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thefringthing
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
At my local Asian grocery store, Red Boat costs about four times as much as the other brands, so I'll be sticking with my old standby of "random bottle whose ingredients list contains only anchovies and salt".
thefringthing
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I bought a handmade arcade-style SNES controller from this guy one time. He should go back to making those, I guess.
thefringthing
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> The core objective was to determine if a high frequency of HBEs causally links to a high rate of crashes. We employed negative binomial (NB) regression models [...].

A negative binomial regression fit on observational data cannot establish that a statistical relationship is causal.
thefringthing
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
If you had asked me to list ten books that would be mentioned frequently on HackerNews, I think I'd have gotten at least eight of the top ten here.
thefringthing
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Selling at a loss can also be a monopolistic practice: a firm with enough capital can sell at a loss to capture the market, and then buy out their now-flailing competition.
thefringthing
·7 bulan yang lalu·discuss
It's a store of value in the sense that it has a non-zero price at any given moment, but when people say that one of the functions of money is to be a store of value, they mean that its value must be reasonably stable so that its future usefulness is predictable.
thefringthing
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Is there a simple way to turn a set of hcker.news feed settings into an RSS feed?
thefringthing
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide does not require that perpetrators are successful in reducing the population of the targeted group, only that they "intend to destroy [it], in whole or in part" and take any of five specific categories of action with that intent.
thefringthing
·8 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The causes and mechanisms of ADHD are reasonably well understood. Perhaps whatever other traits you have in mind are not.
thefringthing
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The article addresses this.
thefringthing
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
French spelling is sometimes described as "one-way": it's almost always possible to pronounce a written word correctly, but very difficult to spell a word you've only heard.
thefringthing
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Kingsley Read went with something like an artificially rhotic midcentury RP when designing the Shavian alphabet. It works reasonably well for me, a Standard Canadian English speaker, except that distinguishing all the open vowels (father/bought/bot) can be a struggle,
thefringthing
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I would include Richard McElreath's _Statistical Rethinking_ here after, or in combination with, _Bayes Rules!_. A translation of the code parts into the tidyverse is available free online, as are lecture videos based on the book.
thefringthing
·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Managers are not eligible to join the one big union: https://iww.org/membership/
thefringthing
·6 tahun yang lalu·discuss
> why on earth where professional roles being represented by an Auto workers union

An innovation in organized labour from around the turn of the 20th century known as the "industrial union" (as opposed to the "craft union") wherein the union seeks to organized all workers in a particular industry rather than a particular job. The idea is that this prevents workers of different jobs being pitted against one another, and provides more power as a strike could shut down an entire industry.