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That deconstruction pattern wouldn't be valid since it can only use `..` once per list. Very cool stuff though, thanks!

> But of the 850 people in the jail system that the EFF is talking about here, that means at least 4 people are innocent

Saying "at least 4" is pretty misleading here, since you're assuming the 0.5% is perfectly distributed. That estimate could be accurate without a single innocent in these specific 850.

The "5.8% more likely" statistic would be in comparison to the population rate, not the subgroup who aren't overweight or obese. That group would have a 1-(1-.78)/(1-.736) or 16% reduction in hospitalization rate in comparison to the population, resulting in a relative increase of ~27% if you compare these two groups.

I would describe that heuristic as Bayesian, since the subject evaluates the prior evidence for each option, and then chooses the one with the most supporting information, instead of considering the options' logical or mathematical properties.

NNs are not binary -- they're fundamentally analog, so for classification problems, they produce probabilities that a test case is in each possible class. A binary "X/not-X" test often comes from applying a threshold to the NN's output.

Quoting from the Universal approximation theory's Wikipedia, "neural networks can represent a wide variety of interesting functions." While they may be much better at pattern recognition, it's possible to produce almost anything with one, including Go moves, if you can devise a method to interpret the outputs.

> from the perspective of security, usability, and especially structured data transfer it's terrible.

Email is basically free, works well for up to 5 megabytes of data, and data security isn't much of an issue for open source work. The post suggests quite a few tools that improve the Git-email workflow, and I think some do prefer those to certain web-hosted Git interfaces.

> there's plenty of standard ways to transmit data that aren't SMTP

Are they free, federated, and as reliable as email? It may be inferior in some technical ways, but it's still a rational choice for small non-private data transfers, such as a Git patch or any another text.

Sure, it's a useful feature, but my password manager (1Password) already does it. I'm OK with testing out this extension regardless, but wouldn't be if I wanted to limit my data use like the post's author.

That post isn't explicitly about a Firefox Monitor extension, and I could only find this rollout to US users mentioned on 3rd party websites. Those posts include BugZilla links, but they're restricted.

I can easily disable Pocket, Autofill, and Screenshots in about:config, and Firefox support explains that. With this extension, I'm missing a "extensions.fxmonitor.enabled" option.

I understand it's good to build in optional security features like this, but I don't see how it's acceptable to not notify users or provide an opt-out.

This goes back to the original file where it read "buried alive in email" in 1996 [1]. It changed to "buried alive in diapers" [2] from 97-99 before this last revision [3].

1: ftp://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/kernel/v1.3/patch-html/patch-1.3.68/linux_MAINTAINERS.html

2: ftp://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/kernel/v2.1/patch-html/patch-2.1.22/linux_MAINTAINERS.html

3: ftp://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/kernel/v2.2/patch-html/patch-2.2.4/linux_MAINTAINERS.html