SkyBelow

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by SkyBelow 4y ago
>my guess is that "wonderful" is not the same as "competent". Right. There are two different sets of benefits that help or hurt someone in different ways. Being competent when standing trial can work against you whi
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
>Truly double blind peer review would likely encourage this. Maybe it would also further encourage people to steal research or peer review outside of their expertise. How so? For smaller papers, if the papers still stand up to review eve
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
>There is (almost) no such thing as unskilled labor. That is arguing against a strawman created by an argument that isn't fully specified. Even walking takes skill. What is meant when people talk about the skill involved in work is
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
>Revisiting the idea recently, Pandora, YouTube, TikTok etc have all made a business out of building a customized feed for YOU. It's become the exact opposite of what the original article predicted. Is that the opposite? If the cus
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
The average person cannot remember a good password without some help, be it using it everywhere, writing it down, or using a password manager. Homeless individuals, on average, have many more stressors in life, much higher rates of traumat
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
That would be one way of handling the technical how, but it isn't technical problems that are stopping companies from doing this. Places like Steam already have digital marketplaces yet games aren't resalable.
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
>Programming languages aren’t intuitive either, yet we learned them. While saying "it isn't intuitive" is a bit of a simplification, I think there is something to the argument. I wonder if that is the case. Many programmi
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
>Can you imagine how much we could advance if the whole of Industry contributed and published their 'non-secret sauce' research in the same way academia currently does. How much faster would scientists produce findings if they
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
>Framing A/B testing as "social experiments" for shock value is disingenuous, Is it? I've only done minor human experimentation, but had to go through the IRB process. What I did was on par with simple AB testing.
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
>Saying the words "women are more likely than men to do X" leaves the reader unfortunately with the impression "many women do X," whereas that might not be true. I wonder if this is related to "X is better than Y
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
Historic studies on altruism often failed to account for all costs or benefits of certain actions. This led to results showing a great deal of altruism that later research overturned when scenarios were better crafted to control costs and
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
Maybe I'm being naïve and idealistic, but I would think an open source project would have a much easier time of navigating this than a private individual. Open source projects are built off of donations of both money and time. As for
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
To simplify a bit, you get two options. Move A. Move B. From the best knowledge we have from our best engines, A is the better move (though I don't think we have formally proven such yet). But if you play A, you are playing your oppone
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
There are different programs in the US as well, including competitive ones which will cover the full cost of college (some do have income limits, but they are generally quite high). Generally when we are talking college costs we aren'
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
>if the US was Germany levels of selective in University admittance I only ever seen people bring up the cost of university in Europe such as Germany's free system but never the other differences. I'm beginning to think most p
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
>"College is MORE than just career prep! It's about producing well-rounded citizens!" Which can be done through online resources, MOOCs, libraries, and using free resources that colleges from such as access to the college
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
Wouldn't the 'truth' of a statement be depending upon the axioms of where you are making the statement. Thus something proven is true and if the negation is proven it is false, and thus a system able to prove both is self co
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
At step 4, my default has always been "Please work with your financial institution to reverse the transaction." and then don't touch the money they've sent. Not touching the money and saying you are completely willing t
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
Is there a distinction between saying a system has something that is provable and untrue and saying the system is self contradictory (and the more generalized layman interpretation that the system is wrong).
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
>An emphasis on, or even appearance of, productivity Is Bob's emphasis on productivity directly or is that a result of a different emphasis. From the article: >This creates a situation where Bob is becoming somewhat anxious, as h
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
>Illinois has to allow the Per the existing law, but given the Constitution can be changed, should they have to allow? Arguing they have to because the law currently prevents them from doing otherwise seems a different argument than it
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
For the random piano, you are right, there is no difference. For a paino being used to play a very specific piece, the tuning might be slightly different depending if the intended song is using D# or E♭, depending upon the key of the song.
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
What about what libraries do in general. By buying some number of copies and then letting many people read those copies, it leads to fewer people buying books overall leading to less pay, meaning those who depend upon income from writing b
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
Libraries are government approved piracy. This can be taken as being positive about piracy or negative about libraries. I think the real question is not which way I mean it but why does the average user see one as positive and the other as
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
Part of it is clarifying the claim. Is it "some positive effects" meaning some subset of all the effects being positive or "overall positive effect" meaning the sum of all the negative and positive effects is positive?
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
Despite my family being fans of college football and going to a college that has the main college football rivalry in my state, I have no memory or inclination of there being any association between THE and OSU. I'm not certain I can
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
>This is not particularly contradictory or surprising That may be true, but it is still telling that we can only get information from a government agency because they are legally forced to give it to us and they will do so in a way that
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
Isn't the false dichotomy that if we spend €21 billion on a particle accelerator then we must take it from other research into advancing humanity instead of taking it from other areas that don't provide benefit to humanity as a wh
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
No. I'm pointing out that our current system is already spending money on far more wasteful things, thus it should be possible to fund accelerators by taking away from the things that are an outright detriment to humanity than the thi
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by SkyBelow 4y ago
What are the alternatives? Better weapons, better ad targeting systems, better gambling hidden behind a veneer of gaming on mobile? We can look at where our government and our society currently allocates money and find that the allocation

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