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by flaque 7y ago
That’s due to bayes theorem. If you test people who aren’t like to have caught the disease, and say the test has 1% chance to misdiagnose, you’ll almost certainly create wild amounts of false positives and spark a wider panic.
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by flaque 7y ago
If you're into this sort of thing, you might want to checkout Roamresearch: https://roamresearch.com/
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by flaque 7y ago
It might be unfair to call a city “overcrowded” since the defining nature of a city is growth and people.
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by flaque 7y ago
> You do understand that people advertise apartments available for rent before the previous tenant has moved out... True, but sometimes people just leave without giving warning, or the next person can't move in immediately. Sometime
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by flaque 7y ago
Agreed that SB50 will not fix the immediate homelessness problem; though I disagree with their belief you can't pass SB50 until it also has affordable housing units. You can have multiple bills, we shouldn't shoot ourselves in the
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by flaque 7y ago
Many of these homes probably aren’t “empty” in the sense that someone’s just holding on to them long term. This article is citing the vacancy rate, which includes rentals where someone left and the landlord is trying to find a new tenant. A
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by flaque 7y ago
It's because no one wants to have these philosophical arguments about whether making an issue significantly "worse" constitutes causation. Regardless of the side you fall on, making something significantly worse is still a pr
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by flaque 7y ago
That’s my point; the OP’s argument that it’s an “either or” between arson or climate change is a strawman. Dried out conditions make initial triggers (like lightning or arson) more likely to have disastrous consequences.
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by flaque 7y ago
Stop with the strawman. A dryer, hotter climate will cause fires to get larger and do more damage. No one says that a hotter climate will cause the initial burn spontaneously.
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by flaque 7y ago
> Whether something is heretical depends on the interviewer, and whether a heretical opinion will impact your chances of being hired also depends on the interviewer. I agree a lot with this. It's not crazy for someone in San Francis
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by flaque 7y ago
^ kind of agree. Merging behavioral analytics like “people are still using this feature” and the more creepy type like retargeting ads that follow you around seems to be at the root of this. If you use a service, why would you expect them t
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by flaque 7y ago
Having an unpopular opinion that's also backed up well is rare in the information age. If a view has evidence to support it, that evidence is available to everyone and there will undoubtedly be communities that support it. Folks with h
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by flaque 7y ago
My guess is either one of two scenarios, possibly both: 1. WASM develops into a security model that's much closer to native hardware, more like a container that's shipped with a browser. It's probably more accurate to say tha
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by flaque 7y ago
> the car sharing companies will have to go back to the drawing board to create a new business model. I'll bet on this. Either self-driving cars dramatically lowers the cost of operations. Or startups like Nomad Rides change the bus
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by flaque 7y ago
Lots of people are horrified that we used to put lead in everything.
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by flaque 7y ago
> Meanwhile, Linux and BSD people will still be arguing GTK vs. Qt. 100%. I doubt *nix apps will change much. But you DAWs, photoshops, and microsoft words will no longer exist on the desktop.
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by flaque 7y ago
> That would render computers largely worthless to me due to a lack of software. Curious, why?
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by flaque 7y ago
> might change to subscription service model vs. outright buying a car This is what I mean. Car ownership will be a hold-over from folks who still own a car from a long while ago. Most people will just subscribe to a subscription ridesha
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by flaque 7y ago
Here's to looking silly in 2030: - very few desktop applications will exist, they will have moved to web assembly powered browser applications - way more people will work from home and most "work" software will attempt to sup
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by flaque 7y ago
If this handled the "build & config" of publishing packages and made the whole process effectively 0-config, I could see myself using it. But there's a lot here that I don't want.
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by flaque 7y ago
I love that not only does it work with emoji, but it gets the colors of the emoji correct.
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by flaque 7y ago
Believing "People just don't care" is both factually incorrect and counter productive. This is on the top of a site that's read by millions of people. Your hopelessness and cynicism towards "99.9%" of people do
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by flaque 7y ago
Since no one's mentioned it yet: both depression and anxiety are extremely treatable. Regardless of whatever HN folks think is the cause, therapists and psychiatrists are an actual solution; you should see one.
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by flaque 7y ago
Likely both. There's also more suicides: https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/
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by flaque 7y ago
They could but a lot of features would break. The app communicates with a closed source API. Plus, we still own the name and the brand and would likely send a take down if someone didn't remove them.
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by flaque 7y ago
I think they're referring to the various Mental Health as an employee benefit. Quirk isn't really that; we don't have any plans to do b2b stuff. But I admire the folks that do! That said, CBT is extremely helpful in personal
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by flaque 7y ago
Thanks Brian! :D
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by flaque 7y ago
Mostly this yeah. We're not talk therapy, we don't claim to connect you with a therapist, and we don't take health insurance.
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by flaque 7y ago
Probably not for a bit; but shoot me an email with your info! ejc@quirk.fyi
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by flaque 7y ago
This is due to a bug where some folks didn't get caught up as "free forever." Send me an email and I'll fix this for you and give you the app for free: ejc@quirk.fyi Hopefully you'll like the new version as well!

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