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by club_tropical 4y ago
You can call me a heretic for questioning His Majesty The Ecologist, but the emperor wears no clothes and percentage of aggregate biomass is the most meaningless metric I've ever heard to study mammals.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
What do we talk about when we talk about human populations? Like say, you want to formulate an opinion on Germanic peoples' population in history. Do you EVER talk about percentage aggregate biomass of Germanic peoples? No, meaningfu
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by club_tropical 4y ago
> The professionals that use it, obviously, know their job. They aren't stupid. I will not defer to authority. I want an explanation for why the percentage of aggregate “chemical energy contained in the links of molecules” is consid
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by club_tropical 4y ago
PERCENTAGE biomass in NO WAY reflects “the richness of the mammal kingdom”. It is a synthetic metric that scientists can futz around with enough to produce some shocking metric and get funding/press. ABSOLUTE “biomass” is meaningful, s
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by club_tropical 4y ago
The number of decibels they can produce is a “proper scientific concept”- metrics can be arbitrary and useless.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I understand that each animal group has a different weight range and that, if you reduce animal groups to “total weight” metric, you can compare cows with mice on that metric. I do not agree that this is some kind of meaningful unit, especi
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by club_tropical 4y ago
But, especially in mammals, it is the individual animal that is the fundamental unit. A cheetah and an elephant are unique individuated specimens; it doesn’t make sense to compare their mass. In ants/bees it’s maybe something like “num
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I think it is an unclear and bizarre term. “The energy contained in one group” - what energy? Is a lean cheetah “less-energy” than an elephant? Why? Or do you literally mean energy like calories (which, IIRC means “how much heat if burned”)
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Also, “biomass” is a strange term. Is that literally an estimate of mass? Or count of individuals? Many other context lacking as well. This is clearly written for the 96% statistic shock, not to inform anyone.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I do not consider the CEO knowing the janitor’s name or cleaning toilets a “positive thing”. It is a vacuous action explicitly made for virtue signaling. No CEO ever quietly plunges toilets and actually thinks this is helping him stay in to
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by club_tropical 4y ago
This is exactly what is needed in archeology. High quality imaging & survey, not historical speculations tied up with this or that professor’s ego-driven “school of thought”.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
No. Probes are easy to launch; all strategically important companies, people, and even local authorities have a list of associated ”probes” either active & simmering (like Tesla) or pending with the probable cause for launching a probe
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I’ve heard it, too, of course. It is gaslighting. The tyranny of constantly having to signal worship of humility and countersignal pride and pursuit of distinction. The truth is, nobody who make an effective company did it because they clea
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by club_tropical 4y ago
> testament to the failure of central planning and bureaucracy Central planning is the only way inter-nation wars make sense; bellum omnium contra omnes is just chaos. Bureaucracy (aka division of power, aka decision by consensus/co
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Focus on risky/unknown parts of a project first, don’t start with what you already know/can do. And many more from the excellent book “The Pragmatic Programmer”.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Most importantly, however, the CEO should know the names of janitors and maybe clean a toilet or two, you know, to not lose touch with the employees.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
You could consider getting rid of such customers in some systematic way. Not everyone is worth it; curated customer base can save a lot of headache. And pretty cool startup idea on the small-scale Support aaS thing.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
And they will keep attempting to do so until they succeed or we have a circulation of elites. It will be a pincer movement between increasing prices for hunting gear and restricting access to licenses, parks, etc with the cherry on top of u
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by club_tropical 4y ago
smart
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by club_tropical 4y ago
No, this assumes all people have the same baseline tendency to abuse trust and commit fraud. You would then expect the remote scammers of, say, Maine pensioners to be from Alabama or Germany with the same rate (adjusted for population size)
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I see your point on the GPA/test correlation and that is good in that it reflects that grade inflation wasn’t a major problem while you worked there. But my question about final admit/deny stands. If you look at the racial distrib
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by club_tropical 4y ago
do it before they force Beyond Goat!
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by club_tropical 4y ago
“Modern HR” (aka in-house commissar) is a top-down legally mandated entity to 1) exert regulatory control on all but the tiniest companies and 2) reward the useless-nagger constituency of the party with jobs. There is no system-wide hard-re
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by club_tropical 4y ago
> 6. My thought on why all these are so bad is because job application, listing site, social network ( LinkedIn ) all work for hiring companies, they are the ones who pay them. And not job seekers. It is even worse: They work for HR depa
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Not getting into pointless conflicts is not cowardice; it is prudence. I am not conflict avoidant, but I’m not going to hand hold someone - double checking their work and giving feedback takes a huge amount of effort. It can only really be
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by club_tropical 4y ago
It it’s a colleague, I’d limit my exposure. If I am manager, I wouldn’t hire such a person or fire asap. Inability to process indirect and nonverbal communication - aka 90% of human communication - is a major energy sap and drag to anyone i
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by club_tropical 4y ago
*most people
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by club_tropical 4y ago
No. “Mind reader” implies someone is reaching into deep dark corners of your mind and figuring out things that are never externalized. There is enormous communication that is completely clear and unambiguous, but not verbal in the incredibl
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by club_tropical 4y ago
> They take horses and send them out as horses. Correct. Although there are huge benefits of a gate-kept horse-only environment. Competing against each other, the horses become more excellent. This is why the parents are paying the big b
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Most of these techniques are picked up with a few mock tests and they only matter on the margins - people that obsess about these things tend to care a lot about rankings rather than absolute scores. They make a 1550 SAT into a perfect 1600

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