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by dlkf 6y ago
> This has nothing to do with age, and little with experience. It has to do with experience because skills can only be honed through experience. It has to do with age because honing skills via experience requires time.
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by dlkf 6y ago
OP said "successful doctor", it's unclear how chiropractors are relevant.
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> For prolonged situation, higher order effects are going to become more important. More important for what? And for whom? Someone who just shaved 100% off of their 70-minute commute probably doesn't give a fuck that their awareness
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by dlkf 6y ago
> It is really a very simple notion. Really says it all.
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by dlkf 6y ago
> Involuntarily, due to corruption of public officials. Don't read too much into it. Haha! "Please disregard any obvious counterexamples to my broken ideology."
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by dlkf 6y ago
"Good dental hygiene at 50 correlates with cardiac health at 80, therefore brushing your teeth is good for your heart."
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by dlkf 6y ago
If you are going to downvote this comment, provide evidence. It's an empirical claim and the direction of causality OP is proposing is totally plausible. Did the authors of the original study control for this?
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by dlkf 6y ago
> Search is essential infrastructure for the internet Agree 100% > and should not be monopolized There's an argument to be made that search is a case of natural monopoly. Today, google's success doesn't stem from PageRa
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by dlkf 6y ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, afaict 9 is the problem.
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by dlkf 6y ago
I think this is a great first stab at the problem, but for two reasons I think a robust solution needs more work: - The first is that, as someone else pointed out, Google is almost certainly logging your translation queries. - Secondly, eve
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by dlkf 6y ago
You're just making same claim as the authors in the study, but adding a proposed mechanism. But just as they don't have evidence, neither do you. You have to actually do the study to prove it. If you believe that the experiment wo
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by dlkf 6y ago
This is unclear to me. Can you explain what you mean in the context of my alternative example?
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by dlkf 6y ago
In virtue of the experimental design, you were just now told that the "strange fact" is bullshit. If you had a clear opinion prior to receiving the strange fact, you'd revert to it
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by dlkf 6y ago
IMO the conclusion "facts don't change our minds" is a stronger conclusion than the first two experiments show. On my reading, the first two experiments show that: 1. if I have a uniform/undefined prior (how the fuck sho
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by dlkf 6y ago
...do you write a blog I could subscribe to?
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by dlkf 6y ago
> SF homeless budget is $300 million per year, yet there's only 5,000 to 10,000 homeless people. The fact that "there's only 5,000 to 10,000 homeless people" is a direct consequence of this spending. From the Wikipedi
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by dlkf 6y ago
Is it even a good measure though? Is the community more "confident" in a post that has 1 downvote than a post that has 50 upvotes and 52 downvotes?
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by dlkf 6y ago
If you had bothered to read the article, you would see that Scott lists two reasons why he is shutting down the blog. The reason that you mentioned is one. The other reason is: > The second reason is more prosaic: some people want to kil
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by dlkf 6y ago
This feels like an instance of negativity-bias. If you're willing to self-censor to avoid downvotes shouldn't you also be willing to shill / virtue signal for upvotes? My problem with downvotes isn't the effect on my sco
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by dlkf 6y ago
> The moves were part of a spending spree by the social network, which also shelled out $400 million last month to buy an animated GIF company and which is spending millions of dollars to build a nearly 23,000-mile undersea fiber-optic c
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by dlkf 6y ago
I liked this essay. I don't agree with all of it. But it has a lot of interesting musings, and it's written without the sort of hyperbole or bombast that typically accompanies pieces about "why I'm not using x." &gt
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by dlkf 6y ago
"academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small"
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by dlkf 6y ago
> even though it gets the job done How is this an addendum, rather than the main point? I will always take a flexible library that allows me to "get the job done" over a declarative framework that will do something similar to—b
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by dlkf 6y ago
Idea: A git-style wikipedia diff-log that gets hosted by a couple independent bodies
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by dlkf 6y ago
I'm not convinced of this. We could easily have used software to procedurally generate outfits from a selection of components since the 1980s. Why hasn't this already happened?
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by dlkf 6y ago
There's a bias induced by how people act in public. You don't normally see people's quirks, you only see the most normal side of their behaviour. It doesn't occur to you that they also have weird ticks - possibly weirder
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by dlkf 6y ago
Meta advice: don't try to solve a problem you haven't personally had.
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by dlkf 6y ago
Above, user mrbuddycasino said exactly the same thing without invoking a certain philosopher's name. That post is getting upvoted. I think hn users reflexively stop reading and downvote when they see "Marx." Which is a sham
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by dlkf 6y ago
As soon as I read the headline my first thought was "what can $5M tell you about the efficacy of UBI?" and the article quickly confirmed my suspicions: "nothing." From the article: > Yang says Humanity Forward plans t
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by dlkf 6y ago
Same story for education [1]. I won't be moved by cries of "we're exceptional" until the US actually tries adopting the policies that have worked so well for Europe and Canada. [1] https://www.oecd.org/pi

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