sooheon

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by sooheon 7y ago
You're changing the goal. The question being asked is whether polluted air is healthier than filtered air. The health effects of individual pollutants is a separate matter.
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by sooheon 7y ago
Which they've already done, many times. Here's one study where they either gave real or fake air purifiers to people in Shanghai and measured cardiopulmonary benefits of intervention: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p
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by sooheon 7y ago
I think this is essentially a complaint that the study does not share your political topspin. I pretty much agree with the view that depression is a holistic problem, and the causes run deep. Treating the symptom is not likely to be a cure
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by sooheon 7y ago
There isn't much harm, there just isn't much point either. We don't usually interrogate people's assumptions down to axioms and provable claims, because it's impossible to live that way. Do you have personal experim
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by sooheon 7y ago
My bad, I read “confidence” and put “certainty” in their mouth. I can agree other already understood factors exist, and may confound the problem. But confounding != negation. And the health effects of air pollution are well understood and b
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by sooheon 7y ago
This is begging the question, which priors are strong enough to merit “certainty” in the face of opposing evidence?
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by sooheon 7y ago
Sure, but this is misplaced skepticism. There have been many studies attesting to the harms of PM 2.5 and the benefits of intervention. The onus isn't on a single consumer to set up a double blind, randomized test for himself, the onus
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by sooheon 7y ago
I agree that depression is a serious and systemic problem, but I don't see why that invalidates medical inquiry into physical causes as well. We can study a problem from multiple angles, because we're merely trying to understand b
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by sooheon 7y ago
There is no silver bullet in the study, they explicitly call it just a “link”. The straw man is in your mind.
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by sooheon 7y ago
Why not both? I’m temporarily in an area That regularly sustains pm2.5 levels the WHO considers dangerous at 24 hour exposure. I’d rather buy a cheap and effective air purifier and mask than change the entire population over to renewables a
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by sooheon 7y ago
What gives you this certainty?
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by sooheon 7y ago
https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/#editor-benchmar... This finds JB editors to be good for typing latency, and mirrors my experience. I keep my number of plugins to a minimum, check if disabling your plugins
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by sooheon 7y ago
What does MPS stand for?
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by sooheon 7y ago
FWIW I find IDEA more responsive (fewer random lags while typing) than my pretty minimal emacs setup. Text editors like vim, kakoune, or xi are snappy, are not IDEs.
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by sooheon 7y ago
> are you optimizing for the right thing here? There isn't one loss function for all people. You've found joy in the narrative of "I just adapt and never customize ... [I can function well in my org] with little issue&quot
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by sooheon 7y ago
Man is a tool using animal. Anyone else could take your lament and turn it around on something you depend on every day.
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by sooheon 7y ago
Was your friend's name Henry George? :p https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George
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by sooheon 7y ago
If the type is something generic like Tuple, it doesn't tell you what it means. If it's a type with domain semantics like Speed or Velocity, then goto your issue with naming variables.
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by sooheon 7y ago
A general algorithm for internalizing externalities (for the set of all conscious beings) would be the greatest human achievement I can think of.
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by sooheon 7y ago
Not all verification is equally costly.
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by sooheon 7y ago
Toggles, buttons, sliders, look like they could be on a white plastic physical device. Flat for sure but more skeuomorphic than macOS in its current state imo.
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by sooheon 7y ago
The CMD key is much better utilized by MacOS than the windows/super key is by windows/linux. Most OS-level things are under command, and I'm free to use readline/emacs bindings in any text inputs across the whole OS and
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by sooheon 7y ago
The specific bindings vary by person and hardly matters, but having an extra modifier in the Command key is invaluable. It lets you properly "namespace" key binds (ctrl and meta for emacs commands, CMD for global) and prevents hac
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by sooheon 7y ago
If you had a blog of thoughts along these lines I’d subscribe.
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by sooheon 7y ago
> I think the biggest injustice is that return of capital isn't taxed at the same rate as income from labor. Almost there. One step further and you’ll realize the root injustice is that rent is taxed less than either returns to capi
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by sooheon 7y ago
Notice how your response is even less than a restatement of Piketty's thesis, just the observation that theoretically, it is possible that some papers have valid criticisms. Well yes, but which ones? The article cites Smith, Zidar an
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by sooheon 7y ago
Time to compile that static dictionary > time for alphazero to play a few million more games against itself to advance the metagame.
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by sooheon 7y ago
That looks like an interactive ui--I can't declare use-package forms in my init.el, and have the initial install and any updates be async and concurrent.
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by sooheon 7y ago
Being able to switch between apps, windows, and tabs is different from just windows and tabs. I prefer the former because the hierarchy allows you to find arbitrary things with fewer keypresses overall (as opposed to mashing alt-tab through
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by sooheon 7y ago
One thing I notice: too many things cause unresponsiveness. 8 cores in my laptop and I can't install a package in the background, and semantic parsing interrupts typing. There doesn't seem to be any concurrency at all, things I do

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