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by nearbuy 8mo ago
> Because if they don't, they are externalising the true costs of labour to the government, or the community. Does this mean anything or is it a circular definition? If we decide we'd like people to have at least the standard o
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by nearbuy 8mo ago
I don't think it's appropriate to use the average vehicle costs for the living wage. It overestimates how much people on that wage spend on their vehicles. For example, the average new-vehicle price in December 2025 was about $50,
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by nearbuy 8mo ago
Best I can tell, you're indicating that more partisan users post more, as the paper found.
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Neither the paper nor the original comment said the most partisan commenters are wrong. It found a strong correlation between how partisan a social media user is and how often they post. You're being uncharitable by assuming the commen
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Not sure why this is relevant. The paper says partisanship is strongly correlated with frequency of posting. Are you also pointing out that the commenters here are very partisan and this shows the paper is correct?
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The parent comment was about how the most partisan users post the most on social media and sure enough, the first response was by a partisan user.
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by nearbuy 9mo ago
This doesn't explain why pessimistic and dystopian sci-fi has declined. Also, Foundation takes place in a future where society is about to collapse and regress into dark ages. It's a borderline dystopian world.
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I think it's the opposite. Bill credited his parents for his philanthropic drive and Warren buffet as the person who first introduced him to the idea of giving everything away. He's been active and knowledgeable in his philanthrop
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by nearbuy 9mo ago
I don't think this comparison is meaningful given the sample size of 1 and the differences between the between your datasets. The standard error margins from the small sample size alone are so large that you could not reasonably claim
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by nearbuy 9mo ago
The parent comment said the bar should be "significant improvement" over the average performance of human drivers. Then you said, "this isn't reasonable", and the bar shouldn't be "slightly better" or
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by nearbuy 9mo ago
I'm not out to defend "I've got nothing to hide", but those who say it are usually saying it about a specific policy (e.g. the NSA monitoring searches). It's usually clear what the context is and that's what yo
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by nearbuy 9mo ago
I'm pro-privacy and I still think these retorts just make it sound like you've put zero effort into understanding what the "nothing to hide" people are trying to articulate. E.g. "Can we put a camera in your bathroo
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by nearbuy 9mo ago
I'm not sure you fully read my comment. It only works for 2018. If you did their analysis any other year, you'll get the 1st percentile is -4°F or something similar. I only called out the "nearly exactly" part of the cla
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by nearbuy 9mo ago
The rate here (about 1% of papers) just doesn't seem that bad, especially if many of the errors are minor and don't affect the validity of the results. In other fields, over half of high-impact studies don't replicate.
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It's a pretty neat analysis, but it looks like the "nearly exactly" part must be a coincidence for the particular methodology and data they used (most significantly that it's based on 2018 weather). Fahrenheit was create
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by nearbuy 9mo ago
Thanks. I often think of it as a minor character flaw in myself that I spend the time replying to things that really aren't important. Your comment made me smile.
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I live in one of the most populated cities in North America. The temperature on Saturday is forecasted to go down to -18°F (feels like -29°F with wind chill). It's not at all unusual for temperatures to be below 0°F in winter in much o
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by nearbuy 9mo ago
I think you're saying that where you live, the weather is usually between 0 and 100°F. Aside from the fact that outdoor temperatures aren't in this range everywhere, we don't only use temperature for weather. 100°F is warm to
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Keep reading. The central thesis of the article/eulogy is that Adams wanted to be successful at something more serious than Dilbert but was bad at everything else he tried. It talks about his first new business attempt with the Dilberi
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No, the article argues that Adams was good at one very specific thing (writing silly comics about the workplace) and bad at everything else. It's very clear on that point. It argues that later in life he lost his self-awareness of his
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by nearbuy 9mo ago
You're (understandably) confusing rationalism the philosophy from the Enlightenment with the unrelated modern rationalist community. For what it's worth, the modern rationalists are pro-empiricism with Yudkowsky including it as on
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This rings untrue. Hacker News is about the most "social media" type of site I use, and I still feel the shift towards isolation others described. Also, the naive view is to place all the blame for a broad cultural shift on Facebo
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by nearbuy 9mo ago
"Manipulated" has strong negative connotations, but it could just mean that the results are chosen and controlled by the search engine. In which case, it's a meaningless statement. The entire purpose of any search engine is t
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I'm not commenting on the ethics of A/B testing without informing the customer. Maybe I misunderstood the comment I was replying to. If they meant that the experiment's results were probably valid but conducting the experimen
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Of course they wouldn't tell users if they're in the control group or experimental group. It would destroy the validity of the experiment.
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That is an article by a psychologist, with no expertise in neuroscience, claiming without evidence that the "dominant cognitive neuroscience" is wrong. He offers no alternative explanation on how memories are stored and retrieved,
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by nearbuy 10mo ago
To add another data point: I love sweet things and eat a lot of desserts and sugar. I'm in my late 30s, and I've never had a cavity or weight issues. My BMI is around 21. I'm not recommending sugar; my point is that anecdotes
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The department of nutrition at Harvard was founded in 1942.
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I'm probably not the best person to ask, having looked at the site for all of 5 minutes. The experiment is having a bunch of AI agents using different models (Opus, Gemini, etc) try to do various real world tasks together. They might b
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It was done by a small charity called Sage, not an AI company.

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