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by telchar 7y ago
It's impossible to anonymize some data. If you're including demographics and locations then yeah, it's going to be hard or impossible to anonymize. If you're using surveys on emotional state or perhaps newsgroup comments
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by telchar 7y ago
This is with the caveat that the inventors had a close association with GM, who presumably could have altered the design of the engines to be compatible with ethanol gas if they chose to. The profit from the patented additive was incentive
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by telchar 7y ago
This is a significantly underappreciated cause of the student debt crisis. People love to harp on overpaid or unneeded administrators and buildings but they are largely unaware of how much state budget cuts have contributed to rising tuitio
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by telchar 7y ago
I think GP means to say, it's not about the technology's past, but about its future. ICE is last century because its future is diminishing as this century unfolds. Electrics are on the rise and presumably will be the replacement t
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by telchar 7y ago
I don't think people in this thread are insisting on a downloadable package. Just that the algorithm published in the write-up accurately describe the work that was actually done to achieve the stated results. If even that threshold ca
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by telchar 7y ago
I think the shame of it is that 95% of most TOS's are as you said, essentially harmless or nearly harmless boilerplate. My concern is more about privacy policies which could in many cases be very short if user privacy is being respecte
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by telchar 7y ago
How do you feel about a 30 page TOS and privacy policy being necessary to use said app? Something of that length tells me that the company likely wants to get a lot of data from me. Reading it is hardly necessary with the way these are typi
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by telchar 7y ago
Starship is very similar to the shuttle in that it will be a reused second stage carrying humans and/or cargo (humans optional unlike Shuttle). Hopefully unlike shuttle it will be able to be reflown without extensive, expensive refurbi
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by telchar 7y ago
I've already held that opinion of Google products for some time after seeing what a ghost town Sites and Docs are, and the shutdowns of Reader, G+, Wave, etc. At best it seems that you can count on a product silently losing support for
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by telchar 7y ago
Not to mention you wouldn't need photoshop anymore to give the models unrealistic proportions. Adopt this system and proudly declare that you don't photoshop the models! Like fat-free soda.
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by telchar 7y ago
Speculatively, in the future we may be able to design proteins that would target the prions and destroy them or refold them into less harmful shapes. To do that we would need to 1. know what protein shape would be required and 2. be able to
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by telchar 7y ago
That's the most succinct explanation of privacy I've seen. I'm going to have to crib that line.
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by telchar 7y ago
That paper makes a good case against its own conclusion, and little case for it. Some choice quotes: "there are endless examples of this type of “evergreening" "With a surprisingly large number of expensive “evergreened” drug
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by telchar 7y ago
What, you've never heard of debt?
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by telchar 7y ago
There are only a few companies in each of the industries you mentioned while there are millions of workers. There is already huge asymmetry in power and organization. You completely gloss over that fact.
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by telchar 7y ago
When I was small we learned the inverted pyramid model of news, that the most important information should be at the top (the headline) and succeeding content should be ordered primarily in descending order of information significance. Did
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by telchar 7y ago
This is very noticeable if you watch someone wash a fuzzy blanket bought from Walmart. It seems like half the blanket goes down the drain after the first wash.
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by telchar 7y ago
I think that view neglects the costs of the fossil fuel infrastructure. At some point gas stations are going to start closing for lack of customers. That time is a while off yet, but all of the existing stations are not going to be able to
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by telchar 7y ago
It sounds like the book had the exact opposite effect on you as was intended. Why do you think that was?
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by telchar 7y ago
I think it's even better if the slides are posted prior to the lecture so that interested students can make their notes annotations on the slides - this allows them to fill in trouble spots while not having to copy down all the materia
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by telchar 7y ago
With respect, this is nonsensical. This A or B abstraction is pretty useless when something can be both A and B. An obvious example is the corporation: this is (according to the current SCOTUS) a person with most of the rights of natural pe
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by telchar 7y ago
Microsoft has been there for a while now. In this way I think Google is the new Microsoft.
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by telchar 8y ago
And it's owned by Rupert Murdoch. Enough said, really.
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by telchar 8y ago
I don't know where you got 1965: clearly they just labeled 1990 as 1980. And truncated scales, clearly marked, are not a cardinal sin. They can be used to mislead but I see nothing wrong with the way they were used here. Cutting it off
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by telchar 8y ago
The important point is that animal agriculture is calorically inefficient, so much more land has to be used than if people could substitute plant-based food sources for animal-based. Much of plant agriculture today is only necessary to feed
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by telchar 8y ago
That's not really true. The UMLS has a large graph of marked up medical domain knowledge that can be used. It's not as specific as one might want for developing an AI autodoc, but it's quite a bit better than what is availabl
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by telchar 8y ago
Better to leave natural habitat on that land rather than clear-cutting forest for grazing land, as happens so much these days and in the past. Better food production efficiency means less forest razed which is a significant win.
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by telchar 8y ago
I agree, Pelennor Fields left me very dissatisfied. And Faramir's character assassination was also a really unnecessary departure from the story.
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by telchar 8y ago
I downvoted to discourage low-effort posts. I don't want to see this place turn into Imgur where most comments are just links to gify or youtube.
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by telchar 8y ago
That's one way of looking at it. Alternately, and just as valid if not more so, they're duty bound to do what's best for their constituents. Ideally, that aligns with the wishes of the constituents, but the constituents may b

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