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by dfsegoat 9y ago
"only a few minutes" - try explaining that to any DBA working in a regulated environment, like healthcare / cGMP: all of our ETL scripts require validation plans & independent review by QA -- nothing touching/persist
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
From my admittedly limited experience of being acquired by a Fortune 200 scientific company, it seems to me that the empty promises and planting of false hopes - to get key people to stick around a few months - is pretty much SOP in any kin
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
My kids are on YouTube Kids all the time, and this is terrifying: > "Someone or something or some combination of people and things is using YouTube to systematically frighten, traumatise, and abuse children, automatically and at sc
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
>> It may be biased, but the alternative, having no formal history lessons, is far worse. 110%. In America, I would say we ought to be teaching history as fast as possible: We are a Republic of immigrants, fighting for the preservatio
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
To your point RE: the electric car market: It is noteworthy that the GM announcement this past week - that they will be focusing on an "All electric" future - seems to have been a strategic decision made largely because China is p
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Curious to know how you are looking at an R2 value (correlation coefficient) of 0.53 to 0.63 in Figure 1a, and interpreting that as 'strong statistical correlation' -- that is pretty terrible actually (most highschool AP chemistry
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
It's a huge win for humanity if they can improve it significantly. Just a few stats: "The WHO estimates that in 2015 there were 214 million new cases of malaria resulting in 438,000 deaths" [1]. "The majority of cases (6
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Keep in mind this is business as usual for the folks that work at the Nevada National Security Site including 'Area 51' & the Tonopah Test Range... They have their own small 'airline' of 737s called "Janet"
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Fair enough. I'll concede that - I could have phrased it more neutrally vs. cherry picking.
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Except where it says: "However, other studies conclude that gun ownership protects against serious injury when guns are used defensively (Kleck and Gertz, 1995; Tark and Kleck, 2004)."
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
> but for most people, planning on using their gun for self-defense is a bit like becoming an alcoholic to reduce your risk of heart disease. This is a ridiculous conclusion. Sorry, you can't just take numbers from one study, and di
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
No problem. See below link to proper page, section: "Impact of Having a Firearm at Home" https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/3#40
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Don't worry he won't find it. Publications pertaining to firearms from a public health and safety standpoint are my bread and butter: I am unaware of any single piece of literature out there that makes this claim. In fact the CDC
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Did not know this about the US Constitution - that is good stuff! Ref: http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2014/sep/22/bo...
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
You are absolutely right here. It's a lot to do with the 'frontier mentality' of the American west (self-reliance, self-protection, etc). Short of that, it does also have a lot to do with visibility / response times: If
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Agreed - I admit I was speaking from a very 'US-centric' mindset.
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
> Personally, I think guns belong on shooting ranges, and nowhere else, unless used for a practical purpose, such as hunting. I take great issue with this. You say you came from 'country living' - but I find that hard to believ
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Sorry, I read over the piece and have zero idea what 'naps' have to do with this - it's only mentioned in the title and once in the conclusion. Really hard to figure out what the take home of this article is - I was hoping it
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
Your stats are a tad dated - the FDA has far better (in terms of granularity) stats lately that show a pretty steady trend towards 'more approvals' in the past few years - this includes biosimilars and new molecular entities (nove
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by dfsegoat 9y ago
but why is that question being asked? because of safety / security...
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
It's the 'central dogma' of RESTful services.
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
Just curious if there is a manufacturer+model and/or lot number that is still legible on the battery or an old system report output? Have been having some weird overheating and "hard off" power-issues with my 2015 MBP --- and
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
Awesome. Thanks for being on-top of putting this info out there: I was about to gripe about no mention of linux in the reqs/docs.
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
I second this observation. I've been frequenting HN probably 10x as much lately BECAUSE of the fact that I've felt that there has only been a slight uptick in political stories - vs. other outlets. That is all anecdotal of course.
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
Ditto. Can't beat the price + availability and flexibility of S3.
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
Using DRF and company in production 24/7. There are some quirks that I find a bit annoying (nested serializer write behavior) - but other than that it is great.
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
I've published letters in The BMJ so I am familiar with the audience, which is worldwide - particularly the letters / editorials. I don't disagree in any way that policy reform is badly needed and the war on drugs has failed:
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
We (the US) are in the middle of an opioid addiction epidemic. The surgeon general has just made this his highest priority - and physicians are now expected to take a soft stance on drug use? While I am all for reform - there seems to be a
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by dfsegoat 10y ago
Not a pilot or engineer - but I imagine if the plane were in a "banked left" position (prolonged left roll) where altitude was being lost because of "slip" - then rolling right would restore lift / level flight htt

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