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by keanzu 7y ago
Exactly. A person's anecdata is worthless. "Lived experience" is anecdotal. A female researcher doesn't add anything to a study on ovarian cancer or detract anything from a study of testicular cancer because of her gende
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This topic got some momentum on here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22137232
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The myth of the corporation as a creation of the state International Review of Law and Economics https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/014481...
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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. 1963
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> "get the best people for the job" Absolutely I want the best person for the job. How do you measure that? What's the metric? Years of experience, years of relevant experience, whether or not it says "Google" so
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> Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but that opinion carries less weight if they haven't lived the experience. You don’t want a doctor to treat you for cancer unless he himself has had cancer? - Milton Friedman
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Nvidia RTX 2060 Founders Edition is US$299 Doesn't seem too crazy high. How much are you looking to pay and what do you have now?
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Where does enhancement stop and tampering with evidence (18 U.S.C. § 1519) start? With sufficiently powerful machine learning the video can be deepfaked to have Elvis robbing you. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text
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The videos are great, consumes a lot less water than I imagined. Seems like most of the water is lost during the de-suction process, if they can scavenge that it could really cut the water consumption down nearly to zero.
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Because search quality drives ads. There were search engines around but when Google came out with superior search results everyone switched and those search engines quickly vanished. There are search engines in direct competition with Googl
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Incorrect use of the word admit admit (v): confess to be true or to be the case. Correct use in a sentence: "VW admits guilt and pays $4.3bn diesel emissions scandal penalty" The word admit doesn't apply to predictions of the
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Such ridicule might be the only thing that hits hard enough to cause a person to pause and think about the cost/benefit of a course before they fall victim to predatory certificate mills or colleges. Please post it everywhere. This p
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. New organizations commonly write stores about completely alien subjects while simultaneously needing to appear as authoritative sources. The Verge is a perfect e
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Cyberpunk 2077 release pushed back to September 17, 2020(cyberpunk.net)
2 points by keanzu 7y ago|1 comments
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Both excellent questions. Oddly the tire kicker never says "If you build X then I'll buy it .. unless my needs change or someone else releases a superior product". Requesting a purchase order casts the situation in the cold l
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Contingent Purchase Order : You put in a purchase order and we'll build feature x. Separate the wheat from the chaff.
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> Some might say, however, that X get so enmeshed in Y that they leave no space for true creativity. No true Scotsman would get enmeshed in Y.
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Here's a guy who saw a problem. Decided to go out and do something about the problem. Raised money from sponsorships and donations. Did something about the problem. Hard to see what's not to like.
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> Have we got a clever word for rejecting one cause in favor of another? Either/or thinking, false dilemma, false dichotomy, false binary Any of those resonate?
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Well that's some confusing reporting. The title is "Dumped fishing gear is biggest plastic polluter in ocean, finds report" yet does go on to say 10%. Greenpeace: "Ghost gear makes up an estimated 10% of the plastic wast
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Over three-quarters of the GPGP mass was carried by debris larger than 5 cm and at least 46% was comprised of fishing nets. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22939-w
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> collect a few thousand pounds In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons (36 metric tons) of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. https:&#
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This police report only notes 24 arrests for alleged arson, not which fires were set, how big they got or whether this was unusual. It could well be that this is a typical (or small or large) arrest haul and that the fires involved were e
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Australia declines firefighting help from Denmark(cphpost.dk)
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> Why did you and everyone else reciting these stats leave the qualifying comment out? I left out more than half of the article but provided a link to the entire source from the moment I posted it, never edited. As for the comment I beli
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>>> It expressly does consider, but did not get a response from the NSW police. >> Please provide the exact quote. > "NSW police statistics show 24 individuals have been arrested for deliberately lighting bushfires du
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> It expressly does consider, but did not get a response from the NSW police. I read the article twice, I didn't see that. Please provide the exact quote. > to report numbers before there is evidence to support it is misinformati
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Misinformation? A verbatim partial copy of the police force's official statement with a link to the original source? I'm reasonably confident that a Guardian article titled "Police contradict claims spread online exaggerating
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To put it into perspective: "Only about 1 per cent of the land burnt in NSW this bushfire season can be officially attributed to arson" "Investigations into the cause, origin and overall impact of fires are continuing" -
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24 people have been charged over alleged deliberately-lit bushfires 53 people have had legal actions for allegedly failing to comply with a total fire ban, and 47 people have had legal actions for allegedly discarding a lighted cig

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