jasonhansel

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SBF had plans to take part in FTX documentary before court order [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)
2 points by jasonhansel 3y ago|0 comments
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
Some people conflate cynicism with wisdom.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
Plenty of people enjoy in-person interactions with their colleagues, and it's quite reasonable for them to prefer an environment where such interactions are possible. People aren't obligated to shut up and tolerate working conditi
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
Do you have any actual, hard, direct evidence to support the claim that there is some deliberate, large-scale campaign by the media to propagate such (alleged) false narratives? If there were, it would have to be a conspiracy involving hund
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
:wq. Thanks for keeping Vim copyleft.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
Doesn't this just prove that Newton's First Law is not, in fact, equivalent to the claim that "in the absence of a net external force, a body is unaccelerated"? (There's also the question of whether r(t) in (3) is
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
This policy says very little about what happens to the chat logs. In particular: will other humans (e.g. developers, analysts, etc.) have access to them? If so, I wouldn't trust it with anything.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
As I always ask on these types of posts: since you're proposing a product to help treat a medical condition, have you conducted a clinical trial? Why not?
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I don't use Bayes factors in my research (2019)(datacolada.org)
91 points by jasonhansel 3y ago|75 comments
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
So, do you think that people who buy weed while under the age of 21 should face legal repercussions? And likewise for people who sell weed without checking for ID? If so, then you also believe in legal penalties for marijuana use; you'
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
> after weed got super easy to find in my state. This is, frankly, a damning indictment of our current approach to legalization.
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What Happened When Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs(theatlantic.com)
6 points by jasonhansel 3y ago|3 comments
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
I'm also defending science by, as you say, pointing out that it's like what most people do all the time. But it's precisely for this reason that I don't think that one can draw any clear distinction between scientists an
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
This isn't really relevant, but I dislike the term "citizen scientists." It seems to imply that those working within formal institutions are normally the only ones capable of "doing science," and that it is somehow
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
Maybe a system of law enforcement that doesn't kill people for trying to sell a single cigarette? That seems achievable.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
There are options between "an inhumane system of frequent and revolving incarceration" and "never punishing public drug use under any circumstances."
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
The issue is that making a behavior more visible tends to normalize it.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
I've become convinced that there are very few, if any, reasons to MMAP a file on disk. It seems to simplify things in the common case, but in the end it adds a massive amount of unnecessary complexity.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
The fact that you only have anecdotes doesn't make those anecdotes more reliable.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
They are not doctors. I would not trust that website as a source of medical advice.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
I'm rather surprised that their focus is on improving vertical scalability, rather than on adding more features for scaling Postgres horizontally.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
It seems like MDMA doesn't always change people's beliefs in the right way: > MDMA has, for instance, been used by the Taliban to channel connection to the divine during prayer chants, according to Nuwer. Indeed, it would be ve
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
> The base version of gcc was fine, but the Ubuntu people applied about 5 MB of patches Yikes. I'm guessing there are other surprises to be found there.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
> they care less about their mission, users’ experience, and users’ trust than they do a pile of cash It's called "being a for-profit company."
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
Tell me again about how decentralized crypto is. It seems that, in fact, there are a few central actors crucial to the system's survival.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
Gary Gensler isn't targeting individual crypto users. He isn't even targeting Bitcoin; these suits are related to other coins that fall under ordinary, existing securities regulations. This is just routine civil law enforcement of
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Get Phones Out of Schools Now(theatlantic.com)
91 points by jasonhansel 3y ago|90 comments
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
They're banning smartphones, not (say) laptops. Presumably the latter are less of an issue since you're not tempted to be using them constantly at all times.
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
> it will also remove the facade that previously disguised meaningless tasks. Sounds good. Content that nobody reads might as well be content that nobody writes. At a certain point, of course, the perfect prompt will itself take quite
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by jasonhansel 3y ago
The issue is that these self-driving cars are limited to a few big cities--where they're least necessary, since good public transit is far more efficient, many things are within walking distance, and speed limits are low anyway. IMHO t

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