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by kweinber 11mo ago
Heart disease is grossly overrepresented because the default cause of death is “cardiac arrest”. This is because that the definition of death is heart stoppage in most states. So if a doc doesn’t know the actual cause, that’s what they wr
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by kweinber 3y ago
I’m not defending anything about a lab leak. I’m addressing the previous poster’s question about why there were attacks on Asian Americans and not Russian ones. The lab leak theory and weaponization theories were never squelched. The righ
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by kweinber 3y ago
At the time the US had a president that routinely used race-baiting as a divisive political technique. He admired Vladimir Putin and defended Russian actions, so the Russian people weren’t a subject of his attacks.
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by kweinber 3y ago
Did you watch the hearing? He specifically said that licensing wouldn’t be for the smaller places and didn’t want to impede their progress. The pitfalls of consolidation and regulatory capture also came up.
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by kweinber 3y ago
If there are rules and they sometimes have exceptions or inconsistencies, that doesn't mean that there aren't any rules. English is phonetic in that way. Sometimes the phonetics are applied with exception-cases and alternatives.
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by kweinber 3y ago
I find it interesting that some people feel that moving away from cities and towards a more natural lifestyle means moving to a farm or ranch. As Steven Pinker notes in his brilliant “Enlightenment Now”, there is nothing natural about a far
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by kweinber 4y ago
This is an economics problem and this teacher should work with their Econ department to change the rules for course auditing and increase reputational costs to disincentive this behavior. A few options: 1) Make auditing those classes more
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by kweinber 4y ago
Here’s a bigger thought. Imagine a world where serial killers get caught a lot earlier before killing scores of people. The government is not the only enemy.
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by kweinber 4y ago
We were about to be a two Tesla house this year and now there is 0% chance we’ll be that after the latest shenanigans. Although my car is well made, I’m a little embarrassed to drive it around now.
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by kweinber 4y ago
Sad loss. One might wonder how much faster technology’s state of the art would have progressed if we had more people like Fred Brooks working in the field.
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by kweinber 4y ago
It makes versioning not seem so bad by introducing you to hotter hells.
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by kweinber 4y ago
This sounds really patronizing. I would be careful with that phrasing. People who don’t want their problem solved often know the solutions and don’t like the tradeoffs or change they entail. It is often not a knowledge problem.
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by kweinber 4y ago
or an HBO Max account.
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by kweinber 4y ago
Great question. There is a study on a program in Kenya from a company called GiveDirectly that tries to analyze that very question: https://files.givewell.org/files/DWDA%202009/Interventions/C... Here is a m
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by kweinber 4y ago
Apple. Do not track. Ad impressions plummet. Revenue drops. Hiring stops. That’s why Facebook is trying to get you to stop looking at your phone and strap on an oculus….. there are no privacy guards there.
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by kweinber 4y ago
This comes up every few years and it is important to note that the opposite is true. Most unhappy families have drug abuse or interpersonal abuse at play. Most happy families are happy and fulfilled for a variety of interesting reasons.
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by kweinber 4y ago
Society values investment strategies and medical innovations. If society finds out it has been defrauded, then society tries to reclaim its investments and punish the fraudsters.
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by kweinber 5y ago
Allies are dying today. Someone could help save them and you are talking them out of it?
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by kweinber 5y ago
Defending an ally from an enemy is not something the US government punishes people for. If you want to help the people of Ukraine then #standwithukraine.
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by kweinber 5y ago
Nice defenestration reference. Slow clap.
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by kweinber 5y ago
As I learned from a smart trader: the right guess at the wrong time is just as wrong as a wrong guess.
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by kweinber 5y ago
Environments don't create primadonnas. It's a matter of attitude and maturity. Being an expert doesn't make a person insufferable.
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by kweinber 5y ago
You might be a giver looking for another giver to build something bigger together. It isn’t correct that givers only want takers. Think of it like cofounders.
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by kweinber 5y ago
Having the same job title and having the same job performance are two very different things. If one person is grossly outperforming another do you have to write them a new job title to compensate them for it?
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by kweinber 5y ago
Automatic versioning of data and CDC (change data capture) broadcast of data deltas to external systems.
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by kweinber 5y ago
It’s an old story that only the dregs are left over by demo day?
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by kweinber 5y ago
I’m not a proponent for endless growth, but the metaphor is fraught. An economy is not a single animal, it is a collective…. And collectives/herds/packs in nature grow to the limits of their resources (or create more collectives)
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by kweinber 5y ago
Elixir is like the alternate town in Blazing Saddles. It looks great but you find out there aren’t really people nor library depth there. After it blows up your staffing and project plans you end up moving back.
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by kweinber 5y ago
For those claiming this should be handled in courts: 1) you know it won’t be… especially internationally at the expense of the accuser that has to go through an extradition process. 2) it is still valuable to warn others that a predator is
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by kweinber 5y ago
It seems the hackers currently in your network must value those same features. Very convenient.

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