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by cbsmith 3y ago
I'm not sure you establish the 100X-10,000X measure. How did you calculate the realized benefit? How do you quantify the relative impact of extinction?
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> I simply do not trust for profit drug companies to do this work. I certainly don't trust governments to do it either. But you trust nature to do this work? ;-) > Further, the idea that we can correctly estimate how nature is go
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> I literally can't think of a more dangerous kind of research that we could be doing as a species than messing around and making viruses more dangerous. You have a very limited imagination. ;-) I assure you that extensive research
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> According to the virologists who do it, not anyone else. That's not true. > Virologists conspicuously had no role in fighting COVID and didn't seem to contribute any particular knowledge to the NPIs or vaccines. I can&#x27
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> If those experiments have a chance to repeat a similar pandemic, I don't think any of them are worth that risk. You're saying that without regard to the measure of risk, or what risks exist if we don't do those experimen
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by cbsmith 3y ago
That's a serious exaggeration. Their combined portfolios are maybe $20 trillion. The S&P 500's market cap alone is $40 trillion. They've got huge asset portfolios, yes, but the market is just so much larger.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> Today the factory has been replaced by the mega-corporation, and the "workers" are now smaller businesses and private entrepreneurs or individual producers. Those factories were owned by companies. I don't think things h
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by cbsmith 3y ago
> Uber does not own cars. Unlike, say, the NYSE, which owns all the equities that are traded there?
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I get the impression centimillionaire was a term invented so that journalists could make up headlines and stories that might seem relevant or interesting.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I would say the rest of the content follows the quality trend the headline established.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
You'd be surprised... I've made a pretty good career of identifying cases where simpler, more efficient designs produce better or equivalent results.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
It's worse than that, because the 1 in 72 million calculation assumed that the contributing factors for SIDS are uniform across all children, when even then we knew absolutely that they were not. The UK, with a population of 67 million
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Yup. It's very similar to the problem of explaining the importance of precision and recall in information retrieval.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I often take it to the ridiculous point and use a scenario with only one possible positive case. Like: There is only one person in the world who is you. Let's say I had a facial recognition system that had a false positive rate of only
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by cbsmith 3y ago
The clear explanation to compute the odds you need to combine the distribution of positives & negatives with the false positive (or false negative) rate; a probability derived purely from a false positive rate presumes a uniform distrib
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by cbsmith 3y ago
I always explain it this way: "The odds of getting a Royal Flush in poker are 649739 : 1. So, if you are playing someone and they present a Royal Flush, what are the odds they are cheating? What if the person you were playing was the D
737.
by cbsmith 3y ago
Yeah, gap buffers LONG predate RMS.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Okay, that's what i thought.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
You need to swap out the mainboard to install Linux?
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Should be: "that's NOT really that different from costs normally borne by retailers"
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Comparing to retail is not apples to apples. The overall margins on Amazon tend to be lower across the board. So, yes, there's a problem with comparing directly with retail in general. Amazon is taking on distributor costs, but they
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by cbsmith 3y ago
You're talking about gross margin/mark up, and there really isn't a "traditional retail margin". It varies a lot by product, but, as an example, the typical mark up for grocery stores is 15%. I used to do retail sal
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Yeah, but if you search and replaced the part where the $88 is to pay the manufacturer, and instead say it is to pay they employees and the cost of materials, it's not like that suddenly looks like a viable business.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
Sometimes you do want it to be asynchronous anyway, it just doesn't make sense to make it asychronous with a horizontally scalable distributed computing streaming platform...
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by cbsmith 3y ago
"Novel" in the sense of, "they've been doing that for at least the last few years". ;-)
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by cbsmith 3y ago
You can also just over-allocate to avoid having to call it twice, or do some really basic heuristics to fast path the call (it's very specific UTF-8 sequences that need more than 2 bytes in UTF-16).
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by cbsmith 3y ago
They did do this. It was completely compromised by scalpers.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
You're getting to the key thing: You don't want to classify them by what they do. You want to classify them by what the clients must do/experience.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
You'd be surprised. Top journalism organizations do this kind of thing with tremendous efficiency. The Pandora Papers were impressive for exactly that reason.
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by cbsmith 3y ago
You can use DHCPv6 instead of SLAAC. Plenty of people seem to find SLAAC preferable... and interface-specific link-local addresses are key to making it work so...

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