acornax

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by acornax 3y ago
Just imagine how much worse it would be if the graduate had an art history degree. I mean, it's fascinating but it doesn't tend to be relevant on the job. The idea that university is job training just needs to go. The academic mat
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by acornax 7y ago
A fundamental problem a lot of this work has to confront is that interpreting motor behavior is generally the best way of interpreting brain activity. The activity that's happening in the brain but never reaches the level of motor acti
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by acornax 8y ago
Banks don't literally print money but they do create it when they issue loans.
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by acornax 9y ago
It's a bit more complicated too - rather than the AAA ratings being completed unfounded, they often seemed to have justification (at least on the surface), as various kinds of CDOs were typically packaged with insurance baked in, to ma
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by acornax 12y ago
This is wrong. In the book Soma is described to have roughly the positive effects of alcohol, without the negative consequences.
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by acornax 12y ago
Strong correlation requires a large number of 'coincidences'
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by acornax 12y ago
Not if they're already understood not to be...
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by acornax 12y ago
I don't really agree that happiness itself is overrated, but certainly the pursuit itself is. edit: I agree with your ninja edit.
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by acornax 12y ago
How awful... I wonder where the thinks he learned this myth. Sad to see such misplaced confidence in a scientist.
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by acornax 12y ago
They've actually been scaling QE back for quite a while now.
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by acornax 12y ago
Isn't increasing pay like this just part of how the market rate adjusts? In this case it seems a bit extreme but it seems obvious that if a company is having a tough time attracting talent they should pay more.
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by acornax 12y ago
Pressure from the board maybe..?
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by acornax 12y ago
iirc authors have to pay Nature to submit their articles as well.
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by acornax 12y ago
Read the quote again, you're begging the question. Empirical evidence is experiential by definition - it can be material evidence if it relates to claims about matter, but it can also be evidence about other domains. Ex. If God exists,
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by acornax 12y ago
Empirical evidence isn't material evidence.
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by acornax 12y ago
Kind of a bad quote. Ornithology would be useful to birds if they could understand it.
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by acornax 12y ago
Interesting that only Toronto and Vancouver are present for Canada.
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by acornax 12y ago
Yes.
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by acornax 12y ago
Mass starvation wasn't part of the cultural revolution. It happened as a result of the great leap forward which happened about 15 years before.