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by dalbasal 5y ago
OK so WTF is the game-plan?!! The game is all about controlling users, gaining rights in a standard take-it-or-leave-it "bargain." These companies rarely sell you anything just for revenue. It's always a play to aggregate dat
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I suppose any method used to advance scientific knowledge without is a scientific method, by definition. That's besides the point though.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> Nothing about "this study applies to this specific situation" is counter to Popper. However, if it fails to replicate in other situations, it tends to suggest at the very least "might be too specific to this situatio
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by dalbasal 5y ago
True, and a lot of it is fraud or not far. However, a big chunk of this statistic is not actually fraud. It's just false empiricism. If you look at a lot of the actual papers, I think you'll find that a lot of them just aren'
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> Elucidating confounding variables and controlling for them is the entire fucking job of a scientist. No. This is methodology. The job of a scientist is to advance scientific knowledge. This is as vague as it needs to be. Popper did
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This kind of demarcation usually hints that you are dealing with a subject that is not as concrete as you had supposed. "Science" doesn't really have a concrete definition, a pseudoscience just means stuff that is pretending
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I disagree. You're not going to find the parameter which makes a high school nutrition program deterministic. It shouldn't be the goal.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Let me continue the example... We found that students participating in the " 2hr active recess program " have meaningfully better health outcomes, psychological health outcomes, and better grades. It was tested faithfully in 25 sc
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I think you need to draw a line between "not replicable" and fraudulent. This is about the latter. This is the kind of corruption that spreads. It's a very bad thing. It is related to the former problem of "not replicabl
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> The truth is, cloud computing should be a low margin industry in the long run. The free market ethos, IIRC, suggests that all industries should be low margin in the long run, no? Innovators and shuch are supposed to be compensated
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I really don't think it's likely, but I suppose what "break up" means in practice is a crapshoot. Many of our current, data & user centric monopolies are more complex. Price setting, monopoly rents and economies of s
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Perhaps, but I think it's marginal in practice. Whether MSFT makes an internally accounted 10% margin or 10% loss on their $8bn in revenue, Apple collect >$8bn which is entirely profit. Cooperating and accepting a slice of Google&#x
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>>business' has naturally high margins $8bn in revenue might not mean profitable. Google certainly spend a lot more than this on search and advertising, and well... software scales. In any case, whether they make $1bn in profit,
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by dalbasal 5y ago
100 years in the electric chair! This isn't an "infraction" you can police with a fine, jail, etc. It's an industrial structure. The competition is competition for monopoly, a superior & highly profitable market posi
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> 25% of Google's app sales to keep them from developing rival app stores Google also pays Apple 7 billion annually^ to be its default SE. Despite Adwords' incredible profitability, Yahoo & MSFT's experience as 2nd
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by dalbasal 5y ago
"The Law" is pretty patchy, inconsistent and self contradictory. A lot of them are old. A lot of definitions are sketchy. There aren't many precedents, and the normative precedent of what doesn't get prosecuted is vast a
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>>I don't know how the law sees it, but it's simply illogical from the common sense standpoint. Let's make a point of starting here. There's room for the legalistic standpoint, especially if we're trying to un
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by dalbasal 5y ago
just checkin. I hope the unintelligent fly problem isn't causing you too much nuisance.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
OK... I have to. jerf, are you a mouse?
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This comment feels like a Douglas Adams joke going slightly over my head.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Any larger, perennial or otherwise noteworthy deeper in those ice cores?
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by dalbasal 5y ago
IDK... if money is all that concerns you, I'd say stay away from porn, or white supremacy. Not much money in being a pariah, usually. As you say, employees may leave. Investors may leave. Banks may try to drop you.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Keynesianism and Neo-Keynesianism (assuming this includes Friedman/Monetarism) dominate because their theories/proposals are, usually, based in the world and institutions that exist . Austrian economics is mostly the economics of
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Listen... a lot of people. Hayek still has a following. Well regarded. Nobel Laureate. Implement... different story. Actual skepticism is a conundrum... notoriously difficult to adhere to. The tables turn when you need to defend your price
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> It snuck up on us, or rather, it was quietly imposed upon us by profiteers Into the early 2000s, everyone still knew never to use a real name online. Murderers would probably get you or something. Don't want randos knowing you
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> don't think there's a big market for video conferencing from 6ft away. There's a chicken egg problem. Other than TVs, we don't really have devices that we use from 6 feet away. These ideas tend to come to fruiti
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This makes me curious about sign language recognition. I"m definitely willing to learn a sign keyboard if it means not typing with arrows. If it also knows a full vocabulary...
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Nimbyism exists, as do more concrete constraints in urban locations but... The way house prices work, often, is more or less banks determining prices via mortgage eligibility. Banks agree that a house is worth X. They lend X. That becomes t
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Convention, basically. Releasing fraudulent data is different, culturally and legally, to releasing a powerpoint-style report summarizing curated "key points," selected, defined and quantified in a non transparent way. Every year,
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by dalbasal 5y ago
You obviously have met my friend Han.

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