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by chmod600 4y ago
"very difficult to handle, and it's almost impossible to make many of them nicely reproducible" Those same qualities that make a study hard to reproduce should also create skepticism that the first study was done properly.
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by chmod600 4y ago
"They repaid him by channeling money to Republicans." I'm uncomfortable with this phrasing. Are you implying that the bailouts were some kind of quid pro quo?
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by chmod600 4y ago
The real world is a lot less dramatic than it was in the past in many ways. A movie about chasing the love of your life down at the airport right before they board would be solved with a text message and some emoji instead. A movie about ev
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by chmod600 4y ago
If the sense of purpose isn't there, usually the "community" behind it is shallow. I'm not saying only religion offers a sense of purpose. But just a bunch of nice people in a building talking about being nice doesn&#x27
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by chmod600 4y ago
I think you missed the point. Making coffee at home means counter space, machine maintenance, and keeping a stock of freshly-roasted beans. A trip to a cafe, ordering, and waiting, and going back is a minimum of 15 minutes (maybe if it&#x27
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by chmod600 4y ago
Maybe it depends on what is growing? Any helpful new technology, including medicine, is growth. Any advancement of human knowledge is growth. Any durable improvements (pyramids, bridges) are growth. Cultural advancements (art, politics, rel
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by chmod600 4y ago
Great coffee is one of those things that doesn't scale. It requires labor at every stage. Expensive and slow. Getting OK coffee scales wonderfully. Easy and cheap. You can still get tired of great coffee, or at least start to feel like
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by chmod600 4y ago
"[global powers] are the reason for [poor kids in Africa] problems in the first place" Why do you think that? Poverty existed before globalization.
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by chmod600 4y ago
Most of what I've learned has been by overconfidently trying to do something I didn't understand, and then learning better ways incrementally. Granted, this is a bad idea when it comes to nuclear engineering. But it's sad whe
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by chmod600 4y ago
"don't roll your own crypto" is good advice, but it's also against the hacker ethos. It's another way of saying "you'll never really understand this so don't try, just rely on a mysterious cabal of ex
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by chmod600 4y ago
I know there's a slippery slope or potentential for abuse here. But in its present form, it seems downright reasonable. Doesn't activate my outrage.
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by chmod600 4y ago
That's a linguistic battle that's hard to win. Calling someone a "criminal" or a "magician" is equivalent from a language standpoint -- both are labels referring to a subset of people. Trying to be more precise
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by chmod600 4y ago
"Yet the courts and legislature have added restrictions without following that process." I don't mean to suggest that it's perfect or followed perfectly. As I said, there's room for interpretation. "However, it
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by chmod600 4y ago
"Why not? Isn't that how the current ones came to be?" There's an interesting history of rights prior to the Constitution. But now that we have a constitution, there's a defined process for amending it. Of course, t
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by chmod600 4y ago
The comment could also be read to mean that race is irrelevant to the crimes and shouldn't usually be reported. As it stands, the media is a bit selective in reporting the race of suspects, to the point of misinforming readers.
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by chmod600 4y ago
"There are already restrictions on speech..." There are particular categories of speech that aren't considered to be "protected speech". And those categories can't be expanded just because some politicians and
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by chmod600 4y ago
Why isn't heavy equipment depreciated?
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by chmod600 4y ago
What's the alternative? If a company is essentially a zombie, what is the ideal outcome?
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by chmod600 4y ago
Running your own data centers is a form of vertical consolidation, which is a strategy. Specialization is the opposite strategy. A single company may strategically decide to specialize some things and vertically consolidate others. The doll
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by chmod600 4y ago
Can you elaborate a little? I'll admit I know close to nothing about mainframes.
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by chmod600 4y ago
Gun rights/control didnt used to be a "right-wing" topic.
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by chmod600 4y ago
"And it's really shocking that people are so ignorant of the toll their personal vehicles take." 1. Your claim that people are ignorant is not well supported by the presence of cars at a farmers market. 2. Assuming people are
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by chmod600 4y ago
At first I was skeptical, then I thought "wait, this was done by a physicist, so it must be reproducible".
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by chmod600 4y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but this seems far too narrow, and focused on trial lawyers. For instance, what about corporate lawyers writing up merger agreements? Or estate lawyers helping to plan for after death? Or family lawyers helping people
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by chmod600 4y ago
Ethics in the workplace is about your behavior while carrying out your job duties. For instance: lying to a customer to make a sale and hit your quota is unethical. Politics and ethics can intersect, for instance, if you are writing some gr
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by chmod600 4y ago
An AR-15 fires a bullet at Mach 3. Low altitude, maybe a second or so before it's lost a lot of speed.
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by chmod600 4y ago
In other words, if you aren't actively using a weapon in real war, it probably will fail when you try. Kind of like the Russian ground forces in Ukraine. They hadn't fought real ground wars in a while. Not sure what this says abou
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by chmod600 4y ago
Some kinds of deaths are more "media-ready" than others. Deaths from mass-shootings, terrorism, plane crashes, and shark attacks are given too much weight. Deaths from falls, drowning, and medical mistakes are given too little wei
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by chmod600 4y ago
It seems more like an ethical concern (mishandling customer data) than a political concern. Ethical concerns should be raised at work, but I believe politics at work should be avoided. There's no such thing as a group of people who agr
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by chmod600 4y ago
There's also ocean acidification.

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