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by gpawl 9y ago
Industrial engineer jobs went to China because the low-wage factory job they oversee went to China. Industrial engineers would be easy to find if their was demand for them.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Even if education was the same everywhere, the most talented would tend to flow toward the areas of highest opportunity, and employers and customers will pick (their judgment of) the best performers. Either the best here will compete with t
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by gpawl 9y ago
Football pays better than mesothelioma settlements.
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by gpawl 9y ago
No. Everything comes down to trust and reputation. The NYT has over a century of reputation. When something like that is broken, it can't be quickly replaced.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Videos aren't interactive. Homestar Runner animations were interactive.
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by gpawl 9y ago
China.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Meanwhile, DOS programs from 1986 still run in DOSBox.
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by gpawl 9y ago
I think what you mean is that most proofs follow easily once proper definitions are chosen. Notation is a visualization of definitions.
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by gpawl 9y ago
syntax, not semantics. Mathematical semantics is quite precise.
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by gpawl 9y ago
"truly random" refers to how well a real distribution matches its intended distribution. So, a long cycle is not truly random, because many desired outcomes are physically possible to obtain. This is orthognal to the choice of dis
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by gpawl 9y ago
> the various "interpretations" of quantum mechanics frequently fail to address what the nature of physical reality No, they ALWAYS fail to address it, That's why they are called "interpretations", not "mode
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by gpawl 9y ago
The NBA Draft Lottery is similar in spirit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_draft_lottery
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by gpawl 9y ago
When you say "glirp couldn't fit on the vell", do you mean to say that the glirp was placed onto the veil, or that the glirp placed the vell on the glirp itself? The melon could not fit on the hat because it was too small. T
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by gpawl 9y ago
The self-help pseudoscience? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_semantics
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by gpawl 9y ago
Perl has this, in $_, the default/implicit argument.
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by gpawl 9y ago
In what scenario is it ever possible to understand the underlying model, if the model was naturally occurring and not invented by the scientist?
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by gpawl 9y ago
Statistics is the science of making decisions under uncertainty. It is far too frequently misunderstood as the science of making certainty from uncertainty.
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by gpawl 9y ago
This is a pernicious misunderstanding of "frequentism", often found among people who studied statistics mainly by reading comics. http://web.archive.org/web/20130117080920/http://andrewgelma...
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by gpawl 9y ago
and if you can't judge him for being addicted to taking risks, you can't judge people for being addicted to having feelings about it.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Your life insurance policy is what it is because diving is unsafe
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by gpawl 9y ago
Surely employers must cover life insurance then?
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by gpawl 9y ago
The day you flip out on your bike and land on your head, god forbid, the same questions will be asked of you.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Look, I love diving, and I love my kids. But I can't rent kids for just a few years [ok, excepting foster parenting]. Having a child introduces complexity, and "drop everything for 15 years" is only one possible answer.
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by gpawl 9y ago
pre-conception birth control is still a male's choice.
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by gpawl 9y ago
the common marriage vows explicitly state death as the one justification for exiting vows, so married with no kids is definitively in the clear.
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by gpawl 9y ago
risk is easy to calculate. reward is not.
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by gpawl 9y ago
the people who die in war aren't the people who decide to get into a war.
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by gpawl 9y ago
http://www.insuranceclarity.com/life/life-insurance-extreme-... OP is between "extra premium" and "cannot get coverage"
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by gpawl 9y ago
what are the actual measured chances of dying at these various activities?
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by gpawl 9y ago
Dying at your hobby is #1 form of neglect, partly mitigated only if you've set up quite an insurance payout.

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