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by ppod 6y ago
The Federal Government does not have any restrictions on rainwater harvesting. Some states have minor regulations in terms of the amount of rainwater collecting and the means by which it is collected, but most states allow their citizens to
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by ppod 6y ago
There is kind of a continuum between cases that are pure squeeze 'n memes and ones that are more based on non-linear long term value propositions. Three years ago, I think you could make a case for Tesla that it was either going to go
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by ppod 6y ago
Yes, your second paragraph was basically what I thought was the case, it does seem quite recent. I don't have access to the Knuth article, I'd love to know what he means. Ramon Llull maybe?
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by ppod 6y ago
Right, but the lesson is that we ought to look after the stable boy, not that the invention of cars was a bad idea.
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by ppod 6y ago
As diagrams? I couldn't find anything, who used them then?
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by ppod 6y ago
There don't seem to be many (any?) network diagrams (or what mathematicians strictly refer to by "graphs"). Are they a very recent invention?
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by ppod 6y ago
Only point 2 is from the employer's perspective, the employee has control over the others. While there is truth in those, I don't think people would naturally settle into a 5/7 day week just for those reasons. You'll see
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by ppod 6y ago
Agree, and the article sets up a weird dichotomy between empiricism and innovation. The empirical work of adapting a Transformer architecture to be smaller or faster or work better on a particular task is scientific work. Like a lot of Comp
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by ppod 6y ago
"No justice no peace"
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by ppod 6y ago
Very clickbaity headline. The problem described is real, but just as real or worse in other statistical software, so it's not 'R' as a whole that poses a threat to reproducibility.
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by ppod 6y ago
>it is, of course, absolute bullshit I'm sorry that I briefly lowered the tone by linking to data, thanks for your help.
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by ppod 6y ago
People who are making claims about hospital capacity should compare them to the same times in previous years. The data is all available online: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas...
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by ppod 6y ago
You'd think considering academics do the reviewing, proofing, and typesetting for free the $1600 publication fee might enable the publisher to at least make a site that can stand up to HN traffic. Here's an arxiv version: https:&
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by ppod 6y ago
Did they actually meet the guy at the time, or know where he was? What is the ethical status of that -- if he was admitting to murders to them, don't they have an obligation to turn him in? I didn't think journalist-source privile
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by ppod 6y ago
Roald Dahl co-designed a device to treat hydrocephalus for his son. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00701-010-0834-z
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by ppod 6y ago
Couldn't the process in the article also explain why that's in the bible?
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by ppod 6y ago
Is there any way to turn off the custom css, my eyes are still in 2020.
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by ppod 6y ago
Might be reading too much into this, but I think there are a few layers going on here politically. Grenfell has been held up as an example of the failure and incompetence of successive Conservative governments. The Spectator and The Times a
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by ppod 6y ago
"Make something people want" is ambiguous in an interesting way. It could mean "Find out what people want, and make that" (Ford's faster horse), or it can mean "make something that people will want when they un
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by ppod 6y ago
Looks like this site is down maybe they should have hosted it with a reliable cloud provider.
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by ppod 6y ago
>First, the SAT, it turns out, does not measure scholarly aptitude or native intelligence independent of social and educational background. To the contrary, SAT scores are highly correlated with wealth. Why start the article off with an
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by ppod 6y ago
This looks great. Under 'compatible e-pub' format it says "all devices except kindles and kobos" -- I thought epub files worked on kobos?
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by ppod 6y ago
Yeah a blog post showing off a few things would be great.
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by ppod 6y ago
I wonder is the author old enough to remember the Ethiopian famine in 1984. I would enjoy reading an article that made an argument about what was at stake and what might be lost with high intensity farming and capitalized distribution, but
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by ppod 6y ago
A couple of interesting things about the journey from the press release to the story: the press release says "associated with", but the summary says "impacts on", and the headline says "critical for preventing"
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by ppod 6y ago
I'm mostly joking but.. didn't they hire the guy who wrote the really famous "charge more" post?
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by ppod 6y ago
Aside from the book, this brings back all those fuzzy feelings of learning ruby. Boolean functions end in ?, in-place transformations end in ! each, unless. It's just such a beautiful language.
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by ppod 6y ago
I don't think prepping is silly, but I can't understand why this pandemic would increase people's perceived value of prepping. The whole world shut down, and there were basically no serious shortages.
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by ppod 6y ago
What's it like in the kind of places that don't have pool decks?
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by ppod 6y ago
An interesting aspect to this debate is: what kind of actions do we sort of instinctively judge to have very large tail risk, and should we trust those judgements? Of course, the argument here is about the precautionary principle. But the p

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