Majromax

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by Majromax 7y ago
Ultimately, I feel this headline ("Statistics have lost their power," in case the Guardian changes it later) buries the lede. The dispute is not really about statistics as a way of understanding the world, it is about the epistem
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> At one point does policy targeting a statistical measurement render that statistic useless? When the statistic is a proxy for a quantity of interest, and when policy exploits ways of manipulating that proxy without commensurate change
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> What? :) If everyone involved were honest actors, then it would make sense. One problem with any regulatory agency is that the same skillset that makes for a good regulator also makes for a good product designer or engineer. If FAA e
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> Google's customers are the problem, not Google itself. Kind-of? Ultimately, Google's customers are relying on Google's own filtering methodology. That's normally reasonable -- for the vast majority of people the sp
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> How was crime solved before end-to-end encrypted mobile apps existed? One meaningful investigative tool was (and still is) the wiretap, where access to the physical channel gives unencrypted access to the contents. Phone encryption i
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That would still be institutionally malicious, if not the result of malice by any single person involved. Having a separate review system that provides different and more favourable treatment for (equivalent) internal apps is in and of itse
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> While neutrino oscillation experiments have measured the differences between the mass states, experiments like KATRIN home in on a kind of average of the three. Combining the two types of measurements can reveal the value of each mass
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> Whatever complaints you may have about ICE, there is no analogy I disagree. The analogy may or may not be very good, but there is an analogy that deserves to be treated on its merits. The Holocaust was evil and horrible, but the less
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> You (and Guardian, it seems) are falling for the fallacy of the danger of automation - "it's acceptable for bad decisions to be made as long as it's been decided by a human". Not necessarily. Even bureaucratic syst
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>> In hindsight, our process wasn’t adequate, and we reacted too quickly. I'm not even sure here what "reacted too quickly" means. If the player did clearly violate an unobjectionable Blizzard policy, one would hope
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by Majromax 7y ago
Colin Kaepernick called ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Kaepernick ) from the ship that already sailed, and he'd like to remind us all about the 1968 Black Power Salute ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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On the other hand, look at the article's point 7: the economic model was fundamentally flawed through oppressive transaction fees plus a conception of cards as both valuable (resale) and free (via card rewards). Players don't see
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> Does the US not have some kind of similar element? Not on such a widespread basis, no (exceptions exist). For example, Wikipedia lists the Crown Prosecution Service as one such UK government department, but in the US the Attorney Gene
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> But what lower resistance means is that you have higher power consumption as: p=iv & v=ir -> P=V^2/R So we see low resistance-> higher current. and higher current -> more power. I think you're forgetting time in
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by Majromax 7y ago
Even still, the median US worker is unlikely to earn 4-5 weeks of paid time off during a year. The lowest quarter of wage-earners are as likely as not to have no vacation leave entitlement at all ( https://www.bls.gov/news.r
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> If half beat the market in a year and half don’t As per this article, that wouldn't happen: more than half of the bots would fail to beat the market. This article finds that the vast majority of the positive return is explained by
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In a very brief summary, the French court here has held that the EU doctrines relating to rights exhaustion -- that a copyright holder cannot control the resale of physical goods -- also applies to digital games sold on Valve's platfor
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Valve ordered by French court to allow resale of digital games [in French](nextinpact.com)
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> Why aren't there a few meta-reviewers, to review the reviews? In principle, the associate editor managing the submission (and making the ultimate accept/reject decision) should be doing this for every paper. In practice, the
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That's mentioned towards the end of the link: > littlefs by itself does not provide ECC. The block nature and relatively large footprint of ECC does not work well with the dynamically sized data of filesystems, correcting errors wit
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> if the result wasn't statistically significant, there's no evidence that rates for females increased. That's not quite right. A conclusion of no statistical significance is not a conclusion that there is no evidence to
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> But maybe our use cases are the outliers, and the new search is what works for most people. I think it's a probability problem more often expressed in terms of medical tests / false positives. If a million people search for
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> Why aren't heat pumps used these days? They lose efficiency in very cold conditions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_source_heat_pumps#In_cold_... ). Albany, New York ( https://www.weather.gov&#x2
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> Calling arguments "absurd" or "disingenuous" is itself arguing in bad faith, and respectable publications can do better. Calling an argument 'absurd' or 'disingenuous' is not an argument, it&#x27
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> He doesn't seem to have the same passion for art direction as he does for game design so its not surprising at all that you can throw money at the wrong problem and not get much out. I think that's the most robust critical ta
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I read "reliable" as "delivers, preferably on time." That's reasonable to ask for from any freelancer, but since Vogel specifically doesn't pay enough to keep artists on retainer I can understand how he doesn&
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> Yet some small developers have managed to build visually stunning games, That's Voegl's point 3. There, he admits he probably could develop a more impressive-looking single game, but doing so would make him dependent on th
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> If the context of the discussion was about developers instead of artists, how would HackerNews feel about someone lamenting the fact that they can't get any "affordable" developers to work on their projects? I'm not
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Unfortunately, the mid-noughts vintage of this page is showing. After about 2010, productivity growth has not kept up with the page's 1.7% estimate ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=oGgn ). Also,
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> If I search for something using Google, and don't click on a link, doesn't that mean my search was fruitless? No, it could mean that Google itself provided an acceptable answer for you in an infobox. For example, if you searc

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