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Expecting Data from Theranos, Lab Experts Get New Product(bloomberg.com)
6 points by pliny 10y ago|1 comments
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by pliny 10y ago
You are using priors to decide that B is more likely than A, that is, you are saying that the frequent bus hypothesis is likely because buses with frequent intervals are common. If the bus shows up within 1 second of your arrival then there
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by pliny 10y ago
More on this distinction is available here: "What Colour are your bits?" http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
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by pliny 10y ago
Here's a thought: what if 'Yahoo gives FBI snapshots' is actually parallel construction, but Yahoo are not allowed (under PATRIOT or whatever) to admit the extent of their cooperation with three letter agencies (for instance,
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by pliny 10y ago
Or the estimators only hunted deer when they were well positioned to do so (e.g. few predators of humans and many deer around), and the optimists were eaten by bears.
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by pliny 10y ago
That is less interesting, in the context of inbreeding, than any of them being products of first cousin marriage.
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by pliny 10y ago
According to this[1] only 16+ year olds are counted for the purposes of determining labor force participation. [1] http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
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Talent Search (Israel's shortage of engineers)(economist.com)
1 points by pliny 10y ago|0 comments
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by pliny 10y ago
Vice Chancellor Lester quotes in an opinion from 2014[1]: [S]elf-interest concentrates the mind, and people who must back their beliefs with their purses are more likely to assess the value of the judgment accurately than are people who sim
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by pliny 10y ago
IANAL but you can search through the Delaware court system website[1] with the text "appraisal" and find plenty of examples of this sort of lawsuit, which I understand is very common (perhaps to the degree that every buyout gets c
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by pliny 10y ago
This is an instance of the fallacy A implies B I don't like B therefore (not A)
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by pliny 10y ago
What you're describing is the motte[1] of 'safe space' and 'trigger warning', that is, you are presenting a definition whose application almost no one could object to (of course I don't want to ban minorities o
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by pliny 10y ago
>The real Satoshi would have chosen a different proof How could you know what the real Satoshi would do?
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by pliny 10y ago
>People usually say that one shouldn't be allowed to immigrate wherever he wants That is a very weak position, do you actually believe things can be true because "People usually say that"? Either immigration between countr
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by pliny 10y ago
Aramco represents more than half of Saudi Arabia's GDP, and at best they should be able to net $0.5T by selling 5%. How do they find another $1.5T? $700M is 0.05% of that.
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by pliny 11y ago
I don't see the false dilemma, I think you're hinting at a third choice where the ambulance company charges a price that is not extortionate, but if that was part of the hypothetical then, sure, I would have chosen to get my emerg
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by pliny 11y ago
>If every time you took an ambulance you were forced to sign over 80% of your wealth or be left to die in the streets in a 'voluntary exchange', that would be exploitation. What is wrong with this scenario? If there were no amb
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by pliny 11y ago
Hope this doesn't get you banned in Germany: \sin \left(x^2+y^2\right)\cdot \left(y^{32}\ -\ x^{32}\ -x\cdot y\right)\ \ =\ 0 EDIT: also \sin \left(x^2\ \ +y^2\right)\left(y^{32}\ -\ x^{32}\ -x\cdot y\right)\cdot \left(\frac{\left(x-y\
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by pliny 11y ago
What if sometimes I want the overloaded, type relevant '>', and sometimes I want to do '>' if the inputs are positive integers, and raise an exception otherwise?
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by pliny 11y ago
Nice graph, here's the original: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/U.S._Compensa... The green line is total compensation and the blue line is wages only, the author chose the correct gr
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by pliny 11y ago
I get that measuring the effectiveness of enforcement is inherently difficult, but isn't the number of arrests made far away from the border an excellent proxy for how poorly border control is working? You can't isolate yourself f
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by pliny 11y ago
> Large corporations (this one has north of 3k employees and is pulling in hundreds of millions in revenue) The statistic 'revenue' is well chosen to support your point, because they also posted a net loss in 2015, and 2013, an
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by pliny 11y ago
The argument your link makes is that Singapore has low fertility therefore cities are bad, and I'm not being reductionist here that is literally all the content to be found there. How do you uncouple the effect that the people moving i
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by pliny 11y ago
Is that the actual cost per room or the cost of the hotel divided by the number / sq-footage of rooms? Hotels have a lot of things that private homes don't, like gyms and restaurants, and the land is naturally more expensive (beca
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by pliny 11y ago
I didn't say either of those things, but I also don't see why they're relevant. I don't have to earn my first 80 years of life with any "accomplishments that are of any real benefit to society" so I don't
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by pliny 11y ago
What an insanely bad deal: I pay my life, and I get a thing which somewhat increases the quality of my life, contingent on me having ambitions that are big enough to require a death-sized motivational tool. Why would you ever choose "d
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by pliny 11y ago
>Only CEOs of huge corporations are able to ... process financial transactions. Is that true? Isn't Stripe a counterexample to this?
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by pliny 11y ago
Renting gives people who already have a home incentive to build new housing. It also allows you to live somewhere without (a) tying up all my capital + credit in some super-undiversified equity[1] and (b) buying a massive amount of downside
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by pliny 11y ago
It looks like you took the number closest to 165k in the spreadsheet (166487) and divided it by 6000 to get to your numbers. That might be weakly implied in the article, but the GoFundMe page says that the donated labor is in addition to
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by pliny 11y ago
>More like corporate welfare. The machinery of low fines and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a kind of subsidization On the contrary, the government is artificially lowering the supply of labor to protect people who make a livi

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