Tarq0n

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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Life extension would mean a massive change in population growth dynamics. That's pretty scary from a politician's perspective.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Data.table's join syntax is literal insanity to me. That said I used dtplyr to generate data.table code recently and it worked well, except for one edge case.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Every library has an api, unless you're using some protocol-only definition of api.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
They probably could get some countries to indemnify them, they'd probably survive the damage to their reputation.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
This is a kind of faulty reasoning that I've been seeing a lot lately, reasoning by majority case. If you receive 999 trivial text messages and then 1 with critical private information then it is still really bad for the defaults to no
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
GDPR has some protections against degrading functionality, assuming they ever start enforcing it.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Note that executive functioning disorders can also point to autism spectrum disorders. Under the DSM4 it was actually discouraged to diagnose co-morbid ADHD with ASD.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
That makes sense for really old things like stars, after all survivorship bias is a critical factor in most long lasting things we observe.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
The children might not be at risk themselves but their parents/grandparents are, and kids do spread the virus.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
You linked to local CDN, I think you wanted localCDN (no space).
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
A bit of selective whitelisting with umatrix keeps everything functional while massively helping with privacy.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
You could infer the sexuality of a large number of people on Reddit / Instagram / Facebook if you had their data, so the same risk is present there.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
There's definitely an element of this at play. This was stated pretty explicitly in the case of Grindr, a dating app for gay men. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/us/politics/grindr-china-...
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
I understand the value of notebooks, but I'd rather use them in a dedicated environment, like VScode or Rstudio.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Sounds like they fixed a bunch of things that are broken about Jupyter notebooks. I still don't understand why anyone would want to do work in their browser though.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
That definition is really ambiguous for government use, I wish people would address that specifically in these clauses.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Servo isn't necessarily dead, though it is ambitious for a community-run project. There's still activity on the repo.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Just because others have copied the interface doesn't make it 1) portable 2) part of the standard 3) a protocol. You'd ideally want all three for a viable alternative to email-based patches.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
The whole point of "extend" is that the extensions are proprietary. If GitHub's fork and pull request features were standards that are portable and that other repository vendors could implement this wouldn't be a problem
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Blokada is a similar local-vpn adblocker available on F-droid. It uses the same block lists as browser adblockers, so much less configuration is required. I don't currently use an iPhone (contemplating jumping ship as well), but my und
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Interesting. How does this differ from WASMtime, the focus on C compatibility?
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Jane Street being the only company that anyone ever mentions when discussing OCaml is even worse in my opinion. It means the ecosystem is going to be heavily driven by their needs, not to mention that banks tend to have idiosyncratic develo
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Wow, that's a pretty irresponsible list for an encyclopedia. I'd expect a certain standard of evidence for assertions of thwarted plots, but there seems to be little if any presented.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Not at all. These models all have a multilevel structure, accounting for election level data, district data and poll data. The main source of uncertainty is probably how hard representative polling is, not to mention the polls are carried
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Andrew Gelman weighs into this much more thoughtfully here: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/08/14/new-fiveth... .
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Anonymization is a bit of a misnomer here. This dataset is clearly pseudonymised. Most datasets at the level of the unit of observation are never truly anonymous, unless they barely contain any real information at all. However this can be s
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
I wonder if this risks ossifying API's at the lowest common denominator. Both the numpy and pamdas API's are far from ideal, see for instance the recent developments towards named tensors.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
I suppose that could be an argument for microservices; use 'boring' tech in the places that necessitate it.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Assuming the anonymization holds up, they can profile a person, but not link it back to you. This determines whether the information can be used to invade your personal life, blackmail you etc. This is a critical distinction, whether privac
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
The epidemic is not just about mortality, the disease could severely impact your quality of life without killing you.

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