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by sov 8y ago
Missed opportunity to call it Hogwash.
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by sov 8y ago
The big problem is the manual pollination and harvesting. Growing the vanilla can be done with a suitable climate in many tropical locales, but pollination requires a lot of care--you need to balance getting deep enough to actually pollina
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by sov 8y ago
AS someone with vanilla, I'm gonna disagree with you a bit here. Growing your own vanilla is very difficult ( assuming you're not in a place where it grows outside naturally). Not only do you need a significant amount of green
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by sov 8y ago
My argument isn't that the README won't be easily readable between git interfaces. My argument is mostly a) I expect that conversion rates will be higher going from GH -> GL if the guide is hosted on GH, and b) the guide is a
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by sov 8y ago
Well, then why does it even matter that it's hosted on GitHub? If GitHub is being used as little more than a public hosting page that people will directly link to, then what benefit is there from being on GitLab? To be more specific a
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by sov 8y ago
So, the idea would be to show gitlab to... people that already use gitlab? I think this way captures a market of people who are familiar with github who want to transition to gitlab. The nature of the guide is such that we're relyi
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by sov 8y ago
That's a Dylan quote. https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/absolutely-sweet-marie/
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by sov 8y ago
That's not what these "fuses" do.
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by sov 8y ago
> It would be obsolete because it would no longer be as usable. What on Earth makes you think this?
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by sov 8y ago
So? How would blowing all 32 "fuses" make the console obsolete?
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by sov 8y ago
> In a pre-hotel era, it could have been also argued that hotels reduce the housing stock. After all, if long term residents dont use them, you could build residents in that place. Sure, in a pre-hotel era, but then someone thought &quot
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by sov 8y ago
> That requirement is as sensible as saying that vancouver should outlaw residents from vacationing outside vancouver to ensure there are no vacant properties. Its not the goal to maximize each minute within a housing unit, thats not som
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by sov 8y ago
You'd be correct iff a) the dwelling is occupied near-100% of the time AND b) hotels, hostels and similarly-zoned dwellings are routinely at capacity OR c) the dwelling rented is the principal residence of the owner. Do you have data t
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by sov 9y ago
I think you're rather far off the mark here. NB: I work in this field, so, take that for what it's worth. Yes, material recycling could be better from a pyrometallurgic perspective, but that's only an issue once a significan
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by sov 9y ago
If that were the gp's argument, I'd have no problem with it (heck--I'd agree with most of it).
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by sov 9y ago
A lot of things that basically boil down to budget, optimization and space available. If you have a drug that you believe you can show a strong effect with the effect group at ~15 people, maybe you run the trial with 40 (15 e.g., 15 contro
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by sov 9y ago
> Small study Almost entirely irrelevant, provided it's properly powered--and based on the effect size and p-values, it is. Furthermore, for an 18 month trial, 40 people is larger than most. > probably not preregistered I mean, t
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by sov 9y ago
Do people actually put "objective" on a resume? It seems laughably hackneyed. My experience is that something near 40% of people have it, and it usually is the most trite sentence possible.
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by sov 9y ago
That's an interesting take, but not one I'd agree with. The argument that Thiel acted unethically by funding Hogan's lawsuit is not one that I support. You can picture it as a millionaire throwing his money around to exact v
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by sov 9y ago
How many studies, on average, does it take to show an effect p<=0.05 for n=31 where none exists? How many for n=200?
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by sov 9y ago
This has nothing directly to do with sample size. First, that's obviously not a rephrasing of what they said. They, very clearly, illustrated a valid case for a well-powered, low sample size study. They presuppose a case where 31 v
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by sov 9y ago
Err, I don't quite agree with your description. The takeaway from your post was that low-n is worthless and high-n is ineffable, full stop. The size of the trial has very little to do with whether or not we are to believe the resul
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by sov 9y ago
That's not entirely true and doesn't really convey the right message about p-values or study size. P-hacking and selection bias are definite concerns, but they're also concerns for studies with 200, or more, participants. R
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by sov 9y ago
"This is obvious to me and therefore obvious to everyone" isn't the most compelling take on the article.
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by sov 9y ago
"Volunteer" internships are illegal in Canada
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by sov 9y ago
The sad take-away from Hogan v Gawker isn't that a millionaire can spend money on a whim to exert justice where he so desires, it's that you need that level of money to seek justice in the first place.
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by sov 9y ago
I gotta say--I love gitlab. We use a self-hosted version of it and it's fantastic. I think the best thing about it is the extra features don't bog down the interfaces. With tools like JIRA, or even github, it seems that to &quo
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by sov 9y ago
The way I read it is that: hey, they hired a person whose most relevant experience is a music degree. Of course, the title certainly leads itself to other interpretations.
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by sov 9y ago
This happens frequently. See: metabolic wards.
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by sov 9y ago
You might be interested to hear about GiveWell and Effective Altruism. http://www.givewell.org/ https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ GiveWell, in particular, publishes a bunch of information (cost/benefi

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