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by ojnabieoot 5y ago
Maybe a reference would help - I'm not sure how this is a meaningful statement. It seems that there could be many somewhat "generic" Western European jokes about despots which date back to Roman times. But without more inform
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by ojnabieoot 5y ago
> Presumably whatever anti-plagiarism software journals are using today is similarly limited. Sadly, I am guessing the problem here is the anti-plagiarism software was never run, nor was the article ever even read. Especially given that
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by ojnabieoot 5y ago
> if they do not protect against variants or breakthrough infections? The vaccines do not provide absolute immunity but they very clearly and obviously provide protection against variants (dramatically reducing the hospitalization and d
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by ojnabieoot 5y ago
If I were the union I would take the opportunity to campaign on this. Say that Amazon’s leadership is so untrustworthy that they tried to rig an election they probably would have won fair and square - and, more importantly, that the federal
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by ojnabieoot 5y ago
The problem is that the election was clearly unfair and there was a widespread sense that the people voting in it thought it was unfair. A 70-30 vote in an election where you know the authorities are watching means absolutely nothing. As fo
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by ojnabieoot 5y ago
I think you misread it. I believe they mean that among the coastal nations, the US ranks 3rd in terms of polluting its own coastline. I also don’t have access to the paper, but the number 2 coastal nation then pollutes its own coastline
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by ojnabieoot 5y ago
For me (as someone formally diagnosed with schizophrenia): as a child I had a lot of flickering lights/shadows and brief whispers/noises, horrible depth perception, frequent dizziness, and bad temperature coordination (sweating or
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by ojnabieoot 5y ago
I do feel the focus on lobbyists and corruption distracts from the more serious problem: part of the solution will have to involve reducing certain luxuries for many upper-middle-class people: less real meat, less AC in the summer, less dri
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by ojnabieoot 5y ago
The idea that Elon Musk is spending 35 hours a week (or even 20) engineering at SpaceX is preposterous. He is blatantly lying here, or pretending a few hours of doodling each week constitutes “chief engineering” work.
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by ojnabieoot 5y ago
People are focusing on the pettiness and timing but the US government had very good reasons to do this (and other countries should follow suit): 1) The increasing commercialization of spaceflight provides many opportunities for unscrupulous
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
> why Summers is still remembered as an egregiously noteworthy case of incipient cancel culture. Come on, man. If you’re the president of an organization and you get yourself into a situation where the majority of your women employees th
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
This is what I said: > Specifically, [the “variability hypothesis”] is a bold scientific claim that contradicted current and 2005-era understanding of human biology, and requires far more evidence than some economist’s musing. Summers wa
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
This is probably the most compelling reason to view Pinker as a less-than-good-faith actor here: https://newrepublic.com/article/68044/sex-ed In 2005 then-Harvard president started a firestorm when he suggested th
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Regardless of the extent that the increase is due to statistical noise or socio-political factors: it is obviously incorrect to look at one deeply unusual year and proclaim the trend is “reversed.”
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
> But is C going to be too hard for young kids to play with? Speaking from personal experience, I “learned C” alongside actually learning BASIC when I was 10-12. When I say “learned C” I actually mean I “learned basic imperative programm
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
A lot of people have Chrome installed alongside Firefox or Edge or whatever and will just try the video somewhere else. So YouTube actually gets more revenue and Chrome gets free advertising. If a major website works on Chrome but doesn’t w
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Great link, thanks. The line about “all of this is stuff you're allowed to do to compete, of course” (from the Firefox exec) reads like a winking acknowledgement that Google’s behavior is dangerously anti-competitive and deserves a fed
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I agree with you in general. But I think in this specific case it’s a bit more complicated: the downsides aren’t as bad as they normally would be, and the use of primitive flow constructs arguably has an advantage in this domain: POSIX and
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
It wasn’t “challenged” by that scientist, the scientist provided additional information about the newer state of the art. More to the point, if you are enough of a grown up to critically analyze the validity of an article and won’t be satis
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Very nice work and much easier than trawling through the repository. Some ignorant and probably cliched musing: when I look at small utilities like these I am always struck by a seeming distinction between best practices for little C progra
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
The science here is very well-established: http://www.meteoritestudies.com/protected_dating.htm
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I didn’t mean it strictly literally. The original comment was a thoughtless namedrop of a brand new book (which means by tautology it’s irrelevant to the topic at hand) and doesn’t have a shred of reasoning behind it. So, functionally, it’s
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Racist “jokes” make people uncomfortable because it’s directly adjacent to racist insults, racist hiring/firing practices, and even racist violence. Employers have a duty to workers from employees that are potential threats, and to rem
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I don’t think there’s anything here for mathematicians. The only nontrivial fact in the paper is that the approximation works well in medical practice (which is not something that Leibniz or Newton would have been able to tell you since the
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
There are a lot of them that say “using the trapezoidal rule” or something and cite the paper. I think that’s a silly case of unnecessary citations (having been a coauthor on a medical paper there’s a lot of pressure to ‘grab a citation tha
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
I don’t think the author deserves much credit for “calling this out” - the paper was published in 1994 and has been a meme in math circles for about as long.
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
No it doesn’t, the specific point is that racial bias is just as bad among teachers as it is every other profession. I never said teachers were more racist than other people, in fact I very specifically said: > Racism in US teachers is
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
The “political incorrectness” angle is really an unnecessary and very stupid aside that tarnishes an otherwise decent piece: > Nor could [Office Romance] be much less politically correct. One can only imagine what a modern HR-manager wou
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
Racism in US teachers is in fact a big problem, as is racism among doctors and bankers[1]. And focusing on standardized test scores almost always hurts poor students because it rewards families who can afford private test preparation[2]. Th
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by ojnabieoot 6y ago
HN is unfortunately the extremely wrong place to discuss this :( Language like that can be used by bad-faith folks here to push the (false and ridiculous) idea that the Equitable Math people don’t care about mathematical rigor or logical re

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