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by dalbasal 5y ago
So... I think I have 3 points. First is worst. Looking back over a few generations, standard nutritional advice informing doctors, institutions and the public have been poor. Not only inaccurate, but de facto pushing people down bad paths.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
You can probably reduce it multiple ways. But ultimately, it's a different culture with different norms;)
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Interesting thread. GP's point and your own are not necessarily at odds. A lot has to do with which real lawyer is used as representative. Are we looking at average experience, median, 76th percentile... Taking into account those who n
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Maybe it'll be like that cow that wants to be eaten. Don't count your evil crow chicks before they've hatched.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> the unions tend to try acting as a cartel At least on this, the calculus may change if the company is a monopoly or cartel.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Great read. This kind of reminds me of auto manufacturing. It's almost unintuitive how difficult, expensive & error prone paneling is. Also painting. Stamping out panels, painting and installing them is a very hard job to do with r
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by dalbasal 5y ago
True, they're big too. That said, amazon is just more of a moving target. So, news.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Also consider that quite a lot of people work within Amazon's greater sphere, with degrees of dependence ranging from significant to absolute. Eg all the people employed in parts of the ecommerce industry where amazon wields most of t
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Maybe so, but that's a different sort of problem.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I agree with you entirely, but I think this is an if-by-whisky. That is, you justify a yes or no by defining "programming," or assuming a certain context. Or.. you justify yes or no by defining "hard." There can be a l
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by dalbasal 5y ago
In a sense... IE, the professor behind this is obviously making a clickbait-ey point. The article is just reporting on it.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
OK. Someone had to to make the obvious point. At least it's concise. Patents, as they exist, typically list an inventor, but the owner can be different. Mostly, the inventor is an employee and the owner is the employer. Where this can
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by dalbasal 5y ago
duce
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by dalbasal 5y ago
In parent's defense he was (a) quoting someone and (b) intentionally simplifying and distilling into a narrative label, which is the whole point of this thread. It's also true that the Muslim Golden Age and european dark ages over
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Historians putting down the dark ages is (IMO) a game of Hegelian tennis. Someone has to hit the ball, so that you can refute it. If the previous historians had not framed the dark ages this way, modern historians would be. The process of
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I know this is tongue in cheek, but it's actually an interesting frame. "No business" software startups are kind of possible. If the software/product is useful, important, unique or cheap enough the business side would
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Hello 2003. I remember when the "great firewall" seemed like a joke, as did digital copyright compliance, online censorship or basically any means of controlling the internet. Information wanted to be free, and neither man nor kin
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I think both exoskeletons and prosthetics suffer from similar issues. To reach affordability, you need unit volume. To get unit volume, you need an initial user segment capable of paying what such a device currently costs. In computing, for
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by dalbasal 5y ago
So... I think there are two seperate things here, besides ownership of the prestige word "journalism." One is "reporting," which involves fact-checking, corroborating source statements and such. This is, I agree, somethi
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by dalbasal 5y ago
"Been done before" is a pointless criticism. Yes, "blogging" reduced to a bare bones definition, has been invented and reinvented since before it was a term. That means very little though. It's subtleties, norms and
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by dalbasal 5y ago
It's hard to overstate how influential Toyota has been, historically, on legislatures and legislation. Trade agreements, for the past 40-ish years, have been the keystone piece of both trade and industrial policy. These agreements are
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Reproducibility is not a problem here. Falsifiability is. That said, this can't be "useful data" unless you are willing to accept non falsifiable interpretations. There's no way of formulating such an interpretation. Wh
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by dalbasal 5y ago
At least in the Netherlands, you guys have other options. I live in Ireland. We also make life miserable for drivers, and basically unaffordable for young, or poor people. But here, about 50% of the population doesn't have access to an
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by dalbasal 5y ago
So... IDK. Intellectually, I agree with this. Applied to the personal sphere, a company, family or whatever... being pro something else is probably the way to go. As a macro-political goal... perhaps not. For a big, hairy example, look at
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Do you have any data to support that more generally? No. I threw out all my CDs years ago.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Really? As I was reading it, I thought that the last decade's music was considerably less dark than the music of my youth, circa 2000. My follow up questions to this paper would be which books exhibit this depression-associated langu
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I disagree. The enemy isn't not training hard enough. The enemy is burnout and quitting. Train to the point where getting back into the gym requires as little discipline as possible. There is, especially in weight rooms, a danger of do
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by dalbasal 5y ago
One of the results that stood out to me was that (a) dichotomous thinking was the most notable distortion in germany during nazism and (2) they (and the rest of us) are back to peak levels.
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In their defense, I tend to think social science is shoehorned into an academic formula that it can never really fit into. You kind of have to have a hypothesis, then "test" it with data. A more reasonable approach (IMO) would be
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by dalbasal 5y ago
The data is quite interesting, but the hypothesis (imo) is far from the only plausible explanation. I'm not saying this to disparage the work, just to frame. "Individuals with depression are prone to maladaptive patterns of think

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