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admiralpumpkinon Childhood antibiotics as a risk factor for Crohn's disease: Cohort study

Actually the reverse, we should be skeptical of subgroup analyses, because they are often fishing for results, have issues with multiple comparisons, and are typically underpowered.

admiralpumpkinon Apple introduces new version of iMovie featuring Storyboards and Magic Movie

Clips is tragically underrated and underused.

admiralpumpkinon Always tell kids the truth (2019)

We have told our child that a "Santa" is someone who gives without any expectations, sometimes secretly or anonymously. We empowered them to be a Santa if they want to be one.

admiralpumpkinon Always tell kids the truth (2019)

What's your concern?

admiralpumpkinon Yield Curves Invert in U.S., U.K

Sensitive but not specific

admiralpumpkinon Warp – Mobile VPN

Cloudflare, are there plans for ad blocking? Currently using AdGuard DNS and it works well. Router-level ad-blocking would be an attractive premium option.

admiralpumpkinon What cracking open a Sonos One tells us about the Sonos IPO

Can you reference that timeframe? I can’t find anything from Sonos announcing a specific date. Thanks!

admiralpumpkinon The Engineer vs. the Border Patrol

https://rsf.org/en/detailed-methodology

Two clicks.

admiralpumpkinon Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website

Perhaps, but OP was referencing actions not views.

admiralpumpkinon What’s Inside Every iPhone, from Retina Displays to Cameras

On macOS coconutBattery (http://coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/) will show your iOS device battery status, including cycle count. (No affiliation.)

admiralpumpkinon Apple and Qualcomm’s Billion-Dollar War Over an $18 Part

You're not addressing the poster's point. Does makes sense for Apple to pay a % of total price of phone for one decreasingly relevant part?

Apple A series tech is destroying the Qualcomm's snapdragons just fine without any need for legalities.

Are you suggesting that Qualcomm is using its licensing fees to support an unprofitable Snapdragons? Overall a confusing argument.

admiralpumpkinon What a debate about p-values shows about science

I agree, there are always more way to make mistakes, 2nd law and all, but the process of assessing good study design, good protocol, good statistical methods, etc. are all the same as for manuscripts with non-null results. Many of these issues will, in theory, have been sorted at the funding level.

What holds us back, it seems to me, isn't process, it's culture and inertia.

admiralpumpkinon New theory why languages don’t all have the same number of terms for colors

"Digital Color Meter" in my version of macOS.

admiralpumpkinon FaceID Security [pdf]

- More secure (Face ID uses more data points)

- Less user-interaction to authenticate (though as you point out this is also a negative)

- Allows for other UX improvements, e.g., maintaining screen lighting while phone is being observed but not manipulated

- My speculation: capacity to add additional faces will be added with SW (or next HW) update

I don't understand your point #3. How do you think someone would unlock your phone with Face ID?

admiralpumpkinon A 400-year story of progress – How America became the world’s biggest economy

Strange so much arguing with no data presented or sourced.

IMF US 18.6 EU 16.4 China 11.2

World Bank US 18.6 EU 16.4 China 11.2

UN US 18.0 EU 16.8 China 11.2

All figures nominal GDP, US$, trillions, 2016, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

Things are a bit different when switching to PPP though.

IMF (2017) China 23.2 EU 20.9 US 19.4

World Bank (2016) China 21.4 EU 19.7 US 18.6

CIA (2016) China 21.1 EU 20.0 US 18.6

All figures nominal GDP, US$, trillions, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

admiralpumpkinon DuckDuckGo vs Google

You're the customer, not their product.

admiralpumpkinon Safari no longer supported by Spotify

464 for Safari Tech Preview R39.

That said this is the weakest score of the top 4 browsers:

519 Chrome 57

518 Opera 45

474 Firefox 53

473 Edge 15

https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html

admiralpumpkinon Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security

Per Apple Face ID doesn't work with photos; TBD in real world.

admiralpumpkinon iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links from shared URLs

This is a strange (repeated) response. Google set up a web detour without users' consent, and has a flagger waving upset people back to canonical links.

Apple _is_ routing people back to the main road, not because of Google's suggesting it, but because it's the only reasonable thing to do.

The implication of your comment is that if Google has asked Apple to pass on the AMP links that they would do so, which I highly doubt.

A far more appropriate summary is: Apple is acting to correct Google's interference with web links; irrespective of Google's desires.

admiralpumpkinon Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car

Apple's forte, above anyone's, is merging software and hardware. Level 5 autonomous cars align perfectly with their core competency.

admiralpumpkinon A glut has used-car depreciation accelerating

Or we'll see "gas" stations incrementally change to "gas-n-charge" stations. As society moves from liquid hydrocarbons to electrons for personal transportation I can see no reason why these locations won't adapt.

After all, people will still ingest their liquid fuel and expel their waste. ;-)

admiralpumpkinon Inciting Violence vs Freedom of Speech

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...

Taking down a Nazi website creates no onerous obligation to police the entirety of the web. Addressing only those sites which rise to prominence admirably moves us towards a better internet and society.

admiralpumpkinon Essential Phone review: An arcane artifact from an unrealized future

Agree with the sentiment that better battery life is needed.

Disagree with the premise that battery life is suffering due to camera engineering/effort. Battery life could be instantly improved by just making a slightly (in absolute terms) thicker phone. They don't need better battery through chemistry; just the will to be thicker.

admiralpumpkinon 6 Women Accuse Tech VC Justin Caldbeck of Sexual Assault and Harassment

This must have been very difficult decision to come forward. Thanks!

admiralpumpkinon Monopoly as a Markov Chain

options(digits = 3) is our friend. :-)

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Also I should have said, "nice simulation!" instead of just nitpicking.

admiralpumpkinon Monopoly as a Markov Chain

A comment on the display of the data: more decimals don't make your results look better.

Only show a relevant number of decimal places. In the case of this data most of it needed 0 to 2 decimal places.

admiralpumpkinon Firefox for iOS now available

With this (uncommon) usage of the word "monopoly", all companies of course have monopolies on their own products. Honda: monopoly on Accord, etc.

This isn't what monopoly means in normal legal usage.