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mattjack

Thanks for introducing me to these names, it is indeed a good place to start
Like I said this is personal preference. I've never used it but I think it makes culture worse so I hope it goes under.

I never know what people are going to like so maybe it will become the next TikTok instead, or someone will make a new Quibi that I also won't use or understand :)

A few others have mentioned that Quibi is not an interesting enough alternative timewasting app to Snapchat, Instagram, etc. I agree and I'm glad to see it fail for that reason; I want my attention span back and I'm trying to cut these things out of my life. I notice my well-being improves when I do.

That's personal preference obviously, and people are free to spend their time how they want, but I think the loss of attention span is a culture-scale problem now and excising these companies from our lives is a necessary treatment.

I hope Quibi folds permanently and we salt the earth where it stood.

Re:Your Android Phone Is a Security Key on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @03:10PM (#19627803)
It won't--so you'd have to use the backup methods they made you set up, like SMS codes, Authenticator, printable backup codes, etc.
Re:Your Android Phone Is a Security Key on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @02:57PM (#19627705)
They don't make this very obvious but this only works in Chrome. So you'll have to use SMS codes, the Authenticator app, or backup codes everywhere else. (edit: they explicitly say so when activating it but not as clearly in the docs)
Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud on Friday August 04, 2017 @03:20PM (#14931232)
Thank you so much for sharing this, I've been looking for something just like it.
Re:Open Sourcing My Personal Medical Record on Thursday May 04, 2017 @05:25PM (#14268978)
I worded my comment incorrectly (and edited it accordingly). What I should have said is that when you run a stats test against a dataset, there's a known probability that you'll get a significant correlation simply due to chance. The more variables you examine, the higher that chance becomes.

I just found this on Google but the first page of this paper explains it a little better: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~mgoldman/Section0402.pdf

Re:Open Sourcing My Personal Medical Record on Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:43PM (#14268605)
I agree with kharms

>You're describing P-value hacking

Here's an example of what can happen when you take a huge corpus of data and throw an equally huge number of hypotheses at it to see what sticks: https://io9.gizmodo.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-choc...

tl;dr: he "proved" chocolate causes weight loss by comparing chocolate- and non-chocolate-eaters on a very high number of health indicators.

That also introduces the multiple testing problem: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Multiple_comparisons_problem

The more statistical tests you run against a set of data (EDIT: the more variables you test against a dataset), the higher the chance you get a statistically significant result from random error alone.