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by vharuck 6y ago
>maintenance which is extremely unsexy In Pennsylvania, we've put off maintenance so long, the politician who funds it will become the sexiest man in the state. People here hate potholes more than redirected traffic.
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by vharuck 6y ago
>I don’t think there is that much coordination happening at the federal level right now. There is, but it's divided between two types of bills: boring and sensationalist. Boring bills usually get coordination, bipartisan support, a
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by vharuck 6y ago
As far as I can tell, insurance only makes sense if the cost of the insured event would ruin you. Otherwise, you're better off just setting aside some cash into a savings account and calling it your insurance fund. Insurers will alwa
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by vharuck 6y ago
>Researchers had programmers fix bugs in a codebase, either with all of the identifiers were abbreviated, or where all of the identifiers were full-words. They found no difference in time taken or quality of debugging. I would not have e
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by vharuck 6y ago
I think it's a pretty good measure to include. It can act like a catch-all for what other measures don't capture. And, as we've seen, it's a pretty good way to forecast changes not likely good for democracy. I've
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by vharuck 6y ago
At the risk of breaking the rule on talking about votes, this comment would probably be more welcome if it dealt with a specific situation. Right now, it seems like a coy lead into a "gotcha."
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by vharuck 6y ago
According to the report's summary, it was a drop in citizens' trust of the government: https://www.eiu.com/public/topical_report.aspx?campaignid=De...
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by vharuck 6y ago
These are all great to use for data exploration. But if you're going to show data to a non-analyst audience, stick to bar charts (not histograms), trend lines, pie charts, and choropleth maps. I'm not trying to condescend. I&#x2
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by vharuck 6y ago
If the patient were a robot, this would make sense. But people are easily scared, especially by the word "cancer," and fright can lead to bad decisions. And this is a decision that's made by individuals, including the docto
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by vharuck 6y ago
The field of mental health says something is a disorder if it causes a noticeable and real problem. It's a beautifully simple idea: "Is it causing a problem? If yes, let's help. If no, leave well enough alone." Quotin
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by vharuck 6y ago
It bothers me so much that the pairing of katakana and alphabetical characters has nothing to do with pronunciation. >The positive thing about Kanji is that it allows for quite an efficient expression with more nuance. As a person only a
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by vharuck 6y ago
I think that happens much less often than you think. It just so happens that stubbornly opinionated people are more likely to respond, so that's what we see. The emptier cans rattle loudest.
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by vharuck 6y ago
First, I dislike the AP style guide. So my own writing will sometimes violate it just to please me. As for periods, any phrase that is a complete sentence must have a final punctuation mark. So my bullet points would've required peri
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by vharuck 6y ago
Style guide. Sounds like the one my work uses (Associated Press): - Numbers up to ten are written as words - Numbers 11 and higher are numerals - Any number that starts a sentence is written as a word
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by vharuck 6y ago
Exactly. This is why there's a goal for percentage of positive tests. We want to see a high proportion of negatives, because that means the virus is rarer but more likely to be caught in that population.
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by vharuck 6y ago
>Is minimum wage workers affording an average 1-2 bedroom apartment with no other householders a goal we have set? There's a very good chance there are people whose quality of life would be drastically diminished if they had to shar
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by vharuck 6y ago
I was "lucky" to have been majoring in psychology right before getting diagnosed with major depression. So I went into treatment knowing things like this that helped me stick with it. Which was a literal lifesaver, because the fi
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by vharuck 6y ago
Copying a quote I shared in a previous discussion about the hack's implications: "Justice Department lawyer Jennifer Utrecht in her reply [in a Supreme Court case] acknowledged the president’s tweets are official government statem
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by vharuck 6y ago
You're probably spot on about in-depth journalism being the only path forward. News used to aggregators of what's happening, but social media and customizable feeds do it better and much faster. So journalism should focus on w
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by vharuck 6y ago
>what [he] tweets relates to what he will do. More than relates, it is the doing. "Justice Department lawyer Jennifer Utrecht in her reply acknowledged the president’s tweets are official government statements" https:/&#x
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by vharuck 6y ago
At risk of sounding callous, whether or not there was a violation of human rights is irrelevant to this decision. The law shouldn't be interpreted so that it hurts somebody (who might deserve it) right now. If the previous allegation
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by vharuck 6y ago
People keep saying things like this, but is there any proof it works? Sure, the 24 hour news channels will bounce around, but as a vote-winning strategy it's done very poorly. The Republicans lost the House in 2018. Trump's nev
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by vharuck 6y ago
As with everything, the devil's in the details. The Belgian Data Protection Authority agreed with Google about one set of info (possible political affiliation) and with the complainant on the other (unfounded harassment charges). Fro
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by vharuck 6y ago
I hate to be that guy, but who would pay for it? The barebones and dull textbooks we have now came about because their publishers chase government money. I'm even less hopeful there's a profit from selling to individuals or homes
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by vharuck 6y ago
The GPL is good at promoting open source software. The WTFPL is very open, but it's not good at promoting open source. Because anyone can take your software and sell it without providing the source code. Very open for the immediate
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by vharuck 6y ago
>Changing one’s license is in general not a great idea. When somebody uses your software, they need to be able to trust they can use it in the future under the same terms. IANAL, but I think this is wrong. Unless the license stipulates
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by vharuck 6y ago
>those credentials will then be in your projects history forever more (or until nuking the history becomes more important than keeping the history) With Git, it's not "nuking" so much as "retroactively creating a diff
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by vharuck 6y ago
Imposter syndrome is hard to evaluate because it's comparing three levels of skill: 1. Your skill 2. The skill required to do your job well 3. (Implicitly) The skill of your peers The third one is what gets a lot of people who don&#x27
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by vharuck 6y ago
Foreign students and better educated domestic students aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, things work better when we have both. Even in the small and non-elite college I went to, there were foreign-born professors. My one math prof
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by vharuck 6y ago
More than once have I gotten a result at work like "88,888 cases" and then spent days making sure it wasn't a horrible bug.

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