ajna91

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by ajna91 7y ago
There's this rather sad thread from a decade back of cobol developers discussing being stranded after the jobs dried up. https://www.indeed.com/forum/job/Cobol-Developer/other-non-c...
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AlphaGo needs to be retrained for new games. The breakthrough was in having a generic training algorithm that could be set loose on many games and learn them.
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The person who replied to you was actually making fun on people who claim there is no evidence.
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Interesting story, an interview with him here. https://www.npr.org/2015/05/08/405191537/cop-out
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Choose Food, Not Food-Like Substances (2009)(webmd.com)
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Libre Game Wiki(libregamewiki.org)
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There's a kind of shallow pedantic contrarianism that is unfortunately part of the culture.
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Agreed, I see this often. To be honest if the devil is far more powerful in a given situation, I find it distasteful to fight for him against the hurt party.
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The main findings of the research were: • Psychiatric diagnoses all use different decision-making rules • There is a huge amount of overlap in symptoms between diagnoses • Almost all diagnoses mask the role of trauma and adverse events • Di
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When you lose weight, where does the fat go?(science20.com)
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The Corporatization of the Web Has Thinned Out Our Culture(thenation.com)
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In the book "The Origin of Aids", Dr. Jacques Pépin analyzes the literature on the disease and comes up with a stunning timeline for how the disease spread. Quoting from a nytimes review article[1] >Dr. Pépin calculates that, i
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When you change the world and no one notices(collaborativefund.com)
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A very humane telling of a humbling experience.
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I wonder if you do actually own them. These days you can never be sure. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wn949b/how-corporations-u...
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by ajna91 7y ago
Be kind to the mods, they do their best to make judgement calls, and dang is very receptive to feedback. No need to be nasty.
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by ajna91 7y ago
> Fresenius billed the Valentines $524,600.17 — an amount that is more than the typical cost of a kidney transplant. It's also nearly twice Jessica's medical school debt. Fresenius charged the Valentines $13,867.74 per dialysis
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How the Duopoly in the Dialysis Market Led to a $540,842 Bill(npr.org)
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Why is that?
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The Corporatization of the Web Has Thinned Out Our Culture(thenation.com)
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The prewar control systems that lead to the first computers(archive.org)
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> But only a few, since Inform has no dependencies on third-party code. You need a modern C compiler, ideally clang, but gcc will do; and you need basic Unix tools. But that's all. > Core Inform is written in ANSI C, properly spe
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by ajna91 7y ago
Why the impulse to centralize everything? In the past families would look after their own disabled members. Of course this is easier in large non-nuclear families. But maybe something like more like community centers in every town rather th
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by ajna91 7y ago
It's one thing to show compassion and not be overly punitive on those suffering from mental illness or addiction. It's another thing to throw up your hands and let unstable people cause chaos in your streets. That's not good
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by ajna91 7y ago
What if somebody discovers two feuding tribes in the jungle and decides to sell them deadly knives by advertising their killing ability? Note: My comment is responding to the general idea of disclaiming responsibility. I don't know eno
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by ajna91 7y ago
"I am innocent of this man's blood; see you to it."
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Conservation of Massive: When You Lose Weight, Where Does the Fat Go?(science20.com)
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Is it just me, or does the field or human history seem have it's story "rewritten" every few months? Can an expert chime in on whether this is a false narrative produced by the media or an actual happening?
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by ajna91 7y ago
Anger is certainly justified, but it should give way to reconciliation once the offending party truly repents. Do we want a world of people who change their ways, even if for somewhat impure reasons, or a world in which no one ever does bec
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by ajna91 7y ago
But most of what people care about are not "mere facts" of reality. What is the correct answer to the questions of morality, politics, etc?

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