"Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers." https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7834133-intelligent-individ... - Socrates
Nobody is proposing to remove the infrastructure itself. It's a question of who gets to decide who gets to _use_ the infrastructure. Imagine that you have a private company that manages all of the toll roads in a city.…
"Chase closed my accounts and banned me and I don’t know why" https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=324148 "How to survive a Chase Shutdown" https://milestomemories.com/survive-a-chase-shutdown/
Anecdotes are data. Quite literally. Each is one data point. A data point is not a conclusion. To draw valid conclusions you need a large body of data. But each anecdote is, quite literally, a single data point.
In general, I think that having knowledge of multiple different tech stacks is good. The IT industry is constantly changing and evolving, and learning to evolve and change is good. Also, you might want to take a look at…
Login fatigue. Yes, I use a password manager (1password). But it means I need to stop going through the sign-up flow, jump over to the password manager, create a new login, change the password recipe from random-letter…
Most people don't want to manually update code and patch their speakers. They want to push a button, and get music. Not run a local IT department
Consider the security aspect, as well. Apple is generally considered much more secure than Android phone. For example, see this Ted talk that describes how this security gap is a civil rights issue. Basically, Android…
Firstly, I don't see how she has any legal obligation to pay for the medical care, at all. Your friend didn't get the medical care, her father did. Unless the father is a legal dependent of your friend, she isn't…
I think what you get out of a book is more about the person reading it, and what they are looking for, than it is about the story itself. Dr. Seuss's "Oh, the places you'll go" could be read by one person as just a…
It's comedy. Most sci-fi and fantasy novels are serious, so having a comedic bent is unusual, which is interesting. Beyond that, though, comedy itself can be interesting because it looks at life from a different…
Without some kind of efficacy standard, you could sell water as a cancer cure. That would be very bad for health outcomes. However, I do agree that it's a difficult topic, in general. Off-label drug uses is one example.
There are food allergy tests that you can take, too. I've done the ALCAT test, and it was very helpful. It's a blood test, and provides a big list of red/yellow/green foods. e.g. Red = likely to cause a strong negative…
The problem with forcing someone to reveal a secret (e.g. a password), is that ultimately, there's no way to prove that someone actually knows the password. If I say that I forgot the password, and a judge throws me in…
> The current drug regulation regime strikes me as backwards--it seems that the more appropriate assumption should be to not regulate a substance, until it can be shown to be harmful The problem with this approach is…
Two other places that do microbiome analysis: https://ubiome.com/ http://humanfoodproject.com/americangut/ UBiome is a Silicon-valley startup. American Gut Project is a university research project out of Boulder, CO.
The two main pricing models, today, are: 1) fixed monthly fee for one providers' content (e.g. Netflix) 2) pay-by-the-drink (e.g. $3.99 for this episode) I spend a lot less on pay-by-the-drink services than I do on…
Grade school. I learned that computers followed rules. And if you learned the rules, you could make it do interesting things. My classroom was the first class in the school to get a computer. At the time, nobody knew…
In the US, the bus is generally seen as a "poor-person's" transport. Trains are considered middle-class transport.
Check out this TED talk : He says that android phones are inherently less secure, and also cheaper. So, poor people are more at risk of police scraping data off your phone.…
Any suggestions for good treatment options? Taking acid pills with meals (Betain HCL) is one possibility. Any others?
As measured .. how? I understand liking your country. I'm an American, too. I like my country, a lot. But, I think that the phrase "we are the best in the world" gets thrown around a lot as a meaningless platitude. It…
As for 3), current market forces are clearly not sufficient to create good competition across most markets. It's extremely capital intensive to build a wired, to-the-home network. Heck, look at Google Fiber. Even Google…
Human? I thought he was a "hyper-intelligent alien with a tangential interest in human affairs." :) https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV... Of course, he is also one of the richest people on the…
Agree. Also, see the DW Nominate scores for congress. https://voteview.com/parties/all Liberals are at 0.38, and the most extreme they've ever been was 0.39. They have been somewhat more liberal than they were in the…
"Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers." https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7834133-intelligent-individ... - Socrates
Nobody is proposing to remove the infrastructure itself. It's a question of who gets to decide who gets to _use_ the infrastructure. Imagine that you have a private company that manages all of the toll roads in a city.…
"Chase closed my accounts and banned me and I don’t know why" https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=324148 "How to survive a Chase Shutdown" https://milestomemories.com/survive-a-chase-shutdown/
Anecdotes are data. Quite literally. Each is one data point. A data point is not a conclusion. To draw valid conclusions you need a large body of data. But each anecdote is, quite literally, a single data point.
