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by jjk166 1y ago
> where picking the least of two evils gives the “less evil” party a near infinite amount of leverage over you to demand your loyalty regardless of whether they give in to any of your requests. The less evil party commands no loyalty at
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How much does it cost to raise a kid in Niger?
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I'd say it's a call for more appropriate regulation. Regulations are not a bad thing, they can be a great enabler when used well. Well defined thresholds beyond which your ass is covered are necessary for any complex project to pr
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I wonder if someone theorized that tsunamis were detectable by this method or whether someone trying to debug these disturbances figured out what they were caused by. Not sure which is more impressive.
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But it's still preferable to the one that didn't alert you the one time it really needed to. A test with a high false positive rate can be combined with other tests to give a better picture. A wave detection plus a seismic event i
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This is (at least in theory) the current job of executives. You market yourself with a narrative that explains why projects have succeeded and failed such that you can project high confidence that you will make future projects successful.
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Workouts are a chore, like washing clothes, it's something you need to do whether you like it or not. There are things you can do to make it better, but it's not a leisure activity you can just stop doing (at least not for extende
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> I have yet to find any concrete defense of the idea that costs are coming from regulation, rather than the costs of construction in advanced economies. One of the main drivers of excessive costs of construction in advanced economies ar
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Thinking about it from the bee's perspective, this is like raiding the lair of an eldritch horror for gold. A beekeeper is just a funny looking bear-thing that takes honey sometimes, but the shop of a beekeeper is full of devices beyon
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Would you mind providing a link to one of these studies?
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> You've gone from efficiency and economies of scale, to a "professional" outperforming an "amateur." These are one in the same. Economies of scale work because of specialization. > Raising a child is not like
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That's literally the exact same argument. 100 being too many doesn't mean 1 is ideal. No one is saying there isn't some threshold beyond which quality drops, just that the threshold is higher than 1.
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Yes, if you had one caretaker looking after thousands of children, quality would be poor. But that doesn't mean the optimal number is 1. A professional caretaker looking after a manageable number of children can certainly outperform an
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> Perhaps caring for your own kids produces much better kids (and eventually, adults). And that may be more of a benefit to society than a large number of people being incentivized to create large number of kids whose care is just outsou
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It is cheaper per child to care for multiple children at the same time. It's basic economies of scale. Nannies and childcare providers that only look after a single child ought not to be subsidized, at least not nearly to the same exte
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The argument is that stay at home parents should get the same credit as childcare providers because they perform the same service to society. If you're only caring for your own kids, you are providing significantly less to society than
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It's not misinformation. Reasonable people know that science determining something is true only means the current evidence strongly indicates its true, and that future results may call anything into question, but we should not expect a
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If you feel the need for 8 tablets a day for months, go see a doctor. Your liver is probably the least of your concerns.
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As part of a scientific study, sure. As general medical advice, no, it's not reasonable. Acetaminophen provides real benefits, giving up those benefits requires actual proof of harm.
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There are people distrustful of those who proclaim the earth round. There is no threshold of certainty where unreasonable skepticism will be eliminated, science is a tool for the reasonable.
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Imagine I built a machine that allowed you to see colors exactly how another person perceived them. You look through Bob's eyes and see that his blue is your blue. Then I notice a loose screw and tighten it. Now you see Bob's blue
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I'm pretty sure a lot of work has gone into making institutions resistant to a potential future super-Hitler. Whether those efforts will be effective or not, it is a very real concern, and it would be absurd to ignore it on the grounds
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Yeah, it's way off. GPT-4 required the energy of about 1.3 million gallons of jet fuel; a fully fueled A321 has about 9000 gallons of jet fuel. That's 2 orders of magnitude off. Even a GPT-3 training run would have been about 4 ti
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There is probably a small market for people who would love to be passengers on that flight.
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If your only dataset is 2008 to 2010, yeah your conclusions are almost certainly garbage. Likewise if your dataset is 1999 to 2002, or just the year 1987. There will always be something going on, but there won't always be this specific
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Any economic data from between 2020 and 2025 should be tossed in the garbage. We will have no idea what affect AI has or hasn't had until AI has been available outside of the extremely confounded current circumstances. Tell me how empl
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But it can't make cylinders as long as its own guide ways.
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A lathe can't actually replicate itself completely. Specifically, a lathe can only make ways smaller than its own cross slide's stroke. It would also be impossible to make a typical lathe bed on a lathe, though you theoretically c
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I have interviewed many people. I have never once been impressed by someone figuring out a convoluted way to force a round peg into a square hole. The people I recommend are the ones who question why I would want to do something. If need be
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I recently visited my alma mater. There is a restaurant/bar right in the middle of campus, which in my time was always an extremely crowded social spot. In addition to the convenient location, meals at the restaurant are covered by the

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