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by incongruity 8y ago
You make a bunch of solid points, IMHO, but to your last sentence - If I’m facing dying due to a neurodegenerative disease, I’d be willing to roll the dice on the possibility of cancer. Facing death seems like a powerful disinhibitiory driv
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by incongruity 8y ago
So where do you go instead? Reddit and Facebook both have some hold for me because of niche communities that they both let me aggregate/monitor/interact with easily, without going to a myriad of websites. I really don’t want to ha
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by incongruity 8y ago
That’s not really a new MO for them - remember, this is a site that uses unpaid content creators to attract other unpaid content creators and then sells access to us and knowledge about us to businesses and political interests among others.
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by incongruity 8y ago
A counselor I saw once defined grief as love with nowhere to go. I think that connects well with what you suggest here.
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by incongruity 8y ago
Put another way, very little in all of this accounts for consumer needs/wants/experience. Force me to use pantry or buy larger quantities at higher unit prices? Nah. I’ll just use target’s drive up and have it in the quantity I wa
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by incongruity 8y ago
Except when sellers game the system and flood it with fake reviews, it’s pretty strongly suggestive that this isn’t a grassroots shift in consumer preferences. Relatedly, if someone else can make a business out of helping your customers sor
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by incongruity 8y ago
To your last point - individual radio power has declined but I’d suspect that the total exposure has gone up because 1)Device density is far greater and 2)Time spent transmitting is longer per device because we use more data now than in y
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by incongruity 8y ago
>It sounds like their sudden viral popularity created too many obligations to fulfill, but not enough to scale up sustainably. Truly victims of their own success. The slashdot effect (do people use that term anymore? see also the reddit
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by incongruity 8y ago
Information asymmetry - it’s always been a powerful tool in business, marketing, politics, etc. While the internet and mobile devices have given the masses much more information, they have given those in positions of power even more .
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by incongruity 8y ago
Why do you assume they’re not? Constraining the discussion to America, you’d be far more wrong to assume someone doesn't use the internet[1][2] or a cellphone.[3][4] [1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018&#x
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by incongruity 9y ago
Thank you - I think you said much of what I was trying to say in a much better way.
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by incongruity 9y ago
Excuse a brief bit of hyperbole, but what’s your stance on gun control? How do you feel about seatbelt and helmet laws? All of those things and more exist for the protection of the users and/or general public - but many people hold the
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by incongruity 9y ago
... the best camera is the one you have with you. I love my DSLR but now the multi-lens systems (iPhone X and others) that allow bokeh make it even less compelling to bring my DSLR. If they had a stronger telephoto option, it’d be a done de
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by incongruity 9y ago
>Like it or not, SPSS made science much easier. No - it didn’t. Science isn’t running stats tools. It’s knowing what tools to use and using them properly so that you get valid answers. If you haven’t been paying attention, the social sci
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by incongruity 9y ago
I agree, in this case, you’re right on (and I have another comment saying as much) but couldn’t there be a UI that guides you safely through some of those dangers? I have yet to see anything close to one but I could imagine a system tha
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by incongruity 9y ago
Generally speaking, IMHO, making the interface easier, in practice, doesn’t actually make using statistical methods correctly easier and that’s scary. SPSS is a classic example - and the social sciences have had a series of discredited
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by incongruity 9y ago
Journalism has always been hard – most of the things worth reporting on don't welcome the reporters in with open arms, all the time. That having been said, it seems that as more local community interaction becomes digital and starts
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by incongruity 9y ago
She does have a degree in political science – there definitely are political scientists who get seriously into statistical methods. Moreover, I'd humbly suggest that this topic is dead-on for someone with a political science background
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by incongruity 9y ago
Warning: not an expert. Someone smarter/better educated, correct me (or better, tell me I'm right =) Cancer tends to (though not always) correlate with age when you break it up by type of cancer. For example, children don't
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by incongruity 9y ago
It's also pre-paying to avoid downtime and less efficient work. Given that I can't predict when hardware will have issues, I think this case gets stronger as well.
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by incongruity 9y ago
Interesting – I haven't touched Java in years so I'm definitely out of my element with that language, so thank you.
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by incongruity 9y ago
Not sure why my original question has been down-voted. I think it's a legitimate issue – when things like this make the news, there's often an interest for potential victims to find out if they've been put at risk. Many com
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by incongruity 9y ago
Right, but that operator is implicitly casting the null object to a string type – it has to, in a strict sense... some other languages would raise an error (and many would do the same as Java).
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by incongruity 9y ago
Sure – that's just casting a null type as a string. So I guess if you have a comparison that somehow casts null to a string before comparing, you could run into this issue, but that's still bad programming. I used to own null@myun
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by incongruity 9y ago
Is there any way for one to know if their info has been exposed? I had been registered to vote in Chicago ~6+ years ago but have since moved. Knowing Chicago, I'd bet I was still on the rolls (and probably having ballots cast for me ;
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by incongruity 9y ago
Minimally in comparison to taxis - and some regulations are obeyed. A good example is the airport agreements in Chicago.
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by incongruity 9y ago
And cities are free to regulate the ride sharing operators or reduce taxi medallion and tax costs to let them come back. The government fees/licensing restrictions are the only significant barrier to entry in the industry. Fix those an
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by incongruity 9y ago
You're right. There are no markets in which a few dominant players capture significant profits because there are only a few dominant players who exploit barriers to entry or network effects to stay on top... Except pharma, telecom, ene
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by incongruity 9y ago
Can all things be solely and uniquely communicated by an icon? I'd expect not - it's not so different from the collisions you get with TLAs (Three letter acronyms) On the other hand, is an icon set successful if you can see the la
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by incongruity 9y ago
I'd argue being able to know what you need is actually the critical part of the marriage – standing up for it is only one route – but it's the self awareness (or lack thereof) that seems to drive so many relationships (marriage

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