kldaace

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by kldaace 7y ago
>Assuming the Japanese don't have debates on bioethics. Nice.
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by kldaace 7y ago
Boy was I disappointed when this was not about Frantz Fanon.
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Walter Benjamin, “Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting” [pdf](swipe.com)
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Congo Declares End to Ninth Ebola Outbreak(wsj.com)
1 points by kldaace 8y ago|0 comments
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Elon Musk ordered Tesla engineers to stop doing a critical brake test on Model 3(businessinsider.com)
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SpaceX Delays Plans for First Space Tourists to Circle Moon(wsj.com)
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WSJ: Tesla Bonds Tumble in Sign of Concern Over Finances(wsj.com)
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by kldaace 10y ago
Two big problems with just moving people into shelters: 1. Homeless shelters are horribly funded and have long waiting lists for beds. This proposal provides no additional funding. My guess is most people will be forced to take the bus tick
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by kldaace 10y ago
Worth reading about the Invisible Institute ( http://invisible.institute/ ) which is the journalistic company Jamie Kalven, the author of this article, started. They've been the driving force behind most of the public ov
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by kldaace 10y ago
I feel bad for those 340 employees. I can't imagine what it would feel like to have years of your work be exposed as (basically) a farce. I can barely stand working a week without getting results much less x years of my professional li
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by kldaace 10y ago
I doubt she actually wrote this but to be fair all of their posts are written by "Staff Writer" except an op-ed linked by "Theranos Staff."
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by kldaace 10y ago
It's great that they're making these available, but I hope people don't use this as a substitute for actually going to the museum. Art is something best experienced in person. While a Jackson Pollock seems ridiculous on a com
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by kldaace 10y ago
I'm not ignoring new information, I'm just saying my priors are strong enough and the evidence is weak enough that this won't make me change my beliefs "too much."
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by kldaace 10y ago
I'm going to wait for more replication before I adjust my priors too much on this. It seems plausible prima facie, but I'm suspicious of their methodology. From the article (I don't have access to the working paper), it sound
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by kldaace 10y ago
"Yet Mr. Fraser-Jenkins has a point. Index funds don’t set prices; they only accept the prices that active investors have already set. If everyone owned index funds, he says, “no one would be doing” the job of figuring out what securit
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by kldaace 10y ago
It actually may, and this is something being debated in the courts. http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/07/28/judge-first-amendment-pr...
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by kldaace 10y ago
Ah thanks, I actually hadn't seen that. Maybe in the future these predictions can be handled by some sort of betting market.
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by kldaace 10y ago
Every time I see an article like this, I wonder whether these experts have put their money where their mouths are. I'm sure there are plenty of Uber investors willing to take the other side of this bet, especially if you think the comp
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You Should Be Terrified That People Who Like “Hamilton” Run Our Country(currentaffairs.org)
2 points by kldaace 10y ago|0 comments
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by kldaace 10y ago
;)
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by kldaace 10y ago
I don't know whether this has been or can be studied formally, but anecdotally I think modern writing often suffers from excess verbiage. Essays sometimes go on for a long time without saying much, and this can cause a lot of frustrati