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by croissants 6y ago
This would kind of weaken the argument, because there's no way that Michael Scott would ever come up with a codified analysis of human class and interaction and put it on the internet. (It seems like a thoroughly Dwight move, though?)
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by croissants 6y ago
I agree, this bit in particular seems wrong to me: > Posturetalk is everything said by Michael, Dwight and Andy, to anyone: the staff, the execs, or each other. Everything they say is some form or another of meaningless, performative bab
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by croissants 6y ago
> What was the median price of a home in the US in 1980 vs 2020. Then, what was the median salary in the US in 1980 vs 2020. Thats the real comparison. Per the St. Louis Fed [1], the median American home price in 1980 was ~65k. The media
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by croissants 6y ago
There are a couple of comments about it here, but I think this point in the paper deserves emphasis: they say that "well-being rises with income" in the sense that well-being increases linearly with the logarithm of income past
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by croissants 6y ago
> Covid authoritatively decimated their theses. I think Covid demonstrated that there's a much lower appetite for living in dense cities during pandemics , not in general. Maybe this will have aftereffects that extend into "i
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by croissants 6y ago
A physical illustration of this point: I read a book about bodyweight exercise about a year ago. One section of the book was about stretching. One piece of advice on stretching was "go until you're slightly uncomfortable, and then
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State of Phone Justice: Local jails, state prisons, and private phone providers(prisonpolicy.org)
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by croissants 6y ago
It's true that most American prisoners are not "nonviolent drug user" inmates. However, around 250,000 of them are [1]. That's still a huge chunk of human life. As a side note, I think HN readers may get a lot out of rea
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by croissants 6y ago
My personal response is that it seems like raising your own biological offspring, even with all of the lizard-brain this-will-eventually-pass-on-my-genes bonus, is already hard for a lot of people --- look at all of the internet threads ask
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by croissants 6y ago
Sure, but I think film made each photograph a bit more dear, making it less likely that somebody'll take a dozen just to pick the best one.
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by croissants 6y ago
I think the article touches on a distinction between these things: > Even the oppressive insistence that we should love our body, no matter what, can tip into upbeat intolerance by implying that it’s not OK to want to work on tummy folds
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by croissants 6y ago
This reminds me of an episode of This American Life from 2002. There was a segment about a guy who had extremely low testosterone: > He explains that life without testosterone is life without desire—desire for everything: food, convers
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by croissants 6y ago
The page says that the executive order dates to November 17th, so about 2 months before his term ends.
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by croissants 6y ago
Thanks for the response, and thanks for the appreciation!
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by croissants 6y ago
I think it's a bit of a reach to suggest that this is p-hacking. Some of the relevant authors have studied this hypothesis (a gap in pregnancy-related outcomes between black and white people) across multiple papers, and the effect foun
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by croissants 6y ago
> I mean the dataset is so small, one off can derail any conclusion What do you mean? Per the Supplement, their data comes from a pool of ~4k white doctors and ~500 black doctors, with hundreds of thousands of observations/patients.
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by croissants 6y ago
Eh. It's not like the internet has a shortage of people happy to read a study's editorialized conclusion on Twitter, take it as truth, and go on with their day. A little critical thinking --- and this means going beyond "I do
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by croissants 6y ago
If you're interested in the raw data behind these conclusions, it looks like the paper supplement [1] has some. One potentially meaningful point from Table S1A of the supplement: it looks like there are 360k white doctor-black patient
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by croissants 6y ago
The death rate is also the USA's highest since ~1975. But, in a surprise to me, the death rate for each year 1950-1975 is also higher than the 2020 death rate [1, 2]. [1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA&#
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by croissants 6y ago
Do you not see the difference between forced sterilization (removing a person's ability to procreate) and contraception (giving a person the ability to have sex without procreating, which they can choose to change later)?
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by croissants 6y ago
I don't understand this comment -- what are the "absolute extremes of some hypothetical principles" you're referring to?
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by croissants 6y ago
My interpretation is different. I think that most of the people who rioted at the Capitol aren't hardened criminals who deduced that they require a gun to most efficiently achieve their ends. I think they're random people who have
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by croissants 6y ago
Unless you're conflating "science" with "a certain wing of the social sciences", this seems like a huge overstatement.
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by croissants 6y ago
Not a framework, but here's an extreme "counterexample": the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm is useful. But Fulkerson eventually committed suicide. I think we can safely say that the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm is not some cursed objec
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by croissants 6y ago
"Allow[ing] the terrorists into the building" doesn't follow from a single shot of opening a gate. For all I know, law enforcement is funneling people away from a position that they recently decided should be cleared. I have
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by croissants 6y ago
Dang, this isn't a joke [1]. [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SWBI/
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by croissants 6y ago
I'm confused by this video, what evidence is there that this is "allow[ing] the terrorists into the building"? All I see is law enforcement opening a gate. The Twitter account appears to be a random unverified person, so I ca
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by croissants 6y ago
> Hacker News has a bias towards Google There are multiple threads every single week that get hundreds of upvotes for criticizing Google. I think Hacker News is heterogeneous enough on this that "bias towards Google" is an over
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by croissants 6y ago
Restricting to people age 25+, Indian men average 8.7 years of education, and Indian women average 5.4 [1]. Add in the sclerotic nature of Indian courts, and unless I'm really misreading this data, it's hard for me to imagine that
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by croissants 6y ago
May as well ask here, the ESRB rating at the bottom of the Obra Dinn page [1] highlights "intense violence". Is this accurate? I'm a big wimp about visceral violence, so I'd prefer to have some idea before paying up. If

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