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by c3534l 8y ago
It's entirely possible that they weren't testing "bullshit-sensitivity," but some underlying language skills, IQ, or even something like creativity (required to give the sentences have meaning). I don't think that t
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by c3534l 8y ago
I don't know if they mention it in the article, but those BS quotes are eerily similar to those generated by http://wisdomofchopra.com/ and I think that might have been what they used.
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by c3534l 8y ago
According to the article, the hospital had attempted to gain medical guardianship and that was rejected by a court. So unless I'm missing something here, how on earth does a hospital justify keeping someone prisoner when a judge has or
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by c3534l 8y ago
It's really unfortunate that abiding by local laws and regulations is considered unethical. But even if we assume that there is no legal way for a company to operate ethically in China, is the world meant to close our borders to them e
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by c3534l 8y ago
As awful as this sounds, I think it might be easier to train crows to pick up people's trash than to train people how to throw away their trash. People are apparently not as easily teachable as literal birdbrains.
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by c3534l 8y ago
I would think that the result of a nonzero int minus a nonzero int would be an integer. So f(nonzero x, y) = y / x is fine, but f(nonzero x, nonzero y, z) = z / (x - y) is not.
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by c3534l 8y ago
Edit: I guess there's a reason I'm not a language designer. I've always thought that programming languages should have a nonzero number class in the vein of unsigned and float and that division should only be defined with a n
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by c3534l 8y ago
Why on Earth did they shade the percent of men smoking darker than the women? That means in countries where about the same proportion of women as men smoke, which is most countries, the female map is colored as having a higher percentage th
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by c3534l 8y ago
You should read the articles you posted. They're redefining subsidy to mean: > not only supply costs but also (most importantly) environmental costs like global warming and deaths from air pollution and taxes applied to consumer goo
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by c3534l 8y ago
Would it not make sense to include the public cost from pollution and adverse health in the price of coal?
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by c3534l 8y ago
The golden section is complete woo and in scientific studies, people tend not to prefer compositions made with the golden section. As for the rule of thirds, think of it as a way of thinking about your photo rather than an actual rule. Ther
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by c3534l 8y ago
#1 also didn't have any adverse effects on the grades of men. Although neither did it have any positive impact on the grades of women.
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by c3534l 8y ago
Talk about a rag. That article is 95% priming you what to think and 5% information. The audacity to to call out other media companies for psychological trickery is astounding. The phrase the pot calling the kettle black doesn't do it j
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by c3534l 8y ago
Last I checked it was still legal to use Baidu in America, which can't be said for Google in China. Please tell me how you think they're comparable, because I guess I am one of those "incredibly naive" people.
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by c3534l 8y ago
I have to say, despite the article trying to put the most favorable light on the Luddites as the author could, the really do sound exactly like how the phrase is normally used. You can put as much nuance as you can on it, they destroyed tec
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by c3534l 8y ago
There was actually a news story like last week how Dropbox shared the personal contents of people's Dropboxes to researchers (who were researching researchers) without asking for consent to be in the study. So that's actually a re
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by c3534l 8y ago
They didn't steal from royalty, they stole from a church that had them displayed.
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by c3534l 8y ago
Actually, the opposite is true: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.91.4.877 Similar articles found via scholar.google.com show the similar results: a relatively small net reduction in pollution output. Loca
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by c3534l 8y ago
I'm never happy about trademarking a single, generic thing like that. If someone comes along with the same shape, calls it a Pit-Pat Bar and contains kinda similar ingredients, sure. But I think that if you're going to trademark s
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by c3534l 8y ago
Maybe the humanities need to change and that's the problem, but looking at those graphs in the article it seems that the answer is "it's the economy, stupid." When I was in High School we were all told that it didn'
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by c3534l 8y ago
I've heard HackerNews call it Never Invented Here.
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by c3534l 8y ago
Bing works just fine, but people don't use it because it's not what they're used to. Rarely does Google have an actual monopoly where new competitors can't enter the field - in fact, for every Google product I can give y
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by c3534l 8y ago
These were the injuries sustained by the coffee, which was more than just "hot": https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-4820c7e31a90a1b89482c6... and http://www.gruberlawgroup.com/wp-content/up
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by c3534l 8y ago
I remember looking up a meta analysis back when Obamacare was being debated about why doctors have a skewed perception of the liklihood of being sued (that part is apparently not controversial in the literature). Most of the reasons found w
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by c3534l 8y ago
So is there not, like, some kind of government agency that certifies whether a given boat design is safe to put passengers on? I know it says > He said the boat was last inspected on Nov. 29, 2017, and was found “fit for route and servic
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by c3534l 8y ago
The joke wasn't that Republicans are criminals, but that they (and by they, the poster probably meant Trump) is an "egomaniac sociopath or just really unintelligent." I'm not defending the comment which probably isn&#x27
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by c3534l 8y ago
Amazing that the EU is able to levy multi-billion dollar fines basically for attempting to monetize a free operating system, whereas in the US and Britain, felony conspiracies, price-fixing, and fraud get milquetoast slaps on the wrist.
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by c3534l 8y ago
Given the very public failure of Netflix to "anonymize" data, they shouldn't be even giving away anonymized data without user permission on account of anonymized data not actually being anonymous.
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by c3534l 8y ago
I'm afraid you're actually engaging in the Ship of Theseus problem there. Your conclusion about why the Ship of Theseus is not actually a paradox is the very point of the parable. Another person might suggest that objects really a
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by c3534l 8y ago
I doubt even 1% of the population can decode that sentence, let alone find it so blindingly obvious it need not be said.

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