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by xphilter 7y ago
Isn’t it just as likely that the 8% reduction in calories gave all the benefits? I briefly read the study and it didn’t seem like they had a reduced calorie group without time restrictions. Thoughts anyone?
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by xphilter 7y ago
How?
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by xphilter 7y ago
The author is obviously only taking about white people there. You’d have a different culture representing black folks. (I’d love to see if white culture is even dominate there or only concentrated in those with power).
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by xphilter 7y ago
Hah. Limited supply of lawyers?? That’s not true at all. The problem is the bloated cost of law school, which coincidentally is the same cost as the max allowable federal loans.
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by xphilter 7y ago
I'll be honest, I don't have time to go dig into this study. Nevertheless, I'm skeptical because I'd be willing to bet cities don't plant trees in the hood. There's probably a strong correlation between wealth
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by xphilter 7y ago
Things like Apple's Photos do this too but without the accompanying privacy risks.
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by xphilter 7y ago
You’re missing the point. Those clients you visited had old offices because they acted rationally and paid an appropriate amount for them (and didn’t receive subsidies). You were paying under market for a cool, new place. I bet you and thos
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by xphilter 7y ago
In your opinion, would there be any way of pushing back against tax cuts for wealthy without "vilify the rich minority"?
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by xphilter 7y ago
If you want to blame anyone, blame the RAND institute with poor studies that pump up the hype around high-deductible plans: https://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR562z4/analysis... My last reading of t
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by xphilter 7y ago
"This is why Vaping, which should cut these lung cancer rates by over 95%, is one of the most important public health break-throughs in recent memory." Not so sure about this. If the recent lung illnesses are tied to vaping, then
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by xphilter 7y ago
I have some experience with these datasets and this topic (and anecdotal experience with physicians) and I don't think this will provide anything useful. Essentially, physicians are still incentivized to bill the code that provides the
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by xphilter 7y ago
You don’t really need an article. Just have a critical mind. The net energy in exceeds energy out (for us based corn ethanol at least).
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by xphilter 7y ago
How can you compare SpaceX with Bird? One has a giant moat of billions in R&D and one would not expect it to be profitable until the actually Hard To Make product exists. The other is literally a board with wheels + a battery and small
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by xphilter 7y ago
You’re equally assuming plenty. If someone is arrested based on a false positive, they would likely be interrogated by the police. How crazy would it be for that same person to admit to a crime they didn’t do? There are plenty of hypos. My
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by xphilter 7y ago
Or, as one example, that the algorithm was never tested on people of color and so the false positive rate is higher?
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by xphilter 7y ago
What’s the point of bringing that up? They’re not mutually exclusive. The difference though is that the accused is granted the right to test the veracity of the witness. Will the accused in cases like this be allowed to challenge the code?
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by xphilter 8y ago
If this is true, Dan needs to shut up, get a lawyer, and read up on the CFAA.
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by xphilter 8y ago
Yeah, that's just not right. There are 3 questions to determine gambling: whether you pay something to play, whether there is a game of chance (a random number generator) and whether the game pays out something of value. Considering co
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by xphilter 8y ago
I don't really understand removal of graduation rates. Obviously that's meant to act as a proxy for learning, especially for those 38 states without proficiency exams.
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by xphilter 8y ago
Number one advice I give my family: never give out any information (no matter how inconsequential it seems) to a person purporting to be from a company calling you. Hang up and call the company yourself using a trusted number (e.g., the num
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by xphilter 8y ago
That’s bs. FB makes inferences about and collects info from people then uses it against those same people by allowing exclusions from ads.
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by xphilter 8y ago
No one at FB cares about anything. They bet (and have been right) that they can pay off whomever (“lobby”) so they can keep making $. This will result in nothing more than a little monetary fine and removal of one or two specific “features.
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by xphilter 8y ago
Not true. I was able to draw actual red lines excluding zip codes from seeing a housing ad. But this was 8-10 months ago. It’s possible they changed the UI.
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by xphilter 8y ago
I agree with the last part, but not the first. As a class, white folks got capital, property, education, opportunities, and more—all denied to black people. I have to think that amassing of resources have an effect today.
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by xphilter 8y ago
and What? How does your parents immigration affect US history? Do you think paying for true cost of slavery means you will have to give up your house or bank account?
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by xphilter 8y ago
But in the states, white people still get the benefits of slavery and black folks still pay the for the costs. Why should that be allowed?
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by xphilter 8y ago
You've missed the boat. It'd be akin to White Enterprise magazine checking the race of buyers before a purchase can be made or the ad being seen. That's obviously unlawful. The question is whether FB is immune from the CDA (d
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by xphilter 9y ago
Right. And judges have enforced those to the letter. But with GDPR and the like coming into play, I think judges will have to accept the reality that EULAs can’t give actual consent.
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by xphilter 9y ago
I prefer to think of it like “technical” permission (like obtaining the permission from android) and legal permission (aka consent). I doubt FB got consent.
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by xphilter 9y ago
No. This waiver would be valid in court. The other cases deal with employee-employer relationships.

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