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by xgb84j 4y ago
They actively discourage its use: "Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie, Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten (DGVS) rät davon ab, Stuhltests zur Untersuchung des Mikrobioms zu nutzen." In my opinion there being no e
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by xgb84j 4y ago
In german speaking countries gut microbiome analysis is considered alternative medicine by many medical professionals and is actively discouraged by some interest groups. [1] There always is a gap between medical research and application wh
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by xgb84j 5y ago
I was wondering the same thing! I always assumed that payment processing was one of the most "winner-takes-it-all" business models out there.
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by xgb84j 5y ago
People dislike PHP because its standard library had many inconsistencies and interesting design decision that no sane programmer would ever even think off, like all random numbers being odd ( https://stackoverflow.com/questio
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by xgb84j 5y ago
"The best and brightest built a state of the art forecasting model and it says I should do X" sells much better than "I assume this year will be exactly like last year and last year we should have done X". Basing your de
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by xgb84j 5y ago
The main problem that I and many others have is not the policy of the month but how targets are shifting. When the measels vaccine was introduced it was clear that after one or two shots you were safe for many years if not for life. Seatbel
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by xgb84j 5y ago
Many of these people are heavily traumatized. Charles Manson for example was mistreated by his mother and in prison. If there were better child protective services and a more humane prison system in place, he might never have done what he d
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by xgb84j 5y ago
While violence is sometimes justified, I think it's still better to build a society that tries to solve its problems without violence or prevents problems that can only be solved with violence. When you have reckless people attacking t
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by xgb84j 5y ago
Science can be used to analyze subjective experiences, but analyzing something and being the one and only all-knowing oracle is a big difference. Science is always constrained to an ideal world, but reality is messy. There is no one correct
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by xgb84j 5y ago
> > science alone can never legitimate itself > Nether anything else, religion is based on faith and dogma. It can never be legitimised by facts as it will not be based on faith anymore. > So what's the point of your statem
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by xgb84j 5y ago
Science works very well for things like not getting sick, understanding physical phenomena or getting to the moon. But for some goals like being happy, finding meaning in life or cooking a tasty meal science is only of limited use. Also I d
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by xgb84j 5y ago
The article is written in a convoluted way, but the main points it makes are valid in my opinion. The first being that science alone can never legitimate itself as being the only true way of doing something. This legitimization must come fr
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by xgb84j 5y ago
There is a middle ground that exists only when you combine science with common sense. Let's say a chemical X is used in baby food production. There are no studies that show that it is harmful, because no studies have been done yet. Man
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by xgb84j 5y ago
I think scientism relates to beliefs that equate the current state of scientific knowledge with absolute truth and ignoring unknown unknowns and limits of scientific methods like statistics. A common fallacy is that "absence of evidenc
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by xgb84j 5y ago
I missed a _not_ in that sentence. I and most other people on HN obviously want to know everything.
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by xgb84j 5y ago
There are 4 things he could have done: 1. Don't reveal any secrets. 2A Reveal secrets that harm candidate A. 2B Reveal secrets that harm candidate B. 3. Reveal all secrets that harm candidate A and candidate B. I don't think anybo
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by xgb84j 5y ago
4 years ago at work we compared Kafka to alternatives and ended up using it. In my opinion the only reason for using Kafka is that you need a very very highly performant message queue. It had bad usability at the time and some very annoying
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by xgb84j 6y ago
Yes, but those are different people that might be killed, which makes it an ethical dilemma. Depending on the type of adverse reaction, it might be safer for young people to not get vaccinated at all or with a different vaccine. (For exampl
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by xgb84j 6y ago
The ethical issue is that the people dying from COVID and the people who might have an adverse reaction from the vaccination are not the same people. If mostly old people die from COVID but the adverse reaction of the vaccine is independent
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by xgb84j 6y ago
I think software quality in research has nothing to do with the problems themselves. It's more like article suggests that nobody cares about your software. The only goal is to get published and be cited as many times as possible. Your
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by xgb84j 6y ago
It just shows that I, you and the average person is much closer to them than we think. If you put enough money on the table I'm sure many more people would do the same thing as those currently in power. It's just that most people
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by xgb84j 6y ago
Great article! I also found that the aim to be objective in everything and use metrics as truth and not just another input is pretty harmful over the long run in business and science. Things that are hard to measure are ignored most of the
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by xgb84j 6y ago
I found the book "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle helpful in controlling or getting rid of harmful inner dialog.
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by xgb84j 6y ago
In my part of the world offices were the last places to shut down due to COVID and are still partially open. Losing social interactions at your workplace happened after heavy restrictions were placed on meeting friends, family and going any
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by xgb84j 6y ago
I think the issue is not that the changes don't matter but that they end up being a substitute for addressing the real problem of structural racism. A CS analogy: Using a linter is good, but it doesn't fix bugs in your code. Prete
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by xgb84j 6y ago
Asking how long a feature will take is like asking how much it will cost to renovate an old house. Nobody can know for sure but you as an expert can give a better estimate than most other people. Nobody just asks a structural engineer to ju
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by xgb84j 6y ago
I do that partially by focusing explicitly on a single objective like performance or test coverage. In reality you need to compromise, but by keeping the scope of learning projects artificially small you learn a lot about that one aspect an
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by xgb84j 7y ago
It's also the risk distribution of one large vs. many small changes that heavily favors many small changes.
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Ask HN: What software do you use to generate PDFs?
2 points by xgb84j 7y ago|3 comments
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by xgb84j 7y ago
The argument about children is easily invalidated by the fact, that for some reason that during the Vietnam / Afghanistan / Irak war many children were harmed for much less than everybody's privacy.

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