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by hntrader 6y ago
The speed is part of the point. What better way to signal that you're part of the woke agenda than to be one of the first movers only a few days after the publisher made their announcement? It's like all the sycophants tripping ov
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by hntrader 6y ago
The problem here are the bullies, not the show. South Park, Simpsons, Family Guy and all the greats are packed full of racially-adventurous humour and that's part of what makes these shows great. Scottish, British, Indian, Japanese, Je
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by hntrader 6y ago
That seems like confirmation bias. The book was published before WW2, and the white people in that picture look just as ridiculous and caricatured as the Asian, with dots for eyes and absurd costumes and postures.
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by hntrader 6y ago
Slippery Slope Fallacy Fallacy
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I've read a decent chunk of that research, but it's often relegated to backwater low-reputation journals focused on alternative medicine and is largely ignored by mainstream science. For an example, see the research on various tra
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by hntrader 6y ago
It's a near verbatim quote from the Cell article in the post above mine.
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by hntrader 6y ago
User "jeffbee" said that California has 250MW of battery facilities right now
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by hntrader 6y ago
As someone with an Asian background, it's not offensive at all, and I can't think of an Asian person who would find it offensive. This is just cancel culture playing out. Weak, risk-averse executives cowardly bending the knee to a
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by hntrader 6y ago
Do you know why California is using batteries instead of cheaper nuclear? Is it just for cynical political reasons?
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by hntrader 6y ago
So nuclear is much much much much cheaper and until the storage costs come way down, we have no other choice (aside from natgas peakers). Correct?
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by hntrader 6y ago
Not saying it can't be done, but is it cheaper than nuclear?
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by hntrader 6y ago
So it all comes down to relative costs then. Has anyone done a comparison between nuclear costs and this?
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by hntrader 6y ago
So storage reaches cost competitiveness with nuclear at $10-$20/kWh. Do we know what the current cost is today?
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by hntrader 6y ago
This is a good argument as to why we should look closely at traditional medicines of various cultures. We (1) coevolved with this stuff and (2) have gone through generations of trial and error. I'm a believer in modern scientific medic
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by hntrader 6y ago
"Batteries are easy to mass-produce." There's people here saying the battery tech isn't ready yet for large scale grid storage of solar/wind. Is that untrue?
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by hntrader 6y ago
"Why cant we all live off solar and wind? Why must you have nuclear?" Is large scale and cost competitive energy storage a solved problem?
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by hntrader 6y ago
"approximately equal" Right, because of basic modern medical care, which hunter gatherers don't have, often dying of problems with their teeth in their 20s, untreated infections, etc. And that's only one of a deluge of r
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by hntrader 6y ago
Definitely not. The average life expectancy in Africa today, the poorest continent, is over 60. The average life expectancy of hunter gatherers was about 30, give or take 5 years.
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by hntrader 6y ago
In historical Europe, the probability of dying due to skull fracture varied between 2 percent (some places in England), 7 percent (London) and 20 percent (Croatia). Not to mention early death from famine and disease and other forms of homic
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by hntrader 6y ago
> first derivative At the risk of being pedantic; people care about both the first and second derivative. After a while, people get dissatisfied if the second derivative is <= 0, because that implies that the rate is decreasing. Peopl
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by hntrader 6y ago
> so long away Even if it'll take 500 years to achieve, which seems longer than realistic, that's still the blink of an eye on a cosmic timescale. A comet or asteroid could hit us at any moment and cause our extinction. That&#x
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by hntrader 6y ago
Do you know what the classification error is for different ethnicities? Or are you just basing this on a small handful of misclassifications that you've seen in the news?
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by hntrader 6y ago
Perhaps a key distinction is whether the algorithm is mostly learned from data or whether the algorithm is mostly hand-engineered. What most people refer to as "AI" maintains that the former is a necessary (although not sufficient
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by hntrader 6y ago
They can still raise at elevated prices, GME is still up more than 10x. AMC did so, dumping their at the market offering at the top.
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by hntrader 6y ago
They can get some of the money, indirectly, through an offering. The price on the secondary market drastically changes a listed company's fundraising prospects.
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by hntrader 6y ago
Not really, it's normal. If you have two independent variables that are highly correlated, and you include both into the model, it's going to be pretty arbitrary which one ends up with statistical significance. If we're deali
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by hntrader 6y ago
> controlling for covariates is so hard Especially when the purported effects are small/clinically insignificant.
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by hntrader 6y ago
> Getting Hugh quality data That's why we need large interventional studies instead of observational ones. Observational studies are interesting and sometimes necessary (e.g. when there's ethical concerns about running an inter
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by hntrader 6y ago
Living with your parents and facing economic difficulty are going to be correlated. If they're included together in a multivariable regression (which is often what people mean when they say "controlling for") then they'r
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by hntrader 6y ago
What a fascinating study. Placebo is 82 percent responsible for the positive effects of antidepressants, and the remaining effect is clinically insignificant and dominated by a change such as sleeping more, and is potentially the result of

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