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   by sfblah 5y ago

   I agree that the data on masks can be interpreted both ways. This suggests to me the effect is small and probably second- or third-order (i.e. masks encourage more distancing, and that's actually what matters). It isn't just that
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   by sfblah 5y ago

   There are substantial differences (and, I would argue, motivated reasoning) on the subject of mask mandates. To me, that's the area where the political desire to "look like we're doing something" has trumped following th
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   by sfblah 5y ago

   I'm sort of tired of being downvoted for saying this, but the data on masks other than well-fitted N95s is pretty shotty. Lots of P-hacking, lots of motivated reasoning, and the results pre-2020 differ in notable ways from that post-20
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   by sfblah 5y ago

   I don’t think this is quite right. To take a European example, the ancient Romans discovered concrete, then successor civilizations largely forgot how it worked for ~500+ years. Not all eras of history even had a positive slope to the curve
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   by sfblah 5y ago

   I mean, the real question is whether they carried any coconuts.
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   by sfblah 5y ago

   I think it basically is. I've done work for a company using .Net Core since about 2018. Back then, you had to use the Google stubs and work around a lot of the Microsoft host setup to get it to work. These days, gRPC seems to be on par
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   by sfblah 5y ago

   I think GP is saying that dependency injection is like currying, not that it's like inheritance.
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   by sfblah 5y ago

   I run a lot on streets. You do you, but this video is going to make me much more careful around Tesla cars from now on.
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   by sfblah 5y ago

   No matter what mechanism is used, investing comes down to putting money into a instrument to get a reasonable level of return given the risk taken. Passive investment strategies don't change this fundamental equation; they just hide th
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    I've never seen this site before, but I noticed that it appears to be questioning the official timeline and story at various points. For example, it indicates that a janitor heard an explosion first from the basement, not from above.
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    Yahoo Search is a massive search arbitrage business. Look deeper and you'll see a ton of revenue and profit. It's just a grimy business.
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    I think GP was referring to Tinder as the place where mature stagnant shuffling is occurring.
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    Interestingly, the three candidates do have different patronymics. So, at least in principle it should be possible to disambiguate them.
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    Or variation in intelligence is genetically controlled in ways we don’t understand yet because our understanding of genetics is nascent.
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    Our inability to identify the genes responsible for intelligence doesn’t equate to them not existing. Our understanding of genetics is still extremely nascent.
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    There are just all kinds of things people don't need to buy anymore bc of smartphones. I think on balance life is cheaper now. The main exceptions are things like housing if you live in a big city.
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    What are the withdrawal symptoms?
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    This is at least part of the reason that reasonably strong engineers can learn a new programming language in under a day. The paradigms just aren’t that different. I realize there’s a cottage industry of folks creating new languages all the
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    This is a very interesting point. Is there a counterargument to this?
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    I genuinely don't understand what the point of all this is. Is this all about sending people to Mars? Is it basic research? What is the end goal here? I don't follow this too much, so I'm hoping someone can paste me a link to
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    I love this idea, but I sincerely doubt it.
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    I'm in the SF Bay Area.
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    ATT gigabit fiber.
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    Yes. This. I tried using ipv6 and had to turn it off because of problems like this.
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    This is exactly the dynamic we see in my company working on search ads.
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    I work for a company involved in search engine advertising. While it's technically possible to track conversions, very very few customers actually do it. Some don't have a great way to track it (health-care products where there&#x
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    It’s a tricky issue to track down because it only adds latency on the first request to a new domain.
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    Couldn't a satellite phone be more valuable in an emergency?
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    I have trouble understanding how so many people limit themselves to 4k or 5k steps a day, as the article suggests. What do they do all day?
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    by sfblah 5y ago

    ... except that's _literally_ how science works. People _have_ looked into the "bright side" of the holocaust. Refusing to expand human's knowledge and understanding of the world because of political taboos is a mistake.