighborhood with bad schools." I can assure you that no one there is making $X. In my city, the average household income is $38k; the state average is $74k. Almost all peop
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Frightened flyers do not sleep on planes. Who is going to supervise the pilot, assess the nervousness of the crew, wonder what that bing-bong means, and listen for strange engine noises if we are asleep? We would have to tear our eyes awa
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
They delete the photo after 12 hours, but probably not the measurements for recognition.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Not all month long. They've found that frogs won't sing if it's too light, making it hard to woo a reproductive partner.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
LED lights are now common in suburbs as they sprawl into habitats. Migrating birds get confused as they fly over cities. Coastal cities and towns mess with aquatic animals.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
And for the animals?
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
The little wild creatures don't appreciate that visibility. If the recent report on biodiversity loss bothered you, avoiding LED outdoor lighting is one easy action to take locally.
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by Jill_the_Pill 7y ago
Ha! Never had that book when mine were small, but I used to count to 3. Never ever figured out what would have happened -- we never got past 2!
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by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago
"getting to do the research you're passionate about. Do people just enjoy teaching so much?" Yes! I look at research as a boring, stressful pain-in-the-butt, and I love teaching my students. I am contingent annually, but fu
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by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago
Most of these suggestions will help a bit, but with a few exceptions,they are largely individual answers that involve you coping, alone or with a therapist, with the problems of the broader society. Joining a group of people working hard on
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by Jill_the_Pill 8y ago
Here's the point. It won't be too long before these children graduate to the job market carrying along some sort of summary score about how good or lazy or naughty they were in school.

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