mahogany

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by mahogany 5y ago
Thanks for the explanation! That is a good point about being data-aware.
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by mahogany 5y ago
Are you saying that %v should be avoided in general, or just in the context of queries? (Go noob who doesn't understand %v)
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by mahogany 5y ago
> and if we're talking about happiness, having a beer with friends certainly does add to that. I am perfectly willing to accept a small increased risk for that. That I can definitely agree with. Over-optimizing your every action sol
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by mahogany 5y ago
The J-shaped curves that you mention might be due to flaws in study design. In particular, the category of alcohol-abstainers includes people who are abstaining for health-related reasons (for example, former heavy drinkers!), so you would
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by mahogany 5y ago
> power tools While I agree with your other examples, I think power tools are a bad example. I'm using a wired drill and circular saw from 20 years ago, which both still work perfectly. How is buying a modern power tool which requir
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by mahogany 5y ago
> Somehow people have been convinced that it's better to work to build/maintain someone else's property instead of your own. It is a bit strange, isn't it? We've transitioned to having both parents work, but then
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by mahogany 5y ago
> But the problem with mainstream social media platforms prohibiting content is that it fuels the extremism it's trying to combat. I've held this belief before but now I'm not so sure. Is this actually quantifiable? For ex
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by mahogany 5y ago
As someone who didn't follow any of this closely because I think it's mostly theater, I don't understand why a Donald Trump (a presidential candidate) scandal is comparable to a Hunter Biden (not a presidential candidate) sca
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by mahogany 5y ago
So in order to keep the free market working, we have to make it... less free? I thought the definition of a free market is one that is free of government/outside regulation and interference. But it's also a market that is free of
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by mahogany 5y ago
"Anti-American" is rich, coming from someone who would sell the 4th amendment to the highest bidder.
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by mahogany 5y ago
First, the two are inextricably linked and always have been. It has been demonstrated time and time again that capital begets political power, so these people are dictating the rules as well. Plus it's naive to think that those that
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by mahogany 5y ago
That's a great point. I've edited to re-word that reference, because obviously these roles still flourish today.
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by mahogany 5y ago
> I think you're getting stuck on the word "merit". It has context; there isn't some universal concept of the worth of a person being discussed here. No, I'm not equating it to worth of a person -- that's wh
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by mahogany 5y ago
But still, according to your economic meritocracy, it would follow that Alice Walton is of higher merit than, say, the totality of: your five favorite economic think tanks, the entire economic faculty at Harvard, and the CEOs of the Big Fou
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by mahogany 5y ago
It sounds to me like you're saying that all societal or economic value is directly linked to money. As an example, do you think stay-at-home parents add no value to society (or if you want, let's say "the economy") becau
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by mahogany 5y ago
There are a lot of people in various "prepper-adjacent" communities that romanticize and idealize being fully self-sufficient. There's often a hyper-individualistic mentality that comes with that too. My comment is just to ad
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by mahogany 5y ago
I don't think you are. Maybe I should have added that at the beginning instead of the end of my comment. I think your goals -- especially the ones you outline in this comment -- are great and I have similar ones.
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by mahogany 5y ago
I like and support all of these ideas -- trying to go off grid, becoming more self-sufficient, reducing consumption -- but I will just add that few people/families historically have been entirely self-sufficient. It turns out that su
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by mahogany 5y ago
I think I'm missing your point. This article is talking about the relative risk of developing myocarditis, but you are talking about the risk of hospitalization from COVID. Wouldn't the correct comparison be to look at the risk of
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by mahogany 5y ago
I agree -- as a "former mathematician", I find economics to be much more daunting than math, and I'm skeptical about anyone who has more than a modicum of certainty about it. Modern mathematics is certainly complex, but there
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by mahogany 5y ago
> To be honest most of the fascination with pot is the fact that it's illegal and you are not supposed to smoke it. This is easily disproven by looking at domestic marijuana usage in states where it is legal -- reported past marijua
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by mahogany 5y ago
> Yes, many security researchers routinely examine traffic from these apps to see what’s being communicated with the servers. For my own learning, I'm interested in this and what methods are used. Do you have any resources (blogs, v
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by mahogany 5y ago
I agree that it's rare that a proof is accepted and falls apart later, but it does happen occasionally. Somewhat famously, Voevodsky turned his attention to mathematical foundations, including proof assistants, at least in part because
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by mahogany 5y ago
Something at this level is still far away, but it should be possible in theory. Last time I checked, there was still a lot of work to be done with formalizing geometric objects in Lean (the only proof assistant I have experience with). We a
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by mahogany 5y ago
IBM mainframes likely offer a high level of backward compatibility, so these companies can upgrade the hardware and keep the programs more or less untouched. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if IBM does a lot of the maintenance for you, o
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by mahogany 5y ago
I doubt you would have noticed -- at least not enough to stop and make a comment -- if "he" was chosen instead. Why not throw in some extra flavor (and sure, inclusivity too) to your writing and make a woman the subject from time
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by mahogany 5y ago
But people must have cooked rice in pans before these recent inventions. How did they do it?
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by mahogany 5y ago
On the contrary, something very obvious stops workers from buying enough shares to appoint someone to the board: access to capital. What you say is true in theory, I suppose, but is far from true in practice for any reasonably-sized publicl
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by mahogany 5y ago
But what would be the point of committing voter fraud in a county that had 60/66 votes for Trump[1]? Seems more likely to me that the Census is incorrect or that there is something going on with multiple residences. [1] https:/&#
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by mahogany 5y ago
But also according to your link, it has 111 registered voters, a much higher number than the official population. What am I supposed to take away from this? That the census isn't counting people correctly, or that you can be registered

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