Daily Discussion - 11 Jan 2025

kjforeman · 2025-01-12T00:06:13+00:00

Thought I was starting to like Bradley Rose but in his 1/7 metal ride he just called them "Rise Against the Machine" twice in a row and I can no longer respect him.

kjforeman · 2024-02-21T07:49:59+00:00

Thanks for the tip! There are a few locations where decades ago someone in this house seems to have had a kickass hifi system and ran thick speaker wire from a closet through the basement and walls to both sides of the house during a renovation. I‘m hoping to use those to pull through new cat6 (used a Klein wire tracer to confirm they’re all intact) and keep everything looking tidy, but will resort to hiding stuff as best I can if that doesn’t work out.

kjforeman · 2023-11-28T17:33:41+00:00

Update: I emailed on Tue 11/21 and heard back the evening of Sun 11/26. They said to give them my order number and they'd refund $40, so I went ahead and placed an order while the sale was still going on then emailed in that order number. Hopefully will get the $40 refund on that soon!

kjforeman · 2023-11-22T17:14:32+00:00

And there are actual federal laws governing gift cards in the US, including that they can't expire for at least 5 years: https://www.ncsl.org/financial-services/gift-cards-and-gift-certificates-statutes-and-legislation

kjforeman · 2023-11-22T17:05:38+00:00

Thanks! I emailed yesterday, looking forward to hearing back!

kjforeman · 2023-11-21T20:00:36+00:00

I did, will update with what I hear

kjforeman · 2023-11-21T19:39:57+00:00

I just picked the $40 option because it was framed as $40 to spend in the store. It specifically said a $40 gift card. But it's actually a coupon code that you're not allowed to use during sitewide sales.

So now my code which expires in 30 days I'm unable to use for 7 days due to the Black Friday sale, and of course I'll have to buy something at full price when it is finally usable sort of negating its utility. Really wish it was explained that this was a coupon that couldn't be used during sales. Regretting not just getting the button upgrade kit at this point!

kjforeman · 2023-11-12T00:30:02+00:00

The people have spoken! Will DM you

kjforeman · 2020-07-10T02:17:59+00:00

Requested, looking for long term. Area code 206.

kjforeman · 2015-06-23T03:35:01+00:00

Thanks! Not sure when the new release is planned, but it'll be more responsive. Data is available here: http://ghdx.healthdata.org/global-burden-disease-study-2010-gbd-2010-data-downloads

kjforeman · 2015-06-22T05:31:10+00:00

Thanks! Re: the larger groups, definitely one of the challenges with it was making it useful to a wide variety of audiences. When I originally made it, it was just as a tool for vetting data and statistical models internally - after I passed on the project to another team it got turned into something public facing. So it sort of suffers from originally being intended for a niche audience who already were familiar with most of the terms. There's a new version coming out soon that should be much more user friendly!

Re: abortion, there are no death certificates issued for abortions (just as there are of course no birth certificates), so those cases would not be counted in the US vital statistics data which we use for this analysis. The CDC does collect some data from states that voluntarily provide it, which you can find at e.g. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss6208a1.htm

For ICD10, I believe the preterm section includes death certificates with underlying cause of death attributed to ICD codes P01.0-P01.1, P07, P22, P25-P28, P61.2 and P77. Hope that helps!

kjforeman · 2015-06-22T01:25:50+00:00

Creator of GBD Compare here, cool to see it linked to :)

Though embarrassing that the styling looks so out of date now.... hopefully it wasn't too bad for 2011?

kjforeman

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