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by rodw 6y ago
Asserting that Benford's Law can be used to identify election fraud is a disputed, or just downright misleading, claim. Academic research has shown Benford's Law is not applicable to election tallies. (Also so does common sense
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by rodw 6y ago
I always liked to imagine filing "The The" under "The, The".
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by rodw 6y ago
"The The" was a pretty notable band in the 80s/90s.
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by rodw 6y ago
I don't know whether they actually do it but it seems really easy to treat "BASIC" as a distinct idiomatic token from "basic" when the searcher bothers to get the casing right.
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by rodw 6y ago
Self-plug warning but FWIW if you're using cheerio _just_ for the selector syntax a related tool is Stew [1] which is a dependency-free [2] node module that allows one to extract content from web pages (DOM trees) using CSS selectors,
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by rodw 6y ago
> You’re forgetting inflation and income taxes! No, I'm "modelling" the wealth tax with the exact same assumptions as pg, save that I'm using a plan that was actually proposed as opposed to a "take 1% of everyone
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by rodw 6y ago
Isn't this model is ignoring the fact that the proposed wealth tax plans are _marginal_ rates? Take Sanders' plan [1] for instance: * 1% annual tax on net worth above $32M * 2% above $50M * 3% above $250M * 4% above $500M * 5% abo
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by rodw 6y ago
I haven't even read the article and hence don't really have an opinion either way, but "[not] constructive" and "free of evidence" seem like pretty specific criticisms to me.
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by rodw 6y ago
Pronunciation of shortened technical jargon is an interesting thing. I've noticed certain common variations but outside of very localized "communities" (like the employees of a particular company) it's not clear to me th
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by rodw 6y ago
> Also, NGINX is pronounced "engine X". It absolutely is, but my first interpretation of that word was more like "n-jinks". I mean, I understand that it's meant as "n-gin-x", but glommed together that s
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by rodw 6y ago
> Mental math is so difficult for me that it’s embarrassing! The numbers just don’t stay in my head long enough. I used to feel anxiety if math came up in conversation because I simply can’t calculate in my head like others do, and it m
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by rodw 6y ago
This makes me think of that X-files episode about the couple that were compelled to travel west to avoid physical discomfort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_%28The_X-Files%29
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by rodw 6y ago
BTW, this is anecdotal and happened a long time ago, but I attended a "national liberal arts college" that's ranked _above_ Reed and had at least one classmate that completed two years at a local community college then transf
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by rodw 6y ago
Apparently I've been living under a rock because despite 20+ years of professional software development (and a degree in discrete mathematics) I wasn't familiar or at least didn't recall this "invert a binary tree"
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by rodw 6y ago
Reed is among the top tier of liberal arts colleges. Liberal arts college rankings aren't comparable to large university rankings. There are thousands of them, and many have specialized niches. You need to adjust your scale when lookin
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by rodw 6y ago
You're not wrong - and I'm extremely distrustful of the "ends" that commercial interests optimize for - but to be honest I feel like the commercial interests are at least more transparent. Unless or until they approach t
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by rodw 6y ago
I don't know. While I commonly use several of these it feels like this easily bleeds into questions of subjective "taste" and domain-specific libraries. If you're not changing anything else about the management of these
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by rodw 6y ago
> I don’t want “a version compatible with lib 0.1.0” I want lib 0.1.0 ... package-lock is a strange bandaid over this. Doesn't plain semver in your package.json dependencies already give you this capability? ``` { "dependencies
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by rodw 6y ago
I think prison time is the minimum one should expect from this behavior. That's what astounds me about this story. Ok, let's assume you're a sociopath or at least a bully and you believe this action is justified or appropriat
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by rodw 6y ago
You should listen to the allegations listed in the press conference. This goes well beyond "bullying" in both scope and severity. They travelled cross-country to try to plant a GPS tracker on the couple's car for example, and
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by rodw 6y ago
I'll take it one step farther: I'm guessing the original etymology wasn't even master/slave but master/ copy . For that matter it's not obvious to me that whilelist/blacklist was racially inspired. I assum
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by rodw 6y ago
Whether or not the etymology of the term is derogatory or racially insensitive is missing the point. The point is that some words are particularly emotionally charged for some readers. In this case that's not irrational, and rational o
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by rodw 6y ago
Of course. There's no court case that is based entirely on a hypothetical. But it seems exceedingly common - especially on the scale of SCOTUS - to abstract a specific event or argument to the more general one. Take constitutional chal
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by rodw 6y ago
To be fair, I don't think the intent or the etymology of the words needs to be derogatory or racial insensitive to justify changing the terms. I think the argument is that "this word makes some people uncomfortable by reminding th
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by rodw 6y ago
If you're going to replace the terms "whitelist" and "blacklist", why not consider making use of the actual definitions and use something like "include-list" and "exclude-list"? I'm not even
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by rodw 6y ago
I don't have an example off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure I've seen arguments presented to the SCOTUS that are absolutely based on hypotheticals, including hypotheticals introduced by the justices themselves. EDIT:
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by rodw 6y ago
The 8-not-10 isn't a problem at all, just a little surprising and maybe a hint that the creator wasn't deeply experienced with sequencers. To be honest that's fine. I sincerely think this is a pretty elegant implementation, m
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by rodw 6y ago
I'm not sure this is the reason for that specific implementation but `Math.abs` _will_ do a string-to-number conversion. I.e., `Math.abs("-27")` yields `27`. It might be the case that Math.abs does other *-to-number conversio
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by rodw 6y ago
For the record, 120k weekly downloads isn't really _that_ large in this ecosystem. That's 120k instances of people or scripts doing `npm install is-even` or the equivalent. For comparison: * Lodash - a general purpose set of lib
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by rodw 6y ago
Why the Rifleman's Creed, of course: "There are many like it, but this one is mine." (To be clear, I am not the creator here.) There are many things like this, but for what it is worth, this is a pretty well executed one: s

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