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by dlss 11y ago
This is great. "The mark of a true expert is neglecting obvious explanations to avoid being boring." That said, I do expect this perspective to make church more bearable :p
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by dlss 11y ago
Agree. Here's an Ambient Sparse one (generated before I saw this one) https://www.jukedeck.com/share/a0126f548a92b5e60df8e78e3a629... I'm specifically curious how much variation there is between tracks -- per
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by dlss 11y ago
> Did you see the interest rates cited in the article? Yes. Did you? article: Branch charges between 6% and 12% interest—based on the borrower’s creditworthiness—and loans are usually repaid between three weeks and six months later... Tr
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by dlss 11y ago
Payday lenders are mainly awful because they have to include the cost of humans in their interest rates... which makes those rates absolutely awful vs low-transaction-cost-relative-to-capital-size lenders.... Presumably a startup that lends
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by dlss 11y ago
1. You know you can trust this guy about how isis functions because he publishes his results as a poorly formatted .txt file. 2. This is cute even if it doesn't work. I think you basically have to be in favor of 4chan, etc trolling ISI
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by dlss 11y ago
Does anyone have links to the original study(ies?) rather than just this summary? Some of these claims seem pretty hard to swallow. For example: > Who is on a team matters less than how the team members interact, structure their work, a
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by dlss 11y ago
Forgive me if I'm mistaken... but isn't there only one infinite value being considered here? edit: perhaps you are saying you have preferences between different universes most people would consider infinitely bad?
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by dlss 11y ago
Well, the math matches his quote if you use expected values. What value should we place on an extra 0.001% chance the world continues to exist?
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by dlss 11y ago
> I'd reiterate that Americans believe that themselves. You really don't see the difference? Americans justify the use of nukes on the basis of the war being just. For example, if we'd nuked Japan because we thought sushi
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by dlss 11y ago
> I'd be more interested in a poll asking "can violence specifically targeted against civilians be justified" The survey we're discussing asked "can suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian ta
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by dlss 11y ago
I would think American acceptance of civilian casualties would be contingent on agreeing that the war was justified, and I'll remind you the survey data we are talking about is specifically in reference to terrorism. To grab a specific
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by dlss 11y ago
> Regardless, it certainly does help belie claims, oft repeated, that the silent majority of Moslems tacitly support Islamist terrorism, or are silent in its face. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_attitudes_towar
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by dlss 11y ago
This is a non-sequitur. Totalkos didn't say "these people look like X, and X is bad" he indicated he believes the speaker to be hypocritical. The Saudi clerics quoted in the article may well be hypocritical. I have no idea, a
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by dlss 11y ago
> Which will come first, flying cars and vacations to Mars, or a simple acknowledgment that beliefs guide behavior and that certain religious ideas—jihad, martyrdom, blasphemy, apostasy—reliably lead to oppression and murder? It may be t
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by dlss 11y ago
> In many instances outliers can be just invalid measurements and you should ignore them. signal[i] = value[i] + noise[i]. If you know that value[i] == NaN, then by all means throw out signal[i]. If value[i] != NaN, then you're be
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by dlss 11y ago
Posting this, since no one seems to have pointed it out: > So rather than comparing mean performance, we'll compare minimum performance. 1. This is a useless metric for startup investors to use, since (almost surely) the minimum
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by dlss 11y ago
They would detect if the acceptance criteria were biased. This is a good thing, since after you've measured something you know if a change is in order.
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by dlss 11y ago
To steel man GP: pareto efficiency[1] is a model which can both tell you if GDP is too low and too high... the thing I like about it most is that rather than a simple metric over the aggregate actions of everyone, it considers individual
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by dlss 11y ago
It's not. stock wiggles are very close brownian noise with an average direction of up at ~6% a year (random walk, EMH, etc)... and yet, playing this game, I seem to be able to time the tops and bottoms of my trades. I think the camera
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by dlss 11y ago
I'm always surprised to read about how awful the linux community sounds, given how great the product is. Does anyone familiar with the psych literature know if Linus' behavior here might be causal of quality? Abrasiveness feels li
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by dlss 11y ago
Very much this. Also: knowledge production isn't a linear function of time. "If it takes one mathematician 12 months of work to prove a theorem, how long would it take 12 mathematicians?" ... probably 13 months :p
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by dlss 11y ago
I think the point is actually general enough to include every industry: VCs give you enough money to pay people to do R&D / product design until you've got a good enough product that your profits pay for the R&D / pro
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by dlss 11y ago
Ahh, okay. What ends up happening with the drug companies which aren't acquired by larger firms (in your example Google) is they begin reinvesting profits in R&D and acquiring other companies. Eli Lilly, for example, spent ~$4.5 bi
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by dlss 11y ago
When I saw you'd replied here, I excitedly checked https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10218108 to see if you'd also given saurik a reply. Alas, no. You choose to reply here stating you believe OP agrees with you
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by dlss 11y ago
Reinvested profits?
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by dlss 11y ago
To return this to drug companies, what you are suggesting is a nationalized manufacturing of drugs, not a nationalized R&D of drugs. FWIW unlike 90% of this thread, this suggestion doesn't sound insane to me. We could look at the n
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by dlss 11y ago
> New drugs come from universities, and from people motivated by the combination of public-spiritedness and academic success. Ahh, hmm, I'm wanting to ask if you know anyone working on drugs without sounding rude. In my experience t
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by dlss 11y ago
In your 12 comments on this thread, you called OP or likened him to a parasite, immoral, exploitative, wasteful, crazy, a pickpocket, a medical quack, net negative to our society, a con artist, a scam artist, a Nigerian scammer, "why w
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by dlss 11y ago
I didn't ask you to change your opinion, I merely asked you to become better at expressing it as such. Think of it like asking a Christian to say "X is what I believe" rather than "you're going to hell"... it&#
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by dlss 11y ago
Progress! Let's keep going. I think you meant to say "That it is parasitic is factual if I make a bunch of assumptions about AVIS' profit margin and intent, as well as OP's past and future business dealings with AVIS. T

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