Thriptic

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by Thriptic 10y ago
Iron Dome
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by Thriptic 10y ago
This is fair point, but at a hospital-level in the US you do tend to see higher mortality levels at prestigious hospitals due to the increase in average case complexity. People are willing to take on the tougher cases.
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by Thriptic 10y ago
> . For example, it's generally recommended that for surgery, you actually want to see a doctor who works in the public system (in Australia, my country) because for routine procedures the guy who does them everyday, all the time, i
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MIT announces campaign for a better world(news.mit.edu)
7 points by Thriptic 10y ago|2 comments
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by Thriptic 10y ago
I completely agree, actually. The "best" diet and exercise routine is the one you're going to actually do and adhere to long term. Almost any validated diet (low carb [atkins, keto, paleo], low fat, calorie counting, IIFYM, z
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by Thriptic 10y ago
The problem is that a lot of "investors" actually aren't investors; they are traders or speculators. They demand immediate growth and are unwilling to allow the company to eat losses in order to invest in long term, ultimatel
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by Thriptic 10y ago
Effectively that's how the law is enforced anyway. I've never seen someone pulled over for doing <= 10 over the limit on a highway. On large highways you can typically get away with going <= 15 mph over.
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Did you read the article? If anything it talks far more than it should about income inequality. Frankly I find the tax disparities astounding: 45% paid by 1%? 90% paid by 20%? That is crazy.
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by Thriptic 11y ago
You could just lie, or not do it, or use an anon email, or use a MIT mailing list, or just not take things so seriously...
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by Thriptic 11y ago
> But substantial issues relating to the "creative class"? Such as, for instance, effective public transit? Suddenly the state and city can't spare a dime; its not a "priority"; students and post-car intellectual
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by Thriptic 11y ago
> That's also fascinating, because in the US, wanting to be rich is seen as a very positive thing. Everyone is supposed to be living the American Dream and improving their lives, but reaching the end goal is a bad state? Hilarious.
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by Thriptic 11y ago
http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp12/book/
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by Thriptic 11y ago
I agree. I'm making my way through the adaptation of SICP written for python currently and it has been an absolute game changer, but I never would have appreciated it without struggling to construct "larger" projects on my ow
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by Thriptic 11y ago
> Even so, it will not change the system. It will only make it more difficult to conduct research in the future. I don't see why. If anything it is in the academics' best interest to have their papers show up on this service as
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by Thriptic 11y ago
> The other issue is that it takes millions of dollars to fund the research for many of these papers. With no incentive to make money on the research, companies will either stop the research, or it will go completely private and there wi
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Sci-Hub, spiritual successor to Aaron Swartz, angering publishers all over again(arstechnica.com)
308 points by Thriptic 11y ago|165 comments
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by Thriptic 11y ago
I don't think you can really encourage someone to go for a MD/PhD in good conscience now. It takes too long now and is of questionable benefit. I've interacted with many smart MD/PhDs who were pushing 40 and were still n
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Yeah I feel like there were a few dark times in my life when I would have definitely paid for this service; paying someone to go out and have fun with you certainly beats sitting in your apartment drinking alone and feeling bad.
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by Thriptic 11y ago
I don't see any mention in the parent post about suicidal ideation. Self-harm != desire to kill yourself. Also lumping together wanting to kill yourself because you are experiencing severe physical pain (old people with terminal illnes
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by Thriptic 11y ago
I think the sheer size of some high schools is what prevents bullying of specific groups; it becomes incredibly difficult to establish known social hierarchies when you have 1000 students per grade (not uncommon in large Midwestern high sch
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Not really. The point is that people are irrationally afraid of incredibly improbable / statistically insignificant events and the result is bad policy decisions / suboptimal use of resources by reactive governments. People should
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Yeah I don't think this is easily mitigated short of increasing throughput through check in / security so that you never have large groups of people standing around.
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Are there orgs I can contribute resources to which audit open source software?
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by Thriptic 11y ago
At the end of the day I am forced to agree with you. Is the publication of this content morally wrong? Yes. Are the publishers pieces of shit for doing this? Yes. Is what they did illegal? Unless they committed a crime to obtain the content
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MIT's Not So Crazy Quest to Get Rid of Stoplights(fastcodesign.com)
4 points by Thriptic 11y ago|1 comments
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by Thriptic 11y ago
To some degree I agree. The problem with most vocal proponents of "reasonable" regulation in this space is that they are negotiating in bad faith. In many ways it reminds me of the current debate on encryption. Fundamentally these
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by Thriptic 11y ago
I didn't see any mentions of the most common insidious review: "Cite my unrelated paper or you're not getting published"
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by Thriptic 11y ago
ZH hates the fed so I'm sure they're eager to imply that the fed is somehow at fault, even if doing so is a stretch. Notice all the non-value add editorial jabs at the fed sprinkled throughout the piece.
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by Thriptic 11y ago
I agree, this is absurd. Ignoring the fact that this conflates ethically questionable behavior with illegal behavior, why are only the heads of CEOs being called for? What about the rank and file within the companies who actually perpetrate
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by Thriptic 11y ago
Yea I feel like sapply, lapply, and mapply will cover most of what people need to do. Hell I've personally only really ever needed sapply as I don't work much with lists.

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