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They've corrected for this. From the abstract:
> Adjusting for additional demographic and clinical covariates, and accounting for competing risk of death, did not substantially affect results.
Even if you use a secure email service (whatever that means), the other party you're emailing with rarely does, so the NSA/CIA/MI6/whatever still has access to your 99.9% of your email traffic. If you don't want this, then don't email.
I truly don't get why we're having these discussions here on HN.
And then he sold for €45 three years later.
Given that "simple heuristics and topics are plenty to target ads", is it correct to assume that your payout/cost is similar for publishers/advertisers compared to networks that target users?
Is it really true that banks block transactions related to sex work because they are morally against it? Last time I checked banks just want to make money. This is a genuine question by the way.
> But just a few weeks in, Twitch shut it down after a change of policy that included, among other things, a ban on visible nipples for those who “present as women”. At a time when societal views around gender and sexuality are in many ways opening up, restrictions on sexual expression [...] feel positively archaic and seem to demonstrate that [...] there remain highly unaccountable powers making decisions about how we express something so utterly natural and human.
Although I fully support the free the nipple movement, I can absolutely understand that a streaming platform wants to ban nudity / sexual content. Sure, sex is natural and normal, but compared to other human behaviour it is still in a league of its own.
I once posted a genuine question there: "Do you think /r/thenetherlands is an echo chamber?"
"[Your post was removed for being off topic]"
Oh well. Now I just don't use reddit anymore. My life is better because of it.
They way I see it, this is the best photo backup approach one can possibly take. Just get flagged for child porn, and have all your iPhone photos stored indefinitely on FBI servers.
Does the FBI have geo-redundancy?
When you're overweight, you "just" have to get into a caloric deficit. "Just" undereat 7700kcal and you've lost 1kg of bodyweight. It's that simple.
Except it's actually hard.
The two articles linked to at the bottom talk about multiple years, the third link points to a news article that refers to some research that uses one year as a minimum.
This feels more believable than "a few months". My flat mate has ADD and has phases during which he's clearly addicted to alcohol. At one point he stopped drinking completely for over 6 months, but drank a small amount once and things spiralled out of control again.
He does view addiction as a personality trait (in part because he knows that people with ADD develop addictions more often), and that attitue actually seems to help him. These days he abstains from addictive things because he "knows" that he'll get addicted to them once he starts.
I believe in the thesis of this blogpost (that addiction is in fact an emotion regulation problem, and that it can therefore be cured), but the approach my flat mate takes these days works pretty well, at least for the first year.
> shattering preconceptions about what’s possible in your eighth decade
So if she's using something, this is not giving other people a fair idea of what's possible.
Pretty sure a PDF opened in the browser can't run any JS, but not completely sure. So you're right: I don't really know it for a fact. Poor choice of words.
I often use Tor, although I'm pretty sure that even then, a good analytics lib can see it's me based on scroll behaviour, mouse movement, time of day, and of course what I browse.
But yeah, you make a good point.
With HTML, I have to trust that some random entity does what they state in their privacy policy, and they regularly don't. Sure, I can disable JS, but then 95% of the web doesn't work anymore.
Other than that PDF is quite clearly a less accessible format.
Say I'm 192cm and 69kg. My BMI is 18.7, which is definitely low, but perfectly healthy. I have an active lifestyle and burn 3500kcal per day. If I fast for 7 days without changing lifestyle, I lose roughly 7*3500/7700=3.2kg of bodyweight. By that point my BMI is 17.9. According to this paper[0] with 632 citations, anyone with a BMI <18.5 who's not eaten for more than 5 days is at high risk of refeeding syndrome.
If you think the numbers are fictional: those are my numbers from ~5 years ago.
Part of stoicism is the practice of thinking about (your impending) death, often called memento mori[0], which directly contrasts any focus on ephemeral things such as wealth.
It's not surprising that this very contrast became a rather popular type of painting, called the Vanitas[1]. Two of my personal favorites:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori#/media/File:Still...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanitas#/media/File:1628_Claes...
Memento mori / Vanitas also escalated a bit in the 15th century, when we arrived at the Danse Macabre[2] (these days probably mainly known for that one famous Saint-Saëns composition). My favourite Danse Macabre painting was destroyed in a bombing, but there's still a high resolution photograph of it: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Totentan...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanitas [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danse_Macabre
My team was comprised of CS undergrads and we made something that was technically interesting but not at all marketable. This was fine with us, as we were there to have fun. To us, that was "winning".
However, another team was clearly there to win. Their "leader" was a CS grad student, and they were developing an iOS app that would show you a random weighted complete graph. The task for the human was to build a hamiltonian cycle with minimum edge weight sum, i.e. they had to solve a TSP. Their app only showed very small graphs (<= 5 nodes IIRC) with significant edge weight disparities, such that it was usually trivial to find the correct solution. During their presentation they went on to say that they were using the solved puzzles as input for an AI that could then be used to solve larger TSPs. This was very interesting and valuable they said, as the TSP is relevant for delivery companies, logistics etc.
That grad student must have known that it was pure nonsense, but they actually won. There were people from pretty reputable tech companies in the jury, yet they won.
My teammates and I weren't mad though; to us, and some CS students from other teams who clearly knew what was going on, it was pretty funny.
I never said that we can infer everything from European data. I never said collecting African genetic data is pointless. I know that Europeans do not vary nearly as much from a genetic standpoint as Africans (although they're definitely not clones). I know you can't generalise using European/Asian data. I know larger samples describe the population better.
All I said is that it's easier to analyse data that is less variable, and that Europeans aren't clones. Both points are true. Finding patterns is more difficult when there is more variance in the data. That doesn't mean it's pointless, it's actually more useful, but it's also more difficult.