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by Gimpei 4y ago
I dunno, I feel like it’s bad but getting better. 20 years ago, nobody tried to replicate anything. Now it’s much more common and, I hope, expected for results like this one.
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by Gimpei 4y ago
One of the points of the article was that the DR was also the subject of imperialism, but it’s doing much better, and the majority of the divergence between the two countries occurred after the indemnity to France was paid off. This seems t
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by Gimpei 4y ago
The gini of Indonesia, at ~37, isn't low, but it isn't particularly high either. Below Malaysia, China, and the Philippines, but above Thailand. Mobility is hard to track at Indonesia's level of development. All I could find
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by Gimpei 4y ago
There's a ton of research on the effects of air conditioning on learning exploiting (purportedly) pseudo-random introduction of air conditioning to schools. Here's one: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2F
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by Gimpei 4y ago
Agreed! Television is so much better. Comics are better. Obscure music from all over the world is readily available rather than being stuck with top 40, solid gold, American bandstand. Board games are more variegated; beer culture has expl
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by Gimpei 4y ago
I think this is true to some extent. The fundamental problem is that the majority of journalists are generalists with training mostly in writing. This may have worked in the past, but the world has become very specialized. Generalized knowl
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by Gimpei 4y ago
I’m born and raised in SF. I love it here. It’s a beautiful city with a nice temperate climate, great food, and some culture. At the same time it does have a huge homeless problem. This has actually always been a problem, but it has gotten
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by Gimpei 4y ago
Spruce Goose 2?
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by Gimpei 4y ago
Oops. I meant Ultima 7.5.
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by Gimpei 4y ago
Ultima 8.75. No game has ever brought the same joy as Ultima 8.5, although maybe that was a function of my age as well.
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by Gimpei 4y ago
This is why journalists need to learn some basic stats. The credulity with which he takes the pro-sun researchers claims, the ignorance he displays about the shortcomings of observational studies are as depressing as they are common. Not sa
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by Gimpei 4y ago
I agree. I thought the whole point of markdown was to be simple and readable. At this point, why not just use full latex instead.
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by Gimpei 4y ago
Height does appear to be correlated with income[1]. So it’s entirely possible that discrimination has existed and continues to exist. People seem to think that because something is difficult to measure, it isn’t there, but that simply isn’t
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by Gimpei 4y ago
Missing from this story is any evidence that the soap they're providing is actually helping. It would be nice to see some sort of RCT where free soap was compared with the benefit from selling the recycled soap and then just giving peo
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by Gimpei 5y ago
There’s something I’m not understanding in this critique . If somebody buys a whole bunch of trees, that would presumably increase the price of lumber overall and thus encourage a substitution away from lumber. So somebody certainly could c
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by Gimpei 5y ago
The problem with the debate on "cancel culture" is a lack of specificity. The fact is that there are certain occasions where "canceling" seems fine, and others, where it does not. And I think a problem with the progressi
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by Gimpei 5y ago
A lot of the issues here seem to be a product of the US education system that defers excessively to the students (probably because they’re paying big bucks). But it could be worse. I did my grad studies in a European University where there
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by Gimpei 5y ago
Heidegger was a member of the Nazi party; Simone be Beauvoir was banned from teaching for molesting her students [1]; and Foucault may have molested children [2], and certainly he advocated for the right to have sex with minors [3]. The pub
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by Gimpei 5y ago
Ego rents are very much a part of modern economic theory. As are any range of cognitive biases (see behavioral economics), institutional frictions, spatial constraints, and on and on. It's a wide tent. Some say too wide.
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by Gimpei 5y ago
What are your thoughts on the externalism of Putnam and Kripke, i.e. that meanings aren't just defined by use, but that they are also determined by objects themselves? It feels like that puts a crimp in meaning = co-occurance, but mayb
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by Gimpei 5y ago
On a tangential note, this got me really excited that there was a Stefan Sweig book that I hadn't heard of. Alas, it seems as if "the impossible book" is a fiction.
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by Gimpei 5y ago
Exactly. I could write a report right now about how Biden is secretly being telepathically controlled by a species of deep sea shrimp. I can't see how it would be ethical to publish that though.
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by Gimpei 5y ago
What does this have to do with boomers? Who do you think built that plant?
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China Cracks Down on Cryptocurrencies(nytimes.com)
4 points by Gimpei 5y ago|0 comments
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by Gimpei 5y ago
Society isn't ready to watch science any other way either. Media outlets routinely take individual studies and vastly inflate their results. I suppose it's better if the study is peer reviewed, but not much.
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by Gimpei 5y ago
It would also be nice to have some sense of what the underlying algorithms are.
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by Gimpei 5y ago
According to the article Appalachia is also under consideration, which I guess would alleviate the water concerns. The only justification I can think of for a project like this is BANANAs making the reformation of current cities impossible.
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by Gimpei 5y ago
You're thinking about this in moralistic terms of deservedness. The shock I encountered at the 40K was that it wasn't enough to incentive future security researchers to find bugs. This just seems like a bad business decision.
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by Gimpei 5y ago
There is lots of research on this. Here's one heavily cited paper that finds what the previous poster was suggesting. Fine to disagree, but it would be nice to see some counter evidence. https://web.stanford.edu/~diamon
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by Gimpei 5y ago
Of course it doesn't. But a lot of the time, those people will not care whether you blame them or not. They'll just keep doing it. If there's a loophole, some unscrupulous person or company will always exploit it. Go ahead an

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