Majromax

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by Majromax 6y ago
If you take a Beta(1,1) distribution as your prior, then the control group's risk-of-severe-covid-given-symptoms posterior is Beta(31,156), and the experimental group's conditional risk posterior is Beta(1,12). Drawing 100,000 sam
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by Majromax 6y ago
Immune suppressed/deficient patients are not good candidates for vaccines in the first place, since they would be unlikely to mount an effective immune response.
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> Of course there is question... The Ipad was a tremendous success for Apple. In fact, the M1 is possible because tablets in general and phones sell so much compared to normal computers that have made the price of those ARM semiconductor
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That’s exactly the problem – home routers don’t have a public domain, especially before their initial setup.
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> Effectiveness of targeted ads directly translates to effectiveness of mass surveillance. Assuming you're correct about the technical points of efficacy, we can still turn this around as a social problem and hypothesize that the w
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> The United States has the longest running form of government, I'd say it was architected pretty well. The Constitution is a good guide for setting up a system that allows depressurization. The US Civil War (1861-1865) called, it w
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by Majromax 6y ago
Getting an entire paper delivered just for the front page? What a waste!
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by Majromax 6y ago
It's also difficult because Friends is also a long-tail phenomenon. There were dozens of 90s sitcoms that failed to become generational hits. Also, a counter-argument to my proposition above is that broadcast TV through the mid-90s
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by Majromax 6y ago
> I guess it shows that novelty is probably what drives people to the platform and gets new subscribers. It assumes that novelty is what drives people to the platform and increases/maintains the subscriber base. However, Netflix&
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by Majromax 6y ago
Not exactly. The GPL's special status generally comes from the fundamentals of copyright law: it attaches conditions to the duplication, modification, and distribution of a work. If not for the GPL, you'd have no right to distri
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> The whole point is that you won't be driving it soon, Yet they continue to manufacture cars with legacy, tactile steering wheels. Curious.
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> Some places, the 'code' is merely a tool for businesses or other organizations to avoid liability. And that's important. You have to have some place to draw the line between "we did nothing and we're all out o
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> It would also discourage hoarding. That can cut both ways: the possibility of "price gouging" can also encourage speculation, both for those hoping to turn a profit and for those who over-buy compared to expected use to ensur
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by Majromax 6y ago
> I'm just not so sure that if you accidentally knock over one domino and a cascading whole room full of dominoes falls that you should take the blame for the cascading effects. Yes, you do and should take the blame under the eggshe
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by Majromax 6y ago
> Security by obscurity alone is bad, but as another layer, it can be great. I beg to differ in your case. Had you left SSH on its default port, what would your expected time-to-compromise be? Presumably you weren't using a root:pa
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> In this post, I will raise my objection against the idea of “Security by obscurity is bad”. I think this article's fundamental flaw is that it conflates the concepts of obscurity and a secret . To start with, a definition: a s
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by Majromax 6y ago
> At least if you believe his talks. That's a bigger ask than you might at first think. Scalia is noted for his concurrence in Raich ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich ) in favour of federal mar
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by Majromax 6y ago
> Could it also be that they are counting flu as something else? The article raises that question, but it does not reach this conclusion. In particular, it states: >> [In the six countries with robust data] the total number of inf
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> On the other hand, if argument is that it's easy enough to switch from Playstation to Xbox, then how is that different from buying a new phone? Rather easily: players can own two consoles with nothing more than the hardware invest
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by Majromax 6y ago
> In my email to mom, I'll write "Please open MyFile.txt" and when mom sees theat there is a myFile.txt and MyFile.txt in the directory, she won't have trouble figuring out which one I meant." But if she (or any
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by Majromax 6y ago
You lose heat through radiation, but the materials surrounding you are also radiating heat. You emit thermal radiation at a black-body temperature of 37C or so to the environment, but the average surface nearby (in a non-air-conditioned env
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by Majromax 6y ago
> The issue is that they're still considered employees which means predetermined shifts Is there anything in California labour law or AB5 that requires predetermined shifts? What would prevent Uber/Lyft from allowing its now
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The linked article also makes a comparison with the ISS solar arrays, which provide 120kW of power. They're not the most efficient panels out there, but it's hard to make up three orders of magnitude.
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> But the pretense is bizarre - that google has to pay Murdoch because it steals his content. That's not exactly the pretext. The Australian regulation is being proposed under the office of competition; it's effectively a prop
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A robust infrastructure should be able to handle surge loads. This isn't an extraordinary heat wave after some other natural disaster has directly damaged the power grid; it's that the grid as designed and built can't handle
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... or the QR code isn't meant exclusively for direct human consumption? A QR code is quite information-dense. With even the highest error-correction rates, a 53x53 QR code will store 100 bytes of information ( https://www.q
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by Majromax 6y ago
> Can anyone explain what tricks it uses to become so addictive? Good game design. In particular, I see a few broad strokes of good game design here: * There are always a variety of tasks to accomplish of varying scope and complexity.
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> Sweden didn’t go into total lockdown but still did a lot. Indeed; both Sweden ( https://ycharts.com/indicators/sweden_unemployment_rate ) and Norway ( https://ycharts.com/indicators/norway_unempl
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> There's a slight uptick over the past week. Any uptick at all is concerning. In fact, a flattening of the decline is concerning. The implied thesis in the linked article is that Sweden has reached a level of herd immunity due to
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> Where Intel had great theoretical performance, but software didn't keep up? > For this to make a dent, Intel would need to hire a teach of engineers so Firefox and Chrome both took advantage of the new instructions. That's

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