drb91

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by drb91 8y ago
Well, an appeal to common belief has never held much water. In any case, there are more things to measure with effects of technology than poverty, which is far from an objective measure and implies many things about the values of the person
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by drb91 8y ago
> It's more like a child over-selling their accident for attention. How could you possibly distinguish? And my point was that extrapolating a claim on an aggregate from anecdotal evidence seems low value.
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by drb91 8y ago
Presumably it would be context sensitive like most variables. Just because something is hard does not mean it is not worth doing. Confirmation is inherently impossible, but we should be able to weed out bad papers with higher accuracy.
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by drb91 8y ago
There is a difference between wholesale making things up and conveniently leaving out variables that alter analysis of your data. I do agree overall that this is not trivial and there are tremendous disincentives; that is evidentally not a
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by drb91 8y ago
What's the point of cancer papers at all if they're un-reproducable? Are we just sinking government money into artificially inflated bio portfolios?
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by drb91 8y ago
> If you don't what someone did exactly and what they used then replicating it is going to be very difficult. Why do journals accept these papers? If you can just make shit up, it kind of makes the whole value of a paid journal moot
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by drb91 8y ago
It seems to me you’re painting people with a broad brush. Many people who talk about anxiety (or depression) talk about it because they are dealing with it, successfully or no—awareness does not imply inaction. Why would you question them?
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by drb91 8y ago
I’d believe it. There are plenty of other ways to make money off private data. This sounds like they were specifically saying they don’t use data in a that particular way.
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by drb91 8y ago
Not everyone believes that giving non-privileged people access to technology is a panacea to a better life for them, or for a better world. As a result it comes off to me a lot like justifying capitalist motives with (highly unrealistic) hu
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by drb91 8y ago
> What if it's an 8 yr old African child right now looking up to code Swift 4 on YouTube? This is an unbelievably tone deaf thing to say and a reason why people roll their eyes when techies talk about the future.
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by drb91 8y ago
> You still have no useful tools with which to make your life better. Nonsense, you can now use mental health best practices to treat yourself or seek help from someone who can treat you. I say this because I’ve seen this precise scenari
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by drb91 8y ago
Seems to me it’s still premature optimization if you expect to use this primarily for low values of n (eg three).
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by drb91 8y ago
I commit dozens of times a day with zero aliases, and it never really gets in my way. If you’re comfortable with git, leveraging it can almost certainly improve your productivity—if you can rebase, splitting a branch into two branches is a
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by drb91 8y ago
That seems like it would necessarily lower the quality of the journal, not to mention your own paper.
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by drb91 8y ago
The response rate is quite low for these requests, i’ve found. It’s much easier to find a copy via google if the paper is at all popular.
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by drb91 8y ago
Right—why would you prioritize short term returns over self sufficiency? Seems like you’re just fucking your kids over.
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by drb91 8y ago
Does this affect non-RSA key types too? I use ecsda25519.
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by drb91 8y ago
Yes. I wish there were more casual acceptance for “ray tracing” as essentially light computation via ray intersections, rather than the assumption that it means “naive ray tracing” or “direct lighting ray tracing”.
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by drb91 8y ago
Agreed. While I get the fear of interacting with strangers, I’ve never gotten more than mild annoyance from someone when I actually do it. I have never felt like I was overstepping bounds—people rarely mind being spoken to with respect, eve
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by drb91 8y ago
Why not just use that same money to invest in proper disposal techniques?
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by drb91 8y ago
That doesn’t seem to answer the question.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, I suggest not using anything but scheme.
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by drb91 8y ago
True. "blazing-fast" sounds almost like a pidgin variant to me.
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by drb91 8y ago
But image "macro" memes are far older than the internet--consider the classic cat meme, 'Hang in there!': https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TQ1YdQYNL... Hell, you could conside
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by drb91 8y ago
What's a macro?
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by drb91 8y ago
I was taught in (american) school adverbs are a lazy and informal form of expression. While I didn't agree at the time, I use them now only vanishingly rarely. ;)
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by drb91 8y ago
Right, it's a spectrum. I don't think there are many cogent adults (even "democratic socialists") that wish to do away with the majority of capitalism in our society: the nordic model.
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by drb91 8y ago
Yup, this is the future without stronger labor laws.
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by drb91 8y ago
Agreed! A good reason not to like capitalism.
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by drb91 8y ago
Wow, I was envisioning discrete math, but he is teaching modern computer skills. I would find this incredibly intimidating. Well, I guess necessity is the mother of invention—he clearly figured out how to get some decent teaching out of it.

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