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by setgree 9y ago
I'm 29 and childless; I average ~8 hours of sleep per night and take 15-30 min. nap 2-3 times a week. I run fairly seriously and get sick quickly if I sleep less than this.
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I found this hilarious -- hello, that's not even in the same ballpark??
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by setgree 9y ago
I was briefly a PhD student in government at one of the schools mentioned herein, and it made a big splash in the field when Blattman & Dube moved. A few notes. 1) Robinson/the institute using its resources to lure two rising stars
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by setgree 9y ago
Interesting -- source for this claim? Not finding anything to this effect in a quick google...
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"Hospitals will also continue consolidating into huge, multihospital systems. They say that this will generate cost savings that can be passed along to patients, but in fact, the opposite happens. The mergers create local monopolies th
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by setgree 9y ago
1) "But as I’ve grumbled before, what is regrettable is that it’s still apparently impossible to include music examples in books of this sort. Why is the following sentence (about a piano ‘Image’) any more accessible than a simple mus
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by setgree 9y ago
I'm starting to despair that there's so much demand for reading/publishing 'the case against' X or Y company pieces, i.e. this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16400950 . Everybody who is fo
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by setgree 9y ago
Regarding whether the effect would have been larger if the subjects got more cash -- in the original Progresa study, the ` size of the cash transfer is large, corresponding to about a 25 percent average increase in income of households livi
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by setgree 9y ago
The comments on this thread drive home why pre-analysis plans[0] are awesome. It's easy to say, after the fact: 'the grants weren't large enough, the relationship between X and Y is conceptually non-linear, those aren't
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by setgree 9y ago
compliance and monitoring, most likely. The cash was conditioned on various attendance metrics, and the data collection process with such things is never as smooth as you'd like (I did a stint at a non-profit that ran experiments like
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by setgree 9y ago
Going with the previous calculation of $180/month ($2160/year), that's about a 9% annual increase for a family of 4 at the poverty line (I'm seeing stats of ~24/year). One of the main ways in which redistribution pr
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by setgree 9y ago
Hi rspeer - as it happens I work for a company, Code Ocean, that aims to simplify the use of tools like Docker for scientists. In practice, it looks like https://codeocean.com/2017/07/14/3d-convolutional-neura
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by setgree 9y ago
Ah it took me a minute to parse out that they were distinguishing general music ability from proficiency with an instrument -- yes, this is believable, the weak effects of learning transfer are pretty well-documented in general education an
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by setgree 9y ago
> Disney produced animated TV shows aimed for kids are the worst Gravity Falls season 1 is perfectly fine children's programming.
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by setgree 9y ago
1) My first thought on reading this: 'LaTeX never seemed all that melancholic to me..." took a second to get reoriented 2) A lot of his films were favorites of mine in childhood, and I didn't know until much later that they s
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by setgree 9y ago
Weighing in as a Manhatto who works in midtown -- I welcome this! But another fruitful option is curbing the very worst behavior attendant to driving. Blocking the box -- apparently being policed heavily in Queens! [0] -- is typically addre
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by setgree 9y ago
"While I don't think we should artificially protect such bottom-tier jobs, this transformation is still going to be very disruptive." There is no need to artificially preserve such jobs, the market provides for them just fine
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by setgree 9y ago
This woman's story, and a number like it, was featured in the New Yorker recently https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-sorrow-and...
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by setgree 9y ago
Ha, I like that the grammar of this distinguishes between "there is no strategy" and "the strategy is, actively, to produce bullshit" and lands on the second option, which jives with my experience :)
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by setgree 9y ago
It seems as though buying a new apple product or upgrading one to new software implicitly signs you up to be a beta tester. It's pretty surprising from the world's most valuable company, no?
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by setgree 9y ago
I think this is a sign of civilization advancing. More on the subject would be difficult to add without creating a throwaway account.
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by setgree 9y ago
I haven't read this, thanks for bringing it to my attention. BIG ENDER'S GAME SPOILERS AHEAD. EG as anti-fascist text: Buggers represent a perceived existential threat. Humanity gets together and forms a single government which li
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by setgree 9y ago
I stopped when the author wrote that "Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game) — wove [his] worlds with far-right, reactionary, and even outright fascistic themes and heroes." This is just not at all an accurate read of Ender's Game.
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by setgree 9y ago
I personally don't care for the frame of "Uber vs drivers' 'rights'". I wold say that "Uber loses appeal against mandatory employment conditions" is more accurate, i.e. that employing drivers is now c
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by setgree 9y ago
I would be interested in more summary statistics rather than just mean (NIPE), particularly median. What story is actually being told by this data, that tobacco growth and sales are highly automated and they employ relatively few people, or
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by setgree 9y ago
I really appreciated this analysis, thank you. I just clicked the blgopost and was surprised by its quality even after having read these comments. I expect large companies to display good grammar. Relatedly, it seems like Microsoft has a mi
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by setgree 9y ago
My WeWork offers plenty of de facto nap spaces (they're labeled as "phone booths"). the key is to have company culture support wandering away from your desk for 30 minutes during the day (a 15 minute nap takes me 30 minutes).
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by setgree 9y ago
I personally prefer the word "corporatist" for this phenomenon to avoid this ambiguity. Crony-captalist has an anti-capitalist tinge, which I don't favor, but is one reason why I think is has been adopted broadly.
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by setgree 9y ago
Not the first time Spain has taken on a tech giant, but it didn't go so great with Google: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/new-study-shows-... "A study commissioned by Spanish publishers
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by setgree 9y ago
Hello, A few comments on this. I failed out of a PhD program a few years ago, FWIW. 1) I think that many of the experiences the author had would generalize to non-academic fields -- pretty much anywhere in which there are power imbalances a

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