MillenialMan

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by MillenialMan 5y ago
In my opinion the issue with pop-psych marketing constructs is that there are kernels of truth embedded within a misleading superstructure. They tend to leave you worse off because the structure (which is wrong, incomplete, misleading) is b
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I'm not talking about the thrill of a new relationship. I would define a feeling of old, secure warmth towards your partner of 50 years as romance, and your satisfaction in a 50-year-old relationship is primarily a function of whethe
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
"The Five Love Languages" is literally trademarked. It's a framework that's designed to sound plausible, like a horoscope. It's not designed to be accurate, it's designed to make you go, "oooooh" and
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I think this is true, but it really comes down to: how much do you and your spouse like each other? If you both like each other, you'll want to give, and the relationship is probably going to feel mutually fulfilling. If it's not
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
You still need to attach final wallet(s) to the user, but in any case, I assume they would use Monero (or another privacy coin).
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Bitcoin isn't, but Monero is.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I would think the main thing they're afraid of is that it allows Chinese citizens to operate outside the state apparatus of surveillance.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
All of those things can be tracked and confiscated - crypto is a lot harder. It's volatile, but it's significantly more secure against state actors.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Drugs are the thing people have a strong incentive to accept crypto for, not pizzas. All black markets have an incentive to use it - including state actors (e.g. weapons deals). Getting caught laundering Monero is preferable to getting caug
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I would argue the average person is terrible at assessing bureaucratic ability but pretty good at assessing personality, so I think they're better off voting with their gut.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
A few elections ago in the UK, a site like this got popular, where you'd answer a quiz and it would recommend the party most closely "matched" your preferences. A lot of people ended up getting recommended the green party, de
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
It's not really something researchers can control. I was commenting on the news release, and it being posted on Hacker News, because that's more of an issue.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
With such a small sample size, formal methods break down. The sample could be biased. In fact, it's almost guaranteed. The ability to p-hack (even inadvertently) is extremely high. Publication bias is also practically guaranteed. These
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I think that's an absurd requirement to levy on tourists and oyster cards are a perfectly reasonable solution.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
The sample size was also 31 users, 40 controls. This really isn't a meaningful result.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I think if you offered the two options to users with even partial differences in price, most users would go for the cheaper option even if they had to do cartwheels to process payments.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Many banks charge a hefty premium for overseas purchases, and they tend to charge per purchase.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Given the option, I think most customers would absolutely rather use the company's system, if the company offered lower prices for buying through them. Of course, that assumes both systems would be on offer - but if there's market
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I was actually quite careful not to say anything like "all trans people desire surgery"
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Many groups are social pariahs, none have a suicide rate close to the transgender community. Dysphoria by itself is clearly horrible to deal with, that's why people are willing to have double mastectomies in the pursuit of easing their
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
It would probably be upvoted if it was astroturfing. Hacker News doesn't have a huge commentariat, I think it's just a few people with an axe to grind.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
That's sort of an arbitrary distinction. Both are abnormal presentations that cause significant problems in day-to-day life and consequently have clinics set up to treat the issue. Whether the issue is voluntary for a particular patien
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I think many of the original posters (or stills from the movie) were just in the training data, to be honest. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in particular seems to be a direct reconstruction of features from that movie.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Is that overfitting? I thought overfitting was explicitly when your model fits itself so well to the training data that its ability to generalise to your target environment begins to decline. The size of the training set and the performan
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I mean you train your network to produce images that translate into adversarial 3d surfaces. You don't need to produce the correct 3d surface if the surface recogniser is neural - you just need to produce a 3d surface that's adver
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
Is this true? I would have thought all you would need is to give it an input that maps to a 3d surface that's adversarial. There's an extra step in the pre-prep pipeline, but the basic technique is the same - gradient descent on
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
There's a build happening at the end of my road at the moment, I can see how this maps onto that. Thanks - this explains a lot.
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
This is completely untrue. Contrary to popular belief, sitting at a desk is extremely healthy in comparison to manual labour, which destroys your body over time. Standing all day is also worse for your back than sitting all day. Even bein
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
People already have the option to not lay bricks. They don't choose it, because they need money. I get that everyone is going to say, "well then, UBI" but bear in mind in an automated society, power is disproportionately in t
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by MillenialMan 5y ago
I don't really understand this. When I see a small house being built, it will have four or five builders on-site at all times, mostly doing labour (and they're, frankly, extremely slow. It will take months to lay the bricks). If y

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