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by FakeComments 8y ago
Okay. None of what you wrote is a response to what I said, beside “well, if it gets bad enough, society will adapt”. You admit that in the current market, those companies are vastly important in a way that can’t change quickly and their act
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by FakeComments 8y ago
Can you show any quality meta-studies which investigate the issue? I’m unaware of any research into the effects of long term exposure to structured non-ionizing radiation. A meta-analysis of situations in which people make arguments like yo
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by FakeComments 8y ago
Your vision for society is one in which private companies moderate civic discourse? Sounds hellish — and very likely to be practiced disequitably, compounded with the power to silence critics of the system as extremists.
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by FakeComments 8y ago
It’s strange to me you excuse groups of people from having the same obligations as a lone person.
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by FakeComments 8y ago
The problem is that I haven’t seen safety studies, and the null hypothesis is that a technology is mildly unsafe: most of the neat science technologies have been. The reasoning of “its not ionizing radiation so it can’t possibly impact biol
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by FakeComments 8y ago
Having a healthy society has always been a national security issue: there’s literally millennia of documents on how governments collapsed because outsiders funded dissidents. These morality lessons we see aimed at societies aren’t mere mora
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by FakeComments 8y ago
Doesn’t this require the photon to be emitted differently depending on where it ends up, as it would experience different amounts of redshift depending on the length of flight? That’s some serious retro-causality if a photon from 13B ly hit
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by FakeComments 8y ago
Something a lot of people dont understand: US state governments aren’t part of the US federal government, in any capacity — they’re independent states in a union. That’s why it’s strange here: ICE are agents of the federal government, who a
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by FakeComments 8y ago
That’s a nonsense reply. Those calories are known to dissipate via motion, light, and heat. By contrast, the energy lost to expansion is simply lost, not emitted by the traveling photon through some mechanism. There is no conservation of en
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by FakeComments 8y ago
Facial recognition is key to some of their projects — say, verifying who uses a security badge or (possibly) things like the Go store to match you with your account. It’s also ignoring the generally silent shareholders who want Amazon to de
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by FakeComments 8y ago
To me, it is a perfectly coherent argument that the topic is insignificant to your business, but that the associated politicking at your meeting might be disruptive (particularly if you expect it to be based on inaccurate information). We d
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by FakeComments 8y ago
That decreasing the price causes elastic demand doesn’t indicate that raise the price decreases demand elastically: there can be a largely inelastic base load. > Higher-paying workers are more likely to pay more, since people with price-
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by FakeComments 8y ago
As an interesting aside, the n-th partial derivatives form an n-cube: For m variables, there are m first orders, m^2 second orders, etc. and most proofs about, eg convexity, amount to a proof over that shape. The reason that n-th order reas
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by FakeComments 8y ago
I’m not sure I follow your argument on 2. If people aren’t free to adjust their driving habits, congestion pricing merely raises the cost for them, because the time to commute doesn’t go down (appreciably) — everyone is still on the road at
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by FakeComments 8y ago
> Perhaps that's what you're getting at, the American identity is risk-taking, ie those that would willingly leave everything behind for the chance at a better life. My point is that Hispanics or blacks in the 1960s-1980s weren
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by FakeComments 8y ago
This assumes that either: 1. People can arbitrarily convert time into money, ie, there’s not a reason they’d prefer to pay some expenses in time. 2. People are free to change their travel times, and aren’t being coerced into traveling at a
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by FakeComments 8y ago
> Did Descartes really think? For the purposes of his proof, yes: Dubito ergo cogito ergo sum. The witness of a doubt is the witness of a thought is the witness of a thing, hence a thing must exist. Descartes at that point in his arg
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by FakeComments 8y ago
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19575256
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by FakeComments 8y ago
Historically, those groups melted into a shared American identity — that’s one of the things the US is historically famous for. Irish, Italians, and the “not white enough” Europeans; Chinese, Japanese, and Asian groups; recent African migra
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by FakeComments 8y ago
So does “effective feature size” mean anything? Besides that 5 < 7.
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by FakeComments 8y ago
I disagree, and would say that was even less true in 2003 when this was written — but there’s a fair bit of variance in how the word is used, and it’s on a trend towards improved status now that, well, (some) geeks seized substantial assets
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by FakeComments 8y ago
GSF1 appears among artists, hippies, and that sort of crowd in addition to geeks. It’s a common response to social bullying, and not limited to geeks — though it tends to manifest in marginalized social groups, for obvious reasons.
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by FakeComments 8y ago
All of these are common social fallacies, and associating them with “geeks” in particular seems like stereotyping, and seems to me to be reflecting the authors own poor experiences with a subset of geeks coupled with a lack of exposure to t
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by FakeComments 8y ago
Quoting the actual mistake is more useful, as that sentence doesn’t actually clarify the question — it’s what they’d say if it were for political reasons, as well. > In the letter, Ecker wrote that she and her coauthors had "identif
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by FakeComments 8y ago
I sometimes wonder if we’ll see a genuine men’s rights movement around the question of false paternity, now that it’s trivial to document. There are many issues that disproportionately impact men — but that’s one that basically uniquely imp
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by FakeComments 8y ago
The US not only separates smart kids into different classes, eg AP and IB programs and early admission to community colleges, they separate the elites into whole other schools, eg private boarding schools, magnet schools, and technical scho
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by FakeComments 8y ago
In my experience as a math tutor, they’re untaught natural abilities via poorly constructed (and hence, understandably confusing) “math” lessons taught by humanities majors turned primary school teacher. I often make the same point, and hav
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by FakeComments 8y ago
The US has extreme outliers, but it’s mean and median are below other nations.
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by FakeComments 8y ago
Glibly, metastasized leftists. I think that’s the most natural model for a virtue-signaling economic sinkhole that can’t sustain a viable population, but is trying to spread its governance ideas anyway: it’s literally analogous to unhealthy
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by FakeComments 8y ago
When you try to understand math education, remember that it’s basically what would happen if foreign language classes were designed and taught by people who only spoke English and had no training in formal language theory. Of course it’s la

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