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bransonf

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About bransonf

Academic Data Scientist, GIS, Full stack R Developer

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    Bingo It’s increasingly difficult to find product reviews with search engines. Massive auto generated content farms take a product name and add loads of AI-generated filler text. P…

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    https://gh.bmj.com/content/3/5/e000850 $5.32-8.87 cost of production depending on the insulin analog. As noted above, I did not account for R&D and manufacturing capacity. Regardle…

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    This is great, but (obviously) not purely benevolent. A vial of analog insulin costs something like $6-7 to produce, probably less at Walmart scale. The distribution costs probably…

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    Didn’t see it anywhere else in the thread, so I’ll toss in my current: The Uplift Pursuit [0] Great lumbar, head and neck support, lots of adjustments. The reclining is very nice, …

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    While reading I really expected there to be some terrible conclusion, like “we accidentally ordered 100 burritos” but nope, just a fascinating burrito program.

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    Absolutely agree, thanks for this reply. I was cognizant of the foreign policy implications (how would this possibly get implemented globally) but I hadn’t heard or considered your…

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    > “In hindsight I wish we’d made these other measures of well-being the primary outcome measure,” he said. “However the world — the Food and Drug Administration, the European Medic…

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    It’s a simple equation: So long as there is more money in mining BTC than there is cost in energy to mine it, mining will proceed. No entity in the world can control the price of c…

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    Amazing... learning of the existence/term of polyominoes is a breakthrough for me. I’ve recently been working on developing a novel statistical test to quantify sensitivity to the …

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    Sad to see it go, CTP has been an essential resource for colleagues and I over the last year. Post March, the Covid data space is going to change drastically (frankly, it already h…

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    This SO thread [0] on the subject is interesting as well. I suspect this really has no harmful consequences, most browsers have a max iframe depth, although I don’t know how it var…

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    But at that point Tinder was already widely in use. The general public still can’t join Clubhouse at this point even if they want to.

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    This has to pressure Clubhouse to actually launch. It’s been what, like a year in “invite only” beta? I feel like Clubhouse is riding their exclusivity clout at this point. They sh…

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    Advertising is largely untapped on Reddit though. Forgetting about the main subreddits and meme communities and whatnot, you have captive audiences for small niches. Say you sell b…

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