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by wjnc 5y ago
I’m not disagreeing with you that proper statistical research especially in a clinical setting is hard. It was the “tricks” and hint of non-physics : no-science I was responding to. I do think we should give doctors the benefit of the doubt
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by wjnc 5y ago
Small N point might be true, but “these statistical tricks work only in physics” is false on numerous spots. Things like statistical methods for controlling for certain associations aren’t “tricks” (they use GLM here) and they do not “only”
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by wjnc 5y ago
Ah that's a good point. In my example I thought of the original authors expanding on a theme. Wouldn't that be the same for Soderbergh, except that by economics he is not the sole author = owner? So how should morality come into p
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by wjnc 5y ago
But is it immoral? From the artistic perspective obviously not. Artist (painters, sculptors, architects, composers) can sell and recreate their work ad infinity. Even scientist in many fields nowadays rehash the same idea in many papers. An
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by wjnc 5y ago
It’s a 400W+ machine blazing under my desk, with relatively low performance per watt and per unit of cost and high depreciation per hour of usage. With 6 ms latency to my major IX and the stability and backup professionalism cloud providers
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by wjnc 5y ago
That’s why Dropbox is an integral part of the backup scheme ;) but it’s pricey if it’s only for photosync!
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by wjnc 5y ago
I am paying about EUR 20 / month for my somewhat paranoid backup system that includes Apple, Dropbox, Synology and Backblaze (and excludes depreciation). Worthwhile all things considering, but if Möbius Sync could sync the iOS Photo St
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by wjnc 5y ago
Think about your future self. What do you want to be able to tell a colleague, or junior, what you've learned from this failure in ten years? Focus on that. There's a lot of emotion in the now but that won't stick. Focus on t
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by wjnc 5y ago
Since downvotes are not my thing, I’ll explain my logic. The value of Legos is return customers. Build, break, drop it in the pile and never build again. (This with great fun obviously, but my experience is no box stays separate in the long
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by wjnc 5y ago
Yea, this. An app like this is a total and legal potentially huge competitor to Lego. I’d wager Lego will happily pay 100 M€+ if this would never come to fruition in order to keep the new box with book flow not slowing due to this idea. The
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by wjnc 5y ago
Do you find this troublesome? I’d personally think this hits a sweet spot but am curious.
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by wjnc 5y ago
Great story. Two things: 1. Would this still be possible today? It's a certain timeframe (for software) where this was possible. Today it's things like SAP, integrated systems and DMCA on top of it (or Excel). 2. I did the menial
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by wjnc 5y ago
Well, from the industry, re-insurance contracts aren't hard to read, but they are written in legal prose that's quite far from your average readers day to day reading. Let's say that in 50 pages of boiler plate only twenty it
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by wjnc 5y ago
Well that's plainly false. Contracts are complex and private law can solve most disputes handsomely. Insurance contracts are complex and the valuation of those contacts as well and the European legislation has made insurers both more r
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by wjnc 5y ago
I cannot follow OPs reasoning. This is consumer protection related, not so much science related. If this further underpins the right of a consumer not to be unduly subjected to algorithmic decisions without proper checks and balances I&#x27
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by wjnc 6y ago
ACCA on currency [1]: "An entity’s functional currency is the currency of the primary economic environment in which the entity operates, normally the one in which it primarily generates and expends cash." So it seems it could be a
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by wjnc 6y ago
Thanks for this! It seems like a good rule of thumb: Infinite Scroll on Desktop Only Added benefit for me would be that when I'm on my desktop I usually have the goal of getting work done, and infinite scrolling conflicts with guilt of
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by wjnc 6y ago
Let's get that quantified: Chromium LoC: 34,900,821 [1] Linux 2010: about 12 million [2] It appears that Chromium has more LoC than Linux. (With LoC being a bad measure, Linux being GNU/Linux, blah). Browsing is hard. [1] via Goog
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by wjnc 6y ago
There is no buying power on Spotify? There's different preferences that hardly come out of UI usage patterns since for those in love with album art there isn't a way to make it central. It's just not there. I would offer it&#
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by wjnc 6y ago
What I tried to do was after the loss became clear (let's say 90% of the customers walked, instanteneously and for us: unexpectedly / it's not in SV-tech), create a setting in which all involved could collaborate on a memo fo
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by wjnc 6y ago
This. One of the more fun things I've done professionally is trying to prepare an after-action report on a deal gone south. Reasonably small deal but 95%+ loss of value. I couldn't even get people to come to a shared baseline fact
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by wjnc 6y ago
Thank you. The contents are far out of my depth but there is a general optimism that comes through while reading on your site and thinking of what your are bringing to the world. I hope that this trend of microcosms to find likewise intelle
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by wjnc 6y ago
My firm is all-in Microsoft and I have to say it's not working. Power BI licenses are limited, Azure cloud cost are through the roof, anything you'd have run on a proper workstation in the old days is retired 'since we have
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by wjnc 6y ago
Don't Americans use electric heat pumps / air-conditioning units for cooling and heating, while Europeans more often heat on natural gas? My point is you need to look at the per capita energy use in comparable terms (MJ or BTU&#x2
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by wjnc 6y ago
Don't forget to convert the gas into MJ / kWh with an appropriate conversion factor. When I calculated total energy use for my household I was somewhat amazed at how much energy gas holds.
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by wjnc 6y ago
I'll just go out and give a contrarian view. In The Netherlands all this and more happened under direct government supervision. We are on the lowest ladder of vaccinations, the PII of all tested individuals seem to have leaked / b
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by wjnc 6y ago
A friend of mine was a professor at a US university in ML and came home to NED to work in medical ML and makes about that. I was amazed he wasn't at FAANG and his simple response was "My wife and I agreed that we would raise our c
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by wjnc 6y ago
An interesting thing I experience in making friends later in life is mapping expectations about 'what friends do' (I guess I pester and expect to be pestered about a lot of personal things, the closer the friendship the more perso
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by wjnc 6y ago
So then the trick is to forgo internet by disconnecting power from a few minutes before that time to the middle of the night and get power back? I do feel for the ISP's with this setup because the right thing to do would be to write in
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by wjnc 6y ago
In order to understand that ethicists aren't more ethical than normal people you need a course in ontology. We sadly lack courses in ontology in most curriculum.

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