karlh

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by karlh 2y ago
I think it should be allowed. His actions often have significant impacts on tech and he seems to be expanding his reach by taking control of government spending science funding.
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by karlh 5y ago
My wife and I share google sheets for grocery list. When one of us notices something we need we can add it and whoever goes to the store can get it. Additional sheets contain lists of reference info, the size furnace filter we need, the mod
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by karlh 6y ago
Good point. But really, all advice from older persons to younger persons carries a strong element of survivorship bias. The data are biased but RCT studies are not practical so it's reasonable to use what we have (recognizing the limit
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by karlh 6y ago
What makes you think social media keeps you informed? (Honest question)
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by karlh 6y ago
To me, the appalling part was not the shove, it was likely unnecessary but I do not think the officer intended to put him in the hospital. The appalling part is the deliberate lack of any help once he was down and obviously seriously injure
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by karlh 7y ago
As I understand it, the difference from flu is that it's much, much more contagious. 10 pct hospitalized is very different if there are 100,000 cases vs 100,000,000. There are roughly a million hospital beds in the U.S., I dont know ho
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by karlh 7y ago
This article looks like nonsense. The idea that the silver-threaded garments seemed so credible that use of a control group was deemed unethical, for example, is silly. This appears to be pseudoscientific blather.
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by karlh 7y ago
Just as interesting is the role of culture on pain experience. I believe I recall a study some years ago that showed differences in pain experience across different countries/cultures. Immigrants to a new culture continued to show resp
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by karlh 7y ago
Interesting. A bit over 20,000 people complete suicide by firearm in the U.S. per year ( https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm ). Where did FBI find over 50,000 annual bare-hands-or-feet deaths?
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by karlh 7y ago
You mention removing "most" unit tests from the app, not all of them. Does that mean that you find some of them valuable and some not? This might suggest that perhaps you feel like you are maintaining too many unit tests, a little
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by karlh 7y ago
Would there be issues with decelerating?
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by karlh 7y ago
It is the quality of the research methods used to support his ideas that are coming under fire. The fact that somebody published a study (or studies), even in well-respected journals, does not compensate for poor design. Likewise, poor desi
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by karlh 7y ago
Never stopped using Firefox. Chrome came from Google, the conflicts of interest were obvious.
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by karlh 7y ago
Better to donate directly to causes you support or through places like Kiva.org (yeah, I know they have their issues too, but still better than Amazon).