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by kem 10y ago
We order a lot from Amazon, have Prime, etc., but my impression is that there's been a noticeable decline in the quality of their services over the last couple of years. It's impossible to find what I want anymore unless I know ex
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I probably agree with the essay's argument that the gig economy (or maybe, more specifically, a particular set of dystopian ads for it) is a sign of the apocalypse. It's just that, as you say, I don't think the gig economy
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Weird to read this, because I'm thinking of switching into software development. But if I were going to switch into something else, it would probably be something involving the outdoors, with a tangible physical aspect to it. Surveyi
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It's compounded by the fact that you often don't have any real flexibility in how you fix the problem. To extend your analogy, let's say I want to fix a broken headlight. I know how to do this, and can get better headlights t
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by kem 10y ago
Eh, I've tried that many many times for many different things, and I've never been able to get an exact price quote beforehand. The response is always "you need to talk with so-and-so" who is always someone or something
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Your questions were similar to mine. I perused the article and hope to read it very carefully later today, but I wondered how often you wouldn't expect unobserved variables to be playing some role, especially in observational data. I
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eh, I have kids and don't make that much money, but I think the point is still valid. My colleague and I were talking about this paper the other day because it led to huge questions about all the assumptions underlying our definitions
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... plus, if you actually set up the rating process the right way, things would probably look even better. A lot of these studies set up strawman investigations of the process, and then use the results to claim that that people can't d
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Aside from the disturbing levels of lead poisoning in some locations, this also reveals how little is publicly knowable about lead levels in some areas. It really paints a picture of widespread problems and obstructions to shining a light o
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by kem 10y ago
One of the linked pages in the article illustrates the insanity surrounding health care and the FDA at the moment to me: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Philips-Lumify-ultrasound-f... One of the responses to the question i
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The electoral college needs to go. It's broken and this just cements it in my mind. Why have a popular vote if the majority winner doesn't determine the outcome? Why have the electoral college if they can't vote their conscie
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One thing that seems to get completely lost is that these arguments proceed as if we're talking about public transit versus private transit in the abstract, but that's not actually the conversation. What we're talking about i
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... so one thing I've never understood is why the networks/ISPs aren't then held accountable for what's on their networks? As in, they can regulate all they want, but then they're legally liable for everything on th
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One of the problems is that our models for "physical" nonbehavioral illness don't translate well into neurobehavioral problems. Something like ADHD is heterogeneous (the AD problems are different from the H problems), but not
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I had a rejected journal submission show up again as a keynote conference presentation a couple of years later. To be fair, with that sort of thing we could have just had the exact same ideas and so forth, but it wasn't a common resear
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I was confused by it too, although it captures many of my own sentiments very closely. The way I tend to think of this is that the government's best role is to increase competition. Sometimes this means increased regulation, sometimes
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The real problem, though, is that one time when the company is in the wrong over a bug in the AI. Then you basically have a faulty AI, and by extension, the store, falsely accusing the customer of vandalism or some such thing. Not a good wa
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So... this is one of my pet peeves about developmental psychology. This "punishment doesn't work" mantra is rampant in the field, and it's totally unsupported by the scientific evidence. What is true is that punishment
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This is why to me the electoral college is the weak point of the US political system. Twice in recent memory, the majority winner was not put in office. So it's a double whammy: not only is the government not representing the majorit
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by kem 10y ago
I agree that the left has its own form of bigotry that goes underchallenged for the most part, but the argument you're referring to is one of the most insidious and disingenuous the right espouses. For the most part, the identity polit
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I sympathize with the OP, although my concerns are slightly different. I worry that physician groups are trying to shape this narrative in a way that just shifts government-sanctioned power from one group to another. Physicians are not di
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I think so. There's a fine line that demarcates ML from data science from big data, for example, and it seems there's lots of chasing small differences that goes on as heat shifts from one fad to another. My guess is that a lot of
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Don't be so sure that its from something you heard and imagined that you later incorrectly recalled as a memory. You can also have retroactive interference, which is when a real memory gets contaminated by events that happened later. S
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I'm getting frustrated by the Bayesian train at the moment, as its drawbacks get glossed over. "Oh yeah, there's priors, but they're not important for X, Y and Z reasons." In large samples, the frequentist and Bayes
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I agree with your last statement, and think this is a great proof-of-concept for distributed networking. I worry, though, that this space is fracturing in a way that's hampering adoption. Between Freenet, Zeronet, IFPS, I2P, not to men
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I was going to say mobile apps. Winds looks great--I just usually use RSS readers on my Android device. Also, distributed sync would be awesome (i.e., without a centralized server, using something like syncthing or whatever), but that'
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So, just to be clear, I agree with you completely, one hundred percent. But in the last couple of days, reflecting on the phenomenon you're observing, and trying to figure out why I become so frustrated, I've realized you could fl
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Yeah, there's something contradictory about his obsession with Gawker outing him and his asserted openness about his orientation. Actually, Thiel's full of contradictions. A professed libertarian celebrity hunting a media outlet o
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The discrepancy between the EV and the popular vote is dangerous politically, in my opinion. Its significance is really underestimated, because you have the outcome unhinged from the actual vote result or sentiment; the popular vote has to
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Not just you. I have similar sentiments, if not exactly the same. To me, the ipod was a double-edged sword, because I felt like it introduced, or at least reinforced, many UI choices that are actually very poor. The onion parody of the keyb

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