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by telchar 8y ago
You can add to that a large part of why circumcision was promoted in the US originally was to control men's sexuality (see: Dr. Kellogg[1] - incidentally he also promoted using acid to circumcise girls). You can bet that the idea of de
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Alright, thanks for the info. I'll look into those.
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It's not that I think they're really that different, but one is very optional and the other is so hard to live without these days. I'm absolutely not happy about the inclusion of those features in phones but the alternatives
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Speaking about unblockable ads, I had to set up a pi-hole to block ads at the network level because I couldn't block them on my ipad on any browser. Why does Apple make it so hard? Am I missing something?
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I'm not convinced that this will change anything in the near term. While the Obama administration had started (cautiously) pivoting from Saudi to Iran (see the nuclear deal, increased criticism of the Saudis, very limited engagement in
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by telchar 8y ago
Looks like a fun little data science project but I don't see any data here that would be useful to determine similarity among women and thus who would benefit from which type of BC. The closest thing I see is age. I think you'll n
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I suspect GP means a filter that makes the video appear to have the hallmarks of a deep fake without actually changing the apparent participants.
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You're right that the gratuity is optional, but there is still a strong general expectation that most people will tip. The optionality gives the tipper discretion in any specific situation, not an indefinite free ride with no social co
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If you want to claim to be principled about this then you should inform the waitstaff at the start of the interaction that you don't intend to tip. The price they ask has expectation of tip built in implicitly - failing to disclose tha
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In what country? The US is still mostly per per procedure. There are codes for procedures and for diagnoses and they both get factored into the bill.
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Nevertheless there is concern about any data that goes into an EMR. There is always concern about what happens in the worst case scenario where something very bad happens to a patient and their whole record is examined in a courtroom after
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To be fair, there is also a significant lack of evidence that they haven't. It is difficult to collect data in this area because of the setup of the electoral system (both its federated nature and the lack of possible verification of i
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Populism is just the antipode to elitism. Too much elitism (e.g. pre-revolution France, gilded-age America or any kleptocracy of which there are numerous examples) is problematic too. A dose of populism can be a useful solution to that prob
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But then how would we know the value of a Nobel prize? I'm sure the University of Chicago economists would tell us that you can't have an efficient market for Nobel medals without such transactions.
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I downvoted you for making a throwaway comment. I come to HN for substantive discussion, not throwaway snark. Please take that elsewhere in the future, there are plenty of other outlets.
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That's a good point, although unfortunately I could see them getting away with extra power due to the interstate commerce clause that they use to justify so much else.
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You're making the unstated statement that those parties have the same propaganda models. I think it's pretty clear that they don't.
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Presumably you're speaking cynically about how copyright is treated. For the official, stated reason: Article I Section 8. Clause 8 – Patent and Copyright Clause of the Constitution. [The Congress shall have power] “To promote the prog
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No, there's way more to data science than competitions. But for someone who is already a data engineer more or less, I think it could be a good window into the complexity of modeling.
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I've been working as a data scientist for several years and have written some pretty gnarly looking SQL myself. I have a background in math and hard science so I have some understanding of the scientific method as well. While I respect
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I don't want to pile on but that sentence strongly reminded me of the oldish saw about "a data scientist is a programmer who lives in SF". I've never heard of anyone using JS for data science. What might it have that&#x2
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by telchar 8y ago
It seems a lot of posters aren't willing to consider self-driving cars feasible until the cars are as foolhardy as the bottom-decile driver while still maintaining a perfect safety record. But most of accident prevention is in the plan
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The answer to your question is basically "no". Humans aren't getting better at driving in the aggregate - new ones are born, learn to drive, get better, then get worse, then die off. On average humans are as good as they&#x27
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by telchar 8y ago
But it would be incidentally reduced by a carbon tax since that would cause some coal plants to be shut down.
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Neoteny, I believe.
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I agree entirely on the crosswalks. Around here the pedestrian signal comes on at the same time as the left turn signal so that pedestrians and drivers get to fight for space on the crosswalk. This makes crossing with the bike on the crossw
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Further, to progress beyond quaestor (tax collector) in Roman politics a politician had to put on public games and such to win popularity (as an aedile). Where did those funds come from? Yep, excess taxes collected. It's not unlike win
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I'd add that a significantly under-discussed element of safe biking infrastructure is safer intersections. My city has lots of bike lanes that are sufficiently wide (and many that aren't) and no consideration all at for how a cycl
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Humans suck at these classification tasks things too, though, if you set your expectations high. Is it a cat or a bag, or a weird shadow? Doesn't matter, I ran it over before I could figure it out and react. Or maybe it turned out to b
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The problem is that Wal-Mart doesn't pay a living wage. Are you suggesting instead that the problem is that it's possible for people earning below a living wage to get public assistance?

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