throwawaylolx

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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
>radiocarbon dating puts the site a few hundred years older than Stonehenge Is it really that reliable to make such precise statements?
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
> The OP isn't arguing against outsider/non-expert discussion. Yeah, he's just strawmanning and shaming a hypothetical group for the applauses of a circlejerk.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
>Citadel, and other trade executors, are refusing to buy shares for retail traders. Any evidence on this? RH said the opposite: >To be clear, this was a risk-management decision, and was not made on the direction of the market makers
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
How about these? https://i.ibb.co/5xMfsGL/twitter.png
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
Half of your country doesn't deserve respect? Democrats need to listen to themselves first and then maybe they'll learn to listen to others too.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
All the best left-wing thinkers are also dead.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
Nick Szabo
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
The results are a lot less interesting when you read that the risk increase they found is comparable to that present during regular weekends: >The effect size of surgeons’ birthday observed in our analysis (1.3 percentage point increase
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
It is: >The effect size of surgeons’ birthday observed in our analysis (1.3 percentage point increase or a 23% increase in mortality), though substantial, is comparable to the impact of other events, including holidays (eg, Christmas and
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
Why are you and others assuming this was the case and it wasn't the original hypothesis they had in mind? They explain the reasoning for selecting this hypothesis to test: >Operations performed on birthdays of surgeons might provide
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
>Perhaps the link could be changed to the paper itself? Especially since OP's link won't load.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
Funny this post is already #7. Are we seeing many reports again? Stats right now: 1985 points | 1 hour ago | 597 comments
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
It gets even worse: https://twitter.com/joemfbrown/status/1338452107419148290 >I’m sitting here in the dark in my toddler’s room because the light is controlled by @Google Home. Rethinking... a lot right now. S
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
For many others it seems: https://i.ibb.co/ns8DgGq/Screenshot-2020-12-14-at-12-10-17.p...
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
How many employees do you think Google has? Do you think they're all working on the same task?
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
I found it impossible to verify claims like this: https://twitter.com/DavidShafer/status/1334995992102506498 All that seems reasonable to do is to wait for all court decisions.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
I only ever use GIMP out of necessity and when I do I can't wait to stop using it. I never had a pleasant experience using GIMP and it almost never failed to frustrate me. Just yesterday I had to use it, and this is what my search hist
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
There's been a lot of layoffs in tech and elsewhere recently, so that could be skewing the responses in here. I know nothing about your daily life, but as a curiosity--could it be that you face less (perceived) uncertainty on a day-to-
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
Has there ever been another one of these on HN? I can't tell if HN is just abnormally depressed or it became more so in time.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
>covid deaths You mean cases? They usually go for the biggest number they can display rather than the most informative.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
Twitter made plenty of controversial decisions during these days https://twitter.com/DavidShafer/status/1324537971215863808
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
So what statistical mistakes did this lead to in his analysis?
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
>You can't get any clearer messaging on anti/pro science. Surely you can get clearer messaging than an out-of-context misinterpreted quote.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
Do you realise how combatitive your tone is? What benefits do you think it brings to the discussion?
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
Ah, back when fraudulent voting existed in United States of America. Very interesting how much things have changed since.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
Yeah, I agree, that's way too inconvenient... I shall wait to get banned first.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
>this will initiate the potential collapse of their service I, for one, heard a few too many times "this was the last straw" for every single privacy breach that happened in the past decade and resulted in no meaningful change
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
I think to take your lessons from the pretexts is like judging a war by its casus belli.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
What's the point of these posts? It's an opinion based on nothing else than a hypothetical anecdote. Is it motivational posts for HN readers--is this what "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" these days?
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
>about 20-30% of the time I have to switch to google. What kind of searches are you making? I switch for fewer than 1% of my searches.

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