chilldream

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by chilldream 13y ago
> No, without evidence that assumption is false. Correlation can only be evidence for an unexplained link I did not say it was conclusive evidence; I said it was evidence. I'm well aware that "A is correlated to B" does no
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by chilldream 13y ago
"Correlation is not causation" started useful but has become less useful the more cliched it became. And OP is right that it's particularly useless among people who've already heard it. The whole reason people felt the n
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by chilldream 13y ago
The part that annoys me is that the docstring mentions "dictionaries" when I see no `dict`s.
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by chilldream 13y ago
Here's a restaurant owner that agrees with grandparent: http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-...
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by chilldream 13y ago
Informed consumers is one of the assumptions of a free market, and the lawsuit alleges that Uber is lying to consumers.
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by chilldream 13y ago
At least one restaurateur who tried a no-tip policy found tips actively harmful: http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-...
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by chilldream 13y ago
I think most Americans would regard different regions of the US "not foreign" and British or Australian accents as "foreign". This is entirely justified. Those of us who grew up in areas with nonstandard American accents
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by chilldream 13y ago
> I think the problem really arose because he said foreign accent. So if it was someone American with an incredibly thick and hard-to-understand accent that would be fine? How many native-born US citizens with regional accents this stron
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by chilldream 13y ago
Does this require different "types" of upvotes? If so, this kind of idea runs counter to sites like YouTube that have figured out that even things like 5-star rating systems are more complicated than users want to deal with.