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by lamontcg 3y ago
You'll note that the people in this thread who claim to have higher levels of expertise reads the Methods section pretty closely. For the scientifically-interested public this is where it can all go wrong since we lack the background t
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by lamontcg 3y ago
In this case there is an observable relationship between wind speed and central surface pressure which has been observed over decades, but it has changed between the 1950s and the current day (although it has been stable across recent decad
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And if they want to stop maintaining it, let them have the option of releasing it into the public domain and sending a digital copy to the library of congress or something.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39288743
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> The whole point is that changing the original data to be able to support/reject hypothesis naturally raises the question of whether there is foul play. People are applying a stronger point here where changing the original data is
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The Republican Party is fine with regulatory capture increasing moats around businesses. They'll scream about it sometimes to try to score political points with voters, but they'll never actually do anything about it, because the
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Universal health care, daycare and public college, along with jettisoning all this RTO bullshit into the sun would do a lot to increase incentives for people to have families in this country (US). Given our start-your-worklife-massively-in
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Powell Tells '60 Minutes' Fed Is Wary of Cutting Rates Too Soon(bloomberg.com)
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by lamontcg 3y ago
People keep hacking up YAML with templating to produce a configuration language which is a bad solution (see for example https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2019/02/07/why-are-we-templatin... ). The problem is
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> With containers, you are decoupling the application from the host operating system! Which means some OS knowledge is often ignored. containers are just a fancy "tar" package with a fancy "chroot". they shouldn&#x27
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Good, but now you should probably be considering when to exit that trade and book your profits.
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Wall Street is going to wake up pretty soon and realize that strong economic numbers means no rate cuts. And eventually the rate cuts are going to bite into loans which are hitting their maturity dates and rolling over.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Prefer Thomas Palley and Monetary Disorder: https://www.imk-boeckler.de/fpdf/HBS-008713/p_fmm_imk_wp_93_...
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The simulation hypothesis is a reflection of a society where most of the atheists were raised in religious households and they still can't quite let go.
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We need more inflation than 2% though. The fact that 211% is too high doesn't mean that 2% isn't too low. And the low inflation expectations leads to low interest rates which reduces the cost of money which is creating our finan
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Which should be no surprise to anyone following the studies on open offices for the past 10-15 years.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> if they have no actual hand in it. But they have an actual hand in it. Discord is subletting rooms out to moderators and doesn't really have any hand in the content on any particular discord. Meta, however, is pushing their algo
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by lamontcg 3y ago
"buy the rumors, sell the news" combined with "priced for perfection"
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by lamontcg 3y ago
heh, ZIRP isn't over. when they manage to crash the economy, ZIRP is going to come right back.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I use this minimal one (based on someone's comment a year or three ago that i tweaked): ! hacker news dark mode news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: black) news.ycombinator.com##td:style(color: #dadada !important)
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by lamontcg 3y ago
You can do better with a Corsi–Rosenthal Box: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E2%80%93Rosenthal_Box
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> More and better batteries? Yes, batteries. From yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39144978
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by lamontcg 3y ago
probably hit an inflection point in the 1990s when the internet backbone went private and libertarianism started to become so popular in tech circles.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
https://archive.is/NYi7U https://archive.ph/NYi7U https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea... https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-c
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Am I the only one in the world that watched GoT purely for the sex, violence and escapism and just thought it was popcorn and didn't care if the finale sucked?
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I'm 52 years old and have driven since I got my license when I was 16. I've never once driven in any emergency situation where I felt I needed to floor it. In any kind of accident situation it is almost always better to brake earl
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Literally called out in the article that they'd be exempt.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I'm deeply uninterested in continuing to have this discussion with you.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
But "just create a new plane instead of the MAX" doesn't address the other deficiencies that you point out. Spirit would be just as shitty at putting together 737-900s as 737-MAX9's (and in fact they're finding QC
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Worthless article. Annoying binary black and white thinking. United can shift the Boeing/Airbus tilt in their fleet towards Airbus going forward. The fact that United already has some Airbus isn't the "gotcha" you t

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