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by gmd63 3y ago
Interesting. Wonder how kids in China are doing.
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I don't think a rise in mental illness is entirely attributable to lockdowns. There are several ways this pandemic can affect mental state, such as: - COVID infection, virus messing with your brain - Disappointment from believing COVID
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That's conjecture and based on intermediate metrics such as report cards / SAT scores
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* short-term economic growth
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Housing is expensive because speculators use it to get rich. You will not stop the artificially high cost of housing without addressing that root cause.
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The nature of Uber being easy and profitable in the beginning was a heinous dishonest trap engineered by venture capitalist subsidizers. It should be illegal to convince people economically that a certain lifestyle is worth switching to whe
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We're reaching the point in the economy where racing to the lowest cost, such as Temu, comes with great damage to the world. It's spyware that collects data on the american consumer across applications, and the products are made w
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Just as "it depends" is a meme for economists, "need more data" is the galaxy-brain statistician meme. Until you've solved the grand unified theory, you can never be fully confident in the completeness of your data
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That does sound like a lot of footage, but you wouldn't watch every second just as you likely haven't read every word of every scientific paper you've skimmed or referenced. The footage is there to support inquiries into how
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I'm interested more in why it specifically would be hard to just show people what you are doing (or did) instead of telling them a story at the end of months or years. Critical details and oversights can be lost in translation between
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Plenty can be done about it. We can start by increasing the standards for experimental proof past words on a piece of paper. Stream or record your experiment. If a 12 year old has the ability to stream his gaming life on twitch, scientists
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Marl behavior does not convey Marl's actual preferences, and this is where A/B testing zombies with no artistic instinct or creative bone in their body sacrifice the gift of their influence on the world. To design for humanity, yo
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Forget the IRS, imagine if the President himself were to withhold American resources promised to foreign governments in exchange for dirt on his political opponents.
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I don’t think a SPAC craze coinciding with exits for a bunch of overvalued startups is random
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The incentive structure is make money by creating things or providing services that other people want to pay for. Most people willingly turn their brain off when it comes to evaluating their daily/quarterly performance against that sim
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Fire those folks and move on. If you're a subordinate and your leaders are not firing those folks, quit and move on. Gameable KPIs offer windows into the souls of your colleagues.
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IT : dementia :: finance : cancer
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You also claim there were no laws broken. That is a false assertion. We don't know if there were laws broken. The stakes of financial crime rise as the amount of money at play increases. Requiring big players to help us ensure that the
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by gmd63 3y ago
It's a rule that upon being broken allows the SEC to fine you, which is why they are paying a bunch of money. Are you saying that we should not be able to require banks of a certain size to keep records, so that the highway patrol offi
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"We are pleased to resolve this matter" Nobody should ever be "pleased" with knowingly breaking the law. When will we ever get serious about law enforcement for this type of crime?
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Don't we not fully understand how the body, and the bodies of other beings work? I don't understand how someone can be confident about quantifying phenotype robustness without complete knowledge of the physical properties of organ
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Most things people do end up being a care of other people. If nobody is beholden to any job or duty, and the machines do everything, who is to say I don't want to make every machine on earth dance in a flash mob? I cannot do that, beca
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OpenBSD is exactly my point. It's deeply knowledgeable people giving their hard work away for free. There is nothing sexy about that. Honorable, idealistic, yeah. I deeply value the people that work on OpenBSD. I wish they had fewer st
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It's morally debased and corrupt to treat deep thinkers like plants that can be harvested, their entire lives and experiences consumed to enjoy the fruits of their intellectual labor. It's just personal preference, like all politi
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There's something just morally wrong about wanting to exist in an endgame society that decides its best to give zero credit to creators of ideas. I refuse that and actually would go to war over it. Because without that, you just reward
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Why don't scientists live stream their experiments and have more rigorous verification of methodology?
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The value of your actions is not just the immediate work you do. It's the long term effect of the sum of your choices. If you save lives only to put your system that you've built in the hands of a price extracting PE firm, it&#x27
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It's so frustrating that such a basic, non-intelligent move is the go-to by the biggest players that can afford such a strategy. It's completely counter to the presumption that wealthier players are more suited to allocate resourc
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Many arguments for sketchy business moves like ticket scalping or PE / market making is that they "create liquidity" Who is to say that a business should be liquid? Why? What is the value in making it easy to bail on your res
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I think the colloquial understanding of "science" means studying how the world works. This is more like engineering: exploiting our understanding of how the world works to build new capabilities that we don't fully understand

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