jfengel

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by jfengel 6mo ago
It goes both ways; there's a feedback. People start watching a channel because they're predisposed to agree with it, but when the channel constantly reinforces their biases, it foes from a slight predisposition to a strong opinion
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by jfengel 6mo ago
There are plenty of hours in the day for him to do both.
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A friend recently got a parks pass, and was greatly relieved that she'd gotten her request in before his ugly mug was stamped on those, too.
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by jfengel 6mo ago
I try not to indulge in schadenfreude, but Comey was also the one who decided to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton a week before the election. It certainly wasn't the only reason she lost, and it's unanswerable whether
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by jfengel 6mo ago
I think 150 lines of python is rather a lot. That would take at least an hour to write, and can run up to a few days (depending on complexity and familiarity with the task).
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Projection ain't just a river in Egypt. It has become a cliché that if the right wing is accusing you of something, it's because they are doing it.
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by jfengel 6mo ago
That's a relatively new idea. It was fundamental to the American and French revolutions, and it was brand new at the time. (The Americans were heavily cribbing off French thinkers, though it took most of a century for the French to imp
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by jfengel 6mo ago
It's structured as a refund of lease payments that these companies have already made, so they can claim it's more like canceling a project than actually paying them off. I'm sure a case could be made that this is not legal, b
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Some artists right at the beginning liked the idea that an NFT contract could let them keep some fraction of the rights. That way, if the work later sold for a large sum, they could earn some money off of it. But they were quickly disillusi
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Is the job to produce one essay answering all three questions? (Or rather, two essays with three questions each.) It would be easier to weave some topics together than others. I'd expect them to get a fair number of papers with identic
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Not to be obtuse, but what is this all about? And "world" match is going to be impossible for the vast majority of people. You have to be wealthy just to get there. Most people will never even consider going to a FIFA match, or an
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by jfengel 6mo ago
The winner is doing a completely different sport from me. I never even see the winners at a marathon. They are long gone by the time I get to the start line, and they've gone home by the time I finish. There are age group leaders as we
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by jfengel 6mo ago
He ended up with all of the profits, but he didn't put in all of the work. A lot of people worked very hard for that wealth, either for salary or a minuscule fraction of the profits. He gets to keep the lion's share of the profits
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by jfengel 6mo ago
I believe it's reasonably clear that our thought processes generally occur outside of language. We do use language during explicit reasoning, but most thinking occurs heuristically. It's on par with the thinking of animals that do
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Terrible word problems bug me. They seem to say, "this isn't actually useful in the real world, and we couldn't come up with even one realistic example." I know some of it is the result of the incremental way we teach, s
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Every player has an incentive to lower the price: it attracts customers away from the other players. They were able to raise their prices all at once because of tariffs. If they'd done that by simply agreeing to raise prices, it would
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Unfortunately, even people with good critical thinking skills will throw them out the window when their egos are on the line. People don't become anti-vax because they applied invalid thought to it. They become anti-vax because they ch
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by jfengel 6mo ago
The word "admits" is always a red flag in a headline. It connotes that somebody has said something negative about themselves that they were previously hiding, and that's often a misrepresentation. They may not have been hidin
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by jfengel 6mo ago
The paper notes that 1899 was an extreme cold event -- an order of magnitude greater than average. Pick any other starting year and the trend becomes vastly smaller. It's hard to tell if that's just bad data collection in 1899, pe
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by jfengel 6mo ago
The actual paper is by professional climate denialist John Cristy. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00704-026-06200-3 Just because he's paid to do this doesn't make him wrong, but it does sugge
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by jfengel 6mo ago
It would cost Europe trillions, but it would also cost the attacker trillions. Russia has shown itself to be utterly outclassed. A conventional war with the EU would be barbaric and expensive but short. China has sufficient forces to attack
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Quite a few joined when it was a defense contractor, at least in name. They could at least imagine that their jobs were for defense purposes. The name change is a harsh truth.
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Scoring is based on the outermost ring, rather than the innermost ring? Huh. I'd have expected it to be based on the center, but I guess the goal is "it must be entirely within this ring to count" rather than just "I hit
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by jfengel 6mo ago
We absolutely did and do pay farmers not to farm. Today we call it the "Bridge Assistance Program", to avoid admitting what it really is. https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025&#x2F
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by jfengel 6mo ago
They claim "methodological concerns". After all, if the study was done improperly, any conclusions it draws would be misleading. In this case the methodology involved looking at hospital patients. That's a skewed sample, and
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Growing corn for ethanol is mostly political. Iowa grows a lot of corn, and as the first state in the political primary process, it gets way more attention than it deserves. So the corn farmers are sacrosanct. We can make various mumblings
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Production of what ? The last time they demoed Optimus it still wasn't ready to actually do anything. If they've got a robot that's actually worth mass producing, congratulations, I hope their stonk goes to the moon. But I&#
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Joules per acre seems an odd thing to maximize. Solar and corn don't require the same land. And we're not running out of land. We know that ethanol isn't really energy efficient. We do it partly because we like having way, wa
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by jfengel 6mo ago
Meat is hugely inefficient, but Americans demand it. If you told Americans in a crisis, "For food security reasons you're all limited to a quarter pounder per day", we'd have a national riot. They're used to three t
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by jfengel 6mo ago
What kind of sensors do those cheap kits come with? A tractor is a big thing to have rolling around unsupervised. I would want a lot of safeguards. Blindly going from one GPS point to another sounds like a nightmare.

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