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by jjk166 1y ago
That sounds like a really good way to get ranked low by your peers on helpfulness and contribution to the team. The entire point is to not rank people, you are only looking at a single narrow metric at any given time, and those metrics are
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One of the best tools for peer review is forced rankings. Asking questions about a peer's performance will typically get you either a bland non-answer or a heavily biased opinion that has little to do with the specific performance you&
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> It'll be fine in the short term, but in the long term it'll cost you more money. That's the primary reason why I don't think AI will catch on - its short termist thinking from people who don't understand what m
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Second strike capability deters full scale nuclear first strikes, but not necessarily limited strikes where the gamble is "they won't destroy the world just because we destroyed a city." It also does nothing against accidenta
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I don't think the US striking the PRC mainland, at least outside of an immediate conflict zone like the shores of the Taiwan straight, is plausible either. It's exactly the same arithmetic. Why would the US or China reduce their r
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All defenses are fallible, that doesn't mean they aren't useful. Yes building a tall wall to protect against invaders won't stop those who build siege towers, but many invaders can't build siege towers, those who can mus
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It would be suicidal for a nuclear armed state to "at scale" launch such weapons at another nuclear armed state. Yeah, they could have conventional weapon payloads, but the target nation isn't going to sit around and find out
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I think one of the main benefits of a four-day workweek is having a regular weekday free, meaning you can easily do errands and things without having to take time off work or cut into the shared time of the traditional weekend where many th
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In context, they are clearly saying that beginner cyclists should not have to panic stop because it is exceptionally rare, as evidenced by their 14 years without needing to do it. It is extrapolating from their singular, personal experience
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The parent comment you built off of used "never"
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> SpaceX could have easily done this. They already proved they could land a 1st stage/Booster with the Falcon 9, and Falcon 9’s Booster could launch a 1/10 scale Starship into orbit. Tests of such a scaled-down model would help
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One needs to distinguish between quality, consistency, value, and utility. My parents have a fridge that has been running consistently without issue for 40 years. It is a quality fridge. What fraction of the fridges made at the same time by
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At least in the US, it doesn't need to be forced. In 2024 94% of new US powerplant capacity in the US were renewables or battery storage, we're on track for 93% for 2025, and based on announced plans the next few years will see ve
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Pretty sure for all the examples given at the beginning, these can easily be explained as natural parts of the writing process. The Gladiator II example is just lampshading. If you just wrote "the prisoner grabbed the weapon the guard
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Everyone is self taught. School can lead you to water, but it can't make you drink. Every piece of understanding in your head came from your own learning efforts, whether that be trial and error, reading a book, listening to a lecture,
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Well we aren't all wearing mecha-claws to improve upon our feeble human design.
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> There is not a world where we decide to restrict purchase by age in meatspace but throw up our hands and say “whelp we just can’t have digital ID presentation that would ruin society I guess we should give up on digital age verificatio
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Admittedly, a lot of spent nuclear fuel waste is also toxic heavy metals and will remain so long after it stops being a radiation hazard.
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What school of ethics holds that you should oppose medicine to treat yourself so that other people are also denied the benefit?
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By that logic, why not just execute everyone over 35? They're just slowing down human progress. Aging doesn't exist because it benefits us, we did not choose 70-80 to be the ideal lifespan, and my back doesn't continuously ac
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Child mortality rates are lower than they have ever been. They are basically zero in the developed world, and falling quickly throughout the developing world already. It's mostly a solved problem. Where it remains high, it's typic
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I'd pay a fortune for eternal youth for my kids or grandkids. Kids are the most expensive investment most people will ever make, this seems like a no brainer. By comparison, a vaccine to prevent polio did little to help the many people
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> The point of obituaries is not to give any sense of demographic health. And the point of unemployment statistics is not to give any sense of economic equality. > Sure, but the issue is that the reporting treats the metric as meaning
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> People could be laid off from company A, because A is unable to compete with company B that has a smaller head count, but pays their execs more. This is exactly the scenario I was describing - this is not a sign of a cooling economy wi
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Is it disingenuous to report obituaries without including birth announcements in the same article? Surely only reporting the one gives a skewed view of demographic health. News is about reporting new information in a timely manner. When a
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Noise is the absence of a signal. A biased signal is fine, just account for the bias. ADP is huge and covers a broad range of sectors. It would be a very interesting result (and a very extraordinary claim) if the employment data from non-A
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If the same amount of wages are getting paid out and its merely getting reallocated as to whom, that's a very different scenario from people getting laid off to reduce labor costs. Unemployment is meant to track how many people are wor
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Not particularly. That whole cube could be supported by a 1/4" diameter steel pin. The actual support almost certainly has a double digit factor of safety.
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Shortfall means less than the expected amount. If the plaque says 1 million, you expect 1 million. If the box contains less than 1 million, that's a shortfall. However no one expects the plaque to say 1.55 Million even if that's w
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If it's self evident it should be very easy to provide evidence of its truth, so do so.

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