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by nkurz 5y ago
This is generally true, but I think you might be out of date. About 15 years ago, the US government passed a law that specifically prohibited the melting of pennies and nickels for the purpose of selling the materials for profit: § 82.1 P
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by nkurz 5y ago
It's certainly possible that the number is simply wrong, but it seems to be sourced from this publication: https://asafishing.org/uploads/2011_ASASportfishing_in_Ameri... (adding State and Federal totals at the bo
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by nkurz 5y ago
hckrnews.com is another useful site for seeing what has been flagged dead. It only shows items once they make the front page, but it retains the link even after it is killed on HN. I wouldn't argue against more transparency, but it&#x
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by nkurz 5y ago
I have no particular advice myself, but I thought it was a wonderful attempt! If you submit it again, consider writing to hn@ycombinator.com and asking Dan to put it in the second chance pool if it doesn't get attention on its own. I
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by nkurz 5y ago
> Why did you vouch for it before actually reading it? I felt I'd read enough of the piece to trust the author's intentions. I liked her "consilience" example, and liked the overview she gave of where she was going.
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by nkurz 5y ago
Thanks for the response. I'm confused by your "BTW", though. Are you saying you strongly disagree with her sentiment that "even if a result is not statistically significant, absent better data, it still remains the best
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by nkurz 5y ago
> This article has very poor reasoning. For example, the author states I feel you may have misread the article. The author doesn't "state" the lines you quoted, she quotes someone else (Dr Peter Doshi) who used this line
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by nkurz 5y ago
"Clueless" is misleading. It seems fair to assume anyone with a PhD in a hard science is probably in the 99%+ percentile for statistical knowledge. Sure, even at this level the statistics often get applied incorrectly, but I&#x
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by nkurz 5y ago
I'm not sure which person you are referring to as "the author", but for clarity, the slide is a screenshot taken from a slide used in a presentation by Peter Doshi: https://rumble.com/vqc2ww-dr.-peter-doshi-of
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by nkurz 5y ago
Upvoted, since although I disagree with the flag, I appreciate the specific criticism. I don't think I agree that it's deliberately misleading. The graphic is used to argue against the statement that "Clinical trials have sh
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by nkurz 5y ago
This was originally submitted by 'slowhand09' with a slightly editorialized title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30059987 . I glanced at it, and it seemed like a reasonable article by a reasonable person. I
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I was deceived about Covid vaccine safety(joomi.substack.com)
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by nkurz 5y ago
I'm not sure of the percentages, but that same article includes this quote: "He was not alone. The F.B.I. deployed at least 12 informants, as well as several undercover agents, according to defense filings." It depends on who
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by nkurz 5y ago
Some background stories over the years: https://vtdigger.org/tag/jay-peak-resort/
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by nkurz 5y ago
https://archive.fo/wNGfe
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by nkurz 5y ago
I saw no difference for between unwind's two versions with current GCC, clang, or icc with -O3: https://godbolt.org/z/n6avo5ovq . Did you possibly forgot to use optimization? I was surprised though to see that icc
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by nkurz 5y ago
Quick responses before I go to bed: I think compilers should emit code that make writes to memory when the program asks them to, even if the pointer is then freed. Not doing so too easily leads to security issues. If the pointer turns ou
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by nkurz 5y ago
Are you familiar with this classic example? http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-... The problem (if I understand it right) is that "Redundant Null Check Elimination" might be run
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by nkurz 5y ago
> "No, no, no! Do the check first, and dereference only when it's not null!" I don't think I've heard anyone express this preference. If they did, I'd agree with you that they are being unreasonable. My
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by nkurz 5y ago
Thanks for making an example! I'm against compiling this particular example to return a constant. I presumably wrote the awkward and unnatural construction return *x because I want to to force a load from x at return. If I wanted to
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by nkurz 5y ago
Unfortunately, these don't help much. I thought about responding to jcranmer's post instead of yours, but wasn't sure how to approach it. It's a good comment, and I appreciated his attempt, but I feel like he's tho
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by nkurz 5y ago
Could you you explain your position here more fully? I'm a C programmer mostly in the "portable assembler" camp, and I don't see why insisting on out-of-bound writes to be performed prevents compilers from keeping local
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by nkurz 5y ago
Yes, searching for that does produce a bunch of odd results, many of which use "info@example.com" as their email address and literal "Lorem ipsum" as description : https://www.google.com/search?q=%22A10
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by nkurz 5y ago
Interesting, I hadn't known that: https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases... Separately, consider that your assertion would likely be more persuasive to doubters if you'd included a
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by nkurz 5y ago
If anyone is interested in a book length treatment covering the controversy surrounding Wilson's Sociobiology, I can highly recommend a book that came out in 2000: "Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiolog
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by nkurz 5y ago
Summarizing the long and not very grammatical transcript of a video (which I haven't watched): Greenwald, after explaining that he's been working on both of these pardons behind the scenes, thinks that Trump had been convinced to
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by nkurz 5y ago
The video is from 2015, and says it was a 2 year pilot project. Do you know if there are there any updates on how the project went? Is it still operational? Did they build any more?
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by nkurz 5y ago
Good point, and good examples. Excited online discussion about companies like those are what I mean when I say it's popular on the internet. It's not impossible, it's just not the technology I would be betting on. To get a
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by nkurz 5y ago
Yes, there's a minimum number of points required to downvote. I think it's currently 500. Here's an unofficial FAQ that give more information about the thresholds: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-new
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by nkurz 5y ago
That's a really popular idea on the internet because it's very easy to grasp, but the numbers don't work out well. The weights you can actually lift aren't much compared to the volume of a reservoir of water, and the h

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