ScottBurson

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by ScottBurson 5y ago
Its effectiveness at preventing the person who receives it from dying doesn't prove it also substantially reduces the probability of transmission, which is what the parent is talking about.
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
> Classic myths from decades ago, like "Lisp is interpreted and slow", still echo from time to time too. Pretty funny, considering how much faster CL is than, say, Python -- never mind Ruby.
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
Freedom comes from within. Sure, external forces can take it away. But even if you're not externally constrained, you can be internally so. The military, I've heard, tries to instill in you a sense of duty. Perhaps you need to
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
It's very hard to catch bugs in a code review. I manage it occasionally, but it's much more common that I'll be working on something else that touches on some piece of code that already passed review, and then I'll no
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
This is frustrating, because it's not a difficult crime to deter. The gain to the thief is very small, but if the city makes no enforcement effort at all, the risk to the thief is even smaller. Some people think that since police cou
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
I think there's a difference between a company licensing IP it has developed itself vs. acquiring another company's IP that is already being used by competitors. Not saying the latter is never allowable, but it weighs against all
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
Here's Matt Stoller's explanation: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/ftc-sues-to-block-nvidia-... I'm guessing "the law" is probably the Sherman Antitrust Act, which is still on the books, tho
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
Having actually worked with James Cooke Brown on Loglan (I wrote the first Yacc grammar for it), I have to say my recollection is that Jim's view was more tentative and nuanced than you've made it sound. While we certainly enjoye
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
Sure, these early treatments have happened on a small scale; I've seen some of the papers. And don't get me wrong here; clearly we have to start with informal experiments and progress to small studies, to find promising treatment
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
As a recommendation to individuals, the suggestion to seek early treatment -- indeed, to apply certain treatments immediately to oneself -- is, I believe, sound, and I second it. But the situation as regards public health policy and messagi
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
Reminds me of the time I was on a Lisp Machine and did (trace format) This causes a line to be printed every time FORMAT is called, showing the arguments it was called with. Well, FORMAT is Lisp's printf -- it's used every
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
They may not be from someone telling you about it, but what you're remembering is mostly the previous occasions of recalling it. The original impression would be gone if it hadn't been occasionally reinforced by reconstructing it
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
Here's a deduce-the-rule problem that completely stumped me until I wrote down a series of examples: https://illuminations.nctm.org/lessons/petals/petals.htm
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
You might find Matt Stoller's blog interesting: https://mattstoller.substack.com/
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
Reminds me of the time a native French speaker asked me if I had ever tried ... and here he said a word that I'll transcribe as "balling"; the first syllable was quite short and the vowel only slightly rounded. Anyway, I did
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
Hard to pick a winner, since the most esoteric languages will be those that were only ever used by their creators, and there are many of those :-) But listing candidates is fun anyway. Here are a few: SNOBOL, an early string-based pattern
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
In none of the last four jobs I've gotten was there anyone there who knew me. What I knew seems to have been the important factor.
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
Yes, the NYT seems to have lost the ability to treat both sides of an argument skeptically. Disappointing.
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
> It points literally 0% towards lab origin. Even given the CGG codon? Sorry, not buying it. You can argue that its evidentiary value is weaker than the article suggests, but it's not 0%.
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
Yes. What Prop. 13 has done is taken all the tax money that would go to fund local services, and instead given it to former property owners. From a cash flow perspective, there's no difference between paying a large mortgage and smal
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
That's an interesting way of putting it -- "the house itself pays the taxes". I guess you mean the solution I favor, which is to allow the property owner to defer some of the tax until the property is sold. I suggest that P
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
I believe the original intention was to tax the market value of the land a structure sits on, not the structure itself. So in the case of apartments, presumably local density would have to be fairly high to make it a good place to build an
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by ScottBurson 6y ago
Except in Common Lisp, where every base is base 10, but only one base is base 10. .
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by ScottBurson 6y ago
Yes, it seems very odd that someone who writes so beautifully and with such wisdom would get suspended. I poked around on Google a little to see whether I could find out what happened, but no luck.
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by ScottBurson 6y ago
Here's a rebuttal to the Littman paper: https://juliaserano.medium.com/everything-you-need-to-know-a... Here, OTOH, is a young woman talking about how she was temporarily convinced she was a trans man: https:/&#x
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by ScottBurson 6y ago
A Land Value Tax applies, as the name suggests, only to the value of land, not that of any structures built on it. Most real property taxes apply to both. Thus, the latter somewhat discourage construction for higher density. (Though in p
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by ScottBurson 6y ago
I code on a Model 01 all the time. I've customized the layout significantly, and it certainly did take some getting used to, but I love it now.
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by ScottBurson 6y ago
Though it's been out of production for 15 or 20 years, the Kinesis Evolution belongs in here. I have a chair-mount model that still works.
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by ScottBurson 6y ago
But used indoors, it consumes oxygen, and can produce carbon monoxide. Leaving it on while you sleep is dangerous.
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by ScottBurson 6y ago
You can. But you shouldn't :-)

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