michaelkeenan

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by michaelkeenan 10y ago
Huh, that's an interesting correlation. What examples led you to notice it? Have you found a way to make money from this?
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by michaelkeenan 10y ago
> You seem to be attaching a moral axis to the decision on whether to raise capital Which part of their comment makes you think that? I don't see it, and I'm curious about how it's coming across differently to others.
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by michaelkeenan 10y ago
Um, hi. I have tone feedback on your comment, if you want it. I am of course some internet stranger to you, with the unimportance that carries; this is just a request, not an insult or a demand or anything like that. I found your comment mo
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by michaelkeenan 10y ago
A non-trivial probability of future rent control decreases the incentive to invest in new construction.
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by michaelkeenan 10y ago
> Those responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity will NOT go to jail I dislike the injustice, but I've come around to the view that agreements like this are often consequentially appealing. If the end to a conflict lea
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by michaelkeenan 10y ago
It's sad that humans choose other humans as their worst enemies. Mosquitoes are a much worse foe. We should be allying against mosquitoes, not allying with mosquitoes against each other! This is explored in greater detail in this wonde
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by michaelkeenan 10y ago
Some people downvote sarcasm for reasons like https://mindsarentmagic.org/2014/09/13/never-be-sarcastic/
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by michaelkeenan 10y ago
I think the (ostensible) reason is similar to this, from the link: > As security expert Bruce Schneier likes to note, such screenings don't have to be perfect; they just have to be good enough to make terrorists change their plans:
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by michaelkeenan 10y ago
According to the sidebar in the Wikipedia article on voter turnout[1], increasing education leads to increasing likelihood to vote. 38% - No high school 43% - Some high school 57% - High school graduate 66% - Some college 79% - College grad
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by michaelkeenan 10y ago
I used to think this way. The thing that changed my mind was learning how much people think the USA spends on foreign aid[1]. On average, Americans think 28 percent of the federal budget is spent on foreign aid, but it is about 1 percent. P
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
I expect that enabling custom categories could lead to this being useful in ways that you'd never expect. For example, people with misophonia HATE the sound of people chewing loudly. It's not uncommon (the misophonia subreddit has
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
> if he honestly believes that SES-9 required 100,000 pounds of fuel to make its landing attempt, should he really be part of the upper management of a rocket company? What is the correct amount of fuel used to make the landing attempt?
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
> he literally qualified the idea of corporations engaging in anti-competitive behaviour with "if", as if this is some unproven supposition. I don't think that's the right interpretation of that phrase. PG has been co
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
Weirdly, the figure from the paper is actually 17%, not 14% ( http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctp39a/innovation_and_top_income_ineq... ). I'm not sure where the WaPo writer got 14% from. Also note that the paper warns that 1
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
I didn't remember PG writing anything about startups mostly driving the income gap, and I just searched the essay and didn't find it. Here's what PG wrote about the proportions of each group causing income inequality: "B
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
You're allowed to have a prior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_probability A study lacking the power to prove its hypothesis doesn't disprove the hypothesis.
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
When we see someone say something disagreeable, it's tempting to hope that they also hold another view inconsistent with that. Then we can point out the inconsistency. But if we assume that they hold this other view, we will say irrele
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
> Yet, Women are also more likely to kill there intimate partner. (This flips if you include ex partners.) When describing a statistic on the internet, especially a surprising statistic, please include a source. We don't know you, s
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
It'd be further from the truth if war deaths were increasing, or were decreasing at a slower rate. The war death rate is down to about 5% of its peak. http://ourworldindata.org/data/war-peace/war-and-peace-aft
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The problems with generic medications go deeper than one company(slatestarcodex.com)
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
There's an even earlier record of a man named John le Fucker from 1278. It's unclear whether this is an instance of the word "fuck", or whether it's just a variation of some other surname like Fulcher. https:/
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
It sounds like they're choosing between selling to the highest bidder, or keeping it as a trailer park for the benefit of the residents. There's a third option. If the land is more valuable as a vacant lot than as a trailer park,
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
> it shocked me when I read, "a handful of young men are eagerly banging away on keyboards late on a Saturday afternoon" It's not so unreasonable to work on a Saturday afternoon. As PG says, "If you’re ever unsure if
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
> Why do people think that this has been successful for DARPA? DARPA has spent billions on all kinds of ideas that don't work, including prize competitions. Some people regard the DARPA prizes as successful because, in some cases, t
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
> This is a staggeringly bad idea. Why? Where do I begin? Well, first of all, biomedical research costs money–lots of money. Everyone I know in biomedical research, in which I’ve been working for 25 years, needs money before they make th
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I got it wrong: seven writers on why they changed their minds (2013)(newstatesman.com)
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
A Google query helps with this. For example, search for: 6:07 PM PDT to HKT Google will return a special result at the top of the page: "6:07 PM Tuesday, Pacific Time (PT) is 9:07 AM Wednesday, Hong Kong Time (HKT)"
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
George Orwell has a great essay about his visits to coal mines: http://www.george-orwell.org/Down_The_Mine/0.html "It is impossible to watch the 'fillers' at work without feeling a pang of envy for their
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
Cochrane reviews show that acupuncture works for some types of pain: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21359919 (It's not mentioned in the abstract I linked, but searching Cochrane's site shows that they loo
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by michaelkeenan 11y ago
I think that isn't correct, because if it were ever correct, the first candidate willing to choose their platform based on what most appeals to voters would win. I think that has already occurred, and politics is dominated by politicia

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