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by pavelrub 8y ago
Well if that seems plausible to you then it's only further proof of how misleading the wording is, as the actual study makes no claims about people forgetting a year of education.
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by pavelrub 8y ago
I disagree. "A year of education" is mostly about gaining knowledge. It's obvious that air pullution can't possibly make you forget one year of such knowledge, and I have no idea in what other intuitive way this can be i
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by pavelrub 8y ago
The point is that deer being active at night isn't an indication of street lamps disrupting their ciradian rhythm. It's possible that those street lamps do affect it, but the behavior you saw isn't evidence of that.
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by pavelrub 8y ago
Such as?
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by pavelrub 8y ago
So pretty much every government expense, no matter how shitty or worthless, is "pocket change" and can be ignored, as long as it's at least an order of magnitude less that the cost of the F-35? Do you use the same reasoning i
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by pavelrub 8y ago
Even if that were the case (and I seriously doubt that splitting the F-35 into multiple platforms would have resulted in a smaller budget, reduced development time, or better overall value. At the very least it's not trivial that that
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by pavelrub 8y ago
Deer are mostly crepuscular and other than that more active during night time than day time. What you saw likely has little to do with the street lamps.
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by pavelrub 8y ago
What a bizzare comparison. The shuttle isn't a fighter jet and and has nothing to do with this. The question is what military value does the F-35 provide, and will provide, during its operational years. Nothing about the history of the
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by pavelrub 8y ago
Egypt also has one of the highest number of traffic-related deaths in the world. I don’t quite understand why your interpretation of it turns into a criticism of the “west”. The Egyptian system you describe is a dangerous mess, and signific
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by pavelrub 8y ago
The paper doesn't explain anything at all. If we are alone in the galaxy - it tells us absolutely nothing about why this is the case, and certainly not that it's unrelated to the factors in the Drake equation, as you seem to cla
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by pavelrub 8y ago
Why is it odd? Those are very different kinds of "torture". This is like saying that it's odd that people are against waterboarding, but are fine with keeping people locked in prisons, even when done for purely retributive re
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by pavelrub 9y ago
Interesting. Do you have the same opinion regarding any country whose military has killed unarmed civilians - including US and UK - or just Israel?
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by pavelrub 9y ago
Yes - both a secular Zionist Jew in Tel Aviv and a Satmar Jew in the US (both are, by the way, most likely Ashkenazi) would see themselves as belonging to the same broad group of people with shared customs, culture and history - the Jews. T
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by pavelrub 9y ago
> Now, there is some cultural and genetic commonality between the two groups, but is it sufficient to say they are the same ethnicity? Of course, because both groups view themselves as belonging to the same group of people, with shared c
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by pavelrub 9y ago
You are confusing Judaism - the religion, with the Jewish people - an ethnorelegious group. Many modern Jews are atheists - they certainly don't believe in Judaism, yet nobody would doubt that they are Jewish, nor would they deny this
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by pavelrub 9y ago
What a bizarre comment. Saying "Jews, in general, aren't an ethnicity" is almost an oxymoron - for it is precisely the identity shared between this group of people, that justifies the existence of words such as "Jews&quo
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by pavelrub 9y ago
The difference is that this "appropriate size" (= cost of materials) is smaller for circles than it is for any other shape.
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by pavelrub 9y ago
What we consider to be “mental well being” is also a product of evolution, and there is certainly correlation between mental health and ability to survive. It’s unlikely that evolution ever favored practices that go strongly against mental
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by pavelrub 9y ago
Suffering from "psychological problems" isn't a prerequisite for mounting human skulls on stakes. It would only be true in a society where it goes against the cultural norms - similar to how eating an animal would be a sign o
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by pavelrub 9y ago
Kids have strong familiarity with swipe UIs and iPhone games. This won't make them switch to programming-based UIs any more than growing up with a TV turned one into an electrician. In fact, the opposite is likely to be true - the more
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by pavelrub 9y ago
Musk has never used Mars as an explanation for any of his non-SpaceX ventures. His own explanations for why he got involved with Tesla, started The Boring Company, or invented the Hyperloop have nothing to do with Mars or space.
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The secret Google project to put an aquarium of tardigrades inside your phone(venturebeat.com)
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by pavelrub 10y ago
> When you see the child in absolute terror, ask yourself "is this the right way to entertain a child, through pure terror?" Maybe instead of reaching all kinds of dubious conclusions based on anecdotal evidence on how children
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by pavelrub 10y ago
I don’t know, I’m under the impression that people here think that winning with a 20% predicted chance of winning isn’t indicative of anything wrong with the polls, because it’s like predicting the outcome of a die, and therefore nothing sh
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by pavelrub 10y ago
Sure: [1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-missed-trump-... [2] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/why-2016-ele... While it will take more time to figure
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by pavelrub 10y ago
I would say that predicting the chances of an asteroid hitting Earth based on looking at a crystal ball is a pretty bad prediction. I agree with your general point. Whether a better prediction could've been made based on available data
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by pavelrub 10y ago
> you should be arguing how their methodology was wrong and what they could have done to find the true proportion +/- some standard error with however much confidence level There are countless of arguments about how their methodolog
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by pavelrub 10y ago
If it was your job to measure all the things that affect the roll of a die, and this is the result of your prediction, then I would indeed say that you failed to do your job properly. You could defend the result by claiming that it is impos
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by pavelrub 10y ago
> The CEO of Mobileeye (who is an ex-machine learning professor) The CEO of Mobileye is Ziv Aviram and he was never a professor. Amnon Shashua is the CTO, and he is still a machine learning professor at the Hebrew University.
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by pavelrub 10y ago
The US military superiority over the rest of the world is exactly what allows the kind of globalized world you are talking about.

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