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by aoanevdus 2y ago
Although in that case, it wasn’t the back of the head, and one of the shots appeared to be non-fatal. So a terrible way to go, but not implausible.
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
What’s the source for “2 shots”?
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
Based on the noises I experienced that time, I think the microphone was detached and hanging by a wire. The sound was rhythmic and depended on my movement, kind of like what would happen if you had a bell hanging on a pendulum inside a cyli
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
Total speculation, but I’m guessing Apple is afraid of liability for hearing damage caused by AirPod use. Someone can argue that the aggregate damage from the hearing loss is worth billions of dollars and do a class action suit or something
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
I used “off” when my AirPods had a broken microphone that caused the other modes to make weird noises. Only necessary until I could get them replaced by Apple.
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
People write code that does sleep statements when waiting for something else to happen. It makes sense in some contexts. Think of it like async/await with an event loop. Except you are using the OS scheduler like your “event loop”. And
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
How wrong do you believe this poll is? Can you use some methodology to come up with a modified margin of error that encompasses what you believe to be more realistic?
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
Let’s take PA since it’s the tipping point state. Polling average had Harris at a 0.2% lead. Actual result was Trump with 1.7% lead. That’s a 1.9% error. AtlasIntel released a poll which predicted the actual lead: https://project
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
Are you saying the murder of Brian Thompson is ok, or not? If it’s ok to murder the CEO of a health insurance company, how about the CTO? How about a director? How about a manager of claims adjusters? How about an adjuster? How about the CE
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
The headline of your link says that nobody knows how often insurance companies deny claims, but it also includes some percentages which you reproduced in this comment. Do you understand the reason for the apparent contradiction between thos
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
Trump won the popular vote by 1.5%, which is a few percent off from the polling average. If the polling on Mangione is similarly off by a few percent (within the margin of error), it hardly affects our interpretation of the results.
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
Nelson Mandela didn’t kill anyone! “Murder is ok” is a really weird message to take home from the knowledge that Nelson Mandela was slandered.
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
Isn’t that scenario 1?
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
A family member who seems intelligent and sane occasionally tells me stories of her experiences with ghosts.
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
We prefer to think of them as synergies of interest!
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
There are cheap and even free VPNs. If your ad can convert customers who aren’t going to comparison shop, you don’t need to be offering the lowest price.
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
It’s not like there are strict rules governing who is allowed to rent a car (you pretty much just need to be old enough and have a driver’s license). Turo makes you take a selfie with your driver’s license within 24 hours of picking up the
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
Xbox is pretty popular while requiring a Microsoft account.
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
Content moderation also involves reading text, so you’d imagine that there’s a benefit to having people who can label data and provide ground truth in any language you’re moderating. Even with images, you can have different policies in diff
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
But how do I evaluate how the magnitude of effect of my income on the value I get from the insurance (relative to the average buyer who sets the market price) if I’m lacking the figures to compute the Kelly criterion? Is it useful to me at
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
If I believe insurance is well-priced, the cost ought to be pretty close to the value it’s providing me, maybe cheaper if the insurance industry has some advantage like good rate of return or higher if they are uncompetitive. That makes me
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
Spotify has been automatically generating 6 different “daily mix” podcasts for me, which cover different styles/moods.
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
I don’t believe I can come up with accurate numbers like that. I have no chance against a big company with a bunch of actuaries who do that for a living. I think I really can sometimes tell if I’m riskier or safer than the average person. I
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
The killer app that Pixel is missing is the WorkOutDoors app for Apple Watch (gps tracking app with your path shown on offline cached vector maps). 80% of the time I bother wearing the watch is to use that app. And I will buy a Pixel watch
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
The parent comment referred to McKinsey’s entire revenue, not to their revenue from their work relating to Opioids specifically.
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
“Commoditize you complement” may be a good way of framing it. Consider that if OpenAI succeeds dramatically and is the only game in town, they could extract huge rents for anyone using their service. So it’s in other companies interests (or
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
Random question about how those compounding pharmacies work. Can you order a higher dose and then just stretch it out by taking the minimum dose to save cost? Do they automatically bill you monthly or can you skip months?
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
Some people watch/listen to everything in sped up mode. It may not be intended as a slight against the content.
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
The government does already give significant subsidies to parents. Direct tax credits and public schooling (aka free childcare) are two big ones. I’m not arguing that parents come out ahead economically or that the subsidies are bad (many a
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by aoanevdus 2y ago
Aren’t there data dumps freely available online with contact information for pretty much anyone? In that context, why would the data from this small project have any monetary value?

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