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by vharuck 6y ago
I've found their bias mostly comes through in word choice (which is actually a big problem if you aren't actively questioning it) and stories on certain topics. I avoid any articles by Code Switch or Goats and Soda (they often fo
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by vharuck 6y ago
It's presupposing a negligible effect of racial bias on arrest data. That's a very good reason to not use it in showing a negligible effect of racial bias on another scenario involving police. I'm struggling to think of a b
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by vharuck 6y ago
>Start censoring, editorializing etc. and section 230 protections will be gutted. If you mean they'll stop applying to Facebook, I don't think that's true. If you mean 230 will be repealed, then the pessimist in me is will
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by vharuck 6y ago
230 covers a lot of situations. For example, it has been cited by a judge who ruled in favor a library, which was the defendant[0]. This protected the library's choice to let patrons use the internet on library computers. It's
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by vharuck 6y ago
A Chinese official, for one https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/technology/trump-twitter-...
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by vharuck 6y ago
>The people being censored here can't even themselves go to any alternative platform, because there's really no other platform at that scale for that content format. What about setting up a blog on whitehouse.com? Most normal
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by vharuck 6y ago
>The reason free speech exists as a concept is because of a historic understanding that there fundamentally cannot be an unbiased arbiter for 'good' or 'bad' speech. I thought it was to protect citizens' rights t
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by vharuck 6y ago
According to most of the countries mentioned in the article, trials of HCQ are still going on. The WHO put its trial on pause. Other countries are just stopping the use of HCQ outside of approved trials.
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by vharuck 6y ago
That assumes independent events. But "failing" early (weak social network, poverty, lost a lot on the first big gamble) have a large effect on the size and risk of the next gamble.
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by vharuck 6y ago
Being angry over politics is a pastime in the USA. Not sure why this happens in some countries and less so in others.
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by vharuck 6y ago
I've found that, if somebody has trouble understanding a type of statistic (log-scaled, survival rate, confidence interval), it's because they never use them. You could say we should teach these things in high school, but why? S
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by vharuck 6y ago
Some of the comments at the bottom of the article lament the "innumerancy" of the general public. But let's be honest: logarithmic scales take effort to read. And like any kind of communication, you should make it easy to r
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by vharuck 6y ago
What's an example of a "politicized" disease? In fact, here's the CDC's budget for fiscal year 2021: https://www.cdc.gov/budget/fy2021/congressional-justificatio... What would you cut?
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by vharuck 6y ago
>Some experts say the worst consequence of the frayed relationship is a general sense that the CDC has lost its place as the face and voice of public health in the midst of a 100-year pandemic. This will be the second worst outcome of th
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by vharuck 6y ago
If you think nobody is championing a cause because it's never mentioned, try looking it up wherever there's a list of all the bills bouncing around your government. If there's still nothing, and it's not a current parti
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by vharuck 6y ago
It's a sliding scale between immediacy and accuracy, with a very high upper length of time for perfect accuracy. I work with death record statistics for a state government, and our reports use data from 2 years ago. A big reason is
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by vharuck 6y ago
Or a third outcome: nobody realizes the game has a lesson. Instead, they revel in the antithesis of your message. See: Monopoly
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by vharuck 6y ago
In PA, my doctor's only been able to send Adderall prescriptions directly to the pharmacy within the past couple years. If yours doesn't, check that it's not a rule from your insurance. My insurance makes me sign a form to
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by vharuck 6y ago
Let's say a repo on GutHub has the Perimeter license, and I clone it to a public repo. Would I be unable to include any personal changes on the clone I have? Because it'd be a substitute product that's distributed via GitH
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by vharuck 6y ago
As a state government worker, this jives with my experience. The ultimate beneficiaries of any budget savings or improved processes are citizens who have no idea, let alone input, about what we're doing behind the scenes. It's v
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by vharuck 6y ago
fread can also accept a shell command which it will run and use the result as input. I use that to grep the lines I want from files too big for RAM.
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by vharuck 6y ago
Things you're assuming: 1. Consumers use OnlyFans as a poor substitute to an in-person relationship. 2. It's always better to be in a romantic relationship than not. How is camgirling and pornography so different from other perfor
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by vharuck 6y ago
How senators voted: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_...
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by vharuck 6y ago
I wonder how much money would be saved by governments encouraging remote work. Less road repairs and widening highways for commuters, less concentration of consumer spending in cities that double in population during daytime. My small city
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by vharuck 6y ago
>I count throwing out a foreign oppressor, like the American revolution The revolutionaries were British citizens, just like the soldiers they faced. Sure, England shipped in more soldiers, but neither side was more foreign than the oth
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by vharuck 6y ago
This article is low on substance. They quote a generic "analyst" from Susquehanna Financial Group, but never say why that company is worth listening to. The details were in "a note published Monday." Published where?
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by vharuck 6y ago
>But you are right that other people looked into it, but I just have the impression that most of us really didn't care (including myself) I'm with you about not caring enough about pandemics before. But this is where bureaucra
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by vharuck 6y ago
Racial discrimination is not allowed in hiring, but we can't read minds. So statistics are what we fall back on to test the question, "Assuming they don't care about race, are the racial demographics of their employees an un
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by vharuck 7y ago
>By that logic can they remove videos claiming masks are effective at protecting yourself and society from the virus? Cry wolf when this actually happens. I try not to be dismissive, but the repeated harping about masks strikes me as a
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by vharuck 7y ago
>require one to show the space around him using a mirror. I'm hard-pressed to think of many subjects where an "open book" test isn't a better option, even for in-person classes. If a cheat sheet can help during a tes

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