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by teachingassist 5y ago
I could alternatively assume that you time travelled with a copy of Grays Sports Almanac.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> in 1 year and 2 months, we turned 40k of our own funds into 100M. This would be a challenge even if you had perfect foresight. If you had gone all-in on Dogecoin, you would still only have ~5M.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
Isn't this the canonical historical justification for colonialism? That colonialist barons are helping the local population by improving infrastructure for them? (While massively enriching themselves) I don't think that really wor
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by teachingassist 5y ago
The Lindt bunny does look similar but I guess it's lower resolution ;-)
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> None of these places ran out of hospital capacity. You would know this to be nonsense if you knew almost anyone who works in healthcare. I know retired health workers who were temporarily re-commissioned to deal with the total lack of
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by teachingassist 5y ago
I wonder if chimps are also less butthurt than humans.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
We agree that the difference between 2 and 20000 is significant, but I can easily observe this difference without counting all the way up to 20000. Identifying the difference between 19,999 and 20,000 is certainly not significant in this
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> There's a tree, there are more trees. So now it's useful to count them... It's not that useful to count them. My personal interactions with trees have likely never involved counting them; not even when I was involved i
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by teachingassist 5y ago
Given that Minsk to London Gatwick is Belavia's furthest west flight (B2851, three times per week), this has limited effect. Belavia has no reason to fly over UK airspace otherwise.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
>these rules are there to protect the minority, not the majority. That's not clear. Democracy protects the majority (but not always the minority); in an absence of democracy, the majority are also vulnerable to breaches of human rig
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by teachingassist 5y ago
I get that corporations do lobby, but I was questioning whether they have an obligation to lobby.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> Corporations have a fiduciary obligation to maximize shareholder value. I understand this statement to mean "Corporations have a fiduciary obligation to maximize shareholder value [within the law]". Do corporations have a fid
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by teachingassist 5y ago
From a corporation's point of view, it's fine if your competitors are treated the same as you are (in a competitive market). But, even if so, CEOs/board members are often those high net worth individuals. So there's a
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> but why would they? They should, because they observe the parent's point: The employee now has the potential to jump ship and re-start this process for a higher $x, meaning that the employer risks losing the institutional knowledg
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> your 50/50 split of n is the most aggressive way to interpret that information. I'm satisfied with that choice. Given that Google are here quoting this stat in the press (with the 50/50 implication) to defend themselves
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by teachingassist 5y ago
What I said is mathematically correct. For the sake of completion: Suppose there are N employees. 76% = 0.76N are men; 24% = 0.24N are women. Suppose also that n men being underpaid for their work. The stat as quoted suggests there are n wo
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by teachingassist 5y ago
"...the results showed the company was underpaying more men than women for doing similar jobs in software engineering." Google's tech jobs are 76% men (from their 2020 diversity report). Saying "50% of those being underp
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by teachingassist 5y ago
I'm now imagining rich grey goo saying it'd rather be poor grey goo, than a rich human in 2021. Even if we have 200 years of consistent economic growth and technological process, I doubt you would see rich people giving up their w
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> Today, I would rather be a poor person in a First World country, than be a rich person in Louis the XIV’s France. I’d rather be a poor person today than aristocrat back then. A rich person also had access to near-unlimited amounts of
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> Am I a manager? No. [I] let the team self organize with my help Isn't that what a manager is, or should be?
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by teachingassist 5y ago
The judge's job is to make a decision based on the evidence in front of them. The judge has to weigh the evidence based on their training and knowledge. That decision might prove in hindsight to be incorrect , based on new information
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by teachingassist 5y ago
Being able to repair things as needed also comes into this category. If I can't immediately afford to send something for repair, then I keep using it until it completely wears out, have an ongoing worse experience, and ultimately a lar
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by teachingassist 5y ago
Where are you supposed to live meanwhile?
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by teachingassist 5y ago
The article that I'm reading claims that boy chimps like to play with toy trucks : https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/101220-chi... You're gonna therefore have to explain to me why you th
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by teachingassist 5y ago
If your claim is that gender differentiated behaviour in children is spontaneously observed due only to nature, why do you need to invent an example? You've never seen a girl play with a stick like it's a baby, because that's
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by teachingassist 5y ago
Any two people will certainly attach different levels of importance to what they observe, I agree. Given that this behaviour was learned by observation, society's existing gender norms - and specifically those around guns - would also
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> He ran around the backyard using sticks as guns. Since sticks (in nature) have none of the function of guns, this is certainly a learned behaviour from social observation.
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Plenty of library functions are already going to be optimised in this type of way - just because they're not visible in your codebase doesn't mean they are not there.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
I agree that suffering is a risk that we should balance. Your point in the other comment was that you would cause suffering to and sacrifice "hundreds of billions" of primates for a small chance to heal yourself. That's clear
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It's a matter of resources. Animal testing has found hundreds of vaccines against HIV that work in primates, but none of them have worked in humans. How is that a useful thing to spend time on? You have a model, and it's proven th

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