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by shanacarp 11y ago
It is mixed regulation. The FCC relies as much on the presence of Nielsen, which is private, as broadcasters do. Twitter, Facebook, et al, don't have a Nielsen.
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by shanacarp 11y ago
https://chd.ucsd.edu/_files/winter2009/Gottlieb.probabilisti... Race, or exposure to lead 2 generations back, which is why we can observe white people with the exact same tendency based on where their grandparents
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by shanacarp 11y ago
do you believe the state should exist - if so, how does it function? what are the duties of the state? how do people join the state? are there people who are "naturally part of the state" if so - why? How does this state thin
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by shanacarp 11y ago
NYC != NYS NYC != Buffalo, NY Brooklyn != Staten Island Prospect Heights !=Great Kills Frankly, within a few blocks within a neighborhood inside NYC, you can get a ton of variability of pricing for all sorts of reasons. I can name at least
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by shanacarp 11y ago
yes You got to start from somewhere. How are we going to cure cancer if we don't start
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by shanacarp 11y ago
Short answer: You are misreading history by a mile. My Grandfather actually was one of the first people to participate in one of these full section deals in the late 40s and early 50s in Dorchester and Southie in Boston on behalf of the fa
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by shanacarp 11y ago
repeated typo/spelling things like they are sounded to my ear rather than how wikipedia tells me to spell things :)
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by shanacarp 11y ago
I can talk about some of this, if only because of some of the ethical dilemmas facing me and genome testing as of recent. Racial Groups as described by a geneticist vs say, a government doing polling on its citizens are different animals. G
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by shanacarp 11y ago
Don't take this the wrong way I'm actually surprised I'm the first one who mentioned it. People are very focused on the Zenefits as startup issue, rather than focusing on "What if it was say one of AIG's largest fr
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by shanacarp 11y ago
It is for a similar reason why buying from a broker stocks, bonds, futures, ect have to pass the series 7 and 63/65/66 from FINRA. Insurance is a financial product, letting someone buy the wrong insurance because they misunderst
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by shanacarp 11y ago
They are also backed by the financial industry and are considered financial and legal instruments. while it isn't possible to "front run" your insurance deal as your broker, putting you into the wrong insurance has a variety
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by shanacarp 11y ago
Genetics and Epigenetics research at scale on humans. Just getting the database together in a machine readable form would be a huge accomplishment There is a huge (missing) sample problem in genetics. This creates problems in epigenetic r
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by shanacarp 11y ago
If you know people at Microsoft Research, they have computational biology groups based out of Cambridge, UK and New England (Cambridge, MA) in association with Harvard and a number of hospitals there. The research topics they are (or were)
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by shanacarp 11y ago
You are a mensch for posting. :)
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by shanacarp 11y ago
People self diagnosing and wanting certain very inappropriate treatments without understanding what's going on underneath. Cancer(s) are different than athletes foot in that sense. You can look picture up on webMD, diagnose yourself,
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by shanacarp 11y ago
Um, slightly OT: If you want to participate in research around the Cancer Genome Atlas for other cancers, how do you do that?
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by shanacarp 11y ago
You're a mensch for being here. I just need to say that. This is a super helpful, good comment.
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by shanacarp 12y ago
That's part of a larger set of questions about protected classes and targeting. We don't know until we see the full campaign and targeting criteria. RTB makes this even harder, as well as Yield management issues. This is but a d
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by shanacarp 12y ago
I wish I knew what to say to her. She's right A strong sense of neutral decision rules could help. The other thing that she needs to think about is how to seed that page/product/content. SEO isn't enough.
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by shanacarp 12y ago
Is the FTC accusing of online ad equivalent of redlining? in part, these sorts of ads are determined by a designed bid/match thresh-hold - so why is it not Omega Psi Phi accepting better matches on the Yield side? (also remember, if t
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The S That determines All Conversions (ever)(bayesianwitch.com)
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by shanacarp 12y ago
But that goes back to the original point of the article.
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by shanacarp 12y ago
Actually, this is pretty good advice. For everyday problems, if it doesn't line up with common sense, usually it ends up meaning I need to ask more questions. Models that tend to not be close enough to reality means I need to obs
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by shanacarp 12y ago
What about non classic commodity crops, like spinach? How does it work with scaling alternative farming, such as organic?
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by shanacarp 12y ago
I was that girl. You were my mother in a lot of ways (my mom is a programmer) the problem becomes more endemic in high school and then college where you have to start becoming a woman. Programming in a startup is not a great choice for pe
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by shanacarp 12y ago
Agreed. A lot of the race issues are closely tied to class issues. The gender issue isn't.
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by shanacarp 12y ago
True - the way out is to hire interns from state schools/small programs.
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by shanacarp 12y ago
Yes. Epic Systems was/is purely bootstrapped. Never took a dime of external money.
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by shanacarp 12y ago
Saving the Season By Kevin West. Yes it is a cookbook, but it has some fabulous essays about everything from fruit, vegetables, history of preserving, all sorts of things. Plus the recipes look crazy amazing. I rarely say that.
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by shanacarp 12y ago
I actually find the decline of religio highly interesting in comparison to the growth of stuff about company culture an interesting correlation that I never thought about. Though I would take philanthropy out of quotes. And I'd be car

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