longtimegoogler

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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
That still isn't a reason to ban the app until there is evidence that such a thing has been done. In other words, punishing the crime before it is committed seems unjust.
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
I support criticizing and sanctioning China over the Uighur situation and HK. What I don't support is when people use China as a tool to discredit movements like BLM because supporters aren't more broadly speaking out on injustice
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
There has been a concerted campaign to paint China as the world's bogeyman mostly by the alt-right. Topics such as BLM often involve whataboutism with many complaining about the lack of support for Hong Kong by supporters of BLM, see S
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
More and more I am coming to terms with just how f*#$d up humans actually are. I don't know if the internet highlights the bad but between this and the article about the Khmer Rouge the other day, it's hard to have a lot of faith
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
The irony is that many will say the same about the US invasion of Iraq and removal of Saddam Hussain. Often there are no easy answers. Did Dodd know the full extent of the Khmer Rouge's crimes?
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
I agree that a public statement would be good because that shows more commitment to the policy as opposed to maybe a temporary state of affairs. My belief is that first part cookie data is currently not used for ad targeting which is why th
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
Looks like the answer is here and in agreement with what I said above. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2799357?hl=en In short, demographics are from the third party doubleclick cookie and are only avai
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
That's good question. I could be totally wrong. I'll look into this and reply back.
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
"Google Analytics is free to use (for up to 10 million hits per month), but it’s only because the company recoups the cost of running the service by using the aggregated data to track users for the purpose of showing personalised ads.&
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
This is an advertiser tool. It is used by app developers to track their advertising campaigns that lead to app installs. I wouldn't be surprised if they still break down information by age, sex, and location as long as there are enough
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
I found it a bit ironic that Apple didn't require users to grant permission to its own measurement tool, "because it is engineered to not track users". I don't know the details but I am guess it is still accesses the sa
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
I don't get vim. I use emacs primarily and I know to get around in vim but I've tried several times to see what the fuss is all about. Modal editing just doesn't work for me. It seems like a must to remap the escape key at th
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
I agree, but I don't think the answer is pull the police out of predominantly black neighborhoods, which seems to be the motivation for shutting this program down. Better training, more black officers, more rules around the use of forc
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
Seems flimsy to me. I can't see how this would produce the type of funding for social programs and schools.
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
I am not sure the point of this rant. Anecdotally, it seems that countries where mask wearing is common are doing much better with respect to this virus. Particularly, in Asian countries where mask wearing is already a somewhat common occur
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
I don't know. The Ainu look very different, which has led to much speculation as to their origins. This suggests to me that the Ainu while maybe sharing some ancestry with the dominant Yamato people have a very different history, with
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
Yup. Salaries are based on the local market.
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
IMO, if one is interested in a computational approach to Linear Algebra, Trefethens book, Numerical Linear Algebra, is the best. That book discusses the actual algorithms used for computation. It is a bit more advanced, but amazingly clear.
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
His data from the Diamond Princess is completely outdated. He cited 7 deaths. We are now up to 13 with 7 more on critical condition. He has been completely wrong in each of his predictions. I would respect him more if he just argued from am
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
This comment is entirely wrong. The mortality rates are right in line with what was expected with an IFR of > .5% unlike the Stanford study which was claiming something much lower.
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
That isn't huge. The biggest issue with the Stanford study was that they didn't take into account the Confidence Intervals of the Specificity.
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
The biggest flaw is that they didn't use the confidence intervals associated with the specificity in their calculations properly. Given the CI's of the specificity all 50 positives could have been false positives so we can't
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
The point is that given the accuracy of the tests in the Stanford study all 50 positives could have been false positives. In other words, they don't have the testing power to discern if it is even 5x. Until about 5% of the population i
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
The Stanford study didn't properly include the specificity in their predictions. See here, https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...
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by longtimegoogler 6y ago
The Stanford study in Santa Clara that used Premier Biotech appears to be very misleading. Given the confidence intervals on the specificity all 50 positive cases out of the 3330 tested could just be false positives. See Gelman's artic
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by longtimegoogler 7y ago
Agree for the most part, especially with the claims with respect to SARS having a higher IFR However, given the high R0 and still somewhat high IFR for older populations and even a relatively high IFR compared with the flu IFR for younger p
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by longtimegoogler 7y ago
I am not convinced that this data is conclusive yet. In two closed environments where everyone was tested, the Diamond Princess and the Washington Choir, the CFR is currently 1.55% and 4.44% respectively, with still cases in critical condit
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by longtimegoogler 7y ago
Yup. This is ultimately the problem with Bitcoin it requires the consumption of energy to produce currency. The only intrinsic value is the amount of energy wasted to mine the bitcoins.
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by longtimegoogler 7y ago
Yeah, if you look deaths as a fraction of population Germany seems to be on roughly equal footing with the U.S. It's hard to say what's working.
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by longtimegoogler 7y ago
My thesis is that smart phones ruined the internet with the rise of Apps and a different, less text-based interaction with the internet. In general, I think we would all be better off if phones just supported calling and texting.

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