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by philh 12y ago
I'm not assuming that. Advertising is noise, and knowledge is signal. I can't cancel out the noise, I can only observe noise+signal. But I expect the noise to be uncorrelated with the signal, which means that wherever noise+signal
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by philh 12y ago
My argument doesn't rely on dentists being experts on toothpaste. It relies on them knowing more than I do about toothpaste, on average. I can think of plausible mechanisms that would discriminatingly push an unusually good toothpaste
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by philh 12y ago
Yes, those things might be true. But I don't know anything about the pens and sticky fixit pads of the different toothpaste companies, and I have no reason to expect it correlates (in either direction) with toothpaste quality, so knowi
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by philh 12y ago
I feel like you're dismissing the article without responding to its arguments. E.g., why don't we (often) see bedsheet ads in the same style as corona or coke ads? Why don't brands dilute themselves to appeal to more sections
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by philh 12y ago
If 4/5 dentists (with no financial motivations) were asked "is there one brand of toothpaste in particular that you recommend?" and answered "toothident", then that would be a sensible reason to use toothident. (If
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Ads work by cultural imprinting, not emotional inception(meltingasphalt.com)
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by philh 12y ago
Social drinker. I rarely get more than tipsy, even when I give myself permission to (e.g. parties and pub crawls when I don't have to be up the next morning). If I do get drunk, I'm unlikely to get a hangover. I almost never drink
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by philh 12y ago
> If you are going to make a product and you think that your product is going to be as revolutionary as Apple was at the beginning, then don't worry. You will be good to go. I would disagree with this, but keep quiet, if you removed
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by philh 12y ago
> (in a specific style) Note that the style is what's irksome about the original comment, not the opinion. When you talk about the value of the opinion, and gloss over the style like this, I feel like you're failing to understa
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by philh 12y ago
I don't have to take something seriously to find it tiresome.
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by philh 12y ago
> We are due for another pandemic. What do you mean by this?
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by philh 12y ago
> The crux of Jordan’s argument lay in the fact that the gene for our red and green cone types lies on the X chromosome. Since women have two X chromosomes, they could potentially carry two different versions of the gene, each encoding f
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by philh 12y ago
(Btw: signing your posts is something of a faux pas here. Including your website is worse, it makes it look like that's the real reason you posted.)
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by philh 12y ago
I believe ericd is talking about the ascent, not the descent. If you want to jump over a building, you need to depart the ground at the same speed as you'll hit it on the way down (more, because of air resistance). The forces applied t
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by philh 12y ago
> two very reproducible tresholds (freezing and boiling points of water) Reproducible if you happen to be near sea level.
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by philh 12y ago
Situation: someone accidentally copy-pastes personal data into a comment. Someone else replies, "you probably should remove that". The first person can no longer remove it. I find it annoying when people delete posts as well, but
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by philh 12y ago
Suppose that to log in to friendface, you enter your username, then it shows you the cartoon elephant that you selected beforehand, and you enter your password. When fake-friendface wants to phish you, they get your username, then they give
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by philh 12y ago
I don't think economists are the people who usually work with the definition of theft. And I don't think a lawyer would equate this with theft.
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by philh 12y ago
I'm fairly confident that a company like Dyson knows to do market research on these things, and has more hard data than you do.
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by philh 12y ago
> Thus, if you were a party who wanted to promise cutting taxes to the population you could, but you'd have very little impact on the taxation's bottom line. Are we talking about the UK parliament cutting taxes, or the Scottish
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by philh 12y ago
> For 15 years the Scottish Parliament has been a fiscally lopsided institution. The money comes from a block grant from the UK Treasury. Westminster decides how much tax we all pay and how much government there should be in relation to
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by philh 12y ago
A fair question. I try not to be dogmatic. Sometimes, bad decisions have externalities that justify forbidding them. I don't think that's the case in this particular instance. To briefly address your other examples- Minimum wage:
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by philh 12y ago
That's a strange way to put it. Suppose I'm deadly allergic to all fish and fish-tasting foods. Now someone comes up with a way to cure that, so I can eat fish for the first time. And then they say, "actually, we'd like
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by philh 12y ago
How confident are you? I know very little about Minecraft, but if this doesn't work, it pretty much has to be trolling. (No way you build something like this and not notice that it doesn't work.) And then I wouldn't expect
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by philh 12y ago
I don't know what happens. I don't have the solutions. I don't know which world is better. I think that the problems you describe are real problems, but not obviously unsolvable, and not obviously worse than the problem of dy
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by philh 12y ago
Let's apply a reversal test: suppose we lived in a world where age doesn't kill people. Do you still think old men should die? Then they have to be killed. Do you not? Then why should they die in this world? Your ultimate values s
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by philh 12y ago
IIRC zsh has an option for this (if a wildcard has no matches, it just gets left in its original form), but I don't remember what. There's also `noglob`, which disables glob expansion for a command (e.g. `noglob echo 3*4 | bc`).
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by philh 12y ago
>>> original = 42 >>> class FooProxy: ... def __getattr__(self, x): ... return getattr(original, x) ... >>> proxy = FooProxy() >>> proxy 42 For anyone else who fou
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by philh 12y ago
Why are you considering 0^0 to be the limit of the function x^x, rather than (say) 0^x or (e^(-1/x))^x?
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by philh 12y ago
- Thanks, that makes sense. - Introspection, not introversion.

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