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by gruseom 13y ago
That's clearly one of the reasons she gives, but I wouldn't call it a clear reason. It doesn't make the point she cares about, as she herself says. Her claim (approximately) is "Costco's way may work for Costco but it wouldn't work here, be
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by gruseom 13y ago
Randomness is one such "scientific" explanation. In fact, it is the religion of science, serving as the de facto answer for unknowns regarding creation and existence. Your comment reminds me of the line attributed to Chesterton, "Give us
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by gruseom 14y ago
No doubt variance swamps our puny personal experiences, but for the little that it's worth I've had the opposite: instant return at Costco no questions asked, and a half hour lineup to return a wrong product I'd just mistakenly bought at Wa
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by gruseom 14y ago
Relying on governments to do the following: * determine who is really in need * helping people to make better choices seems absurd to me, and more a defense of the guaranteed income than a critique of it. Faith in perfect markets i
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by gruseom 14y ago
Thanks for that link. I read it and tried for an embarrassingly long time to write a coherent reply, but apparently can't do it. Megan Mcardle's blend of ideology and snark is like reverse catnip to me. If I were a cat, or something. Fortun
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by gruseom 14y ago
You cherry-picked that example. (Plus took it out of context—the quote talks first about food and medicine.) But even granting the point completely, the presence of such outcomes in a scatterplot says nothing about whether the approach is b
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by gruseom 14y ago
That is why I like Costco better: the people who work there don't seem as downtrodden. Either I've been fooled by corporate propaganda or they really have figured out a way to make money, lower prices, and treat people relatively well. Wa
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by gruseom 14y ago
Thank you both. I had no idea that HTML5 included this.
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by gruseom 14y ago
Walmart's CEO talked about this a few years ago—how crowded their stores get around midnight on the last day of the month, because that's when people's payments clear: about 11 p.m., customers start to come in and shop, fill their grocery
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by gruseom 14y ago
That color picker is unusually intricate. Does it come from a library or was it made for this site?
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by gruseom 14y ago
It's interesting that you know who Wilhelm Reich was. He is barely remembered these days.
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by gruseom 14y ago
More importantly, as part of the Newton project, Apple invested $1.5M in ARM, and made some $800M in profit from that investment. Wow. That is fascinating.
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by gruseom 14y ago
I wouldn't have deleted my comment if I'd seen your reply. But this is clearly the wrong kind of conversation to be having, so it's probably best that I did.
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by gruseom 14y ago
It's true that we don't have enough information to tell what was really going on, but I donated anyway. What the kid appears to have done—mixed stuff together to see what would happen—falls in the "moderate" part of the spectrum of things t
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The Secret Language of Cattle Branding(blogs.smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by gruseom 14y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 14y ago
Ahhhhh, I get it now. Yes, ambiguity is an issue. My son used to play an FPS that used scrolling text to report on what actions were happening. If you shot a player named, say, "gruseom", the scrolling text would read: You killed gruseo
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by gruseom 14y ago
Let's change the first example to: 'riffraff is a symbol. Does that remove the objection?
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by gruseom 14y ago
But why quote the name? "gruseom wrote a comment to which tptacek replied" is no different from "Daniel did this and Thomas did that". Is it? If you don't evaluate the names, you end up talking about the names themselves. (Not being pedanti
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by gruseom 14y ago
Oh come on. It's obviously a scaling problem, not something "set up" to be evil.
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Does Psychiatry Need Science?(newyorker.com)
1 points by gruseom 14y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 14y ago
Well, not really. When you quote a username like this, it means you're talking about the name—the symbol—rather than about the user. So this makes sense: 'riffraff is eight letters long But this does not make sense: 'riffraff men
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by gruseom 14y ago
It's not that everyone's serious, it's that this community's greatest fear is that HN will get overrun by frivolous comments and other weeds. As a result, one of the tradeoffs that's evolved is that people reflexively downvote jokes. (Non-f
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Diederik Stapel’s Audacious Academic Fraud(nytimes.com)
65 points by gruseom 14y ago|43 comments
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Mindfulness goes corporate(www2.macleans.ca)
3 points by gruseom 14y ago|1 comments
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Alfred Jarry and Père Ubu(the-tls.co.uk)
1 points by gruseom 14y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 14y ago
Ah, that theoretical answer does fill in one missing link for me. I kept wondering how you could detect even a trivial modification of a standard hashing algorithm (say, reversing the hash) if all you had to look at was its outputs. It seem
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by gruseom 14y ago
I have a dumb question about this. It was a smart question when someone asked me it the other day, but it's a dumb question now because I feel like I should know the answer and I don't. Why can't you get away with using some trivial but obs
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by gruseom 14y ago
I once looked and could not find any evidence that Newton said that. Since the quote is designed to sound good to modern ears, the attribution to Newton is probably bogus.
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The New Science of LSD Therapy(popsci.com)
2 points by gruseom 14y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 14y ago
Off-topic, but since younger HNers may not know what the title is riffing on, https://www.google.com/search?q=nobody%20got%20fired%20for%2...

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