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by sparky_z 8y ago
This is a little out of left field, but my favorite unexpected literary hyphen is in the title of "Lassie Come-Home" [0]. In the original book, the title was not imploring a missing dog to return. It referred to the untrue accusat
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by sparky_z 8y ago
They don't need to write their own loans. They can just open an interest-bearing account with a bank that does and park the money there.
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by sparky_z 8y ago
They don't make money on the interest on the minimum balance, they make money on the total balance . True, for some customers this will be very low or zero. But as long as some of the companies they work with have money in their acc
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by sparky_z 8y ago
Prepare your two samples. Put them in identical containers. Attach sealed envelopes that record which one is which. Mix them up in such a way that you can't tell them apart anymore. Randomly mark one A and one B. Perform your experimen
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by sparky_z 9y ago
I'm not sure that tell us much. Is there a researcher on god's green earth that doesn't want more funding?
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by sparky_z 9y ago
For the point of view of the people this article is writing about, that's probably not a very convincing argument. While the statistics you cite are true, they don't take individual circumstances into account. How many of those ac
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by sparky_z 9y ago
All I know is what I've just read in the Wikipedia article, but nobody seems to be claiming that he didn't have cancer. In fact it's part of the story, with his doctor injecting him with some sort of poison instead of treatme
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Except its pretty clear that for this problem, as posed, we're considering the surface of the ocean to be the "ground".
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by sparky_z 9y ago
I haven't read it yet (will soon), but I've heard nothing but good things about the Ron Chernow biography. I'm reading his biography of Hamilton right now, and I'm really impressed. I think he strikes just the right bala
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by sparky_z 9y ago
And his three other siblings.
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by sparky_z 9y ago
I have to assume you meant this to be a part of the thread about the Challenger explosion.
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Yeah, maybe you should put that closer to the top. It took me 5-10 minutes to realize that I hadn't scrolled down quite far enough to see that extra rule. It's especially easy to miss if you're already familiar with the origi
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Bingo. I get mailed magazine offers that can only be because of other magazines I subscribe to. If that sort of info sharing is already happening in the print world, it must be happening on the digital side as well.
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by sparky_z 9y ago
I really really hope that the "propensity score" doesn't try to check whether you have subscribed to other news sites in the past. I'm worried that a) it would work pretty well in the short term, and b) because it works
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Think of it as "...will continue to donate and will continue to advise the organization," with the repetition taken out.
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by sparky_z 9y ago
It's not written to be an internet article in the usual "share this on social media" sense. It's a daily email newsletter, that happens to also be mirrored on the web. It recaps the financial news of the previous day wit
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by sparky_z 9y ago
If that's true, then why would they make credit locks? What's in it for them?
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Okay, fair enough. If there's the slightest whiff of anctual wrongdoing related to the creation of credit locks, by all means, rake them over the coals. But, really, what should they have done instead? Do you think they shouldn't
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by sparky_z 9y ago
I hate the credit agencies as much as anyone (and the poor quality of the app is shameful), but the "skirting the law" angle smells like an unfair criticism to me. Surely the heavy amount of regulation around credit freezes preve
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by sparky_z 9y ago
Not really. The whole point of the article is that Apple currently uses a more sophisticated design than those "round rects" that everyone else now uses by default.
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by sparky_z 9y ago
I've been looking for a good rss reader. Which one did you find?
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by sparky_z 9y ago
You mean doesn't.
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by sparky_z 9y ago
How does that actually work? Do you just tell the cashier during checkout that Amazon offers a better price and they give you the discount no questions asked? Or is it more involved than that?
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by sparky_z 9y ago
I can't figure it out, either. I'm only getting the first paragraph of the article. Okay, I figured out a workaround. Click the print button at the bottom of the page and print to pdf. You'll get the whole article that way. I
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by sparky_z 9y ago
"Inverted commas" is a Britishism that refers to quote marks.
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by sparky_z 9y ago
I think you're misinterpreting the context here. This is a followup to a post where he did say some unflattering things about Amazon. It was intended as an internal communication, but he accidentally made it public. So this post is d
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by sparky_z 9y ago
This type of error creeps in a lot when redrafting sentences. For example, maybe the submitter originally wrote "an actual debit card", then decided that saying "physical" instead would make the distinction clearer. It&#
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by sparky_z 9y ago
I'd say it's more like adjusting the input voltage to the AC directly than simply setting the thermostat. They have to monitor the results and changing conditions and then make adjustments manually, rather than rely on an automati
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by sparky_z 9y ago
The thing is, in this case, there was no one in the 2nd category who wasn't also in the 1st category. The question is already being asked to treat them. The risk is already being taken. Using the data from that action for research does
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by sparky_z 9y ago
> Isn't sexual identity / orientation protected as well? Nope. As I understand it, sexual orientation is not officially a protected class[0]. Seems like it should be, but it isn't. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#

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