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601.
by solveit 6y ago
Evidence isn't absolute proof and there are degrees of evidence. See: Weak evidence, strong evidence.
602.
by solveit 6y ago
Sure it would go up. But will it be significant? Or will it be a drop in the ocean. You do need numbers to answer this question.
603.
by solveit 6y ago
Yep. This and the last year will be the only two confusing years for a century.
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by solveit 6y ago
> The thing is when you remove the ugly side of those business what remains can be done better for free using p2p networks or federation over open protocols. Then why hasn't it happened?
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by solveit 6y ago
> until they do, and they start taking measures to counteract it, When? Adblock has been free and easy for years now
606.
by solveit 6y ago
> I'd start with treating users as partners, and not cattle. What does this mean in practice? How do you treat 2.6 billion people as partners?
607.
by solveit 6y ago
The point is that fighting Facebook on Facebook is a losing game and "innovate a better business model" has been tried, is being tried, and is not working because it is hard . A plan that does not work is indeed "flawed&quot
608.
by solveit 6y ago
The paperclip AI knows exactly what you want, it just doesn't care. Any naive way of trying to make the AI care will fail because we don't know how to design good measures that can't be hacked .
609.
by solveit 6y ago
Sure, but moderators are elected by the community, Monica was elected before the new policy was a thing, and the community including Monica and StackExchange were discussing what the new policy was going to look like (the policy hadn't
610.
by solveit 6y ago
I agree with everything you said and would like to add that I suspect > I think SAT/ACT are bad indicators for the "elite" schools because they just saturate this is a feature. Elite schools don't want to be able to t
611.
by solveit 6y ago
> The reality is that a SAT scores correlate with wealth. Everything good correlates with wealth. Wealth is quite literally the ability to make things happen . The relevant question is, do SAT scores correlate with wealth more or less t
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by solveit 6y ago
Which is why Coca-Cola, which has decisively won the advertising war as much as a corporation can, can jack up prices willy-nilly and people plagued by cognitive biases don't switch to Pepsi.
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by solveit 6y ago
Because in the long term you do plan to replace existing welfare systems.
614.
by solveit 6y ago
Basically, the study of knots is the study of how the simplest 1 dimensional thing (the circle), can sit in 3-dimensional space. And it turns out that even this "simple" case is incredibly rich and difficult. So that's a reas
615.
by solveit 6y ago
John Pardon is a relatively recent example. He also became full professor at Princeton a year after graduating.
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by solveit 6y ago
But a good proportion of the best and hardest working people in the world are international students in the US.
617.
by solveit 6y ago
Sure, but the criticisms mostly don't apply to companies in the seed stage. YC is somewhat removed from the mainstream critiques of startups mostly by sitting at the part of the process where startups are most startup-like, ironically
618.
by solveit 6y ago
The unrepresentativeness is irrelevant. It's quite conceivable that young fit men can take 20% more CO2 than the typical person before showing symptoms. 1000% is not, because it would have been noticed before and publicised as incredi
619.
by solveit 6y ago
> I assure you that Apple has several Tim Cook quality employees earning orders of magnitude less. Sure, but do you know exactly who they are? Or are we going to take a multibillion dollar bet on someone who's only probably as goo
620.
by solveit 6y ago
> ... education were vastly more accessible than they are today. Diplomas were more accessible. Education has never been cheaper. This isn't an attack on your point, since what people really want are the diplomas (and the comfy midd
621.
by solveit 6y ago
You're talking about whether companies should reopen. The parent was talking about whether > There's hundreds of thousands, probably millions of businesses that have been shuttered by COVID-19, and yet, of course, who should it
622.
by solveit 6y ago
It doesn't cost 3k to have an MD do stitches. That money's going somewhere else (Actual experts may or may not know where).
623.
by solveit 6y ago
> but those who are not then could go on with their lives The point stands. Tech companies decided that their (overwhelmingly young and healthy) workforce should not, in fact, go on with their lives. They were sacrificing work when Fau
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by solveit 7y ago
> They would rather higher someone provably less qualified from a "top school" than someone else. Is this true? I can see this being the result of poorly implemented hiring processes, but I can't see this being the expli
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by solveit 7y ago
> democratically appointed, subject to transparency and with accountability I am no longer so sure these aren't mutually exclusive. In the end, the buck stops at the voters. Do voters in practice make decisions that make any sense a
626.
by solveit 7y ago
And it's nothing like stalking in the sense that there's no chance it'll do you grievous physical harm or ruin your career and relationships.
627.
by solveit 7y ago
Usually, people are even more against private killings.
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by solveit 7y ago
I agree with the last two paragraphs, but would quibble with the first. > The reason those medical professionals aren't paid better is because the money we spend on healthcare is going to pharmaceutical companies and hospitals, whic
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by solveit 7y ago
> To consider your example, in the current crisis, there are plenty of people who did not link anything from past to present, but who do show up in hospitals evry day, help people and save lives. They have a much bigger impact on society
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by solveit 7y ago
It was probably a little more involved than that, but not by much. The real story is that asinine regulations and bureaucracy aren't letting hospital administrators do the same!

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