mikemotherwell

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by mikemotherwell 6y ago
What are the frameworks used in scientific endeavours? Given that scaling is not an issue, something like Rails for science seems like it could potentially return many $(B/M)illions of dollars for humanity.
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by mikemotherwell 6y ago
I wonder under what circumstances this ban is acceptable. I'm no expert on international law, but even if the charges are Trumped up (pun intended), espionage / security concerns are very likely on the list.
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by mikemotherwell 6y ago
And being home you heat the place by existing, running things, and opening windows to the heat. If you leave a house locked, it heats up pretty slowly, and if you get back towards dark, it will cool off faster from a lower temperature. It&#
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by mikemotherwell 6y ago
That implies Google will change what Australians see vs other countries. No more. No less. Some possibile outcomes: Imagine a page with only foreign results. Plenty of news entities cover Australian news, and a result like this: https:&#x2
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by mikemotherwell 6y ago
Other way around. It was invented to stop crawling. Indexing is still technically allowed even when blocked by robots.txt from crawling.
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by mikemotherwell 6y ago
>In older systems If only it were older systems! I get data from a variety of undocumented sources, and I started logging what I actually receive next to the normalised data, e.g. I either put raw JSON into the database next to the actua
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by mikemotherwell 6y ago
What I think society needs is an rspec of government spending (I'm using rspec as it is clear, or should be, what that implies). Test driven government, in essence. Society is varied across county, city, state and country lines, and we
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by mikemotherwell 6y ago
Depends how big you plan on getting. Be infinitely easier to hire someone who knows how to use GA to make decisions, and historical data will be useful at that point.
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by mikemotherwell 6y ago
For antibodies or the disease?
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by mikemotherwell 6y ago
No it's exactly the sort of thought process people have. Another scenario is someone does what you suggest after finding a real vulnerability, to waste the teams time while they exploit the real vulnerability.
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by mikemotherwell 6y ago
Thankfully, that's both not how democracy works - we don't ask a biased sample - and exactly how it works - we ask everyone what they think of the government's performance and they vote for or against. When we all look back i
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by mikemotherwell 6y ago
>An ad model that favors something like the NY Times can't be the better model. It absolutely can, let me count the ways: 1. You are never, ever on a bad site - no matter how good Google et al are, bad things happen. If avoiding tha
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by mikemotherwell 6y ago
Does anyone have any inkling of what he was offered? Gimlet got hundreds of millions for a barely breakeven business - what is the Howard Stern of Podcasting worth on an exclusive deal?
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by mikemotherwell 6y ago
For a site like the NY Times, pricing the ad space based on a user's historical data is a mug's game. NY Times has a reputation and value beyond the value of a user's browser history. Why would they want to compete with small
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by mikemotherwell 6y ago
> Do you have any source for that? Found where I got it from: https://www.seattleweekly.com/news/seattle-is-getting-an-obj... I'm not American so no idea if this is accurate or not.
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by mikemotherwell 6y ago
Is that article accurate? My understanding was that Seattle commissioned a multi-year study, and then when the results didn't go their way, quickly rushed a study out the door that said what they wanted. I got this from Marginal Revolu
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
So you think this policy was in place starting with Trump? Or was it with a Bush, but Obama chose NOT to repeal it? Or has it all started with Republican governors very recently? This partisanship seems crazy to me, especially given that th
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
Masks may be 100% irrelevant for healthy people, but we have asymptomatic people. There is no way to ascertain who is healthy, ergo "healthy people don't need masks" is practically redundant. What am I missing? Oh, and you wa
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
Let's assume healthy people do not need a mask. In fact, let's take it as Gospel, and the statement "Healthy people have no use for a mask" as absolutely true. Given we know there are people with COVID-19 who are asympto
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
That's not the point being made. Panic was not what was done or suggested, it was the dismissive tone that such concerns were met with by Critics. GP's point was that the claims it was panic were wrong and harmful, not the quote u
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
I'm not American, so same situation, but welfare as a cost to government I am pretty sure includes all spending, not just that which goes to the final recipient. https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc&#x2
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
> But if UBI replaced all normal welfare (excluding disability etc) is that such a bad thing? Part of the problem is that some welfare is not about the money, but the support. UBI is less likely to help someone with mental issues than so
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
Why? That's weather and short term. https://aqicn.org/map/sydney is the pollution in Sydney. Here is Jakarta https://aqicn.org/map/jakarta Look at the historical data: all red and yellow for
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
Here is a link that seems rather official: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-03-02-0258 That is truly inspiring, I really like it.
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
The argument for Solar always sounds a lot like terra nullius, that was used to dispossess indigenous Australians of their land, and later their land rights. Australia is a MASSIVE country, that is largely uninhabitable by humans. It is est
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
It can't be true that keeping a nuclear power plant running is more costly than replacing it with a massive capital expenditure. Can it? The only possible way is if the alternative is massively funded by debt, and the "cost"
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
Could not agree more. There are lots of things, easily copied, that make the Uber app great, not just the ride. The question longer terms becomes who continues to get rides, and why? IMHO, ubiquity, especially when traveling, will ultimatel
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
There are way more positives than that: # No money changes hands, so safer for drivers. # No payment is made in the vehicle, so faster exit times. # Uber records all trips, so easier to work out costs to expense. # Uber uses any credit card
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
> not Saudi royal money That's the missing piece of all this. The Saudis may legitimately be in the market for turning $15B into $10B, and being happy. Oil is under a LOT of pressure, and while it won't go away anytime soon, th
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by mikemotherwell 7y ago
Anger at these things obscures the ability to find a solution. When you say "the black and white wealth gap continues completely unchanged for over 50 years', I get that is hyperbole, but surely it has changed in some ways, if not

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