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by squidfood 11y ago
As someone with lower back pain, for whom 1-2 inches back is a huge improvement, I'm not sure why you'd privilege the person in back, while saying the one in front is required to suffer. The person in back may find it harder use
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by squidfood 11y ago
Tacoma in Washington State puts up billboards in Seattle every so often, targeting techies (e.g. a campaign a few years ago boasted how much better broadband was down there).
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by squidfood 11y ago
Practically speaking, modern science applies priors via funding decisions. Only variables that fall within the range what funders consider "worth testing" will be tested.
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by squidfood 11y ago
Speaking from Washington State so far, the best analogy is "microbreweries." When the product is consistent and labeled by strain, people learn quite quickly about getting the effects or taste they want. But still a boutique ent
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by squidfood 11y ago
Yup, this is one case where the "double-blind" takes out the actual variance in the experiment. I don't care about the carefully-controlled studies. The practical effect of including all aspects of the supply chain is that
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by squidfood 11y ago
"Over 30" includes 3, maybe 4 different generations. Lumping and discussing root causes for such a broad group seems very silly.
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by squidfood 11y ago
On the other hand, I'm going to take that "belief" and weigh all those possibilities based on best current scientific likelihood. Ice age? Maybe. But I'm not putting any bets on an ice age, and I will bet, and ask my
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by squidfood 11y ago
It's a bit unfair to blame "business leaders" when this trend of Christian power-politics started with Constantine the Great.
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by squidfood 11y ago
Seattle (for city council, mayor elections, school board hires) seems to have a history of bringing in "outsiders" who are used to throwing stones at the process, who then (surprise surprise!) fail when trying to work within the p
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by squidfood 11y ago
Well it certainly mainstreamed all kinds of counter-cultures. Whether this is a "victory" for them is debatable.
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by squidfood 11y ago
Tell that to the state lotteries...
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by squidfood 11y ago
> People like to just believe that brilliance is only possible at random, and nothing they can do will help, unless they get lucky. On the other hand, scientists (especially observational scientists) know that there's many many many
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by squidfood 11y ago
One irony is that modern Fortran is quite a nice language to work with. As long as you can just call, and don't actually have to work on, all the '77 numerical libraries that the Real Programmers put together.
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by squidfood 11y ago
At least one open game, Agora Nomic, has been running via listserv continuously since 1993 (arguably since 1992, when it started in a MUD/MOO environment): http://www.agoranomic.org/ Edit: hmm, that website is a bit
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by squidfood 11y ago
Oh they do now. It's the Minecraft Generation.
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by squidfood 11y ago
Yes, I think the ability to get instant high-quality pictures back and put them on the internet is the big sell that's new.
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by squidfood 11y ago
Indeed. A huge push in my agency is to comply with the initiative to make research data publicly available ( https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-... ). This isn't lip-service
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by squidfood 11y ago
If you work in an agency, you have to deal with the fact that (for example), every separate Intranet web service was built by a separate low bidder. So I log into one insane and poor system to do travel, a different one for purchases, a dif
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by squidfood 12y ago
Every computer to me is just an overgrown TRS-80 and I treat it accordingly.
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by squidfood 12y ago
You're solving the wrong problem here. Let's say we cut "literary production" in half somehow. Is it better if everyone writes a little bit, or if we all pay someone who's really good at it to do it? I'd rath
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by squidfood 12y ago
The hotspots north of the band of water (canals) are definitely lower-income concentration areas; a couple of them highways with seedy hotels (prostitution/drugs). The main blob is "city center". Some low income areas in the
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by squidfood 12y ago
I agree with the motivation and interest! The issue comes when people try too hard to find patterns to fit a preconceived hypothesis. I maintain a large (publicly available) ecological dataset, and my data have been drawn into several meta
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by squidfood 12y ago
Well, sure. I say "oh look, when animals breed, it has this curve" and then I say "oh look, when money is invested it grows with this curve." The insight is that "multiplication works". This helps, because I
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by squidfood 12y ago
It has nothing to do with ownership. Gov labs all over, regardless of ownership, have cut back to core operations due to the political climate of sequestration.
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by squidfood 12y ago
Interesting article, but this reminds me of the whole "power laws and long tails" that was big 10 years ago, or the perennial Golden Ratio. Seeing commonalities of pattern can be insightful to modeling a system, but ultimately pr
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by squidfood 12y ago
The warm PNW and the cold NE are intimately related: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2015/02/why-is-northwest-warm-... : "It is quite easy to explain the proximate cause of the warmth over the Northwest, the dr
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by squidfood 12y ago
There should be. I collect a set of gov data: there has been a major push from OMB to get all metadata in order and to them post-haste.
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by squidfood 12y ago
If there's a specific demographic whose needs are not met, then teaching methods for that demographic should be examined. We've gone through it for girls, gifted, the challenged, etc. Why shouldn't there be similar issues f
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by squidfood 12y ago
Sure it is allowed. You can apply for grants for your lab, and not include funds for yourself, and if your own salary is soft-funded, you might have to go "on leave" or the like while your lab gets the money. That said, I've
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by squidfood 12y ago
If we've gotta use the fuels, I'd prefer we use the latest/best tech to get it.

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