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by dwater 3y ago
I teach post-grad stats classes in the US, with no real prerequisites besides a Bachelor's degree. Most but not all of my students have passed a college level stats class that covered these concepts, and maybe half of those did not ret
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by dwater 3y ago
This blog post is not enough background for me to make a judgement about this particular teacher, but I will say as someone who spent a decade teaching high school, I have general disdain for people who spend 2 years teaching and think they
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by dwater 3y ago
"The carbs will need to be gone through, it’ll need new fork seals, new battery, new tires, probably new hydraulic lines, and who knows what else." The parts for that these days would probably be over $500, and around here shop la
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by dwater 3y ago
"John Lorimer Campbell is an English YouTuber and retired nurse educator known for his videos about the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, the videos received praise, but they later veered into misinformation. He has been criticised for sug
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by dwater 3y ago
It sounds to me like Yelp is upset that other businesses are trying to do the same thing they do. My friend was GM of a new local restaurant here, and at first they were getting lots of 4 and 5 star reviews and almost none below that. But a
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by dwater 3y ago
FUD stands for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. But the comment you're replying to is a factual article that lists what entities have restricted use of Kaspersky software and under what circumstances. You may think that the arguments agai
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by dwater 3y ago
It didn't stop the RIAA from suing loads of people over downloading mp3s in the past 2 decades, claiming damages of thousands of dollars per song the individual downloaded.
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by dwater 3y ago
When that happened Kryptonite voluntarily created a free lock replacement program, where if you owned a tubular cylinder Kryptonite lock they replaced it for free, postage paid.
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by dwater 3y ago
To make money she has to sell ads, to sell ads she needs to make the platform palatable for advertisers, which means going back to pre-Elon content moderation, which he clearly doesn't want to do. Her title might as well be VP of Sales
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by dwater 3y ago
They tried. She never responded. Her attorney does not dispute the fact that she failed to respond to any and all contacts for 5 years.
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by dwater 3y ago
A representative of this tax office said that the office does not turn a profit on these tax sales, it loses money. Which is believable because this woman was given 5 years to pay the $2300 bill or sign up for a repayment program. There are
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by dwater 3y ago
It's been a long time since my number theory class, but aren't there the same number of integers and odd integers? Take the set of odd integers {... -3, -1, 1, 3, 5, ...} For each item, subtract one and divide the result by 2. Now
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by dwater 3y ago
In my education degree program, in the intro class we spent time every week discussing recent research papers we had read. I was interested in practicing, not doing research, but when selecting schools there were clearly some that had a res
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by dwater 3y ago
For car rentals you're better off having a credit card that provides free coverage, which is pretty common on Gold and Platinum level cards.
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by dwater 3y ago
I was surprised to see in the article that SF has only had 12 murders so far this year. My city is less than 1/3 the size and has 14 murders so far, and it doesn’t feel like a lawless hell hole to me. Every murder is tragic, but almost
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by dwater 4y ago
I have a license for an MP3 tagging software called Tag&Rename from what's probably a one man shop called Softpointer that still works 14 years after purchase. I'd been using it for free for a few years at that point. The last
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by dwater 4y ago
Plastic use in commercial kitchens is pretty high too. Taking boiling hot food and putting plastic wrap over it or putting it in a plastic container is pretty common. With sous vide the food is cooked inside a brand new plastic bag. The onl
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by dwater 4y ago
So the lesson from the anecdote is that Amazon wasn't actually Obsessed with the Customer, but maximizing profit, and in this case they just happened to align.
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by dwater 4y ago
How old are you and what are your insurance premiums and deductibles? Generally the US healthcare system works better the more money you have and the less risk you have.
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by dwater 4y ago
Different customer base. These loans are generally more expensive and sold to people who can't qualify for credit cards. So yes, same business model but with the "Predatory" knob turned up.
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by dwater 4y ago
Yes, civil suits against government are common and cost cities and other local jurisdictions millions of dollars a year: https://www.findlaw.com/injury/torts-and-personal-injuries/w... It's generally not expe
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by dwater 4y ago
In today's political climate (including the current Supreme Court which is pretty strongly political), the most likely answer is local jurisdictions who have been paying out millions in civil penalties for this behavior. They won'
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by dwater 4y ago
It's coming. There's plenty of engineering experience framing with metal, Light Gauge Steel (LGS) framing has been around for decades. This is just adding a new use case. https://fortressbp.com/framing
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by dwater 4y ago
They stopped allowing arsenic (Chromated Copper Arsenate) in pressure treated lumber in 2003 in the US. The replacement is not nearly as resistant to rot and pests, and the quality of the lumber used has also decreased in the decades since.
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by dwater 4y ago
Overexposure to interest rate risks taken on to increase profits is what caused the problem.
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by dwater 4y ago
Are you referring to Credit Suisse as a victim of the media and not their own constant institutional failures? Ditto Silicon Valley Bank.
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by dwater 4y ago
All they had to do was freeze withdrawals for 10 years and it all would have worked out fine.
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by dwater 4y ago
That’s all politicking. There are lots of states with lesser penalties for the same crime including plenty of red states. Republicans just see this as another facet in the culture wars they can use to scare their constituents.
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by dwater 4y ago
Well, a lot of religions created before the modern era of banking say that lending with interest is a sin, and there are some people that still believe it.
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by dwater 4y ago
It's already become common for home sale listings to have CGI furnishings added. I think it looks like shit, it's obvious and tasteless, but it's a new technology and I wouldn't be surprised if virtual home staging becom

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