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by didericis 7y ago
EDIT: looks like I missed my editing window. Apologies for the typos and grammatical issues, wrote out the above pretty quickly.
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by didericis 7y ago
It’s also far to premature to claim any specific health effects from vaping as a whole. The article said the teen using a nicotine based product, but that’s not enough information. We don’t where the nicotine juice he was using came from&#x
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by didericis 7y ago
Exactly. The large amount of faith currently placed in probabilistic models that do not have common sense ways of eliminating factors which are extremely unlikely to be causal (like the presence if a ruler causing cancer) disturbs me. There
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by didericis 7y ago
A tainted, unregulated THC product killed people. That is bad. That does not mean we should immediately ban all vaping devices. There should be long term studies done on devices and juices in order to determine health effects, and there sho
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by didericis 7y ago
Empiricism is basically the art of inference based on outward appearance in different contexts. I’d argue we learn everything based on appearance. You have to do more than just observe things superficially and take context into account, but
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by didericis 7y ago
Not necessarily; I think the type of bad times experienced and how the majority of people need to act in order to weather them play a big part in how it affects their character. Although obviously war is horrible and hugely detrimental on n
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by didericis 7y ago
Yes, I think the near monopoly on manufacturing that the US had after the war was a huge part of the pursuing prosperity. I don't know that much about the history of the US Dollar as the world's reserve currency, but that was prob
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by didericis 7y ago
I think this is a lot of why the 50s and 60s is remembered so fondly by many people in the United States. Of course there were lots of major problems at that time and a lot of that fondness is just nostalgia, but I think there are legitimat
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by didericis 7y ago
I’d say that confidence is a tangible factor. The single most important reason to test your code seems to be that it allows you to refactor your code while ensuring it still meets the original outside expectations. The author’s main gripe s
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by didericis 7y ago
True, there will always be people who need to know the details. That applies all the way down to CPU opcodes. I’m making more of a semantic point than anything else. If you define indirection as anything which causes you to jump from the co
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by didericis 7y ago
I’d hesitate to call the good abstractions you describe indirection. The term is most appropriate when describing opaque abstractions that force you into their inner workings in order to understand their purpose. In the original example, wh
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by didericis 7y ago
Philosophically speaking, immutability is an important component in a perfect record keeping system. You don’t ever want anyone to be able to doctor a document without being able to see the prior document and who made the change. Practicall
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by didericis 7y ago
What kind of sites do you make? I’d imagine that avoiding things like react is fine for a lot of sites that just need a bit of form input here and there and some nice styling, but that anything relatively big with interactive pieces would f
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by didericis 7y ago
Fair point about bankruptcy. I definitely agree with allowing people to file for bankruptcy to clear student loan debt, and agree it’s a much more practical step than changing the culture. That will cause lenders to be much more cautious an
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by didericis 7y ago
I’m not sure if we can really confirm HIPPA’s effectiveness that readily; we don’t live in a non-HIPPA world, so we can’t compare the outcomes. If hospitals faced zero consequences for losing customer data, then yeah, things would probably
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by didericis 7y ago
Cool, thanks for the info. I was planning on copying some of the data to postgres for certain reporting features that would work better with sql, but I’m not really sure how that will work out yet. Constraints and hosted multi-datastore sol
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by didericis 7y ago
Is there an alternative to Neo4j you would recommend, or do you think graph dbs are bad in general? I have a pet project that works with data that’s very graphy (timetabling app with lots of interdependent events); I tried using postges at
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by didericis 7y ago
Agreed. HIPPA is not exactly a promising precedent. Regulation would almost certainly lag at least a couple years behind and end up making software and IT maintenance much more expensive without making it that much more secure. I don’t thin
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by didericis 7y ago
Agreed, student loan debt is the worst part of it. I’m not sure the debt situation can be fixed until we deprogram people to stop seeing college as this one, singular, necessary thing, though. We can transfer that debt around, but I think t
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by didericis 7y ago
Does the model from high school actually work that well? High schools definitely seem cheaper (though I’m not sure how much cheaper), but I don’t think high schools have as much incentive to increase performance. Regardless, I think the big
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by didericis 7y ago
Yeah, I think that’s part of it. I understand that a lot more people want a place to live than want the newest phones, that no one wants to live next to bad neighbors, that people like having guests and competing for status, that land close
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by didericis 7y ago
Yeah, for a lot of people it's more about trajectory than the numbers. Even going up doesn't necessarily mean anything with inflation. And it's very hard to find essentials like housing here if you don't have a lot of mo
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by didericis 7y ago
I think the social hierarchy thing is less about being on top and more about being a fundamentally important character in a larger story. I don't think it's unreasonable to think that theoretically there's some arrangement in
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by didericis 8y ago
I'd imagine it's a major factor. Inflation makes it very difficult to know when you should demand a higher salary. You might get promotions every now and then and feel like you're moving up when in reality you're at the