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by tpeo 10y ago
Isn't this simply maximizing the probability of a successful reproduction? Seems almost obvious given the whole problem was low reproducibility in the first place.
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by tpeo 10y ago
>"If I ask one of these adult students a question involving negative numbers, and I phrase it in terms of money and debt, they answer it immediately. If I ask them using just numbers, they have no clue." There's an even mo
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by tpeo 10y ago
Well, at least for some populations [0][1] women do have fewer teeth than man, and this difference increases with age. So Aristotle could've been onto something. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17917610 [1
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by tpeo 10y ago
The phrase "security fatigue" makes me raise an eyebrow. Are these guys implying I should keep track of twenty or thirty passwords, but I just can't keep up? Frankly, if it's not something I use everyday and care about
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by tpeo 10y ago
Good point. It's quite possible that there's a fundamental limit to technological achievement and that we just haven't reached it yet. On the other hand, I'd like to say that it's also possible that some particular
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by tpeo 10y ago
Well, if it takes some time for workers to shift sectors and if "creatively destructive" technological innovation on the other hand happens to accelerate, it's conceivable that at a certain point, the absolute majority of wor
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by tpeo 10y ago
Frankly, "extreme left" seems far off. But I also find personally that whatever "left" and "right" mean nowadays cannot be extrapolated past 20 years or so. Prior to the 20th century, otherwise "right-wing
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by tpeo 10y ago
I get that you're probably using the word in a more popular sense, but I don't see what "logic" has to do with this. Correct inference has to start off from somewhere . If a person had literally no idea of what they wer
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by tpeo 10y ago
I've had some repeated discussions about this, whether to swim or float. I've so far defended the swimmers, but I'm not myself sure of what anyone should do. Hiding the light might be a way to failure. But showing it might do
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by tpeo 10y ago
Ads can be completely acceptable so long they don't detract from the user's experience. If loading times weren't so ridiculously afflicted by adserving and tracking scripts, then things would be fine.
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by tpeo 10y ago
>This is the inverse of the anti-marketplace argument that capitalism leads to monopolies I don't think I have heard such an argument, and I understand the parent comment just fine. What he means is that, since pharmaceutical and me
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by tpeo 10y ago
I don't think such a system would work out, or at least it would breed a huge amount of resentment towards it. Vaguely reminds me of Legalist philosophy: it attempted to "abolish penalties by the means of penalties", that is,
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by tpeo 10y ago
Well, these guys aren't psychologists: they are physics PhDs doing (judging from the name of their group, Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos ) some work with agent-based modelling and game theory. They seem more like econoph
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by tpeo 10y ago
I wasn't previously acquainted with the term "operationalization" as used in this sense. Okay, it may turn out that this categorization is no better than Humourism, which seem to have suffered of the issues of poor variable o
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by tpeo 10y ago
Well, all things have to start somewhere. Right now, it's just some curiosity thing, but maybe it will turn out useful. It could already be for making simulations using agent based models with "realistic" hypotheses by feedin
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by tpeo 10y ago
Ugh! 'Pirl', 'pirl'! What a nasty tinny sort of word. But I do wonder how much of the similarity they're talking about here is accounted by phonoaesthetics, and how much of it might be simply due to some inevitabl
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by tpeo 10y ago
I'd just like to point out that interest rates are really unlike any other policy instrument. Compare them with other policy instruments (regulations, taxes, social programs, public works) and you'll see that they're more eas
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by tpeo 10y ago
Check out Dmitri Tymoczko's "Geometry of Music". https://www.amazon.com/Geometry-Music-Counterpoint-Extended-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnvynOyZI-Q
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by tpeo 10y ago
Kids do judge, that's the point of bullying. They don't care about whether they might act inappropriately in a adult sense, but they still care about what others think of them. The real difference, I'd say, is that kids are v
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by tpeo 10y ago
The situation you're referring to, where older citizens own more assets than average, might indeed seem obvious in Canada but it might not be the case at all in any country with a differently structured social security system, since th
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by tpeo 10y ago
Well, I don't know how much uninformed about economics you actually are, but I think that at least part of this perceived verbosity is due to you being acquainted with it through stuff aimed at lay people. The Economist is a sort of po
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by tpeo 10y ago
I wonder if TV hinders economic growth and development. In so far as urbanization goes, the story that I was told in Urban Economics was that as farming productivity went up, the opportunity cost of time went down and so people took up othe
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by tpeo 10y ago
I don't recall where, but I once read that the largest number of people that can be gathered in a group without splitting into factions is something like 7. Quite a harrowing thought.
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by tpeo 10y ago
Well, revolving restaurants [0] were somewhat fashionable in the 1960s. Still, I don't think they quite compare with something made in the actual 60s (early christian era). The tech behind Nero's revolving diner was probably prett
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by tpeo 10y ago
Exactly. It doesn't make sense to compare the top individual of one ability's distribution to the average individual of another. There's a world of difference between a top football player and the average football player. I&#
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by tpeo 10y ago
Open standards and modular design, I'd believe. It's easier to handle a mechanism with recognizable and well-known parts. Proper documentation would help too. I'm not so sure hardware has gone this way, though.
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by tpeo 10y ago
I'd say it's very improbable to starve trolls by not giving them attention. So long as the community is receiving new members and the new members aren't acquainted with it all works, there will always be someone there to feed
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by tpeo 10y ago
I find it hard do believe that most would argue that the market will solve this issue, unless they're deeply ignorant of mainstream economics. Pollution is a classic example of a negative economic externality [0], and markets generally
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by tpeo 10y ago
>We should not expect more privacy from law enforcement than we would from any other stranger. I don't understand THAT statement. I'm pretty sure that the degree of privacy I expect from strangers is far greater than the one cu
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by tpeo 10y ago
Wouldn't a surprise "lane reduction" due to an accident alone be enough to account for the traffic jam? Imagine that there's an accident in a single lane. The remaining lanes now have to take in all the other drivers fro

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