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by gbrown 8y ago
The fees per transaction charged by credit card companies seem crazy to me in 2019, in that they're exorbitant and bear no relationship to their actual costs. The industry really seems like it should be a candidate for anti-trust actio
542.
by gbrown 8y ago
exactly, some biases are showing here.
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by gbrown 8y ago
Herbicides for dessication seem like a terrible, terrible idea. If I wanted glyphosate to end up in food, that's what I'd do.
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by gbrown 8y ago
There are definitely city ordinances which would prohibit it, but there are often workarounds and loopholes involving landscaping (like adding a retaining wall along the sidewalk, or maintaining a small strip of grass adjascent to city prop
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by gbrown 8y ago
I'd support this, though I do consider myself a responsible herbicide user. I use only spot application of glyphosate (on dry, sunny days) to help tackle invasive species, or to prepare lawn for conversion to native prairie instead. Wh
546.
by gbrown 8y ago
Why should a gendered name invite more attention in any way? People are often given gendered names at birth, after all.
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by gbrown 8y ago
We have no reason to trust either the sensitivity oe specificity of such an identification, and every reason to assume police and juries will think it's foolproof.
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by gbrown 8y ago
They're implying that the friend is "penny-wise and pound-foolish", by making a large effort to recycle small bits of plastic, while making no effort to avoid wasting lots of plastic/steel/coolant/electronics&#
549.
by gbrown 8y ago
Yeah, Ebay is great for this. I was able to replace the mainboard on an older LCD TV I was gifted years ago. $50 for a used one, exactly matching model#. 15 minute replacement job, 0 wasted televisions.
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by gbrown 8y ago
> denominations of Judaism Which is mostly irrelevant, given the large and diverse groups of secular Jews worldwide. More importantly, you've moved the goalposts from having to defend a fairly extreme statement to trying to defend s
551.
by gbrown 8y ago
> a tiny minority of very unrepresentative Jews object to the modern state [Citation Needed] I think your comment is far more offensive than someone claiming they take issue with the actions of a nation state.
552.
by gbrown 8y ago
I can't even get coauthors to use LaTeX+git. Word+EndNote+Emails is far more popular, despite how terrible it makes collaboration.
553.
by gbrown 8y ago
Not if by AI you mean anything in the same neighborhood as supervised learning.
554.
by gbrown 8y ago
That's amazing.
555.
by gbrown 8y ago
It blows my mind that anyone thinks AI for recidivism is a good idea, given the well documented biases inherent in the existing system.
556.
by gbrown 8y ago
Is it? I associate steganography with espionage and consumer printer identification. It's not convenient or practical for most things, but I don't think it has the dark reputation you suggest.
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by gbrown 8y ago
They wont quit pestering me to upgrade. I've never uploaded a single file, but collaborators have shared folders with me. Apparently that means my drive is full and I need to upgrade...
558.
by gbrown 8y ago
Three of the restaurants I most frequently went to have switched away. There are still other places with black bean burgers, but it feels like replacement given my restaurant preferences.
559.
by gbrown 8y ago
You're getting downvoted, but I agree. Portabello, black-bean patties, beet patties, shredded squash... there are lots of awesome sandwich friendly vegetarian options which don't pretend to be meat.
560.
by gbrown 8y ago
All the black-bean and beet burgers in town have been replaced by these things. Sometimes I feel like the only vegetarian who hates fake meat and wants recognizeable veggie products. Fake meat creeps me out.
561.
by gbrown 8y ago
I started typing an answer, but realized Wikipedia could probably do it better. In short, sequencing and checking for specific mutations are very, very different processes. Sequencing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who
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by gbrown 8y ago
Add driving a compact, low-to-the-ground car in a world of giant SUVs and pickups to that.
563.
by gbrown 8y ago
Please clarify.
564.
by gbrown 8y ago
You think Arstechnica is spam?? They do some great science reporting.
565.
by gbrown 8y ago
I apparently did not appreciate this when I was in high school.
566.
by gbrown 8y ago
Fair enough, but I feel like I've learned more about actual atoms by reading Arstechnica as an adult than I did during high school chemistry class - I may be remembering incorrectly, but my recollection is that we learned antiquated mo
567.
by gbrown 8y ago
I never understood why we were taught the Bohr model. If it was a history of science class then maybe it would make sense, but IMHO it just lets students develop incorrect intuitions.
568.
by gbrown 8y ago
More than that, inference usually refers to acts of decision making or evidence evaluation, like testing hypotheses or interpreting confidence/credible intervals.
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by gbrown 8y ago
Each launcher comes with a fixed cost of some sort - one more process checking for and downloading updates, sending analytics to yet another company, and potentially adding an attack vector. I think it's sensible to be reluctant to ins
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by gbrown 8y ago
I'm not sure I follow your second point. In both multiple linear regression and multiple logistic regression, the coefficients are interpreted conditionally - a one unit increase in X^{(i)} is associated with a B^{(i)} unit change in f

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