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by iguy 8y ago
How do you mow lawn on a slope you can't even reach with a rake? Maybe with a goat? :) And, in my limited understanding of horticulture, I thought leaves happened later in the year than flowers. Don't they blow off or turn into fe
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by iguy 8y ago
Do those need to be leaf-free? I mean I thought the point was lawns, with less labor than a rake. But on land far too steep for lawn, can't you just leave things alone? (I own exactly 2 pot-plants, FWIW.)
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by iguy 8y ago
> since the feature importance hierarchy can change drastically based on what other features are included This sentence describes a disturbingly large proportion of social science papers. After controlling for X,Y,Z (naturally!) then we
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Thanks for the story. I was told (although have not checked) that many euthanasia cases work a bit like this. Doing the planning is important, but most people don't go through with it. Nevertheless their lives are improved by knowing t
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And by sheep, surely! The dogs aren't predators, but (I believe) they do sometimes nip the sheep to let them know it's not just barking. The drone is going to need a cattle-prod or something too.
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And many see Lenin's October revolution as hijacking the February one for his own murderous egomania. But often this just this seems like a way of pretending there was some pure utopian vision which was unfortunately corrupted, every t
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> Stalin's policy was 'Socialism in one country' Although he did annex quite a few of neighbours into that one country.
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As a mathematical comment, if these are two distributions are gaussians, and one has 120k above some cutoff, the other 78k, then the distributions above this cutoff are not the same. They will typically have slightly different means (not
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by iguy 8y ago
From some quick googling, it sounds like less than half of high-school students take the SAT. In which case the bottom end of the scores will probably tell you nothing about the population. "3.8 million students took the PSAT -- the pr
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These things are true, but it wasn't long-distance trade or scientific progress which made English people richer in 1400 than in 1350. It was more land per peasant. That things did not completely fall apart when the plague hit may be d
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I'm not sure I would go this far, there was a lot else that went on. But economically, for sure it was huge... we can actually trace several such swings in pre-industrial England, plotting population against per-capita income (or calor
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by iguy 8y ago
Thanks! That's very interesting, I will think some more. Is the fact that male song-birds, err, spend much more on fashion & makeup... also a pattern that correlates with heterogameticness?
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> There is too much crank science in the world to evaluate it all in good faith Absolutely. And thus sadly a solid field needs a certain (ideally low) amount of gatekeeping. But there are also academic fields which are very far from soli
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This was certainly why no teenage boy wanted to be seen playing a 3/4 size guitar! But one would hope that adults could behave better.
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The strange thing is that Europe recovered quite fast. The survivors (or more, their children) ended up significantly better-off, for a century or so, basically because there was more land per person, so you could just farm the better parts
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> In birds, the variance for body size is larger in females. Do you have a reference for this? I would be surprised, as I thought the explanation for variance was not about chromosomes, but about investment... but I don't actually k
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It would be interesting to see the slides of the other presentations given at the meeting. I'm quite sure that most agreed with the orthodoxy. But did any of them present data? And if they did, how did they handle it? Compared (say) to
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by iguy 8y ago
Thanks that's interesting. I'm astonished there are no 7/8 digital keyboards. Also, is there an explanation for "dominate in representation at the academic level"? Does it need one?
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by iguy 8y ago
I guess the point is that they need different words for this two-tier system. If they currently use "visa" to mean the kind where you have to show up for an interview and have something glued into your passport, then saying this i
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by iguy 8y ago
IIRC this was one of the studies whose name list was criticised for having a lot of class differences as well as claimed race differences: when the authors sat down to invent white- and black-sounding names, they picked high-class and low-c
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Pollock is an odd target here in a way, because the man was actually skilled, he produced things which proved hard to copy. Unlike a lot of later very-abstract artists, who really were all about their timing / positioning / contac
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Indeed, clearly not a head-to-head comparison, I just wanted to find some figure for the shuttle's cost. It's not clear to me what the 450 includes. I had not heard of this 80-person shuttle-bus, that sounds pretty crazy!
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by iguy 8y ago
I understand but disagree about the tax on profits, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19295683 But my question about what Google et. al. actually do in Poland. Is it a sales office for a product made elsewhere? (Few
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The article cites a 2.5% reduction in overall wages, and a 2.5% reduction in productivity. (Or one was 2.8, but close enough). Which sounds exactly like what you suggest: the most productive employees used to get other offers, and use them
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And, from skimming the paper, they have literally divided companies into two groups, <35 and >35. It could be that one giant employer (like a hospital system) is the whole story. A more subtle study would be to look for a discontinuit
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They say "we find no statistically significant change in departure rates of males or females across firm hierarchies." Have not read it closely, but "no statistically significant" need not rule out the scenario that depa
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It will: the process of paying employees is heavily taxed. Who writes the check and what the nominal salary is doesn't matter too much... between the cost to the company, and the employee getting to spend the money, the government gets
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That's interesting. Are there large companies who would pay this 1.5%, who do not at present pay much Polish VAT? Or employ many people? Otherwise, why not tweak existing large taxes? You could do it on the employer's social secur
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> most people agree that these companies are not paying the amount of taxes they should They will say this because the news tells them this is true. But it seems far from obvious to me. If a multinational sets up shop in France, then a w
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by iguy 8y ago
On reflection, maybe I can answer my own question (but tell me if I'm wrong): The EU rules demands that, in the market for beer (or trains or spyware) sold in France, the French govt. cannot favor French companies over Irish companies.

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