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by vharuck 7y ago
I recently got this surprise when practicing Japanese by translating a folk tale [0]. Even revenge I was able to understand quickly turned into outright sadism. Maybe it was the morals of another time, maybe the tellers didn't care i
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by vharuck 7y ago
Don't you have to make analyses and reports "production quality?" I found that fun at first, but now it's annoying when 25% of my code is formatting and capitalizing.
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by vharuck 7y ago
I'd much rather "performative erudition" than "performative idiocy" (a.k.a. trolling), because the latter makes visiting idiots feel they're in good company[0]. [0] Paraphrased (surprisingly to me) from a Hacke
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by vharuck 7y ago
That's a tough one. I've never been an interviewer but have lost a couple short-term jobs because of depression. I also think it's the right way to avoid talking about the details. It's a medical condition. You might
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by vharuck 7y ago
We'll likely need to pipe more money into the system in the near future, so it makes sense to identify and plug some of the leaks.
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by vharuck 7y ago
>If they're not able to understand or decide they don't want to, they'll stop asking. And they'll only stop asking for a very short while (if they're like all the kids I've talked with). Children are people
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by vharuck 7y ago
In my work, it's software that offers a Python 2 module for scripting. I tried the naïve "upgrade" of copying the module into my Python 3 module library, but no dice. The software checked the version of Python, saw it wasn&
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by vharuck 7y ago
The word choice for the scales is unfortunate. I would've labeled them "religious to mundane" and "locally to globally concerned." Mostly I have a problem with any definition of "traditional" which has J
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by vharuck 7y ago
I lived in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Our whole state has infrastructure problems. For the highways, it's because we're connected to a lot of logistical hubs. But a lot of our towns, including our capital, have big problems with
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by vharuck 7y ago
This is the way evolution works. The species of the future don't come from responsive adaptation, but from not dying before reproduction. Now with a new cause of death, those species are in danger of no longer existing like nearly all
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by vharuck 7y ago
They are superpowers, but the US is a hyperpower. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperpower
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by vharuck 7y ago
My most used git command is `git help`. My soon-to-be favorite I just discovered is `git config --global alias`.
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Want to See What Your City's Pandemic Plan Says? Good Luck(npr.org)
14 points by vharuck 7y ago|5 comments
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Private companies are reluctant to instate costly efforts on their own. They might be worried competitors will get an edge by not doing the same. In a crisis, people look to the leadership above them. These companies are looking to governme
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by vharuck 7y ago
Wouldn't that discourage automation? By which I mean, wouldn't the economy optimize for busy work instead of producing more value for less effort?
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by vharuck 7y ago
>And rightly so because it usually does. True. And this is being a rational consumer. The cookies may taste the same, but I don't want to risk my money and pantry space to find out.
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by vharuck 7y ago
It might be. But I think the takeaway from "we either let people die from the virus or die from slipping in our economy" should be "let's have an economy that's more robust to disasters."
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by vharuck 7y ago
>It's just common sense. Based on what and how people share online, the "common" sense is an expectation of decency in not vacuuming data just because you can. You and I know that's silly, but that's not common
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by vharuck 7y ago
>How come we jump to CORRECT conclusions? Even if the guess was not quite correct, it usually was a good hunch that, properly adjusted, will open up new territory. How much does survivor bias play into this idea that all hunches are at l
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by vharuck 7y ago
Sorry for the ambiguous wording: more likely than before a period of strict isolation to be immune. There would still be a spike after isolation is lifted, but the total number of people infected by the end of this wave will be reduced.
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by vharuck 7y ago
It's not only to keep the number of people needing hospital care below capacity, it will also lower the final proportion of a population infected before herd immunity has an effect [1]. By slowing the spread, it becomes more and more
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by vharuck 7y ago
>Nobody is really running an RNA sequencing experiment to evaluate the impacts of a drug on the rna transcriptome with falsification in mind (even if in a sense the null of "nothing changes" is what you're trying to falsif
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by vharuck 7y ago
The employees should be able to apply for unemployment payments from the state. Which can a problem on its own, to be sure, but an employer doesn't have to bear the weight of lives all by him or herself.
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by vharuck 7y ago
In my experience writing reports on public health data, it depends on the audience and their intent. Lay people will skip (or worse, misinterpret) any paragraph containing "statistically significant." But the epidemiologists wil
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by vharuck 7y ago
If a lot of people die, a lot of economic value will be literally put into the ground: funerals, handling of estates, coffins. That's not long-term productive value. At best it reshuffles money in an optimal-blind way.
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by vharuck 7y ago
As a person who majored in math, this is very readable.
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by vharuck 7y ago
It might happen eventually. Possible explanation for why it hasn't happened yet: it's influenced by how the government employee views their relationship to the individual. I work with very detailed patient data in a state health d
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by vharuck 7y ago
COVID-19 doesn't "survive" very long on copper surfaces. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...
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by vharuck 7y ago
Have people actually been infected twice? I know people have been hospitalized for COVID-19, assessed as recovered, and released only to test positive later. But have they proven that's from a second infection, rather than a prematur
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by vharuck 7y ago
I don't remember hearing anything about the US military being involved in the recent Ebola outbreak, so is this an existing program or a proposal?

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