protomyth
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Comment · 4 years ago
I question your information as that is so definitely not my life experience.
Comment · 4 years ago
They don’t actually really like being called Native American though. That’s kind of a white thing.
Well, that's a big lie. I grew up on a reservation, an Indian Service Area, and still work on a reservation. Native American, Indian, American Indian are all used.
indigenous is the not a term originating with any tribe.
Comment · 4 years ago
They do so little with the concept and tooling its easy to forget how Powershell works.
Comment · 4 years ago
Are you intentionally ignoring the large Native American population in some of those states?
[edit: at this point I just assume that folks on HN don't have any concept of the demographics of reservations and how many children are being born. If you mention lack of Hispanic population but don't mention the Native American population then you are skewing the point.]
Comment · 4 years ago
It does make one wonder what happens if everything is a type instead of a file. Do you get a command line that looks like Mathematica? I too think every program containing a parser is a waste.
Comment · 4 years ago
We in ND just got our first winter storm and it was bad enough to cancel work. We are not exactly apt to cancel because of snow. I get the feeling this is not going to an easy year on the heating budget.
Comment · 4 years ago
Last I checked, Nova doesn't do keyboard macros and I do a lot of text munging and need them because I refuse to type the same sequence multiple times.
Comment · 4 years ago
Built in keyboard macros that don't suck. Speed too.
Comment · 4 years ago
It was my understanding that every study has a control group getting the standard care. I didn't see a study without such a control group.
Comment · 4 years ago
I don't feel guilt, I still feel rage. I didn't determine any of the parameters or rules of the trial so I have no guilt on me. I just observed that the control group is dead because of some belief that they provided value when we already knew exactly what was going to happen to them.
If you can prevent harm to others, then not doing so is just being an a$$. The trolley problem is just counting souls and really doesn't happen much in real life. The true problem is thinking the only choices are us/them versus everyone. I'm not a doctor so I have no idea how their ethics applies to their professional decisions.
Comment · 4 years ago
Everyone knew the results of "standard treatment", that's why they were researching the drug. There were years and years of statistics.
We killed 70% of the control group. Doomed by a random number generator.
Comment · 4 years ago
I worked on one in the 90's that was $50,000 a day for three years. The drug company, assuming the trial was successful, had about 4 years to make all its money back before the patent expired. Testing blood, urine, and stool for multiple things is expensive.
Intellectually, I can understand the need for control groups, but I still think it's immoral. When you stare at a spreadsheet and see 70% of the control group is dead because some random number generator sorted them there like hell's own sorting hat, and the 98% of the people getting the drug are alive, you have no business talking about statistics. That graph will haunt me til my dying day.
Comment · 4 years ago
Well, don't skip the DragonFly folks. I've had the four main one up and running at different times.
Comment · 4 years ago
I think Bill seriously underestimates the value of defensive fire. Or, most people actually prepping will also think of defense.