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by tpeo 9y ago
>Out of 4,063 pilots, not a single one fell within the average 30 percent on all 10 dimensions. I wondered about a very similar problem some weeks ago. I was bothered about the terms "ectomorph" and "mesomorph" becaus
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by tpeo 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu I want to believe.
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by tpeo 9y ago
It cannot be a stupid question if there are hundreds of books on it. I know what you mean, but that's no way to get your opinion across.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Oh, I forgot about rating! It indeed should act in the same way as tipping, but not necessarily to the same degree. It's possible, for instance, that the change on a the driver's earnings conditional on any new rating is lower tha
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by tpeo 9y ago
What you're describing looks a lot like adverse selection.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Never thought about the economics of tipping before, but if having the customers being able to punish unhelpful staff increases the odds of having returning customers, that would increase the likelihood of Uber drivers being better paid und
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by tpeo 9y ago
>complexity theory wiki Wait, there's a wiki on complexity theory? Computational complexity or the complex systems kind? I don't find the term as obscure as a I find it offensive: it just sounds wrong. But yeah, there are ple
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by tpeo 9y ago
That word - "hyperobjects" - has deeply hurt my soul. Why do people come up with things like this?
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by tpeo 9y ago
Is that what you meant by having to appeal to "soul"? There still doesn't need to be an appeal to anything in material in order to define worth, not anymore than one needs to appeal to something immaterial do define weight in
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by tpeo 9y ago
> Nothing has an inherent worth, unless you postulate the existence of "worth" as an immaterial label, like "soul". It seems odd to me that if the utility of anything were a physical thing as measurable as the mass
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by tpeo 9y ago
"Conglomerate" is a latinate word for "put together", which is to say that it doesn't immediately refer to the idea of a parent company with controlling interests in several subsidiaries over different markets so yo
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by tpeo 9y ago
>The conglomerate was supposed to be dead, a relic of a bygone of era of corporate America. That's not even close to being true. How does someone get a job on a supposedly reputable newspaper writing such daft shit? https:/&
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by tpeo 9y ago
A little less dusty and more convenient alternative to a library.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Guess I'm wrong about that then! It's hard to skim an article with this much noise-to-signal ratio.
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by tpeo 9y ago
"Knowlesdgee"? Anyway, I think you're forgetting one important dimension: whether the person in question would like that particular piece of information to be known.
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by tpeo 9y ago
It's a comparison between people aged past 5 in both populations. It's not that unfair. If you want to talk about unfair comparisons, you should look to all the people aged past 5 who wouldn't be alive without modern medicine
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by tpeo 9y ago
That's not what a 90% reduction in the incidence of degenerative disease means. If degenerative disease occurs to 1 in 1000 people, a 90% percent reduction would be from that to 1 in 10,000 people. There's no need to make that cla
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by tpeo 9y ago
The incentives involved are completely different. Pensioners don't directly benefit from the deaths of other pensioners, as their individual payments are unrelated to how many pensioners are out there. They aren't drawing from som
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by tpeo 9y ago
Toys always have been around, sure. But their quantity, variety and complexity (note: I include video games here) has massively increased through economic development. A hundred and twenty years ago the median American child might have had
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by tpeo 9y ago
Maybe they "thought" it was "weird" retroactively after the Peloponnesian War. Athens was mishandled pretty badly after it's defeat by the pro-Spartan government of the Thirty Tyrants. That on top of being at war wi
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by tpeo 9y ago
Diverse urban landscapes is something that I can get behind, but the issue (as I see it) is that there's something else at play here. Mixed-use, for instance, is already well justified as an urban policy by contemporary urban economics
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by tpeo 9y ago
I think that at least in some situation the opposite should be true, in so far a person's ability to daydream might depend on their creativity. Given a sufficiently high ability do day dream, the day dreamer is never bored, no matter h
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by tpeo 9y ago
So, what I'm reading is: "Architects to phase in eye-candy as they find out bare walls to be unedifying". Is this an overly cynical reading of the article?
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by tpeo 9y ago
When you're trying to put furniture in the room, trying to fit something with a rectangular base in a room with a rectangular plan is much easier than any other similar problem while minimizing the likelihood of having any wasted space
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by tpeo 9y ago
Funny how the first thing that appears when you open the article is some guy pouring a drink. Turns out it's not for him (I think) nor did the guys at QZ intend to suggest it was, but I just interpreted the picture in a whole different
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by tpeo 9y ago
It's the future that you chose.
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by tpeo 9y ago
I think you've understood those words in precisely the opposite sense in which he meant. A possible implication of "provided the company stayed around" is that it was around that time that they started going through a major
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by tpeo 9y ago
Possibly because having cubicles for each employee creates the expectation that each employee will stay at their cubicle. Walking up to a colleague's cubicle to chat about a work-related project can be misconstrued by an uninformed obs
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by tpeo 9y ago
The issue with injecting nitrogen in the soil isn't about the nitrogen's source, but it's impact on the carbon content of the soil. >There has been some research showing that these high nitrogen inputs are destroying the c
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by tpeo 10y ago
What makes you think they aren't as curious as you? They might just be into different subjects. Plus, if there's nothing that suggests that you might be interested, they might self-censor comments about their own hobby subjects wh

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