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by shkkmo 2y ago
It's not that she is particularly 'controversial', it is that she is biased and misleading. She is an economist who wrote a book that misrepresents, ignores and twists science what does know about childrearing and then presen
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Fractions is exactly an area of mathematics where I learned by understanding the concept and how it was represented and then would use that understanding to re-reason the procedures I had a hard time remembering. I do have the single digit
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A lot of the USA also uses electric for the stove, oven and all household heating.
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> Sketchy people on both sides You can be on the fench about the efficacy of supplements without supporting a fraudster. One side has a whole slate of respected a scientists in the field call the research papers BS. The other side has a
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> But that just means you have to compare them with ability of humans to one-shot tasks on the spot, "thinking on their feet", which for most tasks makes even adults look bad compared to GPT-4. This simply is not true as stated
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Sure memory helps a lot, it allows you to concentrate your mental effort on the novel ot unique parts of the problem.
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> The practice of solving problems that you describe is to ingrain/memorize those steps so you don't forget how to apply the procedure correctly Perhaps that is how you learned math, but it is nothing like how I learned math. M
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The final section setups up a contrast between the and now that is meant to help motivate you to read the book. I don't see the section as particularly weak, it does exactly what it supposed to and it's argument is sufficiently st
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> Assuming you’ve made a good faith effort to fulfill your obligations you don’t need to repay the advance or pay interest on the advance if your album doesn’t sell. It depends on your contract. Usually, poor sales won't result in n
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by shkkmo 2y ago
This is a book review, not a general article. The book the review is about covers the history of drug use, not current trends, which is why that is majority of the article talks about that. The final section does provide a reasonable about
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by shkkmo 2y ago
The article talks about the resurgence of interest in psychedelics in silicon valley, references how the history of silicon valley culter has its roots in the 60s culture that embraced psychedelics, and talks about how the current approach
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by shkkmo 2y ago
You seem to be insisting on a semantic interpretation that makes the term less useful. A third party's surrogate key should not be considered a surrogate key when in your system. It doesn't matter how that key was generated, only
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Possibly, you don't actually know since it is external data.
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What are you even talking about? NASA has directly publicly funded Starship development to the tune of ~4 Billion with the Artemis Moonlander contract and extension. The overall perspective is that SpaceX developed their crewed capsule much
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Not really accurate at all. The lowest the RTT gets is six minutes but that is a brief period every couple of years. The longest RTT is 45 minutes. Even 6 minutes makes any kind of tele-operation infeasible and require system to function au
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Even if this is true now (which it isn't entirely), that is no guarantee that it will be true in the future. Any time you use an external value as a key, you run the risk of a policy change. An internally generated artificial key is th
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Side note about using email addresses. It is pretty common to assume that email addresses aren't case sensitive since many email providers treat them that way. Email addresses absolutely are case sensitive so you need to preserve case
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by shkkmo 2y ago
SSN is absolutely not a surrogate key. If you received a piece of information from an external source, it is data, not a surrogate key. If you use data as a key, then that is a natural key, if you invent a value to use as an identifier, tha
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> It makes little sense to add a surrogate id and a fk on that surrogate id. It violates data quality and integrity just for a hypothetical situation. I would still almost always use an internal artificial key on top of the external id.
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> Because non-natural keys are unnecessary in the presence of a natural key, and unnecessary things bring in complexity. None of the things you've presented are actually "natural" keys, they are pieces of information that
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> Do you often send the auto-incremented int (that would be the default substitute to this) when communicating with others? Frequently yes. It is extremely common to communicate about specific records using the ID for that record. The fa
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> Using a natural PK -inside- your own database can still be a lot more pleasant to work with Until you need to do anything like described above. The advantage of artificial keys is that they have no semantic content. Anything with seman
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> but with the added benefit that for the common case, you don't need any additional lookups. You only need to lookup CPR changes if you don't find the CPR that the user gave you Doing the CPR lookup ONLY when you don't fi
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> Take for example the Danish CPR number. That's perfectly fine as a natural key; its definition is the first CPR number assigned. This is a horrible idea. You now have two different pieces of information that are identical in form
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Not a good look. If they got something wrong, a retraction is appropriate after making these kinds of claims and accusations. Simply removing the post without explanation is irresponsible and unprofessional.
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It is less common at start ups, especially startups from certain cultures / geographic regions. However, it can be fairly common at larger companies, especially in specific segments.
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> If your boss has to come to you and explain to you that you can't actually work two full time jobs at once, then yes, you were fired very politely.
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Yet 'consume' and 'consummate' have entirely separate origins so it isn't always a safe assumption.
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That 'level 3' is still basically lane keeping and auto cruise control, the driver still has to be ready to immediately takeover, if you don't the car will stop in it's current lane with it's blinkers on. This is ab
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He was recently banned from entering Germany or engaging in any political speech in that country. https://jacobin.com/2024/04/yanis-varoufakis-germany-banned-...

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