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by epivosism 5y ago
It's pretty easy to just force the browser to preload images a few early, which would eliminate all of the variable, ~2-500ms delay between frames. This would increase the impact of this presentation. function preload(n) var p
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The enforced ~500ms loading time between slides is a killer. Why not preload and display them immediately?
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And don't even get started on "Improved by 40%" (1.4x) being occasionally referred to as "Improved to 140%" (1.4x), which then is backported "Improved by 140%" (to 2.4x). The real problem is percentages; p
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Agree we need to be rigorous about this. But in your example it's more sane if you flip it. Survival rate from a new medicine may be 99.99% and only allows 1.0001 multiple of improvement. For severe outcomes, not allowing expansive la
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I guess it's a choice of analogy. If virus particles are like bullets, protection can be viewed as proportional. But if it's viewed more like a liquid, seeping through any hole, then only full watertight protection works. I'
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But the area which does have coverage is still significant, right?
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Yes. Crazy how hard it has been for people to get this: Imagine a bulletproof vest with three larger-than-bullet-sized holes in it. Say you know someone is going to shoot ten bullets at you - would you not wear the vest because "the a
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by epivosism 5y ago
Do you also have to report cash transfers of 10k? Wasn't aware of that. I had thought it was just KYC for money banks deal with - not paying someone 11k cash for some construction work, for example.
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Check out SMPY - here's an image of their results showing that academic output, patents, tenure, income continues to increase well beyond IQ 135. Details in the later links. https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4b8ThyfDgzs/
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The case seems strong. Out of all of China, Covid-19 emerged near a Virology Institute which was conducting gain of function research on this exact type of coronavirus at low biosecurity levels. This is 1500km away from the natural origin
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I think there's another interpretation to his question - he's seriously asking why this decision had such a different result in this case, not trying to assert that this is a similar result.
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by epivosism 6y ago
You're so right. It's extremely strange how most replies here and on reddit take the "100% it's not a problem" stance. The real answer would require actually doing surveys of 1) the value, learning, and art generat
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by epivosism 6y ago
I appreciate the research you've put into this and you are making good arguments. You've provided some study-based arguments that low-skilled market participation hasn't been harmed by historical changes - my question for you
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Map of the timeline of the abolition of slavery - clear link between current prosperity and the time of abolition: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Sl... The outliers (Saudi
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by epivosism 6y ago
How would you engage with his claim, that minimum wages don't actually guarantee wages - they just give employers this choice: Pay minimum living wage Don't hire someone True minimum wage implementations like EITC [0] wo
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Not sure I agree - total profits and living standards have both gone up drastically since slavery was abolished, and went up faster and farther in countries that abolished slavery earlier. Thinking that slavery is profit-maximizing is very
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I think this is just an implementation issue; I'm totally fine with the government paying a living wage to people if they have the money. The issue here is the law actually gives employers a choice: "pay living wage" or &quot
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Not sure who is downvoting everything on the other side in this discussion. I'm not saying that I'm against minimum wages - just that to credibly propose them, it would help to explain why you don't set it at $50. I think fo
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"Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs
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Downvoters have a duty to explain how they calculated their proposed minimum wage: i.e. what calculations you ran to show this proposal is welfare-maximizing at exactly 15$ or whatever, not 16$ or 50$. Otherwise arguments for a minimum wage
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For me, on youtube premium, "not interested" has massive, immediate effects on what is shown in my feed. Try it and see.
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Yeah, I've always thought it weird that in addition to the ideas of democratic decision making (juries, voting) we don't apply the known standards of jurisprudence online - rules of evidence, right to representation, right to trai
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Very likely that internally there were people who had an inkling this was going on, but could never convince product to devote time to put it in the backlog. This change is a win for that engineer. This example will be ammunition in intern
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The actual Feynman personal take on risk & his investigation: https://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm Short and readable. It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of
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