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by sevenfive 9y ago
> There's some evidence that philosophy majors score pretty high on the GMAT (for graduate admissions to business school) and on the LSAT (for law school), as well as pretty good on the GRE Verbal and GRE Analytical Writing test As
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by sevenfive 9y ago
When I wake up in the middle of the night, I ask Siri what time it is, so I don't have to open my eyes. That's about it.
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by sevenfive 9y ago
Well the grandparent disagrees with those evaluations. I have no opinion. My point is, there's a difference between deserving a job the most and being the best candidate for it. Whether someone has "earned" a job on a moral l
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by sevenfive 9y ago
Yeah, that's inspiring and all, but if you have a domestic and a naturalized candidate for the job who are both equally qualified, and the naturalized one has a 10% higher chance of being turned, just go with domestic right? Might not
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by sevenfive 9y ago
A job is not (just) a privilege.
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by sevenfive 9y ago
I don't know how someone can say "this promising therapy exists only in Tblisi" and not be immediately suspicious...
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by sevenfive 9y ago
And the hunt for the "magic sauce" in education trundles on...
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by sevenfive 9y ago
But by that logic younger siblings would be overrepresented next bin, [30,40]. What goes up must come down. Personally, I mulled over it for a while and I don't see any mere "statistical" effect that's plausible. I think
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by sevenfive 9y ago
> I think it's more likely a measurement error, or some subtle statistical effect caused by a combination of probability skewing and demographic changes. Can you elaborate?
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by sevenfive 9y ago
The authors note in the Spectre paper that Chrome already does this, and they can get around it with a timer thread.
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by sevenfive 9y ago
Interesting to compare the reactions in this thread from 1 day ago: "Intel's CEO Just Sold a Lot of Stock" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16055851
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by sevenfive 9y ago
Several of those already exist. Somehow, it seems intrinsically impossible to solve this problem with another app.
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by sevenfive 9y ago
But whatever process the human eye uses to piece together a flickering image should itself be fairly simple, right?
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by sevenfive 9y ago
In the US, inequality has been mostly driven by the top 1-10% outstripping everyone else. But the murders described in the article (and that comprise most of thise statistics) are obviously between two 90%ers. So the Guardian's conclus
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by sevenfive 9y ago
No but I found it funny
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by sevenfive 9y ago
Not to mention, they fucked up the grammar and it doesn't even make sense. Unless they mean seeing your reflection in someone's cornea, which only happens in movies.
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by sevenfive 9y ago
...isn't that sort of what a massage is?
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by sevenfive 9y ago
It's even easier to type the two words, "Philip Anschutz"
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by sevenfive 9y ago
You may as well name these people, to save us the effort of digging it up
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by sevenfive 9y ago
Richmond, VA is the biggest and most important Richmond. Anyone who has heard of Richmond, VA will likely assume that is the Richmond being referenced. Anyone who hasn't heard of Richmond, VA gains no additional understanding from know
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by sevenfive 9y ago
Yeah, but the distance from the center is itself just a one-dimensional gaussian...
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by sevenfive 9y ago
I suspect there's some vague "psychosis level" that spikes and decays exponentially when you use weed, lsd, etc. And then people with schizophrenia find these drugs near age 20 just as the level is rising naturally. So it loo
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by sevenfive 9y ago
Most people who use telegram haven't heard of Signal, most people who use Signal won't touch telegram with a ten foot pole.
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by sevenfive 9y ago
*presuming that Satoshi is not Hal Finney, who is dead.
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by sevenfive 9y ago
Oops. Didn't notice it's cumulative.
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by sevenfive 9y ago
Tangential, but has anyone else noticed a surge in newsweek links here and on reddit? I feel like they hired some consultants.
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by sevenfive 9y ago
Take out what , precisely?
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by sevenfive 9y ago
The idea that psychedelics are only harmful to people with "latent" schizophrenia is equally unsupported. It's an old canard that people with a one-sided view of these drugs keep repeating.
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by sevenfive 9y ago
I guess you can't do this at an office, but as a student I just project onto the wall whenever I work at home.
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by sevenfive 9y ago
> pneumonics mnemonics :P

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