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by jltsiren 7mo ago
Democracies are different from each other. There are many ways you can build a society from the same basic principles. One key difference is the extent the authorities have discretionary powers. Can they do whatever the consider necessary t
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by jltsiren 8mo ago
> The bottom clawback rates apply to a smaller part of the population, that can escape them simply by earning more than the UBI breakeven point. That's not true. One of the issues any serious UBI proposal needs to face are the incre
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by jltsiren 8mo ago
You should repeat that claim with concrete numbers. What is the effective marginal tax rate in the UBI-clawback range, including any housing / healthcare / childcare / whatever benefits lost due to income? And what is the min
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by jltsiren 8mo ago
Is that what UBI has become these days? That everyone is supposed to get some extra money on top of whatever they already have? ~20 years ago, when UBI was a popular idea in my country, it was understood as a technical fix to the welfare an
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Lightning damage is mostly an issue if the last-mile power lines are above ground. In my experience, power surges in urban areas with a decent grid are so rare that people generally don't bother protecting their devices.
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MIT and BSD licenses are kind of obvious. They are academic licenses, named after universities. The idea is that you have people paid to create something of potential value, but the value of the outputs has only a limited and indirect impac
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It's more that most European countries had little reason to spend money on defense. Until recently, Finland and Sweden were small countries close to Russia but outside NATO, and their defense spending was similar to West European NATO
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The traditional boundaries of Asia were Bosporus and Nile. Europe, Asia, and Africa were names given to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean. Because sea enabled travel, while land was difficult to cross, the extension of those names to
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My original point was that replication attempts often fail, because the person trying to replicate the result is not an expert in the field, and they do not have enough time to devote to the effort. This is a common situation in fields that
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As a gross simplification, there are two kinds of fields. Some are defined by the methods they use, and some by the topics they study. The latter will use any methods that may yield results. That creates a problem. The people who are in the
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Things are easier when you are writing to your peers within an established academic field. But all too often, the target audience includes people in neighboring fields. Then it can easily be that most people trying to replicate the work are
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I've seen this from both sides. Sometimes the result is wrong, or it's not as big or as general as claimed. Or maybe the provided instructions are insufficient to replicate the work. But sometimes the attempt to replicate a result
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Top journals are not inherently prestigious. They are prestigious because they try to publish only the most interesting and most significant results. If they started publishing successful replication studies, they would lose prestige, and m
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The author's answer was: > But if I had to summarize it in one sentence, it would be that taste comes from practicing the skill of research, keeping your focus always on identifying what works and what doesn't. Instead of follo
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If you need actionable guidelines, you may not be the right person to do research. At least not now. Research is all about studying topics of uncertain value. You have to commit to a project long before you can say if it's actually wor
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"Having taste" is mostly about predicting the future. Which problems are worth studying, which problems you are capable of solving, and which solutions turn out to be important, in retrospect. If there was an actionable way of dev
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It's the jargon, I think. PL research is in an awkward position, where the jargon is not shared with the much wider community of people using programming languages daily. From the other side, it looks like there is a small body of theo
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Geekbench 6 Multi-Core is fundamentally a single-task benchmark. It measures performance in workloads, where the user is not running anything significant in the background. If you are a developer who wants to continue using the computer whi
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The world wars were an unusual period. When I grew up, "veteran" usually meant an old man. Most men in my grandparents' generation had seen combat.
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"Service member" is awkward, because it has too many syllables. People won't use it when shorter alternatives are available. And it's bureaucratic because it's unspecific. It doesn't tell anything the service t
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A new term was needed some decades ago. "man" titles have not been politically correct for a while, "member" sounds awkward and bureaucratic. In some other languages, "soldier" can be used for all military pers
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by jltsiren 8mo ago
The peer review process in CS is pretty bad, especially in conferences with a single round of reviews. When you combine this with high rejection rates, peer review becomes more about finding excuses to reject a submission than about trying
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There are hundreds of reputable research universities around the world. Top-5 departments can't meaningfully change the culture of a field on their own. Top-100 perhaps could, but the coordination problem is much bigger on that level.
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Try a new wave of drones every night. Drone strikes slowly degrade enemy infrastructure over time, which may prove decisive after a few years.
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There are drones, and then there are drones. That particular attack against Russian bombers was done by undercover saboteurs working deep inside enemy territory. The drones being discussed here are essentially cheap cruise missiles. For exa
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That was years ago. Today's armies have plenty of cheap anti-air weapons deployed everywhere, and they manage to intercept the vast majority of long-distance drones cost-effectively. The Gulf War era world, where a small professional f
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The solutions already exist and have been proven on the battlefield. Peacetime military forces are just slow to adapt, as there are no real incentives to adapt quickly. Drones such as the Shahed are little more than cheap mediocre cruise mi
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I also don't have any real complaints about Tahoe. The new UI looks weird, but it's not the first time Apple changes things for the sake of changing things, and I eventually get used to the changes. The worst macOS releases I reme
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High density over a large area is a rare exception. Public transit is mostly used in regions that are locally dense but have low-to-moderate population density over the entire region. Consider a low-density urban area with 1500 people &#x2F
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Public transit depends on the assumption that some trips are more common than others. If any given person is equally likely to go to any direction, public transit becomes too expensive to build. And it becomes impossible to make the city de

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