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Very true but you can go even further than that. Advancing knowledge is a community endeavor. Consider where the field of mathematics would be if everyone except Terrence Tao and a handful of other luminaries stopped doing math research. It would die.

I enjoyed this article about AFSI.

CTF = Capture The Flag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_the_flag_(cybersecurit...

Which year did we use steel to replace human workers and automate decision-making?

The guardian is free to read. Why post an archive link ?

Says a lot about whether you can trust the WSJ.

This is pretty neat and I am experimenting with it now, but hasn't ChatGPT had capability to create graphs and interact with data for a while? "ChatGPT advanced data analysis" for example. I'm asking in good faith as maybe some of you have been using that and can compare the two and give an informed opinion.

I usually use a lot of other tools for data analysis or write code with Claude code or another LLM to do data analysis and visualization.

article about the ChatGPT charts and graphs https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-make-cha...

There was a period of time when Crack was also very popular.

POE. Purity Of Essence ?

MATLAB is an array language.

It would be helpful to provide some citations and evidence around the claim “ most lived at subsistence levels with starvation always at their doorstep”. There is an increasing amount of evidence that this was not the case.

https://medium.com/sapere-aude-incipe/our-distorted-image-of...

Obesity and diet aren’t the primary drivers of expense in the American health care system. The market structure is.

Crazy! Imagine if human beings did not have to worry about losing access to healthcare for themselves and their children because their company went bankrupt or they got laid off. So Crazy!

“”” Flame retardants were widely adopted in the 1970s, when in-home smoking was more prevalent and electronics frequently overheated. New research, however, shows that flame retardants are not very effective at slowing or preventing fires. “””

https://www.sfenvironment.org/how-can-i-avoid-flame-retardan...

What amount of fire retardants would you like in your food? How about zero? I would like zero.

These have already been banned in CA from furniture because it creates household exposure. Why would it be ok in cooking utensils?

BTW the chemicals don’t actually prevent house fires it’s basically an industry scam to put them into products.

You left out the part where Haiti was destabilized and crushed by colonial debt. And I don’t think that lack of fish is what’s keeping the tourists away. But hey, weren’t we talking about Denmark ?

The “welfare queen single moms” criticism is a shallow critique of government assistance programs overall and doesn’t move the analysis forward in an evidence backed manner. This is an old Republican USA talking point.

Also arguing that government support reduces the strength of family networks really needs some serious citation to back it up.

A more likely danger is that a non swimmer is drowning and grabs onto another child and drags them underwater or tries to climb on top of them. This is a known danger and is a standard part of lifeguard training in the US. Drowning persons can be very dangerous to other people and to rescuers. So a drowning child can definitely endanger other kids.

This is the standard for many cities in the northeast. Power lines are underground.

This is gross. What’s the corporate motivation to not just call it what it is - a layoff?

There is a big factor out there that is 'masking a rise in incidence of CAT from accident stats'. It's Aerospace Engineers and the aviation engineering and safety community. -- Most CAT events (seen so far) are survivable by current aircraft designs, so you can have an increase in CAT without a spike in crashes and other accidents.

The key part of this comment is "I've never been to New York".

Hard for you to understand who currently lives in Brooklyn? Has plenty of high income households and expensive real estate.

If you’re unfamiliar with how commodity gold is priced, it’s by weight. So this comparison is likely comparing price per unit of weight.

In newspapers and magazines, 'publisher' is an executive title and is usually a different than 'editor' and 'owner'.

This is a significant story with reportedly serious breaches of journalistic ethics by a senior executive at the 'Post'.

Agreed it’s obnoxious. It also shows the balance of power between consumers and large businesses internet companies.

Best of luck safe travels buh-bye!!

Opinion unencumbered by data.

Arnold Barnett, a statistician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has studied airline safety, tells NPR that from 2018 to 2022, the chances of a passenger being killed on a flight anywhere in the world was 1 in 13.4 million. Between 1968 to 1977, the chance was 1 in 350,000.

"Worldwide flying is extremely safe, but in the United States, it's extraordinarily so," Barnett said.

In the U.S., there has not been a fatal plane crash involving a major American airline since February 2009, though there have been a handful of fatalities since then.

Brickhouse, who has studied aviation safety for over 25 years, often tells people that the biggest risk of any air journey tends to be driving to the airport.

More than 40,000 people are killed on U.S. roads each year.

"Aviation remains the safest mode of transportation," he says.

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/12/1237262132/why-flying-safe-un....

No. They do both, and that is directly shown in this study and in other studies. They eliminate many types of injury and make others less frequent.

False. Helmets are shown to reduce concussion and other head injuries in sport.

For example:

https://ufhealth.org/news/2021/headgear-significantly-reduce...

Female high school lacrosse players are significantly less likely to sustain concussions and other injuries if they wear headgear, a landmark study led by University of Florida Health researchers has found.

Girls who play the sport in states that don’t require headgear had a 59% higher concussion rate than players in Florida, the only state with a headgear mandate. The researchers also found lacrosse games were more hazardous than practices: Concussions were 74% higher during competition among players in states without headgear requirements when compared with Florida players.

Those details emerged from data collected during 357,225 games and practices in Florida and other states during three seasons from 2018 to 2021. The findings were presented today at the American Academy of Pediatrics national conference