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Comment · 4 years ago
Comparing outcomes of emergency c-sections to scheduled c-sections is always going to come out in favour of scheduled c-sections. On one side something is going wrong 100% of the time and the other something is not always going wrong. Not sure how to make this anymore obvious. This is a pointless comparison.

Comparing outcomes of natural births as a whole vs scheduled c-sections is far more useful comparison.

Comment · 4 years ago
No it’s not. That’s a different comparison.
Comment · 4 years ago
"Scheduled c-sections outperform emergency c-sections in every metric tracked."

The comparison is natural birth to c-sections. Comparing scheduled c-sections to emergency c-sections is a ridiculous thing to track, go compare GP visits vs admission to emergency while you're at it.

Comment · 4 years ago
A smart cheater isn't just going to replicate bot moves and make it easy to detect. They may just use it to decide between 2 moves they were 50/50 on already. Do this 2 or 3 times and it would make a big difference at the grand master level. This would be quite hard to detect.
Comment · 5 years ago
I've tried YNAB multiple times but would inevitably miss entering a transaction and then it would be a pain reconciling my bank accounts with YNAB. Without tracking the transactions I couldn't accurately use YNAB to determine how much was left in the budget. Having an envelope like system built into a bank would be extremely useful.
Comment · 10 years ago
.net core certainly does have security, logging etc. IIS, as opposed to kestral, has more features and you can host under IIS so this is a non issue.

The camelCase setting is a one line code change if you don't like it. Not at all a reason to avoid the framework. It's using newtonsoft for this so it may even be a change in the package itself? Anyway I changed the default and then ended up reverting back anyway since camelCase is a better format when using the objects in JavaScript.

It's not meant to support everything as the goal is cross platform. IMO it's a great platform if you understand its limits.

Comment · 10 years ago
Plus you can generally see who's in front in Chess just by counting the value of the captured pieces. Where as I would not have been able to workout the result of the AlphaGo v Lee Sedol games just by looking at the final game board.

The beauty of the game is appealing however so I want to get better at it. I'll working on losing more then :)

Comment · 10 years ago
That thinking does help, I did read that on one of the sites as well but in some cases the capture appears to mean the loss of territory itself in addition to the actual pieces and it's hard to weigh up the value of each territory.
Comment · 10 years ago
Sounds like good advice. I have noticed some of these weird moves using the hint function - at times they've caused me to lose badly so I've gone back and done something else and came out on top which made me question the reasoning behind it.
Comment · 10 years ago
I've started playing Go against a computer (SmartGo iOS on a 9x9 board) but I find the hard part is determining where you're making mistakes, what is a better move, why the computer did what it did etc. For instance the computer may ignore a capture to play elsewhere and it can be hard to work out why. I learnt to play Chess when I was young so I can't make a fair comparison but it feels like Chess is much easier to self diagnose.
Comment · 11 years ago
Getting a pro male fighter in an armbar would be unlikely for Rousey however if she got in position I wouldn't bet against her. An armbar works on the principle of leverage, in this case the bicep muscle vs the same muscles used in a deadlift. If Rousey had a male fighter in an armbar the strength difference is not going to be the deciding factor. Also all fighters know how to defend an armbar, RNC, triangle etc yet they still tap to them.
Comment · 12 years ago
Can you explain why? A large app will not likely make a far greater number of http calls at the same time. If you must have up to date data then I don't see an alternative in something like angular.
Comment · 12 years ago
Isn't it illegal to scrape without permission? How would import.io handle the case when a large site comes back with legal threats when a user of their site has used scraped the wrong site? Can they claim non-responsibility?

Also what happens when sites start blocking their IPs due to repeated scraping or is this unlikely to happen?

Comment · 14 years ago
And in Windows 8 you don't even need to worry about it. After switching to another program the previous program will be suspended and if it takes too long to suspend, terminated. Sounds a lot better than asking "Non-tech-savvy users" to make the decision.
Comment · 14 years ago
Therefore since that is the equivalent to the Windows 8 process of forcing a program to close the complexity of the action is really a non issue.

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