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by brlewis 7y ago
I think surplus food production capacity is a good thing to subsidize in case of unexpected, sudden supply decreases. Relying on market forces to respond to such events would be too slow. That said, maybe there's a better implementatio
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by brlewis 7y ago
> China is currently constructing 2 new aircraft carriers (they have 1) Could this be in response to the U.S. having 11? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_ships_of_the_U... Two of which are in the Pacifi
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by brlewis 7y ago
> We only need to be as strong as the combined strength of our nearest rivals. Ah, so you want to cut the U.S. military budget in half, then? I guess we're on the same page.
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by brlewis 7y ago
> stop living under the yoke of fear and distraction pumped out by the media machine If you have a solution that scales up to the population at large I'm all ears.
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by brlewis 7y ago
Just to close the loop on this and connect back to "the people": Congress funds the military. The military funds large corporations. Large corporations fund congressional election campaigns. And "the people" base their v
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by brlewis 7y ago
>you have to balance that against not preventing instability around the world You are absolutely right. This statement is as true as saying you have to balance eating lavish restaurant meals 7 nights a week against letting your children
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by brlewis 7y ago
This is not always overkill. In fact it's sometimes insufficient. Breaking down a project into tasks and doing the math is the only hope for any semblance of accuracy, and even that doesn't always work.
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by brlewis 7y ago
Spelling correction: dependents
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by brlewis 7y ago
I don't think that's huge, considering that questions with clear-cut answers shouldn't make it to the Supreme Court.
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by brlewis 7y ago
It's likely they saved lives with previous models too. I work at Fitbit (don't speak for Fitbit) and we often see stories of people who say their Fitbit saved their life because it helped them notice some heart condition or other.
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by brlewis 7y ago
Mods asked a question, not rendering final judgement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20205224 I'd still like to see a less sensational headline and replied there.
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by brlewis 7y ago
This would be acceptable: "Minnesota court decision means doctors can be sued by patients they choose not to treat" Current title sounds like patients can sue random doctors.
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The word "years" suggests they aren't just talking about the new arrhythmia feature.
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by brlewis 7y ago
I believe the issue is with the word "allowing" which is less correct than "motivating" in this context.
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Fitbit has its own Bluetooth stack.
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by brlewis 7y ago
Fitbit is a good example of an app that requires permanent Bluetooth access, but a terrible example of a company likely to sell user data. Fitbit's users are its customers, and are the source of $1.5 billion per year in revenue. Any mo
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by brlewis 7y ago
> virtually all "sleep trackers" are just movement trackers This has been false since March 2016 when Fitbit introduced sleep stage analysis based on heart rate variability. I work for Fitbit but don't speak for Fitbit. Ch
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by brlewis 7y ago
I work for Fitbit. Even though I don't speak for Fitbit, usually I try to keep my personal tone consistent with the friendly, positive tone Fitbit's branding wants to use. But I feel driven to respond to one part of the article in
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by brlewis 7y ago
In a good example of Goodhart's law, there's a measure that tells you something useful, but it becomes less useful when you set a target. The three points you make argue almost as much against measuring at all as they do against s
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by brlewis 7y ago
Many of the comments here seem worried that scalability issues are going to crop up everywhere as people start using this architecture in large, popular applications. That isn't going to happen. Stop worrying about that and enjoy it fo
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tl;dr Reanalysis showed positive association between defects and C++, negative association for Clojure, Haskell and Ruby. The original analysis found positive association for C++, Objective-C, C, PHP, Python, JavaScript. Negative associatio
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by brlewis 7y ago
Hi. I work at Fitbit. I don't speak for Fitbit, but the page below does. You are probably right that real time sleep phase data would require EEG, but wrong about Fitbit using motion data to infer sleep phases. Without heart rate Fitbi
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by brlewis 7y ago
Unfortunately sleep phase detection is not real time, even assuming you could get staff to pay attention to it. If you can get the hospital to care about sleep though, maybe they could start coordinating enough to consolidate wakings.
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> fight (i.e. censor) Where are you getting this definition?
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It's debatable whether the article falls flat because of the light source or because of its limited assessment of humans: > Humans evolved outside, and we are generally active during the daytime and asleep when it’s dark. The articl
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by brlewis 7y ago
I've only had one instance where Linode contacted me about suspicious activity. I responded promptly, it was obvious they understood my answer, and nothing came of it. Another comment thread on this story has people saying Linode'
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by brlewis 7y ago
Long-time Linode customer here. What were the security screwups? I tried a couple searches but didn't turn up anything.
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In school everyone gets the same assignments and has to take the same test. At work there's a subjective element to performance, where everyone has different assignments, and everybody has different ideas about how hard everybody else&
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Thanks for the link. ''Praising children's intelligence, far from boosting their self-esteem, encourages them to embrace self-defeating behaviors such as worrying about failure and avoiding risks,'' This is arguab
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by brlewis 7y ago
I agree there's some kind of recent trend here, but "body" has been used to mean "individual" for a long time. Here's an example from 1782: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comin%27_Thro%27_th

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