csours

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by csours 2y ago
> "how can you even entertain a belief" groupthink and in-group morality. The HODLers have a feeling of righteousness when they think about brining down the system
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by csours 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw Linked doco by Dan Olson. Strong recommend.
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by csours 2y ago
In health care, sometimes we help the body fix the problem, and sometimes we "just" treat symptoms. It's ... probably not a good idea for the government to try to fix families. Any interventions must be very carefully conside
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by csours 2y ago
I really don't see where the judge is coming from. How would the judge expect this to be resolved?
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by csours 2y ago
Not sure if you're joking, but if it's unlikely to be taken apart, rivets are fine.
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by csours 2y ago
If you read carefully, you may see that they did not say that "VPN traffic is being blocked because it's malicious"
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by csours 2y ago
I came across the quote "Happiness is a choice" recently. I haven't read the context yet (Suppliants by Aeschylus); but I feel like "Working towards removing unhappiness and increasing happiness is a choice" is a mo
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by csours 2y ago
I've worked in IT and software development for automotive manufacturing for over 15 years. > Ways of extracting this knowledge? Ask questions. Ask obvious questions. Walk the plant floor. Be prepared for things to not make sense. Th
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by csours 3y ago
I'll sometimes write a post or comment and then delete it. It's probably not as good as writing on paper, but it helps. I wonder how well it would work to have a placebo button that only shows on your own session
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by csours 3y ago
It's kind of amazing that, in reality, everything is always almost-failing (love the efficiency BAYBYYY). If we gold-plated every solution we would run out of gold; or have fewer solutions. Of course, in reality, there are a LOT of thi
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by csours 3y ago
> "In June 2016, Tim Parker, the Post Office's then-chairman, told government ministers he had stopped an investigation into Horizon on legal advice, because of the upcoming court action by postmasters. The existence of that le
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by csours 3y ago
Sales and marketing - and financialization and capital efficiency. I got no beef with accountants, but I think companies need just enough focus on financialization and low to medium priority on capital efficiency (ie, look out for stupid wa
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by csours 3y ago
One of the fundamental problems with organizations, no matter what economic system you live under[0], is that you cannot give your boss a problem that they don't want to deal with. So if your job is to find problems, and your boss do
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by csours 3y ago
I'm not a fan of getopts And to be more specific - I meant when the script calls someone else, not how it handles options.
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by csours 3y ago
Scripts should be commented with intent. (I can figure out what it is doing, but I have no clue WHY) Scripts should be testable. Scripts should use functions with appropriately scoped variables. (This really helps with testability) Scripts
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by csours 3y ago
It's kind of like peak oil. It's the price, not the amount. So 'peak oil' isn't completely wrong, it's just complicated. --- > I think it's still a very cool factoid, but the subtext that "the whol
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by csours 3y ago
You may notice that I did not specify theological faith.
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by csours 3y ago
Interesting that the word 'humility' does not appear in the article, but it seems to me that is what the article is about. No matter how you explain the world to yourself, I think you need some humility to recognize that you do no
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by csours 3y ago
> He clearly presented a dichotomy of choosing between quantity or quality. Using the context of previous articles by the author, I assumed Bayesian reasoning, so I was thinking about priors and outcomes and probabilities.
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by csours 3y ago
Assuming that someone is capable of producing high quality results ( and that there is a population of people who are not capable), should that person make one thing for a long time? Or make one thing and put it in the world, and then make
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by csours 3y ago
I don't have time to research and write a good comment right now, but metrology and tolerancing is super important to the modern bicycle. Look up Henry Leland and the progress made in metrology, and look at the time period he worked in
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by csours 3y ago
> "after showing slight signs of aggression" And we do mourn the loss of the research assistants.
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by csours 3y ago
Can the turntables hold two cars at a time?
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by csours 3y ago
who do you think is protecting us from the lovecraftian horrors?
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by csours 3y ago
Passing a test proves you can pass a test, not do the thing on the test. --- Edit, if you don't like this comment, please consider applying Bayesian logic similar to medical tests. You get both false positives and false negatives.
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by csours 3y ago
Yup, I tried this. I sweat A LOT
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by csours 3y ago
I wish Theranos had worked on a more reasonable goal - like an implantable CGM. I had T2D, well controlled now, my A1C is below the diabetic diagnostic range. I used CGMs, and they taught me a lot about how my body reacted to food and exerc
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by csours 3y ago
1. Yes companies are greedy. 2. Yes companies hide behind real effects as a justification. 3. Those effects are real anyway. Wage increases are ONE driver of inflation. The size of this effect depends on a lot of things. Price increases are
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by csours 3y ago
It all depends on where you point your microscope. This is the fundamental flaw of rationality - you can prove a very specific case, but when you try to make it apply generally, you run into problems. So in this very specific case, the infl
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by csours 3y ago
I'd love to see more analytical humility in this area. > "The problem – economics research has repeatedly shown that this is not the case." And economics research has also repeatedly shown that this IS the case. I'm n

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