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Purchasing power is part of the equation. Part of the dispute is about mandating that workers come into the office at least part time, which basically means living in a high-cost area. However, journalism in general is a struggling business
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Off-topic but when was the Ivy League a proxy for extraordinary? Yale selected for height until at least 1965, Harvard was super dedicated to excluding Jews in the 30s and its athletes had SAT scores that were 100 points lower on average as
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I think I got a little confused by the language here, my mistake
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Pardon my shooting from the hip here, but IMO if you're using R for something radically different than statistical analysis and data visualization, you're probably better off using a tool/language that's more purpose-sui
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I don’t know the particulars of this debate, but as it is written, the claim is (IMO) trivially true: most people offering “out there” views are wrong. The hypothesis space is infinite. On the other hand, it’s useful to have epistemic pract
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We can expect different storage solutions by product depending on how fast things need to be. It doesn’t need to be lightning quick to load a frame in a movie, for instance, which is why streaming dominates there.
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by setgree 2y ago
We can reasonably expect 1) external storage to become faster and cheaper every year (subject to constraints around interface) 2) more and more digital assets to be cloud-native, e.g. photos stored exclusively on icloud and not on your comp
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That's a big number, but I'm not shocked by the error/graft, nor its source (poor accounting). A well-regarded development organization I used to work for went through a quiet reorganization in 2016 when a few million dollars
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by setgree 2y ago
This is called a Registered Report [0] but it doesn't suffice for (computational) reproducibility [1] [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01193-7 [1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi&#x2
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I'm more interested in a criminal investigation into the deaths of two whistleblowers [0,1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856413 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40230790
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Something from Andrej Karpathy on learning that stuck with me [0]: > Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like
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Well I did say that the field 'mattered' to me :) I would say that space flight is cool as a potential experience -- I hope that it's safe and cheap enough one day that I can go -- and I also think that life is good [0], so i
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It feels like we're in a golden age of hard tech: * A major advance in spaceflight [0] * a ton of private investment in nuclear power [1] * AI models performing at PhD-level on some tasks [2] I know it can feel low-status to admire the
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by setgree 2y ago
I would hope this happens, but merely having fewer animals alive in factory farming conditions would be a welfare gain from me because I think a factory farmed animal's life falls below the "life is worth living" threshold. Y
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by setgree 2y ago
There's some evidence that Ozempic improves general impulse control, e.g decreasing alcohol consumption [0], which the article mentions. Also, as Tyler Cowen writes [1], this is probably going to translate into big improvements for ani
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by setgree 2y ago
I don't think this is a good idea. Imagine you become an overnight hundred-millionaire through the lottery. Suddenly you need to worry about, e.g., friends treating you differently, strangers begging for money, and kidnapping. Would yo
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by setgree 2y ago
In a sane society, sports gambling would be legal but with a lot of guardrails: * If apps detect compulsive behavior, they could go dark on your phone for a day/week/month/year * All bets could have delayed payoffs (e.g. grea
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I don't think there is scholarly consensus on whether ant behavior can/should be considered domestication, but, per [0]: > The best-studied insect-associated domestication is that of the attine ants...and the majority cultivate
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by setgree 2y ago
How much of a leap is it to say that octopuses have effectively domesticated fish, the way early humans might have turned docile wolves into hunting companions?
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You might enjoy 'Children of Ruin' by Adrian Tchaikovsky, which explores this idea in depth with a civilization of genetically modified, super-intelligent octopuses. (Though I'd start with the first book in the series, '
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My totally unspported hypothesis is that many, many people have blocked Elon -- I have -- and he knows that and hates it. We know that Elon once demanded, on superbowl Sunday, "demanded that his engineers find out why" a tweet of
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by setgree 2y ago
except for 'Arda', every new word is defined/clarified. I'm a huge LOTR fan and a moderate Silmarillion fan, and I can see how maybe Tolkien is guilty of this 'new words for familiar things' problem.. I guess w
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I also enjoy the non-standard punctuation, e.g. F'lax -- how would you pronounce that?
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The second chapter of Anne McCaffrey's 'Dragonflight', written in 1968, opens with: "F'lar, on bronze Mnementh's great neck, appeared first in the skies above the chief Hold of Fax, so-called Lord of the High R
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I once worked at a FinTech company that spent a lot of time and money worrying about a potential deal with a marquee client. An FP&A report showed that we might lose money at first. We ended up making money from the get-go, but more imp
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@dang, this thread is a dupe (though it was posted first): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41560648
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It seems Intel was penny-wise but pound-foolish here: > dispute over how much profit Intel stood to take from each chip sold to the Japanese electronics giant blocked Intel from settling on the price with Sony, according to two of the s
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Regarding parasocial relationships in general, I like [0]: > a few exceptional people (many of them imaginary) get far more love than most people need or can enjoy. > This seems an essential tragedy of the human condition. You might c
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Thanks for sharing. I have a story similar to yours, I had a college friend who hiked the AT and then later died by suicide. I wrote about it here: https://journeys.appalachiantrail.org/issue/spring-summer-20... (Here
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Nice to see this still going! we used daggity in a grad school stats class back in 2013. To the instructor's credit, we spent the first few weeks thinking about causal models before we got into any actual stats. (Put differently, a DAG

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