killjoywashere

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by killjoywashere 2y ago
I think this discussion is missing a significant issue: why would a democratic government, of the people, by the people, and for the people, use tear gas? Why do British Bobbies carry batons? The simplest answer, which is the basis of all p
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) (a follow-on to the 1925 "Geneva Convention") allows for the use of riot control agents (like tear gas) for law enforcement purposes. https://www.opcw.org/our-work/what-chemic
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Why does the Apple's store/online-store interface suck so much?
2 points by killjoywashere 2y ago|4 comments
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Seems like a great job for a biochemist who wants to get into White Labs style brewing.
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
I have worked with Google teams as well, and they taught me a fair bit about how to be rigorously skeptical. It takes domain knowledge, statistical knowledge, data, time and the computational resources to challenge them. I've done it
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Is it possible to just pump a slurry of corn and various pulp products into dead oil wells?
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Interesting. Do you see any versions of the future where use of AI could actually make the physician take more time?
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Not if they're trained to work through the problem each time they encounter it and stay up with their clinical training. The day the new classification drops many have already heard about it. You also assume that all the models in use
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
I'm familiar with the linked study, which presents legitimately challenging analytic problems. There's a difference between challenging analytic problems and new analytic problems. A new platform poses new analytic problems. A new
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Pathologists as a specialty has been grousing about this for several years, at least since 2021 when the College of American Pathologists established the AI Committee. As a trivial example: any trained model deployed will necessarily be beh
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Am op, sorry haven't had my coffee yet. Yeah, agree with noem. These curves would be smooth for a 3000-subject phase 3 trial. For 16 people? The error bars are even weirdly tight. One general truism: all the normals are the same, but a
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Skimmed this. Is it just me or does the data look a little too perfect?
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Same! My wife ran a business from home during the pandemic and we actually went through the effort to work with Google Maps (they called us) to get it on the map. And of course USPS has no problem. But our address was originally a federal b
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
ZIPs are also specifically used in a variety of medical, epidemiologic, public health contexts and HHS has explicit, fairly fine-grained rules on their use: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topic
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Please, does this make it possible for me to send an email from Outlook to GMail encrypted using US government PKI?
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
I wonder if they're something structurally akin to cypress knees: either structural buttresses or pneumatophores?
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Every data structure comes with costs. You give some to get others. Nothing in here should be surprising.
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
The Yalu River separates China and North Korea. General MacArthur sent US troops across the Yalu, which is what caused the Chinese to enter the Korean War, and led to most of the US casualties. Truman fired MacArthur for disobeying his orde
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
If we crossed the Yalu River today, do you think we'd be alive tomorrow to talk about it? Nuclear deterrence, as part of the taboo, prevents any nation from violating the sovereignty of a nuclear power. The only exception I know of i
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
> engineers mused over whether there was anything to be done top stop a torrent of enemy missiles falling across the nation. These superweapons seemed to promise destruction on an overbearing scale, threatening the very existence of huma
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
ah, rich people sports...
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
As a daily driver laptop, a MacBook Pro just sucks less than everything else.
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
The cancer reporting protocols from the College of American Pathologists are available in structured format (1). No major laboratory information system vendor properly implements them, properly, and their implementation errors cause some no
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
I just want it to do my laundry.
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
How much of my money am I supposed to fork over to streaming companies? Tidal, Qobuz, SoundCloud, YouTube Music, Deezer, Amazon Music, Apple. And how much work am I supposed to invest in migrating my playlists between them? I don't wan
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Library Thing Is Down?(librarything.com)
1 points by killjoywashere 2y ago|1 comments
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
https://isdownstatus.com/status/librarything.com
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
surely someone thought of this before though. There must be a "why not" answer already.
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
ah, liquid metal, why didn't I think of that!
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by killjoywashere 2y ago
Why not rear-load like military aircraft and avoid that 90º turn? Then you could have a hull-shaped hopper to drop the bags in, so they are tetris'd together in the right geometry before you get to the ramp. Roll the hopper in, have a

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