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by retsibsi 9y ago
> so there's a chance it's not an even split The Patreon page says that "we are each taking home half of what we bring in". In context that could be limited to the Patreon subscriptions, but it seems to indicate a 5
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Do you agree that 'problem' or 'compulsive' gambling (Wiki: "an urge to gamble continuously despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop") is (a) real, (b) responsible for a significant portion of
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Based on some very perfunctory research: they certainly used to have a lot of users, but I get the feeling they have declined over the past ~5 years. Anecdotally: I used to use StumbleUpon, and found it fun for a while. I'm not sure wh
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I'm not trying to be a smartarse or anything, this is a genuine question: what makes a book like that valuable to you? If it's very unpleasant to read, and captures an experience you are already familiar with, why are you glad tha
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I think he had a reasonable point, though. If you predict that X will happen, and it eventually does, then sure, you were right about that. But if you take an action that will cause you to profit if X happens within 5 years and to lose mone
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by retsibsi 9y ago
For whatever it's worth, I appreciated his use of English. In this case I don't think I would have had trouble parsing 'post hoc ergo propter hoc', but about half the time when someone uses the Latin phrase for a logical
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It's not just the bumps, though, it's the acceleration. The car is inevitably going to speed up, slow down, and change direction, and I don't think there's any way of canceling that out. I'm almost certain I couldn&
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> Why do people expect ethics and morals from startups? I think this depends on what you mean by 'expect'. If we believe that they will act morally at the expense of their own interests, that is probably naive in most cases. Bu
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What do you mean by 'rapey' then? There's no way the book was on Draco's side when he made that comment. And I'm not sure what you mean by 'the whole Bellatrix stuff', but wasn't she a victim of the e
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To understand why people who disagree with you find this kind of advice frustrating, substitute some unambiguously physical, serious illness for 'depression', and re-read your comment. You need to start by convincing people that y
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Reflections on True Friendship (Andrew O'Hagan)(nytimes.com)
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by retsibsi 10y ago
Here in Australia, volunteers for the political parties hand out 'how to vote cards' at polling places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How-to-vote_card . It's not a perfect system,[1] but it should be eno
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It's a very impressive example of avoiding the sunk cost fallacy, though. I think a lot of people would be unwilling to cop that 'loss', even if they realised it would leave them better off overall. (Or perhaps more realistic
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As I mentioned in another comment, it's important to note that Monty Hall is guaranteed to open a door with a goat behind it (a losing door). If he chose randomly and just happened to reveal a goat, the answer would be different.
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The key is that Monty Hall is guaranteed to show you a losing door. If that weren't the case -- if he just picked one of the remaining doors at random -- then the fact that he happened to pick a losing door would count as evidence that
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In what way do you think LRB readers are being fooled here? What false claims does the article make? If you just pattern-matched it as a 'Craig Wright = Satoshi' piece, you're mistaken -- it is really a (somewhat) behind-the-
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You have a better technical background than me, so take this recommendation with a grain of salt, but I've found this textbook very useful: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/the-princeto... I&#x