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by fastaguy88 2y ago
For a somewhat different (more technical) perspective, look up Robert Heil, who died recently.[0] I found this story [1] fascinating, and really enjoyed this interview [2] where he talks about working with Joe Walsh, a fellow amateur radio
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
I think in the intro they show a Nikon on a motorized panning head.
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
If (non-profit) hospitals that made profits were taxed, those hospitals would simply start building, donating to their charitable foundation, or using some other accounting tricks to make that profit disappear.
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
It would be good to define "rich" here. Probably not most of the top 5% (50% of 15 million people). Perhaps "most" of the top 0.1%? Any data?
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
I have no problems connecting with Cisco AnyConnect
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
(1) The big problem I have is transitioning from RStudio to a pipeline (so I end up not using RStudio). A traditional pipeline is going to be a script with some set of arguments -- parameter values, fitting functions, and data file names,
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
An interesting demonstration of the difference between number averages and mass/size averages. Did great on the big countries. No idea where San Marino was, so lots of relatively smaller countries pulled my average down. By mass&#x2
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
While there may be general agreement that Pascal is a great teaching language and a weak systems language, I believe that early versions of mac operating system (system N, not OSX) relied heavily on a modified version of Pascal. Perhaps St
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
How hard would it be to include one graph that plots the relative contributions of solar, wind, gas, coal, etc to total energy usage, rather than growth in energy usage? If the growth over the next 2 years is 10% of current total, having it
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
Lots of interesting data, but for me, clear examples of why histograms are not particularly useful for comparing performance. Box plots would have been much more informative, particularly for comparisons of M2/M3 and memory effects, w
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
In interpreting the number of “administrators” at different institutions, it is useful to have an understanding of when one is classified as an administrator. At my institution, there are basically three types of non-wage (classified) posi
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00490... ) suggest that in 2017, 8% of the US adult population had a felony conviction, 24% of Black adults, and 33% of Black males. But for TSA Pre
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
For a different, more quantitative perspective, take a look at timetree.org. Timetree.org makes it very easy to see the evolutionary times between pairs of organisms.
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
2.5% of the US GDP ($26 trillion in 2023) would be 600 billion. At its peak in 1967, the Apollo program budget was 3 billion, while the US GDP was about 850 billion. So 0.35 percent. US government spending in 1967 was about 112 billion, s
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
Those lists would be far more informative if they had some years associated with them. Many of the cancelled projects were prop-planes cancelled in the 1940's and 50's.
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
There seems to be some confusion about precheck. Most people get precheck by doing “global entry”, which dramatically shortens the time required for US citizens to re-enter the US. Pre-check is a side benefit of global entry. Global entry p
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
All I can say is that you go to very different doctors than I do. I have quite a bit of confidence that my doctors know a lot more about the risks of different treatments than I do. If I had your doctors, I would try to find doctors I had
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
> It has the same problem all socialized health care programs have: the people who are actually getting the care, patients, have no idea what it costs, so they can't judge whether the care they are getting is worth the cost. Let’s i
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
I recommend this book to anyone starting CS and wondering "why do I have to learn all this stuff?" "What good is data structures and algorithms?" Read from a certain perspective, TAOCP is less a book about how to do thi
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
MAD Magazine 1957, not 1967.
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
Yes. The concentrations of the antibiotics are too low to select for resistance, because they do not significantly affect bacterial growth. (Without selection, no resistance).
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
What a brouhaha. Apparently the people buying MacBook Pro's are so non-professional that they are duped into buying a machine with too little RAM? I think they get a 30 day return free, so if they find out they were duped, why not jus
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
I don't think I said that philosophy taught me things that the "rest of us" find useful. I said it taught me things that I found useful. And I'm happy to argue that many non-technical subjects that I might not consider
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
Modern methods of scientific enquiry. Most scientists no longer look to the bible or tea leaves.
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
I am not particularly knowledgeable about philosophy as a modern discipline, but taking philosophy courses as an undergraduate taught me a lot, particularly about the limits of knowledge and scientific enquiry. I'm happy to argue that
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
I made a wire transfer to the escrow agent.
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
If you are buying a house with cash, you are likely to be transferring $500K+. I do not think an attorney is necessary for the transfer.
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
I very much doubt that the widespread misuse of the term "homology" for "identity" by biomedical researchers reflects their deep understanding of mathematical concepts.
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
It is critical to understand that this article fundamentally misuses the word "homology", which in bioinformatics and molecular evolution is understood to mean "sharing a common ancestor". Similarity searches (typically
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by fastaguy88 3y ago
Perhaps you meant to day "science doesn't work by p-hacking and data falsification". The great thing about science is that it involves a process of building models and hypotheses, and then running experiments to produce resu

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