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by generj 9y ago
Thankfully, all Chrome extensions can at least have the source viewed. The .crz file type for Chrome extensions is actually a .zip file, so the code can be inspected. If it's obfuscated this doesn't mean much though.
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You'd think that, but the US has about 724 deaths per 100,000. In a county with fewer than 10,000 people that leaves only about 72 deaths per year. Loving County in Texas has 112 residents. "35 counties have a population under 1,0
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by generj 9y ago
Yes, this is correct. Especially with how extreme the values are within the clusters (like in Kentucky), there is almost no chance they occurred by sample-size variance. Sample-size variance might explain some of those little counties with
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by generj 9y ago
One possible partial explanation for this is the same reason why the Bill Gates Foundation wasted a bunch of money fostering small high schools. Smaller high schools were some of the best performing schools...but also some of the worst [0].
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For example, I once knew a site was using A/B/C/D testing to derive a demand curve for their product and just kept wiping my cookies until I got the product for 1/3 the cost.
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by generj 10y ago
This is absurd. However, I don't think there is a huge market for 10Gbps Internet is the suburbs of a relatively small city like Chattanooga. That number seems to be used more to highlight the absurdity, but I question it's validi
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by generj 10y ago
Yeah, but really just about anyone with a Bloomberg terminal has 99% of the same info.
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There's a similar issue with finance: someone anywhere in the world can execute stock market trades from a computer. But as a practical matter in the US 90% of trades are executed in a few blocks from each other.
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The FBI recently stopped accepting FOIA requests online and now online accept them via fax and snail mail. They did it deliberately to reduce the number of requests.
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How so? It's a slight exaggeration, but fundamentally correct. Commodity monies would hardly be worth anything without their additional value as a medium of exchange.
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Steam has also promised that they have emergency de-DRM code they can execute if the company ever goes bust.
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All money is fiat money. I have no more inherent reason to accept an ounce of gold for my sandwich than a $20 bill. The only value the gold has for me is the expected value others place upon it, which is also the only value I have for a $20
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by generj 10y ago
There's also a lot of people who think they have a little bit of knowledge when it comes to economics. That's usually much more dangerous than knowing nothing at all about the subject. Markets do set interest rates on assets. The
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by generj 10y ago
The markets do set interest rates on assets. The discount rate is just the rate of loans the Fed offers. The markets have decided to base their rates on the discount rate. Voila, the markets are at work! I suppose letting the architects of
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It helps that the broadcast team is comprised of the more photogenic engineers. I'm curious to find out what they changed. One of the problems they previously had was that the vibration from the rocket landing was too much for a satell
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by generj 10y ago
I don't know what they did on the camera and transmission side, but having the sub-orbital view on the 1st stage all the way down to the barge was super impressive.
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by generj 10y ago
I don't know if the stock market concern is valid because it is so readily caught by the FTC if someone was going to make an substantial amount of money on it.
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by generj 10y ago
If you make your own Alexa device you can do so. It's simple enough with a Raspberry Pi and a microphone. Unfortunately you lose the far-field mics is you do this. https://github.com/alexa/alexa-avs-sample-app ht
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by generj 10y ago
Yes, activation is local. You can see this in the documentation for making your own Alexa device. [0] To my knowledge all the cloud-based systems use something like this for both privacy and technical reasons. Sensory includes a chart showi
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by generj 10y ago
It's fascinating to see how songs can be ranked only #42 in yearly Billboard performance and yet now be the #1 most played song from that year. It looks like a lot of the meaningless drivel in pop dies and overtime people recognize goo
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by generj 10y ago
Warning: I'm not a statistician, just an economist with some training in it. My quick understanding of this paper is that lurking variables can cause Zipf's law. If enough variables are controlled for, in some domains Zipf's
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by generj 10y ago
The author seems to have neglected to put any link between Trump's election and a threat to software freedom within the article. Instead I see an appeal for donations I'm all for many of the aims listed in the article, but I find
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by generj 10y ago
"The administration, fellow lawmakers, and general public must understand the potentially catastrophic consequences of a digital cyber conflict escalating into a kinetic, conventional shooting war." The international community nee
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by generj 10y ago
This seems interesting, but the title of the page is "Our country of the year". The article notes that "A report in March concluded that its greenhouse-gas emissions may already have peaked, or will most probably do so within
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by generj 10y ago
I'd make a small single page website with a few fixed parameters (and maybe a few database calls) and then optimize everything on it using Google PageSpeed and other resources [0]. Make a script which runs during check-in which measure
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The problem is that we also don't know how many people might be killed by an unsafe drug. It's impossible to know in advance what could fail with a drug - hence the testing. We have no concept of the upper bound of possible deaths
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by generj 10y ago
The SEC failed to enforce some of it's regulations and didn't see the upcoming crisis. Multiple other federal agencies did the same thing. Not a single government official from any country (remember that a similar housing boom unf
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by generj 10y ago
Not everyone wanted Bin Laden dead. Critically, the people he was hiding with and his organization as a whole very much wanted him alive. The people who actually surrounded him on a daily basis did not want to kill him.
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I think you believe I'm espousing views which I don't hold. The aim of education is to learn something because knowledge usually increases happiness. Insofar as that information costs money and time, most people have decided they
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Absolutely true, but it wouldn't prevent some people from making a bad decision anyways. I'll also note that many student's credit ratings are garbage anyways, or they have no credit history to speak of. So the immediate cons

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