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by LeonB 4y ago
As a thought experiment I think that’s brilliant. As an actual plan though I think it would be terrible. There are so many ways to fail to reproduce an experiment. Incentivising the failure to reproduce is just a very out there idea.
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by LeonB 4y ago
When visiting a website to purchase an apple iPhone - chrome could insert an ad about android. It’s not illegal, should they do it?
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by LeonB 4y ago
In the chrome browser they could inject anything anywhere.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Oooh i was wondering if sci-fi had come up with something like that. With Bingchat forgetting its memory from one session to the next, I had an idea that a chaotic observer could teach it to write its memory of the current session to some o
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by LeonB 4y ago
The study linked above says that exposing kids to peanuts lowers the chance of them developing peanut allergy — and people (including the authors of that article) tend to make the faulty assumption that this means peanut allergy is caused b
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by LeonB 4y ago
I think when we see the title we assume the market is “everyone who currently uses a spreadsheet”. And if they try to go after that market, they have almost zero chance of success. But if they focus on a specific set of users and use cases
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by LeonB 4y ago
They definitely chose their words poorly in that sentence.
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by LeonB 4y ago
> Do you realize I’m the idiot who came up with live video in the browser to begin with Ok - that really surprised me and from anyone else I would’ve dismissed it as hyperbole… after some digging I ended up reading this incredible story
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by LeonB 4y ago
Suddenly discovering new subtext to—- i am sam. i am sam. sam i am. that sam-i-am! that sam-i-am! i do not like that sam-i-am!
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by LeonB 4y ago
Also there’s a concept called “rubber sheeting” for transforming points where you know the amount of error at a bunch of points and you want to transform all the other points by interpolating how much error there would be at those points. T
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by LeonB 4y ago
Splines instead of points — boom! That sounds awesome.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Every field has its own “occupational hazards” - I found that with maps and mapping the maps themselves were so fascinating, you could get drawn in and lose a lot of time just… exploring I guess. QGis is great, lots of tools are nice. Gener
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by LeonB 4y ago
Wow that’s a pretty interesting (and scary) challenge. I know that the coordinate systems get revised every few years. In Australia we used to use AGD83 then it was revised to GDA94 and more recently to GDA2020 — and this was to account for
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by LeonB 4y ago
The accident described above is basically the same as happened in my hometown in October 2021. There was no one else in the boat but many witnesses on the shore. The whole community greatly affected. https://www.couriermail.com.a
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by LeonB 4y ago
No, as “A connection between bullying and school shootings” is not what the grand-parent comment “suggests” - and omits the purpose and the style in which they made their proposal. The GP comment suggests that: 1. As an effective deterrent
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by LeonB 4y ago
> Explaining to students that if they bully someone, they're increasing the likelihood of that person one day bringing a pump gun to school and murdering them is a much better deterrent than … Please please tell me you don’t work wi
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by LeonB 4y ago
After the bad thing happens — we look back and find that incidents occurred that were not handled. Eg they were bullying or bullied and complaints about the bullying were raised but were not dealt with. Preemptive monitoring not required.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Better block a whole host of other every day words too. Can’t have your child ever use the word “Asian” online, for their own good. Othering of LGBTQIA+ people does real harm, to which you seem to be either ignorant or indifferent.
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by LeonB 4y ago
The Swedes helped the Allies also.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Ah - now from the title i thought this would refer to that famous recut trailer of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off that makes it look like a poignant coming of age indie film. It’s now 11 years old and most people alive today have never seen it -
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by LeonB 4y ago
The article is such a love poem to his performance, I’m surprised he didn’t mention Ruck’s fantastic voice acting, which shows up in a few places - as Sloane’s dad (fooling Rooney on the phone) and as “Sgt Peterson” - fooling the Maître D.
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by LeonB 4y ago
Yes that’s the episode I saw. I’m not sure if they were kicked off for pressing the button - they were definitely punished and “taught a lesson”. Maybe they had less points or dollars going into the next challenge or something. Edit: someon
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by LeonB 4y ago
There are significant differences between the two, for both the employer and the employee. In terms of economic theory, you’d say that staying within “the firm” (Coase) saves both of them a lot in transaction costs. In normal terms — the em
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by LeonB 4y ago
I saw a fraction of an episode of Richard Branson’s “The Apprentice” and was struck by the fact that (unlike a different host of the US The Apprentice) he considered the act of firing someone very painful. It was an existence proof that b
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by LeonB 4y ago
> If the web was being made from scratch today, This is a brilliant prompt, for discussion / thought provocation. My answer is: start with a reliable system for exchanging CSV files. Add a few extensions and boom, everything’s possi
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by LeonB 4y ago
I (in Australia) want preferences about avoiding right turns across busy roads (equivalent to left turns in the US). I use Google Maps and it seems to constantly choose options with all of the difficult turns. Passengers in my car (ie my
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by LeonB 4y ago
A lot of German immigration to South Australia several generations ago - there’s a reasonable chance that they do have Vandal ancestors.
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by LeonB 4y ago
“First they came for the lawyers “ (Obviously they didn’t come for the lawyers first - the lawyers were the first who were strong enough to pick a fight over it or know how to respond - it’s shrapnel holes in returned bombers)
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by LeonB 4y ago
During busy and stressful times it becomes clear what the bottlenecks are. So place yourself under incredible stress and see what things you are suddenly wishing for. I’m not saying this is a sustainable model. But you don’t need to have gr
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by LeonB 4y ago
Really? No one else is going to mention the P-filled aliterative title?

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