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by aab0 10y ago
I actually do expect more from a longreads post. They're usually a top-notch site and above dark patterns like that.
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by aab0 10y ago
Cuts out at the most interesting point.
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by aab0 10y ago
So... anyone tried fuzzing it yet?
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by aab0 10y ago
No infrared. Already ruled out by earlier infrared surveys looking for Dyson spheres.
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by aab0 10y ago
An economics paper would usually try to exploit a natural experiment changing work hours for people in a way independent of their intelligence and jobs. For example, new labor legislation banning 40-hour work weeks, causing a drop in worked
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by aab0 10y ago
We use vibrating alarm clocks. If you're only hard of hearing, a regular alarm clock can still work as well. My favorite alarm clock had a vibrator and sound, but it also had a socket for my lamp to plug into, so it would wake me up in
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by aab0 10y ago
This is one of the most unconvincing instruments I've ever seen in an economics paper. They don't even try to justify why variables like 'parents alive' (!), 'other public benefits' (!!), 'owning your own
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by aab0 10y ago
Preprints are very common in economics. Their papers can float around for years before being 'published'. The figures & tables are at the end of the PDF.
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by aab0 10y ago
Nor were all of the mentioned facts in the pre-trial coverage. I don't remember the stuff about the other Doig's sister, and the prison records had not yet surfaced (the prison system had been unable to find them at the time).
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by aab0 10y ago
Kind of suspicious. None of the media articles mentions anyone who's actually used it, and even the original Kickstarter backers have yet to get and try it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/222459303&#x2F
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by aab0 10y ago
The disease one is pretty silly. How awful, now that we've eliminated smallpox and have cures for tuberculosis, malaria, and all the other major killers of humanity we are "increasingly concerned by new rather subtle diseases (SAR
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by aab0 10y ago
"After a rocky start — in his memoir, Ageless Quest, Guarente cops to quitting smoking when he was in third grade — he has lived a generally healthy life. Besides Basis, he takes a low-dose statin, aspirin, and vitamin D; weighs himsel
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by aab0 10y ago
I don't think it matters whether you run 4 passes or 1 pass, it's still going to overfit. You can run an online linear regression in a single pass too, but that doesn't magick away the uncertainties. The results are still goi
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by aab0 10y ago
They've refused to deny it, so they've confirmed it. When I saw the headline, I literally went 'Oh come on!' out loud. Apparently there's a bloody Earth-like planet everywhere if even our neighboring star has one.
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by aab0 10y ago
I think you might be confusing saffron with poppies. Saffron is sufficiently expensive and widely used in cuisine it's hard to see it being popular for any psychoactive properties it might have compared to, say, nutmeg.
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by aab0 10y ago
Well, he also disables the holdout set (`--holdout_off ariel.train`), so between that and not reporting the uncertainties and his absolutely tiny dataset with high measurement error and the low prior probability that any of these effects co
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by aab0 10y ago
> - How significant are the estimates of lifestyle factors? Do you have p-values? If you bootstrap resample, how much do the rankings change at the extremes? His VW script does do bootstrapping ('--bootstrap 16') but he doesn&#
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by aab0 10y ago
I would guess that the natural diamonds' prices have fallen as the synthetics increasingly set a price floor. They have such large stockpiles of diamonds and they have to bring in revenue, they can't simply pretend the synthetics
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by aab0 10y ago
Are you sure? I would assume that Red Hat requires all employees to sign copyright assignment and other such legal agreements. He would no longer be able to change the license at all, simply because he no longer owns the copyright to many o
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by aab0 10y ago
So it replaces regular energy expenses with instead very large up front capital investments in hard drives which is no more green - hard drives don't appear out of thin air - and adds in wacky incentives/vulnerabilities as now any
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by aab0 10y ago
> A disengage should be understood to probably be an accident I don't think it should. A disengage is simply a precaution. Whether it would have been an accident if the self-driving car had continued on is a question of counterfactu
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by aab0 10y ago
The difference is exactly what I said: if they deleted it, it's gone forever. If they hide it, it can come back. I've seen pages I cite disappear for a year or two thanks to scummy squatters - but they came back! It's the dif
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by aab0 10y ago
Maybe you should read up on Sovereign Citizen stuff. It is literally gobbledegook, based on making up linguistic stuff like claiming that 'understand' means 'stand under [to make a contract]'. Some of it is free-associat
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by aab0 10y ago
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en... 269 disengages over their entire fleet per year and perhaps 13 hypothetical accidents of unknown magnitude (but some quite minor: "2 of these in
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by aab0 10y ago
They're not deleting it, just hiding it from public access. Once the squatter goes away, the content comes back.
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by aab0 10y ago
Scott Alexander, a psychiatrist, has written some interesting material on the deinstitutionalization movement: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/03/31/book-review-my-brother-... http://slatestarcodex.
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by aab0 10y ago
Land is fixed, so the greater ability to pay from the subsidy simply increases the 'rent' earned by landowners. To a great extent, one gets the same house on the same land, but priced higher.
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by aab0 10y ago
> According to a police report from the March stop, which the department released after the shooting, Gaines was stopped when an officer saw that in place of a license plate she had a piece of cardboard on her vehicle. The cardboard decl
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by aab0 10y ago
Apparently the Iranians don't believe it was merely coincidental: > Iranian press reports have quoted senior Iranian defense officials describing the cash as a ransom payment. The Iranian foreign ministry didn’t respond to a request
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by aab0 10y ago
> Yes, pre-Ioannidis is the period I was referring to. Things cleaned up a lot in 2012+. What you said does not conflict with what I said.. A candidate-gene study != GWAS. It's particularly bizarre to criticize GWASes for the sins o

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