haZard_OS

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Cheating workers out of wages(theconversation.com)
3 points by haZard_OS 8y ago|0 comments
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
I hate to be a naysayer here (because I actually like the idea of this calculator) but I use R for virtually every mathematical and statistical problem I encounter. It's always open on my computer while I'm working and I'm co
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
On a number of occasions I have had prospective employers ask what my final grade was for specific classes. I have never been asked about my GPA specifically, but my grades at the University certainly affected me beyond academia.
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
>People do the calculus to decide if risk is greater than reward all the time. Technically you're right but what you seem to be missing is that people (in general) suck at risk assessment. Although they are doing "the calculus&
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
As a statistician, that has not been my experience.
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
I agree with your point but I suspect the problem with statements like the one you identified is that they claim too much. In other words, if I say "The American people want X", there are surely some Americans who don't want
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
I urge you to read Spinoza for yourself if you are under the impression that his philosophy is like Ayn Rand's. I assure you, they are worlds apart.
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
I never turn location services on and I run on mobile data (rather than WiFi) almost every moment of the day. My location was correctly determined within the specified range. sigh Ridiculous.
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It’s Time for a New Discussion of Marijuana’s Risks(nytimes.com)
36 points by haZard_OS 8y ago|22 comments
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
>I have a pet theory that more visual thinking is something that has come in from our Neanderthal ancestors. That is an interesting proposal. One thing I like about it is its easy testibility. Given how easy it is to find people without
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
More accidents happen at home for the same reason more car accidents happen close to home...that's where the people are often spending time.
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
Would you say that you haven't seen any proof that there are "inevitable" effects of (attempts at) communism?
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
An issue generated by the prospect of teachers carrying firearms is the problem of weapon retention. Anyone trained with weaponry should understand that, when you are carrying, part of your attention must be on the weapon at all times. The
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Drones used to disrupt FBI hostage situation(bbc.com)
1 points by haZard_OS 8y ago|0 comments
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
I have two laptops for work, one of which is a System76 and both are currently running POP! OS (made by System76). I have had a few hiccups with the OS but nothing major. I would say that I am very satisfied with S76. The 2 times I have had
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
Douglas Walton has been my go-to on these topics for years. For those interested in a more professional presentation of some of the concepts used in this blog post, try this: http://www.dougwalton.ca/papers.htm
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
For the record, our ability to link individual weather events to climate change is not zero. In the last 3 years or so we have become pretty good at it. https://www.nap.edu/catalog/21852/attribution-of-extreme-wea.
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
Correction: There is no NECESSARY evolutionary pressure for the triplets to be the same.
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
Even Zeno knew the arrow would arrive at the other end of the room. The real question was what was creating the (apparent) paradox. A little philosophy will get you in trouble. Just like martial arts or programming.
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
>The slippery slope fallacy isn't really a fallacy. I'm going to be just a little pedantic here and point out that the Slippery Slope fallacy is indeed always a fallacy, it's just that not every argument based on a so-call
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
I worked on a similar system when I was finishing my degree. I suspect that, in the next 5-10 years, there will be several versions of this of various sizes ready for deployment.
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
>For starters, he says, researchers should conduct "ablation studies" like those done with the translation algorithm: deleting parts of an algorithm one at a time to see the function of each component. He calls for "sliced
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
I read Magee's book Confessions of a Philosopher some years ago and it was agonizing. Magee's personal bitterness was so pungent and so awkwardly colored his thoughts on philosophical topics that I found myself struggling to finis
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
I'm interested in the concept but do you have a suggestion for a book published more recently? "Do Elections Matter?" was published almost 30 years ago.
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
Gettier cases long ago convinced me that it is useless to talk about 'truth' apart from 'justification'. Obviously, none of us can ascertain truth directly. The only way we can claim A or B is true is by appealing to som
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
Apparently, the hacker who posted this to HN is so good, he/she hacked into the future to bring it here. Cue the HackerMan intro: https://youtu.be/KEkrWRHCDQU
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
I think this is a good time to introduce Richard Wolff, my favorite economist. Here, Wolff makes a few general remarks about Amazon in comparison to outsourcing to China: https://www.rdwolff.com/is_amazon_the_1_threat_to_job
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
>When that expires, Steamboat Willie can be given away, sold, remixed, turned pornographic, or anything else. Rule 34 indeed. I honestly wonder, in this age of memes and YouTube, if we will see a sudden spasm of creative remixing of the
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
>I wonder why he's so afraid of people clearing his tracking pixels Are you being sarcastic? I can think of several reasons Zuck wouldn't want people clearing their cookies. The primary one being the loss (even though temporary
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by haZard_OS 8y ago
groan I actually had to address that claim during a lecture once. Ridiculous. For the record, I think anyone peddling pseudoscience regarding medical conditions should be shutdown hard and fast. People who suffer from chronic pain or incu

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