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by bigfudge 5y ago
I bought one but retuned it immediately. The software is just a dumpster fire. Slow, laggy, no sensible options to crop pdfs or research papers. Even the ebook reader is terrible compared with my kobo. I bought a remarkable because, even th
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by bigfudge 5y ago
> If this exponential doesn’t turn out to be a sigmoid in disguise I'd put a lot of money on this in fact being the case, but I take your point that it matters how long there (roughly linear) part of the curve lasts.
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by bigfudge 5y ago
I don't think what you describe as 'insanity' is at all confined to climate change though. It actually seems weird to me to be surprised that we find it hard to take collective action on this. We're talking about a (in r
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by bigfudge 5y ago
Did you notice if they pre-registered the separate analyses of males and females? Flexibility in the analysis of data ("researcher degrees of freedom") is likely one of the major causes of the replication crisis. Gelman's pap
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by bigfudge 5y ago
Whilst I might share your frustration, your comment didn't add anything to the debate. The absence of comments like yours (from either side) is one of the reasons I come to HN, and is the reason I downvoted you.
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It really doesn't need to be that complicated. From what I can see (in Psychology) a combination of statistical illiteracy and motivated cognition is more than enough.
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by bigfudge 5y ago
Working for too long in a place where I was (literally) the expert. This was dotcom bubble time, so I ended up in a graphics firm wanting to get into ‘the web’. This inflated my ego, but left me without a proper mentor, or people to learn f
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by bigfudge 5y ago
The sea is big, pipes can be long
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by bigfudge 5y ago
Can you provide citations for this because it just seems like FUD to me
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On its face, That’s an absurd statement. NIH offers Very small grants for fellowships ... should he know about those too?
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by bigfudge 5y ago
So the tax evasion, worker abuses and militant anti-unionisation weren't enough! I often see comments like this, and I truly wonder if anything would prevent people from using Amazon. I don't want to criticise you specifically — i
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by bigfudge 5y ago
Some people would argue it already is in the wrong hands. Without any conspiracy theory required, it is controlled by a tiny, wealthy elite with power and connections to manipulate our political discourse and ensure their new power is not s
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by bigfudge 5y ago
The opportunity costs of military spending are often overlooked (likewise for space travel etc). The availability heuristic means we can all point to things that's spending money in these wasteful ways has produced... but it's har
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by bigfudge 5y ago
This is partly why alcohol epidemiology is so hard. People drink less in ways correlated with their general health.
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by bigfudge 5y ago
Out of interest. What do people do at social occasions? What would you do if you met a friend after work on a Friday night? I think we need better options for this in the Uk... most cafes shut and not drinking in a pub still feels weird (an
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by bigfudge 5y ago
I think the difference there is that even if most people left dog crap we might still have a consensus that that was a bad thing and that people shouldn’t do it.
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by bigfudge 5y ago
I don’t know why you’ve been downvoted. Yes there might be other metrics to use but this is a valid one
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by bigfudge 5y ago
No, harms to user are also higher and the paper attempts to separate use rates from harms. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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by bigfudge 5y ago
Is it also possible that alcohol is the lubricant for a society with dysfunctional social and environmental principles? Perhaps what we sometimes describe as motivation or personal growth isn’t actually that valuable when directed at goals
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This is the Lancet paper. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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by bigfudge 5y ago
Expert opinion and evidence doesn’t agree with you. See David Nutts papers which quantify harms in various domains for different recreational drugs. Both harms to users and others are way higher for alcohol than cannabis.
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by bigfudge 5y ago
I'm late returning to this, and I don't normally like whataboutism, and I don't want to be seen to be condoning what is happening in HK, but I have very low expectations for nations keeping commitments made in international
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by bigfudge 5y ago
I wasn't saying anything about discs for general use. Specifically for racing, though, you are wrong: many pros are on the record as saying the braking makes little to no difference in a race and the cost of time lost when you can&#x27
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by bigfudge 5y ago
Are powertrains really much better? I have retro shimsno lx on one bike and it’s really not much different to current slx in terms of shifting perf. Ratios not so good admittedly and triples look fugly!
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It does make the steering uphill a bit wobbly though.
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I’m not sure the low slack bikes in vogue now really do climb better tho. Head tube angle is a direct trade off between performance up and down hill.
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by bigfudge 5y ago
Disc brakes are exactly this. For racing they are stupid because you don’t need better brakes and spare wheels no longer fit. Only ineos seems to have held out because for stage racing and gt the costs are so much higher. Quickstep used dis
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I think it’s because bikes have got so much better that downhills are now fun, rather than just sketchy and dangerous. For me it’s just evened things out so I now love doing both.
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by bigfudge 5y ago
I think that quote actually emphasises that Apple describes iPads as not really computers... it only works as an ad line if it’s counter intuitive
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by bigfudge 5y ago
Sadly he’s too angry to make the joke funny. As always there probably is a grain of truth to the idea that postmodern feminist critiques occasionally disappear up their own fundamental, and so there’s a joke to be made here. But this isn’t

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