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  1. Re: Science is hard on Is Statistical Significance Significant? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    What's the difference of difference error?

  2. That's exactly right, I was asking you to come up with an experiment we could perform at a smaller scale. You agree that Texas doesn't match what you are trying to do.

  3. Texas has property tax. Do you have a more realistic example?

  4. Can you think of an experiment we could try to test the consumption tax that wouldn't screw us royally if your hypothesis is wrong?

  5. Re: Well here's a questio: on Kickstarter's Staff Is Unionizing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a false dichotomy.

  6. Re: In defense of the p-value on Is Statistical Significance Significant? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Everyone needs to understand statistics in the modern world. People who don't get lost and very, very confused.

  7. Re: Science is hard on Is Statistical Significance Significant? (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    The scientists in the article are complaining that people conclude two things are the same when there is no statistical difference between the two. You can't conclude that: all you can say is "we aren't sure."

  8. Re: Quant vs Qual on Is Statistical Significance Significant? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Best description of narratives ever. It also explains why marketers like them so much.

  9. Re: Hail incoherentism! on Is Statistical Significance Significant? (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    The real problem is when scientists aren't interested in finding something significant, they are interested in getting published. In that situation, even setting the threshold at .0005 will end up with p value hacking.

  10. Re:Efficiency of machine versus of human on Coders' Primal Urge To Kill Inefficiency -- Everywhere (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't have a timer, you don't know if you've sped things up or slowed them down.

  11. Facebook says an ongoing investigation has so far found no indication that employees have abused access to this data.

    The CEO himself admitted to using this data to hack users' email.

    The incompetence of these people is astonishing.

  12. Re:Better than cigarettes! on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    But if I had to choose, I'd choose the e-cigs any day.

    e-cigs are so much better for you than cigarettes that everyone should switch to them immediately. For reasons you mentioned, like tar.

    If someone wants to quit, then quit later, but switch to e-cigs now.

  13. Re:Oh for fucks sake, no. on San Francisco Moves To Ban E-Cigarettes Until Health Effects Known (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    That's not really true, SF has been doing a lot with the homeless recently. If you walk down Market street, or down the Mission, you'll see that the number of homeless people has dropped.

  14. Re:Is there a non-cynical explanation of oppositio on California Reintroduces 'Right To Repair' Bill After Previous Effort Failed (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Right to repair laws definitely will put burdens on manufacturers to do stuff, change stuff, provide stuff, and manage stuff that they are not otherwise obligated to do.

    These changes are pretty minor. We're not talking about a huge expensive design effort or anything, and I say that right now as I am working at a manufacturing company.

  15. That's making assumptions. Another hypothesis is that people in developed countries have fewer kids because they aren't worried about their kids dying.

    My great grandma had 15 siblings but only one of them survived. With that kind of survival rate, it's only natural too have extra just in case.

  16. Re: Recycling is a dead end on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the tree killer angle poes law? Or a disingenuous representation of actual concerns about deforestation?

    Killing trees was a primary environmentalist concern not long ago. Now it's not, but it will be again.

    Cutting a tree down isnt a problem if you plant one.

    You don't make paper out of just any wood. There are huge plantations of monoculture trees that make your paper, displacing the natural biosphere of the area. Cutting down a tree to make paper is without a doubt killing a living object.

  17. Re:Well here's a questio: on Kickstarter's Staff Is Unionizing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I would assume they want to try to hold management to a 40 hour work week for the employees

    That likely means timecards and clocking in and clocking out. No thanks.

  18. Re:Need to do it right on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    in Japan they meticulously sort the recyclables and deliver to community bins

    That's overly optimistic. The recycling categories in Japan are confusing, varied, sometimes contradictory, and different people have different ideas of what's optimistic.

  19. Re: Recycling is a dead end on As Costs Skyrocket, More US Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Glass and paper are not a problem

    Paper's not a problem? Tree killer!
    Glass is not a problem? Broken pieces of glass everywhere on the ground. I'm glad those days are over.

  20. Re:Is there a non-cynical explanation of oppositio on California Reintroduces 'Right To Repair' Bill After Previous Effort Failed (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    The only reason a consumer would not want the ability to repair is if it made the device more expensive. In some cases that might be true, but generally, it's not.

  21. You can lay down and die now and no one will help you. That has nothing to do with being homeless, white, or male.

  22. Re: another unsecured ELK cluster on Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This defect can be mitigated with a proxy that provides authentication and URL filtering.

    I strongly suggest setting up a VPN, there are several free packages and it shouldn't take more than a day to set up.

  23. Re:another unsecured ELK cluster on Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    There is absolutely zero reason to have any database on the open internet. "nmap $hostname$" today, make sure your IPs are not exposing things they shouldn't.

  24. Re:aka on BBC Visits 'Hated and Hunted' Ransomware Expert (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Normally when there is a polarizing debate, where I find both side to be exaggerated (which is easy to get on American News, and flipping sources to weed out the truth from hyperbole)

    That's the distance giving them perspective. The BBC can be completely biased when it comes to British news.

  25. I know plenty of homeless white males in the US. I've known some in other countries, too.