affinehat

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by affinehat 8y ago
You can't lump together all forms of luck into a single "objectively true, pragmatically false" category without considering the magnitude of impact luck has on what you intend to do. In the extreme, playing the lottery is al
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by affinehat 9y ago
That all came later as an attempt to punish Wakefield for the negative consequences to society due to people not getting vaccines. But people only stopped getting vaccines in the first place based on a misinterpretation of the paper. They e
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by affinehat 9y ago
From the paper ( http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67... ): "We did not prove an association between measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and the syndrome described. Virological stud
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by affinehat 9y ago
I don't think it's fair to call it the "vaccines cause autism" paper. It didn't suggest a causal relationship. As usual, it was the fault of the media and public for interpreting it in that way.
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by affinehat 9y ago
I disagree with your assertion that it is "extremely risky" to apply current nutrition knowledge. Since we don't understand the effects of the "traditional" diet, it's not clear whether it is helping or hurting
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by affinehat 10y ago
Open source software isn't a zero sum game. When one person joins, that does not displace someone else who would normally gravitate to that field because open source can scale efficiently to any number of contributors. On the contrary,
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by affinehat 11y ago
I think the three questions are his main focus. Having a nice conversation and asking questions is just the example method used to determine the answers. It's not revolutionary, but showing that individually they are all necessary but
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by affinehat 11y ago
> Whether code is concise, clear and elegant has not been causally related to success, unless that's how you define success, which is not how the market defines it. Reductio: The brain is neither concise, clear nor elegant (as far a