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by esyir 5y ago
Low cost variable for modulating medical treatment? It's often used in such scenarios.
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by esyir 5y ago
Someone clearly gets it. Variability viz and spread detracts from that clear message.
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by esyir 5y ago
With regard to this topic, where we're literally discussing lk race in an xray?
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by esyir 5y ago
>There is utility to race , only because we refuse to cut the middle man and identify clusters directly from genetic data. No one needs a cockerel to wake you up, when alarm clocks have been invented. Honestly, typing this comment has ju
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by esyir 5y ago
Pretty much why summary statistics often give the IQR, which gives some idea to the skew and shape of the distribution as well. Unfortunately, BD and marketing just want a single number to show that the value is bigger and hate anything mor
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by esyir 5y ago
The solution for Taiwan is obvious. Nuclearization. The only way for a country of that size to resist a superpower is to ensure that that superpower loses their capital if they dare bite.
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by esyir 5y ago
The funny thing is that it isn't really arbitrary at all. It's location based. Humans only recently gained the ability to travel vast distances, and in the past lived (and bred) within a small, localized region. The "arbitrar
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by esyir 5y ago
A more accurate view would be that it really is both. It's a social construct, but it's not fully arbitrary, being historically (and currently) used as a proxy for ancestry, and thus genetics. >That we divide not based on actua
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by esyir 5y ago
Agreed on both fronts. There's a lot of attempts here to use "race is a social construct" to indirectly claim that race is meaningless, or at least imply that. People need to realise the following: - Race is a social construc
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by esyir 5y ago
I strongly dislike (almost despise) this argument. Race is a surrogate variable for genetic history. The classification itself indeed matches with reality, as it is generally made on ancestry. Approximation it may be, imperfect it may be, c
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by esyir 5y ago
Sounds a bit like the interviewing problem, eh? Maintaining a quality bar fundamentally seems to involve a high false negative rate.
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by esyir 5y ago
So, a few things, I don't think outright covid denial is a major thread. I tend to see much more "herd immunity/get to normal" from right-adjacent circles. Regarding Right-wing distrust: The vaccine is new tech (and I me
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by esyir 5y ago
People default to assuming bad faith if they're from a different tribe. Just look at the social media loops.
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by esyir 5y ago
The fundamental rule imo should be that the more absurd the claim, the more it deserves a double check. That hospitals are prioritising gunshots below ivermectin is absurd to what I hope is most people.
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by esyir 5y ago
I'm left here wondering which is true: has journalism as a field regressed, with loss of its original principles, or has it never been good to begin with. The professional journalists feel much less like the sources of information that
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by esyir 5y ago
Big paper retracted recently, current status is in the low to no effect size. Still under study and might get a better grasp of effectiveness in the future, so nothing on efficacy is conclusive atm.
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by esyir 5y ago
I've heard a lot of "private offices are massive 200-300% boosts to productivity claims" in this thread, but I've never seen any actual evidence further than "I feel it gets more done".
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by esyir 5y ago
I Find this definition of freedom mind boggling. By that logic, brave new world describes a free society.
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by esyir 5y ago
I'm wondering if enforcement of this law is consistent. Somehow, I'm pretty doubtful, but I'd like some confirmation of how it works over there.
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by esyir 5y ago
The flipside is also unfortunately true. When I first interviewed, I drank the hn koolaid and began with the talking, figuring that the resume screen and a quick chat world filter out the fakers. 5 candidates who could talk but could barely
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by esyir 5y ago
I've always viewed genetics and talent as essentially your maximum potential. Lots of ways to drag you down from being all that you can be (lead, malnutrition, a good knock on the head), but given a sufficiently good environment, genet
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by esyir 5y ago
If you might remember a somewhat recent controversy when they tried to remove race in the eGFR (kidney effectiveness, sorta) calculations. This was not done for performance reasons, or to find a better measure. The impetus was the idea that
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by esyir 5y ago
I'm reminded of a time back when I was in university where the cultural studies professor vehemently denied the existence of potential genetic differences between two ethnic groups. I don't remember the context any more, but it he
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by esyir 5y ago
Not OP, but have genetics background in other fields (not intelligence). The following is a bit of a mix A way you could look at this would be to think as heritability here as the cap of your intelligence. No matter how hard you try, barrin
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by esyir 5y ago
The catch here would be thinking in distributions, and from that separating individuals from said distributions. A current topic would be representation within a given domain. Particularly since in most representation cases (high paying job
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by esyir 5y ago
Strong agreement here. The impulse to attribute any mishap on anything race-adjacent to racism is one of the most destructive memes at the moment. It forces a worldview where malice is the default assumption and encourages the "enemies
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by esyir 5y ago
Hm. Would be a way to subsidize the price of my NAS expansion though. Only 10TB left makes me want an upgrade to 56 TB more, that's not cheap. Allocating 40TB to chia over a year would cover a good 2.5 * 365 = ~1000 a year. That's
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by esyir 5y ago
I would bet that the people in your neighbourhood (weak self selection) are going to have greater diversity of opinion than whatever bubble we currently exist in (strong self selection).
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by esyir 5y ago
This is Sf, California. Hardly a bastion of small government.
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by esyir 5y ago
The current state of oss would be a counterpoint to this. That maintainers are often poorly supported implies what I suspect we're all trying not to acknowledge.

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