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by learnstats2 5y ago
Agree - there's nothing that stops you from asking for more. Even if you don't get it now, it sends a signal that you will expect more $ later. But, if you are really satisfied with $30ph (if you don't have a better offer to
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by learnstats2 5y ago
How would this prevent it from being a Ponzi scheme? Ponzi schemes do keep paying out, for as long as they are growing.
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by learnstats2 5y ago
The concept that one person impulsively changed their mind is not correct. The board of Tesla will have agreed the plans.
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by learnstats2 5y ago
I’d wager instead: the price of all crypto goes down. Tesla buys into some unknown proof-of-stake coin.
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by learnstats2 5y ago
The perfect cover for a pump-and-dump scheme.
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by learnstats2 5y ago
I find it important to identify that yes, a license is required to use someone else’s code - I mean this legally, not morally: you can be sued. The sibling points about trademark law (which is different) and remix culture (which has some le
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by learnstats2 5y ago
I'm not sure I deserve to be so downvoted for this, considering this clarification came after my comment ;(
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by learnstats2 5y ago
The Hatetris code doesn’t appear to have an open source license, or any license, so it isn’t open source. This use of the code is a clear legal breach of copyright, in the absence of specific agreement with the copyright holder. (On the H
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by learnstats2 5y ago
The messaging above is good because the animal suffering morality angle is implied without needing to be stated. If you haven’t been convinced by decades of animal cruelty messaging (and most people haven’t), you’re unlikely to be convinced
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by learnstats2 5y ago
Do you mean being a victim, or being helpless? I am a victim of a crime - I need to take the required action to get legal retribution. Saying “I am not a victim” does nothing to help me.
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by learnstats2 5y ago
As an adult, any service provider can claim that you agreed, when you signed up to a service, to give away your personal data. It’s presented as a contract mutually agreed between you and the service provider - you get the service; the prov
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by learnstats2 5y ago
> Chances are your quality of life will only get worse etc. The quality of your end of life gets (on average) much worse if you smoke. Not only do you die 5 minutes earlier, but you also spend more additional time with disease impacting
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by learnstats2 5y ago
> According to this logic, anyone who works in the subway should be dying, what, 10 years earlier? Which is obviously not happening. On the contrary, that sounds extremely credible. If you divide life expectancy stats just by gender and
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by learnstats2 5y ago
This grammatical structure in English is make + object + bare infinitive, e.g. “make it happen”. https://www.englishgrammar.org/bare-infinitive-2/
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by learnstats2 5y ago
This is a normal style guide that every publishing company has, not a “banned words list”.
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by learnstats2 5y ago
> the complexity of a problem like this, algorithmically, legally and ethically. I disagree with the framing of this as "complexity" when it's really "Facebook's profits would be reduced/Facebook's busi
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by learnstats2 5y ago
My belief is simply that there is no such evidence. Reasonably convincing evidence, to me, would be: - genetic precursor virus particles which have died and no longer exist - they are extinct, or, - dated blood samples with immunological ev
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by learnstats2 5y ago
> a) should have been likely Given that coronavirus would not be observable until there is a cluster of symptomatic cases in a city (and a doctor with relevant experience who can observe multiple cases - here 李文亮), I find it highly unli
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by learnstats2 5y ago
The article here also appears to significantly contradict itself. The headline says "Food Got Wasted — Mostly at Home" but the article seems to say that this applies to "food available to consumers", i.e. it is only real
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by learnstats2 5y ago
The UK has already allowed open immigration from Hong Kong, specifically in response to the Chinese National Security Law, but I'm not sure that this is really any solution.
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by learnstats2 5y ago
The genetic code itself is reasonably comparable to ASCII in complexity - every 6 bits is the code for one amino acid in a string, which will fold itself into the required protein.
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by learnstats2 5y ago
I think it's substantially different. Initial outbreaks of viruses occur geographically at random (with China having a >1/6 chance); the fact that there are significant UK, South African, and Brazilian variants has a much lower
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by learnstats2 5y ago
I agree with this - having watched the trailer and played the demo, Factorio looks to me like a game of managing logistics of transporting resources around, featuring a conveyor belt system that only works in 2D. In another game, I'd c
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by learnstats2 5y ago
> doesn't explain the complete suppression of influenza Influenza isn’t infective enough to spread during the summer months anyway (i.e. it is completely suppressed), unlike rhinoviruses, so it’s easily most plausible that a few add
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by learnstats2 5y ago
I checked the paper to try and defend it, but I was unable to find a table with significance testing or standard errors for this regression - it is just stated without justification. This seems an unusual style of reporting results, to me.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
If you believe, as I do, that racism is a systemic problem, then there is no individual action that can fix racism. Should we therefore take no individual actions? I think this doesn't logically follow.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
> It's still integration In my view integration is by definition part of calculus, and requires the concept of the infinitesimal. (This is maybe semantic, but Wikipedia agrees with me in this case). The paper shares one of the many
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by learnstats2 6y ago
The author of this blog post is wrong to say this is 'integration'[0], and is also later wrong to say it's the 'trapezoidal rule'[1]. It seems to me that it's diagnostically useful to have a standardised method
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by learnstats2 6y ago
I find it a bad principle which absolves responsibility. Stupidity is the same as malice, if the outcome is the same.
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by learnstats2 6y ago
When I'm cycling, my voice is more useful than a bell (in an urgent situation) - more instantly responsive for me to use, easier for others to locate and interpret, etc.

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