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by mcguire 2y ago
Higher ultraviolet light exposure from: " The UK Biobank has data from which behavioural and geographic UV exposures can be estimated. Firstly, participants were asked ‘how many times a year would you use a solarium or sunlamp?’ We rec
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by mcguire 2y ago
Are you assuming airline employees aren't scrambling when a flight is delayed? Or that road crews don't get called in the middle of the night? A minor power outage gets a crew called no matter what time it is; a major outage will
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by mcguire 2y ago
Didn't Tesla recently move to Texas? What do they do with the data they collect?
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by mcguire 2y ago
Given that I'd never heard of them (and I've played around with a few DAWs), I don't think they've saturated their market.
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by mcguire 2y ago
70% worldwide. 30-40% in the US. And "Android" is a bunch of companies, not one.
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by mcguire 2y ago
At least the Android app tells you that you cannot buy ebooks in it. :-)
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by mcguire 2y ago
You are aware that you cannot purchase ebooks through the Amazon apps on Android, right? What you say may be true today, but tomorrow is unknown territory as far as these sorts of agreements go.
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by mcguire 2y ago
Free upgrades are problematic themselves: once you've saturated your market (a good place to be, right?) you no longer have income to provide upgrades.
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by mcguire 2y ago
I don't know Google's Android policy for Patreon, but I expect it is or will soon be similar, if the inability to buy ebooks from the Android apps is any precedent. Walled gardens suck.
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by mcguire 2y ago
Does the Supplementary Information (starting on p. 4, for example) help? https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415... In your counterexample, can you quantify "as long as the samples are large e
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by mcguire 2y ago
From my reading of the paper, this is a pretty good description of the problem they identify.
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by mcguire 2y ago
Nature published a computer science paper???! " Given that training a single moderately large model produces twice the American lifetime’s worth of CO2 (ref. 15), we opted to not run such an experiment and instead focus on a more rea
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by mcguire 2y ago
USDA programs generally (always?) operate by giving money to states, which each have their own eligibility and application requirements. This is the (physical) application form for Alabama: https://mydhr.alabama.gov/content&
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by mcguire 2y ago
Notice the " criminal conviction is invalidated by a reviewing court and no retrial will occur " part?
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by mcguire 2y ago
This is your periodic notice that the tech industry is very cyclical.
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by mcguire 2y ago
Annual mean wage for Software Developers, 2023, according to the BLS: Metropolitan areas with the highest employment level in Software Developers Metropolitan area Employment Employment Locat
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by mcguire 2y ago
I note another pretty graph at FRED: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2023/03/was-there-a-tech-hir...
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by mcguire 2y ago
"...counter to their interests ..." Very important words, there.
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by mcguire 2y ago
The volatility of stocks is much higher than that of bonds or some other asset classes. If your time horizon is shorter than, say, five years, or if you are the sort of person who checks your portfolio daily, keeping a portion of your portf
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by mcguire 2y ago
...therefore we should burn through our budget as fast as possible?
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by mcguire 2y ago
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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by mcguire 2y ago
This is the Supreme Court that has repeatedly made subject-matter related arguments (particularly historical arguments) while ignoring the input of subject-matter experts.
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by mcguire 2y ago
This is the Supreme Court that claims, " In the summer of 2023, Justice Samuel Alito told the Wall Street Journal that Congress has no authority to regulate the Supreme Court, despite the ethical regulations Congress already imposes on
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by mcguire 2y ago
Everyone in every industry that I know about relies on true information from their suppliers, from software to produce. They're the ones who know about the products, after all. In fact, pharmaceuticals are the one industry most likely
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by mcguire 2y ago
Is it fraud if the pharmaceutical company falsely claims that the addiction rate is very low? If the company aggressively pushes a dose regimen that is almost designed to produce addiction?
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by mcguire 2y ago
Purdue aggressively marketed OxyContin as having a very small rate of addiction to doctors who weren't pain specialists and thus had little experience with controlled medications, while providing a dosing regime that was almost designe
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by mcguire 2y ago
" Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by mcguire 2y ago
For example, see Chapter 3 of the Dragon Book, Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Aho, Ullman, et al. Or probably any other compilers text book.
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by mcguire 2y ago
There is a meaningful legal difference between lying to VC investors and lying to people taking out loans from you.
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Succor borne every minute: FTC's AI and Your Business(ftc.gov)
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