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by glenra 8y ago
In cities a substantial fraction of traffic is people circling the block trying to find parking near their destination and some fraction of traffic holdups is from people stopping in a lane while waiting for somebody else to pull out of a p
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by glenra 8y ago
It is pointless mudslinging. Every think tank compensates scientists to write policy papers. Somehow the fact that this one was right-wing made it possible to portray the practice as nefarious, whereas when, say, the Center for American
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by glenra 8y ago
> Just looking at the first problem, a four lane highway is a four lane highway, regardless of how vehicles comport themselves. Lanes are as wide as they are and following distances are as long as they are because people are terrible at
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by glenra 8y ago
> We've also been factually wrong in the past, and some people do their best to remind us of it as often as possible THAT dynamic is toxic and we need to somehow evolve a social rule against it. Something like Godwin's Rule,
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by glenra 8y ago
Perhaps it's either not worth fixing at all or not worth fixing yet . So far as I know, nobody has proposed a way to "fix it" that passes cost-benefit analysis with a decent discount rate. If we keep thinking about it, perha
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by glenra 8y ago
> But history will see this with absolute clarity. Are you sure about that? It seems to me history is messy . Are you just asserting that one side will eventually win each ideological battle and get to rewrite the history books to exclu
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by glenra 8y ago
How would anyone know what OS their in-seat entertainment system uses? I've watched the inflight movie on a wide variety of systems on varying airlines and I don't recall the experience ever being branded in that way.
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by glenra 8y ago
The most likely basis is that the hotel uses standard cleaning products. Or there might be tobacco smoke near the lounge, aspirin in the medical kits, alcohol at the bar or car exhaust in the parking garage. The warning signs provid
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by glenra 8y ago
> Apple makes that in what? Ten minutes? ;-) About a day and a half. (that's based on 2017's $48 billion net income) So Apple almost certainly could afford to buy the company, but they'd need a business case for doing so
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by glenra 8y ago
> One tap to clear all notifications On iOS, clearing all of today's notifications from the notifications list is either one tap (on the iPhone) or a force-touch and a tap (on Apple Watch). (to be fair, I believe those are both pret
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by glenra 8y ago
> SW is fundamentally a small universe My favorite example from the new Solo film: Solo is told something like "find me later on Tatooine". Imagine somebody saying "If we get out this, see me later - I'll be on earth
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by glenra 8y ago
> And yet that rebuke being aimed only at "the left" seems to imply that hostility is endemic to leftist political opinion, intended or not. Otherwise why mention the left at all? Not all of "the left" is hostile in
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by glenra 8y ago
Apple is being very Apple about it. They seem to have tried something that didn't work out or missed its market window so now they're trying something else which we'll only hear about if it succeeds and works really well.
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by glenra 8y ago
The cost is high due to basic economics. The BLM permit doesn't allow them to let in as many people as now want to come. When they charged a "reasonable" price all the tickets got bought up instantly and people complained abo
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by glenra 8y ago
By "reporting their results" he means "publish a report which contains their estimate of the number of DGUs in the US". And preferably do so in a timely manner, like in the 1990s or 2000s. That never happened. They did e
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by glenra 8y ago
Kleck's complaint is that when the data was originally collected two decades ago, CDC researchers could have calculated an estimated number of DGUs from the raw data and reported summary statistics relating to it, but didn't d
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by glenra 8y ago
The CDC study being discussed in this paper didn't followup but according to OP Kleck's other studies did - in Kleck's studies when people said they had a DGU they were asked to elaborate on the circumstances so this could be
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by glenra 9y ago
> Should be noted, on the subject of easily verifiable facts, that DeLong is not a leftist. Are you trying to make some subtle distinction between "leftist" and "left-wing", or are you claiming DeLong doesn't eve
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by glenra 9y ago
> I'd be surprised if there was ever a period where blind testers could tell the difference. If you read the study which OP summarizes, it claims to show that blind testers NOW definitely CAN tell the difference. The best "ne
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by glenra 9y ago
> If Marcus was trying to maximize his ROI on the business investments, he would start with different businesses and more reasonable owners. To get a great deal, Marcus is looking for underpriced businesses that are broken in the part
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by glenra 9y ago
I suspect there was a period when the older ones were better, even if this was mostly a matter of taste and survivorship bias. Bad violins and bad violin makers are forgotten to history while the very best ones (as judged by the very best
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by glenra 9y ago
> If you don't think telling people to eat less "works", then telling people to smoke less didn't "work" either. I think my metric for whether advice "works" is whether people attempting to serious
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by glenra 9y ago
I dunno, I think parts of their coverage would seem to demonstrate otherwise. For instance, consider their Oscars article: https://www.theknifemedia.com/world-news/how-did-the-oscars-... Scroll all the way to the botto
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by glenra 9y ago
Although the "how" part seems to be "via our proprietary process", they are pretty specific about what concrete forms of bias they're trying to rule out. They list that, with a few examples, here: https:/&#x
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by glenra 9y ago
Most CEOs earn less than the average dentist. When you refer to "some CEO who makes 100m/year" , that phrase describes a minuscule fraction of CEOs - it's less than a dozen people, none of whom you're likely to hav
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by glenra 9y ago
Given that the US Gini index hasn't changed appreciably since the 1990s...why now?
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by glenra 9y ago
I have a similar question about a different movie: in Die Hard , Bruce sure whines a lot about how the police are following the Plan . But...what were they supposed to do, if not follow their best available Plan? What did Bruce want t
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by glenra 9y ago
> Telling cigarette smokers to just smoke less didn't work either, but it's just as prescriptive. Hang on - by what measurement are you claiming telling people to smoke less didn't work ? People are smoking less, both
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by glenra 9y ago
> Google is like 75% white and Asian males, and 25% everyone else.[...] Doesn't seem like these classes are having any trouble succeeding at the company. At a first glance the racial category "white" on its own is obviou
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by glenra 9y ago
It would be lovely to live in a world in which telling obese people they should "just eat less" reliably allowed more than a tiny percentage of them to drop to a "normal" weight range and stay there for >5 years, but

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