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by jcoq 5mo ago
Much of this is foisted upon us by visual designers who wandered into product design. It's a category error the profession has never quite corrected. (maybe more controversially, it's caused by having anyone with the word "de
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by jcoq 1y ago
CBS mischaracterized this memo, which says basically that there will be fewer of some jobs and more of other. It's a pretty bland memo and a thinly veiled advertisement for AWS.
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by jcoq 2y ago
Sort of an entertaining read. The cornerstone of the argument starts on page 55 - three purported statistical anomalies that appear to be well-known and debunked. * One person sees 1 of 4 images and another far away guesses the image. Suppo
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by jcoq 3y ago
You could still still see a greater left-side incidence if arm melanomas were higher on the left arm even though trunk/hip thigh melanomas were evenly distributed. The blog fails to answer the most basic question: do right-side sleeper
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by jcoq 4y ago
Agreed. I'm an extremely fit runner doing 50+ miles a week and almost all of my runs are in a super easy zone that is equivalent to an uphill walk for most people. A lot of this has to due with well developed biomechanics, but also sup
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by jcoq 4y ago
> connected very intimately Do you mean hyperlinks? They're not hiding anything: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/about-us/our-partners/co...
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by jcoq 4y ago
If we give substance X to 17 people and 100% of them die, I would recommend against taking substance X. Of course, it's not as black and white here, but sample size and effect size should be considered in relation to each other. Previo
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by jcoq 4y ago
Apologies for misrepresenting your source. I think there are salary differences across careers for a variety of complex market reasons. If I had understood the degree to which money would dictate the security of my family, I'd have spe
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by jcoq 4y ago
Nursing only requires a 2 year degree in the US and hardly any ongoing training apart from paid training provided by the hospital. There might be some additional certifications for certain fields, but that's it. Most nurses are paid ho
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by jcoq 4y ago
I don't think the mortality rate needs to correspond to the incidence of long term effects.
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by jcoq 4y ago
I was saying that I think it's better to assume you're not dishonest, just intellectually lazy.
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by jcoq 4y ago
> "The effect of vaccination was not systematically assessed." I think you're either paraphrasing deceptively, or you are being intellectually lazy. Perhaps it is better to not assume malice... The rest of the quote is: &q
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by jcoq 4y ago
This is a remarkably stupid comment but not everything is "unreasonably effective". Mathematics was noted as unreasonably effective for modeling the universe because most areas of mathematics were not invented for the applications
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by jcoq 4y ago
I came here to say the same exact thing! These courses are excellent. As a follow-up to those courses, there are also some courses about the middle ages by Philip Daileader that pick-up the story at the decline of the Western empire. (Also,
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by jcoq 4y ago
I think you're largely missing the point of this article, which mostly summarizes a novel technique for comparing gut biome diversity, and which goes through a small amount of effort to summarize the growing (if not clearly established
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by jcoq 4y ago
This viewpoint manages to miss the purpose of nearly all software engineering. We've already solved the tough algorithmic challenges relevant to most industries and those software engineers spend their time writing specifications that
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by jcoq 4y ago
There have been other studies with similar results but the main drawback of these population analyses is that glucosamine use is more likely in people with healthy lifestyles. Other supplements have shown benefits in these sorts of studies
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by jcoq 4y ago
"What does it mean to get high? In a sense, it isn’t so complicated, when we do drugs, our “elevation” rises." Clearly, drugs aren't doing anything for this author's ability to discern intelligent thought from vapid, int
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by jcoq 4y ago
Climate change has turned into a sort of quasi-religious moral issue that blends with other issues of our day. The thinking goes that, if only we could become pure and stop partaking in the evils of consumer capitalism, we might appease a h
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by jcoq 4y ago
That argument is totally unconvincing... like saying not to treat some lung cancer because the patient will just smoke more.
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by jcoq 4y ago
Nearly all of the disastrous things we've done to the planet were understood to have negative environmental consequences and yet we did them anyhow. Meanwhile, a great deal of our environmental interventions have been incredibly succes
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by jcoq 4y ago
70% of the water in Arizona goes to farming. Our state ships hay to the Middle East. Subsidized water is a ridiculous subversion of market economics. Blaming this on suburban households is like pretending that climate change would be solved
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by jcoq 4y ago
Right? There's nothing surprising about getting scammed when you give out the 2FA code.
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by jcoq 4y ago
It wouldn't be very difficult to find a senior lecturer of Christian theology in any American university with borderline insane beliefs. I wonder how much of this is lazy journalism coupled with the fact that non-believers might not wa
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by jcoq 5y ago
These all sound like pros... A project that makes you intimately familiar with a huge breadth of deep, foundational domains and that forces you to make opinions about esoteric concepts, all while pushing you to go deeper.
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by jcoq 5y ago
I would be terrified to see how some of the people I've worked with would abuse descriptors... thankfully they never knew about them(or it wasn't a python shop). I've never understood the rationale that some developers employ
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by jcoq 5y ago
Long covid is definitely a scary prospect, but I think it's interesting that people also complain about long-term flu symptoms. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58726775
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by jcoq 5y ago
You can add multiple keys to the account.
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by jcoq 5y ago
That has almost nothing to do with it. It's about convenience vs security, and specifically, auto-filled passwords across devices and applications. Anything that provides such a feature will be inherently less secure than an encrypted
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by jcoq 5y ago
This is unfair. The requirements for consumer software have become exponentially more complex during Microsoft's tenure as leader. Hardly anything worked quite right in the 90s or 00s.

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