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by mxcrossb 5y ago
It seems to me like the census is the wrong tool for the job described in the headline. I understand that a census makes sense for allocating seats, since it’s easy for citizens to understand and trust. Filling out the census is almost a po
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
How many of those tourists will die as a result of this? The data seems to suggest it’s vanishingly small.
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
Weirdly enough, facial recognition works for me with a mask already, but only if I take off my glasses.
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
I only go to Allrecipes now for exactly this reason. It’s funny, people used to mock that site for the stupid reviews, but what matters can quickly change...
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
Things may have changed, but last time I read about this topic, Uber is doing a lot less to help the efficiency of the drivers than you’d think. Making real money requires the driver’s themselves to learn their local area’s hotspots and str
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
Conversely, I think a lot of people buy digital movies and never watch them because they want to own them. We all probably have friends who buy games they never play off of steam.
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
I’m pretty sure that’s the point. But since it’s trendy people try to apply it to everything.
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
Given that people had a bimodal distribution of confidence, I would assume that means a lot of the perceived overconfidence come from people answering a question wrong that they thought was easy. I wonder if the test takers would say “that
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
14 billion dollars was spent in the 2020 election [1]. If someone wants to “nefarious”ly analyze public information for political purposes, they can easily do it with private funds. [1] https://www.google.com/amp/s&#x2F
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
Fish’s predictive suggestions are also greatly for quick navigation
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Journal retracts paper suggesting smoking is linked to lower Covid-19 risk(retractionwatch.com)
6 points by mxcrossb 5y ago|0 comments
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
If ethics is confined to politics and religion, humanity is in big trouble...
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
> A README is meant for someone who is first encountering the project to be able to quickly decide if they want to learn more about it. In the past, by time I got to the readme I had already downloaded the project. It’s kind of weird how
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
> In other words, only 10% of developers from the given country scored higher in their coding tests than the results you see below. We made this change because the mean score includes outliers that often influence averages and skew resul
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
Sweden’s numbers are illustrative here, with COVID cases rising steadily since January, but deaths are going down.
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
The point of the trolley problem is that it’s hard to make the right decision. Yet apparently anyone who doesn’t make a decision based on the move naive application of utilitarianism is a coward.
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
Only if you assume that utilitarianism is the answer to the Trolley Problem
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
I realize the pandemic has led to many people having limited social interaction with the outside world, but I would encourage you all to dig deep and recall the imprecision of casual, spoken language before reaching for a counter example an
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Cosquer’s Cave (Grotto Cosquer)(keralaarticles.blogspot.com)
1 points by mxcrossb 5y ago|0 comments
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
Apple apparently has 308 million dollars of incentives to fix the system, so maybe that’s a good start.
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
Agreed. But flashy title aside, it’s probably a nice page to send to someone looking to get started in the terminal.
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Qubits Could Act as Sensitive Dark Matter Detectors(physics.aps.org)
1 points by mxcrossb 5y ago|0 comments
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by mxcrossb 5y ago
On the theme of the posted article “Literally any real language would be better” is how I feel every time I write cmake/auto tools/etc
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
> The Swazi population faces major health issues: HIV/AIDS and (to a lesser extent) tuberculosis are widespread.It is estimated that 26% of the adult population is HIV-positive. As of 2018, Eswatini has the 12th-lowest life expectan
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
It wouldn’t shock me if the recent drop was pandemic related, but “70% in 1999” really puts into context what a big social shift we’re living in.
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
The article has some interesting notes about English, but I don’t really understand the connection to the post title?
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
> One person was not upset enough. The other was too upset. This immediately made me think of Camus’s The Stranger, though maybe it’s an overreaction to bring existentialism into the conversation!
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
This might be naive but, in the age before spell check, I wonder if a lot of people consistently made spelling mistakes like this. I mean you wouldn’t know you were wrong unless you checked in the dictionary.
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
Yes but science and computer programming are fundamentally different activities. The programmer tries to reproduce the bug because his main fear is that he can’t see its effect. But the scientist’s main fear is that the experimental setup d
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
> despite not actually trying to replicate the Fleischmann and Pons experimental setup accurately I’ve been seeing this claim in another field: about hydroxychloquinine. Every time a study comes out which doesn’t show a benefit, people r

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