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by dlss 10y ago
wow , 10x more expensive? Well, 7% ROI isn't awful for them, though that's still assuming a 100% profit margins. If margins are less than 50% they're again losing to just investing in index funds.
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by dlss 10y ago
From OP: > Sunshine and seawater. That’s all a new, futuristic-looking greenhouse needs to produce 17,000 tonnes of tomatoes per year in the South Australian desert > The $200 million infrastructure makes the seawater greenhouse more
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by dlss 10y ago
I think the usual method is to forward just help@ or support@ emails to the 3rd party support email address. See http://docs.helpscout.net/article/54-google-apps etc
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by dlss 10y ago
> I'm familiar with Givewell. As a non-profit, Givewell does good work, but they perform a form of meta analysis of other non-profits, and do not do direct work. As a result, Givewell isn't a good example of "real world a
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by dlss 10y ago
The point I was trying to make was not that good judgement under uncertainty is impossible. As you mentioned, I'm a statistician... as such, I'm 100% certain I would never say that :p What I was trying to say was that the methods
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by dlss 10y ago
Every example you've listed has to do with subverting the free market though legislation. You didn't list other subversive forces on the market, but there's also a pseudo-regulation through non-governmental force (death threa
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by dlss 10y ago
>> "why" is incredibly hard to answer accurately and incredibly easy to answer inaccurately. > Of course. Yet we should try, shouldn't we? I mean, maybe? If you see a way to do it that you think would actually wo
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by dlss 10y ago
While I do agree it's a complicated example, I also feel like the phenomena of people claiming to understand why women in aggregate behave a certain way similarly confounds OP's investigation. So a complicated example for sure, bu
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by dlss 10y ago
> And why do you think that is? Diagnosing the symptom is far easier than understanding the cause. You're doing the former. When you're talking about emergent behavior of extremely complex systems, "why" is incredibly
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by dlss 10y ago
1. Are you a woman who wants bigger pockets? Those are for sale. Buy them! 2. Are you a man who wants no pockets? Those are also for sale. Buy them! That's really all there is to it. Stores stock what customers buy, not the other way a
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Julia v0.5.0 Released(github.com)
114 points by dlss 10y ago|19 comments
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by dlss 10y ago
I will say that sociologists are better than normal at making model disagreements sound like the other person's fault. Perhaps my understanding of a Kuhnian paradigm shift is wrong? It doesn't feel wrong, and I've read a fair
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by dlss 10y ago
> The web was a paradigm shift for, say, newspaper publishers. It totally upturned their world. But from a technology perspective, it was pretty straightforward. [...] The day before, we were writing daemons to output text over a network
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by dlss 10y ago
> DNA doesn't strike me as a good example. I don't think it was a paradigm shift. > I don't know that I have, really. Sure, some things have changed. But I'm still writing OO code that isn't that different tha
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by dlss 10y ago
I think relativity is a red herring in this discussion because it was so famously hard to prove. That a theory which took on the order of a generation to satisfactorily prove required a generation for mass acceptance isn't in my opinio
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by dlss 10y ago
> A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it It's going to be great once
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by dlss 10y ago
I looked this up, and according to the most entertaining source I found ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nHBGFKLHZQ ) the result of a tiny blackhole would basically be a gigantic nuclear explosion (it would evaporate rather
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by dlss 10y ago
Can anyone comment on why this might be worth watching?
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by dlss 10y ago
In my experience a tremendous amount of religious teaching focuses on self-improvement (avoiding sin, cleansing of past sins, etc, etc). I do agree that the USA isn't a cult though. Too big/diverse.
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by dlss 10y ago
Hilarious or not, that's the (replicated) result from the literature: > Implications from this study are much the same as those stated by Frey and Detterman, namely, that SAT appears to be a measure of general intelligence and is a
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by dlss 10y ago
Wow, thank you sir. Note that 1.7% is roughly the same percentage that Google, Facebook, and Twitter have according to OP. I hope OP sees this and reevaluates his position now that Apple's diversity numbers no longer appear to be 4x hi
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by dlss 10y ago
Right, that's the thesis of the article. The basis for concluding that Google, Facebook, etc were not "actually serious" was their numbers being lower than Apple's numbers. I was asking if perhaps OP's data analysis
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by dlss 10y ago
It's quite surprising to me that Apple seems to be doing so much better at diversity hiring. I think Google, Facebook, and Twitter are quite serious with respect to diverse hiring / I find it hard to believe Apple's methods w
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by dlss 10y ago
The view you're espousing is wrong. When you actually test if what you're calling human universals actually are universal, you generally find they're not: "Broad claims about human psychology and behavior based on narro
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by dlss 11y ago
Speaking as a US citizen with 12 years of voting experience, I can tell you that strategy doesn't work in practice :(
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by dlss 11y ago
Some suggestions/comments: 1. I'd appreciate an unscented and uncolored option. 2. I'd appreciate some details on how the questionnaire translates to a changed formulation (why it's better, what research you used, ideall
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by dlss 11y ago
"The rare Guinea Worm faces extinction. Yet despite growing public support for environmentalism and preservation of endangered species, few people will speak out on the Guinea Worm's behalf. In fact, the United Nations and several
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by dlss 11y ago
> "you can make people agree with any position you want by changing the wording on the questions." So precisely what you ask is super important for knowing what to do with the conclusion. This. Also: any other questions asked w
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by dlss 11y ago
Conscientiousness is also correlated with job performance, and is about on par with IQ for predicting lifetime earnings. Agreeableness (also a Big-Five trait) is also quite important in cooperative settings (though both have small effects r
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How I Won the Lottery (or: Every Talk by Every Successful Creator Ever)(youtube.com)
1 points by dlss 11y ago|0 comments

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