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by marchenko 10y ago
Commuting outside of areas well-served by public transportation is a huge detriment to quality-of-life. Those extra hours really add up, especially during the shorter days of winter. The advantage of moving to a second or third city is that
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by marchenko 10y ago
"anatomically modern human" is not a weasel word, it merely describes humans sharing anatomical features which arose ~ the last 200ka and are common to modern humans, in comparison to e.g. Neanderthals, who may very well have bee
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by marchenko 10y ago
"Visiting foreigners" stand out less than blacks (to whites) because America defines "black" as "Other". The racial division in America is often described as black v. white, and sometimes as white v. nonwhite,
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by marchenko 10y ago
in the US, concealing unpopular opinions from pollsters is known as the "Bradley effect". It was massively over-diagnosed in 2008 and 2012, but seems to be back in play now.
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by marchenko 10y ago
"Hottest on record" here means "hottest since 1950"(when proper record keeping began).
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by marchenko 10y ago
What is interesting about this hypothesis is that it does not require men to be especially sexist or treat women poorly. Men only have to be a bit more assertive, or better able to build coalitions among their colleagues, for this effect t
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by marchenko 10y ago
other minority groups may do well in part precisely because they are not black - they are not subject to the same prejudices and stereotypes. Minorities are not fungible entities, especially not in the US, where the primary social distincti
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by marchenko 10y ago
They address the engagement issue in the article, but not in a particularly convincing way : "Internal studies conducted by the agency showed that KPIs like brand lift and intent to purchase were not affected by whether the viewer watc
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by marchenko 10y ago
it's now impossible to use foraging or subsistence farming as a last-ditch survival strategy because all land is claimed by public or private actors (not to mention regulatory and land use obstacles). With the disappearance of that for
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by marchenko 10y ago
From the brief description, and the photos, they appear to be raising healthy children in an orderly home with an level of enrichment and parental investment many children would envy. I suspect the burden of the financial strain is being b
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by marchenko 10y ago
That ship sailed a long time ago with the disappearance of the frontier and homesteading opportunities. Now that it's virtually impossible to completely opt-out of society, some safety net is a necessary correlate of removing that lib
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by marchenko 10y ago
Well-adjusted and well cared-for children are the edifice sustaining both public and private investment - their future productivity will generate the demand that gives value to savings and investment. I suspect Germany will get a good rate
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by marchenko 10y ago
This might be a use case for Slack
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by marchenko 10y ago
Teenagers now engage in more virtual interaction over social media, and the number of teens with driving licenses has decreased dramatically over the same period - I think the scope of their social interaction has increased, but they have s
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by marchenko 10y ago
20-30% is huge. And when trucking is no longer a huge source of employment, the political will to assess realistic taxes on the environmental/ infrastructural costs of trucking might increase. No worries of truckers staging protests th
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by marchenko 10y ago
Not to mention that it conditions youngsters to accept state surveillance/intrusion into their personal lives
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by marchenko 10y ago
I agree. Contact with law enforcement always has the potential to become very costly - in lives, freedom, liberty, or simply reputation. I am not sanguine about the effects of broadening this contact, and inviting the state apparatus into m
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by marchenko 10y ago
there's a strange phenomenon that occurs in some pregnancies where extra bloodflow/pressure on a particular region of the brain causes women to over-identify faces (in electrical sockets, in crumpled laundry, etc.). other visual s
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by marchenko 10y ago
Corvids have a higher average Wonderlic score than the Baltimore Ravens and fewer DUIs.
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by marchenko 10y ago
Chimpanzees are known to 'fish' for termites, which is a fairly complex behavior involving a hidden food source, so I'm not sure the test is obviously biased toward ravens (unless they also administered the Raven's Matri
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by marchenko 11y ago
I suspect that men are simply judged on a wider feature set than women. women prefer younger men if judging on aesthetics alone (full head of hair, abdominal definition, clear skin), but place a lower priority on attractiveness and will tol
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by marchenko 11y ago
I'm not surprised that they collect data, I'm just wondering what these framework providers are competing for in this space.
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by marchenko 11y ago
From the bot framework FAQ: "In order to provide the I/O service, the Bot Connector collects and stores your ID from the service you used to contact the bot. In turn the Bot Connector may additionally store anonymized conversation
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by marchenko 11y ago
Looking a the suggested textual analyses of the Reddit and HN datasets, and thinking about how they can be combined, makes me wonder if anonymity-through.multiple-avatars will even be remotely possible 5 years from now.
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by marchenko 11y ago
No, actually, it is the direct expression of anger (raised voices, threatening gestures, intrusion into personal space, increased vascularization of face and extremities) that is associated with dominance. See for example L. Z. Tiedens, Jo
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by marchenko 11y ago
This stereotype of women being more emotional only fits if you do not count anger as an emotion. Interestingly, anger is the emotion most associated with dominance.
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by marchenko 11y ago
The house/ school district connection is not a small matter: it transforms housing into a positional good, and (under present conditions) a zero-sum game. In many places, it is not possible to exercise a preference for a cheaper, more
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by marchenko 11y ago
Is there good data on how Facebook use affects mood (outside of experiments to manipulate it directly)? It certainly increases the costs of being a sociable non-facebook-user.
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by marchenko 11y ago
There's another way to look at it: Compared to medical regulated DNA tests, such as those for breast cancer risk or other types of risk factors, which can cost in the thousands per marker, 23andme is astonishingly cheap. Many of thos