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What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016)(aeon.co)
2 points by mmt 8y ago|0 comments
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by mmt 8y ago
> > Sales of prescription opioids in the U.S. nearly quadrupled from 1999 to 2014,1 but there has not been an overall change in the amount of pain Americans report That, there, is the "money" quote. You've been criticiz
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by mmt 8y ago
> opiate-related deaths account for .02% of the population. This statement is potentially misleading, since it leaves out the "per year" part. To compare it to the number of chronic pain sufferers, as you've done, you&#x27
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by mmt 8y ago
I'm pretty sure this is generally accepted to be true in the medical/scientific community (and I suspect isn't new, considering how long opium and its derivatives have been in use). Using "opioid long term pain" or
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by mmt 8y ago
The only "trivia" questions I like are ones that don't necessarily have a single "correct" answer (i.e. not "guess what I'm thinking") and can actually lead to further discussion. For example, one I
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by mmt 8y ago
Make it a paid project, and it at least partially addresses the sibling comment's (valid, IMO) complaint that it filters out candidates that are otherwise in high demand. It would also provide a significant signal regarding valuing the
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by mmt 8y ago
Although I posted this article (it was referenced in a comment in another thread and didn't get much discussion the first time), I don't necessarily agree with with all the author's assertions. In particular, the author seems
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by mmt 8y ago
> IO remains flat for the past decade Although I agree that storage density growth for HDDs has greatly outstripped any I/O growth, I don't agree that the latter has been flat (i.e. no growth). Are you sure you're not doin
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Laziness Does Not Exist but unseen barriers do(medium.com)
36 points by mmt 8y ago|10 comments
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by mmt 8y ago
Indeed, even before full-on cord-cutting was a thing, Tivo was (and still is, AFAIK) a thing, including speculative recording of content (i.e. it became more than just a digital version of a VCR). There's evidence that this has been an
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by mmt 8y ago
That's true, in that, if the metering is purely electronic, the only thing "separate" would be two different readouts. For electro-mechanical metering, I'd still expect a need for two physically separate ones. Regardless
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by mmt 8y ago
> Silicon Valley Electric was 8c when I lived there, 10c now. If you mean Silicon Valley Power, the municipal electric utility for Santa Clara, it's now (as of Jan 2017) 11.82c [1] for residential non-TOU for the upper tier. It&#x27
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by mmt 8y ago
> I've never heard of any utility in the US buying solar production at more than retail rates. That doesn't refute the parent's claim of it being greater than the market rate. The residential retail rate [1] usually doe
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by mmt 8y ago
> Where I live its about 25c (of Australian Dollar) for 1kwh but you only get 7c back I've read about places that don't actually do "net metering" and implement this with two separate meters, one for inflow and one fo
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by mmt 8y ago
> due to the lower average revenue, it needs to be cheaper It's unclear to me, but this may be tautological, or at least reversible (by being cheaper to be competitive, it reduces revenue). Perhaps I'm missing your point? >
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by mmt 8y ago
> The project is simply missing someone familiar enough to configure Jenkins properly. I would say that this is a specific case of the far more general one. Substitute "any small organization" for "the project" and su
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by mmt 8y ago
> given that computers already are used to match passengers and route cars, I'm not clear on why we would expect a drastic increase It depends on what the denominator is. If it's only the time between when a driver/auto-ca
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by mmt 8y ago
As sibling commenters have alluded, this is actually already (and has always been) the case, at least for "cheaper", rather than "only possible". However, looked at another way, it has also never been and never will be t
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by mmt 8y ago
> If you need to add hardware to solve a software optimization problem such as this, you've failed your job as a software engineer That's an interestingly narrow viewpoint with which I, narrowly, agree. I suspect that the narro
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by mmt 8y ago
> DBAs playing hardass without even trying to understand the need. Although the parent posed a caricature with "yelling", this is an even more extreme one. The "forcing" function merely requires a bit of "hardass
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by mmt 8y ago
Your counter-example describes profit/growth due to monopoly. Perhaps the parent meant a distinct defintion, for a competitive industry.
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by mmt 8y ago
> Depreciation and utilization rates need to be incorporated. That's tough to do, since we don't know either one. I suspect there's also a (perhaps incorrect) assumption that an unused auto-car will be "just sitting t
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by mmt 8y ago
> Auto cars can also drive away from expensive parking when not in use. Driving away is, of course, not standing still. That increases the cost, but, perhaps more importantly, increased latency (or, rather, jitter). They need not be stor
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by mmt 8y ago
> An auto-car just sitting costs almost nothing per hour (capital cost, but very little other cost) I'm not sure it's fair to dismiss capital cost parenthetically as part of "almost nothing". Maybe if the auto-cars we
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Are Payday Loans Really as Evil as People Say? (2016)(freakonomics.com)
1 points by mmt 8y ago|0 comments
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by mmt 8y ago
> Without hijacking this thread and/or turning it into a political rant, Too late :) > the propaganda of people "abusing" welfare is a 99% political agenda. I agree that this sort of message is crafted to create moral o
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by mmt 8y ago
Although, as a sibling comment points out, that article is very old, I can attest to its continuing general accuracy, having interviewed there last year. Although I didn't get a look at their financials, my overall impression is that t
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by mmt 8y ago
That was actually another detail I discovere, although with much less data behind it, that mixtures of ethanol and isopropanol [1] could be more effective than just one alone. Mixing the two works well for liquid formulations, where the dis
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The Command Line – The Best Newbie Interface?(osnews.com)
2 points by mmt 8y ago|0 comments
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by mmt 8y ago
> Yes, crows will totally work for peanuts. They may even prefer them (if whole, in shell) to other "payment". Even though they're fairly bulky, they're not much heavier, and the shell makes for a great preservative,

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