michaelterryio

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by michaelterryio 6y ago
We’ve been searching for a rigorous way to determine scientific consensus on claims but I don’t think we realized the answer was YouTube’s management.
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by michaelterryio 6y ago
I used to use the elixir trending page to learn about new popular elixir libraries. It had twice as many repos as it has now. Now it’s garbage. I complained to GitHub when it happened. It’s purely worse.
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by michaelterryio 6y ago
There is a ton of correlational evidence of low vitamin D and C19. And it would be easy to ignore that as having cause and effect weaknesses. But we also have dozens of RCTs showing that vitamin D supplementation suppresses respiratory infe
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by michaelterryio 6y ago
This reminds me of when sports fans say things like, those odds are meaningless, they’re just set by bookies to get action. True from a naively pedantic POV, but also ignores that betting odds happen to end up efficient also. Like saying sh
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by michaelterryio 7y ago
A few years ago some Kenyans chased down a couple cheetahs: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-24953910
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by michaelterryio 7y ago
The problem seems apparent to me. Google has a monopoly on websites being able to promote themselves. There are plenty of other channels, but none with remotely the reach or trust of the US's overwhelmingly dominant search engine. By d
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by michaelterryio 7y ago
A bad experience with an entity is a legitimate reason to form a bias against them; indeed, that's the point. The nature of the threat that Google poses is likely to leak into many activities inviting criticism.
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by michaelterryio 7y ago
Then why was the original study published? And why did it get so much press?
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by michaelterryio 7y ago
Just because you use this tactic doesn't mean it will work. Just like anything, you have to have the talent and skill to pull it off. But if you trust your abilities and judgment, it's very effective.
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by michaelterryio 7y ago
Yes! And eye witness testimony is often terrible. It's disappointing that circumstantial evidence gets such a bad rap. Very unlikely things happen all the time. But beyond a certain level of unlikeliness, combined with a strong motive,
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by michaelterryio 7y ago
Erlang excels at being used in mixed-language shops. Erlang is an incredible control plane language.
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by michaelterryio 8y ago
So the only message passing between your rust actors is via SQS or such? Cos in this paper they suggest actor coordination is a problem for AWS and that using queues for message passing is slow. https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu&#x2
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by michaelterryio 9y ago
There's more to what makes a great language than regular grammar and spelling but, that aside, English is already gradually being adopted as the world language. The OP is complaining about parochialism slowing the spread. Whether you a
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by michaelterryio 9y ago
Meanwhile, duolingo still doesn't support Taglog, much to my annoyance–since my wife is half-Filipino but doesn't know it–and we thought it'd be a fun challenge to learn it together.