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phdoofus t1_jadecyu wrote
Reply to EU House price index change [OC] by mrscript_lt
Something something boomers. /s
phdoofus t1_jad2808 wrote
Dear Santa, if you could somehow make him lose even more money that'd be great.
phdoofus t1_jacpc58 wrote
Reply to comment by TitoMPG in U.S. Marshals Service suffers 'major' security breach that compromises sensitive information, senior law enforcement officials say by DoremusJessup
The real systems that have the shit that you don't want anyone to touch ever, are. There are even measures beyond that to ensure security. However, depending on the lab, they also have a number of programs that need to interact either with researchers not 'behind the fence' or with other branches of the .gov or even with the public. Those get hammered all the time.
phdoofus t1_jabom9f wrote
Reply to comment by finecherrypie in U.S. Marshals Service suffers 'major' security breach that compromises sensitive information, senior law enforcement officials say by DoremusJessup
This is a failure by Congress mostly to not fund and prioritize IT security. The US nuke labs get their computers hammered all of the time by outside actors but you never hear about breaches there. OPM, not so much. Why? Someone at OPM probably asked about IT security at one point and Congress basically said 'Nah, there ain't no money for that and what do you need it for anyway?'. Source: have worked for nuke labs.
phdoofus t1_jabdxvw wrote
Reply to comment by Miserly_Bastard in The Cost for an American to Comfortably Retire in Every State and Country, mapped by berrysardar
Was just eating really excellent braised beef tendon in Singapore. In the US, you never see it on the menu (except maybe some beef tendon in pho). Easy enough to find dried tendon being used as dog chews though. I apologize if anyone thinks I'm referring to Singapore as part of 'the developing world'.
phdoofus t1_ja9uqh9 wrote
Reply to comment by PEVEI in Chinese chip companies cement IP defence by aggressive patent filings by SoUnProfessional
Will they let the yuan float on international currency markets? lol
phdoofus t1_ja942a9 wrote
Reply to comment by Miserly_Bastard in The Cost for an American to Comfortably Retire in Every State and Country, mapped by berrysardar
In the US, as soon as you start slapping 'farm-to-table' and 'locally crafted' labels on everything you start paying a price premium.
phdoofus t1_ja2hejl wrote
Reply to comment by TheTanelornian in Google adverts direct pregnant women to services run by UK anti-abortion groups by Lakerlion
Your argumen would make the old yellow pages a nightmare because it would hold the yellow pages company responsible for vetting every single company that chooses to advertise with it. And continue to monitor and check that every single company is doing exactly what they say they are doing. Now you have to magnify that on a global scale. At what point is there not some responsibility on the user in your model?
phdoofus t1_ja2ha4m wrote
Reply to comment by TheTanelornian in Google adverts direct pregnant women to services run by UK anti-abortion groups by Lakerlion
You're implying it pretty strongly though, no?
phdoofus t1_j9whisc wrote
Reply to For marginal occupations licensed by U.S. states, the welfare costs of licensing exceeds the benefits, as workers have to expend resources to obtain the license and consumers pay higher prices. [The study looks at professions that require license in some states but not others]. by smurfyjenkins
Gee would I rather my plumbers, electricians, and contractors be licensed and bonded or not? Hmmm.....
phdoofus t1_j9nh8eg wrote
Reply to comment by fastheadcrab in Flooded with AI-created content, a sci-fi magazine suspends submissions by AmHoomon
I wasn't justifying it or asking you to support it, I was offering an explanation. Now reread you comments and mine and see if you can discern where your thinking went awry.
phdoofus t1_j9mgyoz wrote
Reply to comment by bandit69 in Flooded with AI-created content, a sci-fi magazine suspends submissions by AmHoomon
And pretty much everywhere else. If your English isn't great or is nonexistant and you can't write and you see a chance to make a quick buck why wouldn't you try and use it?
phdoofus t1_j8g3k3d wrote
Reply to comment by treethirtythree in [OC] Road Death Rate VS Income per Capita by ismaelsow
If you've seen shuttle drivers in Thailand, this chart makes perfect sense
phdoofus t1_j7xqp7k wrote
A more interesting chart would be 'which language do you use' vs 'which language would you rather be using'. One of the national DOE labs computes something like this and the clear winner was Rust.
phdoofus t1_j7j8tul wrote
Starting to sound like collusion to lower salaries at this point
phdoofus t1_j78jpbe wrote
Reply to Any hiking fans? by chemistrynerd1994
Pff. Amateurs.
phdoofus t1_j70lmii wrote
Reply to comment by KaramelKatze in [OC] The National Vice(s): Drinking and Smoking Rates by Country by whatweshouldcallyou
Well the OP's graph isn't much better in that regard
phdoofus t1_j6zmsx9 wrote
Reply to comment by NarcissusLovesEcho in [OC] The National Vice(s): Drinking and Smoking Rates by Country by whatweshouldcallyou
Red on one dimension, blue on the other. You go white to pure red, and white to pure blue depending on where you are in the data's bounding box. So basically each country on a map gets a color based on
x * Red + y * blue
Something like that
phdoofus t1_j6zd7ul wrote
Reply to comment by NarcissusLovesEcho in [OC] The National Vice(s): Drinking and Smoking Rates by Country by whatweshouldcallyou
You assign a color based on two end points, e.g. red/blue with an intensity based on what your coordinates are
phdoofus t1_j6zakfg wrote
You'd have been better off doing this as a colored map. This is pretty damned unreadable
phdoofus t1_j6npg6i wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in How viscous is the magma in the mantle? by _whydah_
A good (reasonably not bad) example of the rheology of the mantle is Silly Putty.
If you put a ball of it on a desk and hit it with a hammer, it shatters. A good analogy for earthquakes (brittle response)
If you just leave it on the desk it will become nice flat putty pancake (ductile response)
Two different responses to two different stress/strain regimes. Particularly effective in class
phdoofus t1_j6ktkib wrote
Reply to ELI5: How does citizenship work? Can I (US Citizen) move to the EU and just become a citizen? by _99Percent
No.
You cannot be a citizen in 3 months, not unless you get in on a particular type of program (generally having a lot of money that you're going to promise to invest...generally a quite sizeable sum.) or getting married to a citizen, etc
For Switzerland, say, you will have to live there for 13 years and not just be there on repeated tourist visas because you don't accumulate 'citizenship time credits' that way. Which means you'll have a have a job for that long which means you'll need a sponsor or sponsors.
There is an interesting wrinkle to the Swiss situation where even if you live there there long enough your neighbors can still vote to not let you become a citizen.
phdoofus t1_j6kktqt wrote
Reply to comment by aquarain in Mining giant Rio Tinto apologizes for sparking radiation alert after losing device in Australia by hzj5790
Inside job. Someone's going to die from this thing because someone could hide it in their favorite chair.
phdoofus t1_j6kho09 wrote
Reply to [OC] Minimal share of votes needed to gain X seat under different electoral systems, Excel. by Glif13
You need to rethink your presentation of this. I'm sure it's interesting but the presentation sucks. No axes labels, no obvious assumptions up. Really, I should be able to look at this and discern what's going on and what the important conclusions are without going to the comments to see if there's a bunch of explanation. If I have to read a paper to understand this, it's should be posted in r/researchpapersarebeautiful
phdoofus t1_jadphzx wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in New study disputes the birth order theory that later-born are "born to rebel" by Humble_Complaint_767
Well it shows your auto-blame feature is working.