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by repolfx 7y ago
The entire US political establishment invested so much of its credibility into "Mueller will prove Trump is a Russian spy" that are you really surprised nobody cares what the US Government thinks anymore? There have been non-stop
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by repolfx 7y ago
I think you're right, and your experiences of corporate vs academic research quality matches my own, more or less (in different fields). But this does lead to the question of - why not just reduce academic funding, matched by correspon
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by repolfx 7y ago
This is clearly something very culturally local. I've never met anyone who uses such pronouns. I'm not even sure I've ever met a transgender person at all. If I did they didn't mention it and it wasn't noticeable.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Honestly, if I didn't read Hacker News and get exposed to this stuff I'd assume someone asking to be called "xe" was obvious trolling. I mean, who spends time inventing a non-existent gender with a word that is equally n
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by repolfx 7y ago
If in 50 years, we find out that the predictions made by our models had been wrong (either the measures we take to reduce CO2 don't lead to the results we expected, or the warming we see is outside of the expected ranges) - in the pos
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by repolfx 7y ago
The article argues the replication crisis is somehow unique to psychology, but it's not. As the Scott Alexander essay makes clear, it also affects psychiatry and it's apparently the case that many areas of medicine have this probl
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by repolfx 7y ago
I think our intuitions about science differ somewhat due to different experiences. I used to have near absolute faith in academic scientists, with much the same reasoning as you: the government pays them merely to do research and doesn&#x27
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by repolfx 7y ago
Have you ever looked? There's lots of research out there and the scientific consensus is that biological differences drive different selection of jobs. If you think skewed gender ratios are a computing-specific phenomenon, look here:
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by repolfx 7y ago
How could it be otherwise? I naturally strive to stay in bed in the morning and do a lot of hobby projects. That's what I'd like to do, but I'd never argue that other people should be forced to pay me some sort of "bed b
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by repolfx 7y ago
Watch out for that assumption. I believe at the end of 2015, a few months before the Brexit referendum, about 70% of people were indicating they'd vote remain in polls. That's the only reason Cameron and the rest of the Remain-sup
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by repolfx 7y ago
I think you're mis-characterising both the graphs I linked. I did not present the raw and adjusted data to show "there is no climate effect". They were presented to show that the observed climate effect in the 20th century is
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by repolfx 7y ago
All that's fine, and if you keep clicking through some of the links I posted you'll find that the sorts of analyses you're asking for have been done, because indeed, it's not enough to merely see smoke. You need to find
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by repolfx 7y ago
Not remotely what is happening, is it? Actually, I disagree. There's a lot of that happening. You just aren't exposed to it. You say you'd be genuinely fascinated by a debate about how scientists could be mistaken. OK, let&
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by repolfx 7y ago
Aren't most of the phone components actually made outside of China? Iirc many by Samsung, actually. You can get basic electronic parts anywhere, I don't understand this odd believe that only China manufactures resistors and PCBs.
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by repolfx 7y ago
There's a typecheck function in the standard library, but with no documentation in the Bel source anywhere it's hard to know what it does. For people like me who want static typing and a powerful type system to catch errors, does
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yes, I believe lisps virtually always do that in practice, as does Haskell if you use certain string types (fp languages have their roots to lisp even though they have different syntax). But lisps are dynamically typed, so to make them run
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by repolfx 7y ago
That's a very D.C. mentality. In law there isn't meant to be a "wrong people" or "wrong time". Either something is illegal, or it's not. But the rule of law is very weak these days, especially given the hu
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by repolfx 7y ago
Regulators have very little to do with how law is meant to work in theory, especially in the USA. Financial regulators are pure extensions of arbitrary government power: they can make up new laws on the fly without Congress, and many rules
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by repolfx 7y ago
How can it be a power grab, Libra was going to be at least an open system with it's own wallet protocols and market for implementations. A WeChat style system would be totally closed from the ground up.
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by repolfx 7y ago
No problem, I find this conversation enjoyable and useful. I went looking for info on the funding of CRU. The best I could find was this: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/copenhagen-climate-ch... The Climate
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by repolfx 7y ago
Stock markets don't listen to glib slogans like that. I've been to a lot of conferences over the past few years where CEOs/CTOs stood up and said "we're planning to become a tech company", or words to that effe
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by repolfx 7y ago
In fairness, when was the last time you read a story like this one? Chrome updates constantly and regresses nearly never. It's actually impressive how rarely this happens given the complexity of HTML. Slow IT departments delaying usefu
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by repolfx 7y ago
Sure, the funding source is what matters. So why do people assume that academics have neutral or independent funding sources? The basic argument that climate scientists wouldn't get funding to do their jobs if it weren't for their
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by repolfx 7y ago
Mmmmm. I used to think that. It sounded good but ended up being a pain in practice, and very confusing. The intent was right (ha ha) but the implementation was lacking in some ways.
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by repolfx 7y ago
This attitude really bugs me. Linux is crap because the community around it is dysfunctional and doesn't care about building a working system, not because developers "ran away". I am typing this on a Mac. I spent years as a d
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by repolfx 7y ago
I don't think it comes from management books. The problem is deeper, it's psychological. At the level where full time, professional management begins it starts to become very unclear how to judge a manager's success over shor
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by repolfx 7y ago
Actually, I think you're the one illustrating my point, inadvertently I'm sure. Yet you link to a chapter in a year later 2016 book, not a paper as proof. The book is a journal published by Elsevier, a major academic publisher.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Look, if you want to try and shoot the messenger, do so but do it properly. Otherwise you just look foolish. The webpage I linked to on that site is not "politics". It's a copy of a paywalled Australian newspaper article disc
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by repolfx 7y ago
The government is a firehose of money, and only government (academic) research gets reported on by the media. So yes it's entirely possible for private sector research to simply disappear, relative to the output of academia, whose pape
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by repolfx 7y ago
The headline itself explains it: what happened to the corals was previously stated to be fatal. But it turns out not to be fatal. That's a miss and raises questions about whether the new predictions at the bottom of the article are als

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