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by indubitable 9y ago
If I've "cherry picked" data feel free to provide the precise, in context, data you feel I'm leaving out. I've gone out of my way to try to provide as much context as possible, while also simultaneously providing su
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by indubitable 9y ago
Providing facts should never require justification. Everybody is free to have their own opinion, everybody is not free to have their own facts. Regardless of the above, I'll indulge you because this is a topic I find particularly inter
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Even to this day in African slavery is almost entirely heritable, I'm using 'almost' completely as a weasel word - to my knowledge it is 100% heritable and is certainly a major cause of the perpetuation of slavery in Africa t
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As an aside, I think something many people don't realize is that slaves were not free Africans who were kidnapped and enslaved by westerners. These individuals were enslaved in Africa, often at birth, and then sold by Africans. These i
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The vast majority of kids don't realize what money means. I mean they do in the abstract sense, but they tend to be naively unrealistic about the future. What's $70k of debt per year (paired with compound interest) matter when the
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To me the problem seems somewhat self evident. Children like to think they're special. Parents of children like to think their child is special. And we're doing more than ever to try to convince children that they're special.
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By the standards of many places in the world, medicine in the US is quite prudently distributed. For instance I can buy antibiotics, or things like prozac at most any pharmacy. Pharmacies being a bit different than in the US. In many places
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by indubitable 9y ago
The Falcon Heavy not only lifts vastly more (it will be the most powerful rocket excepting the Saturn V - which has not been in commission since 1973), but I think understating the scale of price difference is also not really reasonable. Th
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In this particular article I find it most interesting that they conclude with a tale of bad happenings to one who, instead of debating his views, "distorted, simplified and restated his views to make them appear offensive and cartooni
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I'm not sure if we're now going in circles or if you failed to read what I just wrote. Repeating it: "The implication of your comment is that the wisdom of the masses is little more than incorrect answers canceling out on av
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by indubitable 9y ago
Not just his comment, but the fact it was at +9 before getting censored. There's definitely a lot of mob mentality when it comes time to find somebody to blame, and that's very dangerous.
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I think refusing to cooperate is generally the smartest play. Investigators aren't asking questions to help you exonerate yourself, they're aiming to get you to incriminate yourself as deeply as possible. An officer asks you, &quo
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It's not just those that would be aware of changing default search settings, but those that actually would. So we have a Venn Diagram of users that would be willing to try out something marketed as "a wicked fast mobile browser&qu
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I think your first example is somewhat disingenuous. The vast majority of people will never change their default settings on the vast majority of things. The ability to change something does not contradict the view that a company is engagin
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As mentioned, there is a difference between bias and uniform bias. In the US the media, politics, social media, and even miseducation (e.g. in my deviance class we focused on Kinsey's 10%, yet oddly enough never contrasted that agains
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by indubitable 9y ago
You'd think so, but that's not correct. This is not a straight forward result of probability with a filter of complexity. It works regardless of bias, though obviously if everybody was biased in the exact same way then that would
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http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/1/eaao5580.full Not paywalled.
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That is a very poorly formed study precisely because systems like the Mechanical Turk actually work surprisingly well. This is a common theme in the 'wisdom of the masses.' If you ask a single person how many beans are in a jar, y
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I think this is a really great point. Many people always dreamed of making games and now a days there are make-a-game kits that enable people to do just that with almost no programming knowledge necessary. But now the sort of games capable
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I'm unsure programming can be made accessible, and there's a very specific reason for this. Simplifying the medium of something (in other words making it so somebody could genuinely learn a programming language, from nothing, in 5
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Another good example of the issue here is any programming language that was meant to be able to be read/used by non programmers. SQL is a great example there in my opinion. The syntax and structure is clearly meant to try to mimic rela
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It's sometimes interesting to pose a little thought experiment to somebody about what they think they could get done if they had 10 world class developers and practically unlimited resources - certainly the ability to hire or acquired
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One major difference there is that Japanese debt is mostly held by Japanese institutions. By contrast countries like Greece (and the US) have most of their debt in foreign hands. This dramatically changes the calculus there. Greece could no
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What would you define as "scientifically proven"? In general, an observation that is observable, repeatable, and predictive is considered the criteria there. Take for instance genetics. The entire field is, with a few exceptions,
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The sites do not routinely call themselves out. Rather they acknowledge to creating fake stories once overwhelming evidence of such is presented and spread to the point that it can no longer be ignored. And of course such acknowledgements i
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In the end none of us are on the ground and so we're left to rely on the integrity of the individuals and organizations that are reporting on issues. If you would rather rely on Vox, WaPo, Buzzfeed, and increasingly even the NYT for in
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Oddly enough in society the relevance of a resource and its cost are often quite detached. Imagine Facebook/Google/Apple/Coke/etc all shut their doors, never to open again, tomorrow. There'd be no particularly drama
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One of the big benefits, indirectly already mentioned, is inflationary controls. Imagine the USD becomes worth less due to an influx of USD into the economy through some economic decision or another. The nice thing about this is that that m
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This is not based on GDP. A big part of the USD's stability has been based on an indirect oil backing. Going back to the 70s the US in which we offered substantial benefits to oil producing nations in exchange for little more than them
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Seymour Hersh has written a phenomenal amount about Syria. Here are a couple of interesting articles: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-a... https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38&

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