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541.
by isolli 7y ago
You seem knowledgeable: what is a target marker, and how was it used?
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The Standard Errors of Persistence(researchgate.net)
1 points by isolli 7y ago|0 comments
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by isolli 7y ago
Thanks, that's good to know! The topic was discussed here a few months ago [0]. It's probably difficult to get the data required for a systematic discussion... [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18605709
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New York State Is Pushing ‘One of the Strictest’ Privacy Bills in the Nation(gizmodo.com)
1 points by isolli 7y ago|0 comments
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by isolli 7y ago
And they were all Americans, which underlines what a rarity moonwalking has been in the history of humanity.
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by isolli 7y ago
I couldn't make sense of what you wrote until the last line. From personal experience, and reading several of the accounts here, I believe that hospitals in the US do not respect sleep, almost willfully so.
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by isolli 7y ago
That's interesting, but you should specify that "private DNA paternity testing is illegal". Testing can still be mandated by a judge.
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by isolli 7y ago
It reminds me of this: https://twitter.com/AukeHoekstra/status/866313289306963969/p... tl;dr The International Energy Agency kept predicting, year after year, in the face of all the evidence, that solar produ
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by isolli 7y ago
Your criticism reminds me of the book "Prodiges et vertiges de l'analogie"; it is only available in French, but Wikipedia has a good summary [0]: > Jacques Bouveresse is interested in the incompleteness theorems of Kurt Gö
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by isolli 7y ago
Curious, what country is that?
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by isolli 7y ago
It took me two years of working with a Scottish colleague to fully understand them.
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by isolli 7y ago
It reminds me of this anecdote [0]: "Outraged by English, Chirac storms out of summit" > After a brief introduction in French, M. Seillière, the [French] president of the EU employers' federation, said he would speak in En
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by isolli 7y ago
English has the advantage of being an easy language to learn (at least up to 80% proficiency): no genders, little conjugation, no declension.
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by isolli 7y ago
I meant: flag it here in HN. That's what I did...
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by isolli 7y ago
Flag it!
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by isolli 7y ago
What does "Isp" stand for?
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by isolli 7y ago
It reminds me of cicadas, an insect with long life cycles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada#Life_cycle > Some cicada species have much longer life cycles, such as the North American genus, Magicicada, which has
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by isolli 7y ago
Deezer tells you (if you look): the song appears grayed out in the playlist. I like that because a playlist is also a knowledge repository; and if the song ever comes back it will hopefully be reinstated.
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by isolli 7y ago
The Sonos app does that for you. Likely their implementation of Spotify is not as slick as the native Spotify app, but you can for instance search for songs and see results from Spotify mixed with results from your local collection.
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by isolli 7y ago
I use this: https://berlin.placeilive.com/map
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Smart speakers: a major battle in music(bbc.com)
1 points by isolli 8y ago|0 comments
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by isolli 8y ago
I believe they selected some of the best-sounding pieces. Playing with their tool (which is a lot of fun) is more hit-and-miss: some interesting results, but also some slightly unpleasant music.
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by isolli 8y ago
We should never read too much into such numbers, but, technically, expectations of a $25bn fine could explain exactly what you describe.
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by isolli 8y ago
I entirely agree with you, with one caveat: I have met one, maybe two persons in my life who were able to work and be intellectually productive 12 hours a day on a prolonged basis, but they are the absolute exception. Building an entire com
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by isolli 8y ago
What kind of fees do you pay to exchange coins from your balance into dollars?
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by isolli 8y ago
It reminds me of this research [0] showing that sons of wealthy slave owners (who presumably lost a large chunk of their "wealth" after the civil war) had caught up or surpassed sons from similarly wealthy households by 1880. Conc
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by isolli 8y ago
It reminds me of a vegetarian restaurant owner in India, who told me he followed the advice of his guru: from the egg comes a chicken (so no), from the milk comes no calf (so yes).
568.
by isolli 8y ago
Related question: how does regulatory approval of planes work, worldwide? I read a few times that the FAA had approved the new plane too quickly, but don't other regulators have their word?
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by isolli 8y ago
Firefox tells me "Image not found", but Chrome displays it happily...
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by isolli 8y ago
Not quite: have a look at these charts [0]. I believe that such a massive disparity in arrest rates between blacks and whites cannot be explained just by economic factors. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk&#x

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