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by srl 6y ago
I know your first comment is mainly in jest, but... https://www.seniorliving.org/history/1900-2000-changes-life-... For white folk in the US, even the life expectancy at birth (arguably an inflated metric) hasn't
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by srl 6y ago
Comments typically start as dead because the poster is "shadowbanned", for some string of particularly unconstructive comments in the past. (I don't know if enough vouches can cause a user to be un-banned.)
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by srl 6y ago
Well, you can know, by looking at whether or not there's a change in stock price upon announcement of inclusion in an index, right? https://www.nber.org/digest/nov13/w19290.html It appears that it's not
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by srl 6y ago
I dunno, to process a video (maybe 20-80 seconds) and scan for suspicious text/speech? I was impressed that it was under a minute. I wonder though... do we know enough now to know at what rate actual people view the content, vs just au
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by srl 6y ago
If I've understood correctly, the test used was something along the lines of: two non-chinese accounts send back-and-forth messages including benign content (maybe a picture of a pie) and less-benign content (maybe "I like Falun G
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by srl 6y ago
> Do you ask a plumber to show you how to connect tubes, before hiring him? If the previous two plumbers I'd hired had turned out not to know how to connect tubes... yeah, I might.
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by srl 6y ago
We have video meetings, though. WFH hasn't really changed the amount of written communication in my work. My closest collaborator falls pretty squarely under "terrible at written communication", but we still have sufficiently
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by srl 6y ago
I don't have a name for this. A person can make a statement "X", and X can be true, but the person's act of claiming "X" was in no sense caused by "X" being true. In my head I call this "causal d
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by srl 6y ago
This might be it for me too -- although it feels wrong to call this "one idea", because to me it's really a broad family of related ideas. There's some Jordan Peterson video where he sums up a social aspect of evolution
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by srl 6y ago
Just to avoid ambiguity, the parent comment is not a joke: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope .
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by srl 6y ago
Paid by who? Your comment would be much more interesting if you implied something concrete, instead of the more common (and boring) "people who disagree with me must be paid off by ... someone".
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by srl 6y ago
Your first point surely applies to introducing any browser-specific feature -- and features are generally introduced to one or two or all browsers before becoming part of a standard. "A website, with JS enabled, can tell what version
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by srl 6y ago
I think your second point, in particular, is underrated. With stringent (and credible ) time limits, of the sort "these measures are guaranteed to end by Feb 1, 2021", more severe impositions on privacy/liberty could be tole
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by srl 7y ago
I think because it's a new ("green") account.
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Great Trigonometrical Survey (Of India)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Has the coronavirus panic cost us at least 10M lives already?(clubtroppo.com.au)
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by srl 7y ago
Well, maybe we're (almost) all pragmatists. I have pretty libertarian impulses. I'm pretty pleased to see a lot of pointless (or point-light) regulations get kicked to the curb, although I certainly wish the circumstances weren&#x
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by srl 7y ago
(I don't know, and have been trying to find the answer, and have failed.) Best I can do: Assuming that tests performed in different countries are comparable [1], your statistic would set an upper bound on the false positive rate, which
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by srl 7y ago
--I'm writing this comment because I want to see if I can reproduce that bug.-- Well, I give up. Whether or not I get the error appears to not only depend on the text I'm trying to change to , but also the text I'm changing
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by srl 7y ago
And apparently, "pi-ton" is not a pun on "pion" at all, but rather derived from a characteristic momentum that comes up... somewhere. (I didn't read the article so closely -- just enough to be horribly disappointed
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by srl 7y ago
The preprint is here on arXiv for those who want a look at the original work and don't have access to PRL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.09342 (Really, it's a little annoying that phys.org doesn't link to t
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by srl 7y ago
I'm not sure that is a "spike". At my institution, "holidays" are nearly 1/10th of the year already! Moreover, the quote doesn't say "more than a tenth of papers were submitted", it says that &qu
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by srl 7y ago
(I think you have a reasonable point, but I still disagree, so I'm gonna take one last whack at explaining why.) I'm a idiot who should have read TFA before commenting --- because then I'd have been able to make a slightly st
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by srl 7y ago
> I believe it has solutions that don't rely on exclusivity. Does that mean you have a solution in mind, or you have some particular reason to believe a solution exists? Or is it just a general expression of optimism? The latter is
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by srl 7y ago
Huh. I'm your inverse. I'm not vegan, or vegetarian, and am probably pretty guilty of "marginalizing vegan choices" in general. I eat a lot of meat and don't intend to stop, and enjoy making fun of "rabbit food
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by srl 7y ago
It's a quote of a quote of a quote of... https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Jvi9LLcvZxm529496/rationalit...
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by srl 7y ago
I know this is meant as an empty joke, but... there's a particular type of article I enjoy, where in order to describe concept X, the author applies it in some unusual (and perhaps absurd) context, being very careful to keep all the us
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by srl 7y ago
> This is like forcing motor cycle riders to wear helmets. Maybe this is a petty, pointless distinction, but I think they're quite different. Singapore banned the ads , not the actual consumption. Not wearing a helmet chiefly harms
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by srl 7y ago
It reminds me of a CGP Grey video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc . In that video (okay I'm interpreting a bit...) society itself acts as Scissor, "breeding" some ideas to become maximally controv
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by srl 7y ago
On topic, and well outside of my ability to know how seriously to take it: https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2019/09/more-on-low-long-... .

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