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by leto_ii 6y ago
A number of Taleb's testable claims not addressed by the author: - Let us return to the point of the correlation test-retest. Unlike measurements of height or wealth, which carry a tiny relative error, many people get yuugely differen
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> It is VERY SPECIFICALLY addressing some of Taleb's claims about IQ and is VERY SPECIFIC that that is the goal. Not sure this is the case at all. The conclusion states: > Conclusion > All the claims from the article that I l
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by leto_ii 6y ago
As far as I can see, the analysis presented in the article doesn't account for differences in wealth, education, neonatal care etc. Aside from the (obvious to me) fact that IQ is a very limited measure of intelligence, I don't see
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by leto_ii 6y ago
If I'm reading this correctly (I'm not familiar with US jurisprudence etc.), the decision allows the state to expropriate private entities for the benefit of other private entities. How is it that the liberal judges were not able
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Interesting. Have you ever experienced what is sometimes called pee shivers [1]? Since childhood I've had this sensation after urination. With time I developed an ability to trigger it. It feels like a wave of warmth spreading upwards
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> They only want to extract money and are doing it the easiest way possible. What you actually hate, I suspect, is neo-liberal capitalism, not so much the internet itself. As only the latest in a series of public resources to be surrepti
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by leto_ii 6y ago
It's not the first time I get an almost left-libertarian vibe from Paul Graham's writing. As before, I feel he almost nails it, but not quite. I do think that a world of small companies populated by intrinsically motivated people
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by leto_ii 6y ago
One thing I'm considering, at some point, is to start a cooperative-like business. This kind of enterprise is normally associated with manual labor, but I can't think of a reason why you couldn't have a tech coop. I actually
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> We haven't had pro-worker legislation in decades as far as I can tell. I don't know why unions are so bad at this as (at least IMHO) it seems like a core responsibility AND a major selling point. Unions were never as powerful
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Not saying that the whole industry will be replaced, just that tech stacks might change, paradigms might change (see going from mainframes to PCs) etc. It would suck to find yourself unemployable in your mid-50's, let's say. It al
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Tech workers are in so much demand that they don't really suffer such a disparity of negotiating power, like workers in other industries. > Many software companies offer equity, which makes employers the shareholders. What&#x27
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> Right now, my leverage is "give me my bonus or I'll go elsewhere and the only other guy on this team can't code or troubleshoot for shit and takes every nfl game day off sick" This attitude to me seems terribly shor
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> In short, color detection when looking at small things, deciding what color an item is when it's so small that only the color difference signal at the edges can make the determination, is worse for color-blind people. Even though
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> The Earth today is not capable of sprouting life (abiogenesis). In fact, from the fossil record and genetic studies, the Earth has almost certainly been unable to form new life (out of un living substances I mean) for billions of years
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Hell, Henry Rollins has a pair that's 200k [1]. [1] https://imgur.com/gallery/VMJ8B
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> But last week, the short-selling investment firm Hindenburg Research published a bombshell report claiming that the Nikola One wasn't close to being fully functional in December 2016. Indeed, Hindenburg published a 2017 text messa
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I see, thanks.
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by leto_ii 6y ago
What Nikola seems to have done is outrageous, but am I reading it correctly that the short-seller was trading on insider information?
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Your idea simply doesn't chime in with anything I know about the nature of modern nation states or how the world works in general. > a series of land purchases made by every country from its bordering neighbours Which nation state w
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> “sliding” the definitions of all existing countries further away from the equator and toward the poles There is absolutely no way I can think of in which this could be done diplomatically. In the recent refugee crisis [1] a few milli
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> How is China going to carve that sphere of influence out? Among other things, my expectation is that Taiwan will go the way of HK. South Korea may at some point reunite with NK and enter the Chinese sphere of influence more strongly. S
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I agree with your points. If things go the way they've been going over the past 4 yrs, I suspect that the US will end up ruling by force more and more. I also suspect that China will be allowed to carve out a sphere of strong influence
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> And others' interests do not extend? Other countries simply don't have the power to project their interests globally. For example Iran doesn't assassinate top US generals with drones. I imagine they would like to, they j
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by leto_ii 6y ago
This is the privilege of being the only actual superpower in the world. Your national interest extends all over the world and other nations don't get to have a say in it. American control of the internet is a concern for other nations,
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Indeed. Majority vote is actually what I wanted to say :">
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Maybe, although I doubt it. It would mean that they put in extra research to, for example, plot an ROC curve and see what the optimal threshold for the test would be. Even if that was the case, you can still frame the question in terms of c
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by leto_ii 6y ago
I know that whoever made the test, if it's a reasonably competent enterprise, made it with human capacities in mind. I don't think the threshold between positive and negative is easier to tell for an engineer than for anybody else
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by leto_ii 6y ago
Going over the conversation here I'm a bit surprised by how many people seem to prefer an unnecessarily complicated and obfuscating solution to the straight-forward one. The Twitter thread clearly points out that the electronics serve
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by leto_ii 6y ago
> The advantage is the UX. The UX in this case is bad. Unnecessary and expensive fluff that obfuscates reality and gives a false sense of certainty to the user. > On a regular stripe test you are responsible to conduct the experiment

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