evandijk70

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by evandijk70 22d ago
A lot of places in the Netherlands (particularly the low margin ones like supermarkets) don't accept credit cards.
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by evandijk70 2mo ago
I notice a big shift in my social circles the last few years. Non alcholic beer has gained a lot of popularity. I was advised by my doctor not to drink more than one beer a week due to an health issue O was having, and I was a little worrie
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by evandijk70 2mo ago
A full cure would probably have less side-effects, since a functional cure means a life-long dependence on drugs.
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by evandijk70 2mo ago
Lots of reasons. The new drug could be cheaper to manufacture, fewer side effects, a full cure in stead of a functional cure.
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by evandijk70 2mo ago
The current situation is that the person that doesn't know programming will do it anyway. They will likely make more mistakes than an LLM will.
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by evandijk70 2mo ago
Not an expert, but I think the algorithm works for any base, not just 10. The python implementation uses base 2^30 for their multiplication. Base 10 is just a convenient illustration The lookup table would not work for that case
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by evandijk70 5mo ago
I had access to several health datasets for my research in the past. Date of birth was rarely given, especially for the bigger projects where there were more resources to allocate to privacy protection. Neither was date of death, location,
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by evandijk70 6mo ago
It doesn't. The Netherlands has a system with both not-for-profit and for-profit insurers, that works reasonably well. - Transparent, identical rules for minimum coverage and strict rules on minimum and maximum deductible for all insur
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by evandijk70 8mo ago
During a 50 km hike you are not anywhere close to your VO2 max, so it makes sense that the VO2 max is not predictive for that distance.
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by evandijk70 8mo ago
I would say that gambling with skill component is still gambling. For example, in blackjack you can limit your losses by following a basic strategy, which is a 2x2 matrix with rows containing the value of your hand and columns containing th
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by evandijk70 10mo ago
Because there is little solar in the 3 winter months, so you would need a lot more storage for solar then for nuclear.
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by evandijk70 11mo ago
Most net worths over $2 mil are created by growth in share value, not by income/salary.
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by evandijk70 1y ago
I think this would work for the summer months. Overnight storage is manageble/cost-effective by load shifting/battery storage/etc. This is now estimated at about $100/MWh ($0.10/Kwh). Seasonal storage is a completel
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by evandijk70 1y ago
They are indeed fair. The strongest poker bots are not AI in the way it is commonly defined. From my understanding they calculate the nash-equilibrium for a simplified game and extrapolate that to the full game.
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by evandijk70 2y ago
In the Netherlands, there is street charging everywhere. It is indeed a bit more expensive if you do not have a dedicated parking place, but not more complicated. By law, public charging has to be available in 'reasonable walking dista
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by evandijk70 2y ago
Normally a long payback time is fine, but I would expect that in ~5 years, faster charging will be prevalent and the current chargers will already be obsolete, or at least less popular.
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by evandijk70 2y ago
This article is from 2023
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by evandijk70 2y ago
Replace author 2 by reviewer 2 and this is probably what happened.
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by evandijk70 2y ago
This is, at least for now, a relatively small market. Illumina acquired the company manufacturing these chips for $100M. Analysis of a genome in the cloud generally costs below $10 on general purpose hardware. It is of course possible that
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by evandijk70 2y ago
Not just safety, but also effectiveness. FDA checks whether the trial(s) to prove the drugs effectiveness were run correctly (eg. the randomization, the control group, etc.), if the statistical analysis was done right, if the endpoints are
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by evandijk70 2y ago
This already happens, it's called 'compassionate use' https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory-overview/resea...
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by evandijk70 2y ago
Why is that a better fix? Transit also has externalities (pollution, congestion, noise), just fewer than cars.
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by evandijk70 2y ago
Do you have any references to these claims?
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by evandijk70 3y ago
They already do for a lot of publications. Check the 'reporting summary' in this random article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07171-z#rightslin...
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by evandijk70 3y ago
Purely speculating here, but perhaps omitting the reason was a condition of the hypervaccinated individual to cooperate with the study?
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by evandijk70 3y ago
AFAIK there is currently know way to reliably tell from DNA sequencing data whether a prostate cancer will become dangerous. That may change, but I suspect there may be some inherent stochasticity in the transition of a cancer from benign t
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by evandijk70 3y ago
Not a biologist, but won't the tropical amphibians migrate away from the equator? It seems to me that polar bears and penguins have bigger problems
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by evandijk70 3y ago
What effect size is big enough for you to worry about? A quick google search shows that smoking reduces life expectancy by 5-13 years depending on the study. Let's say that for smoking, the 'true' reduction of life expectancy
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by evandijk70 3y ago
Actually, if you would park illegally with a rental car, Hertz would get a ticket. They would just hold you accountable for it.
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by evandijk70 3y ago
No. In the event of a bankruptcy, the inventory should be sold to the highest bidder and used to reimburse the creditors of the company (probably the IRS/investors/suppliers). Bringing scooters to your house would still be theft.

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