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by ronaldx 12y ago
> Do we need to protect women at university from all those drunk, lecherous men? Perhaps this is not your point, but the answer to this question is emphatically: Yes, women (and men) everywhere have a right to personal safety. I agree th
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Because you felt that gave you some legal protection, despite the fact that you're using a US-based company? The advantage of locating in the Netherlands is that you get served to Europe a little quicker.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
The way dlss suggests is the safest and most sensible way. Usually you'll start play by breaking the seal on new decks which will be fanned out to check them: it's effective and efficient to get the dealer to turn a few sequences
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Minor technical correction: Players are not typically allowed to handle the cards in punto banco, so would have needed the dealer to turn the cards for them. This, I understand, is one reason they preferred a Mandarin-speaking dealer. Somet
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I feel like you already answered your own question. These reasons may not apply to you, but they certainly apply to me. No, I do not trust megacorps to keep my credentials safe. I do not wish to use the same credentials for every site, for
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I read it with the same reaction that you did, but I did read it: because it was interesting. In the end I was considering whether the remaining staff are being abused, judged on subjective measures such as being "here for the right re
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by ronaldx 13y ago
BBC/the UK government should stand up to Rupert Murdoch on this issue, rather than creating so-called "fair trading rules" which harm UK license payers. Besides, Facebook and Twitter (external commercial websites) receive ple
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by ronaldx 13y ago
In my opinion, this is the point of the list. It exists to illustrate things that are popular and causing unnecessary harm. There would be little point in listing harmful alternatives that were unpopular anyway. Having said that, it's
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>However, one is not permitted to cherry-pick data, so the "outliers" have to be left in. I respect why you think this, but I don't agree. Identifying points on the graph which don't fit with the pattern of the rest o
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The graph is claiming that countries should appear on the line - above the line are doing better than average; below the line are doing worse than average. Vertical distance from the line is what you're looking for, so NZL is a crazy d
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I wanted to add that I believe this to have gotten worse, perhaps since downvoting for disagreement has been more actively encouraged.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Title (of the article) likely to be misleading: The allergic reaction is not itself sexually transmitted. The brazil nut allergen is sexually transmitted (via semen) causing an allergic reaction in someone known to be allergic
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I have Dutch as a second language and can vouch for this - when an English article is convoluted and misses the point, I click on the Dutch link for a simpler version.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> Mathematicians are used to working with various equivalence relations, even in the same context. So if a modestly trained mathematician saw == and ===, she would immediately ask "what is the difference between these two ER's?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The differences between programming syntax and elementary/Boolean algebra are very awkward to understand clearly and deal with correctly. We clearly understand mathematical algebra to work one way, and we naturally assume programming a
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>for the times you're lost with a slow connection, no connection, in a foreign country, or with roaming charges. I have had exactly this problem this week, so it's been at the top of my mind. Algorithm-heavy is an understatemen
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Right: being able to read and write an argument doesn't make people acceptably qualified experts on a subject. Compare this to Yahoo Answers: Somewhere where everybody has an opinion, but nobody is expert enough to give a straightforwa
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by ronaldx 13y ago
OK, but not mentioning it potentially brings social stigma to everyone. It's important to talk openly about mental health issues.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> A better way for eps to help lacero, if that's all he or she wanted to do, would have been to email... This is now understood, but you say it in a severe way - as though you think it should have been obvious for eps to know this.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yes, you've failed to consider the time value of money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money 50k today is worth more than 50k in the future. (Consistent compounding at 7% is extremely optimistic, ev
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> Run some basic compound interest calculations if you don't agree. Make sure to include basic compound inflation because the figures given here seem to be hyperbolic.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Ruby on Rails? ;)
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I did exactly this in high school: I set up an experiment to find the people best at guessing Zener cards picked at random. I surveryed 100 people and the best 5 did notably better than the others. I dubbed these people "clairvoyant&qu
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Disagree wholly. I don't think that a commit should be littered with commented out code, but there clearly are positive reasons to have some. Besides, if the comment is not there, how can you be expected to know that there is old but s
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Since you ask me: a CEO is the public representative of the company. It's also their job to shape the company's directions and values.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
So Eich recognises that "Mozilla is under a threat. We don't know how big" and yet is "confident I am the best person for the job right now". If that threat is real and (wholly or partly) stems from this controversy
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Makes sense (as a heuristic?), thanks a lot.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
On light reflection: probably if you do N tests, the modal result would be a good enough choice, or perhaps the median. The issue is that (e.g.) the arithmetic mean would be very influenced by the stats that gave randomly bad results - the
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Averaging the results correctly must be an interesting problem in itself? I believe that standard averages wouldn't necessarily give you the maximum likelihood.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
If I've understood correctly, this relates to the German Tank Problem: using statistical analysis to estimate a count. With German Tanks, you have limited data available to create an estimate from (a few serial numbers, in the canonica

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