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What are the frameworks used in scientific endeavours? Given that scaling is not an issue, something like Rails for science seems like it could potentially return many $(B/M)illion…

I wonder under what circumstances this ban is acceptable. I'm no expert on international law, but even if the charges are Trumped up (pun intended), espionage / security concerns a…

And being home you heat the place by existing, running things, and opening windows to the heat. If you leave a house locked, it heats up pretty slowly, and if you get back towards …

That implies Google will change what Australians see vs other countries. No more. No less. Some possibile outcomes: Imagine a page with only foreign results. Plenty of news entitie…

Other way around. It was invented to stop crawling. Indexing is still technically allowed even when blocked by robots.txt from crawling.

>In older systems If only it were older systems! I get data from a variety of undocumented sources, and I started logging what I actually receive next to the normalised data, e.g. …

What I think society needs is an rspec of government spending (I'm using rspec as it is clear, or should be, what that implies). Test driven government, in essence. Society is vari…

Depends how big you plan on getting. Be infinitely easier to hire someone who knows how to use GA to make decisions, and historical data will be useful at that point.

For antibodies or the disease?

No it's exactly the sort of thought process people have. Another scenario is someone does what you suggest after finding a real vulnerability, to waste the teams time while they ex…

Thankfully, that's both not how democracy works - we don't ask a biased sample - and exactly how it works - we ask everyone what they think of the government's performance and they…

>An ad model that favors something like the NY Times can't be the better model. It absolutely can, let me count the ways: 1. You are never, ever on a bad site - no matter how good …

Does anyone have any inkling of what he was offered? Gimlet got hundreds of millions for a barely breakeven business - what is the Howard Stern of Podcasting worth on an exclusive …

For a site like the NY Times, pricing the ad space based on a user's historical data is a mug's game. NY Times has a reputation and value beyond the value of a user's browser histo…

> Do you have any source for that? Found where I got it from: https://www.seattleweekly.com/news/seattle-is-getting-an-obj... I'm not American so no idea if this is accurate or not…

Is that article accurate? My understanding was that Seattle commissioned a multi-year study, and then when the results didn't go their way, quickly rushed a study out the door that…

So you think this policy was in place starting with Trump? Or was it with a Bush, but Obama chose NOT to repeal it? Or has it all started with Republican governors very recently? T…

Masks may be 100% irrelevant for healthy people, but we have asymptomatic people. There is no way to ascertain who is healthy, ergo "healthy people don't need masks" is practically…

Let's assume healthy people do not need a mask. In fact, let's take it as Gospel, and the statement "Healthy people have no use for a mask" as absolutely true. Given we know there …

That's not the point being made. Panic was not what was done or suggested, it was the dismissive tone that such concerns were met with by Critics. GP's point was that the claims it…

I'm not American, so same situation, but welfare as a cost to government I am pretty sure includes all spending, not just that which goes to the final recipient. https://www.budget…

> But if UBI replaced all normal welfare (excluding disability etc) is that such a bad thing? Part of the problem is that some welfare is not about the money, but the support. UBI …

Why? That's weather and short term. https://aqicn.org/map/sydney is the pollution in Sydney. Here is Jakarta https://aqicn.org/map/jakarta Look at the historical data: all red and …

Here is a link that seems rather official: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-03-02-0258 That is truly inspiring, I really like it.