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by splithalf 5y ago
Not soon enough. Rents are up 20% in California. People moving into the state need those apartments and are very willing to pay.
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by splithalf 5y ago
That little kid that was shot due to road rage recently. That’s how bad commutes are. People who insist we go back to the office have blood on their hands.
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by splithalf 5y ago
The same can and often has been said of cocaine. Not that the two are the same, but everything you said is the same, vast majority have no problems, it’s great, you’ll love it etc....
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by splithalf 5y ago
This model has been applied to every field; all those “family run businesses” like the mafia, the American news industry, Harvard.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Sure but it’s all about quantifying that accurately so that it can be compared to for example better building ventilation. If, hypothetically, better ventilation had 100x the effect of mask wearing, then focusing attention on masks would be
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by splithalf 5y ago
Exactly. For personal protection you use n95 or better and know it’s not perfect. If you don’t care about personal protection but want to reduce spread in a community then getting large groups to wear any face covering will help, but not ne
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by splithalf 5y ago
Even good medical masks didn’t protect Li Wenliang. There was always agreement about well fitted n95 but we’re told, even by your linked article not to use those. Sorry but this seems like politics not science. Obviously if you layer enough
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by splithalf 5y ago
Some muddled thinking up in this thread. Testing is good for code implementation but the risk for code such as this mostly lies in untestable aspects like the assumptions built into certain types of statistical routines and measurement&#x2F
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by splithalf 5y ago
Many of us click randomly or invert our true response to throw off data collectors. This is pretty low stakes after all.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Soft power and American exceptionalism; like apple pie with ice cream, always somehow greater than the sum of the parts. The reality is that our soft power is moderated (mediated?) by the narratives exported by the couple of big media com
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by splithalf 5y ago
“great powers don't care enough to defend democratic rights anywhere outside their own borders” Could they not draw the same conclusion from our very pro trade friendly policies toward for example China?
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by splithalf 5y ago
They were way too lax with lending to marginal applicants and that caused the 2008 collapse. I’m sure the real estate industry would love to go back to dodgy loans to those who cannot pay them back because they make more profit that way. I
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by splithalf 5y ago
The costs of commuting are hard to measure. It’s not home vs office so much as office with extremely stressful and increasingly dangerous 10-15 hours a week commute that makes work less productive due to cognitive and psychological carry ov
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by splithalf 5y ago
This is all exactly correct. What too often is left out of these discussions is the labor pool and incentives. Too many cooks in the kitchen, because there are incentives to keep adding more cooks, as though increasing the researcher labor
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by splithalf 5y ago
This seems really obvious. People demand citations for bold claims, precisely because those claims are hard to believe. The problem is that some fields don’t do replication studies. In such fields these highly cited papers with dubious find
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by splithalf 5y ago
I suspect mask wearing increases social distancing. That would explain much of the data but satisfy neither political party.
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by splithalf 5y ago
For some, that .8% will never be enough.
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by splithalf 5y ago
It’s true too that 4 out of 5 scrum masters will lament the bothersome dearth of experienced scrumee programmers. Never a shortage of scrum masters, or ceos or vc or debt. But labor you can arbitrage for 10x profits are always hard to find
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by splithalf 5y ago
“Why waste people's time with your vacuous comments?” Because my opinions are not vacuous to me.
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by splithalf 5y ago
When is it ever not relevant? It’s all most humans can think of, arguably for valid if not good reasons.
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by splithalf 5y ago
“ turned out the virus did come from a lab, there is a risk that the already Sinophobic political climate in the U.S. and elsewhere would get significantly worse” Sinophobia should be our greatest concern.
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by splithalf 5y ago
This essay reminded me the thin line between constructive fierce nerdiness and dysfunction. It’s hard to navigate the perimeters.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Yep. Even Kathy woods understands regression to the mean.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Will be great for Bitcoin values.
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by splithalf 5y ago
It’s a scare word and has always been. Like “conspiracy theory” it’s purpose is to stop thought and prevent thinking. It’s easily replaced with real words with concrete meanings. Are mass shootings terrorism? Since it’s widely used scare wo
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by splithalf 5y ago
Can drug cartels engage in terrorism? That seems like a useful edge case. They are not ideological but maybe you could say they have political goals.
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by splithalf 5y ago
I’d say that what they did was right. The noble lie is by definition noble. The news media acting as (not always unwitting) accomplices is the real problem.
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by splithalf 5y ago
Look at the post above yours. Yes, some want to make the case that laws on the whole are essentially oppressive. Whether of not foucault made that case precisely, or whatever, is totally irrelevant if it’s what most people actual mean, viz
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by splithalf 5y ago
Would you prefer no laws? Seems we benefit from them no?
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by splithalf 5y ago
Musk likes to manipulate Tesla’s value in subtle plausibly deniable ways. He tweets, it dips massively and then dip buying momentum shoots it back up higher. He’s gamified tsla stock buying for the retail investment Reddit crowd.

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