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by bildung 7y ago
If you are interested in this direction of research: There is a big body of work regarding human cognitive processes and the role of metaphor. I would suggest "Philosophy in the flesh" by Lakoff and Johnson. A hefty work, but that
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by bildung 7y ago
Every child reinvents the concept. It wasn't there on birth, and the word and phrases didn't contain it. That's a bit difficult topic to wrap ones head around, but it is critically important to differ between signified (the c
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by bildung 7y ago
> Except that the literature has shown that people generally find greater happiness using their money to buy experiences rather than things. Yes, but a) travelling is not the only way to buy experiences by any means, b) Actually doing
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by bildung 7y ago
As long as we don't know at least the amount of subsidies paid by the state and the amount (and pay level) of employees who will work there, no factory at all could certainly be better, yes. The subsidies could be spent elsewhere, and
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by bildung 7y ago
To be fair there is no objective value in travelling either. It's a matter of the specific personality profile that makes a person attracted to one or both or neither of those two modes of consumption.
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by bildung 7y ago
I don't know about the U.S. specifically, but usually the military in a democratic country is not allowed to care. That's the job of the police.
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by bildung 7y ago
By that reasoning Microsoft didn't prevent others from writing .doc-compatible word processors either - they just defined the format as basically a memory dump of Word :) This is how a company implements measures that could be a legal
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by bildung 7y ago
Technically it is a private company, yes, but it originated as a project created and owned by several European countries, and more than a quarter of Airbus' shares are still owned by these countries.
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by bildung 7y ago
Statistical significance is almost meaningless in this case (or necessesary, but not sufficient). One can calculate the necessary sample size to guarantee stasticial significance before the study even starts. I just calculated it for this
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by bildung 7y ago
The bar chart in the rebuttal is pretty damning, though - just look at the gigantic confidence intervals. The real effects can plausibly be negative for all factors but "Healthy Daily Activities". Note that I neither defend the ne
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by bildung 7y ago
And yet the reality does not reflect your model at all: Most wealth in the US is inherited. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/06/people-l...
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by bildung 7y ago
> Even before minimum wages, Germany has very high sector-level minimum wage due to union tarrifs that are binding for non-union employees. True! Those were for the "high-paying" low wage jobs, though - mostly in construction.
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by bildung 7y ago
I suppose that referred to Merkle trees? Those are from 1979.
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by bildung 7y ago
Building a conventional fission plant can easily cost $10B: https://thebulletin.org/2019/06/why-nuclear-power-plants-cos... $200M is laughable - as is the 20 year plan. I recently reread Summa Technologicae by Sta
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by bildung 7y ago
Not disagreeing that poorer economies need more automation. But when looking at countries it is very important to not only look at wages as cost. Especially in Germany the low wages result in low domestic demand, which results in the countr
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by bildung 7y ago
(Warning: Armchair economist!) Poorer countries in general have lower productivity (possible causes can be lacking infrastructure (roads, electricity, telecom, but also regulations etc.), lacking capital, lacking foresight/lacking capi
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by bildung 7y ago
> California's marginal tax rate was over 50%, Is that really true? This official calculator [1] says I'd have to pay only 16k on 200k income. And this source [2] says income tax tops out at 13.3%. [1] = https://we
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by bildung 7y ago
> Is that a joke? Surely you aren't suggesting that developers should have full knowledge of all transitive dependencies that compose their application stack. This will be borderline impossible for a nodejs developer, but a perfec
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by bildung 7y ago
> I know there are some versioning file systems but I've never used them But those other systems were the whole point of the post you replied to ;)
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by bildung 7y ago
Other version control software has way simpler syntax and workflow. Subversion for example. The complexity of git makes total sense if you indeed have a complex, multi-HEADed project like the Linux kernel. But most software isn't Linux
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by bildung 7y ago
This is true more often than not, but in this case web.archive.org just shows a web radio as the previous owner.
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by bildung 7y ago
> Every interaction I've had with mindfulness so far hasn't been that it was "sold" In defense of the author, it isn't really hard to come to the conlusion that mindfulness is mostly an attempt to sell stuff: O
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by bildung 7y ago
> We can't expect NSO Group to take a stricter view of 'American security interests' than the US government does. No, but we as people can take a stricter view. The people working for companies like NSO Group are torture
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by bildung 7y ago
The current Thinkpad E495/E595 have Ryzen 3X00U CPUs.
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by bildung 7y ago
IIRC they also invented their own algorithm, so not properly reviewed.
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by bildung 7y ago
Perfectly right that standard deviations are not the same es errors! Compared to the average effect size, though, in this case they clearly show there's a very high variation in the observed results. The 4h is really unusually high com
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by bildung 7y ago
Ok I gave in and looked at another two: "Exposure to Room Light before Bedtime Suppresses Melatonin Onset and Shortens Melatonin Duration in Humans": * nothing about blue light * didn't measure actual effects, just melatonin
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by bildung 7y ago
There is no need to be rude if you got sources ;) I just looked at the newest article in your list ("Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness") and * there was n
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by bildung 7y ago
> This is backed by science. It wasn't at all when I looked into it last year. Can you point me to new research in this area?
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by bildung 7y ago
Which is not a service, but a self-hosted open source solution.

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