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by coolgeek 6y ago
Your 2018 link is the same opinion piece that I rejected in the comment I linked. Your 2005 link includes the following quotes: > Congress controls the supply of physicians by how much federal funding it provides for medical residencies
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by coolgeek 6y ago
This is false, or at least no longer true. Since you didn't provide evidence, I don't feel the need to do so either. But debunkings can be found on this site, as well as elsewhere Edit: OK, here's one from me https:/&#
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by coolgeek 6y ago
> a huge part of the various incentives at play here Do you have any evidence to support this? Anecdotal evidence will not suffice here. Calling this a 'huge' factor demands empirical evidence. So what justifies this assertio
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by coolgeek 6y ago
New to me. Thanks. A jumping off point https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/331567/alternative-...
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by coolgeek 6y ago
I don't want to defend a gig economy company, but you're failing to account for the fact that the "average" changed dramatically over the last two months - as the post you're replying to noted: > unlike many othe
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by coolgeek 6y ago
Understood. Thanks for the clarification.
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by coolgeek 6y ago
I'd bet along side you. There's likely to be 10X more unreported than misattributed cases. Not to mention misattributions in the other direction - e.g California's discovery of earlier cases, and subsequent backdating or ear
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by coolgeek 6y ago
I've done part-time work for one delivery service. For certain pick-up locations, they instruct the deliverers to not give the receipt to the customer.
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by coolgeek 7y ago
Their products were originally only offered to/available to government employees. The name was purely - and accurately - descriptive. There was no intention to deceive, in this case.
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by coolgeek 7y ago
> when a fabric wanted to expand they would transfer the walls Having trouble parsing this. How does fabric have walls? How does fabric "want to expand"?
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by coolgeek 7y ago
First off, grassroots vs astroturf describes a spectrum, rather than a binary or dichotomy. Astroturf implies control and/or financing by an organization. That organization might pay participants (Brooks Brothers Riot) or pay for adve
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...
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by coolgeek 7y ago
I used to know what a cubit was
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by coolgeek 7y ago
You just doxxed your throwaway acccount. There was no contact in either profile, so my choice was to post as a comment, or leave you unknowingly exposed
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> High probability of eventually marking these emails as spam Assuming that they provide an unsubscribe link, why is this your default mode of thinking about this? They're providing a service, which you opted into. This kind of rea
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by coolgeek 7y ago
Let's be clear, that was a quote from Trump yesterday , when he was announcing the recommendation edit: And to be clear, this wasn't a one-off quote. He made repeated variations of it. At best, he confused the message. At wors
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by coolgeek 7y ago
He's not "walking it back." https://twitter.com/neil_ferguson/status/1243294815200124928
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by coolgeek 7y ago
Your summary - and, importantly, the title here on HN - skips the important part: 'and How to Fight It' As such, I was going to skip the article. Fortunately, I saw mumblemumble's comment below https://news.ycombi
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by coolgeek 7y ago
This makes sense intuitively, from the user psychology perspective. However, if you delete, but allow for the user to undo, you run the risk of a lost connection in between the delete and a potential undo call. It's possible for the ba
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by coolgeek 7y ago
My first Unix experience (~1993) was in a heterogeneous shop doing electronic pre-presss. SunOS 3.5 on OEM PDP-11s. SunOS4.1.4 on SPARC Stations. SunOS5 (Solaris) on SPARC Stations. DG/UX on a pizza box. SCO on (I think) a 386
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Learning a Programming Language Is a Progression in Stages(srsoterica.com)
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by coolgeek 7y ago
The most important part: > The rules Mr Richards gave for apostrophes are: They are used to denote a missing letter or letters, they are used to denote possession and apostrophes are never ever used to denote plurals.
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by coolgeek 7y ago
> It took about five years for the cultural zeitgeist of Germany to swing from extremely liberal to extremely fascist starting in the late 1920s You're implying that the group of people - the subset of the German population - who we
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by coolgeek 7y ago
It's not "The US government". It's not the scientists in the regulatory agencies. It's the Trump Administration. It's right there in the URL, the title, and the article body. Shifting the blame - even uninten
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by coolgeek 7y ago
I'm disappointed that this is the top rated comment. "than need to rely on payday loans, car title loans, or have no access to emergency money at all" You'll get no argument from anyone but the purveyors of such predator
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by coolgeek 7y ago
Your source is an opinion article in an outlet deemed right-biased and of mixed factual reporting. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-examiner/ "In the early 1900s, the AMA lobbied lawmakers to shut down ma
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by coolgeek 7y ago
The word that you are describing here is trawling, not trolling. I admit though, that trolling does admit some sense of what trawling defines.
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by coolgeek 7y ago
As wavefunction notes, that is at best a very narrow definition. Here is Wikipedia's: "Rent-seeking is a concept in public choice theory as well as in economics, that involves seeking to increase one's share of existing wealt
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Derived data - e.g. indexes or summaries. Derivative financial instruments - e.g. options, CDSs. I'm sure there are many more examples.
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by coolgeek 7y ago
The problem was with your math. 10.7 per 100k != 10,000 in a million. 10.7 per 100k == 1.07 per 10k == 107 per 1000k (1m)

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