richardthered

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by richardthered 5y ago
"Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers." https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7834133-intelligent-individ...
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by richardthered 6y ago
Nobody is proposing to remove the infrastructure itself. It's a question of who gets to decide who gets to _use_ the infrastructure. Imagine that you have a private company that manages all of the toll roads in a city. One day, this c
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by richardthered 6y ago
"Chase closed my accounts and banned me and I don’t know why" https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=324148 "How to survive a Chase Shutdown" https://milestomemories.com/su
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by richardthered 6y ago
Anecdotes are data. Quite literally. Each is one data point. A data point is not a conclusion. To draw valid conclusions you need a large body of data. But each anecdote is, quite literally, a single data point.
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by richardthered 7y ago
In general, I think that having knowledge of multiple different tech stacks is good. The IT industry is constantly changing and evolving, and learning to evolve and change is good. Also, you might want to take a look at Flutter. It's
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by richardthered 7y ago
Login fatigue. Yes, I use a password manager (1password). But it means I need to stop going through the sign-up flow, jump over to the password manager, create a new login, change the password recipe from random-letter to random-word (whic
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by richardthered 7y ago
Most people don't want to manually update code and patch their speakers. They want to push a button, and get music. Not run a local IT department
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by richardthered 7y ago
Consider the security aspect, as well. Apple is generally considered much more secure than Android phone. For example, see this Ted talk that describes how this security gap is a civil rights issue. Basically, Android phones are cheaper.
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by richardthered 7y ago
Firstly, I don't see how she has any legal obligation to pay for the medical care, at all. Your friend didn't get the medical care, her father did. Unless the father is a legal dependent of your friend, she isn't responsi
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by richardthered 7y ago
I think what you get out of a book is more about the person reading it, and what they are looking for, than it is about the story itself. Dr. Seuss's "Oh, the places you'll go" could be read by one person as just a whims
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by richardthered 7y ago
It's comedy. Most sci-fi and fantasy novels are serious, so having a comedic bent is unusual, which is interesting. Beyond that, though, comedy itself can be interesting because it looks at life from a different perspective. Much of
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by richardthered 7y ago
Without some kind of efficacy standard, you could sell water as a cancer cure. That would be very bad for health outcomes. However, I do agree that it's a difficult topic, in general. Off-label drug uses is one example.
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by richardthered 7y ago
There are food allergy tests that you can take, too. I've done the ALCAT test, and it was very helpful. It's a blood test, and provides a big list of red/yellow/green foods. e.g. Red = likely to cause a strong negativ
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by richardthered 8y ago
The problem with forcing someone to reveal a secret (e.g. a password), is that ultimately, there's no way to prove that someone actually knows the password. If I say that I forgot the password, and a judge throws me in jail for contem
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by richardthered 8y ago
> The current drug regulation regime strikes me as backwards--it seems that the more appropriate assumption should be to not regulate a substance, until it can be shown to be harmful The problem with this approach is that it would lead t
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by richardthered 8y ago
Two other places that do microbiome analysis: https://ubiome.com/ http://humanfoodproject.com/americangut/ UBiome is a Silicon-valley startup. American Gut Project is a university research project out
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by richardthered 8y ago
The two main pricing models, today, are: 1) fixed monthly fee for one providers' content (e.g. Netflix) 2) pay-by-the-drink (e.g. $3.99 for this episode) I spend a lot less on pay-by-the-drink services than I do on recurring subscript
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by richardthered 8y ago
Grade school. I learned that computers followed rules. And if you learned the rules, you could make it do interesting things. My classroom was the first class in the school to get a computer. At the time, nobody knew how to work the thin
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by richardthered 8y ago
In the US, the bus is generally seen as a "poor-person's" transport. Trains are considered middle-class transport.
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by richardthered 8y ago
Check out this TED talk : He says that android phones are inherently less secure, and also cheaper. So, poor people are more at risk of police scraping data off your phone. https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_soghoia
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by richardthered 8y ago
Any suggestions for good treatment options? Taking acid pills with meals (Betain HCL) is one possibility. Any others?
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by richardthered 9y ago
As measured .. how? I understand liking your country. I'm an American, too. I like my country, a lot. But, I think that the phrase "we are the best in the world" gets thrown around a lot as a meaningless platitude. It get
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by richardthered 9y ago
As for 3), current market forces are clearly not sufficient to create good competition across most markets. It's extremely capital intensive to build a wired, to-the-home network. Heck, look at Google Fiber. Even Google threw in the
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by richardthered 9y ago
Human? I thought he was a "hyper-intelligent alien with a tangential interest in human affairs." :) https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV... Of course, he is also one of the rich
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by richardthered 9y ago
Agree. Also, see the DW Nominate scores for congress. https://voteview.com/parties/all Liberals are at 0.38, and the most extreme they've ever been was 0.39. They have been somewhat more liberal than they were i
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by richardthered 9y ago
I think the Dark Crystal is a better reference... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4voZl28ADM
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by richardthered 9y ago
The Long Now Foundation and their 10,000-year clock. http://longnow.org/clock/ It's a clock. A physical clock. Designed and built to run, accurately, for 10,000 years without human intervention.
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by richardthered 9y ago
This reminds me of an old parable: There's a big manufacturing plant in town that's been around for decades. One day, a new company comes in and buys them out. The new managers look at the books, and say "Wow! Look at thes
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by richardthered 9y ago
This is absolutely going to decrease travel to the US. - More people will need to buy hard-shell cases. Would you want to trust your over-the-should bag to the ravages of the bag-handling machines? I certainly wouldn't... - Would you
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by richardthered 9y ago
But knowing the price of a procedure doesn't change my need for it. If I need heart surgery, I still need it regardless of whether it's $10k or $100k. In other words, demand is inelastic. And, most people can't afford to pay

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