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by majos 8y ago
Eh, speaking as a very small man (5'2"), come on, there are many low-earning huge people, and better-than-economy seats can be bizarrely expensive. (I will admit that I peak at "mild" empathy for this problem. But even m
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by majos 8y ago
Not to be rude, but you're saying you're 2m/6.5 feet wide ?
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They have also been granted reparations of about $160 million. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Liberties_Act_of_1988
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To add to some good points, people from various minority groups may be particularly keen on getting formal institutional buy-in (e.g. mandatory diversity meetings) because they have not been well-served by informally letting stuff play out
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by majos 8y ago
As a current PhD student in CS -- seconded. I'm fortunate to have a great advisor, and my research career so far has been largely fun and productive as a result. I have also seen equally (or more) talented and hard-working students hav
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by majos 8y ago
Obligatory "can we trust official Chinese statistics?". Gaming local numbers after a lavishly-funded project seems to have been popular for a while [1]. [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-fra
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by majos 8y ago
David Foster Wallace had a similar reaction to McCain when he covered him in the 2000 election [1]. [1] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/davi...
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by majos 8y ago
Can't speak for The Atlantic, but I think The Economist qualifies as "high-brow" and pretty dang information-dense. Just reading and remembering like 30% of the articles gets me far. At this point I just read the weekly (prin
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by majos 8y ago
What? This is the opposite of my experience, every business book I've read has mostly consisted of bullet-point platitudes. Short doesn't mean informative. Do you have recommendations that might be different?
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Relevant animals: greenland sharks. ~20 ft sharks slowly, slowly drifting at approximately 0.5 mph around the North Atlantic and killing time until they bump into some edible decomposing thing. They reach sexual maturity at about 150 and ki
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Not an answer to your question, but there are other examples of this sort of thing. Lycaenid butterflies secrete nectar as caterpillars in exchange for protection by ants [1]. Indeed, ants have symbiotic relationships with a bunch of organi
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by majos 8y ago
I'd prefer poetry to hold music. There must be tons of good public-domain poetry. Spend 8 hours recording, say, the early editions of Emily Dickinson's work, and you should have enough material to last every customer for probably
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by majos 8y ago
"Will participants refuse the instructions of the experiment administrator?" is a different question than "will participants naturally fall hard into their fictitious roles?", which was the ostensible goal.
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I am tired of hearing about this study when there are so many valid criticisms of its methods and conclusions, and it has never been replicated. In particular (as this article highlights) there's strong evidence that Zimbardo explici
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by majos 8y ago
When did this happen? Did anything specific cause it? What is your life like now? Lots of questions, but I've never heard this development phrased in a positive way before. It's usually associated with social withdrawal and depres
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by majos 8y ago
There's also a similar stretchy ice cream in Turkey called dondurma. It uses both mastic and salep, a flour made from orchid tubers.
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by majos 8y ago
To most people a gun is pretty much a button you can press and instantly end your life, and in the hands of a knowledgeable user that's about right. I think that kind of ease makes a gun very different from other methods you list, most
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by majos 8y ago
Low expectation, high variance, I'm guessing.
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by majos 8y ago
For those wondering how this compares to differential privacy, the author of this post has also written a short nontechnical post about that: https://desfontain.es/privacy/differential-privacy-awesomene... The theoreti
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by majos 8y ago
Slightly less eye-catching, but the actual news seems to be > The Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs has been tasked with proposing an experimental project to identify patients likely to benefit from the programme, to ex
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by majos 8y ago
Maybe someone more familiar with deep learning can weigh in, but this bit > Howard’s team was able to compete with the likes of Google by doing a lot of simple things. These include making sure that the images fed to its training algorit
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by majos 8y ago
There are a few famous athletes who've said similar things. Ray Allen was an NBA player known for having a beautiful, textbook-perfect jump shot and eventually setting the NBA record for three-pointers. He credits a good portion of thi
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by majos 8y ago
So there's a nice pool of ticket revenue that, maybe, a majority of citizens want to see enforced. Anyone have an idea why it's not enforced?
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I'm not sure how close tech companies are to monetizing the kinds of users who aren't online yet. For example, I talked to somebody at Microsoft a while back who said that Bing doesn't even serve ads to many African users bec
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by majos 8y ago
It's a bit odd that the author justifies a liberal arts education by focusing on two liberal arts majors (music and philosophy) who shone as software developers based on their skills at abstraction . I do not think this is something t
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by majos 8y ago
Not necessarily. It could be that only good doctors treat female patients well, while all doctors treat male patients well. For example, if women patients are in some way harder cases while male patients are not, then treatment of women pat
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You have to pay much more to rent the apartment containing the bed?
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The real-world popular mistaken impression of Frankenstein's monster ("an abomination!") is the same as the in-novel popular mistaken impression of Frankenstein's monster. This is a neat trick.
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> it basically reminds me of middle school Many bad actors in competitive online gaming are middle/high schoolers.

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