Mary-Jane

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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
Well, yes. Who the hell would spend a few hours a day on a website that constantly redirected them away from content and towards ads they didn't want to see?
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
Who the heck has time to read all these comments???
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
Is there an equivalent to Godwin's Law for Ayn Rand?
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
Parent post is probably referring to the relatively new phenomena of issuing "participation prizes" instead of prizes for winning, this insulating the participants who "lost" from the stigma associated with being a &quot
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
If a dataset removes all information except for, say, a user's fingerprints, meaning the only information stored in the anonymous dataset is an image of a fingerprint. The nature of fingerprints prevents them from meeting this requirem
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
I don't understand the point though; if someone has the source data, what good is the anonymized data to them? What value is added by requiring more stringent safeguards on data that can't be anonymized this way?
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
Let's say you're doing a study of fingerprint patterns. You anonymize a collection of fingerprints from a non-anonymized source by stripping everything but the fingerprint images. Because fingerprints are unique it seems like it&#
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
Can someone explain the point of this requirement? If a malicious actor has access to the source data there's no need to compare it to anonymized data. What am I missing?
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
Were there any tangible benefits observed? Did the participants' heath quantifiably improve in any way? This kind of observation is missing from the article; if the expected benefits of telomere length is increased health and longevity
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
Which again, has been the case for a very long time. The participation rate has been tracked for as long; rather than changing how unemployment is calculated the media could just reporting that metric instead. Seems like a simpler solution.
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
True enough. But they are comprised entirely of people. To change their behavior you must appeal to the people running them.
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
There's only so much money you can squeeze out of rich people; they tend to be, well, tightwads. The best way to earn more money is to reach more people (read: increase market share). You can think of prices as indicators of inefficien
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
Ha! Sorry, my political views are non-binary so I see how you're confused. Allow me to clarify: the regulations in the health care industry are structured poorly and have strong disincentives to even the simplest and most obvious impro
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
Good God no! I get where you're coming from but you've clearly not worked in this field. Heath Care IT is a disaster that was CREATED by regulation written in a different era of computing. The whole industry is terrified of making
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
Really it's the regulatory environment. It treats any change as potentially life threatening. Imagine if you had to prove that none of your changes could possibly risk patient safety to people who think automated tests can't be
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
This. A million times. Regulation isn't the solution to this industry's woes -- it's the cause.
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
The regulatory environment in the Heath Care industry is based on the premise that any change risks patient safety. Changing a single line of CSS literally takes 6 months to test, validate, document and get approval for, so everyone'
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
Sure, but to be fair Taleb's post is full of them, so he's inviting them. Glass houses and all that.
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
I moved out of my city and into a rural town a few years ago. I am still amazed at the volume and variety of wildlife out here - and trying to grow a garden during the pandemic made me appreciate Elmer Fudd's take on wascally wabbits!
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
:slow clap:
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
> Tens of thousands of years of human history. Feuding warlords, and slaves, rather than everyone acting together in unity. ummm, both of your specific examples are actually examples of those with power abusing it.
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” ― Douglas Adams
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
Centralization is clearly bad in the private sector. I'm curious why people here don't see centralization of government as similarly bad. With 3.5T in revenue, the US federal government is the single largest entity in existence, a
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
Your experience differs from mine substantially. Where do you shop that you can regularly find things cheaper than Amazon?
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
I got home from a business trip a couple years ago, unpacked my bags, and found the switchblade I'd lost a few months prior. I went through security twice with those bags...
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
> "You just had your servers hacked into and all your database are belong to them." I see what you did there. Well played.
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
You miss the point. Many people that work at tobacco companies probably like to smoke !
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
This. While it's sad that we wait till we can pin these activities on the other party, it's good to see us finally acknowledging the problem. I almost hope Trump wins the next election because if Biden does we'll all go back
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
That one sentence rather undermined the bulk of the rest of the letter: if, as they argue "cancel culture" isn't a real thing then why are they afraid if being cancelled? I think they address in part; POC and other minorities
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by Mary-Jane 6y ago
Eminent Domain.

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