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New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections (2017)"

throwawayhhakdl — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:07:23 +0000

Without reading the study in detail, I feel like 4,483 is too few people to detect an effect like this because you can’t easily control for how much vitamin d people get from the sun.

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "An industry dedicated to making foods crispy"

throwawayhhakdl — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 23:26:34 +0000

They’re pretty good though. And also cheaper. The same argument could be made of chips.

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "How I Did It: From Psych Degree to VP of Data Science at Top Startup"

throwawayhhakdl — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 18:26:28 +0000

Article suggests he has 3 direct reports

More of a PM

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "Second U.S. coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed in Santa Clara County"

throwawayhhakdl — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 03:19:08 +0000

FWIW, try not to act on that assumption being correct. Because if you’re wrong, you now have two illnesses simultaneously...

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "The Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D"

throwawayhhakdl — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:48:17 +0000

To be a dungeon master is effectively to achieve AGI. It’s... not realistic. Current NLP systems have mapped out what language means, and can use that to generate text. But they have no idea what the text means. It requires incredible knowledge about how the world works and an ability to explain its reasoning in plain terms.

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain"

throwawayhhakdl — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 01:24:32 +0000

That is because you have not seen One Cut of the Dead

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Cut_of_the_Dead

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain"

throwawayhhakdl — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 01:21:39 +0000

Can you name any piece of intellectual property that has a small, recurring income after 30 years?

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "Meaningful Availability"

throwawayhhakdl — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 02:16:09 +0000

> A bunch of people couldn't get to us, but that wasn't really our fault (or was it?). At the end of the day the users didn't care if it was our fault or their ISP, so we counted that against ourselves.

So... what did you do about that?

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism (2017)"

throwawayhhakdl — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 22:34:04 +0000

Further, The introduction of hotels to the game was not intended initially. Adding hotels causes more housing to appear, which is antithetical to the point of housing shortages

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism (2017)"

throwawayhhakdl — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 22:32:15 +0000

That is... false. Trading down consistently only works if you’re playing with idiots.

Trading a high value property for a low value property makes sense if you get a color set, but if you do this multiple times with bare minimum competence players, the likely outcome is that everyone has at least one set, but you have booth the lowest amount of cash to develop things and the least valuable properties.

With the exception of edge case (although often optimal) strategies where you lock down the available houses, trading down is likely a sign that you’re trying to increase your likelihood of winning from 0% to 10%, while improving the odds to a greater degree for whoever is getting the better deal.

Most properties are superficial until they have specifically 3 houses on them. If you have three color sets, but fewer than 3 houses on any of them, you’re going to lose.

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism (2017)"

throwawayhhakdl — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 17:37:07 +0000

No no no

The trend in board games right now is legacy board games, where the game maintains state after each session. What you really want is legacy monopoly. Where the winners of early games maintain their monopoly, and face a proletariat uprising in future games, making it an asymmetrical struggle for the elites to maintain power.

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "Tech can't remember what to do in a down market"

throwawayhhakdl — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:23:06 +0000

Subscription is the opposite of what you want for a product that nobody wants 95% of the time but then everybody wants 5% of the time. As a supplier you would be locked in to selling at a given price while your costs skyrocket.

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic"

throwawayhhakdl — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:23:49 +0000

People generally aren’t going to use them correctly, aren’t going to change them frequently enough, are likely to touch their face frequently if not used to the mask, and aren’t nearly as concerned about infecting others so much as protecting themselves.

Should you go buy some? Probably jot

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "CDC outlines what closing schools, businesses would look like in US pandemic"

throwawayhhakdl — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:07:04 +0000

That’s not a fair thing to say. Closing businesses doesn’t guarantee anything about the virus. The halting of economic activity, even temporarily, can devastate people’s lives because it doesn’t always come back and many people already live paycheck to paycheck.

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "AB2712 – California Universal Basic Income"

throwawayhhakdl — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 17:32:34 +0000

Housing is an essential. You can’t just go homeless without significant consequences. That’s not “voluntary”. Just moving somewhere else is not always viable.

To prove an extreme case, if I point a gun at you and say “$1k or I shoot”, you’re likely to pay. You gained not dying, but are you richer? Or did I merely use my power to impose an urgent need on you that you needed to pay for?

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom"

throwawayhhakdl — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:36:32 +0000

Spreading scary ideas that could “maybe” be true to laypeople with no ability to interpret “maybe” is highly likely to be more help than hurt

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "World Economy Shudders as Coronavirus Threatens Global Supply Chains"

throwawayhhakdl — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 03:08:29 +0000

-4% Chinese GDP would kill a lot more than the virus...

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "You don't need to work on hard problems"

throwawayhhakdl — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 01:44:39 +0000

Your other comments suggest you are in, or are pursuing, a FAANG internship. The target audience of this piece... is you. The wisdom being preached is that although you may be set to acquire wealth, you may find yourself feeling existentially lost nonetheless.

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study"

throwawayhhakdl — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:47:00 +0000

New Jersey gas pumpers seem like a close approximation here. They provide a legally mandated service which I find makes my day worse.

New comment by throwawayhhakdl in "Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study"

throwawayhhakdl — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:44:01 +0000

But... she does have repercussions? She has chronic back pain and deteriorating health...

Pain pills are either A) not going to be strong enough B) harshly addictive. Probably opioids.