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by btrettel 7y ago
The risk of cycling depends on many different factors and is not simply described as "way more risky than using a car". Per distance, the average cyclist has more risk than the average driver. However, that's just the base ra
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by btrettel 7y ago
The ROI argument is one reason why I commute by bike. 7 days a week no problem, no real preparation time. Takes up time I would otherwise be wasting sitting in a car or public transit. Last week according to my log I rode for 213 minutes. T
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by btrettel 7y ago
There was a recent discussion on the FOI-L listserv about when a private entity is subject to public records requests: https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=FOI-L;326b96b.190... While the example applies only for
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by btrettel 7y ago
I think Scott Aaronson already weighed in on this: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4147
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by btrettel 7y ago
Beeminder will apparently automatically stop charging you if you stop logging in to their service.
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by btrettel 7y ago
Yes, I thought about that after posting. I don't think they should give the identity of a user to some random person. For what it's worth, I didn't ask for the Bird rider's identity, and I don't see a good reason wh
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by btrettel 7y ago
Thanks for your comment. Perhaps the order matters. I asked before submitting. I'll try submitting to the same journal and see if their willingness to negotiate changes after the paper passes review.
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by btrettel 7y ago
Good points. I agree that industry isn't perfect, though I'm looking more at that today than academia. Long-term I'm leaning towards becoming an independent researcher as it seems to be the easiest path to doing actually valu
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by btrettel 7y ago
PhD student here. Here's my 20 minute rant: If I don't like academia, it's from my experience in academia. Doing good research won't guarantee you a position. On the contrary, what seems to matter is bringing in a lot of
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by btrettel 7y ago
There are few open access journals in my field, and the ones that will publish open access charge absurdly high fees for it. I have a spreadsheet for my field: $2000 to $3140 per article, average $2690. I tried to negotiate with one smaller
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by btrettel 7y ago
Yes, I agree that delivery folks can be particularly dangerous. I also watch out for ridershare drivers as they are frequently distracted by their phone and in a rush. The small size was a major problem here. I probably would have seen the
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by btrettel 7y ago
My experience suggests that Bird won't tell the victim the identity of the guilty party even if they know it. Here's a video of a Bird scooter rider running a red light and almost causing a collision with me, a cyclist: https:&#x
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by btrettel 7y ago
> Newspapers like NYT are one of the few institutions where workers enjoy a level of freedom from management in doing their work. The other example is tenured professors. PhD student here. I think the impression that tenured professors h
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by btrettel 7y ago
Fair points. That wasn't a comment on lawyers, just an (exaggerated) example I've seen before.
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by btrettel 7y ago
From the article: > Mayr’s observation draws attention to the fact that fashion is never merely additive; it demands we abandon certain things, and those abandonments can be, at the very least, premature. I've observed these prematu
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by btrettel 7y ago
To comment on a tangential issue... > there was over 300 years (3 centuries) of higher education among the groups I don't think simply adding up the total number of years of education is meaningful. Most of that education is redunda
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by btrettel 7y ago
I saw more deer when I lived in the DC suburbs and far less people had grille guards. If any. I actually can't remember a single example. In both Austin and the DC suburbs pedestrians far outnumber large wild animals, so I think grille
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by btrettel 7y ago
To be clear: I'm talking about people who seem to live in Austin, the vast majority of which don't have any connection to farms. I'm not saying that grille guards have no legitimate purpose or that they won't protect you
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by btrettel 7y ago
The answer to your question is obvious and not relevant. I don't ride on roads where anyone goes near 80 mph, so I do think that the grille guards will contribute to lethality in my case. Given that I live in central Austin, I find it
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by btrettel 7y ago
As a cyclist in Austin, one of the first things I noticed when I moved to Texas was how many vehicles have grille guards. The vast majority don't buy these because they need them. They buy them because they like the look or because the
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by btrettel 7y ago
> For something like optimal diets for everyone, I imagine it's more of an issue with incomplete understanding of diet, microbiome, genetics, epigenetics, etc. Once that's known, I'd venture to say you don't need AI.
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by btrettel 7y ago
I live in Austin, which as far as I'm aware has Prime Now. I've mainly had issues with getting deliveries to the apartments I've lived in. I'm not certain that the problem was Amazon. It could have been that the carriers
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by btrettel 7y ago
> Very much so. It's a big factor in enabling "we don't have to own a car at all, because we can get anything we need shipped to us". 2-day shipping is the slow case these days, and if it's in a local warehouse y
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by btrettel 7y ago
Yes, it was zipped, but I was comparing uncompressed. I've now checked. There's about a 500 MB difference for about 10 GB of emails. So not too bad, but appreciably different.
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by btrettel 7y ago
I'll agree that POP is pretty easy and worthwhile here. One caveat: I'm not certain that it's identical to what Takeout provides. I downloaded the mbox file via Takeout and the Takeout version was a fair bit larger than my Th
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by btrettel 7y ago
While I think the Cold War increased interested in translations, I don't think US intelligence agencies were the driving force. If I had to guess I'd say that the driving force appears to have been scientific interest in what &quo
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by btrettel 7y ago
> Really? I don't think there was ever much translation. Look at my Stack Exchange post. I know from the "Consolidated Index of Translations into English" that there were ad-hoc English translations of very roughly 300,000
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by btrettel 7y ago
If people don't like English being the lingua franca of science, they should encourage translation of foreign language articles. Unfortunately scientific translation seems to have declined significantly since the 1950s and 1960s. I wro
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by btrettel 7y ago
After about 6 months of use, my blue Yubikey is tarnished but functions as intended.
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by btrettel 7y ago
I tried to negotiate with one journal regarding their OA fees, and I didn't get anywhere. Their journal, which I preferred because it was more specialized (it's not particularly prestigious because few people know about it) charge

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