In general, I think that having knowledge of multiple different tech stacks is good. The IT industry is constantly changing and evolving, and learning to evolve and change is good. Also, you might want to take a look at…
Login fatigue. Yes, I use a password manager (1password). But it means I need to stop going through the sign-up flow, jump over to the password manager, create a new login, change the password recipe from random-letter…
Most people don't want to manually update code and patch their speakers. They want to push a button, and get music. Not run a local IT department
Consider the security aspect, as well. Apple is generally considered much more secure than Android phone. For example, see this Ted talk that describes how this security gap is a civil rights issue. Basically, Android…
Firstly, I don't see how she has any legal obligation to pay for the medical care, at all. Your friend didn't get the medical care, her father did. Unless the father is a legal dependent of your friend, she isn't…
I think what you get out of a book is more about the person reading it, and what they are looking for, than it is about the story itself. Dr. Seuss's "Oh, the places you'll go" could be read by one person as just a…
It's comedy. Most sci-fi and fantasy novels are serious, so having a comedic bent is unusual, which is interesting. Beyond that, though, comedy itself can be interesting because it looks at life from a different…
Without some kind of efficacy standard, you could sell water as a cancer cure. That would be very bad for health outcomes. However, I do agree that it's a difficult topic, in general. Off-label drug uses is one example.
There are food allergy tests that you can take, too. I've done the ALCAT test, and it was very helpful. It's a blood test, and provides a big list of red/yellow/green foods. e.g. Red = likely to cause a strong negative…
The problem with forcing someone to reveal a secret (e.g. a password), is that ultimately, there's no way to prove that someone actually knows the password. If I say that I forgot the password, and a judge throws me in…
> The current drug regulation regime strikes me as backwards--it seems that the more appropriate assumption should be to not regulate a substance, until it can be shown to be harmful The problem with this approach is…
Two other places that do microbiome analysis: https://ubiome.com/ http://humanfoodproject.com/americangut/ UBiome is a Silicon-valley startup. American Gut Project is a university research project out of Boulder, CO.
The two main pricing models, today, are: 1) fixed monthly fee for one providers' content (e.g. Netflix) 2) pay-by-the-drink (e.g. $3.99 for this episode) I spend a lot less on pay-by-the-drink services than I do on…
Grade school. I learned that computers followed rules. And if you learned the rules, you could make it do interesting things. My classroom was the first class in the school to get a computer. At the time, nobody knew…
In the US, the bus is generally seen as a "poor-person's" transport. Trains are considered middle-class transport.
Check out this TED talk : He says that android phones are inherently less secure, and also cheaper. So, poor people are more at risk of police scraping data off your phone.…
Any suggestions for good treatment options? Taking acid pills with meals (Betain HCL) is one possibility. Any others?
As measured .. how? I understand liking your country. I'm an American, too. I like my country, a lot. But, I think that the phrase "we are the best in the world" gets thrown around a lot as a meaningless platitude. It…
As for 3), current market forces are clearly not sufficient to create good competition across most markets. It's extremely capital intensive to build a wired, to-the-home network. Heck, look at Google Fiber. Even Google…
Human? I thought he was a "hyper-intelligent alien with a tangential interest in human affairs." :) https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV... Of course, he is also one of the richest people on the…
Agree. Also, see the DW Nominate scores for congress. https://voteview.com/parties/all Liberals are at 0.38, and the most extreme they've ever been was 0.39. They have been somewhat more liberal than they were in the…