ACow_Adonis

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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
i can't be the only oldskool person on hacker news who knows not to click on unsubscribe buttons because it just identifies you as a legitimate email/mark... these are spammers, not cases where you ever actually signed up to some
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
I know Australia would provide a psuedo-natural experiment, because of the family laws effectively making de-facto relationships legally more or less equivalent of actual marriage.
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
we have a concept in welfare and income stats called equivalisation. this is where we try to control for the positive material externalities that come from sharing resources among people. you dont have to buy two of everything if you share
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
isn't that just the internet (and in many ways our societies) in a nutshell? All the people today saying the internet and content wouldnt survive without advertising and payments and some of us remember that actually the internet and c
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
It reads like a someone tried to commit poetry by rhyming dot points in a list. Except they got a discount bulk-rate on purchasing commas at the grammar store so they stitched it all together with 50 of them and called it done :P Plus like
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
well, the brightest minds as self-described by the people doing it. And the people doing it self select for showing the ability to work in a disingenuous self-advocating marketing field, so you might expect them to talk themselves up. i don
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
it is hard to convey to people how much of our modern world are cultural beliefs and how much it's shifted. So much is commerce and IP now. it's horrible. I openly gave a talk in my primary school pre-1992 (when we moved) about ov
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
I'm in the same boat (in terms of both field and experience) and I find the original post bordering on absolutely nonsensical gibberish. It's like a technical version of an astrology column.
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
I spent a fair bit of my youth where there's been legalised brothels (or at least I assume they were through most of my childhood) and sex work. And on the other hand there's also physiotherapists and actual massages. I don&#x27
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
I feel like I'm missing some cultural context here that made this a semi- difficult read: obviously? the word "massage parlour" is some local euphemism for some kind of sex work and its implied they aren't actually masse
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
I had philosophy teachers who thought similar and dismissed my claims outright to the contrary. I call it mental-ese. To talk i often first have to translate between it and my native language (English). obviously, it's by its very na
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
That's because the debate and popular press around all this discussion in Australia (and elsewhere) is a populist/political cluster fuck and has almost nothing to do with economics. Reserve bank doesn't want to talk about its
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
how many john smith do you think are born in the US? to what degree do you think birth times are actually rounded rather than accurately recorded? very much not done :)
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
This seems like a strange asymmetric take. Aren't people who fill their resumes with word soup penalising people who don't play the games and instead fill their resume to actually be read, and convey actual meaningful information
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
As has been said before, once you reach a certain level, the two often become empirically indistinguishable.
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
counter-counterpoint: studies (that is to say the modern ritual of writing papers about spuriously finding statistical correlations using language and processes specific to your academic tribe) have consistently found positive effects of bo
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
isn't that like, the entire big consulting business model?
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
150 presses and 51% here, just trying with my fingers on my smartphone :) And now to 200 with 49%. Feeling not so subtley smug. And now to 400 with 50%. Admit I'm getting bored now. Now the question I have to answer, is that because
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
As someone who's arguably professionally employed to do things like tell people where money is in the financial system, no, you can't. In the same way you can't enumerate the atoms or molecules in a human body. sure, you can
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
as per my other comment, in most of the sufficiently big or historical cases you have to distinguish between two things: - reality - the socially acceptable fiction in the report the exercise would be to create an output that allows people
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
Counterpoint: the conclusions of legal, compliance and security rest upon social fictions and power structures, but fundamentally at a certain scale, all things act like the original commenter said. In my experience with the above, people g
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
well, for a start, flows and holdings on foreign investments, interest and monetary flows, international trade, consumption of existing stock (depending on your particular definition of income). but either way, he's fundamentally righ
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
Pandemics, disease control, and epidemiology :) i.e. infected = base. New infection rate, spread, R0 etc = 1st derivative. R0 increasing or decreasing = 2nd derivative. Environment, Metereology and Climate. Climate/phenomenon (i.e. g
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
i don't know the specifics, but it's had a long road and evolved out of prijects that came before. I believe it's currently running on a modified version of the spring engine.
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
I'd be remiss not to link to https://www.beyondallreason.info/ A community made spiritual successor to the total annihilation/supreme commander series. It's notionally in alpha, but it works perfectly, and I
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
have you considered implementing a false control (i.e. putting in a badly implemented bionic reading version and serving that to a random number of people to see whether people also report speed increases with "bad bionic reading"
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
It's not a perfect test, but as a statistician, my preliminary takeaway from this is that bionic reading doesn't work. results are generally in the ballpark of insignificant, and there seems to be a very weak inverse relationship
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
first of all, awesome job. I'm also a big believer in trying to code such models up to try to understand them. But, and it pains me to say it, as someone with a bit of a background in economics, I dunno if realistic is quite the word i
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
Its like how health is correlated with height. Its true, up to a point. you just have to ignore that at the extremes it's probably negatively correlated, and there's a significant non-zero possibility that at least in the short te
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
almost out of my thirties, consider myself perpetually interested in chasing and studying rationality for the last 25 years or so, and consider most of the population certifiably insane and I'm an alien anthropologist ferrying between

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