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by onos 4y ago
For scale, that’s the going price for a two bedroom condo in downtown sf. I was more alarmed by the 3M sticker price reported for the outdoor education center at the Lawrence hall of sciences, across the bay. It consists of some nice lands
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by onos 4y ago
>> the system generates huge surpluses of electricity at zero marginal costs for most times of the year, which instead of being curtailed can be harnessed for vast new applications which will transform and enlarge electricity grids (w
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by onos 4y ago
Another point is that there must be some time scale at which the knowledge will diffuse out of the concentrated areas. We can’t turn on remote work and - snap! - suddenly the worlds rural areas are full of techies. It may take decades. my
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by onos 4y ago
another point is if you are the big fish in a small pond you’ll get more attention from the teachers and gain confidence. Both can be valuable.
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by onos 4y ago
Yeah you’re right, that is the aspect of uni that this article is about. Who gets to get the premo credential.
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by onos 4y ago
USA is rich in universities. I wish people would focus less on the rankings and looking good credential aspect of college, and more on using it as an opportunity to learn / actually getting good at something. If we did the latter, we
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by onos 4y ago
It’s a challenge many people face. The elephant in the room in this article though is not acknowledging that affirmative action does often promote people into positions they are not ready for. People in those situations know it deep down
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by onos 4y ago
Perhaps we should funnel more resources to the problems they quote, but it seems to me we already are doing a lot: global poverty rates have dropped dramatically over the last one hundred years, much attention is given to social justice co
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by onos 4y ago
I like this idea. Fwiw I feel I learned / grew a lot more in one technical writing class in college than I did in all my years of English classes. Later I picked ip a book “writing with style” that was also quite helpful. One issue f
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by onos 4y ago
My interpretation of the point here: the people running this data set work for a scientific org but they don’t consider science to be their sole or top priority. Rather modern progressive mores sometimes take precedence. I suppose it’s ok
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by onos 4y ago
Plausible, just as is the hypothesis that leftists in support of the “anti-racist” doctrine are blocking this research because they want to continue to explain away all differences in outcome to “structural racism.”
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by onos 4y ago
This failure rate suggests a reason the social sciences don’t “lead anywhere”: If you try to build a theorem off of two earlier results, but these each only have probability p of being right, then the chance your new theorem is correct goe
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by onos 4y ago
This failure rate suggests a reason the social sciences don’t “lead anywhere”: If you try to build a theorem off of two earlier results, but these each only have probability p of being right, then the chance your new theorem is correct goe
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by onos 4y ago
That’s right. The radius is set by the force mv^2/r = GMm/r^2. —> mv^2/2 = 0.5 GMm/r —> Kinetic plus potential = - 0.5 GMm/r This goes up with r.
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by onos 4y ago
The concern about the algo can clearly be mitigated. Eg here on HN there is no personalized feed concept, and that prevents one from entering a thought bubble. It’s not completely free speech here, but seems close and mostly pretty good re
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What happens when race is everything(nytimes.com)
4 points by onos 4y ago|2 comments
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by onos 4y ago
I don’t think many people have a problem with the concept of representation. Eg conservatives can have daughters and want them to be happy as well. The issue that rubs many the wrong way is that advocates often simply replace one form of e
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by onos 4y ago
It got this woman some publicity.
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by onos 4y ago
I was thinking either a zoo / reservation of some sort and. / or a dna database for later cloning and repopulation. Thanks also for the gentle spelling correction.
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by onos 4y ago
Perhaps we should build an arc to help these species survive the anticipated hot period.
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by onos 4y ago
In the Feynman “what’s in a name” sense, I truly do not care what our titles are.
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by onos 4y ago
That won’t work because we don’t have any infallible subs to replace them with.
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by onos 4y ago
I agree, but the situation is that the people leading our institutions are self interested, weak, and not omniscient. And that means the Twitter mobs do have power and they often use this destructively. The question then is: Given that
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by onos 4y ago
Further, it’s important to compare the outcomes here to the counter factual, which must involve lots of individuals making decisions that are not based on explicitly coded up rules… ie rules that can be reviewed for bias and improved on col
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by onos 4y ago
Tldr things are great, vote dem.
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by onos 4y ago
I love this topic. Are there any industry fields or sub fields that make heavy use of this content?
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by onos 4y ago
Have you also heard of “decolonizing” the libraries?
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by onos 4y ago
Agree. There are many causes that people across the political spectrum would support a la carte, but for some reason many institutions have recently collapsed into a “must support all of the above” posture. Bring back the single issue ins
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by onos 4y ago
Also curious about who would oppose EA. My first thought is people who would be threatened by expectation that we measure the actual impact of social efforts.
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Why are the prices so damn high(mercatus.org)
2 points by onos 4y ago|2 comments

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