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by ronaldx 13y ago
aye, this matches my intuition: having a lower bound and an upper bound (as rational numbers) on each value means you can: - go back and improve if necessary, or otherwise - express the uncertainty of a comparison thanks for the link :)
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I can only assume your definition of 'technical users' includes all people who might want to disable javascript?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
N.B. the headline does not match the original article better: 'men's biceps predict economically rational self-interest'
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I'm not exactly sure if that's different from current academia :)
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yes, the FUD is gathered from personal experience of several non-City branches of Pret and Caffe Nero, in particular.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>who didn't even know that they had a contactless terminal and were completely baffled with what I just did exactly - the fact that the cashier doesn't know this payment type exists shows how often it's being used.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
In current implementation, no. The card readers rarely function adequately if at all. On occasions when they do work, the screen is broken meaning the customer can't identify whether payment has been requested, the amount requested, whethe
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Gambler's ruin applies even in circumstances with positive expectation.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Governments should only fund science that doesn't promote immediate economic gain - such economic gain will fund itself. Government funding should be un-economic.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
although it's not clear in the language used, the data seems to have been normalized per Tweet: "Orange County, California has the highest absolute number of tweets mentioning many of the slurs, but because of its significant overall Twitte
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by ronaldx 13y ago
tl;dr
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by ronaldx 14y ago
Maybe you think "very easily", but I searched around for 10 minutes unable to find the numerical information required. I had concluded it didn't exist in tabulated form, so thanks for confirming I was wrong - although I'm still not sure if
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by ronaldx 14y ago
So you're 3 clicks deep (having searched around a bit, I guess) and you still don't have a number...
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by ronaldx 14y ago
What I typically go to a council website to do: find out the cost of council tax in band D in 2013-14. I am still clicking around... can anyone find it, I wonder?
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by ronaldx 14y ago
So you've bought something deliberately because it's the cheap option that comes with a downside. And now you want to drop the downside. Maybe you'll even be successful, at least a little... good luck.
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by ronaldx 14y ago
Regarding the 'bonus' problem on weight of coins: 1p and 2p coins of the same value weigh the same, by design. Similarly 5p and 10p.
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by ronaldx 14y ago
I would have calmly said just this: "That's not an acceptable thing to say". No yelling or arguing or rational reasoning: People like that guy just need to understand simply and clearly that it is not acceptable.
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by ronaldx 14y ago
subheading, "Young Person Discovers Internet Existed Before They Were Born" Surely extremetracking is on almost every website made 1999-2002?
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by ronaldx 14y ago
Reading this guy's blog reminded me very much of personal experiences of people suffering a significantly damaging eating disorder (ED) such as anorexia - ED sufferers also report euphoria, and a keen focus on key metrics such as weight los
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by ronaldx 14y ago
Startups should think carefully about any source of bias behind Paul Graham's advice, and whether or not following pg's advice blindly is in their best interest. Since the startup gave their (legally-binding) confirmation first, the entrepr