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by Ilverin 7y ago
IRBs are not legally required, and most IRBs are excessively risk-averse (an IRB doesn't lose anything for denying a study, but a study with a bad outcome can give those on the IRB a bad reputation). Suppose you are ethically allowed
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by Ilverin 7y ago
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/14/the-virtue-of-silence/
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by Ilverin 8y ago
Per square millimeter, memory costs less than gpu silicon. (and Radeon VII's memory takes up more square millimeters than half). https://www.anandtech.com/show/13923/the-amd-radeon-vii-revi... (Also yield dec
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by Ilverin 8y ago
'Yields' are what fraction of the chips produced end up usable rather than damaged/broken. With 7nm, yields are down. With larger chips by area, yields are always lower than smaller chips. So AMD can save money by putting ext
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by Ilverin 8y ago
If a Robinhood user thinks they are getting the wrong prices when they buy or sell, then they should seriously contact the SEC because that is illegal (as far as I know the prices aren't wrong). The reason guaranteed small-scale trade
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by Ilverin 8y ago
If both sides are bad, then helping either side accomplishes nothing good unless it ends the war sooner. If the side you support is enforcing a blockade and causing harm to civilians, that is a bad thing while it lasts. In reality, the Saud
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by Ilverin 8y ago
> If you do not believe that people should profit from increasing the lethality of the military, then you do not believe in the utility of having a military. Alternative: You can believe that circumstances dictate if the military is doin
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by Ilverin 8y ago
Mathematically that's irrelevant to finding planets with an integer ratio of days per year. Integers are still integers no matter what base you express them in.
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by Ilverin 9y ago
I think this effect is small because of opportunity cost. In Case A, google wins the bid, they gain the ad space, but gain no revenue. In Case B, google does not win the bid, they lose the ad space, but do gain revenue. Revenue and ad space
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by Ilverin 9y ago
This kingpin story is not likely to be true. http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/urban_legends/henry_fords...
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by Ilverin 9y ago
There are 2 sides to the economy, supply and demand. Yes, the policies you describe do boost demand and that does cause inflation, but the supply side is not irrelevant. Less NIMBYism will help with housing costs, and maybe some reform coul
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by Ilverin 9y ago
Free trade has 3 kinds of benefits: #1 All consumers benefit #2 Vast majority of workers in the poorer country #3 Some number of workers in the richer country Basically, for every unemployed worker in the USA, there's a Chinese worker
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by Ilverin 10y ago
An alternative view is: "If you're already successful, everything you could learn at a college you can also learn out of college (see: the internet)".
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by Ilverin 11y ago
2.7% profit is not really razor-thin. According to economists, over the "long term", profits tend to 0%. Wireline technologies are quite old, it seems the long term is here.
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by Ilverin 11y ago
http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html "Humanity seems to have a bright future, i.e., a non-trivial chance of expanding to fill the universe with lasting life. But the fact that space near us seems dead no
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by Ilverin 12y ago
Marketing/advertising is a bullshit job 99% of the time (the only time it isn't is when the product you are marketing is not well known and is a better option for some people than a competitor's product).
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by Ilverin 12y ago
What is the United States doing currently that deserves sanctions?
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by Ilverin 12y ago
For those who might not know, it's possible Netflix could benefit from paid prioritization: it would protect Netflix from start-ups aiming to take the place of Netflix. I'm not sure what Netflix's official stance is on net ne
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by Ilverin 12y ago
"doing so on a large scale is almost guaranteed to be a disaster" Over the past centuries, human life expectancy has increased greatly and yet we have a much higher quality of life. It's an extraordinary claim to suggest that
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by Ilverin 12y ago
Not directly relevant, but why not spend the minute necessary to google whether the explanation for "How did the primary and secondary batteries not power the lander for the calculated one week+ of operation?" is readily available
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by Ilverin 12y ago
If there are Russian soldiers in Ukraine supporting rebels, the actions of Russia are without question much worse than any of the actions taken by the US.
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by Ilverin 13y ago
As regards origination from ungulates: More recent data suggests origination from artiodactyls. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_cetaceans#Earliest...
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by Ilverin 13y ago
Can anyone explain to me how this is a secret treaty? My understanding is that the only way the treaty actually comes into effect for its main participant (the USA) is a vote in the Senate, which would make it a public treaty. Or does the d
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by Ilverin 13y ago
Fresh clean water may only happen along sources of water, not likely to happen in the desert. But along those sources of water, it should happen pretty fast. If electricity becomes free, desalination follows basically the next day.
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by Ilverin 13y ago
I would argue that authors are with software engineers on this. You can find many free works online from authors who were unable to get a publisher interested. They may not be as organized as software engineers, but they are definitely out
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by Ilverin 13y ago
They generally also believe in the invisible hand of the capitalist market.
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by Ilverin 13y ago
He said that he is done through chapter 96, and implied that it might be the end (said at chapter 86 that there were "2 or 3" arcs left, and arcs tend to be about 4 chapters...).
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by Ilverin 13y ago
In the case of the fly, von Neumann probably just calculated the length of the first and second trip and calculated the sum using the self-similarity of the series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_series#Sum
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by Ilverin 13y ago
The "Moore's Law" used in the article "that the computing power available for a given price doubles about every 18 months" is correct, but it is a slight redefinition of the actual "Moore's Law". In any case, the costs are going down, the n
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by Ilverin 14y ago
The author might respond "They are less gameable than the 'standardised' tests, and the 'standardised' tests are even narrower than the intelligence tests".

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