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by bransonf 5y ago
Bingo It’s increasingly difficult to find product reviews with search engines. Massive auto generated content farms take a product name and add loads of AI-generated filler text. Pop in a bunch of banner ads and an affiliate link and they h
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by bransonf 5y ago
https://gh.bmj.com/content/3/5/e000850 $5.32-8.87 cost of production depending on the insulin analog. As noted above, I did not account for R&D and manufacturing capacity. Regardless, I tried to estimate
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by bransonf 5y ago
This is great, but (obviously) not purely benevolent. A vial of analog insulin costs something like $6-7 to produce, probably less at Walmart scale. The distribution costs probably make the net cost somewhere still in the $7-10 range. That’
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by bransonf 5y ago
Didn’t see it anywhere else in the thread, so I’ll toss in my current: The Uplift Pursuit [0] Great lumbar, head and neck support, lots of adjustments. The reclining is very nice, it’s on a double pivot. Pretty sure it’s a ‘replica’ of a S
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by bransonf 5y ago
While reading I really expected there to be some terrible conclusion, like “we accidentally ordered 100 burritos” but nope, just a fascinating burrito program.
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by bransonf 5y ago
Absolutely agree, thanks for this reply. I was cognizant of the foreign policy implications (how would this possibly get implemented globally) but I hadn’t heard or considered your points 2 and 3. Given how much lobbying I suspect there is,
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by bransonf 5y ago
> “In hindsight I wish we’d made these other measures of well-being the primary outcome measure,” he said. “However the world — the Food and Drug Administration, the European Medicines Agency — doesn’t recognize those measures as valid.”
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by bransonf 5y ago
It’s a simple equation: So long as there is more money in mining BTC than there is cost in energy to mine it, mining will proceed. No entity in the world can control the price of crypto. But, we can and already do regulate energy production
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by bransonf 6y ago
Amazing... learning of the existence/term of polyominoes is a breakthrough for me. I’ve recently been working on developing a novel statistical test to quantify sensitivity to the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP). The limiting fact
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by bransonf 6y ago
Sad to see it go, CTP has been an essential resource for colleagues and I over the last year. Post March, the Covid data space is going to change drastically (frankly, it already has) with this news as well as SafeGraph ending its Covid dat
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by bransonf 6y ago
This SO thread [0] on the subject is interesting as well. I suspect this really has no harmful consequences, most browsers have a max iframe depth, although I don’t know how it varies. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions
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by bransonf 6y ago
But at that point Tinder was already widely in use. The general public still can’t join Clubhouse at this point even if they want to.
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by bransonf 6y ago
This has to pressure Clubhouse to actually launch. It’s been what, like a year in “invite only” beta? I feel like Clubhouse is riding their exclusivity clout at this point. They should have had more than enough time to validate and scale by
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by bransonf 6y ago
Advertising is largely untapped on Reddit though. Forgetting about the main subreddits and meme communities and whatnot, you have captive audiences for small niches. Say you sell bespoke bike parts or audiophile-quality headphones, there ar
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by bransonf 6y ago
That’s pretty much exactly the point. On the consumer facing side there is the VPN market, which people use to access content in remote locations or obfuscate their traffic to prevent surveillance/fingerprinting. On the business side,
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by bransonf 6y ago
I certainly am not going to defend the whole market. I’m aware of many issues. But, there is a strict business need for these proxies. If you plan to fight giants, the first thing you need is their data. And you can’t get it without proxies
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by bransonf 6y ago
It’s pretty obvious what infatica is doing and while I agree it’s shady, I wouldn’t call it a scam. Peer-to-peer proxy doesn’t mean a botnet, at least not how I think most people think that to mean. Rather they are routing traffic through r
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by bransonf 6y ago
Considering that you will pay an additional fee with any cab/ride hailing service, there must be, therefore the additional economic incentive. Airport traffic is unique. There’s no room to loiter and additional complexity in navigating
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by bransonf 6y ago
Serious question: Why don’t they leave? I’m not saying that they should, or that conditions shouldn’t improve, but if academia is that stressful to you, why stick with it? The only potential outcomes sticking with it are that you will fail
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by bransonf 6y ago
And if you want something cool to do with this, try implementing Gliński's variant of chess. It’s something I’m dabbling in, but no doubt an order of magnitude more difficult to implement than orthodox chess. The idea of indexing by cu
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by bransonf 6y ago
Ah, thanks for checking. There are a few other hypotheses then: Testing volumes are low, meaning we fail to capture a sizeable chunk of cases. The testing strategy is bad. We’re testing people that are less likely to be positive. And possib
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by bransonf 6y ago
It’s important to distinguish between true case burden and diagnosed case burden. Testing is prone to variance due to behavior, test availability, development of symptoms, contact tracing effectiveness, etc... I suspect their modeling e
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by bransonf 6y ago
Probably one of the best papers on the topic: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2923-3 You will not find much if any based on contact tracing data. Typical participation in CT isn’t remotely close to “I ate at
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by bransonf 6y ago
> not expected to advance further as long as the Senate remains in Republican hands. > “This legislation does not legalize cannabis across the country. It stops the federal government from interfering with what states have decided to
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by bransonf 6y ago
I think you make a very good point, especially with the Google answer. But I don’t know if that shift in sentiment is unwarranted. The Google of 2005 was nothing like the Google of 2020. When Google was just a search company, they were pure
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by bransonf 6y ago
I always wonder what the vegetable vs meat market would look like without subsidies. Imagine a free market where the veggie burger at McD is $1 and the beef one is $5. How many people would opt for the vegetarian option? Instead, in the mar
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by bransonf 6y ago
Also using Caddy as a reverse proxy for a number of containers. This is definitely an attractive alternative. Really isn’t of concern at my current scale, but Nginx offers some margin of speed over Caddy.
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by bransonf 6y ago
I think the only flaw here is that while it may be trivial to get raw data from say fossil, any major multi-department retailer (Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Target, B&H...) is not going to be this easy. Prices are competitive information
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by bransonf 6y ago
I tried to do the math on the Quest 2 hardware, and they definitely cut corners to bring the cost down, but not to the point where I think they have an attractive margin. (On the $300 headset, but the accessories/storage increase defin
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by bransonf 6y ago
Will do, I’ll give it a shot sometime this week and report back. Still not sure how much of a niche WSL is, but it’s my daily driver.

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