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by glenra 12y ago
Sure, caloric intake is up. But we don't know whether calories per capita per day increasing is a cause, an effect, or both. Maybe all it means is that something changed to make people hungrier than they were before. For instance, ther
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by glenra 12y ago
To you, that "substantial equity" might be a real cost, but to the applicant it's essentially a lottery ticket. The expected value of your equity is zero. I've worked in many silicon valley firms that offered stock optio
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by glenra 12y ago
> Are you sure this can be considered a "lower bound"? Pretty sure. my guess is that the true number is at least 15%, based largely on the sort of accounting found here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02&
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by glenra 12y ago
You're correct, the rate of false accusations might be quite high. The "2-8%" stat given in OP really should be "2-10%" - advocates somehow tend to lose track of a couple studies that came out on the high end - but
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by glenra 12y ago
> An even more accurate premise is that in some common and important interactions, people tend to be on average be approximately well-informed I think that's often an unwarranted step to take - I'm MUCH more comfortable with
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by glenra 12y ago
A better question might be "Is Homo Economicus a Strawman?" To which the answer is: yes, it is. Classical economics does not actually assert that individual humans behave in a purely rational and fully-informed manner. A more ac
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by glenra 12y ago
> The second reason: Keynesian economics works, at least in the short to medium term. Krugman has managed to make the Keynesian premise completely unfalsifiable using a tall podium and a variety of rhetorical techniques. Krugman believ
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by glenra 12y ago
> Just in case you are also trying to claim that your statement [...] applies to "gang rapes of a sober unwilling victim" as well I am assuredly not trying to claim that. The context of bros at an american college fraternity
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by glenra 12y ago
> Take the UVA rape case. This sort of thing happens often By "this sort of thing" you mean the violent premeditated (large) gang rape of a sober, unwilling victim as part of an official fraternity event? No, that does NOT ha
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by glenra 12y ago
The title of the story on the site is "We Asked 10 Black-Car Drivers If They Prefer Working for Lyft or Uber — Here's Why Lyft Won By a Landslide" The actual reason Lyft "won by a landslide" is that the method use
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by glenra 12y ago
I would have guessed centuries rather than decades. We've probably had the concept of "staging areas" for as long as there have been stages. The Globe Theater opened in 1599, so...
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by glenra 12y ago
tldr: Wozniak built the Apple I and Apple II. He's proud of it. Jobs turned it into a business. No actual "myth" is debunked. (If the alleged "myth" is that they "started the company in a garage", then the
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by glenra 12y ago
Sure, but the goal isn't "perfect", it's merely to do better than human drivers. Human drivers make that mistake constantly, so the case you're describing is one where the cars will do MUCH BETTER than people becaus
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by glenra 12y ago
#13 seems easy and there exist apps for it. Not that the team would WANT to do this, but if you had a sufficiently compelling use case the problem doesn't seem difficult. For instance, if everyone on his team carries a smartphone (iOS
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by glenra 12y ago
In double-blind tests by experts, wines from France are often beaten by wines from Napa or even New Jersey. The results between one region and another are statistically indistinguishable. http://www.newyorker.com/tech/f
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by glenra 12y ago
Most of the blogs I read generate reasoned and cogent commentary in the comments. If that happens "probably never" for you, you're reading the wrong sites.
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by glenra 12y ago
Try this: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-yo... ...which also sort of goes along with this overview of depression treatment in general: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014
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by glenra 12y ago
In my more cynical moments I think there is some sort of Conservation of Worry law. Human society is designed by evolution to be worried about stuff. If you render irrelevant all the more traditional threats such as starving or getting eate
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by glenra 12y ago
The obvious way to estimate the difference would be to assume Uber isn't actually lying about the average fare/trip length/speed. The "math he's done" involved arbitrarily cutting the average fare in half based
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by glenra 12y ago
There's a reality tv show based on this premise called "Undercover Boss".
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by glenra 12y ago
I would have added to that list: [4] Teachers aren't good at lecturing. A great lecturer can make a subject fascinating. A great teacher can organize information in such a way that it fits together logically. But an average teacher
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by glenra 12y ago
Empirically, the rooms that offer last minute instant booking tend to cost about the same as a hotel. Although I didn't realize you could use "has instant booking" as a search parameter - thanks! Now if only I could get hipmu
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by glenra 12y ago
Airbnb seems like a terrible choice for last-minute booking because it's based on the notion of hosts responding via email in their spare time. When you book a room in a hotel you have reserved a room and don't need to do anythi
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by glenra 12y ago
I'm glad it works for you but as far as I can tell the difference between Airbnb and a hotel is that when you make a reservation at a hotel you actually have a reservation . Meaning you can then just show up and expect the room to be
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by glenra 12y ago
The name was established in 1968. The relevant wiki page is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm Peter Hart (one of the three co-authors of the paper) discusses naming on the talk page, to wit: > In res
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by glenra 12y ago
Sure, if by "visited" you mean "surrounded the house with a helicopter, a bunch of police vehicles, armed officers and a dog". It's true that it could have been worse - it wasn't a "no-knock" raid - b
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by glenra 12y ago
So why does it have to be wood? Could you perhaps offer an OPTION to instead use plastic or metal or whatever's in the cheaper frames they sell at Target/Walmart, only custom-sized? Maybe YOU "can tell a cheap frame from a qu
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by glenra 12y ago
Right. The claim "The policy switch doesn’t stop hackers, trespassers, or rogue agents. It only stops lawful investigations with lawful warrants." is invalid because "hackers, trespassers, or rogue agents" might either
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by glenra 12y ago
Consider the value of the money involved. Suppose we takes some cash and use it to buy stuff from Japan. What that means is we give them mere pieces of paper with writing on it and they give us in return actual goods that are useful to us.
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by glenra 12y ago
I'll see your "kin selection" and raise you "comparative advantage". :-) Economic theory says we're better off letting other countries do the stuff they're better than us at doing. If Shanghai makes better

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