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by jibiki 18y ago
The counter argument is that this might be true in expectation. If we caught and executed 1 out of every 50 drug users, maybe the rest would stop using. If being on drugs is half as bad as being dead, then on net you've saved 23.5 lives f
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by jibiki 18y ago
Isn't this just BS, physiologically speaking? I have never heard of SSRIs increasing dopamine levels. Wikipedia even claims the opposite: "It is believed that sexual dysfunction is caused by an SSRI induced reduction in dopamine."
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by jibiki 18y ago
The article claims that in a few years, recorded music will be free. Unless you plan on paying for free music (which seems difficult,) you will support artists by going to their shows, buying their merch, etc.
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by jibiki 18y ago
Can you give an example of a gene you think is poorly implemented? Because I think God did a pretty good job when he designed us 6000 years ago. Sure, maybe the code would have been a little better if he had spent more than a day on it, a
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by jibiki 18y ago
Normally, insurance costs more for those with more risks. Maybe it should be that way for deposit insurance too.
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by jibiki 18y ago
I've never understood all the AG hate on this site. I can see how you could pity the guy, or dismiss him out of hand, but a lot of people on this site seem to hold genuine malice towards him. It's bizzare.
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by jibiki 18y ago
One common set of assumptions in image denoising is that: 1. The pixels in the output image should be close in value to the corresponding pixels in the input image. 2. Neighboring pixels in the output image should have similar values. I won
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by jibiki 18y ago
Michael Lewis is kind of famous for saying that those trained financial professionals don't actually know what they are doing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_Poker But yeah, your point is good. Iceland could yet end up a net winne
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by jibiki 18y ago
Your null hypothesis (or whatever it's called) is very pessimistic. Even if you benefited from those assignments, you might have benefited more from doing something else instead. Shouldn't it be your choice, as long as you can demonstrate
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by jibiki 18y ago
That's a really terrible rebuttal. I was struck by the fact that Sailer seems to think it's impossible to be both aggressive and "cultivated." In my experience, these two traits are almost uncorrelated. Also, his argument (insinuation, re
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by jibiki 18y ago
Interestingly enough, the program uses "Monte-Carlo Tree Search". Has anyone tried this method for arimaa?
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by jibiki 18y ago
Making things, aka being an engineer, is an art and a craft that takes time to master. Even if you work in software, there are no quick routes to riches. Zuckerberg may have been young when he hit it big, but he had been programming for a
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by jibiki 18y ago
How do you feel about things like sweatshops and sharecropping? (Personally, I'd rather be a debt slave than starve to death, but many people see these sorts of businesses as abusive.)
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by jibiki 18y ago
Interesting. Maybe it's a dialect distinction, but to my ear, you have reversed the meanings of make and earn. A counterfeiter makes money, but a laborer earns it.
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by jibiki 18y ago
It's a matter of taste, but I think less money would be good for games and bad for films. Most of the movies I really like were at least somewhat expensive to make.
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by jibiki 18y ago
Can you post a source for that? The following blog states the opposite: http://thurbersthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/02/chicago-tea-par... "(Side note: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had higher default rates than traditional lenders. I'm sure t
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by jibiki 18y ago
> It's actually fairly commonplace for "the press" to be involved in public corruption. They'll even defend the corruption. Could we please have some examples? I can recall many cases where the press has made mistakes, but none where t
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by jibiki 18y ago
Surely CSound runs on the mac?
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by jibiki 18y ago
Oddly enough, Chicago (or, rather, Evanston,) already has "a first-rate university in a place where rich people want to live." (At least, for some definition of first-rate.)
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by jibiki 18y ago
Interesting. A counter anecdote would be the advances in physics in the early 20th century, when we were still far from finished innovating with Newtonian mechanics. I've always doubted the whole "necessity is the mother of invention" thi
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by jibiki 18y ago
I'm curious, do you consider English grammar simpler than German? (The few people I've talked to about linguistics consider German to be a harder language for English speakers to learn than Spanish, which seems like it must be due to gramm
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by jibiki 18y ago
It took decades after Chernobyl for nuclear engineering to lose the stigma of failure. Sarcasm aside, I think that you are half right. Some of the financial engineering stuff was genuinely wrong, and financial engineers will have to figure
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by jibiki 18y ago
It would be nice if more people acknowledged that we should be seriously addressing the problem of natural climate change as well as man made climate change.
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by jibiki 18y ago
> 3) The best measure of East Asian creativity is probably through patent studies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity#Measuring_creativity This links to a couple different creativity measures, although I have no idea if they've b
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by jibiki 18y ago
It's interesting that Li himself thought knew traders were trusting the model too much. In theory, this knowledge could have made him a lot of money, but in practice it's probably difficult to correctly short the market (since he couldn't
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by jibiki 18y ago
If you absolutely KNEW that someone had HIV and they spit (say) into your mouth, wouldn't you worry about it at least a little bit? Even though you know it's silly? I think most humans are irrationally fearful about things like HIV.
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by jibiki 18y ago
I'd be quite interested in studies of public perception related to this. (For instance, what percentage of US congressmen think that China manufactures more than the US? According to the average voter, what percentage of US consumer goods
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by jibiki 18y ago
The assumption that people's political views are distributed bimodally (which is what he's really saying with his "two superimposed normal distributions") strikes me as being a little bit arbitrary. Is this based on some sort of evidence?
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by jibiki 18y ago
That's fascinating. What I was taught about education in that era involved the whole "1 room schoolhouse" thing (which probably says a lot about the quality of the public education I received.)
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by jibiki 18y ago
Certainly we had public education in the 1800s(?) What is the difference between public education (like we had then) and "nanny state" education? (I'm asking this seriously...) What particular legislation would you point to as causing a c

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