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by vharuck 2y ago
I've heard the theory that high-end housing still creates opportunities for lower-end housing. If a desirable neighborhood gets new expensive units, that means (1) some residents who now earn more than when they first came can "up
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by vharuck 2y ago
Most people won't care most of the time. But if the local government cuts the budget for something you like and says "We couldn't find the money," you may care that year.
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by vharuck 2y ago
Edward Tufte is a great source for learning which types of charts and visual techniques do their job best. I enjoyed his book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information." Here's a discussion thread about pie charts on h
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Yes. Charts are communication devices. Any "rules" for charts should be seen like similar "rules" for essays or emails: good advice that almost always gives a satisfactory result when followed. Reliable paths for infr
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Prostate cancer also came to my mind first. Doctors generally stop screening for prostate cancer after a certain age (70 and older is the recommended cutoff from the US Preventative Services Task Force), because, if the cancer wasn't
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by vharuck 2y ago
It's true that people often incorrectly dismiss results with sample sizes below 100. But, for rare events, you really do need large samples. Otherwise, you'll only ever be able to confidently identify massive differences.
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by vharuck 2y ago
Save it in the usual text-based formats, like a CSV or JSON. Outside of packages, which use serialized data by default for good reasons, I haven't seen many people loading strangers' RDS or RData files. If an attacker can control
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by vharuck 2y ago
I was curious about this line in one of the letters cited: >Gutapercha ring making is all the go now by the men and some of them are making really beautiful ones. So wikipediaed gutapercha, which turns out to be a tree. The same name is
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by vharuck 2y ago
>While in the US, I've run into rules like not being allowed to plug something in because only union electricians are allowed to do that, and that's just one example among many. I obviously don't know anything about the pa
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by vharuck 2y ago
>History will not look kindly at both sides here, they really have no higher moral ground than the other There are four sides here: the Israeli government, Hamas, Israeli citizens, and Palestinian citizens. The first two are the active
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by vharuck 2y ago
Documentation for the survey, including the exact wording of the questions: https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.html For the alcohol consumption questions, they ask about the times people drank in the previous 30 days. &gt
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by vharuck 2y ago
Can you come up with a reason the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey would be wrong here? It groups respondents by county of residence. It's a long-running, well-funded, and valuable survey.
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Age limits don't make much sense. People who want them usually choose based on average mental capabilities for that age. But we don't vote for "the average American" (no matter how much they campaign on that image). W
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by vharuck 3y ago
From the NPR story: >In its formal rebuke, NPR did not cite Berliner's appearance on Chris Cuomo's NewsNation program last Tuesday night, for which NPR gave him the green light. (NPR's chief communications officer told Ber
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by vharuck 3y ago
They still do core sets (every Summer, IIRC) that fulfill those basic edition sets. Lately, they've been set in external intellectual properties. Last year's was Lord of the Rings. Might sound bad, but the D&D set rekindled
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by vharuck 3y ago
>"according to the Gaza Health Ministry" i.e. according to Hamas. I.e., according to the only available source, and one that has proven itself reliable in past conflicts. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world&
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by vharuck 3y ago
The government should assign punishing penalties for leaks that scale with the quantity and invasiveness of the data, and help grow an insurance industry for paying those penalties. That way, the law dictates how "bad" leaks are w
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by vharuck 3y ago
It's crazy how literally R takes "Everything's an object." While parentheses can be treated like syntax when writing code, it's actually a function named `(`. Of course, playing with magic sounds fun until you reme
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by vharuck 3y ago
Looking at that ruling, it seems the case you linked to hinged on a fact not applicable with the Stack: >Field had actual knowledge of the Googlebot. He also was aware of the ways to prevent Google from either listing his site at all or
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by vharuck 3y ago
Why I still use R for analysis at work: - R Markdown is just great for static reports. We use PowerBI or ArcGIS for interactive stuff. - GIS is a breeze. My work provides licenses for ArcGIS, which has a Python library for scripting. Despit
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by vharuck 3y ago
The nonprofit gave the model to the for-profit. Unless they also gave it to unaffiliated groups, how is that different from a company's R&D division?
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by vharuck 3y ago
Large discussion about a similar bill in Canada: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36524662
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by vharuck 3y ago
I keep reminding myself that, despite not being as successful as I had once hoped and been told I could be, I'm doing fine: graduated college (after 8 years), got a desk job, got married, and have a kid. I also like to remind myself th
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by vharuck 3y ago
Cancer staging is complex, as one would expect for a wide-ranging category of diseases that follow different courses and cause harm different ways. Stage depends on tumor size, distance of spread, what organs it spread to (lymph nodes are
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by vharuck 3y ago
The US has raised the debt ceiling multiple times across multiple administrations. And the debt ceiling isn't raised so that we can pass a specific bill or take a specific action, it's so we can pay for the bills and actions we a
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Saliva-based biosensor in detection of breast cancer biomarkers: HER2 and CA15-3(pubs.aip.org)
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>The economy doesn't collapse when people invest for the future, so I'm skeptical of that theory. Investing is different from storing cash in your mattress for a rainy day. Investment is effectively buying things now (labor, m
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by vharuck 3y ago
My best so far is Superninjaghostmansnowghostman
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Nuclear power station + Tsunami = Fukushima
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Many things like this remind me of Robert Kennedy's speech at the University of Kansas: >Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does

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