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lIl-IIIl
4y ago
There were a few things that bothered me in that statement. "what did you expect to happen" blames the victim. "Police officer is as likely to engage in domestic violence as a cat is to kill a bird outside" is not a stro
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lIl-IIIl
4y ago
I have never heard of this. Why wouldn't you be surprised if your police officer spouse hits you or commits adultery?
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lIl-IIIl
4y ago
There was a security guard guarding the site, and the site was broken into on the day the guard didn't show up for work.
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4y ago
In one of his auto biographical boom John Hodgman reflects how his nonsense books ("The Areas of my Expertise") were unexpectedly wildly popular among 12 year olds, and this popularity was the primary reason those books and their
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lIl-IIIl
4y ago
Thanks for letting me know of this category of jokes. My favorite is this one that I encountered on the early Internet - too long to put here, so I'll link it: https://www.jokebuddha.com/joke/Bad_Conductor
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4y ago
We are talking about publication bias, where the decision whether to publish something is biased by the outcome of the experiment. I think this doesn't really apply to A/B testing, because people are incentivized pay as much atten
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4y ago
That may be relevant to the US government, but the investors that would invest in startups don't have access to that printer.
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5y ago
I do this manually - after a big event, I don't read the news articles about it since I know much will be wrong. If I still remember it 6 months later, I read the Wikipedia article about it. If I don't remember, well maybe it'