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by ronaldx 12y ago
Saving - and now seemingly publishing - search queries is saving and publishing PII. http://donttrack.us directly acknowledges that search queries can be used to personally identify individuals. I therefore understood from the
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I tend to think that Wikipedia may work because of these problems, not despite these problems. Very often people visit Wikipedia for a superficial overview of a topic they know nothing about - or perhaps to confirm a commonly known piec
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Absolutely agree that Wikipedia has these problems - I would never recommend that anyone edit Wikipedia and it loses a lot of expert knowledge by having significant barriers to contributing. But most users don't see this. As a source o
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by ronaldx 12y ago
On the original page, the page "owner" takes 7 edits to revert every single word that was not his/her own - leaving the page the same as their own original. Note here that this represents the net change from 25 intermediate e
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Understood. Can you clarify how you have the data to provide an auto-suggest?
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by ronaldx 12y ago
The auto-suggest feature feels like a step backwards in terms of privacy: - it indicates that there's a fairly thorough recording of searches going on, and acknowledges a reasonable possibility of keypress-by-keypress recording, and
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by ronaldx 12y ago
>I trust Google to honor their terms of service which is all we can really ask for I think. I trust Google to honor their terms of service ( which are not the same as what I first agreed to ) for as long as it doesn't benefit them m
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by ronaldx 12y ago
In my opinion, this is a "No true Scotsman" fallacy. You are claiming that someone who develops an allergy must have had an allergy to start with. But the only thing that backs up this claim is your own definition. I would suggest
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by ronaldx 12y ago
And by "certain types of work", I guess that you mean services that you get paid for, but not goods that you have to pay for?
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by ronaldx 12y ago
You would like to protect the benefits you get from being far more privileged than people in other countries.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Good point... there is some important statistical bias here: The old white goods we can observe in use today are the ones which still work. Those which broke down are not remembered.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Inevitable Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons#Asymmetr... It's impossible for a consumer to know that a supposedly high-quality washing machine will last longer than a cheap washin
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Although specific claims might have been discredited, quantum processes are relevant to biology, e.g. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7137/abs/nature05...
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Yes, you're right. In my opinion, the parent example was rather oversimplified. If a player started playing more aggressively, that would be an obvious 'tell'. Most opponents would recognise that they should play more conserv
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by ronaldx 12y ago
In my experience, "sign in with Twitter" acts as a significant barrier because people don't actually know their Twitter password.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
In the past, I've considered Simpson's paradox to be nothing more than an amusing quirk of statistics. But, the parent example has helped me to see that Simpson's paradox is frighteningly inevitable. For example, a conclusion
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by ronaldx 12y ago
This is why you should never tell people what not to do, without also telling them what they should be doing ;)
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Worth noting: the bacteria at the end are not the same as the bacteria at the start. Antibiotic acts on a particular mechanism to kill the bacteria. In order to overcome an antibiotic threat, bacteria have to either modify or drop any funct
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Some allergies are known to be caused or exacerbated by repeated exposure, e.g. tomato allergic contact dermatitis becomes common in people who handle or prepare tomatoes for a living. Although parent's claim is difficult to confirm, i
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Cost of a service is not relevant to your rights.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
You seem to have missed the point. You are saying rational numbers are countable but irrational numbers are not countable (uncountably infinite) This is true. The parent is saying that algebraic numbers are countable and transcendental numb
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by ronaldx 12y ago
The algorithm is likely to ask anyone to choose a favoured room from an equal split, so in theory the algorithm won't work if someone has a smaller-than-equality budget. The algorithm depends on everyone having a personal way of splitt
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Agree on the UK comment. Companies are generally expected to put the price of sale in the UK (with VAT if B2C, without VAT if B2B). There's a strong feeling that they're cheating or deliberately misleading when they don't do
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by ronaldx 12y ago
"53% of the time, Waldo appears in an empirically determined 25% of the page" If you repeated this with random data, I expect you could find the same results: this does not constitute evidence that Waldo is placed in those bands w
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Thanks. I think mjw's comment, and yours, now correctly cover this :)
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by ronaldx 12y ago
We might consider that the existing, originally successful designs are products of competition and natural selection of early alternatives, both within and outside of the company. In other words, it's plausible that good design is evol
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Since I made some genuine effort to answer the parent query, I would be curious to hear why I'm attracting significant downvotes?
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by ronaldx 12y ago
As best as I understand, they've proven the following: If 3x = 3y, then x = y. (and that's all) They claim: "In this paper we show that it is possible to divide by three," and they've done this in the sense that div
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Disagree. What you are describing happens in "regular" bullying as well. In the OP, this happens literally: "I was followed home". Young people don't necessarily have many escapes from school life. The people they s
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by ronaldx 12y ago
The skew in CS Bachelor's degrees has been getting worse recently.

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