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by richmarr 10y ago
Is that the link you meant to post? Looks like it's about solar
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by richmarr 10y ago
> Am I missing something obvious here? Imagination? Empathy?
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by richmarr 10y ago
Where do you live? How come your goverment isn't able to control taxation, or its regulatory environment?
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by richmarr 10y ago
> I think the reason for huge support behind Basic Income is failure of government in efficient allocation of its resources. Basic Income is interesting because (a) it removes the requirements for administration of social security and po
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by richmarr 10y ago
Agreed, and it's unnerving that lobby groups seem to have a degree of access that neither the public nor many of our elected representitives seem to have. My knowledge of history in this area clearly isn't strong enough; I have no
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by richmarr 10y ago
Not sure where you're from, but it's hard to imagine a rational basis for the European public to be an advocate of it. My understanding of TTIP and TPP are that they're the US's last ditch attempt to standardise internat
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by richmarr 11y ago
My guess would be that they'd be gently shunned, so would probably be weighing up the relative merit of some (possibly short term) popularity against longer term merit of being able to effectively collaborate with party & peers.
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by richmarr 11y ago
You could argue over the definition of 'effective' in this case but I don't think it'd be a matter of whether the market was big enough. Plenty of companies and countries want payloads delivered and there is choice of su
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by richmarr 11y ago
How to you reach that conclusion from those numbers?
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by richmarr 11y ago
The rules probably aren't the same as they are in Back to the Future .
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by richmarr 11y ago
> ... not intended to cause general terror. Maybe, although it's hard to imagine there's no intent for drone strikes to act as a deterrent. It's not identical to idiomatic terrorism, but also not completely different. >
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by richmarr 11y ago
That's certainly a valid argument on a case by case basis, but as discussed in the article drone strikes are seen as a contributor to radicalisation... which makes it deeply ineffective, or even counter-effective, on a long-term policy
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by richmarr 11y ago
> There's no real reason to have regional restrictions online... While I broadly agree with you I don't buy this one point. By restricting availability by region, publishers can (a) spread out their promotion costs & reduce
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by richmarr 11y ago
>> ... then we could simply focus at the moment of judgement (which btw, is also currently biased [1]) [1] being a link to Steinpreis/Anders/Ritzke (1999) > You're right that it's biased, but perhaps not in the
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by richmarr 11y ago
You keep dodging the fact that this entire comment thread started from you massively overstating the results of a single study, taking it far past the credible scope of the study. Either knowingly or unknowingly you're abusing both t
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by richmarr 11y ago
I've had Williams/Ceci 2014 quoted at me before and it was hugely over-generalised then too. There's simply no rational basis for claiming (like you implied) that it shows wide-spread discrimination against men. It's a s
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by richmarr 11y ago
> We'd have to look at a meta-study to weed out problems in individual studies Or we could try not generalising outside the scope of an experiment. The experiment doesn't even cover all faculty hiring.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Generalising from that study seems unwise. (a) Hiring faculty is a very different thing (and subject to different rules and policies) than getting students succesfully to graduation. (b) Unless male economists are uniquely meritocratic ther
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by richmarr 11y ago
Nixon, baby. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
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by richmarr 11y ago
I was using a low-income example to make the point clear, but the same principle applies to everyone. By assuming a high-education environment you might nudge down the number of misunderstandings. You'll nudge it further if you assume
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by richmarr 11y ago
Say you've got a 10 new joiners per week at your high-turnover packing factory, and a sign outside the admin office that says "Paychecks are distributed bi-weekly". Maybe typically 5 of them have had a job before in the area,
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by richmarr 11y ago
Surely this is about as rationally meaningful as counting the number of deaths caused by people who nominally identify as Christian and basing your opinion of all Christians on that.
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by richmarr 11y ago
I'd be interested to see projections of earthquake casualties before and after this increase in housing density.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Personally I think that if 'facts' were noticably easier to prove in Physics then we wouldn't have consumed the last third of a century of physicist brainpower on String Theory (et al), blocking students of competing theories
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by richmarr 11y ago
Max Planck: people have confirmation bias You: but he's a physicist, in biology things are harder to prove (the point is that people have confirmation bias even when things are 'easier' to prove)
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by richmarr 11y ago
>> The probabilities change > That's the common misunderstanding of the problem... You've got a choice here... you can either interpret "The probabilities change" as meaning the probabilities of a given door bei
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by richmarr 11y ago
This sounds awfully like #NotAllMen but for s/sexism/racism/
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by richmarr 11y ago
Again, maybe I'm nitpicking, but turning something into modules doesn't seem like abstraction... you could call it encapsulation, or modularisation, or maybe extraction. But abstraction? I don't see how that word is connected
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by richmarr 11y ago
Array performance isn't always better than string concatenation. In this test case it comes out slower: https://jsperf.com/left-pad-arrays/3 But ultimately it doesn't matter in the least for 99.9% of use case
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by richmarr 11y ago
Sorry for the nitpick, but "hyperabstraction"? left-pad isn't even slightly abstract.

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