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by obmelvin 7y ago
So what? I'm sure if we knew more about you we could make plenty of 'suspicious assertions' about various parts of your life. The fact is that there is no credible evidence that it came from that lab.
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by obmelvin 7y ago
Does anyone have enough aerospace knowledge to comment on the design? Comments on the article seem skeptical on placement of the propellers, but I have absolutely no expertise here to make any assessment myself.
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by obmelvin 7y ago
You are certainly correct, but a bit of light digging + reflection on your company can give you a lot of confidence. For example, I work at a startup and I can say with great certainty that my boss has way too much going on for him to have
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by obmelvin 7y ago
I don't work for Amazon, but from friends have said after 6 months you should be able to re-apply and your previous performance is not judged.
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by obmelvin 7y ago
Same with Germany - they are likely classifying some sars-cov-2 deaths as from another cause. Not trying to suggest any of this is being done as some sort of cover up - given the circumstance it isn't necessarily possible to definitive
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by obmelvin 7y ago
There's absolutely no evidence to suggest that happened.
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by obmelvin 7y ago
> It also can be the case if you are immune compromised that you may clear the virus through good luck, drugs, and your innate immune response. uh, how? Perhaps this is tangential, but it's important that anyone who is immunocomprom
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by obmelvin 7y ago
As much as many people like to hate on the pharmaceutical industry etc, there is a reason clinical trials take time. Yes, this is a pandemic and we must move quickly, but it's important to ensure that we don't repeat the recent mi
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by obmelvin 7y ago
As much as many people like to hate on the pharmaceutical industry etc, there is a reason clinical trials take time. Yes, this is a pandemic and we must move quickly, but it's important to ensure that we don't repeat the recent mi
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by obmelvin 7y ago
Well, I'd much rather buy a particular brand vs store brand than paying some dick $50 on ebay or amazon.
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by obmelvin 7y ago
Maybe I misunderstand, but since the money paid out through social security will not be repaid by these 60+ year olds, isn't this a very different thing?
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by obmelvin 7y ago
Just had some coworkers complaining the other day in slack about use of RingCentral since its rebranded zoom but software won't run well on their linux dev machines! Zoom itself they have no issues with, unless other people join using
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by obmelvin 7y ago
> Not sure how relevant the food stamps argument is here, since this is an automatic pay and checkout system. Not sure why you feel the need to say that anyone who is conscious of their grocery budget is irrelevant to an automatic system
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by obmelvin 7y ago
> Where’s the evidence anyone will actually use this thing? Well, who knows how much interest will truly materialize, particularly given the data leaked to amazon, but the post claims/implies that retailers reached out to Amazon and
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by obmelvin 7y ago
Yes, but honestly why does that matter when talking about the implications of it spreading? Are you saying that old people's lives are worth less? It doesn't diminish the general threat just because you or I are less likely to d
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by obmelvin 7y ago
This is about 20x deadlier (rate, not absolute numbers) than the seasonal flu as of midweek (numbers may have changed a bit in last few days). It is a more apt comparison to compare to the 1918/19 Spanish flu than the seasonal flu. edi
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by obmelvin 7y ago
The death rate is 2-2.5% so how do you suggest that the negative cases are <1%?? At least every death is a 'negative story' and something tells me you don't want ARDS or secondary infection, so that's probably negativ
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by obmelvin 7y ago
> To be honest, I have never seen sports as "culture". As always it is extremely important to remember that your culture is not everyones' culture!!! You may not view sports as any sort of culture and as far as I'm co
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by obmelvin 7y ago
I understand your point, but comparatively $30 for 30 minutes isn't that expensive considering you (seemingly) don't have to worry about insurance.
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by obmelvin 7y ago
I have no idea how much mturk makes, my guess is not a ton and its mostly in a maintenance mode? Would explain the state of the documentation. Not sure I see how researchers improper utilization of crowdsourcing is a reason for the API docu
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by obmelvin 7y ago
Granted I've not used a ton of AWS services because all of this was in context of grad school research, but I've found this with a lot of the AWS documentation I've come across. Things like documentation for general API being
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by obmelvin 7y ago
Honestly, this is bananas to me. I work for an IoT company with contracts to places like gas stations and chain restaurants. Freakin Wendy's and places like that absolutely don't want our product on their network and we have a bas
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by obmelvin 7y ago
Isn't that a bit irrelevant? If we are talking about patterns that work well for the user, clearly writing everything traditionally and then going back and taking pictures of everything is a cumbersome process. Writing on iPad or simil
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by obmelvin 7y ago
The belt and road initiative is creating alliances between China and many countries in Africa and Asia.
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by obmelvin 7y ago
> Beyond targeted drug advertisement, medical devices, and the like, you know which people are sedentary, which play sports, who probably smokes, and I'd bet good money there are correlations between certain conditions and shopping
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by obmelvin 7y ago
Very interesting, thank you! This may actually be useful for a project I had in mind given that it can be used on more problems :)
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by obmelvin 7y ago
Exactly. There is so much money to be made from healthcare service, it is a market & revenue stream totally separate from advertising, and it can provide great value to many people. There are things one could be critical of regarding th
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by obmelvin 7y ago
As a sibling said, I think this is a focus of the article. At the very least Google has release multiple variations of one SOTA model this year: * original BERT paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805 * ALBERT (smaller
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by obmelvin 7y ago
The reviews are by and large free. I've known multiple phd candidates to be given papers by their advisor and they do the initial review for their advisor. Often these are additional reviews asked for by the advisor. That is to say, th
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by obmelvin 7y ago
Specifically, a financial information service.

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