wavegeek

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by wavegeek 9y ago
> PATCHING OF KNOWN CRITICAL SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IMMEDIATELY. I worked in system admin for many years. If anyone was actually foolish enough to do this, they would be dealing with multiple major outages every year. > for every co
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> For a wide range of common statistical tests, transitioning from a P value threshold of α = 0.05 to α = 0.005 while maintaining 80% power would require an increase in sample sizes of about 70%. This seems unintuitive and the claim is
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> Prosecutors don't charge people if they aren't fairly confident that the evidence will result in a conviction. Yes they do. They throw a huge array of charges, provable or now, at people with the intent to scare them. Punishi
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by wavegeek 9y ago
Lithium has gone up in price about six fold in the last 15 years and is currently about 4 times as expensive as lead per metric tonne. I suggest that something is wrong with your assessment.
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by wavegeek 9y ago
Your calculation assumes that the production and distribution of 1MJ of electricity takes 1MJ of raw energy (e.g. in the form of Coal). This is off by a factor of several. For example coal fired power stations are maybe 45% efficient. Then
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> The problem we have now is that 80% of heroin is laced with fentanyl (at least in Vancouver), and it's causing a huge overdose problem. Even cocaine and MDMA is now sometimes cut with fentanyl. When you give criminals a monopoly o
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by wavegeek 9y ago
The linked article just quotes someone saying this with no citation.
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> By the straight math this could cover 17% of daily usage If you are heating from room temperature to RT+50C the actual energy extractable (as electricity) from that heat is only about 15% of what you put in https://en.wikip
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by wavegeek 9y ago
Yes what I am saying is that this is a big project that requires a huge and coordinated investment.
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by wavegeek 9y ago
They are saying that storage is not needed in the grid because a) Households will have storage in the form of batteries b) We will replace the existing grid with a grid that advises devices of he cost of electricity. c) We will replace exis
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> bacteria/viruses from thousands if not millions of years ago will most likely not be able to bind to our cells. When the white man arrived in South America and in Australia the diseases they carried devastated native populations.
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by wavegeek 9y ago
> Without any knowledge of the situation Above poster argues that the problem is the way the facts were presented. - Doesn't provide any evidence for this My experience is the opposite. When dealing with ideologues there is no way t
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by wavegeek 10y ago
Yes - the big killer is the "bell curve". Once people realize that making other people look bad is in their interests the organization is doomed. You need to get rid of poor performers but that should be based, as far as you can p
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by wavegeek 10y ago
The main difference is how quickly the decline happens. The end result is the same. MSFT was in the 10% camp and are still in recovery.
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by wavegeek 10y ago
Andrew Gelman seems to be fairly middle of the road and he is a leading statistician - literally wrote the textbook(s). He is fairly skeptical http://andrewgelman.com/2017/02/22/cloak-and-dagger/
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by wavegeek 10y ago
What we have here now is effectively prohibition with all that entails i.e. a huge black market.For people on average incomes, tobacco is now in effect an illegal drug. The official stats on smoking exclude the black market and greatly unde
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by wavegeek 10y ago
I agree. I recently had to write a project in Ruby and all this random syntax is driving me mad.
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by wavegeek 10y ago
Let us know when you've fixed the world sonny. The early boomers did really well from the system, the late boomers not so well as taxes increased, the job market got tougher, pension plans were tightened etc.
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by wavegeek 10y ago
> These arent dead boombers Anyone born during 1945-1962/5 is a boomer. So the oldest would be about 70 now. We are seeing the less healthy cohort drop off e.g. rock musicians, athletes in fields that need to abuse their bodies to
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by wavegeek 10y ago
> many of my classmates were essentially relying on memorization. This so much: Cookbook approach to statistics without insight leads to terrible results, much data effectively thrown away - very costly data $millions worth. I have some
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by wavegeek 10y ago
5 alpha reductase inhibiters like Finasterade slow the conversion of Testosterone to DHT, which is a more potent androgen. This conversion occurs in the skin, liver, prostate and retina. Using a 5aR inhibiter mostly affects those organs alo
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by wavegeek 10y ago
The difference is not that monitoring causes disease, but you are not doing surgery or radiotherapy, and it is not doing that which results in higher risks, in some patients. Unfortunately they mixed up Gleason 6 (low risk) and 7+ (intermed
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by wavegeek 10y ago
I have been through this study and the supplements carefully. The major problem is that they mixed patients with low risk (Gleason score of 6) and those with moderate risk (Gleason 7) and even some with high risk (8+). When you look at the
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by wavegeek 10y ago
The 99% 10 year survival would be disease specific. This is pretty normal for a cohort first diagnosed with PCa. Most are low risk low grade cases and survival is good. Other causes of death are usually orders of magnitude higher e.g 10-20%
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by wavegeek 10y ago
> That's $180,000 annually at a measly 0.75% interest Actually that 0.75 is negative in real terms (after taking off inflation currently 1.1% - not to mention taxation). A person drawing $180k would be burning their capital.
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by wavegeek 11y ago
The problem is that with long term return structures (such as long term R&D), there is no feasible way to arbitrage away wrong prices. So prices can diverge a long way from fundamental value. This issue happens most visibly with the ove
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by wavegeek 11y ago
This kind of thinking could be problematic. What would happen if someone compared the performance of whites and persons of African heritage at college?
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by wavegeek 11y ago
This study fell into the trap of allowing people to judge themselves by their conscious intentions, and others by their actions. I assume this is advocacy research, because such incompetence is rare, even in the social sciences.
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by wavegeek 11y ago
Warning: this article is by Dijkstra. You may remember him as the person after whom the unit of arrogance, the nanoDijkstra, is named.
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by wavegeek 11y ago
Similar criticisms of the called "Lord of the Flies" study where they got two groups of boys to fight each other. Preconceived outcome, manipulation of the subjects. Deliberate provocation to amp up the conflict etc.

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