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by majos 8y ago
If nothing else, the cartels are highly incentivized to not harm tourists, as (copious) tourism money also flows into their pockets.
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by majos 8y ago
What? The goal of a PhD is to train somebody to be a researcher and collaborator. The best way to do this is to collaborate with them on research. Collaborators deserve authorship. I understand that many labs are hierarchical with ideas sol
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He certainly has a lot of natural talent in two different areas, but those things only take you so far at the pro level. There are many glowing stories from former coaches and professors acclaiming his work ethic in pursuing both. As role m
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> I have been lied to by a rat ...elaborate?
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For a government record of the development and implementation of government policy, that is a surprisingly fun read. It's hard to imagine a public education campaign like this working today: > Posters and brochures on rat control we
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"Reading that, I thought he had never had a chance. Something had been broken inside him at a very young age. This is a dangerous notion because nobody apart from ourselves has responsibility for what we do, we are humans, not creature
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by majos 8y ago
I'm not sure this is true. Yes, adolescence is when childbearing ability and the associated hormonal incentives start, but where is this "sex must happen at night" component coming from? If anything, I would guess that's
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by majos 8y ago
Is this sarcasm? The point of the second take is that humans often know they're confused and will go back to think about the image and remedy the confusion, whereas having a neural network just look at the image again isn't going
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by majos 8y ago
If the Confucius Peace Prize is a genuine attempt at projecting soft power, it is a hilarious one. Candidates for the 2017 award included Bashar al-Assad, Rodrigo Duterte, and eventual winner Hun Sen. In 2015 it went to Robert Mugabe.
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by majos 8y ago
I can acknowledge that Suu Kyi's position forces ugly compromises, but I don't see how she her or her party really needs to jail journalists. Especially when 1. this article claims that the offense is criticism of her , and 2. as
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by majos 8y ago
Here's a Reuters article from back when he was detained in July [1]. It includes this unflattering paragraph: "Myanmar has detained at least 38 journalists since Suu Kyi came to power in 2016, according to Athan, a freedom of expr
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I am also curious about the allusion to Peterson. I am not aware of any huge societal contribution he has made beyond encouraging dueling op-eds. Certainly he has a devoted fan base, but I essentially never hear about him in real life. I&#x
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Hmm, maybe I phrased my original comment incorrectly. I'm not trying to say that self-sufficiency is bad, but rather that loneliness is not entirely bad, and indeed a little neediness maybe appreciated by people close to you. I think
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Bob still loves Alice, so something that hurts Alice hurts Bob.
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Boy, HN loves articles about solitude and loneliness. And it's a distinction that often crops up in discussion here. I think there's a balance here, and cultivating some amount of loneliness -- not solitude -- is also good. For ex
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The original parent comment is describing someone hand-picking samples to obtain a predetermined conclusion. I know touching data to clean it before analysis can be a grey area, but the original parent comment -- if it is accurate -- is des
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by majos 8y ago
Maybe this isn't what you meant, but it's not a thing in all fields in academia. Pure math for example is generally pretty careful about authorship, and so is cs theory, for the same reasons. Not coincidentally both fields use alp
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by majos 8y ago
I had a similar reaction, since it's not like these matching algorithms do any "learning" (as far as I know). And you are right that the credit here goes largely to economists. But the article does point out that we do a lot
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Even if the quote says the public system that covers most students is "working well", the average student loan debt of a graduate is still pretty high [1]: > When they graduate [in 2016] the average student loan borrower has $3
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Cool idea, I'd never heard of this. TL-DR is that there are huge portions of the ocean that are nutrient-rich but have little life, and one hypothesis is that iron is the limiting factor here. Since various phytoplankton need iron to s
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by majos 8y ago
The stakes for the decision are high, even if they are not high for any jury member personally. This is true for any jury.
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From the Man Booker Wikipedia page: > The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade. Sure, the Sayre quote is pithy and funny, b
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by majos 8y ago
Doesn't fit the not-made-in-Asia request, but does anyone use one of these?
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I used to think this, but I don't any more. One argument that swayed me came from Izabella Laba [1], a math professor at UBC and former IMO competitor. The point that stood out to me is that women tend to be socialized away from extrem
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by majos 8y ago
What's so laughable about roads?
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A graduating PhD student in theoretical physics from a Top 5 school said something similar to me last year. Roughly, he said it was very easy to slip into bullshitty fooling yourself when doing theoretical physics research, and it took vigi
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I like that this article includes suggested changes: > For starters, every scientist should know how being part of a group can affect their opinion. Grants should not be awarded based on popularity. Researchers who leave fields of declin
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I'm late here, but you two seem to be talking about two different versions of privacy. My read is that evgen is saying "for most of human history, the work required to stay alive has forced humans into the open and exposed much of
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by majos 8y ago
All good points. One I would add: there is far less assumption of good faith from strangers on Twitter, and most parts of the internet in general. For whatever reason, in-person interactions have a level of charity in them. You'll clar
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From last week's issue of The Economist [1]: "Of the 1m green cards (permanent residence visas) issued [in the US] each year, only 15% are granted because of the applicants' skills, notes John Dearie of Startups USA, a pressu

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