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by brownbat 9y ago
There's a bit of a grades-achievement paradox: 1) Studies show that higher grades lead to higher achievements,[0] 2) Studies of very high achievers show mixed or mediocre grades on average This article alludes to both of those and then
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by brownbat 9y ago
Didn't the conservatives face an impossible situation anyway? Hence all the resignations after Brexit? Is this, with the missed debates, possibly just an attempt to sit out a tough round of governing?
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by brownbat 9y ago
> After making it big, he started to change direction, and the label just stopped putting his stuff out. This could describe a lot of people, but makes me think of George Michael. A lot of people followed the turn, and felt like it had e
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You Are Not So Smart: A Celebration of Self Delusion(youarenotsosmart.com)
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by brownbat 9y ago
Pettis's recent articles show he's more optimistic than Moody's in the short term, and more pessimistic than the new optimism driven by a Morgan Stanley bluepaper, "Why We Are Bullish on China." He's pessimisti
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by brownbat 9y ago
> When money shouldn't be an object in the equation it should be removed from the equation. We all believe it's important to save lives. If it costs $300k to save one life, but in other disciplines or other areas of medicine yo
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by brownbat 9y ago
> I thought "wrong site surgery" was rare. It is, but that wasn't the entire sentence, nor really representative of the total harm from medical errors.
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by brownbat 9y ago
Allow me to play devil's advocate... Medical negligence is the third leading cause of death in the United States. We have an epidemic of "honest mistakes" like scalpels left in patients after surgeries,[0] often leading to de
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by brownbat 9y ago
It might be design constraints. It's hard to (a) rapidly, (b) silently, and (c) strongly encrypt a critical portion of a business's network. You can probably choose two.
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by brownbat 9y ago
Fascinating. I was curious which .exes were not just hijacked legit .exe names. The first .exe file that's not a normal windows executable is "mshtaex.exe" which seems to be a disguised (or possibly mistyped) version of the l
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by brownbat 9y ago
> “It’s not like you’re employing fewer people,” says Rader, who has about 10 employees, including his bookkeeper. “I can just do more things. I can tell fewer people, ‘sorry, I can’t do that.’” That was refreshing to hear. There was ano
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by brownbat 9y ago
Ryzen 7s cannot seem to find their level, I wonder if this will drive the price down even further, or if it's too specific for anyone to notice. https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9Q98TW/amd-ryzen-7-1700x-34...
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by brownbat 9y ago
Any exploitation scenarios here? Could you package a trimmed down version of that stack up and cause a reliable crash on Ryzens operating on a more typical platform? Maybe it becomes a bit of a rube goldberg malware at that point...
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by brownbat 9y ago
> There are, of course, paid professional conservative economists... Accusing the other side of bad motives without evidence is the refuge of people who divide the world up into "good" people who think like them and "evil&
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by brownbat 9y ago
> My pick for year is 1878. Very funny. > I guess if you want to go by money, i'm going to pick 1939. You listed several great films, but I'm not disputing there were years with several great films, that's a completely
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by brownbat 9y ago
> there are periods that are artistically more fruitful and interesting that others, Sure, but the claim was just that there have always been bad movies. Here's a test: If there's some year you know of where bad movies were exc
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by brownbat 9y ago
> This seems like an unnecessary war. Especially insofar as it's a war, yes. In general, I like two strongly motivated and opposing advisors on my healthcare decisions, one advocating for the best possible care, and one team of actu
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by brownbat 9y ago
Strongly recommend the work on Random Critical Analysis linked to by SSC there. Approx. zero people reading this will believe the conclusion, but RCA argues that the US is not really an outlier on healthcare costs. There's a dizzying a
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by brownbat 9y ago
> The middleman role of insurance companies in American healthcare seems completely useless. It depends on where you are. There are areas of the country where insurance companies are fighting a cost war on behalf of patients against incr
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by brownbat 9y ago
Just occurred to me that I've lived in the US for decades and have never heard gunfire (outside of a range), and have never seen any violent crime despite working in a few major cities. Not disputing crime exists, but just, this place
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by brownbat 9y ago
> "taxis must all be electric" Interesting! So say we convinced the taxi lobby to demand that all ridesharing vehicles were electric as a nakedly protectionist measure, then a year later convinced citizens to pass an "even
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by brownbat 9y ago
Fair, though if someone's just listing numbers that are easy to check, the content's probably less biased than the emphasis. Worth checking anyway, because it's any single source . If you look at property and vehicle taxes,
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by brownbat 10y ago
> Well gee, you sure told me. Huh, wasn't trying to tell you off or anything. Malkmus reference?
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by brownbat 10y ago
> the likelihood of them being propaganda Welp, that dead-ends conversations. As a personal disclosure, I neither consider myself complicit with propagandists nor a total sucker. A partial sucker maybe... I tossed three citations out the
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by brownbat 10y ago
Definitely, the plight of people put out of jobs, regions losing industries, it's not to be understated or trifled with. That's a major half of the problem. The rock on the other side of this hard place though is that there's
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by brownbat 10y ago
I don't think GP was making a political statement, just commenting on the buried lead, but I'll play devil's advocate. I want farmers to have jobs too. I'd still find it sad if that were the rationale here, though, becau
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by brownbat 10y ago
Nope, sure isn't! Here you go: https://www.forbes.com/sites/justingerdes/2013/07/31/los-ang...
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by brownbat 10y ago
> In outdoor lighting they are too bright, and over-illuminate at night, but people use them anyway. I couldn't disagree more. Not only can you control the lumens to a much finer extent, as more cities retrofit to LEDs, you're
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by brownbat 10y ago
> ...high housing prices correlate with high homelessness. Decreasing home prices will probably help with homelessness. Nice weather, good infrastructure, funding for city services, and disposable income in the area could be driving both
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by brownbat 10y ago
I didn't literally mean those options, or even personal service. I meant even if I knew what it would be, no one would believe me, because it would sound insane.

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