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by agarden 11y ago
I think he did state that the benefit is also much higher, but it was a bit subtle. He argues that the cost is higher than expected because you have to design the tests and design the system to be testable. He then states that this isn&#x27
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There are people who go around driving their car into guardrails. They are the people who build cars. Because if you don't test failure modes, you don't know that your product performs to spec under them.
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I think I've put my finger on why it doesn't seem to explain things. Let's say guns were solely about entertainment, no other use. Alcohol is also solely about entertainment, so it should have a similar risk/reward ratio
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I'm not sure how being designed to kill changes the risk calculation. Cars are not designed to kill, but they are designed to do something that is inherently dangerous and potentially lethal. The fundamental thing is how much risk is p
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by agarden 11y ago
You seem to be right about that. Thanks. Traffic fatalities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i... Gun fatalities: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-sta
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Do you think that we are familiar with cars and driving, and so find the risks acceptable? Or is it that because most people want to drive, they rationalize the risk? PS. I live in the country and have most of my life. A gun is a very usefu
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by agarden 11y ago
Guns are regulated. You must be at least eighteen in most states in order to buy a gun. In many places (most?), there is a waiting period. You pay one day, you come back another to pick it up. Concealed carry is either illegal or requires t
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I am not trying to make an argument. I am trying to understand why people react the way they do to different risks. I said banning guns because that is what the Guardian article was arguing for, or seemed to be.
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It is a criminal offense to shoot people.
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What interests me about the gun debate (if one can call it that), is that there are ways of dying that are considered acceptable risks and ways of dying that are not. If you are driving your kids across town and get t-boned by a drunk drive
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by agarden 11y ago
I am a bit baffled by the terror-stricken tone of the article, summed up in this sentence. I live in Appalachia. I hear shooting on almost every nice day. I am playing outside in the yard with my toddlers and the neighbors are shooting thin
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by agarden 11y ago
Okay, try this: far, far more people die in the US in car accidents than are shot. More people die because of DUIs than because of guns. Yet guns are endlessly highlighted as a major problem and the talk is constantly about making it harder
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by agarden 11y ago
Whether 'developer' and 'engineer' really mean what he says they mean is a question of semantics. Getting bogged down in a discussion of the appropriate uses of said terms, however, ignores what he is trying to say.
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His distinction between 'engineer' and 'developer' is artificial and easily criticized. That isn't what is interesting in this article. There are a lot of things that are. Their method for avoiding the proliferation
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Yup. Though I have to think that people are also more likely to make a mistake and your custom car might show up with the standard cup holder when you ordered the heated. The robot might be inefficient at doing the variety of tasks required
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In my game[0] it played well until it hit a position where it seemed to run out of ideas. At that point, it let me take its queen for a rook. The strange thing was that it felt like playing my five year old, who also plays well until he run
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by agarden 11y ago
> I wonder if this extends into the positive as well, do cognitive boosting drugs (nootropics?) enhance your performance. Yes. Dextroamphetamine is considered a PED and is banned in (some? all?) professional sports. The Orioles' slu
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by agarden 11y ago
"I was terrible wit keeping track of" "healthier homemade meal (if planned)" (missing period at end of sentence) "how much do you spend on" should be "how much you spend" "when I’m not drinking (
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by agarden 11y ago
If what you say makes the people you are talking to feel stupid, and you don't care that it does, then you will be perceived as arrogant. There are other ways of being arrogant, I am sure. This is one way. If people who are more powerf
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by agarden 11y ago
The main problem with the typical estimate is that it is a scalar number. 2 hours or five days or three months. That's fine if you are looking for a target to aim for. But if you want to actually know when something will be done and ho
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by agarden 11y ago
It seems to me unlikely that he expected his wife to do everything for the kids. Having a nurse was common in those days. The complaint seems to be that his wife did nothing for the kids. His wife also wasn't earning any money, presu
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by agarden 11y ago
If people acted like homo economicus, that would be true. But people are so irrational, that sometimes they need to be convinced to do the right thing for the wrong reason, no? In other words, a given advertisement might be tricking people
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I was hospitalized for a bit a few years back. Several nurses commented passionately on what a relief it was to take care of someone who actually needed help, instead of the many people they have who come in complaining of pain just so they
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Agreed. The key point in the article is that mid-Victorians had a similar life-expectancy to our own. From there it just assumes that dietary changes are what caused life expectancy to decline, starting in the late-Victorian era. That'
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by agarden 11y ago
In my opinion, the interesting thing about the article is not the diet, it is the claim that if you remove death during and shortly after childbirth, mid-Victorian era life expectancy was about the same as ours now. If true, that's a s
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by agarden 11y ago
That was an interesting read. It did sound like ISIS has a powerful faction, at least, that is only using religion as a pretense and tool. On the other hand, that doesn't mean that all of ISIS is like that. It could be that such men as
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by agarden 11y ago
You started this thread with, "how can one write a piece about persistent discrimination against a woman without mentioning societal gender discrimination as a thing?" The grandparent to my previous comment suggested that "if
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The mid-Victorian diet was a mini golden age of nutrition(health.spectator.co.uk)
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I read both. I wish the article you linked to had more substance. It provides no argument that ISIS is misinterpreting Islam, only assertions. If someone has an article that actually makes that case, citing texts and explaining the misinter
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by agarden 11y ago
Elsewhere on this page someone linked to a talk Jessica herself gave on this subject[1]. It is remarkably similar to PG's essay. Jessica notes at the beginning that pretty nearly no one on the outside knows how large a role she has pla

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