T-hawk

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by T-hawk 6y ago
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Medical care is not fully available. Canada now has a backlog of cancer screenings estimated to last over a year to resolve. Thousands of these people will die from cancer thanks to trying to "save" them from Covid.
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How can you state anything about lifelong damage for a virus that's existed for only eight months?
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It's not so much about locality - it's about competition . Locality is just the means to that. Everyone wins when competitors try different things and find out what's efficient and what works well and what doesn't. Ma
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by T-hawk 6y ago
> On average a college graduate will have one million dollars more of lifetime earnings than a high school graduate. This does not scale. Adding more college degrees does not make that many more productive jobs exist. It just moves the
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by T-hawk 6y ago
You bicker over the digits far to the right because there tends to be ways for those inaccuracies to propagate up into your significant figures. That doesn't happen from typing a few arithmetic operations into a handheld calculator.
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by T-hawk 6y ago
The problem with banning "harmful" speech is creating the justification to ban any speech by labeling it harmful. You fight harmful speech in the marketplace of ideas, by convincing those who might listen to ignore or counter it
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by T-hawk 6y ago
It's 20%-25% of currently detectable antibodies , coupled with another 20%-50% from prior coronaviruses or other cross-immunity. That's the important distinction. The sum approaches the 50%-70% needed for herd resistance based
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Please add my voice to that. I just want sync. Not a fat client constantly blaring about features for sharing and comments and teams, while not actually syncing my files thanks to "Smart Sync". My current Dropbox subscription
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by T-hawk 6y ago
There is the power law heuristic, that 90% of results are often due to 10% of phenomena. If there are several filters, then they may differ in effectiveness by many multiples, and then it's semantics as to whether you say any beyond th
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by T-hawk 6y ago
I think none of those is the best way to write this. Start with the conditional first, so the reader knows a branch is coming. Then have the most common case immediately following. Invert the conditional if that's necessary to put t
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by T-hawk 6y ago
The definition of a brown dwarf is enough mass to cause nuclear fusion of deuterium (roughly 13x Jupiter's mass) but not enough for hydrogen-1 (roughly 75x Jupiter or 0.08x the Sun.) Planets by definition are anything that doesn't
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by T-hawk 6y ago
I do a middle ground: I use "this" for a method call specifically when the call is occurring within the context of an instantiation of a class. As opposed to a static method calling a static method, where the method name goes u
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by T-hawk 6y ago
It's more than reciprocal. Fusion rate and luminosity go up enormously with stellar mass, like m^4 or even higher, so the lifetime goes more like 1/m^4. Sirius for example is 2x the mass of the sun, but 25x as luminous, therefore
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by T-hawk 6y ago
There's room for both of your arguments. Industries are different. Industries that work on a workflow of hunting and fulfilling need SEO. People search for an item or service that they know exists and grab the top result. Industries
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by T-hawk 6y ago
I don't know anyone who used the stimulus to pay down debt, it's all gone into rent and current bills. I think it's more about less digging deeper into the hole. You can't incur more debt on things like movies, sports,
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Excel is stuck. It can't change this behavior if it cares about backwards compatibility. There are uncountably many recorded macros and all sorts of scripts and data tools everywhere, that implicitly and inadvertently depend on behav
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Then nobody in society should ever drive a car, since you can't guarantee you won't injure others. Society understands the concept of acceptable risk. We need to get past the absolutist hysteria and treat discussions of Covid in
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by T-hawk 6y ago
I would make of it that these are outliers cherrypicked for the scare value in the headlines. The vast majority of hospitals everywhere are doing fine. In New York, the hospitals are so far under capacity that they're running TV ads b
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Wouldn't co-worker upvotes lead to workers prioritizing their output for what attracts upvotes rather than what the company needs to get done? You'd get a team constantly making tools for each other and no sellable product.
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Look up the 72(t) rule relating to a 401k. You can retire early and start withdrawals at any age without penalty, as long as you continue the withdrawals for sufficient time (the longer of five years or until age 59.5.) This fixes the &qu
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Look up the 72(t) rule relating to a 401k. You can retire early and start withdrawals at any age without penalty, as long as you continue the withdrawals for sufficient time (the longer of five years or until age 59.5.) This fixes the &qu
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by T-hawk 6y ago
As the sibling comment to mine says, predictive arbitrage will already have accounted for the price shift by the time the index inclusion/exclusion actually happens. That arbitrage means the price change effectively gets smeared over
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by T-hawk 6y ago
The problem with banning "bad" speech is that it allows you to ban any speech by defining it as "bad".
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by T-hawk 6y ago
This is correct, those two ideas are often mistaken for each other. Reddit is not a governmental entity, and as a private platform, has every right to decide what speech it will or will not publish. But we can wish that Reddit as a speech p
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by T-hawk 6y ago
Sure, that's low, depending on context. At 6 significant digits, a million-dollar bank account would have a margin of error of up to +/- 5 dollars. And if you add up a million of any item with 6 significant digits, that's en
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by T-hawk 6y ago
18 months is the rough expectation of the timeline for applying a vaccine to everybody. Can people really go 18 months with no employment? Can students miss 18 months of schooling? Can people go 18 months without other medical care? Can
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by T-hawk 6y ago
I like to use this phrase for this sort of thing: "It's working as designed but the design was flawed." That's pretty successful at getting the business/product people off the blame-assigning game and thinking produ
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by T-hawk 6y ago
PCR is very unlikely to give a false positive if you never had the virus. The viral RNA simply isn't present to be detected. A false positive from PCR most likely came from contamination of the test materials. PCR is quite likely to
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by T-hawk 6y ago
I'm an example of your #2. I have a pretty easy and cushy 40-hour software development job, in a fairly quiet company and industry. I could be making more or doing splashier work at a FAANG, but I'm happy to compartmentalize sof

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