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Vaccine efficacy, statistical power, and mental models(zeynep.substack.com)
1 points by bnj 6y ago|0 comments
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by bnj 6y ago
Just chiming in to say that I personally found this really funny. Similar sense of sarcasm, I guess.
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by bnj 6y ago
This is really helpful context, thanks! I don't really get why the NYT wanted to publish his name against his wishes. At first I thought it was sensationalism but I read elsewhere that the regular readership of the blog was estimated a
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by bnj 6y ago
I haven’t thought up a framework, but one thing I’m wondering is why the identity of the person alone is newsworthy. I’m probably missing part of the background here, I’m new to the controversy. Did some kind of mystery arise around the tru
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by bnj 6y ago
I can think of a few explanations for this, but one of the big ones is that the licensing requirements for teachers are often designed (deliberately or not...) as a barrier to late entry to the profession as you describe. There’s been some
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by bnj 6y ago
Tangentially: Reading [0] from Stephen Wolfram yesterday got me digging into Wolfram notebooks. Does anyone have experience or reflections on using R Notebooks as the main way to keep track of notes? I don't see the Wolfram products ta
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by bnj 6y ago
It's simultaneously remarkable and utterly unremarkable that Facebook has been dragged kicking and screaming into building a consent screen for this kind of tracking. Watching this tracking notification conflict unfold in the media has
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by bnj 6y ago
Personally, in the context of fully autonomous self driving cars, I can’t see how ownership would make any sense any more. If the car can drive itself off to find a charging station somewhere densely packed and leave the streets free of any
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by bnj 6y ago
In the past I've seen that ThunderBird can import mbox backups, but I guess I'm wondering if that's the best solution available for the long term use that I have in mind.
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Ask HN: Reliable ways to compile email history into an archive?
3 points by bnj 6y ago|3 comments
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by bnj 6y ago
I have to wonder if that design came about because Apple didn’t want people to leave the mouse plugged in all the time. It’s the kind of reasoned institutional blunder that I feel like I encounter in my work life fairly often out of momentu
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by bnj 6y ago
Are presidents entitled to be broadcast on private networks?
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by bnj 6y ago
Similar to a sibling comment this sounds like pairwise / combinatorial testing. I learned about it by working through the examples and descriptions here: https://www.testcover.com/
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by bnj 6y ago
I’m curious to go back and read the actual ruling, it’s surprising that the summary suggests that members of the public in public spaces have some expectation of privacy— that seems to run in the face of what I’ve previously read about phot
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by bnj 6y ago
It seems to me that the purpose of numbers over character codes is to constrain the available identifiers to force you to define a fairly small set of broad areas (you only have ten) and drill down within that. When we release that restrict
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by bnj 6y ago
Great to see this here! I came across it maybe a year or two ago and I love how it lines up with my thinking. I rely on search as well but over and over I come back to the basic issue that search only offers up things you know to search for
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by bnj 6y ago
I'd be the one who bought these and only ever used them at home out of fear of other people seeing that I'd bought them. Reflecting on your comment made me realize I'm never going to be driving a fancy car, I feel like I&#x27
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by bnj 6y ago
Don't worry in a few short years you'll be able to lease your Apple Car and Apple House. /s-sortof.
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by bnj 6y ago
I'm really struggling to understand why you think these are equivalent
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by bnj 6y ago
This is a great point I hadn’t considered the academic peer review component, to whatever extent that plays a role with the internal process they use
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by bnj 6y ago
My impression was that James Damore was fired when his memo alleged that men were essentially a target of discrimination, while here this researcher it seems has been fired in a way that seems to be an act of discrimination. I don’t think t
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by bnj 6y ago
I don’t think you’re incorrect on any particular point. Just anecdotally, I don’t think a man sending a “do x or I’ll quit” email would be met with the same response. I think issues of race and gender are playing a role here, and that’s a s
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by bnj 6y ago
Isn’t it pretty normal to ask to “face your accuser” and engage with feedback specifically, instead of an anonymous and unassailable red stamp?
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by bnj 6y ago
I wonder how consistently these standards are applied, even zeroing in on Google. If it turns out that most people within the company don’t face a barrier from this process in the same way then that sounds like a really problematic symptom.
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by bnj 6y ago
While I’m a spectator to this unfolding story and am reacting to a pretty cursory overview of what happened, this has the distinct feeling that Google thought they were moving in for a checkmate by, in their words, “accepting a resignation”
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Libraries, Records, and Kore: Archives on Mount Olympus(archivyrep.wordpress.com)
1 points by bnj 6y ago|0 comments
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by bnj 6y ago
I agree that it’s security theater and a suspect implementation, but I was playing a game of “let’s imagine why someone might do this...”— I’m wondering, suppose it was designed this way because part of the goal is to prevent the spread of
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by bnj 6y ago
Not OP but I had a similar emotional reaction when getting to that point of the survey. It's not logical... on reflection I think it has to do with the sense of los of autonomy. The survey wants me to say that I'd be willing to sp
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by bnj 6y ago
It’s definitely unlikely but as someone who’s often guilty of only reading the headlines I’m uncomfortable with it presenting something as fact like this. This event really has to be about the Apple silicon machines— but that’s not what was
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by bnj 6y ago
Out of curiosity, do you have any insight about how this works when applied to other mechanisms and tools? YouTube-dl has a lot of use cases, among which are the downloading of potentially copyrighted works, in a way which seems similar in

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