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by keanzu 7y ago
Experts are people who, by agreeing with the writers premise, have demonstrated their knowledge and expertise. You are definitely not an expert; at least not inasmuch as the term is used in this article by this writer.
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by keanzu 7y ago
> Why did US invade Iraq? Why did Iraq invade Kuwait? Start a fight with a US ally and then complain when the US intervenes.
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by keanzu 7y ago
"The word 'agile' has been subverted to the point where it is effectively meaningless, and what passes for an agile community seems to be largely an arena for consultants and vendors to hawk services and products." - Dav
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by keanzu 7y ago
Regression to the mean tells you that if you reward success and yell at under performers the successful people will get worse and the under performers will get better. Lesson learned: All yelling, all the time.
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by keanzu 7y ago
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by keanzu 7y ago
"Of course, none of us are greedy, it’s only the other fellow who’s greedy." - Milton Friedman
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by keanzu 7y ago
Ah malvosenior. You were the author of the funniest comment on that thread! "This is a statement by Prince Charles of all people, might as well have Taylor Swift chime in while we're at it" but the comeback from hirundo &quot
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by keanzu 7y ago
~7000 words TL;DR Get a paternity test. Not tech related.
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by keanzu 7y ago
Didn't we already do this 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17990859
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If Apple provided a superior or even comparable service, Rossman would be out of business tomorrow. No-one wants to seek third party repair, they are driven to it.
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by keanzu 7y ago
From your link: The most recent figures of how many creatures are killed by cats are from the Mammal Society. They estimate that cats in the UK catch up to 275 million prey items a year, of which 27 million are birds. Joakal claimed billion
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by keanzu 7y ago
Excellent analysis here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20492145 The Chinese and HK governments have realized they've lost the culture wars and public opinion so they've resorted to the tried and teste
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by keanzu 7y ago
It does appear Warren's novel contribution was the combined FDR/CVR.
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Professor James J. "Crash" Ryan's '"Flight Recorder" patent was filed in August 1953 a device he invented in response to a 1948 request from the Civil Aeronautics Board aimed at establishing operating procedure
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David Warren's contribution was in 1953. The first modern flight data recorder, called "Mata Hari", was created in 1942 by Finnish aviation engineer Veijo Hietala. During World War II both British and American air forces succ
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Bayesian Ranking System(towardsdatascience.com)
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Naive Bayes and Disease Detection(towardsdatascience.com)
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by keanzu 7y ago
Title IX - No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assist
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Bayesian Inference in 1760(medium.com)
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A number of things about this story don't add up. Annual worldwide production of Californium is only about 0.5gm and it has a half life of about 2.5 years. It also costs $27M per gram. So where did smugglers obtain 18 grams of the stuf
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by keanzu 7y ago
I can only see this ending one way. Sooner or later China will apply its laws to Hong Kong.
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Except maybe birds. In a study recently published in the journal Nature Communications, Plummer found that people are seeing a more diverse array of bird species in backyards now than they did in the 1970s. And this change has coincided wi
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Using Bayes to check the numbers on Met’s police facial recognition technology(medium.com)
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by keanzu 7y ago
In the West over-regulation destroyed nuclear as a viable option a long time ago. However even where there is no over-regulation there are still economic problems - China hasn't broken ground on a new reactor since 2016. Nuclear is too
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by keanzu 7y ago
A nuclear meltdown in China would call into question the government’s competence. “If an event like Fukushima punctures that image of competence, that’s very, very consequential,” says William Overholt, a China expert at Harvard University’
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Incarceration rates per 100K population: U.S. 693; Germany 76; Netherlands 69 Germany and the Netherlands both have lower violent crime rates. An extra 600 per 100K Americans deserve to be imprisoned and are a real threat to society or ther
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by keanzu 7y ago
A worst of both worlds result - very dirty coal generation currently in service throughout most of Australia - and the highest residential prices in the world.
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The link wasn't paywalled when I first visited it but when I try to go back now it is, must have hit a free limit I guess. Incentive schemes are literally other people's money. The savings are reminiscent of a store putting the pr
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"maybe nuclear is too expensive" I think this is the key flaw that is nuclear power's undoing. Even the Chinese government, who are apparently pro-nuclear, have not broken ground on a new plant in China since late 2016. They
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Australian residential customers are paying the highest electricity prices in the world [1] Any solution works if you have unlimited amounts of other people's money to throw at the problem [1] https://www.afr.com/news&#

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