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by statstutor 6y ago
> some parallel lalaland universe Countries with better rights for employees exist in this universe, on this planet.
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by statstutor 6y ago
None of that is relevant to vaccination. I agree it's a political problem - a political solution is proven by Asian democracies and Australasian democracies. As you say, it was pretty obvious that a 21-day lockdown with appropriate tes
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by statstutor 6y ago
Since you will have to pay for housing in [local currency], and I'd usually prioritise housing higher than optimally growing wealth, I'd suggest you first hold enough cash to pay for housing as far as you need it - probably a lot
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by statstutor 6y ago
> Perhaps unpopular opinion If I was responsible for policy, I would ask (have asked) a scientist to model this rather than stating it as opinion. I suspect that any model would just show you to be extremely wrong, for a virus which is a
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by statstutor 6y ago
> You can see a few places where New Zealand got lucky already This is a case of "you make your own luck". The UK has presumably been lucky more often, but we have never had the opportunity to observe it.
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by statstutor 6y ago
"I don't know how to do this, so I will google and skim a youtube video" is very much a culture, isn't it?
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by statstutor 6y ago
Doubtful. The consultant who is willing to say that straight (and with the experience to know it) is going to be worth a lot more than $200/h, to the right clients.
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by statstutor 6y ago
"Your business colleagues are not your friends"
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by statstutor 6y ago
> What do all of these athletes have in common? They were wearing next-generation running shoes. Related but not mentioned: Elite sportspeople are getting paid orders of magnitude more than they have ever been in history, to promote next
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by statstutor 6y ago
I'm a bit lost. I don't see how this is relevant to the discussion at all. Manufacturers already pay $ proportional to the amount of fossil fuels spent, and this doesn't cause them to consider future consequences on the consu
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by statstutor 6y ago
> Making things 'more repairable' can increase cost and resources needed. I don't think this is in dispute, is it? The point is that manufacturers must now consider this cost in their calculations, rather than pass all the
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by statstutor 6y ago
> next to a common action (mute/unmute yourself) I agree with this point, but if the designer had a phone call in mind (with a pre-pandemic mindset), then the design feels more reasonable. In a one-on-one call, 'mute' is m
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by statstutor 6y ago
This is also known as 'ask culture' and 'guess culture'
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by statstutor 6y ago
The commenter's wife is not a child. She has communicated her wish in a way which is already clearly understood. I don't understand why that is deemed insufficient communication. So, she gets a mild reproach if she makes an indire
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by statstutor 6y ago
But why insist that she asks directly? If you already understand that's what she wants? As a sibling comment suggests, this seems like a power move.
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by statstutor 6y ago
Hard disagree. Having "probable cause" to test a hypothesis is an important part of science. Testing neutral hypotheses is only a recipe for pointless p-hacking, I'd say that's not science.
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by statstutor 6y ago
Ah, I read another page it frames this slightly differently, e.g. https://www.goatcounter.com/why "There should always be an option to add GoatCounter to your site without requiring a GDPR consent notice."
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by statstutor 6y ago
GoatCounter claims to be GDPR compliant, but also says it collects: URL of the visited page. Referer header. User-Agent header. Screen size. Country name based on IP address. A hash of the IP address, User-Agent, and random number As such,
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by statstutor 6y ago
It seems more ironic to me, that the parent likes talking about how much they hate talking about it.
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by statstutor 6y ago
The attitude of the UK's ICO seems to be quite lax - it gives as an example "you do not want to give the individual full upfront control (ie consent)" with the implication that if you don't want to ask for consent, it&#x
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by statstutor 6y ago
> And even the ones who do expect it to not be long-term, would not have expected it to be cancelled overnight. I find this argument really strange. Budgets can (and do) change and cancel categories of benefits for poor people overnight.
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by statstutor 6y ago
> because, well, otherwise they can't deliver the pizza. This is covered by one of the five other GDPR principles for lawfully processing data ("to fulfil contractual obligations..."), so it wouldn't be considered a l
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by statstutor 6y ago
> the challenge is that people have made long-term financial plans based on it, and if you were to suddenly cancel it altogether, lots of people would probably get in trouble. This could be solved by just cancelling it. People taking adv
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by statstutor 6y ago
A 72% score on this scale is equivalent to confidently knowing 44% of the answers, and coin-flipping the rest. It's doing something that untrained humans are not capable of [edited to add: although humans were apparently tested by a di
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by statstutor 6y ago
> the typical BBC point of view is mildly left-of-centre Many people would claim that the BBC is left-of-centre, but if you look at their most prominent/best paid journalists, that is near-objectively not the case. Andrew Neil was b
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by statstutor 6y ago
I have occasionally sent BBC articles to my friends in the UK, only to find the article is blocked in the UK. I guess it's shockingly difficult to identify advertorials.
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by statstutor 6y ago
You could quite easily test that, by comparing bit-flipped domains to keyboard-neighbour domains. Or alternatively, just by looking at the distribution of hits to bit-flipped domains (which should be broadly uniform; typos will be non-unifo
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by statstutor 6y ago
There are such laws, for example in California: https://www.cnet.com/news/companies-must-let-customers-cance... (I think also in the EU)
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by statstutor 6y ago
It seems like Google is aiming for regulatory capture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture While Google can now expect inevitable regulation, shaping that regulation in their interest will still benefit the
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by statstutor 6y ago
Competing for housing exclusively on grounds of wealth also doesn't benefit young workers?

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