andrewem

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by andrewem 6y ago
Thanks for that excerpt. The part I found most terrifying is that not only was the patient given no real treatment, but "Eight years passed without...neurological follow-up", meaning even an examination to see what his status was.
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by andrewem 6y ago
I don't know anything about Benton Harbor, but here in the United States being told a town has "bad schools" tends to be very highly correlated to large non-white population. I just looked it up and oh hey, Benton Harbor&#x27
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by andrewem 6y ago
Here's the New York Times article about how the Wall Street Journal's handling of this compared with the New York Post's. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/business/media/hunter-bid..
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by andrewem 6y ago
Also this book is nearly 500 years old, and is a foot thick and 2,000 pages. Just turning all the pages might cause serious damage. (But yes, the sooner it's digitized the better.)
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by andrewem 6y ago
Are your objections to Rubocop's dictates in tests only (or primarily) about the complexity rules? The complexity rules have always struck me as being of a whole different category thnan Rubocop's other rules. As you note, they&#x
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by andrewem 6y ago
You say "I broke up with my girlfriend of 9 years because I figured it just wasn't making me any happier." Now do you think that was a wise decision? (It's also hard to tell what subtle distinction the verb "figured
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by andrewem 6y ago
Oh ha ha ha, wait until you find out about Massachusetts Proposition 2.5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposition_2%C2%BD
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by andrewem 6y ago
A former co-worker of mine recounted an experience with a person hired by his previous company who had written a book on software development methodology, Scrum or something. Evidently the way the author's employment worked is the comp
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by andrewem 6y ago
What kind of tasks benefit from this tool? I don't understand what you're doing even in theory "when you want a graph database but you also want reasoning".
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by andrewem 6y ago
It's funny you mention that policy, because note it can only have a substantial effect on admissions by race if a lot of high schools are racially segregated, as is the case. See any of a number of sources, such as this one which a qui
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by andrewem 6y ago
I think that sentence is misleading, and also that the author eventually gets around to making their meaning clear in the later section headed "Slow, like brisket." That section expands on the somewhat opaque initial formulation.
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by andrewem 6y ago
See for example the small town of Hoosick Falls, New York where PFOA poisoned the water supply. Many sources, but here's one https://pfasproject.com/hoosick-falls-new-york/
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by andrewem 6y ago
The core problem is the ability to leverage approximately 50% of votes into winning far more than 50% of seats.
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by andrewem 6y ago
I'll note for conceptual understanding (by people who aren't patio11, who I'm sure understands this all far better than me) the general point that a gain or loss on the sale of a capital asset is how much money you got from s
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by andrewem 6y ago
If I'm not mistaken, even in Star Trek (at least Enterprise) Marin County has still been NIMBYed and has basically no development.
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by andrewem 6y ago
https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eleev/early-voting-faq.htm has the official FAQs from the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth and says you can look up whether your ballot was accepted. It's not totall
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by andrewem 6y ago
The state of Massachusetts seems very likely to be able to process ballots by mail for essentially all voters in the primary (September 1!) and general elections. You will be doing your civic duty best by voting by mail rather than going to
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by andrewem 6y ago
We did self-seating, and it worked out great. Many of the tables were exactly what we would've chosen, like "spouse's work friends", but it also let us avoid sticky situations like "number of aunts and uncles don&#x
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by andrewem 6y ago
It's probably true that now (in 2020) Google has cloud services that do everything which Reader needed, but it wasn't true when Reader was shut down in 2013. For instance, cloud Bigtable launched to the public in 2015. (I don&#x27
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by andrewem 6y ago
I see Le Tote purchased it last year from Hudson's Bay Company, which is very old . Quoting Wikipedia: "After incorporation by English royal charter in 1670, the company functioned as the de facto government in parts of North Ame
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by andrewem 6y ago
See also the case of Grindr and CFIUS, for instance https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/03/why-is-us...
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by andrewem 6y ago
The paper this is based on, which might be a better link: https://ard.bmj.com/content/79/6/829
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by andrewem 6y ago
A sample can be used for multiple analyses. For instance, a customer might pay for autosomal DNA analysis and later want to pay extra for mitochondrial DNA analysis. If the sample has been destroyed, no problem just send in a new sample - u
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by andrewem 6y ago
This is a side note about your example, but you say "Banks care about information security and take it seriously. They use a crappy contractor called Equifax which doesn’t." If banks send important information to a contractor whic
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by andrewem 6y ago
Yes, that's right. You can attach genealogy information to a genetic profile on the site, and the link says "GED".
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by andrewem 6y ago
Do you know how the job market is for English-speaking developers in Montreal? I'm curious if lack of French fluency would be a barrier for a few, many, or nearly all development jobs there.
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by andrewem 6y ago
This may sound flippant, but it's not: you mean like Uber. (See eg Susan Fowler's book Whistleblower.)
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by andrewem 6y ago
Moderators: Can we please have a different link which attempts to provide more context? Maybe a news article like https://www.wilx.com/content/news/MSU-Vice-President-of-rese... or https://statenews.com
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by andrewem 6y ago
Your first comment said "being under the speed limit gives him the right to make the stop". Here you've followed up with "if there is a minimum and you are under it that is a violation". I agree with the latter stat
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by andrewem 6y ago
By this logic, what speed DOESN'T justify a police officer stopping a driver? Under is somehow suspicious according to your thinking, over is obviously illegal, and who can travel at precisely the speed limit all the time so they never

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