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by mjfl 7y ago
They probably innovated in math, in some form of risk modeling or something, but no single fancy intellectual wrote it all down: https://priceonomics.com/how-maritime-insurance-built-ancien...
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by mjfl 7y ago
A delay of a project of 20 years or more is beyond my comprehension. That's people's entire careers. That's the entire senior staff of the project dying out or retiring. That's an extremely non-negligible amount of time
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by mjfl 7y ago
any more recent commentaries?
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by mjfl 7y ago
> “This isn’t a place,” a staffer told me while rolling a joint on a piece of rough-hewn garden furniture. “It’s a diaspora, a guiding light out of our collective darkness, an arrow pointing us toward the best way to be fully human.” Peo
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Inequality prevents cooperation, but some inequality can be necessary(nature.com)
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by mjfl 7y ago
Anyone know good sources on shift invariant wavelets?
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by mjfl 7y ago
3) We really don't know what mental illness is, outside of what makes people criminally violent.
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by mjfl 7y ago
This finding is in line with my intuition. Social exclusion triggers an instinct in the male brain: become something, something higher status, or die. It is “evolutionarily accurate” - socially excluded males do not reproduce. Men who are o
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by mjfl 7y ago
The creativity of the Dirac equation really struck me when I first learned it. Basically, it uses a mathematical trick to write sqrt(a^2 + b^2) = a + b, which doesn't work for normal math, but does work if a and b anticommute : ab = -
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by mjfl 7y ago
you are what is called in some circles "a hater".
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by mjfl 7y ago
This is a big deal right?
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by mjfl 7y ago
Your school allowed that man to speak to students?
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by mjfl 7y ago
I do not trust Antifa’s ability to identify who is a Nazi and who is not. The fact that they are violent makes this a big problem.
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by mjfl 7y ago
I feel like this an overly aggressive takedown of a strawman that "Lagrange points are stable equilibria", which no one makes.
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by mjfl 7y ago
I think this article has a stupid definition of meritocracy. If I work really hard digging a giant hole in my backyard and no one pays me for it, few would agree that "meritocracy is dead". The article argues that there are progra
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by mjfl 7y ago
Farming sucks, even moreso when a single parent. It doesn't matter whether your mind is "western" or not.
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by mjfl 7y ago
The men don't farm. That's most of the work. They butcher livestock, fish, but mostly "preserve their strength for nighttime visits". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo#Role_of_men https:/&#x
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by mjfl 7y ago
There is a tradeoff with these cultures - men contribute little to child rearing as a result of having less parental certainty. This is very hard for women, as they have to both subsistence farm and raise children. From that perspective, &q
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by mjfl 7y ago
I don't. There are millions of immigrants who move to the US and live very poor, despite affording the journey to the US.
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by mjfl 7y ago
How much of his success is due to the high school he went to though? I think even given students with equal privilege, he is still within the top .1% of success. I'm not sure what would impress you though.
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by mjfl 7y ago
This is obviously untrue if you consider the people who call Ben Shapiro, who is Jewish, a Nazi. It's obvious to most people that people take wild liberties on the interpretation of words, especially when insulting people who they cons
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by mjfl 7y ago
You say that you're not trying to say that Facebook is equivalent to cocaine, but your logic doesn’t work unless it is.
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by mjfl 7y ago
I just think words like "evil" and "addiction" are a little histrionic. No one has physical withdrawal symptoms when they've been away from Facebook for a week. At some point, personal responsibility has to come int
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by mjfl 7y ago
> They choose to work for evil that's quite an extreme view. Have you ever considered you might be mistaken?
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by mjfl 7y ago
In all likelihood Facebook and google will be able to adequately address any issues related to GDPR and judo throw the regulation into allowing them to become further entrenched by suppressing any competition.
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by mjfl 7y ago
Sure, but I think most “workaholics” are attempting to work towards a position like that, if not the founder then a major shareholder of a startup that will make it big, portfolio manager of a big fund, partner at a m&a firm or bank, et
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by mjfl 7y ago
I can’t think of any of the big founders that were fat alcoholics - bill gates, Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg, bezos? Pretty sure they all work all the time, as in no weekends, get emails at 11 pm every day, at least when they worked.
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by mjfl 7y ago
I think of cre-lox recombination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cre-Lox_recombination
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by mjfl 8y ago
Couldn't you make an argument that the point H0 has use when you are testing whether two populations are identical? i.e. it's probably true that \mu is very close to 0 if it is the difference in heights of men from Nebraska vs men
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by mjfl 8y ago
the stakes for passing a stupid test should never, ever, be this high...

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