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by ramblenode 2y ago
Another important detail that has been burried in this discussion is that in the late aughts and early 10s there was a lot of domestic political pressure against US companies building products that could facillitate Great Firewall censorshi
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It's disputed whether even modern ethanol production is energy-positive. But trying to start an entire biofuels production chain from scratch would certainly not be net positive, as you would need to already have mechanized agriculture
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by ramblenode 2y ago
Why not also ban Instagram? Its algorithm is not categorically less harmful than TikTok's. And its parent company has been known to sell Americans' data to foreign brokers and intelligence analysts. What many of us who opposed thi
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by ramblenode 2y ago
I find the geometric proof of the product rule using differentials much more intuitive than the difference quotient proof. The difference quotient proof is a clever algebraic trick, but it doesn't (at least for me) give any deep insigh
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by ramblenode 3y ago
> Religion and Military occupation do this, lets not pretend this doesnt work. Most successful occupiers seem to intermarry into the society they are occupying. Without this, there is always a clear distinction between occupier and occup
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by ramblenode 3y ago
This sounds a little vague. Do you have a citation I could learn more from?
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> All a power analysis does is reduce the chance that the result is a false negative. It doesn't reduce the chance of a false positive. This is true when we are dealing with an uninformative prior, but published research is known to
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by ramblenode 3y ago
> Academic standards: You are not longer allowed to site a non reproduced paper in yours. > Citations matter as much as the print, put the hurdle there and all of a sudden things will change real quick. The reproducibility crisis is j
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by ramblenode 3y ago
> The vast majority of irreproducible papers aren't detectible as irreproducible at time of publication. They look fine, and many actually are fine. They just don't reproduce. That's an expected outcome in science. This is
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by ramblenode 3y ago
Is that different from any other job?
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by ramblenode 3y ago
Capital gains tax is just a % of your gains. So assuming the appreciation of your asset is due entirely to inflation, capital gains tax will be strictly less than the depreciation of the same amount of cash. If it's a wealth tax, it is
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by ramblenode 3y ago
You don't need a full EEG to do what the parent mentions. 3 electrodes around each eye (EOG) + ground is all that is needed. Even cheap commercial electrodes will work for this. Blinks can be filtered online with PCA-like techniques.
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by ramblenode 3y ago
> Corporations should only return cash to investors (via dividend or stock buyback) if they do not have a high yield way to invest the money internally. *It should be noted that this is true due to the tax code rather than some underlyin
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by ramblenode 3y ago
I agree that OP's assertion sounds dubious (especially considering the entire supply chain) but calories are a measure of energy, not CO2. You need to know the rate of CO2 emitted per kcal.
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by ramblenode 3y ago
> What ever harm it might be causing, is below the detection threshold, and thus meaningful risk tolerance of everyday life. The sensitivity of an instrument to detect harm has no relationship to whether there is some ground truth harm.
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by ramblenode 3y ago
> Low levels of asbestos exposure is statistically unlikely to harm you This is not correct. One could say that low levels of asbestos have not statistically been shown to cause harm, but that is quite different from statistically showin
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by ramblenode 3y ago
If TikTok is doing something bad then the bad thing should be illegal, not the platform or who owns it. But banning bad things would require a well-thought-out bill that could inadvertently protect Americans from domestic tech companies tha
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Intelligence agencies often have their own interpretation of the law, which coincidentally allows them to do what they want. And if you don't like that, you can sue them in the special intelligence court where the evidence cannot be re
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by ramblenode 3y ago
Sugar is basically the recreational drug of children. It's normalized, but it's known to be addictive and harmful if consumed in excess (which it frequently is). Society is now starting to recognize the addictive and harmful poten
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Treasury Sanctions Members of the Intellexa Commercial Spyware Consortium(home.treasury.gov)
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by ramblenode 3y ago
> My fondest hope is that in the coming decades there arises a new, thoughtfully designed language with the Lispy flexibility of R, but also optional type safety and static analysis affordances. I think many of us saw Julia as the succes
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by ramblenode 3y ago
> carve-outs for "harmful" speech (best not yell "fire" in a movie theatre or "bomb" in an airport) Just a reminder that the US Constitution does not explicitly have a carve-out. This argument originated fro
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by ramblenode 3y ago
> Do you think you’re going to learn calculus better than you would at flagship state U? Yes. Compare this Harvard Calc I final [0] to that of UNC Charlotte [1]. The test format of the Harvard exam works in the student's favor, but
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by ramblenode 3y ago
All this seems like a small investment compared to properly preparing for the test. An average student would probably want to study at least 10 hours if they care about their test score. > especially for a teenager who may be smart but m
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by ramblenode 3y ago
> So definitely greed, some regulations should be applied. Regulations are what prop up the high prices. Allow people to import drugs from overseas or Canada and you would see prices start plummeting overnight.
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> This matters because if you have a method that is more computationally efficient, more easily interpreted, and more robust to extrapolation to out-of-domain data, why in the world would you go with DL? One reason we will see more deep
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by ramblenode 3y ago
> The student body is also much stronger academically in 2023 compared to 2013 looking at HS GPA and ACT scores alone. ACT scores have been falling since at least 2017 but possibly earlier [0]. GPAs in the US have gone up because of grad
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by ramblenode 3y ago
> a smaller percentage of Tsimané survive to the age at which Alzheimers becomes a major epidemiological issue in modern societies. How does a researcher account for that? It seems like it could be a confounder. This would be an issue if
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by ramblenode 3y ago
> How is supporting the military of your adversary not treason? For one, because treason refers to an enemy, not an adversary, and China is not legally an enemy of the US (at war). You can't just assert that China is an enemy in cou
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by ramblenode 3y ago
> If Facebook, X, Pinterest, Reddit, et al. can't exist freely in China, then TikTok doesn't get access to the US (until ByteDance becomes a minority shareholder etc). TikTok follows US law. The companies you mentioned exited C

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