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by vharuck 6y ago
I read it as, "Do you have a blog? If not, have you thought about blogging?" Nothing demanding. Especially with the happy emoji at the end.
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by vharuck 6y ago
I would rather have the law lay the ground rules of what's acceptable in a society. "Free markets" (not totally free, but free enough) can adapt to the new terrain. IMO, most laws trying to get into the weeds and direct des
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by vharuck 6y ago
A sensible solution would be to "grandfather" existing and in-process Visas, and then restrict new Visas by putting limits on total foreign students a school can accept. Base those limits on the number of foreign students each sc
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by vharuck 6y ago
Might be a chance for diners or other restaurants to offer meeting rooms. They could charge less than coworking spaces and make up the difference in food and drink sales.
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by vharuck 6y ago
Remember that conversations are being read by people beyond those replying. They're less likely to be so invested as to smell blood from an admission of wrong. And if there is no audience beyond a person you think is fighting instead
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by vharuck 6y ago
It'd be hard to determine the difference between extra deaths and economic damage because of government actions versus what we would have seen with different or no action. I think, if there had been no government action, people still
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by vharuck 6y ago
As an employee of a state department of health, I can honestly say we were blindsided and had no plan. At most, our plan was "Do what the CDC says." Even if the CDC had been on top of things, much more could've been done an
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by vharuck 6y ago
>Again, probably 0.0001% of Users will so even if you give them the option. It depends on the implementation. A good example for user control is Pandora. Not hard at all to control what music I'll hear.
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by vharuck 6y ago
>Treating a threat as existential is often enormously costly, and we reliably overestimate threats. Ignoring them is a good first response, if not always a good second one. For the general public, ignoring and carrying on is a great resp
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by vharuck 6y ago
I've tried to use bars in a map for a report before. It took me a bunch of redesigns until it had something I liked (equally sized rectangles filled in proportion to the measure, no overlaps, and a thin line cutting across to show a b
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by vharuck 6y ago
I thought of a different and, in my view, more likely cause behind this story: He was interviewed by a junior reporter (who else would be assigned an article about a blogger). This junior reporter is too scared or naive to break the NYT po
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by vharuck 6y ago
B) Look into healthcare systems or public health. Defense holds sway because of its budget size, but it's not the only fat cat in town. Epidemiologists are nice, but they're expensive, rare, and usually bad at GIS programming. M
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by vharuck 6y ago
The disconnect is from one of the beliefs listed in the Twitter thread: "There is no 'geospatial industry,' only industries with spatial problems." I'm a statistician with a state health department and do some GIS w
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by vharuck 6y ago
>The fact is Scott Alexander was my canary. If a compassionate, liberal-minded intellectual that carefully understands both sides of every issue doesn't find it safe to write online it's not safe for anybody outside of the domi
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by vharuck 6y ago
This and other responses show where this service shines: as a gift to others. It's only sad if there's deception for money.
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by vharuck 6y ago
The people currently running the government had a terrible response to the pandemic. I want to replace them with better people. It doesn't mean we shouldn't invest more in local governments and private organizations from this less
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by vharuck 6y ago
States are reopening based on the rate of infection. If there was more testing and better contact tracing earlier, these reopenings would've happened earlier. Which means less money needed to keep the economy from crashing.
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by vharuck 6y ago
It's trying to solve the wrong problem. If there's a monopoly, it should be busted. Not declared a new government agency.
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by vharuck 6y ago
>Free speech is speech which is (at least largely) free of consequence. Only useless speech comes with no consequences. It's pretty much a tautology. I don't see how your definition of "free speech" is useful. In w
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by vharuck 6y ago
In my opinion, surgically precise targeting was not the problem with Cambridge Analytica. The problems were: 1. Disregard for privacy, by scraping data from people who had not agreed to their terms. And, honestly, from most of the people
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by vharuck 6y ago
Even if there were a local place or activity for socializing, going to a retail store during the day is a good move. Clerks won't have many people competing for their attention and the clerk-customer roles make it easy to break the ic
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by vharuck 6y ago
It isn't just social media that punishes good scam-filtering skills. I delayed my home loan application by two weeks because my loan officer went on vacation without telling me, and I refused to click anything in or respond to an email
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Obscure Indian cyber firm spied on politicians, investors worldwide(reuters.com)
51 points by vharuck 6y ago|8 comments
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by vharuck 6y ago
Or even stripped of the good features that "require" the cloud.
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by vharuck 6y ago
This is why I hold the "discordant" opinions that we should reopen the economy (with reasonable caveats like 6 feet distances, masks, and outside dining when possible), but am still staying inside myself like the past 3 months. I&
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Jellyfish Life History and Behavior(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by vharuck 6y ago|0 comments
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by vharuck 6y ago
That's 4chan
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by vharuck 6y ago
My best guess: this prevents situations like selling jars of "strawberry jam" which is only 10% strawberry. Which is partly backed up by 21 CFR § 150.160 (e)(1): (e) >(1) The name of each preserve or jam for which a definition
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by vharuck 6y ago
>Riots, at least those in recent events are an example of contagious social behavior. That is evidenced by the fact that the blamed issues have been known problems for longer than two weeks with people actively working for years to raise
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by vharuck 6y ago
This struck me, too. So days were 4 hours shorter 2500 years ago? The evidence our ancestors worked fewer hours a day just keeps piling up [0]! [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16656903

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