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by alentist 6y ago
> A whole lot. So, since the Bay Area has socialist subcultures [0], and they actually have power [1], will you say it is socialist in governance? Or are you applying a double standard? > The direction of both results was very much
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I’m not sure what this has to do with my comment.
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Not sure if you’re aware, but many of the links I shared are about the Bay Area as a whole . > libertarian subcultures I’m sure there are lots of subcultures. What does this have to do with who is actually governing?
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> the Bay Area > libertarian paradise What a strange notion. San Francisco has some of the most paternalistic laws in the US, courtesy of its board of supervisors. Some of them even wanted to ban corporate cafeterias, an issue which r
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This is a bad example and a common misconception. Standard Oil was an efficiency monopoly. It was a tremendous boon to consumers: Instead of buying oil from jobbers, they made the jobbers’ profit by sending their own purchasing men int
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https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6396/1465.full
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Blind reviews and auditions are considered problematic now: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-audition...
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https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6396/1465.full Do we think that a problem persists even when it has become less frequent? Levari et al. show experimentally that when the “signal” a person is searc
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by alentist 6y ago
> It doesn't bother me How fortunate for you. On the other hand, other people are hurt by the explicitly racist policies you endorse. You don’t speak for them. > in my own caste Why don’t you speak for yourself, instead of spea
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Can you say “there’s no extraterrestrial life” without evidence? Absolutely not. Both positive and negative claims need evidence.
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None of those countries are socialist. Why are you spreading this misinformation?
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> Your statement of average lifespan "improving" for individuals is simply nonsense. It’s factually correct. For example [0]: Life expectancy increases with age as the individual survives the higher mortality rates associated
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That would be the expected value E(X), not the probability P(X > 0). The two are not conflatable.
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It’s a game-theoretic problem that has a name: Concentrated benefits and diffused costs.
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What an ironic comment.
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> The top comment is actually pretty informative It’s not.
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Top-level comments should be informative/substantive. This isn’t Reddit.
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This is not correct. See above.
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> I see it’s equivalent to a Beta distribution. It's not. The beta distribution is p(x) ∝ x^(α-1) (1-x)^(β-1). x is in the bases. The continuous Bernoulli distribution is p(x) ∝ λ^x (1-λ)^x. x is in the exponents. As https:/&#
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> given that they don't hold on to anything for very long Why would they need to?
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So is egalitarianism.
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> it's the only good example of the "Cancel Culture" Here's a few more: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1282404647160942598.html
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> 538 has corrections for bias already. They seem to have worked in this instance See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25017810
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Wasn’t this put to a vote? Why do you call it “lawbuying”? Because you don’t like the result?
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Why didn’t you use the ratios?
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> None of it really had much to do with marxist philosophy Nonsense. The Cultural Revolution had much to do with Marxist philosophy. For goodness’ sake, read the May 16 Notification and Sixteen Points.
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The IAT is pseudoscience. The Implicit Association Test at Age 21: No Evidence for Construct Validity [0] > The Implicit Association Test (IAT) is 21 years old. Greenwald et al. (1998) proposed that the IAT measures individual differen
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by alentist 6y ago
The nth power of an adjacency matrix yields the number of length-n walks from any vertex to any other vertex.
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by alentist 6y ago
> Where did I say discussion of certain topics should be banned? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24797649 > Do you agree that there are objective facts that should be accepted by the society for the well being o
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And I’m free to criticize their censorship, and the way they lie about it. If the only reply left is “Well, they can legally do it!” (assuming their lies about said censorship aren’t legally problematic), that’s very telling. It completel

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