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by vharuck 5y ago
Same with R
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by vharuck 5y ago
I've corrected the first date comparison to be ">=". Thanks for pointing that out. >'Date("192X-XX-XX")' denotes the interval [Date("1920-01-01") ... Date("1929-12-31")] The part
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by vharuck 5y ago
>There's no qualification about the range of approximation. For example, "a day in May" may be restricted that it was definitely before the 14th of May. It's a single date that falls within a set of possibilities, wri
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by vharuck 5y ago
Any date information collected from non-computer processes can have missing or incorrect dates (e.g., doctor's notes, or a historical record saying "1920s"). Despite that, you may need to do comparisons between them. This le
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by vharuck 5y ago
>The golden age of gaming ended somewhere in 2005-ish, and now the vast majority of games are derivative and often worse than the originals in terms of gameplay. Major studios produce derivative, uninspired, and stale sequels. Much like
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by vharuck 5y ago
>Speech, in general, is just sharing information - it does not cause any direct effect on the real world If this were true, free speech wouldn't be worth defending or even debating. Speech has effects, which makes it valuable.
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by vharuck 5y ago
Similarly, a diagnosis of in situ prostate cancer means you'll have less risk of dying[1] over the next ten years compared to the rest of your age and race group. Totally not because men who catch these cancers early have good health
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by vharuck 5y ago
I recently learned Kit Kats are made by Hershey in the US. Which explains why, despite visiting the theme park and all the stores around it every year, I've never seen the crazy flavors sold in Japan. But I wonder how much money Nest
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by vharuck 5y ago
In my experience: - It has a bunch of different types of classes, and they all behave differently. Debugging isn't awful, but it's harder than it should be. Also, the documentation isn't clear about which classes to use. -
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by vharuck 5y ago
Good to know one-liners are a universal concept. My favorite English one: "A cannibal passed his brother in the woods."
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by vharuck 5y ago
>That's $100K/yr, well above the median. The median is gross personal income. It doesn't include insurance plans, unemployment insurance, taxes, or any other costs of doing business beyond materials. I haven't done
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by vharuck 5y ago
>they vast majority of the article is n=1 where they sampled one year For the sections on murder rates (not their change), n is the population. These sections make up the majority of the article. For the section on year-to-year changes
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by vharuck 5y ago
>The current sanctions will not result in hate towards the Russian government, but more hate towards us the west. In U.S. election seasons, there's a common saying: "It's the economy, stupid." Meaning, the more people
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by vharuck 5y ago
Depends on the politician. A few years ago, I wrote emails to my US House representative and one of my senators. They didn't come from a template. I wrote a few short paragraphs stating my wish, my reasons, and a bit of praise for s
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by vharuck 5y ago
And, of course, the Lyttle Lytton contest, for those who want less meanderingly-bad and more cleverly-bad. Or inappropriate sexual imagery bad. http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html
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by vharuck 5y ago
I think you're half right: China will allow Russia to circumvent trade sanctions, like they do with North Korea. But, like any irreplaceable middleman, China will extract as much as they can from Russia in the process. China loses a
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by vharuck 5y ago
>two million Ukrainians have already decided to forfeit the game outright rather than stay and/or fight. Mostly women, children, and the elderly. All Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 are prohibited from leaving the country. >All throu
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by vharuck 5y ago
>America was not politically unstable in the 90's. It may have been rocky, but not unstable. The 90's laid the groundwork for our current instability. Newt Gingrich showed that fiery and aggressive politics could win in an era
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by vharuck 5y ago
I agree. If anyone wants to study "math in practice," they should pick a science or engineering track they like. Math will be included.
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by vharuck 5y ago
The number who have stayed to fight has been amazing. However, TFA says "a research firm in Kyiv was able to conduct for Lord Ashcroft Polls in the past few days." So I'm not surprised this proportion is high among Ukrainia
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by vharuck 5y ago
>Never heard of such a thing with regards (to mention something recent) Israel attacks on Palestine. There are international groups and loose movements for boycotting Israel, especially things related to the occupied territories. They&#
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by vharuck 5y ago
The International Paralympic Committee at first did not ban Russian or Belarusian athletes[0], but required them to enter without any national symbols. Which was how Russian athletes completed in the Winter Olympics. After enough threats
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by vharuck 5y ago
There are also temporary "checkpoints" (the real term escapes me at the moment), where police park their cars, funnel traffic to one or two lanes, and ask for ID from all cars passing through. I've only ever seen this done a
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by vharuck 5y ago
>Maybe he thought they could branch into gaming, but somehow that dream died. Personally, I saw some logic. Before social media, many people socialized in online games. They could meet and talk to new people, and navigating the map was
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by vharuck 5y ago
My wife and I had our first child last October, and we wanted to collect the cord blood to donate, but the hospital said they didn't do cord blood collection. I know you can't speak for our specific hospital, but would that be a
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by vharuck 5y ago
Not to be flippant, but have you seen somebody try this and fail or be stopped? What would be the purpose of the group? Why would it need to cater to men? These aren't rhetorical questions. I'm genuinely asking.
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by vharuck 5y ago
What's worked for me is reading Hadley Wickham's "Tidy Data" paper[0] and then applying the concepts with data.table. The speed is nice, but I really love what's possible with data.table syntax and how any packages
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Friendship Hospital, Satkhira(architecture.com)
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by vharuck 5y ago
This may not be true for everyone, but it was for me. In college, I was skipping classes and ignoring friends. I just stayed in my room and played WoW. Then my graphics card kicked the bucket, and the game was unplayable. So I stayed in
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by vharuck 5y ago
Same thing I'm doing right now. I intended to copy the data into CSV files to get a better sense of tracking, but (surprise surprise) I haven't kept up in what little free time the kid allows. So far, the biggest benefits to trac

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