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by bumby 2y ago
An example is sleep apnea, which is highly correlated with neck circumference and being “jacked” can often mean your neck grows as well. There are many “jacked” amateur and professional athletes who suffer from sleep apnea. (Something like
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by bumby 2y ago
But does it lead to overall better health outcomes? It’s important to not miss the forest for the trees. Lower obesity is a generally a means to better health, not an end to itself.
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by bumby 2y ago
> I'm not convinced of the strategic importance of ethanol in the grand scheme; the US produces more of it because the subsidy creates that incentive. Yes, that's the intent. Whenever you subsidize something, you get more of i
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by bumby 2y ago
> Unless you think production levels would fall to pathetic levels on the global stage, and that this production-level is essential, I don't see why not. A few reasons: 1) again, it's partly a national security issue. Under cr
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by bumby 2y ago
I think we disagree that soil is fungible for growing crops. Even if I were to steelman your stance, it still requires considerable inputs to do so. All of this ends up making food cost more. Similarly, I think making HFCS more expensive is
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by bumby 2y ago
I think tradition is certainly part of it, but I think that take misses some important nuances. A few: - agriculture isn't necessarily fungible. Land that is used for one product isn't immediately capable of being used for another
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by bumby 2y ago
I believe the "artificially cheap simple carbs" is a secondary effect, with the primary effect of making corn cheap due to national security reasons. So before removing the subsidies, you'd want to have a plan for managing th
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by bumby 2y ago
To quantify, I've heard MDs say that the outliers (relatively high BMI but low body fat) constitute less than 1% of high BMI people. They also said that those outliers are still at risk of certain health troubles, like sleep apnea. The
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by bumby 2y ago
That's what I was alluding to, but it's unclear how sound of a methodology that is. It seems like a better approach would be to control for parent educational attainment directly, rather than use some imperfectly correlated metric
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by bumby 2y ago
Conjecture, but it may be to focus on the native born population as a better metric for education quality since they have (presumably) been a product of that system for their entire life. Contrast that to a 1st gen immigrant who a major amo
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by bumby 2y ago
> You're saying that having an aversion to killing stops people killing, which is a tautology. And then you say it's not about consequences. What's your explanation then? It's a fairly straightforward understanding.
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But why would those "measurable statements and artefacts" lead one to believe they are competent? Presumably, wouldn't they also provide evidence of one's ignorance if they were evaluated objectively? (If it wasn't
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by bumby 2y ago
There’s plenty of psychologists that think those are immutable traits (e.g., how disciplined someone is may be related to their genetic disposition for conscientiousness), so I’m not sure about it being a wholly moral argument.
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by bumby 2y ago
Maybe not assholes, but it is a pretty blatant status play. By denigrating someone else’s work you raise yourself up by comparison. And while a lot of our psychological health is tied to our relative status in society, that doesn’t make it
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by bumby 2y ago
For clarity, Americans claim the WORLD champions of baseball. The championship series is called the World Series. In American football, it's just called the Super Bowl.
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by bumby 2y ago
It really seems like both sides talk past each other. If you talk to agile advocate about how to implement it in something safety critical that requires good documentation, they’re quick to point out agile isn’t anti-documentation, it’s ant
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by bumby 2y ago
> The entire point is and always has been to get the right people working on the right stuff This is my sticking point. The whole idea of process-focus is that you can rarely count on having "the right people working on the right s
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by bumby 2y ago
This is somewhat ironic, considering the first point. If the process is not intelligible to most humans, maybe we should focus on refining/clarifying the process a bit?
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by bumby 2y ago
> Ask me how I know. ;) Likely the same way I do ;-)
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by bumby 2y ago
If it's true that many of the items displayed came from the trash, I think this lacks an important part of humor: that the person be in on the joke. There's a saying that a practical joke is only good if the person on the butt end
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by bumby 2y ago
> Any aerospace engineer could credibly comment on the avionics. This is central to the claim about the airworthiness of the aircraft. (And FWIW, aerospace engineer is generally not the same as someone who works on, or designs, avionics
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by bumby 2y ago
> "I would instantly hire 10,000 more engineers." From my experience, this answer usually belies someone who doesn’t fully understand the system and problems of the business. The easy answer when overwhelmed is “we need more p
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In short, people with glib answers tend to rely on over simplified models that don’t reflect reality.
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by bumby 2y ago
It's important to acknowledge he was part of a Test & Evaluation squadron. It's usually part of their jobs to push the flight envelope so that people can define procedures. Reading between the lines, it sounds like the pilot m
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by bumby 2y ago
Surely, other opinions can have relevance. Do you think an aerospace engineer can have no opinion? What about an avionics tech that works on display and comms systems? What about an aviation safety officer or a commercial pilot? These are a
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by bumby 2y ago
> the soldiers would ignore the orders Doesn't that undermine the OP's claim that people in more totalitarian regimes have higher trust in the state and hierarchy?
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by bumby 2y ago
That is still downstream of the question of “why would someone make such a [seemingly contradictory] decision.” The person you replied to is misunderstanding the OP, which they later clarified. My point is understanding outcome causality do
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by bumby 2y ago
> And they trust their state and follow the rules a lot less It was my understanding that the opposite was true in Ukraine early in the conflict. Russia suffered high casualties because they still relied on a central command structure a
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by bumby 2y ago
I’m somewhat skeptical that they exist, at least in the numbers needed to fill pilot slots. Barring certain neurological disease, I don’t think people are “hyper rational” despite even appearing that way to the outside, or identifying thems
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by bumby 2y ago
I read the OP differently. I think there can be many angles to a person's identity makeup and they don't always cohere perfectly. A person can have their identity in "entrepreneurial libertarian" while also having it as

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