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Comment #48993929
Yes, in the sense that you have a legal doctor-patient privilege that binds what they can share with whom. There's not really an Apple cloud user privilege. No, in the sense that y…
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Comment #48975075
If they were conscious it would be an absolute ethical catastrophe. Bringing a conscious being into existence, forcing it to interact with Jira, and then killing it when it's done.…
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Comment #48927388
It's pretty easy, you get hit with a surcharge on your other transaction volume if you allow something that V/MC don't want you to allow, and if you keep doing it you could get cut…
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Comment #48815694
Ah yeah that is indeed what I was thinking of. [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY
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Comment #48815372
I'd suggest looking at the review itself, there's an X-the-everything-app thread on it. https://x.com/Gregorein/status/2038953944475472316 Note that Rails was built as a framework …
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Comment #48758028
> However, Kilic said Shift was "the most honest platform by far regarding what happens to your data". Good good
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Comment #48754417
If I wanted someone taking a look at all the stuff in my home, I'd just pay a cleaner here instead of one behind a desk in what I assume is a low-labor-cost locale. For $50/hr I ca…
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Comment #48750585
... did you think that's what I was implying? I'm not even American my guy. I was adding clarification because the commenter I responded to claimed they had to be a US citizen to r…
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Comment #48743896
Companies over-hired in 2021 assuming that their COVID metrics explosion would persist, but they didn't. We saw low attrition for years, and a low-hire/low-fire employment environm…
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Comment #48743553
One of the study authors, Ara, tweeted that they control for that by comparing early adopters against firms who haven't yet, and built like-for-like control groups with similar pre…
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Comment #48741416
Also, note, everyone assumed it was going to be limited to citizens, but that's not what the government said. They put it under ITAR/EAR's US person definition which includes citiz…
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Comment #48581399
At least the top 4, unclear about the 5th, are strongly associated with obesity. That would make someone high-risk and testing potentially warranted in like 70% of the population. …
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Comment #48581197
Several published papers agree. There is in fact little evidence to support regular checkups if you’re asymptomatic. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31642821/ And blood pressure is…
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Comment #48581007
Sure collecting more data makes sense. We agree there. If that gets you to the required degree of statistical confidence my argument is moot.
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Comment #48580992
Yes, don’t do tests on asymptomatic low-risk people until you can demonstrate that a positive result has any meaning whatsoever.
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Comment #48580969
You’re dealing with populations here. Literally the odds of a positive being false would be over 90%. Much higher in the more rare conditions. I’m not exaggerating. That means ever…
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Comment #48580906
Don’t make me tap the sign. Bayes Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes'_theorem There’s a very good reason we don’t test asymptomatic people in low incidence populations. B…