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by nerdponx 2y ago
PVC piping is becoming increasingly common in households in the USA.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Try telling that to a teenager.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Cruz would have been much better because then Clinton would have crushed him and none of this 12-year (4 more to go) nightmare would have happened.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
"Data is hard, let me interpret it for you" is specifically crafted to get people to trust the speaker ("wow this guy understands data I better listen") and discourage independent corroboration ("I don't want t
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Being confidently wrong about matters of public policy in front of a large audience is more than just an incidental bad take. It pollutes the public well of information and thereby does a disservice to society. You do not have a right to en
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It makes more sense if you notice that the direction of wrongness is consistent, in which case an adjustment across the board in the other direction makes sense. Works great for politicians of all kinds, and their supporters, as we see he
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The assertion that the deep state skews Democrat is so preposterous it sounds like an SNL sketch. Imagine a bunch of G-men sitting around in a conference room with oat milk lattes while the Cigarette Smoking Man lays out plans for the next
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by nerdponx 2y ago
They stayed home. Ironic though because lefty social media just spent a solid year telling people that both candidates were trash and Gaza would suffer regardless of who got elected.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
But the electoral process already has integrity. There is nothing to rebuild. There was no voter fraud. It was a big baseless fuss and a lot of lies specifically to keep the core Trump supporter base hooked and radical.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
That seems sloppy. Surely Russia-funded agents can use a VPN to sign up for non-Russian email services?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
If you can get access to someone's laptop with SSO login access to the cloud storage (or their email inbox and Slack messages), then you have what you need.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Being extremely pedantic, omitting the outer ()s is legal for a generator comprehension. That is, the following are equivalent: foo(x for x in xs) foo((x for x in xs)) gen = (x for x in xs) foo(gen) But these are not the
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Fun Python fact time! `any` works on arbitrary iterables, so you can use a generator comprehension instead of a list comprehension: if any((a in ["-h", "--help"] for a in args)): display_help() Which algorit
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by nerdponx 2y ago
You're cherry-picking quotes. The whole point of him saying what he liked about Janis was that he didn't like Big Brother & the Holding Company, both as a style/concept and as musicians. The article is also full of quot
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Maybe I interpreted the article differently than you did. I got the impression that the candidate was repeating the x == y == z pattern because they'd seen it in other people's code and was pretty sure it worked, not because they
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by nerdponx 2y ago
In this case the candidate also didn't know.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
In this case the candidate evidently didn't understand it either, but was repeating a pattern they had seen before, which IMO is a form of anti-mastery: don't do things that you don't understand, especially when you're s
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Everyone thinks differently. "thing1 == thing2 == thing3" is a pretty natural expression of the idea here IMO.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I expect to see it before 2034.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> For that matter, reckless endangerment and involuntary manslaughter are crimes in many jurisdictions. Yeah but good luck actually getting someone charged and convicted for these when a motor vehicle is involved.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Tesla vehicles seem like they're designed to be as stupid and dangerous as possible sometimes.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I would expect that P(bad sleep this week | bad sleep chronically) > P(bad sleep this week | not bad sleep chronically). It's a question of inferential power: what is the minimum detectable effect size with such an indirect measurem
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by nerdponx 2y ago
That makes for a fair side-by-side comparison, then.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The point is that the "birth date of Jesus" being set on December 25 came 350 years after January 1 was chosen to start the new year.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
What makes it more logical? The wheel turns all the same no matter where you mark the beginning. In the Northern hemisphere, there's actually something nice about starting the year in the dead of winter: it feels like the year is born
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> there is no inferential gap between measures and their causes in mathematics, because there are no measures That's not true. For example in researching prime numbers, mathematicians carry out simulations and produce observational
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> so how are you accounting for it? One way is with modeling assumptions. Recall that the T test was invented to be used in controlled beer fermentation experiments, which I think should fall into your "hard" science category.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> Then even for tens of thousands of people, you can still get "random" divisions of a population where, say, one half has all the T9 traits -- and thereby the "effect" is just due to this random segmentation. This co
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> put up some initial capital in exchange for even more money back The "even more money back" part is, in principle, compensation for you gathering the capital together and taking on the risk of losing. Not that it works out th
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I don't work in ad tech, but I expect that there are strong diminishing returns on this kind of thing. Yes, it's theoretically possible to do all of this advanced stuff to correlate and identify the long tail of users who have obf

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