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by foerbert 5y ago
I disagree. It is relevant, and not lowering level of discourse. Animal models are both very useful and very limited. There is no way to 'adjust' them into such a perfect proxy that the model is irrelevant. You can do better, but
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by foerbert 5y ago
A sufficiently interested public will push the legislators. Part of interesting the public is informing them that there is a problem, and that there is even a relatively simple solution. The public interest route seems both far simpler and
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by foerbert 5y ago
I'm not sure why you think writing about the balance of interests isn't part of building counter power.
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by foerbert 5y ago
Amusingly, I'd bet the tone you're getting from that comment is probably the same tone the commenter got from the "You" thing in the first place. To me, the capital You reads kind of aggressively. It adds an unusual amou
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by foerbert 5y ago
I feel like Arch used to be simpler to install, right? Not that it was done for you or anything, but I recall being really impressed back when with how straightforward it was using the wiki. I moved from Arch to Gentoo and then back again,
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by foerbert 5y ago
Really? I don't think that's why Arch is well known. If you gave me just that description I'd be very confident you meant Gentoo. In my mind, Arch's reputation is not that of a challenge, but more of an ongoing projects
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by foerbert 5y ago
This is not actually necessarily true at all, at least not in a useful way. Even if it happens to be true, "with enough data" is a hell of a qualifier for many things, never mind one that involves practicing medicine on real patie
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by foerbert 5y ago
I've always loved the concept, and yet was always the student that would scoff when lecturers mentioned reviewing. The problem is "active learning" doesn't work outside of small groups at a similar "level" so t
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by foerbert 5y ago
I assume the author thinks that would be a good proxy for some hard-to-measure quality, and is not actually aiming to hire the best typists because of their typing skills. As for what that quality is, I don't see any hints there. It co
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by foerbert 5y ago
It's not Reuters, but the submitter. Current Reuter's headline: Long COVID risk no lower with breakthrough infection; COVID-19 survival improves for European cancer patients Current url: Current submitted url: https://w
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by foerbert 5y ago
You've been taken in by the submitter's editing of the article's real title. This applies specifically to breakthrough infections. Vaccines do a great job of preventing COVID in the first place, which naturally includes long
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by foerbert 5y ago
Specifically, the HN submitted headline. The article headline is "Long COVID risk no lower with breakthrough infection; COVID-19 survival improves for European cancer patients." I don't believe it was a later change given the
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by foerbert 5y ago
Public criticism does not change things only via boycott. I agree with you about boycotts and their at-best questionable usefulness. The more meaningful aspects are the fact it creates a negative reputation, and that reputation impacts all
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by foerbert 5y ago
I think it's both reasonable and important to criticize companies for behaving unethically even when it's not illegal. At the end of the day the "company" itself is incapable of doing anything. Humans are the ones actual
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by foerbert 5y ago
They were obviously just using an analogy with real names to say Amazon does not have a similar-size competitor or three.
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by foerbert 5y ago
I use it for pretty much everything (personal projects), unless it's a one-day/one-run script kind of deal. And even for those little throwaway things... I'm real tempted to use Ada anyway. It's just so damn comfortable
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by foerbert 5y ago
The approach might work but I don't think in general it actually solves the same problem. While I used integer-like things in the example, it wasn't actually important. It could be strings (think Apple_Description and Orange_Descr
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by foerbert 5y ago
I don't actually do much OO. I typically stick with Ada. It does have OO, but I rarely reach for it if I don't need it. Most of my typing interests are actually from the non-OO side. Too much detail is around in a far too large re
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by foerbert 5y ago
I spent far too many hours of my life writing a far too long response to another comment. Some... portion of it touches on some of this. I can't in good faith suggest reading it, but you could. But the more specific and quicker version
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by foerbert 5y ago
Ah, that would explain it. I was using Firefox. That probably should have occurred to me too.
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by foerbert 5y ago
Yes, I intended both to be integers - but in general they could be anything and the overall idea applies. The overall idea is to be able to tell the language that an Apple_Count type represents an integer value and some extra meaning that
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by foerbert 5y ago
Every time Julia pops up I can't help but get disappointed all over again. I was so intrigued by multiple aspects of the language, and even the type system seemed promising at first. However the inability to subtype concrete types is a
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by foerbert 5y ago
Edit: I now believe the website was, in fact, changed. Original comment below, most individual bits still relevant aside from the overall conclusion that the pieces added up to accidental confusion. Apparently concluding HN folk were bad at
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by foerbert 5y ago
I'd guess it's due to the fact the culprit is a 67 year old woman, and her fraud resulted in increased maintenance costs and not the loss of any subs or sailors. For better or worse the end result has always played a huge role in
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by foerbert 5y ago
> I believe it is good default, as 90%+ of their users (would) care more about accidental data loss than privacy. I think you're right about the numbers, but I don't understand why that justifies the default. Why even have a de
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by foerbert 5y ago
I don't think the argument here was to provide a single path with maximal dopamine-per-action. The original statement was to make sure repetitive and boring paths weren't highly effective. Your own characterization of grinding in
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by foerbert 5y ago
Not necessarily. It's not immediately intuitive is all. For example, maybe krill do a poor job recovering nutrients from dead krill, while they do great job of it with whale waste. In this case, whales would keep the overall amount of
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by foerbert 5y ago
I don't understand why that would be important. The only value in responsible disclosure is protection of users. If you figure out there's a way to harm a boatload of people, it's nice to do what you can to ensure it can&#x27
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by foerbert 5y ago
This is a hell of a comparison to try to make. How many people do you think regularly run into this kind of issue in Postgres? How many people do you think regularly run into the Python GIL? Even if we assume your premise that vacuum is at
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by foerbert 5y ago
> you can't just say "complex interaction" and still call this a consequence of climate change when the causation is absolutely unclear beyond "less water = warm = bad". I went out of my way - several times - to

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