mlyle

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811.
by mlyle 2y ago
> It is a critique (in poor taste if you ask me) that everything does not require a double-blind study. I think the real point is that systemic reviews often will have a pretty tilted set of included studies, because they are influenced
812.
by mlyle 2y ago
Your comment is misled. This is a systemic review. A RCT would absolutely find a difference. The whole point of this satire is to point out that there's not always studies on what you want to know. "No randomised controlled t
813.
by mlyle 2y ago
The argument is that you don't need to spend the vehicle mass on legs, so you get performance. On the other hand, I imagine you could wipe out any benefits to $/mass launched pretty quickly by blowing up the tower.
814.
by mlyle 2y ago
> There's much more to it than the programming language. Which was never claimed. That paper is a little bit about Erlang and a whole lot about OTP and other methodology and design technique. It is still, very much "the paper&q
815.
by mlyle 2y ago
MPC doesn't need to take a ton of compute power. It all comes down to how sophisticated the underlying model is. You can have a MPC with 20 variables and run it at multiple kilohertz on a tiny microcontroller. When you build somethin
816.
by mlyle 2y ago
> The prevalence of dedicated dieting or weight loss efforts has increased over time. Perhaps, perhaps not. But you'd expect that if there's many different causes making weight gain more common and only one is changes in soc
817.
by mlyle 2y ago
Sure-- the point is the escrow infrastructure already exists. And it's been used the exact way I describe. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code_escrow#Software_op...
818.
by mlyle 2y ago
> I don't think you're crazy, it's a good area to explore, but it's not practical to implement this in the business landscape we currently exist in. It's relatively straightforward. You put the code or whatever
819.
by mlyle 2y ago
How big were the 'crash diet' and 'smoke cigarettes to stay thin' and 'use amphetamines to stay thin' industries? Indeed, we have the inception of Weight Watchers at the start of the next decade, replacing far
820.
by mlyle 2y ago
I think it's a little bit of a silly thought to think that just because people want to be slimmer now, they want to do so just as much as they would have facing harsher social pressures in the 1950's.
821.
by mlyle 2y ago
Yup. Don't forget that using amphetamines for the same purpose was socially accepted/considered a worthwhile tradeoff.
822.
by mlyle 2y ago
> People in the 50s weren't slimmer because they had ironclad determination to stay such. No. They lived in an overall healthier environment. But they were also subject to much greater social pressure to stay slim and could endure
823.
by mlyle 2y ago
Yes, I am not saying that you can withstand any event. I have seen >3' of water next to a building with infrastructure in the ground level that were fine, though. Seepage barriers and sump pumps and elevating things a little bit ca
824.
by mlyle 2y ago
Getting all the equipment 24 inches off the floor saves you from a pretty big fraction of events. You can often mostly protect against fairly severe events with sump pumps and flood barriers, but some water almost always gets in. If not
825.
by mlyle 2y ago
There's probably better figures. Internet providers themselves probably know what subscribers dropped at what times, so you'd be able to distinguish from evacuations and have a good signal as to whether it happened from power out
826.
by mlyle 2y ago
> But if someone steals your car, the government won't put $30k in your account for a new one. I understand your point and get that you didn't say this to argue with what I've said. I just want to emphasize that the situa
827.
by mlyle 2y ago
People can be harmed by medical procedures when someone does something wrong, but people can also be harmed during medical procedures without anyone doing anything wrong. Ideally patients would be protected not only if someone made a mistak
828.
by mlyle 2y ago
> You can if all the risks were not disclosed, especially if others come forward and it becomes a class action lawsuit. > > ...if you are informed of those risks...
829.
by mlyle 2y ago
There's all kinds of approved treatments that have a high risk of a bad outcome; if you are informed of those risks, you're not going to prevail in such a lawsuit. Indeed, hoping to be compensated for an ordinary bad outcome throu
830.
by mlyle 2y ago
We didn't expect the rate of oncogenesis from off-target gene insertion. It's bad news. At the same time, this is a treatment for a terrible, terrible disease; so far the consequences seem smaller than what cerebral adrenoleukody
831.
by mlyle 2y ago
On the other hand, cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy would be expected to kill a significant fraction of those 67 and rob the rest of their cognitive capacity within a few years. There are times where tolerating treatment-related mortality is t
832.
by mlyle 2y ago
> I'm not sure that placing free long distance calls isn't harmful to the org whose infrastructure you're using for your own benefit, If there's a call you wouldn't make unless it was free, the infrastructure isn
833.
by mlyle 2y ago
At $14k/ea, this is a calculated risk. Maybe they can make the vehicles work. Maybe they can sell the parts to existing owners. In the worst case, what's the scrap value of the packs and other components? "It is our intentio
834.
by mlyle 2y ago
Simplified movement of value across international borders, avoiding excessive exchange fees. Mind you, I don't think in its present form it is worth it (POW is intrinsically power-intensive; a lot of things about the banking system tha
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by mlyle 2y ago
Sure; and I don't see how this adjusts my point. I support the freedom that the license also supports. But there's plenty of things people can do with freedom that bring consequences; they just don't bring legal consequence
836.
by mlyle 2y ago
A license can allow something, but there can still be companies that are good citizens of the open source community of things licensed that way and other companies that are not so good. In turn, that can affect how likely others are to view
837.
by mlyle 2y ago
Nah. Or at least, not entirely. (I'm not really writing about Automattic here). Contracts -- and law in general -- describe in detail what kinds of actions will allow another to bring legal force into play against you or vice-versa.
838.
by mlyle 2y ago
Nah. I'm not conventionally attractive. But still, figuring out how to better myself, and then just -relax- and be myself, was what built meaningful connections.
839.
by mlyle 2y ago
There's an incredibly high overhead on getting work as a contractor, billing for it, etc. There's a whole lot of unbillable hours you need to amortize. (At the same time, people DIYing tend to underestimate their real opportunity
840.
by mlyle 2y ago
Not specific to dance here, but just replying to your general thesis: The "just be yourself" advice is so hard, because it's what actually works, but it's also difficult to do when you care about the outcome. And, of cou

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