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by dbbolton 11y ago
What misconception, exactly? I understand that reproducibility is not the only factor in evaluating a study's weight, but it's still important, and still problematic in psychology. >Bad evidence may be perfectly reproducible. T
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by dbbolton 11y ago
I agree. Even when scientific journalism is responsible, there's a concerning trend on social media, esp. reddit, where a study appears to be judged by how interesting the headline is, and its rigor is seldom discussed (e.g. an unrev
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Reproducibility is already a huge issue in modern psychological research, and this type of presumptive analysis of self-reported anecdotes isn't helping.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
While general "computational" tasks are bound to be slower in Perl, it holds its own in text processing. I've had better performance from Perl than awk, grep, and even sed in some of my own tests (not to mention that the prog
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Sounds like a very weak study: >The researchers ran two online experiments to find evidence of the misperception. They asked some participants to describe a time they had bragged about themselves (self-promoters) and asked others to desc
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Why aren't the name/Tox ID requirements listed on the site? I tried registering a few times and got an "invalid" error each time.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
There is a documentary about the incident called "Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal" on Youtube: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFEBCve-3Cw * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzNMCXWCZzQ as
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by dbbolton 11y ago
After reading the overview and features, I'm left wondering: * what tangible benefits would I get from using Clear Linux over my own heavily customized/handrolled linux server? * how does the update system handle breakage/con
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Who is to say that just because it hasn't been implemented, it was never thought of?
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by dbbolton 11y ago
The problem is "whatever tiny 'power user' features that google had... don't seem to work at all now." I think I know what they were talking about. A lot of times it appears that adding advanced terms to a query wil
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Also on FF, 37.0.2 Linux x64 build, and I see `xn--thibaud-dya.fr` on HN but `thiébaud.fr` in the status/address bars.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
It would be asinine of them to use different players/plugins for different content.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
I think you are absolutely right. It's not content providers that are pushing for DRM, it's content producers. There's absolutely no way a rightsholder would let Netflix show their content if, god forbid, there was any remote
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by dbbolton 11y ago
No, both the FSF and rms have repeatedly said that charging for software (or content) is perfectly fine. His issue is with the licensing and DRM. Here is one of the FSF's sites about DRM: https://www.defectivebydesign.org&#x
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by dbbolton 11y ago
To clarify, Fleischhacker is a legitimate translation of "butcher", but only in a figurative sense: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slaughterer#Translations I'm guessing that the original author was say
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by dbbolton 11y ago
>On the other hand, the pathologist assigned to work on the bodies I would prepare was a German, and she was named Fleishhacker, which sounded to Mr. Utton as though it should mean butcher, but actually didn't. It actually does thou
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by dbbolton 11y ago
It's more of a PEBKAC scenario. I'm not saying modern Windows isn't secure per se, but they are far less likely to install something they don't want on Mint (perhaps I should have said crapware or bloatware instead), suc
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Debian has some decent accessibility resources: https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-accessibility/software ORCA is probably the strongest FOSS competitor of
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Personally, I don't feel it's necessarily unethical to perform experiments on human embryos to begin with. Embryos are not conscious beings, nor do they feel pain (although fetuses do, at around the 5th-6th month). To me it is n
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Even better since Draper never went to college.
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by dbbolton 11y ago
>For a poor person to become wealthy requires them to discard their baggage. Change the accent, the clothes, the pop culture references, the 'back home...' stories. Avoid the discussions about parents. The list goes on. This so
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Realistically a police officer in the US does not have to worry about such "illegal threats". Manipulating people into letting them fish for evidence is a pretty standard part of the job. Most likely a judge isn't going to th
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by dbbolton 11y ago
Zsh's completion system handles most of those examples if enabled: http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Guide/zshguide06.html#l162 http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/Shell-Grammar.html http:&
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by dbbolton 12y ago
>It only resets when someone pushes it. Is there any code available to prove that?
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by dbbolton 12y ago
The key point is that amphetamines are a subset of of PEAs, and that BMPEA does not belong in that subset because it is a positional isomer of amphetamine- the methyl group is in the wrong place (yes, positions do matter in chemistry).
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by dbbolton 12y ago
As someone whose ISP enforces a draconian bandwidth limit, I would really like to see an estimate of how much all the dependencies are going to end up costing me. The last time I tried to build a Haskell program (I think it was on 64-bit Ar
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by dbbolton 12y ago
Was there ever any resolution with the guy who claimed to have been a SnapChat co-founder but was squeezed out by Spiegel? I imagine that would play (or would have played) some role in his decision.
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by dbbolton 12y ago
I've brought this up before, but those passwords are more vulnerable to dictionary attacks: http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtopic.php?p=11551&sid=14...
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by dbbolton 12y ago
It would seem to me that using a single cutoff like this versus a continuous graded scale incentivizes people just above the cutoff to lie about their income. Even if the expected contribution for a family with $130k is very small, it would
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by dbbolton 12y ago
There are several mentions of "safety concerns" and "risk", but unless I missed something there is only one recorded fatality mentioned in the article, and it occurred in 2012. I'd be really interested to find out h

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