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by gnfargbl 2y ago
A small side benefit of tobacco advertising laws is that it no longer holds any such association for me.
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Yes, it's a fairly obvious point. The link was in the context of whether negative QALYs are a concept used by the medical profession.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Negative QALY values do appear possible, according to https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S10983015106004... (via Wikipedia).
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You can listen to the account yourself at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00253mt , from around 25 minutes onwards. I found it convincing.
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
During the recent debate around the Assisted Dying Bill in the UK, I listened to a radio phone-in in which a palliative care doctor explained that it wasn't possible to relieve all suffering for all patients. They relayed an example of
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
How do you feel about the loſs of the long s?
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Ah, but standard firmware doesn't do that; the agency performing the action would need to have developed custom firmware which "just happened" to show the information when installed. Courts tend to see through those kinds of
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I really like his reply to https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/08/14/so-the-department-of-... . "Sure, I'll fill in your form. However you'll need to pay me money." I wonder what the chan
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I have no complaints at all about this model. They work out the cost of providing a service, then they charge that cost plus a markup. They keep doing things that make them money. They stop doing things that don't make them money. It s
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Most people who bother to comment on HN have an interesting opinion, and I value yours. The point of that guideline is to ensure that the conversation is substantive. Repeating points from the article with an assertion that those points are
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
You are doing the thing of asking if I read the article without actually directly asking if I read the article. Please don't do that, at least without carefully reading the comment that you're replying to. My specific point was th
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I agree. The author makes the argument that airlines have a terrible business partly because consumers don't have any brand loyalty and Coca-Cola has a wonderful business partly because consumers have brand loyalty. What distinguishes
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That sounds good. Breaking changes in major version updates is a completely normal thing in most software and we usually check for it. Ironically the only reason we weren't previously bothering in go is that the maintainers were histor
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As a user of your code this is true, and I'm very grateful indeed that you take this approach. I would add as a slight caveat that to benefit from this policy, users absolutely must read the release notes on major go versions before up
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I can guarantee that there is at least one country in [geographic] Europe where you do speak the language, and you are likely to find employment. Whether you would want to accept the change in lifestyle and living standards is another quest
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I think your proposal of AI therapists with human overseers would be okay if we were able to develop some kind of metrication and monitoring of the human oversight portion. Without that control, what would inevitably happen would be that th
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by gnfargbl 2y ago
Thanks for the tool! It has helped me out of the mire more than once.
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The ever-useful postgres_dba tool ( https://github.com/NikolayS/postgres_dba ) can help with this. Install it, start psql, run :dba and choose option p1 to see how much table space you would save by reordering your colum
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Sounds like they're using residential proxies for set-up in order to look like normal users, but then switching back to their own ASN for content because residential proxies are expensive. > im really glad that cloudflare turnstile
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The more I think about it, the more I agree that this is the likely outcome. IO has been in the ISO standard forever, so there's plenty of historical precedent (like UK). Furthermore, it continues to be descriptive of a specific part o
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It was in the original 1974 standard [1]. No real idea on the politics of the time, but Britain had "paid" Mauritius £3 million for the islands less than ten years before [2], and of course the US base on Diego Garcia was already
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This is an excellent plan and will doubtless pay long-term dividends for your employer who would be wise to fully fund your research. However do be aware that the μTech scene is largely a closed shop, and you shouldn't expect to make s
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That's a very good question. I don't know; does any other HN'er? The most information I can find is that the standard is maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency [1]. Additions appear to be mostly at the direction of the
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ICANN's position is that their policy is triggered by changes to ISO-3166. The code SU has not been removed from ISO-3166-2; instead it is "exceptionally reserved" (as is the code UK). If the standards committee takes the sam
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You're welcome. I think people here are often surprised that the internet registries actually spend time thinking about this stuff, and developing policy for it. But they do, and the results are easily accessible -- the link I provided
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ICANN actually has a relevant written policy at https://www.iana.org/help/cctld-retirement . The short answer is that -- if ICANN follows the policy -- then following the removal of IO from ISO-3166-2, the ccTLD has fiv
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I wonder if the phenomenon you're describing is the subtle and often hidden complexity of science, and our inability as humans to recognise and handle that complexity appropriately. In this case, we have the US Army's procedure fo
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The actual mean price I have paid for electricity this calendar year is £0.14/kWh (€0.17/kWh). This is using Octopus Agile, which is an hourly tariff which tracks the market. I do have an EV and try to charge it at the lowest poss
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Yes, that's the schematic. To me the two look essentially identical save for topology and some imagined details. I don't believe either of them are actually representative of a function warhead; see for instance https:/&#x2F
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My question isn't answered in the article, as I repeatedly explain elsewhere in this thread. As you only require one reference, I will present K.S. Krane, Introductory Nuclear Physics, section 14.5 "Thermonuclear Weapons." Th

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