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by clarkevans 4y ago
Health insurance providers have guidelines that need to be followed by doctors for almost every intervention (procedure, medication, etc.). Typically those guidelines are evidence based, that is, there must have been a study that shows th
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by clarkevans 4y ago
A legal challenge to Section 230 immunity, Gonzalez v. Google, involves the promotion of user content. This analysis from 2 years ago doesn't reflect "promotion of user content" as a distinct, and potentially unprotected acti
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by clarkevans 4y ago
The minimum parking space requirement is what existing residents, who rely upon on-street parking, ask so they are not negatively impacted by dense housing proposals. This is especially true in areas where it's still near impossible to
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by clarkevans 4y ago
gandi.net has been around for a very long time
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by clarkevans 4y ago
Ranked Choice does suffer from some mathematical irregularities, see http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/ (2006) Ranked Choice has had some notable unexpected outcomes, see https://bolson.org/~bolson/2
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by clarkevans 4y ago
https://www.hnreplies.com/
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by clarkevans 4y ago
For many, the well-defined collection of data is realized in a relational database. In this case, the challenge is mapping this data onto exact requirements for specific data entry screens or reports. With complex business rules that cannot
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by clarkevans 4y ago
The DBT (DBase III) format was common in the 80s and 90s. It is a typed, fixed-width format that was directly supported by Excel, Visual Basic grid widgets, among many other tools. For example, Norton Commander supported it directly, lettin
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by clarkevans 4y ago
I've got 2 questions unrelated to the mainboard. Will a matte screen be supported? Will a thinkpad style keyboard be available for the framework? Raynaud's syndrome makes trackpad sensing poor.
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by clarkevans 4y ago
Danny Spitzberg & Nathan Schneider suggest cooperative ownership by the user community might be the best model. https://www.wired.com/story/you-yes-you-would-be-a-better-ow...
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by clarkevans 5y ago
Yet, with the easy solution, they got right to the principle -- "I hear you. You matter to me".
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by clarkevans 5y ago
Frameworks are helpful when a community would benefit by having a bit less variety in how things are done. Even if it's sub-optimal for most individual use cases, having a standard way of building applications in a community makes it e
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by clarkevans 5y ago
Oh dear. I meant to write " just ahead of time" (I corrected the post above). This is the Julia community's take on "just in time", but taking into account that there isn't an interpreted fallback. Exactly whe
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by clarkevans 5y ago
Revise.jl is used to provide incremental runtime recompilation; and Genie now has Revise built-in.
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by clarkevans 5y ago
I'm curious if Julia's multiple dispatch could work naturally for server-side web development. In many content management problems, you often run into pages that are parameterized in multiple ways: the kind of data object being vi
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by clarkevans 5y ago
Is there a good introductory book on understanding inflammation and autoimmune diseases?
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by clarkevans 5y ago
Writing an alternative syntax is straight forward. Perhaps prototype PRQL using xi's excellent FunSQL backend? This way it's working out of the gate. Once syntax+semantics are pinned, writing another backend in the language of you
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by clarkevans 5y ago
I found the linked 2019 article on the Front Porch Forum to be rather interesting. In particular, this social network's posts/responses are have a 24h delay. https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/24/181294
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by clarkevans 5y ago
There are many with serious medical issues that have blossomed with digital meetings. They can attend meetings without leaving their (home) office which is setup with the accommodations they need.
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by clarkevans 5y ago
Why is it that competence is so hard? This disaster was discussed in news media well over a year out, and yet, it happened anyway.
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by clarkevans 5y ago
Why must women must be the ones that compromise by having a medical intervention? Don't they also have the right to be "squeamish" about having an IUD or their hormones altered?
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by clarkevans 5y ago
Even so, providing direct control of fertility by a male partner is an important problem. Currently, the only control option that permits unprotected sex is a vasectomy -- this is expensive, requires many months, and is not always reversibl
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by clarkevans 5y ago
These things aren't black and white. There is an enormous difference between a 7 digit (millions) estate, and one measured in 10+ digits (billions). While income/wealth inequality does encourage work and innovation, it is entirely
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by clarkevans 5y ago
Reporters act like a nervous system. It's not their job to help repair a wound, it's their job to spread news about the wound so that others can come and help. It's not psychopathic behavior, it's having a critical role
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by clarkevans 5y ago
So, I'm curious -- why are there protests here to begin with? What is the proper bar for adding a pipeline across the landscape? When your land is traversed against your will, what exact rights to you have to protect it?
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by clarkevans 5y ago
> Julia fanboys > smug attitude This is a bit over the top, don't you think? Julia is an open community with varied contributors. I've not seen any core contributors here claiming Julia is perfect, if anything, they are cons
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by clarkevans 5y ago
Perhaps one manufacturer had obtained an exclusive license, preventing the rest of the industry from using this technology?
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by clarkevans 5y ago
The conclusion of this article mentions a book, "Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government" ( https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691169446/de... ) [2016]
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by clarkevans 5y ago
I use it for general application development. Some of the libraries still need quite a bit of work, but it's getting there. For practical web-service development, you need to hook in Revise.jl to get updates to your request handler wit
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by clarkevans 5y ago
A repeal of Buy America would be prudent if it were accompanied with very stiff taxation of products from countries that lack equivalent environmental, labour, and democratic policies. Otherwise, we're asking U.S. based companies to co

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