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by acituan 5y ago
> Men are not doing as well as women in school. Schools are not performing as well for men as they do for women. I'm not just playing with words; it is really important to frame the share of responsibility correctly. It is the sch
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I don't buy it. I mean I trust you got the numbers on whatever metrics you thought you've measured, but I don't buy that this is a well designed human experiment and your conclusions sufficiently exclude alternative explanati
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> A significant chunk of onboarding is driving the message through that if you abuse your powers as an engineer to access personal user data, you will be insta-fired without warning. I think focusing on a rogue employee as the threat it
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US monopolies couldn't penetrate into China without the Chinese government's say so. Xiaomi had its share of US and Indian sanctions (albeit temporarily). The problem is not only competition in US or Chinese as markets; it is als
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> Mindless browsing is like a walk through the woods, just looking for what is happening, navigating a huge amount of information that is hardly important at the moment – oh, the cherry tree is blooming – but could be important later. Yo
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Video discovery in itself is not monopolyish either. It is the vertical integration of video hosting + video discovery that makes the monopoly. Hence the solution being a break up; separate youtube-the-video-hosting-infra from youtube-the-r
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> The mob is a huge problem with Twitter (and adjacent social media), and the issue with a mob is purely that of its size. There can be no mob without twitter's involvement. There are always two parts to social media; social medi
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> Now, a lot of people implicitly assume that in a dispute between for-profit company and an open-source project, the for-profit company must be in the wrong. All things equal, this is not a baseless assumption; not only profit maximizat
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> No, you can acknowledge race as a widespread social construct, which having been constructed, has material effects that can only be fully discussed by including race. That is still essentialism with extra steps. Social or not, your cat
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> Someone who wrote a racist or anti-Semitic comment in 2007 could have evolved to deeper understanding and to a more compassionate worldview. But the writing remains forever, conveniently accessible. Not all writing is equal. There is a
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> acknowledgement of race or racial difference Acknowledgment of race is inherently an essentialist position; that there is an essence to being a certain race that sets it apart from other races. Doesn't matter if that position
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> I don't think you can make that call what someone should and shouldn't do to satisfy their social needs because everyone has very widely ranging needs in the first place. That is why I said satisfice . Good on you that you k
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> Some people prefer to work from an office (like me) just because you get to spend time with people (I live alone). I live alone too and I hate for me when people at the office became an erzats social circle. It is not. It is not a soci
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> Read the responses to this paper. It has been pretty much debunked. I'm impressed with your transition from "I've never heard research on ketamine's opioid activity" to "it is pretty much debunked". I
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> The choice of the word universal is a bit ironic, as the nature of the (physical) universe prevents such a thing from being possible. It might look improbable or unlikely, but I don't see how it is impossible . Unity in the under
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> Most clinics definitely do not co-administer benzodiazepines. You're welcome to call and conduct your own survey, I have no way to document mine for you. Clinics don't tend to detail their procedures at this level online but
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Devil is in the details, the fact that the author remembers their state of mind is odd. Because currently most of the clinics co-administer a benzodiazepine (midazolam) with ketamine, which actually is used for its amnesiac effects. Also, a
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> Because we Americans funded the lab Not only that but also majority of the funding was during Obama's second term. Which means Biden administration has an even stronger incentive to sweep this under the rug.
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> Every adaptable system evolves to adapt to a changing environment by detecting "modes" (categories) and adapting to each mode. Then we start noticing categories come in instances. There's a tree, there are more trees. So
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ROI for workplace schmoozing is not the same, let alone positive, for all job ladders and levels.
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Suppression is not the only problem information endures. False information and overall narrative engineering is capable of doing equal, and probably more, harm than mere absence of information. > With these platforms banned, it will be m
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Misleading title, the study didn't demonstrate anything about the amount of brain activity, but the locale of brain activity. From the study; > Players who were successful under pressure showed most of their activity in the motor
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> I think our generation is forgetting some fundamentals: money at the expense of anything else. This makes it sound like it is a collection of individual failings that lead to market and growth remaining as the only normativities today.
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> The office is exactly where we should be advocating for things, because it is where we spend the most time and can affect the most change. Just like we can't say "I should vote on other people's behalf because I know bet
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> This article discusses correlational evidence. The basis for causation is speculative at best, and there is a long list of cofounding factors. If you had a well formed hypothesis before conducting a correlational study, and the outcome
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> Stepping back, it appears that screen time is correlated with depressive symptoms, with or without social media You might have some other study to back it up, but from the study you've cited we can't conclude that, because th
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> must address all the fucking edge cases or be called out by the immediate first child comment about failing to do so. Because it is an incredibly common fallacy to ignore boundary conditions and unintentional consequences when proposin
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Their use of an external validation dataset eliminates many, if not all, of those concerns. Regarding external validation set: > This dataset differed from the UK Biobank development set with respect to both fundus camera used, and in so
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"with minimal trial" is the operative word, which didn't happen. The point being there is a balance between waiting for perfect data and making risk based policies.
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> science is a process. If research came out that changed the recommendations, well, that's how science works. CDC is a public health organization, not a science making organization. Its responsibility is to make the competent publi

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