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by larnmar 7y ago
Statistically, most people who score low on standardised tests don’t do it because they’re too independent-minded to be part of the system, man! Statistically most of them just aren’t that bright.
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by larnmar 7y ago
The particular example is bad, though, because there’s room for a massive algorithmic insight. There’s an obvious-enough but terribly inefficient way to do it, and a fancy efficient algorithm that either you know or you don’t. If given this
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by larnmar 7y ago
Nobody really knows, except for a few people who aren’t telling. There’s some clues in the mathematical backgrounds of the kind of people they hire though. Fifteen years ago they were snapping up experts in stochastic calculus. Nowadays, I’
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by larnmar 7y ago
I’m not sure what the denominator is there, but it’s not all crimes committed.
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by larnmar 7y ago
A meal that takes an hour of actively cooking is a very complicated/fancy meal. Ten to twenty minutes is more realistic for an ordinary weeknight meal, and a simple meal (eg pasta with sauce) is just a few minutes’ work.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Without knowing the details of their business, it seems likely that Uber is happy to lose money to get a decent foothold in a market, and then slowly change priorities from growth to profitability. I noticed today that the people who used t
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by larnmar 7y ago
Society already gives everyone twelve or thirteen years of that stuff. For some people it doesn’t stick. I’m not sure why anyone thinks that “slightly more of the same” is going to help.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Right, which is why punishment for thieves needs to go far beyond just “arresting” them.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Why doesn’t he just serve some nice plain text then?
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It’s still a trivial fraction of the company.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Why not just email me my water bill? Am I so worried about the security of my water bill that it needs to exist behind a password? I’m perfectly happy if anyone who wants to put my address into the website can see exactly how much I current
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by larnmar 7y ago
To be fair I never said it would be to the advantage of the people we relocate, but it would be to the advantage of the rest of us. Imagine a society with no poverty, no homelessness, next to no crime, etc.
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by larnmar 7y ago
If you’re middle class with a shitty car, everyone thinks you’re poor. If you’re rich with a shitty car, everyone just thinks you’re painfully eccentric.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Maybe, you’ve also got to consider the fact that Flemish is more similar to English than French is, and cultural differences between French and Flemish/Dutch speakers overall (broadly overgeneralising, French people are salty that thei
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by larnmar 7y ago
One of those rare cases where driving is healthier than walking.
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by larnmar 7y ago
And let’s not forget that not everyone is single. If we moved close to my office, we’d be further from my wife’s office.
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by larnmar 7y ago
> One of the many ways it's expensive to be poor. On the other hand, consider — poor people don’t have to worry about having a car that keeps up with the Joneses, so they can drive around in a beater. If I had a dirty 1999 Camry the
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by larnmar 7y ago
So they’ve sold off a trivial fraction of the company and kept the rest — what are they hoping to achieve?
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by larnmar 7y ago
Honestly I think the solution is emigration. There are places in the world where you can make a living without any particular skill set, but I don’t think the US, or any other first-world country, should really be among them. The US needs i
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by larnmar 7y ago
Not just Muslim countries but also, prominently, India, and parts of East Asia. An obvious hypothesis: in a poorer country it’s super important to get a decently paying career, so young people of both sexes gravitate towards engineering, as
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by larnmar 7y ago
I wish more people would take this lesson to heart, not just in games but in life.
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by larnmar 7y ago
But it seems to collectively place the blame on all men, rather than the minority who are interested in dick-measuring contests. And not only is this unfair, it’s silly. Brewing has always been an almost exclusively male hobby, the rise of
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by larnmar 7y ago
> Men collectively have enough power to handle a funny critical term without risk of being marginalized Even to the extent this is true, it’s a poisonous attitude, responsible for a lot of acrimony in society today, and I urge you to rec
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by larnmar 7y ago
That doesn’t seem so obviously wrong that one should simply downvote rather than counter-arguing. Drug trends come and go. People who for whatever combination of reasons (genetics, life circumstances, surrounding culture) are likely to get
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by larnmar 7y ago
Without a definition of “low wage job” in the article, this is worse than useless.
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by larnmar 7y ago
On the other hand consider all the ways in which our society is fundamentally unlike BNW. The big one: we are not bred in test tubes and raised in massive government-run factories with our destinies determined by a letter from alpha to epsi
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by larnmar 7y ago
On the other hand, think of how much good has been done by the legitimate medical use of those drugs.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Are we overreacting a little? Drug addiction is a serious problem, as it has been for many decades, but it’s not on the verge of collapsing US society. The vast majority of people aren’t addicted to opiates and aren’t going to become addict
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by larnmar 7y ago
I read a convincing argument recently that “virtue signalling” would be more clearly renamed “piety signalling”. When Alice accuses Bob of virtue signalling, it usually carries the subtext that Alice doesn’t actually agree with Bob’s assess
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by larnmar 7y ago
It’s ridiculous that US cities are spread into so many different “cities” for historical reasons. It seems to me that the whole Bay Area metropolitan area would be much better off if there were a single city government.

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