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davidbraze

@davidbraze@mstdn.social

I know things about data. Working in Data Analysis & Visualization. Interests in Cognitive Science, Education, Reading, Language & Social Determinants of a good life. Data doodles are my jam. #Connecticut #Emacs #Linux #DataScience #RStats #SAS #SQL #Python.

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davidbraze, to random
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"... freedom to make bad arguments without consequences creates what economists call a “moral hazard,” by which there’s an incentive to spew out low-quality arguments as a way to “flood the zone” and overwhelm the system"

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/09/24/stupid-legal-arguments-and-moral-hazards/

davidbraze, (edited ) to random
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There are some things I don't care for about business model, but I do appreciate the absence of loyalty cards and data harvesting

davidbraze, to random
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There are some things I don't care for about business model, but I do appreciate the absence of loyalty cards and data tracking

davidbraze,
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Trader Joe's is part of the Aldi family

https://www.aldireviewer.com/aldi-and-trader-joes-are-they-the-same-company/

davidbraze, to random
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tiny homes (200sqf) for teachers, built by high school students, with school district serving as landlord

or, or, maybe pay teachers a living wage?

I dunno. just spitballing here

https://coloradosun.com/2023/09/15/aspen-frisco-tiny-homes-built-for-teachers/

Cmastication, to random
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No use excel as database. No. Nope. Nopity. Nope nope.

davidbraze,
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@Cmastication

i'd say that falls under "wishing for death"

davidbraze, to connecticut
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Dept of Insurance says that customers of three dozen insurers had their data exposed as result of a breach. Of 255,367 residents affected, over half were served by 3 companies: Genworth Financial, American General Life Insurance, and

https://www.ctinsider.com/business/article/ct-insurance-customer-data-breach-scope-revealed-18350425.php?src=ctibusiness

davidbraze, to random
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Lawsuit says Elon Musk's Twitter discloses user data to Saudi government at much higher rate than for US, UK, or Canadian authorities

Twitter data sent to Saudi Arabia is used as pretext to imprison, abuse, or 'disappear' critics of Saudi regime

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/04/twitter-saudi-arabia-human-rights-abuses

davidbraze, to random
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"Americans are forced to live with a risk of car crash death roughly three times higher than Canadians and Australians, five times higher than Brits and Germans, and nine times higher than Norwegians. It’s also worth pointing out that globally, car crashes are a major cause of death, killing more people than homicides and suicides combined"

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/8/25/23844717/america-safe-air-travel-car-safety-accidents

davidbraze,
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@kkarhan

That's mostly true. Though we do have mandatory motor vehicle insurance in all states

But my own home state of CT just this year legalizing automated enforcement of speed and red light violations (really, removed laws forbidding such enforcement)

and to be sure, enforcement of traffic laws by PDs is lax at best and troubled in many other ways

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/experts-ct-state-police-false-ticket-probes-18338432.php?src=nhrhppromostrip

davidbraze,
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@kkarhan

Getting even this much done was a very steep hill to climb and took years of lobbying

Opposition to the final bill came almost universally from GOP legislators

https://ctmirror.org/2023/06/07/ct-red-light-cameras-senate-approves-local-option/

davidbraze, to random
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Lawsuit says Elon Musk's Twitter discloses user data to Saudi government at much higher rate than for US, UK, or Canadian authorities

Data sent to Saudi Arabia is used as pretext to imprison, abuse, or 'disappear' critics of Saudi regime

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/04/twitter-saudi-arabia-human-rights-abuses

davidbraze, to connecticut
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hello

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/experts-ct-state-police-false-ticket-probes-18338432.php?src=nhrhppromostrip

davidbraze, to random
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"When a health insurance co. decides whether to pay for your treatment, it generates a file around your claim. All records associated with your case should be part of the file, including reasons your claim was denied. You have a right to see this file."

https://www.propublica.org/article/find-out-why-health-insurance-claim-denied?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin

geekaren, to random

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune is on sale today for Kindle. It's one of the best fantasy titles I've read.

My review:
This is such a lovely book that I read most of the ebook format, then switched to the audiobook and listened from the start. It has a magical, Harry Potteresque feel, and a nice theme about family.

davidbraze,
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@geekaren

It's a great YA book. I read it last spring, and it put Klune on my radar for the first time. I haven't yet got around to reading any of their other work, but I definitely will

davidbraze,
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@geekaren
I recently finished Hell of a Book by Jason Mott. Its themes overlap with Cerulean Sea, but set in the modern world, with hints of th efantasitical. It is pitched at an adult audience. It's a very good read. I recommend it

davidbraze, to random
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Hello folks

Is anyone aware of an R package wrapping ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer API?

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api

davidbraze,
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@chainsawriot thanks!

davidbraze, to random
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vivek ramaswamy has no chance in the gop primary, much less the general, and he (very likely) knows it

I believe he's in the race as part of a longer term plan to become the next peter thiel

davidbraze, to random
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the pre-trump gop, shaped by the likes of reagan, gingrich, & others, was a diseased blight on the USA. trump is just a symptom

it would be really bad to allow any "typhoid mary" fleeing gop to run on a D ticket without extensive quarantine 1st

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marlene-galan-woods-is-running-as-a-dem-shes-taking-cash-from-a-gop-lawyer-who-fought-trumps-loss

davidbraze, to random
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"Some of the media’s worst avatars of what increasingly feels like hopeless democracy nostalgia are so-called never-Trump conservatives"

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html

davidbraze, to ebikes
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seems to me that laptop computers, and power banks, pose the same fire hazard as

maybe those should also be banned from dorm rooms

https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2023/08/28/op-ed-teach-fear-or-responsibility-on-college-campuses/

davidbraze, to connecticut
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hello

sound familiar?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/california-crisis-fentanyl-data-18301889.php

davidbraze, to emacs
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Hello

Is there a convenient built-in function that works like cycle-spacing, but for blank lines?

tia

davidbraze,
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I know of hungry-delete and delete-blank-lines

they don't quite do it for me

davidbraze,
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@inigo
Doesn't quite do it for me because it lacks the cycling behavior of cycle-spaces

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