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by phreeza 5y ago
I'm always a bit ambiguous about researchgate because it seems like it's replacing one walled garden with another one. I'd much rather see this kind of thing develop in on open and non-profit websites, as is already the case
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by phreeza 5y ago
But you need more real estate for the same number of customers per day, so it's a trade off.
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by phreeza 5y ago
I don't know if "if you had to get one of these 2 diseases, which would you rather?" is really a meaningful question across centuries. The main treatment for Spanish flu was aspirin (!), and many previously very deadly diseas
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by phreeza 5y ago
Because otherwise a car crash in a small town would be equivalent to a major terror attack in NYC, or Jack the ripper could be considered a minor offender compared to a modern day involuntary manslaughter. There is a time and place for norm
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by phreeza 5y ago
Can't wait for availability in Switzerland, really want to get one.
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by phreeza 5y ago
Yes, this is obviously just considering utility at a higher level of the hierarchy of needs, not pure subsistence. Otherwise everyone should just be slurping Soylent all the time I guess.
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by phreeza 5y ago
Yea funnily enough I just added a comment along these lines about restaurants in a different story. Just because an engineer is 10x better in some sense that another one, it doesn't meant that 10 of the lower quality engineers will mak
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by phreeza 5y ago
Important factor is novelty, going to a new restaurant once is likely to give you more than 0.5x the utilons as going to the same place twice in most cases, though maybe that curve inverts eventually as you become a "regular".
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by phreeza 5y ago
The biggest problem with Wahl-O-Mat in my view is that it only looks at what parties claim they will do, not their historical voting record. There had been some discussion around this topic this election cycle, so perhaps they will try to a
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by phreeza 5y ago
It seems the thing you need to pay for is the app, it's free to use on the web?
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by phreeza 5y ago
In Germany in the 60s there was the concept of the "long march through the institutions", implying that the rebels of then would become the elites of tomorrow, with the purpose of then putting into practice the revolutionary polic
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by phreeza 5y ago
I just checked with the guy who recommended it to me and he said when he used it, it was free. Website also seems to confirm that. Not sure what changed when?
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by phreeza 5y ago
Probably at least partly a feature, to ensure a minimum level of commitment from members? My word of mouth knowledge of how well it works is good enough that I would pay without hesitation if I needed it.
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by phreeza 5y ago
WarmShowers still seems to work very well, with a spirit similar to the original CouchSurfing, though it is restricted to cyclists.
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by phreeza 5y ago
French reactors are also almost all older than 30 years, and it is thought that constructing new reactors would be extremely expensive, as most megaprojects tend to be these days, so I don't think it is a fair counterfactual. Smaller r
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by phreeza 5y ago
Not an American, but I thought Obamacare was supposed to solve this?
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by phreeza 5y ago
It's impossible to know the counterfactual, because having a set date for leaving nuclear has also been a forcing function for ramping up renewables. So it's entirely possible that coal would have made up as much or more of the en
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by phreeza 5y ago
This is clearly a cost/benefit tradeoff, and the sweet spot will depend entirely on the field. If you are studying the behavior of heads of state, getting an additional N is extremely costly, and having a p=0.05 study is maybe more val
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by phreeza 5y ago
Nowhere did I say the entire paper should be dismissed. Having an ad hominem is a smell though.
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by phreeza 5y ago
I encourage you to try to read it with an open mind. I didn't realize who the author was when I read it and I found it a somewhat reasonable summary of some real problems. Some parts are a bit hyperbolic (scepticism was shot), and the
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by phreeza 5y ago
Why would the graph even be acyclic?
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by phreeza 5y ago
"Accuracy" in statistical terms is likely even higher because that would include the predictions of "no upcoming recession".
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by phreeza 5y ago
Having an ad hominem alongside a different argument doesn't mean it's not an ad hominem in my book. Why not point out the errors without the additional ad hominem "explanation"?
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by phreeza 5y ago
> How is highlighting that he hasnt fiished his Phd an ad-hominem in that context Isn't discussing the author's credentials pretty much the definition of an ad hominem? It goes against the person and not the argument the person
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by phreeza 5y ago
It's good to treat it as a war in terms of policy, but that doesn't mean scepticism should be shot in science. I don't think it was though, that is an exaggeration in the article.
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by phreeza 5y ago
If energy is consumed uniformly over time, and all fuel is consumed during a flight, it would mean a factor of 2. Using a lot of fuel during takeoff would mean a slightly higher factor, but keeping a fuel reserve would decrease the factor,
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How the pandemic is changing the norms of science(tabletmag.com)
74 points by phreeza 5y ago|97 comments
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by phreeza 5y ago
Can you give me an example of a chemical reaction that is more intuitively understood with orbitals than with shells? One aspect relevant to chemistry I can think of that can be better understood with orbitals is why shells have the size th
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by phreeza 5y ago
We'd survive the first few months after nukes start to fly, after that I'm not so sure. The vast majority of humans live in areas where the climate and environment makes survival without a lot of cultural knowledge very hard. Add
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by phreeza 5y ago
If you are unprepared and don't make use of your resources before war comes to your doorstep, conventional war also bridges class divides just fine.

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