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by retsibsi 8y ago
> Even chimpanzees would probably understand and disagree with you I think it's important to stress the practical side of the argument too, rather than just appealing to intuitions of fairness. Bill Gates probably believes (and is p
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Coincidentally I just read this article, about malaria vaccine tests: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/21/18235136/vaccin... It's more anecdotal than technical, but interesting nonethe
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I've been reasonably happy with (the free version of) Feedly. It's not perfect, but it's done the job for me as a Google Reader replacement.
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> But there are other women/girls in the story who come off in a much more positive, almost angelic, light so I don't think the author could be accused of misogyny here. I don't think this is the best defence. Maybe '
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Not the person you replied to, and I read the book years ago so the details are fuzzy, but I don't think there's a clear-cut answer to your question. We effectively see everything in the book from Stoner's perspective (althou
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I loved 'Stoner', but wished I could also have read the story from the perspective of Stoner's wife (Edith). We see her as she appeared to Stoner, and it would be easy to write her off with adjectives like uptight, frigid, da
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Does this apply to businesses that aren't in serious debt, and don't have investors waiting for growth-dependent returns? I'd be surprised if my local baker considered stability to be failure, or a precursor to closing down.
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> even matchmaking, if implemented badly, won't help much: when matchmaking is based on monotonic point accumulation Do any (modern, popular) games implement this kind of matchmaking? I believe there's often a monotonically inc
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Death to Minimalism(currentaffairs.org)
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> Is there a good way to abstract testing away from educators so they can focus on teaching? Isn't that the way it should be done? Ideally I think this should be done at a high level -- i.e. separating the institutions that do the t
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by retsibsi 8y ago
'Tacit collusion' is a real concept; as far as I can tell (as very much a non-expert) it is legal in the US, but there's some ambiguity in the EU. This (paywalled unless you have academic access) journal article looks very re
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A prospective cohort study correcting and monitoring 58 misreported trials(trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com)
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> As others have pointed out ~19 papers (and only 5 first author) over 23 years seems to be a low publication rate, which I think the author is reflecting on. Low compared to what? Compared to the expectations set by his fellow scientis
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by retsibsi 8y ago
It has that 'barbaric and probably pseudoscientific treatment that we surely abandoned 50 years ago' feel, doesn't it? But I remember reading in this SSC post (at point 7) that it actually works well, and isn't quite as
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by retsibsi 8y ago
I don't know if this addresses your issue (whether it's about the content, or about e.g. being able to use hyperlinks), but Kobo ereaders come with a version of Pocket preinstalled, so when you see an interesting web page on your
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by retsibsi 8y ago
Here (Australia) the phrase 'backflip' is sometimes used to deride a politician's change of mind. I guess if there's enough twisting and turning involved, we don't think too hard about the end result when creating
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> no blocking in rugby or aussie leages afaik There's something analogous in Australian football ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherding_(Australian_rules_... ). It's not supposed to involve head contact
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> The question is, is it a worse problem than in American football? That's a relevant question, but the post that sparked this exchange talked about the impossibility of 'concussion free football', and said that 'co
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> Is that true? Do rugby and Australian Rules Football have the same problem? I don't think it's as bad, but the AFL does have a concussion problem. (A quick search didn't turn up any numbers, but here's a relevant ar
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by retsibsi 8y ago
These read like rhetorical questions, but for anyone else who didn't know the answer to the second one: - apple juice has ~10g of sugar per 100ml; that's ~35g per 12 US fluid ounces. - Google tells me that apples (variety is unspe
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> "4 or 5" I'm curious now: is there a story behind this ambiguity?
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> Not worth breaking your neck over That's an important caveat, given how the danger was apparently greatly exaggerated. If you've been told that the system will > somehow suck all of the oxygen out, and if we were still ins
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> There is a version of this exercise you could do where you say you are intentionally giving bad answers and give none!!! This might seem clever, but it could backfire. If the other person trusts you, they will take it as axiomatic that
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by retsibsi 8y ago
The Comedian's Comedian podcast ( http://www.comedianscomedian.com/ ) is another take on exactly that: comedians talking about their craft. The guests come from all over the world, but the host (Stuart Goldsmith) is Engl
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> The idea in pare-mutuel betting is not to pick the winner. The favorite usually wins, but the house cut makes betting the favorite a net lose. Isn't this a misstatement in the other direction? Favourites can be underrated too. The
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by retsibsi 8y ago
He/she just means that if a bet is genuinely underpriced, the expected value of taking it will be positive. (So if you can reliably find these bets, you'll profit in the long run.) The odds reflect the horse's supposed chance
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> A kid getting robbed is “acceptable?” I agree that it's a big deal (and perhaps more to the point, in a place where this happens, it's unlikely to actually be the worst thing that happens). But I don't think Wowfunhapp
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> You may not have defended what happened but if you don’t think it’s acceptable either my reading comprehension or your writing needs work. I think they meant 'acceptable cost' from the perspective of a parent deciding whether
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by retsibsi 8y ago
> Nobody who goes on HN will be I go on HN, and although I'm not surprised that this is possible, nor shocked that it's done, it is the kind of thing I could easily fail to think about, or assume is probably not actually being
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by retsibsi 8y ago
It'll have to follow the rules of basketball, though, which were written for human players and refer frequently to 'hands', 'feet', 'steps', 'arms', 'legs', and so on.

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