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by cowpig 5y ago
There are surely enough trials on depression per year that a result with 15 participants in the treatment group is to small to start bringing this to public attention? With a sample size this small I don't think it should be in the new
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by cowpig 5y ago
> positive impact [citation needed]
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by cowpig 5y ago
I think that a lot of advice from VCs is bad, but only because a risk profile that makes sense for an individual VC investment is completely reckless for that individual. Assuming utility grows linearly with wealth (which it doesn't: a
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by cowpig 5y ago
1. That is a spurious quotation[1] 2. Your interpretation of its meaning is, frankly, bizarre [1] https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/ete...
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by cowpig 5y ago
Your point, as I understand it: you disagree with a jury's conclusion in one, high-profile case, therefore the entire justice system isn't necessary or there should be no consequences for white-collar crime. Or perhaps more charit
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by cowpig 5y ago
This comment section is a painful read--when it comes to "free speech" this community somehow loses all sense of nuance or introspection. Facebook and Google "stifle free speech" every day when their algorithms pick lose
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by cowpig 5y ago
The article just looks like a presentation of some data, whereas the other effects you're talking about would require analysis or speculation.
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by cowpig 5y ago
I don't understand what you mean by that. I run a business and I use HelloSign for document signing and it seems like an effectively identical service. I don't see why some other service can't come along and undercut Docusign
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by cowpig 5y ago
What moat? Does Docusign have some special legal status that I'm not aware of?
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by cowpig 5y ago
I use hellosign in my business, it works fine.
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by cowpig 5y ago
Yeah, reading this article I couldn't help but notice that there would be a massive conflict of interest in Zillow entering the real estate market, and would probably create externalities. Seems like a win and strange that the author i
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by cowpig 5y ago
A specific academic term that has philosophical implications that I'm saying are harmful edit: maybe not in all contexts, but certainly in the context of the comment I was replying to
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by cowpig 5y ago
I'm pretty tired of this trope about blind self-interest being "rational", as if acting in the public interest is somehow "irrational" There are perfectly "rational" ways of defending placing value in eith
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by cowpig 5y ago
This is a facile comparison. If your local mall was attempting to secure a de facto monopoly on all commercial real estate within driving distance, and was doing so by offering subsidized rents in the short-term funded by billion-dollar fun
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by cowpig 5y ago
hah I missed that
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by cowpig 5y ago
You might be interested this this then: https://frame.work
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by cowpig 5y ago
Thanks! Fixed
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by cowpig 5y ago
Google/Facebook doing shady things to undermine user privacy is a generally accepted fact in this community, so I think that the title understates the severity of the allegations in the article! It contends that there was collusion bet
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by cowpig 5y ago
There is no evidence that there is significant voter fraud anywhere in the US
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by cowpig 5y ago
I used to recoil at these kinds of statements until I saw what the Trump administration was doing. It's not an exaggeration. Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, Richard Spencer, all these people in Trump's inner circle are self-describe
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by cowpig 5y ago
Your reply, like the other below it, both completely ignored the article and the comment they are replying to. Sure, media is more fragmented now. But that doesn't address any of the criticisms in question.
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by cowpig 5y ago
I suggest reading about the principles of ethics in psychological experimentation[1]. Informed consent is an important one. [1] https://www.simplypsychology.org/Ethics.html
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by cowpig 5y ago
Even if this is true (source?) I don't believe it's comparable. Signal (I know less about Telegram) has no news feed, and doesn't make money from advertisers. It has neither the inherent conflicts of interest nor the history
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by cowpig 5y ago
> The people inside Facebook aren't immoral I'm going to go ahead and push back on that. A company whose founder started by using his fellow students' photos without their permission for a hot-or-not copycat website, then
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Why Your Toaster Will Eventually Fail You(nytimes.com)
3 points by cowpig 5y ago|1 comments
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Making someone with a history of doing exactly the thing that a company purportedly stands against the CTO seems like an absolutely baffling choice... unless the company is doing that thing (enabling surveillance). If I were to use a VPN se
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by cowpig 5y ago
Imploring others to benefit themselves at the expense of everyone else is a strange pattern I see a lot on these forums. It's clearly not in your (or any of our) interests to do this, as the obfuscation perpetuates these problems. So w
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by cowpig 5y ago
How can anyone think this is a good thing? At least other crypto projects have a degree of transparency going for them. I don't understand how people can possibly think that identity obfuscation at scale is a good thing for a financial
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by cowpig 5y ago
Isn't the definition of a nootropic a drug taken for the purposes of cognitive enhancement? So adderall is both an amephetamine and a nootropic?
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by cowpig 5y ago
"argh everything is so broken. I wish someone would come in and just fix this mess" Is a sentiment that I see the appeal of. But I've been listening to Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast, and that's not really how it

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