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by ggrrhh_ta 5y ago
Not being cynical at all. Getting food to just get by is very easy in a city. There is sooo much perfectly good food being thrown away even with packaging every day everywhere that it would be difficult not find food.
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by ggrrhh_ta 5y ago
Do you mean the emails that were made available in the form of thousands of PDFs by the US State Department as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request and that wikileaks made searchable? That is a different case: https:/&#x2F
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by ggrrhh_ta 5y ago
they didn't. A journalist of one of the main news media that had access to the raw data published the key to decrypt the raw data.
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by ggrrhh_ta 5y ago
That is very interesting. I assumed that false positives is generally a testing error (testing with another method or from another company would not lead to the same result). If the false positive is a result of a non-dangerous anomaly of t
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by ggrrhh_ta 5y ago
Well. With a bad test, what is necessary is to improve the test. The argument "outcomes are worse off with more absent symptoms testing" is really saying that symptoms is more predictive than the test itself: test is positive if [
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by ggrrhh_ta 5y ago
BTW... years ago I was rather supportive (albeit not having voiced it) of the argument that false positives lead to unnecessary interventions and thus screening should be itself gated.
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by ggrrhh_ta 5y ago
Have heard your argument on the false positives and unnecessary interventions many times. It is not a good argument. In fact, it makes no sense. If you get a positive with an uncertainty in its accuracy, at the very least, the test is repea
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by ggrrhh_ta 5y ago
from https://plato.stanford.edu/info.html : "crawl each entry for indexing (subject to reasonable network usage constraints), and distribute each entry only as permitted below provided that the purpose of the distributi
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
Bhuyan L.N.'s 1984 paper to be concrete, but in general, Valerio M.'s papers, Lamport papers, some old results from Knuth...
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
I understand the author must be the "Ted Nelson" ( https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTedNelson ). He has always been such a visionary. Such an immensely articulate person. His youtube channel is full of gems; his
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Too far ahead of their time on Bitcoin's/Blockchain future (2014) [video](youtube.com)
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
Sincerely, most of my life, me and most people around me have been ecstatic to create and share until we grew up and were drown into the collective dream of the possibility of getting rich (or at least getting by) by creating for money. And
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
This is the talk that I first saw that builds on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yKf8TrLUOw I found it interesting, fun and great. Still, I would stick to using Excel for the personal analysis of data and not as the
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
Understanding Bitcoin really can also convince you that it might not be a superior store of value. Think of the consequences of someone breaking SHA256 which, given, at the moment looks absolutely unfeasible, or of some entity or coordina
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
As expected, the headline did not stand up to the body of the article itself before turning into a marketing gig for a company developing drugs targeted to never-smokers suffering lung cancer. "To a great extent, this is a function of
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
This is great. Someone had to do it. Thanks.
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
btw, I think it is important to place the blame correctly and take whatever action is possible on the perpetrators to deter such behavior and at the same time patch systemic loopholes that are identified. They are not incompatible actions.
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
is the threat of punishment for wrongdoing not enough?
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
I think you are implying the following when you say "you have to look at the government": "if you want to fix the problem of people/clinics/etc. abusing (dodging/fraudulently take advantage of) government progr
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
I understand your arguments, which in my view, "shift the blame", and in your view, "charge with at least some responsibility" to the government. The problem I see is that this sort of arguments, if accepted as OK/i
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
"less gameable policy" -> clinics do not get a blank check, for good or bad, they have to comply with government's bureaucracy requirements, i.e., explicitly take action that attests that the clinic considers the procedure
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
The government is asking those questions, that is the "work" the clinics do when they say they "would do the work" to be able to bill the government for such procedures.
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
This books is so appropriate here: https://www.amazon.com/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/0870...
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
"Blaming the clinics doesn't work" - I trying to wrap my head around to put myself in your frame of mind to shift the blame from who is to blame to the government. If those clinics recommend and perform unnecessary procedures
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
The actual code in the kernel is well documented (and different, lines 103-149): https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/linux/...
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
Other countries already have excess deaths (e.g. US: https://public.tableau.com/views/COVID_excess_mort_withcause... ) indicating that not only people have died sooner than they would have (which is irreparable), but mo
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
As I haven't been following this part link between Vitamin D and Covid: what is the mechanism of action?
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
I am interested. I put around 30 focused minutes to distinguish E5 and have been able to endure that memory both to recognize it in the piano and to sing it since.
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
I can think of many cities (even in Europe) where many people are fully bilingual (in the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, in some regions of Italy, Austria and Croatia, etc...) - and if we go outside of Europe, well, in
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by ggrrhh_ta 6y ago
The methodology reminded me of Feynman's story about the "Young's 1937 rats study". The conclusions could have been better supported with simpler yet better methodology (given that, of course, from the nature of subject

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