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by john-h-k 9mo ago
Presumably they don’t secretly listen in to the user because it would be very inefficient, easily detectable (that’s huuuge network traffic and battery drain), and awful PR. I thought the whole “your devices are listening to you in order to
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
"or to influence elections or referenda" has quite a wide scope and was what concerned me. Publishing a political in a negative light absolutely could influence an election! But yes I should have included that part, not good by me
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
Sorry, the example I had in mind was a politician and I don't know why I forgot to add that to the comment, else I'd edit it in. The point is that "to influence elections or referenda" is incredibly vague! Almost any rep
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
> knowingly uses or infringes upon the use of and publishes ... an individual’s name, photograph ... without the individual’s prior consent ... and being reckless as to whether or not harm is caused to, the other person. > [harm occur
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
When is having an outsized influence allowed? Someone who pickets for a candidate will have an outsized influence; so will celebrities with many followers, etc.
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
Then yeah, this supercedes my point, seems I am wrong
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
A 1 month average age difference is not medically significant. They had more bloodstream infections yep. Surgical infections was NOT statistically significant. And again, mortality went down!! The “dumping cases” thing is incredibly suspici
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
This does seem like a direct contradiction to me, but it’s also 2 decades old
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
If we were really optimising for this, we’d ban colleges using anything other than geographic area. Keeping all the high performers at high performing unis will hurt the lower performers
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
Disincentives group learning, collaboration, teaching each other. Many good cases to have a strict zero sum competition but you won’t see collaboration in these (eg olympiads, competitions). That’s fine for a short term event but for long t
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
> They come from laboratories at the end of a long chain of custody complicated by legal machinations, dealing with contraband having no provenance beyond its date of seizure. That it takes only "months" to wend its way though
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
Your citation's statistics [1] actually says the exact opposite of your claim! It shows a -0.2pp DECREASE in in-hospital mortality, with no significant change on 7 or 30 day mortality. The authors suggest this could be due to: * select
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
CBS say this then don't publish the data! The data [ https://www.transonic.com/renal-disease-in-us ] says that kidney transplants for dialysis patients happen LESS frequently in the USA than in Europe, yet the survival r
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
This seems terrible incentives. You are now in a purely adversarial relationship with your peers and hurting them helps you
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
Generally managers still learn their teams names… and I’ve never heard of ICs being numbered
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
> The only reason a site like this exists is for politicians to distract from the fact that the budget of a nation with currency sovereignty does not actually have to raise revenues with taxes in order to spend money on services (and thu
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
Banks? Banks don’t buy up houses, banks are what helps individuals buy houses. Again this just sounds like someone who recently watched the big short
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
But … none of this is commercial real estate? It’s all single family homes
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
The noble blade runners who are valiantly fighting for… more air pollution
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
If mega institutions are financial extractors who will take all money available, and the units can be rented to make more money, why aren’t they doing it? Why would the institution turn away free money but individuals owning the houses woul
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
> There are plenty of whales, once those 5% disappeared, price should slowly come down But by how much? ~3-4% of housing has to be sold, some amount of it will still be bought for renting (as many people still want to rent). Surely this
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
> there even should be a cap on how many homes an individual can own for rentals Many people wish to rent, not buy. If we make it so each landlord can own fewer homes, but renting demand stays similar we just incentivise more people beco
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by john-h-k 9mo ago
I think specifically spoken like someone who saw The Big Short very recently
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by john-h-k 10mo ago
Frankly I doubt waymo maliciously and secretly implemented an algorithm to obey most traffic rules yet ignore school buses
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by john-h-k 11mo ago
Magister means teacher and the things I mentioned. See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/magister#Latin
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by john-h-k 11mo ago
Masters degree is from “magister”, meaning director/chief/boss/leader
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by john-h-k 11mo ago
For a restaurant booking, I like this. For blob uploads, I’d significantly prefer a fixed format! If I want to automate anything off the back of it it just becomes that few % easier
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by john-h-k 11mo ago
There’s an easy solution. Don’t fly Ryanair! I’m perfectly happy to take this sacrifice in exchange for cheaper tickets
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by john-h-k 11mo ago
MD11 has a physical slat lock that won’t fail under hydraulic pressure yeah
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by john-h-k 11mo ago
Yes

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