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by irjustin 2y ago
> These studies are correlations that ignore complex interactions. Yes they have to. There's no way to do it otherwise and get any meaningful data. You have to get `n` to be very large.
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How would you do this? You can't A/B test an individual's death.
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Actually, doesn't it have to be linear? I'm having trouble looking up the exact study, the link they provide doesn't actually link the study. But if I were to structure an observational smoking study, I basically track smoker
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> It's how we sent rockets to the moon, it seemed to work ok. There are so many problems rooted in this statement. Government program, presidential mandate (i.e. unlimited budget), no competition. SpaceX is clearly better than NASA
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I realized why this post rubs me the wrong way. It complains, but doesn't offer a solution. It simply criticizes and says "all engineers cannot and thusly should not be measured". The ironic thing is, the blog post is implici
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Yea this is pretty annoying how hard it is to discover the sample size and methodology. Is this even published/peer reviewed or did it just go to TV? I'm extremely skeptical of accepting results/conclusions at face is this wh
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> And i'm coming to the same conclusion, answering random people is naive. In Singapore, they've enacted SMS identifiers and you've got to register your company to send SMSes via shorthand. Looks like we'll want to do
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Yeah SQL Alchemy is 1000x better. Django's ORM is miserable. User.objects.filter(company__product__product_variation__var_type__in=['var1', 'var2']) vs User.where(company: { product: { product_variation: { var_type:
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> the US government actually has powerful levers at its hand to force his cooperation if necessary The scenarios you put forth here are effectively not happening. This is not a communist+dictator state (where this is much easier) nor doe
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Hnews is the only thing I read lately. I had to remove reddit, CNN, nytimes, fnews, fb. And honestly I'm a lot happier. I'm sad because I no longer an doing my civic duty to stay informed and have an educated opinion but part of g
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> But if your definition of “great art” is that it is commercially succesfull then of course what you will find that the “great artist” are all like good businesman. While the author doesn't explicitly define what is "great&quo
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Wow yeah. The pixelation makes it hard but chopstick pens, pages moving, cars crossing over eachother. Demo's gonna demo.
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We LOVE Lambda and SQS.
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While you're technically correct, the parent is more correct. Competitors have to pay normal launch rates. The competitive service needs to include those costs to end users. Starlink "pays" for launches at cost. While we don&
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Related point - we interface with Singapore gov services (MYINFO). They don't recognize LE nor AWS's certs. Only the big paid ones. Such an annoying process too - to pay, to obtain and update the certs.
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For this context, prodigy only applies to children. I'd never call an adult a prodigy except for they were a "former child prodigy". Somewhere along the line you convert from child prodigy to genius assuming you maintained yo
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Something that's not really answered in this post but maybe in another one is - why are they writing? I used to have the exact same ambitions, blocks and difficulties writing (you can see on my blog). Turns out, I just don't like
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> Pay vendors to do it Generally I agree with this for 90% of startups. If it's a solved problem, you should not be doing it. Don't reinvent wheels just pick wheels off the street and use them. Then an axel then a frame, etc et
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> you pretty well just can't, without risk of deleting everything This is one hyper annoying area. It is possible to get around it, but it's ugly, drop to L1 and override logical id: let vpc = new ec2.Vpc(this, 'vpc&#
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100% agreed. This is very much human nature and impossible to avoid. I do this; you do this. We meet someone and very rapidly bucket them into whatever categories we've built over the years. When you're younger, it takes longer be
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> This is so absolutely ludicrously absurdly wrong that it's comical. Quite the hyperbole, but I do agree that python isn't so wrong of a choice, but the problem is diagrams eventually interact with non-technical people and tha
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At the risk of being an idiot, is the problem firefighting? Is the problem that we're continuing a losing battle? That, even when we had proper forest management, the costs were still shifting towards firefighting? Warming making every
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It happens when the guys above can't accurately judge the problem below. So Many times it's due to having never dealt with the problem themselves, but not always.
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Wonder how much DJIA had to give to get them to list.
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You said it yourself it's for a specific group of people. Society will still think it's rude if someone they know who doesn't have a hearing problem under 40 doesn't take their ears out when trying to have a material con
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> because they will use them as hearing aids. But we're saying most people don't require hearing aids and thus will never reach mass market and thus the stigma won't disappear.
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we're saying the same thing - if you have a disability it's totally fine. You know who in your life has the hearing impairment, but the vast majority do not have this disability thusly "taking your ears out" is respectab
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> Transparency mode in many of today’s earbuds sounds totally natural and lifelike, yet I still constantly remove my buds to show someone they’ve got my undivided attention. That way of thinking has to change when popular earbuds start p
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Man I REALLY hope we solve Dark Energy/Matter in my lifetime. That'd be so cool. I put it up there with long term habitation on another world (moon or mars is fine to me!).
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> Exposure is good, but success in school requires you to be successful in these subjects as well. Being specific, it's not school, it's what school grants you i.e. a paying job. The higher paying, thusly more coveted jobs, gen

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