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by hilux 3y ago
I'm not sure how HN feels about posting links; but you can google: grit "replication crisis" It's not just "grit" - it's the entire field of "TED-Talk-headlining applied psychology [allegedly] based i
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Healthy BMI cutoff for Asian Indians is 23.0 (not 25.0)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by hilux 3y ago
Coincidentally, in the wake of the Gino/Ariely scandals, I was reviewing the "state of scientific research opinion" about "grit" and "mindset." The verdict from google is that many of the initial news-maki
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by hilux 3y ago
I've hiked around there for decades and had no idea. I'm totally going - thank you so much!
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by hilux 3y ago
Baldness has its advantages. Those head-scalp massagers are great!
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by hilux 3y ago
The average quality of stuff is very high in Japan. That's reality, not marketing illusion. Where the average is high, it's easy to believe that the peaks are also high - higher than in (say) China.
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by hilux 3y ago
Hmmm. I had better coffee in a Lawson in Shin-Osaka (made by robot machine) than in any Bay Area cafe. Which is unfortunate, since I live in the Bay Area, and not in Osaka.
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by hilux 3y ago
You're right - I had no idea. Wikipedia's "List of countries by suicide rate" makes for somber reading. For women, Japan's suicide rate is still marginally higher than the US's. And S Korea's is much highe
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by hilux 3y ago
I love the food in Japan. I recently asked a Japanese-American person, who has lived in Japan, how the quality of the food (and everything else) is so high in Japan, so much higher than in the US. He said that the Japanese have high expecta
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by hilux 3y ago
Sportiva.
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by hilux 3y ago
Ariely and Gino have been very credibly accused. And they are far from the only ones: Diederik Stapel, Brian Wansink, the list goes on and on. (I'm not listing the many names, also at R1 universities, whose verdicts are still "i
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by hilux 3y ago
USC again? They'd gone a few years since their last major public scandal. I guess the pandemic must have helped. This looks like a huge case of deliberate malfeasance. Real shame.
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by hilux 3y ago
Thrift stores already exist, both brick-and-mortar, and online. I use them, but they're a small piece (12.3%) of the overall clothing market, presumably because most Americans prefer the convenience of finding exactly what they want -
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by hilux 3y ago
That is awesome. I am inspired by people who sacrifice to achieve big goals - although if the goal is important enough, perhaps you don't feel the "sacrifice."
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by hilux 3y ago
Because it's depressing.
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by hilux 3y ago
For more on this, which I really don't recommend, google "South Dakota Dynasty Trust."
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by hilux 3y ago
That article reads like an episode of Black Mirror. But I get it - he's making a valid and important point. I'm curious how similar issues are handled in Germany or other countries with (allegedly) stronger privacy laws.
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by hilux 3y ago
Ukrainian guy, entering Hungary ... he must have thought he was outside the long reach of US law enforcement!
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Evernote further limits free plans(engadget.com)
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by hilux 3y ago
I don't understand your objection about Don Knuth. I'm well aware who he is. My point is that I don't have access to that kind of insightful human helper. So I "settle" for ChatGPT. And by "us" I mean &quo
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by hilux 3y ago
> A chief goal of artificial intelligence is to build machines that think like people. Maybe that's their goal. But for many users of AI, the goal is to have easy and affordable access to a machine that, for some input (perhaps in a
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by hilux 3y ago
> Instead, he comes across as a dangerous lunatic with too much power and money. To you (and me) he comes across that way. But we're not his target audience.
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by hilux 3y ago
What a cool mystery-solving post! I wish all technology writing were this clear and explanatory. For another fun debugging tale, google: Mazda radio Seattle NPR bug
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by hilux 3y ago
That was so convoluted that I understood literally nothing. But I can answer the title question: we engage in willful ignorance because it is physically impossible to consider all the consequences of all our possible actions, all the second
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by hilux 3y ago
I know you just threw that in, but there is considerable evidence that breakfast is not good for you (unless perhaps you're out working in the fields), and the modern concept that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day&q
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by hilux 3y ago
A lot of what makes sense socially and economically doesn't happen (esp. in the US) when the alternative is a very profitable business, often an oligopoly. E.g. free prison phone calls hurt the >$1B "inmate telephone business.&
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by hilux 3y ago
Well, he did say that "power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
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by hilux 3y ago
I listened to it once based on some redditor's enthusiastic recommendation, and it was as bad (i.e. blatantly unapologetically biased) as you might expect.
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by hilux 3y ago
The 21st century version of Spock commanding the computer to calculate the digits of pi.
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by hilux 3y ago
Indeed. I'm so surprised that it's hard to believe.

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