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by vharuck 6y ago
Those who live in the desert learn to worship thirst. I can't remember where I heard this or what the exact wording is. But it's one of those sayings that reminds me to be wary of philosophies with ideals that happen to match my
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by vharuck 6y ago
Health is a deeply personal thing to many people. It's not surprising why people want to keep it secret, and I don't feel right asking them to give that up because there might be other benefits. Health privacy is something the w
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by vharuck 6y ago
This is what insurers already do. Using whatever information they can get on all their anticipated customers, they make it so the expected value of your costs is less than the expected value of all your payments. Going purely by expected
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by vharuck 6y ago
If you go by the doomsday forecasts of what will happen if nothing is done, then yeah, everyone did great. But the US and GB could've done better, which we know by seeing how things played out in other countries.
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by vharuck 6y ago
>I don’t know about martial arts. But at least in the few professions I do understand, you cannot just do a few exercises diligently for ten years and come out a master. As a guy who did martial arts and competed in small tournaments, an
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by vharuck 6y ago
What would you consider the bare minimum act to be judged at human-level intelligence? Remember, for most of the history of our evolutionary ancestors, we were hunter-gatherers that used extremely crude tools. Not really better than crows.
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by vharuck 6y ago
>No they're not; the government has already shown itself able and willing to do an end-run around the First Amendment by e.g. pressurising payment processors to refuse to do business with such websites. I cannot see how a change to
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by vharuck 6y ago
The "undesirables" can make their own websites, which are totally protected from the government by the First Amendment. The owners of the shadow-banning websites should also have the right to decide what thoughts are exposed on t
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by vharuck 6y ago
Section 230 has been used to defend a library when a child used it's computers to access pornography. It's not all chatrooms and social media. Restricting the internet to be run by people able to manage their own websites would h
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by vharuck 6y ago
We're going down a rabbit hole away from the main topic, but "depraved indifference" can lead to murder charges in some states. And burning down a building without checking if anybody's inside would definitely be deprav
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by vharuck 6y ago
Isn't that part of why we treat terrorism more harshly? It's often an indiscriminate attack that harms a lot of people. Like setting off a bomb in a government building and mostly harming private citizens who happened to be ther
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by vharuck 6y ago
One researcher has seen "communication" in one species of octopus, but it's mostly looking big and dark to drive away others, or small and light before being driven away[0]. It's a very primitive communication, like rat
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by vharuck 6y ago
I've wondered this, too. If they lived long enough after the new generation is born, they might've developed language or some other communication system.
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by vharuck 6y ago
Maybe a better analogy is Google owns the biggest road system (search) and all land beside it for billboards (ads). Very few people use other road systems. Now, one might say "But users can choose other search engines." But users
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by vharuck 6y ago
>as well as dramatically limiting immigration (accepting migrants only from other highly developed countries, deporting all illegal immigrants, and ceasing all permanent refugee programs) in order to limit overall population growth. Thos
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by vharuck 6y ago
Let's start by clarifying something. There are two uses for predictions: making decisions based on the knowledge that something will be X units by a specific date (e.g. buying stocks), or making decisions to avoid something becoming
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by vharuck 6y ago
>All these things are resilient enough to adapt to the effects of climate change. Everything lasts forever, until it's over. Extinctions are the norm in Earth's history. There's no reason to think humans are the exceptio
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by vharuck 6y ago
At the end of March, Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted between 100,000 and 200,000 US residents would die of COVID-19 over the course of the pandemic[0]. Now, only at mid-September, we're closer to his upper limit. Not to mention flu season
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by vharuck 6y ago
We're working with Microsoft on a new data warehouse for analysts, and I'd say the biggest drawback is how everything's a committee decision. We also have a data warehouse for our online public query system, but it's run
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by vharuck 6y ago
I used it one bleak winter to get a picture of the path onto a beach I visit with family every year. It was a scene I never thought to photograph, but it triggered the happy memories of smells, sounds, and the sandy wood planks under my fe
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by vharuck 6y ago
When I advise decision makers on reading statistics (in my case, state-wide health data), I urge them to focus on effect size and only use significance as a filter. Two reasons: 1. Effect size is the most important thing. The point of the
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by vharuck 6y ago
>Q What does Meth Minder cost per month? A Monitoring starts at $49.95 per month. ($11.53 per week) See full pricing here. All prices include gst I appreciate the poetics of a rent-seeking company targeting landlords.
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by vharuck 6y ago
>New modelling evidence suggests we can halt and even reverse habitat loss and deforestation if we take urgent conservation action and change the way we produce and consume food. I'm pessimistic with this claim. From my experience,
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The biggest difficulty of NSE is not the syntax, but the requirement to hold parallel mental models while writing the code: symbolic expressions and value manipulation. Juggling will always be difficult.
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by vharuck 6y ago
>The tidyverse does get iffy sometimes when you need to dig into the rlang/tidy eval area, but that’s all well-documented. Non-standard evaluation, in my opinion, does fine in the top layer (analysis scripts, DSLs). But it's a
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by vharuck 6y ago
The problem with DuoLingo is the complete loss when you slip. I was using it with my wife to learn German (I studied in high school and convinced her it'd be a great vacation). It worked great until a very busy stretch of days (I thi
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by vharuck 6y ago
My go-to has been Color Brewer: https://colorbrewer2.org But this article will help me make my own palettes for specific goals. A lot of categories have "common sense" colors (e.g., blues for male, pinks for female).
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by vharuck 6y ago
Women who painted the watches and other things with radium to make them glow in the dark became known as "radium girls." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls They were told it was safe, so some even i
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by vharuck 6y ago
Barr is a political appointee who replaced Sessions, who was dismissed by Trump for being "disloyal." Barr plays the public political game well. Career workers in Federal agencies can be partisan, but it's harder to think th
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by vharuck 6y ago
I have my cat trained to expect a phone alarm for breakfast time. Total accident at first. It was my wake-up alarm, but I started always walking up before it, and then it was the "owner's awake and over here" signal. Any m

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