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by jbay808 6y ago
> For all we know urban environments are 70% INTJ. There are 16 categories, which means you'd expect about 6% in each if the test sorts evenly. It doesn't; in fact only between 2% and 3% of the population is INTJ. Unless one of
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by jbay808 6y ago
In grad school I joined an extracurricular social society where you meet around a table with other grad students and discuss various topics selected in advance while eating pie and other goodies. Sort of like debate but without the structur
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How does it compare with other types of mining, such as coal mining, uranium mining, or the Alberta tar sands?
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They'd be competing for the same production resources.
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This is why you sign up for an international treaty that has teeth, ratify it, and back it up with penalties including carbon tariffs.
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by jbay808 6y ago
Not necessarily a tropical paradise, if it goes the way of the end-permian mass extinction: http://burro.case.edu/Academics/USNA229/impactfromthedeep.pd...
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Do you have to be attempting to solve a problem in order to have a question worthy of asking? And if I'm attempting to solve a different problem, but have to ask the same question, will answers tailored to the problem that you're
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by jbay808 6y ago
Similar thing happened in Canada: https://globalnews.ca/news/6311853/lifelabs-data-hack-what-t...
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Scott Aaronson, quantum computing expert, is the author of this article about Scott Alexander, and the one who insists he will continue to talk to journalists: > On reflection, then, I’ll continue to talk to journalists, whenever I have
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It's almost certainly thanks only to this particular author's willingness to speak to journalists that the level of journalistic reporting on quantum computers has, for the most part, crawled out of the sticky swamp of absurd misc
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by jbay808 6y ago
The article I linked lists two such examples. More importantly, my point was that in this case, although the GG chose to do as asked, that was by no means a set outcome. If she had done otherwise, as happened in 1896 and 1926, that outcome
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As an example of an exceptional circumstance, in a Canada a few years back there was a minority government. The opposition parties banded together and formed a coalition with a plan to take over as a majority. https://en.m.wikipe
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Minor point: Chimpanzees are our relatives, not our ancestors.
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Kind of frustrating to see this framed as a "demotion". But it's great to see someone starting over in a new career track that suits them better.
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> How do you know they're inflated? Maybe that's just how much homes in economically productive areas are going to cost from now on. My understanding of GP's thesis is that they're inflated because the homes, and even
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Haagen-Dazs does well at scale, but obviously is quite expensive.
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It's inherently expensive, because you have to undo the entropy loss of letting the CO2 diffuse into the atmosphere. It basically means running an expensive molecule sorting operation, whose cost has a floor set by the laws of thermody
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by jbay808 6y ago
Is there some reason a crash shouldn't happen? If you have a stake in the market, even in diversified index funds, presumably you know the risk is non-zero, and accept that because the rewards are higher than lower-risk choices like, s
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by jbay808 6y ago
Yes, I agree. They are naturally bimodally distributed, but I'd expect Google is arrogant enough to think that they can tell the difference between an honest and manipulative review using such statistics anyway. They obviously can&#x27
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I'm not Google, and I agree that obviously they made the wrong call here. I'm just showing that there is a distinction between a review and an attempt at manipluating the score, even if proving it requires insight into the heart o
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by jbay808 6y ago
I agree that that's what happened here, but maybe Google didn't think so, or automatically assumes that the above is typically the scenario where one-star reviews are given. Such reviews will naturally be at one end of the spectru
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by jbay808 6y ago
If I think an app deserves three stars, then I should give it a three star review, even if it currently has four stars. If I say "well, this deserves three stars, so I'll give it a one-star review so as to pull the average closer
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by jbay808 6y ago
(Addendum: If your salary was a dollar ten years ago, and a dollar today, you can afford just as much bread as you used to, but your chance of buying a majority share in my bakery, or outbidding me on a house in a good school district, has
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by jbay808 6y ago
How many Dodo birds can a dollar buy today? A better question might be, how much would you have volunteered to pay twenty years ago for the functionality an iPhone gets you today? In 2001, if today's iPhone were being sold, what pr
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If I run a bakery and you run, say, the Mint... Ten years ago, I bake a loaf of bread, and sell it for a dollar. Then I invent an amazing machine that can produce the same bread more cheaply. I'm about to drop my bread prices, but you
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by jbay808 6y ago
> A great example would be a math function like log2. That function should work for every case that you need to calculate a logarithm – each call is fundamentally the same. Even in the case of log2, some log2s might need to be fast app
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Time dilation also applies to a slightly different time than Newton's time. It turns out this is the more foundational definition of temperature, and the other one (average kinetic energy) is mostly a useful heuristic that matches well
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> But temperatures < 0K make no sense. Actually, they do! They behave very differently than you might expect. The reason is that temperature in thermodynamics is related to energy and entropy by dQ/dS = T, so if you can prepare a
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This is why we need to teach calculus in schools. We've dropped the second derivative of f(t) to the lowest value in decades. Why is f(t) not itself also low?
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I remember some projects going on at MIT on this topic. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/111821

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