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by lodi 5y ago
This is an excellent summary; thank you. > ... no media outlet ever admitted that it had given incorrect advice... Instead, we see silent corrections that rewrite the past without admitting any kind of fault. As I read this I was overcom
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by lodi 5y ago
> Why is it a problem for public health officials to update and change policy as we learn more about the virus? That's not the problem. Arrogance is the problem. We were led to believe that X was established scientific consensus o
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by lodi 5y ago
> I have not seen any evidence that on average STEM is harder in a meaningful sense than non-STEM subjects. 1) STEM admissions require vastly higher GPA's, SAT/GRE scores, and admit a smaller fraction of applicants. https:&#x2
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by lodi 5y ago
It's just 'x' as in the mathematical variable 'x' for something unknown, e.g. suppose a train is traveling at 'x' km/h... They use "latinx" to abstract over "latino/latina".
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by lodi 5y ago
If we're just handing out everything for free then I'd argue it's also better economically for people (and particularly kids) to have free eye care, free dental care, and a million other things I'd rather see subsidized
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by lodi 5y ago
> whitelist -> allowlist Of course, when you replace a word with a synonym you're misdirecting the reader from one set of connotations to another. For example, in a master/slave system, I expect the two components to be int
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by lodi 6y ago
> If you believe in liberty as a principle don't you have to support ebay's decision to decide whether or not they want to sell a particular book? Not exactly, no. Even the most laissez faire among us would probably agree that
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by lodi 6y ago
"At the speed of light" isn't the problem. We also used to communicate at the speed of light through MySpace, text messages, and so on without these specific problems.
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by lodi 6y ago
I've been happy with these dimmable, warm LEDs. No flicker that I can detect, and they look really nice at a low setting. https://www.amazon.com/Philips-536532-Dimmable-X-Filament-Ef...
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by lodi 6y ago
Isn't this already a "problem" with ordinary LED's though? For instance, I have the following first world problem: I bought a set of (newer, nicer) LED's to replace older bulbs as they burn out, but they've ju
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by lodi 6y ago
You're right, the Isaac Chotiner piece is more balanced, but the original NPR interview absolutely isn't. I couldn't find the original NPR interview on the NPR homepage, so I--confusingly, in retrospect--linked the Chotiner
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by lodi 6y ago
Here it is on the front page of newyorker.com, under "Examining Vicky Osterweil's Case For Looting". https://web.archive.org/web/20200903174123/https://www.newyo...
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by lodi 6y ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178... "[Looting] also attacks the very way in which food and things are distributed. It attacks the idea of property, and it attacks th
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by lodi 6y ago
> There is no such thing as a free market without government intervention. Maybe this is true with respect to global financial markets, etc. But it can't possibly be true in general. People have stably traded physical goods in lit
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by lodi 6y ago
> 1 noob to suggest to install a Microsoft lightbulb. > 300 to say that a Microsoft lightbulb would turn blue and that you'd had to reboot continuously to get back to normal. Love it.
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by lodi 6y ago
> So e.g. when the light is pure orange, it falls down into red wavelength range and is counted as red. If you only work with one photon at a time, then yes, you don't know if the photon passing through the filter was red, or orange
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by lodi 6y ago
Well I for one liked this essay. Be sure to read the footnotes at the end for some great lines: > When I ask myself what in my life is like high school, the answer is Twitter. It's not just full of conventional-minded people, as an
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by lodi 6y ago
> Unfortunately a lot of games and programs like Photoshop still require Windows so I'm stuck with it... This was a growing annoyance I had with Windows: more and more of my computing could be done (and done pleasantly) in Linux, bu
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by lodi 6y ago
My point is that while it's impossible to reduce bias to zero, we're supposed to have well-known measures in place to fight against bias as much as possible. If a judge is friends with a plaintiff, they're supposed to disclo
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by lodi 6y ago
"toe the line"
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by lodi 6y ago
> You have to decide how much time to allocate to each of the sub-events. I'm not sure what the "right" amount of time is; that's an incredibly difficult thing to determine--probably impossible in fact. But I certain
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by lodi 6y ago
I think the problem is a lack of nuance. I think our conscious reasoning tends towards black-and-white predicate logic, but subconsciously, our feelings really do understand the fuzzier Bayesian probability underlying reality. Thinking tha
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by lodi 6y ago
HP Reverb G2 is coming out soon. Dual 2k x 2k displays: https://www8.hp.com/us/en/vr/reverb-g2-vr-headset.html Looks really great in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4wlEbD5vx
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by lodi 6y ago
The problem is that people will express classic hindsight bias no matter which way the result turns out. Let's say you're studying relationships and researching whether having similar interests is better or worse than having diss
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by lodi 6y ago
"Connect" is a picture of his actual handwriting; the black text is the first version of the font.
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by lodi 6y ago
I bought the Bekant a couple of years ago, and then an Idasen just a few months ago. I highly recommend you consider the Idasen instead. It's double the price and the legs are arguably uglier, but overall it's so much more sturd
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by lodi 6y ago
> I would hope it’s well understood... [that racism is]... a net negative for society. Sure, but there are many racism-adjacent topics that are not so clear cut. For example, affirmative action is a "racist"--in the sense of d
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by lodi 6y ago
Don't beat yourself up about it. My impression is that you're probably an above-average coder. First of all, doubting your own competence is a good sign. Especially combined with a willingness to ask questions and act on feedb
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by lodi 6y ago
Your formatting and English are fine; parent poster meant that it's hard to give good advice over hacker news comments.
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by lodi 6y ago
Actually org mode can do all of those things: * Recalculate formulas a la excel: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-spreadsheet-intro... * Actually you can go way further than cloning basic excel functiona

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