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by cirgue 8y ago
The most sustainable thing for me is the 50% rule: Roughly 50% by weight of your daily food intake should be unprocessed fruits and vegetables. There is no science behind this heuristic, but it's a way to a) make sure that you're
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by cirgue 8y ago
This sets up a horrifying set of perverse incentives for journalists. This is not to say that the set of incentives facing journalism today isn't already pretty bad, but this forces entities like the NYT further onto a path of converge
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by cirgue 8y ago
The value of the 5 whys, IMO, isn't to find absolute truth, it's to avoid making stupid and easily avoidable mistakes by forcing people to talk to one another while developing solutions. In many places, people have multiple concur
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by cirgue 8y ago
If nothing else, it signals to the rest of corporate america, which might actually have more people that would benifit from this, that it's cool to make these kinds of moves. That's a good thing, or at least not a bad thing.
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by cirgue 8y ago
I think there is something to the notion that this has to do with acculturation though. There are plenty of men that suck at sports and have bad spatial awareness, but society provides way more outlets and social reward/pressure to d
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by cirgue 8y ago
The term AI seriously muddies the waters of this conversation. None of these technologies have the slightest whiff of independent agency, autonomy, or the ability to learn/adapt without the considerable talent and prodigious effort of
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by cirgue 8y ago
> The idea that people’s important opinions can be changed by some sort of silver bullet mega-argument is naive and immature, and frankly a great example of what’s wrong with discourse on the internet. Even more naive and immature is th
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by cirgue 8y ago
> As of March 2019 Reddit seems still quirky and interesting though... This can be read as a searing indictment of reddit: it's quirky and interesting, but its value ends there. There's no real discussion to be had and most top
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by cirgue 8y ago
The “continuation of politics by other means”
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> It's like people forgot how to hang out with friends. This isn't unique, I grew up on the cusp of cellphone ubiquity, and I think it's that in the first few years after people have real latitude in managing their own tim
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by cirgue 8y ago
This doesn't just apply to teens: we as a society suck at creating social spaces outside of the home and work for anyone. Churches failed catastrophically to adapt to changing social values, civil-society type organizations have done n
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by cirgue 8y ago
> Unfortunately most economists seem to be biased or are probably benefitting themselves, thus there is no concentrated effort to push for better policies. Economists create the economy about as much as geologists create rocks. Marx and
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by cirgue 8y ago
> It's worth noting that the study participants did not include people with diagnosed psychological ailments such as post-traumatic stress disorder. It's possible these warnings could be helpful to that subset of the population
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by cirgue 8y ago
Is this the same quantum computer that had the weird promo video where they talked at length about assembling it in Italy out of aircraft-grade aluminum and didn't mention benchmarks/capabilities?
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by cirgue 8y ago
Most things that matter are not watergate. Most things that matter happen over the course of years or decades, not weeks or months, and absolutely do require more depth and consensus-building to be anything other than partisan noise. Pull j
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The Volcker Shock (2018)(nplusonemag.com)
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by cirgue 8y ago
I agree with you in that the will for this kind of thing mostly isn't there, but the problem with nuclear arms is and has always been a failure of C&C structures and miscommunication during a crisis leading to an unintentional firs
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by cirgue 8y ago
>Asking for profile A and getting profile B is a common frustration. For startups, this tends to be a deal-breaker because hiring the wrong candidate has a significant cost and impact on backlog and team. This sticks out: the hiring proc
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by cirgue 8y ago
> Social media is extremely shallow, sure, but we also have historically unprecedented access to almost unlimited information. No, we don't. We have unlimited access to text. The internet is the library of babel. You can find a comm
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by cirgue 8y ago
I do modeling for an advertising recommendation engine (not at Amazon). We do controls against both human-made rulesets and random, and we consistently outperform both by a big margin. However, click through rate is always really low, and a
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by cirgue 8y ago
> I would hope the same mindset applies, but maybe not - but back when I was using SQL, the idea was to let the database engine do everything it could with the data, before sending the results over the pipe. We're a machine learning
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by cirgue 8y ago
I use python/Pandas every day for data analysis and the like, and I would never dream of not writing most of the aggregation and filtering logic in SQL. If you're working with large datasets, there is absolutely no reason to pul
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by cirgue 8y ago
'Mensa members' as a proxy for IQ was literally an example of selection bias in my undergrad research methods course.
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Alternate take: now that there's serious money to be made in the cannabis industry, there will be more and more bad science about how there aren't risks associated with its use, just as there has been with literally every other re
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by cirgue 8y ago
> This gives me the sense, personally, that economists aren't interested in making accurate predictions about the world. Other fields would, I think, test their theories against observations. You say this as though using mock-up dat
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by cirgue 8y ago
> Do we look back at TV saying the same thing? They definitely do. Not to the same degree that people shun cigarette smoking as a vice though. There's a reason that the phrase 'binge-watching' includes the word binge, as o
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by cirgue 8y ago
> Furthermore, outside of media companies and the HN bubble, people _do not care_. Your average person doesn't care about decentralization, preventing social media addiction, gamification, or polarization of online communities. My p
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by cirgue 8y ago
> It is just socially acceptable to drive in averse conditions with limited visibility, and if you hit another car, person or something else, you just blame it on the weather. Where do you live where this is socially acceptable (the blam
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> Add in the fact that redlining has multi-generational impact, too. Housing is one of the big ways families pass wealth down to their kids and you get potential racist impact due to past actions even if the current implementation is rac
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by cirgue 8y ago
We're very much in agreement, I should have said "only value add".

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