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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> I was curious about the origin. It may not be what you expect. As someone who's been following this for over a decade, I can assure you it is, in fact, what I expect. That article is absolute nonsense, which you can tell by the fa
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> This seems a little baffling to me because these evangelical groups are uniquely American. I'm referring to one of several groups that is behind a specific campaign in the US. That doesn't mean that there aren't other ef
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> If you ask for ID verification to see NSFW content they know hardly anyone would provide it, and at the same time it opens you up to a lot of liability in handling extremely sensitive PII. Yes, and that is exactly why Morality in Media
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> The responses to this comment show that people's ability to read and comprehend text has decreased dramatically in the last few years Or they show that GP wrote an ambiguous piece of text.
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> It was weaponized once with how they created armies of teenagers who called their local representatives and made threats. This is an extremely dramatic way of saying "they had a banner in the app which informed users of a policy t
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Plus of that 15% that do own a car how many actually only use the car within the Congestion Zone a significant portion of the time? My guess is the number is well below 1% of car traffic could possibly dodge a significant portion of th
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> It wasn't gimped, it was a PR play so the governor could claim to be saving citizens costs by 'lowering' it. That doesn't make sense, because $15 was already the lower price that she fought for.
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Originally it was meant to be $15, but was ultimately lowered to $9. It was originally supposed to be $27. $15 was the lower price that Hochul fought for and issued a press release boasting that it was the correct price. Then she jus
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> I just wonder why they choose not to enforce this aspect of it when it can be a significant population (in a statistical sense) of the car traffic as well as revenue. It's not. 85% of Manhattan households don't own a car at a
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> However, this was accompanied by hikes in public transit pricing. It was not. Public transit pricing is completely independent and did not change with the implementation of congestion pricing. > I don't think transit officials
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> In the case of a TLC driver you'll have them paying probably well over $100 a day (assuming the $2.75 charge x 4-5 trips an hour give or take) and aiding in the transport of probably dozens of people to their destination. This is
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> The uber/taxi fee is charged per ride, whereas private passenger cars pay once per day. Seems like a reasonable tradeoff. The fee for cabs was actually set by dividing the regular fee for private cars by the average number of trip
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> You don't mention the year(s), but I recently listened to Jordan Peterson's podcast episode 503. One Woman’s War on P*rnhub | Laila Mickelwait. Laila Mickelwait is a director at Exodus Cry, formerly known as Morality in Media
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> I just got a Pixel Watch 3 and find it impossible to understand how they have such an advanced monitoring on so many health aspects, including sleep cycles The Fitbit integration with the Pixel watches is not great. The Fitbit support
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Please tell me that "subdivision" here doesn't mean residential development. Probably. I can't speak to the person quoted in the article, but for many owners of agricultural land, selling to developers for building
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
Like most articles on American farming, this article doesn't actually specify what constitutes a farmer[0]. Oftentimes, "farmer" is used to refer strictly to the people who own arable land, not the people who actually work
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Is instagram usage counted in active threads users? I doubt it It is if they have a Threads account and interact with any Threads content on the Instagram app, which is extremely easy to do even accidentally, because they shove it into
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> You don’t think it’s reasonable to tell your employees that as a condition of employment they have to be at a specific location at specific times? You think it's reasonable to hire someone remotely, then later forcibly relocate th
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> The scientific method is sound != every experiment that claims to use the scientific method is sound Sure, which is why I asked OP to define what they meant by "scientific method". The statement doesn't mean a whole lot
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> I am sure there are plenty of people who misunderstand or misinterpret statistics. But in my experience these are mostly consumers. The people who produce "science" know damn well what they are doing. As a statistician, I cou
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> The 0.05 threshold is indeed arbitrary, but the scientific method is sound. I guess it depends on what you're referring to as the "scientific method. As the article indicates, a whole lot of uses of p-values in the field - in
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> The one (and only) time I filled a prescription for propecia a couple decades ago, one of the warnings said something akin to: pregnant women should not even touch a broken propecia capsule due to the risk of birth defect. Lots of drug
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> nah. its politically motivated hacktivists that are pro Palestinian. This is... the most obvious false flag I've ever seen
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Can we get the other half to convert? Gendered articles are so annoying to remember, especially if you have to travel between German-speaking places that don't agree on all the noun genders. English speakers cannot be expected to
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> There are also a measurable economical issues for non-English-native nations to have to use the de facto lingua-franca of the day that is English. Of course neither German nor French would be a better alternative as a global internatio
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> I assume they're under HIPAA regulations You would be incorrect. HIPAA does not apply to 23 & Me (or, for that matter, to almost any direct-to-consumer product).
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> Isn’t the standard definition that you continue to use the drug despite it causing serious negative problems in your life? There's no one standard definition of "addiction", and most concise definitions (one or two lines
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> A big difference is that caffeine isn't addictive. It may seem like it, and you do get a few headaches when you quit cold turkey, but you just don't get the intense graving you get with addictions. I'm curious what defin
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> To have a reviewer under your employ that doesn’t know what UBO is or it’s dev, makes me feel pretty confident in siding with gorilla on this, but I hope that he does calm down a bit and put the extension back up. FYI, it's UBlock
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Sure, it's nice when you can sandbox a helper, but it's irresponsible to suggest there's anything wrong or unusual about having the kind of powerful extensions that Google doesn't want you to have. You're argui

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