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by rflrob 6y ago
Reading the tweet thread linked under "personal attacks and general disparaging comments" ( https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1253822258692284416 ), I see much more a criticism of poor science journa
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by rflrob 6y ago
The question is, what if they want to build an elevator for their car at their vacation home in Aspen and need to pull out some cash, and just happen to do so immediately prior to a recession they received a briefing about? Surely “give me
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by rflrob 7y ago
The rumor that I've heard is that the "security and privacy concerns" are that Boeing has somehow gotten access to their Zoom. I don't know what that means, exactly, but it's at least somewhat more rational than bei
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by rflrob 7y ago
Congressional hearings are one big way to hold the executive branch publicly accountable. Then, there’s the election. My sense is that a lot of the bad decisions don’t necessarily rise to the level of negligence, so civil/criminal pena
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by rflrob 7y ago
I assume if you test positive for the antibody and N days later test negative for the virus, you’d be in the clear to be whitelisted.
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by rflrob 7y ago
Though one’s right to a public defender only applies once you’ve been charged, right? In TFA, the guy being investigated was only the subject of a warrant.
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by rflrob 7y ago
I think the argument is that if you run code with f-strings and walruses on Python 3.5, the code will break noisily. Whereas if your code implicitly relies on ordered dicts, it could break silently. Syntax errors rarely cause subtle, hard
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by rflrob 7y ago
Well, their CEO also doesn’t go on podcasts and smoke pot. Not that I think that’s necessarily a better or worse sign that SpaceX is or is not safe than a CEO drinking moderately in public, but we are prudish about these things in the State
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by rflrob 7y ago
It’s not clear to me the extent to which developers should assume people will be coming from HN and have some background on their project for the uninitiated. This post is almost perfectly devoid of any hooks that might give people a hint o
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by rflrob 7y ago
I assume it was a comment on the reddit thread about the barnacle.
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by rflrob 7y ago
Don’t forget engineering. Which, to be fair, they used in large part for war. Roads are great for getting your army to Gaul to fight. Concrete piers to sail your army where the roads don’t go.
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by rflrob 7y ago
I see what you did there...
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by rflrob 7y ago
I wonder whether they also looked at body size. Larger species tend to live longer, so it could just be that their regions are just associated with growth.
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by rflrob 7y ago
While I absolutely agree that scientists need more formal training in data visualization, the claim that "few scientists take the same amount of care with visuals as they do with generating data or writing about it" doesn't r
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by rflrob 7y ago
A comment elsewhere here links to a color comparison. Looking at them, I doubt I could tell you which one is T-Mobile and which is Lemonade with confidence greater than chance.
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by rflrob 7y ago
First off, the Denisovan people were named after the Denisova cave, not the other way around. Second, until very recently (in the last year or so) we did not have any intact bones confirmed to be Denisovan that are large enough to say anyth
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by rflrob 7y ago
Would a simple solution be to "lie" about the runway direction by a few degrees: instead of runways 10 and 28, bump it up to 11 and 29 (or down if that's a smaller lie). DFW is apparently comfortable having numbers slightly o
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by rflrob 7y ago
0.1% of 1000 lbs is 1 pound, but that’s still the equivalent of ~10 empty 2L bottles.
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by rflrob 7y ago
I think the fact that two of the top ~10 happiest days in 2018 were attributed to a Korean pop star's birthday is excellent evidence that people of twitter are not, in fact, good samples of the people of the US.
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by rflrob 7y ago
But it is inarguable that there is a finite and ever decreasing amount of {helium,petroleum} in the earth. While we may not now be at peak [insert resource], and may not be in your lifetime or mine, such a point must exist and I would bet t
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by rflrob 7y ago
But do rats (or other non-human animals) with human organs deserve the same rights as humans? I don't think that the human pancreas is the source of our innate "human-ness" that gives us distinct moral standing from non-human
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by rflrob 7y ago
Anecdotally based on some skimming of the California version of the salary database, there seems to be greater variation between fields than between universities. My wife is in the humanities, and the mid-career salaries of the professors a
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by rflrob 7y ago
http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/ I believe the conventional wisdom is that legislators' offices pay more attention to calls than letters, and either of those are stronger signals to them than emails.
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by rflrob 7y ago
I haven’t read the book, but maybe Chinatown was a source of cheap domestic labor and services?
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by rflrob 7y ago
Happens to me often on cold dewy mornings. Plenty of moisture from the overnight air, and it takes a while for the defogger to heat up, during which time it sometimes feels as if it’s actively refogging my windshield.
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by rflrob 8y ago
I assume that the Suze Ormans of the world would tell you to be not just pennywise but poundwise as well. The $5 latte is emblematic: once you start thinking about that $100 monthly expense, you sit and look at your $90 cable bill or your $
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by rflrob 8y ago
Location: San Francisco Bay Area (strongly prefer SF, South SF, or East Bay) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: * Python (numpy/scipy/pandas/matplotlib) * Snakemake * Unix/Linux shell (and basic server adm
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by rflrob 8y ago
> I never understood why one would want to make a veggie burger taste like meat. Because most people find meat delicious and it fills a particular cultural niche in the United States in particular. Veggie burgers are tasty too, but if yo
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by rflrob 8y ago
So the major thing that Impossible Foods puts in that "makes it taste like meat" is leghemoglobin, which is an ortholog of regular hemoglobin from cows blood, though in this case it was isolated from a legume. The argument, as I&#
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by rflrob 8y ago
But then how will people know how smart I am for using LaTeX? ;)

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