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by gbrown 7y ago
Well, it's linked to bats (like many such illnesses). One of the biggest exposures to these animals is at such markets, so whether or not this particular outbreak is traced to a particular market is less important than generally loweri
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by gbrown 7y ago
> And also cleared him He's lucky an overzealous prosecutor didn't go after him anyway.
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by gbrown 7y ago
And/or native plants. Growing a lawn is an atrocity in an arid climate, and a different kind of travesty where prairie would thrive.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Another single year after year after year of record breaking weather. You might call it a "trend".
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by gbrown 7y ago
> A lot of people live in either a city or a suburban area and most apartments and houses aren't air tight. Wouldn't your breath get circulated out of your apartment, mixed in with the outside air and drift over to your neighbo
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by gbrown 7y ago
> Frequentist statistics is basically Bayesian statistics done with a "flat" prior distribution I disagree strongly - there’s a huge difference in the kind of inference which is provided by each paradigm. To oversimplify, frequ
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by gbrown 7y ago
I feel like Duolingo is a good "in": something to give you enough of a foothold in a language to start learning in other ways. The barrier to entry is nonexistent, but it does become hard to progress past a certain point.
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by gbrown 7y ago
You should check out services like iTalki - it's very affordable to get conversation practice.
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by gbrown 7y ago
What does it mean to implement it in code though? What kind of data should it consume - n-dimensional coordinates, distance matrices, some sort of power level to calculate falloff? If it’s as described, it’s way too vague. Inverse square la
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by gbrown 7y ago
It blows my mind that you can watch Netflix and program at the same time.
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by gbrown 7y ago
That, and also good if the US gave a more serious look at capacity and resiliency building worldwide.
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by gbrown 7y ago
It already made an appearance in the SoTU.
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by gbrown 7y ago
I can guess.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Climate scientists have long feared being called alarmist, and indeed - the preliminary evidence is that this may have led to over-conservative estimates of the impacts and timescale of the climate disaster.
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by gbrown 7y ago
> because people wouldn't learn anything I mean, I suppose that's part of it, but the biggest reason (if by "technical solutions" you're talking about geoengineering) is that it's pants on fire crazy to run
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by gbrown 7y ago
You can mitigate this by purchasing something pre-owned certified or equivalent. When I bought my used Volt, I had to bring in a print out that indicated the particular car was indeed already listed as certified for them to honor it, but it
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by gbrown 7y ago
> Everyone does better with research, trial, and error. Better? Sure. Not everyone can go from 0 to competent in a new area within a reasonable time frame.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Yeah, the space of things I can do quickly on the spot from practice, and the space of things I can get really good at after a few hours of re-calibrating, research, and trial and error are worlds apart. If I were hiring, I'd 100% look
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by gbrown 7y ago
In your opinion, is this worth doing even if you never signed up, activated, or signed any agreements with respect to on-star?
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by gbrown 7y ago
> Stick with what worked for hundreds of years, In Iowa specifically, I’d disagree - primaries are a more robust and inclusive system than caucuses.
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by gbrown 7y ago
It seems like that might offer a good target for anti-trust action.
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by gbrown 7y ago
> Wouldn't that imply if we can make Mars habitable We can't (excluding domes etc.). We won't be able to unless we acquire such powerful planetary engineering technology that we could much more easily build enormous orbita
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by gbrown 7y ago
I'd propose that has more to do with the headlines than any of the actual science. Model tweaking is exactly how a lot of this works - models are supposed to reflect reality, so part of how we explore them is to find out what models fi
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by gbrown 7y ago
I think it might have been edited, I swear I originally read EU.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Even within the EU? I thought that was largely the point.
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by gbrown 7y ago
I don't disagree with anything you've said, but I often find myself in situations where I have gone out and tried carefully to understand what's true. When you've done the research, it's very frustrating to be confr
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by gbrown 7y ago
> I definitely wasn't cynically throwing up my hands and smugly concluding all sides are lying. Apologies, I didn't mean to insinuate that you were. My point was that this is the usual (and often intended) consequence of your a
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by gbrown 7y ago
That's because this conversation is occurring in the abstract - surely you can think of examples which don't fall into your supposed pattern (flat earth, pizza parlors, etc.)
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by gbrown 7y ago
So... would you consider that an argument against the sanctions levied against, for example, doctors who lie and fake data to stoke fears about vaccines and autism? What about fighting against conspiracy theories about the deep state and pi
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by gbrown 7y ago
They frequently do see things in that way - and they're wrong. In fact, they're worse than wrong, because many people see the dueling assertions of fact and give up on knowing the truth of a situation altogether. This is a classic

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