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by drcode 7y ago
Well, I think most people in this comments section would say "blanket consent when signing hospital forms is unacceptable and patients should get notified and paid every time someone uses an element of their data". If that's
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by drcode 7y ago
They probably get all the data in fragments from different EHR systems, pharmacy records, diagnostic monitors, etc etc and need ways of knowing which records belong to the same patient. Sure, we may want to have properly-designed legislatio
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by drcode 7y ago
I know I'm very much in the minority here, but just like we should have more open borders and more open software, we should encourage more openness around medical data. Google and other large companies have made some significant AI adv
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by drcode 7y ago
People can just run in a circle in a park, so yes.
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by drcode 7y ago
To me, the central question is whether marathon running is more popular amongst parts of a community with more political clout, and whether this explains the how participants manage to impose inconveniences (and potentially more serious har
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by drcode 7y ago
What if the rate of deaths for a given company is not zero, but below the rate for human drivers? Is it ok to have additional, unnecessary pedestrian deaths by NOT allowing that company to deploy their technology? (That said, the negligence
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by drcode 7y ago
It doesn't make any strategic sense either: The whole point of being "permissionless" is to increase initial adoption by providing protections against "vendor lock in". But if you are capable of doing an initial lau
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by drcode 7y ago
> They have explicitly stated that a move to a permissionless system is their end goal. Of course, they were very happy to make all kinds of vague, rosy promises right out of the gate... it doesn't cost them anything to do so.
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by drcode 7y ago
> I suspect Facebook’s longer term plans, were they to actually launch Libra, are to move to a permissionless proof-of-stake model much like the one used by Cosmos It seems really naive to think that if FB were to get a foothold in the c
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by drcode 7y ago
It's much better than most other brief explanations I've read. One thing I wish it would hit more strongly is that the "actual world" is bigger than what we can interact with, we only experience a "slice" of th
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by drcode 7y ago
> most people don't exercise effectively and are too lazy to get a trainer so a workout watch is a good way to know that they didn't really work out as hard as they thought they did. OK, out of all the responses to my question
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by drcode 7y ago
It's possible that spending time on those 1500 extra steps might help. However, it takes a decent chunk of time to walk 1500 steps, and there are so many forms of exercise you could do in that same time that might be far more valuable
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by drcode 7y ago
I'd still love to hear a convincing argument from someone as to the benefits of counting steps and measuring heart rate with a wrist band- Are people feeling like they are more fit because they walked to lunch "the long way"
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by drcode 7y ago
> They were so focused on building a nice looking bridge The bridge was the most hideously ugly bridge ever, behold: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/PublishingImages/HWY18MH...
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by drcode 7y ago
I think in that case you would probably be able to formulate the problem in a different way to show that the angle arises through an exponential process (or more) and that the problem isn't truly linear.
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by drcode 7y ago
I'm no language expert, but the there things I can think of that make bel impractical without major compiler trickery are (1) lack of primitive hash tables (2) lack of primitive arrays (3) no support for tail call optimization (though
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by drcode 7y ago
> Does no one remember the default Borg icon for MS stories on Slashdot? Drcode remembers...
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by drcode 7y ago
Really? I think if you forced "people on the street" to formulate a list the 5 greatest living people, I bet 80% of them would have "Bill Gates" on that list.
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by drcode 7y ago
I think strong arming PC manufacturers to stymie the creation of a viable competitor to Microsoft Windows (which in early iterations was really a terrible product, in my opinion, and very hostile to developers) may have hindered the compute
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by drcode 7y ago
Rockefeller, Carnegie, Barnum, Kraft, Walton, Koch?
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by drcode 7y ago
You're missing my point. Other rich people donate anonymously or through a foundation that doesn't have their name on it.
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by drcode 7y ago
To be fair, I'm sure some people regretted it earlier in private, before there was an expectation to put their opinions into the public record.
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by drcode 7y ago
Just curious, why are most people in 2019 so convinced that Bill Gates is "the worlds greatest guy"? Don't we have plenty of evidence of a long history of shady business practices (that really only ended around 1998 when Micr
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by drcode 7y ago
I think at the end of the day, the question is whether a compiler for this type of language could efficiently handle a function like distinct-sorted: > (distinct-sorted '(foo bar foo baz)) (bar baz foo) This is a function
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by drcode 7y ago
Think of the period symbol as the root of a branch in a tree. A true list has all left branches empty. A "dotted list" has to items on both branches at the very tip.
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by drcode 7y ago
He uses an unreleased interpreter he wrote for it in arc.
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by drcode 7y ago
So you're arguing China has strong privacy rights? How do "privacy rights" matter if you don't have the freedom to have privacy?
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by drcode 7y ago
Let's give them some initial credit for being supportive of employees that support Hong Kong- They've shown more of a spine than Blizzard at this point.
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by drcode 7y ago
You think totalitarian regimes like China and North Korea are OK, because "diversity"?
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by drcode 7y ago
Facebook will never back down from Libra, they'll just release a "watered down" version of Libra that's essentially just store credit like "Amazon Bucks" and then sunset it after it's forgotten.

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