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by tqi 5y ago
Agree, I'm definitely not making any statements as to whether or not the burnout is real. I just think that a lot times the assumptions we make when we apply statistical concepts (like standard error) to real world data don't hold
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by tqi 5y ago
I think the truth is actually that we are MUCH less unique than we would like to believe, and that some combination of age + gender + location probably predicts like 80% of our interests.
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by tqi 5y ago
That feels like the kind of thing that sounds good on the surface, but breaks down when you actually try to size it. The incremental value of that data vs search data seems nearly 0 - I would guess almost everyone who has searched for a fri
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by tqi 5y ago
That also assumes there is no response bias. The linked article doesn't seem to go too deep on methods but the source is a content marketing piece for Hospital IQ, so I'd take it with a grain of salt.
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by tqi 5y ago
From what I've seen, a few things that could be helpful are: - Skip the objective, they are often really generic so people have become accustomed to just skipping ahead rather than reading carefully. - Presentations and workshops, espe
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by tqi 5y ago
What kind of projects are the people you hire working on, and is it more than just CRUD UIs?
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by tqi 5y ago
> If a decision maker cannot dedicate the necessary resources to properly power a test Apologies if this is what you meant, but in a lot of cases it's not a matter of not dedicating enough resources so much as there aren't enou
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by tqi 5y ago
I dunno about all that, but in my case what I mean is "the only choice that would satisfy the author's criteria of being statistically sound"
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by tqi 5y ago
While this is all true, I think the reason why people so often run underpowered tests is not because they "lacks a firm understanding of statistical power" but because we have not made a compelling case for an alternative. UXR sur
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by tqi 5y ago
It's closer to whataboutism than a valid criticism. In this particular case doesn't address at all whether AI generated content should be downranked in search results (probably should since it is mostly low quality clickbait, the
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by tqi 5y ago
Can we retire "[BLANK] for me, not for thee"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30972356
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by tqi 5y ago
Hm that would attribute all accidents to orientation issues, which I guess is possible? It also state the cost as over 11.6B between 2013 and 2020, which would make the cost more like 1.5B per year? Either way though, 224 deaths from accide
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by tqi 5y ago
> The estimated damages caused by spatial disorientation cost the U.S. military an estimated $300 million every year, along with the lives of around 30 pilots. Can that be right? 30 pilots a year sounds really high.
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by tqi 5y ago
Well for housing in particular, average voters are the ones supporting restrictive zoning and stalling new housing. While I agree that getting people to change their mind is pretty hopeless, I dislike the framing that they are just "re
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by tqi 5y ago
Interest rates just went over 5% so I guess we'll test this hypothesis soon?
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by tqi 5y ago
> I feel like it’s almost an attempt to appease citizens by blaming the issue on “foreigners” (always a move that is popular with politicians) Yeah the Right loves to blame poor foreigners while the Left prefers to blame rich foreigners
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by tqi 5y ago
Why not just have occupancy requirements / vacancy tax?
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by tqi 5y ago
> Last I checked, the organization was still very much headed in the direction that I disagreed with. This assumes that your opinion on direction is the right one, and that anyone or team that doesn't agree is wrong?
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by tqi 5y ago
> Who would be opposed to this? Republicans who view taxes as inherently corrupt and therefore are not in favor of improving the system. (also as I mentioned elsewhere, that statement is not meant to be a value judgement - if you are opp
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by tqi 5y ago
It's not a take to say that Republicans are not in favor of a more efficient IRS [1]. It was also not meant as a moral judgement (at least not by me). While it is not my position, I understand that if one believes that taxes are bad th
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by tqi 5y ago
2M is nothing, according to this[1] 3.7B was spent in total on "lobbying" last year meaning that amounts to 0.05% of total activity. The idea that Intuit is The Reason tax filing is painful, and not that the GOP is systematically
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by tqi 5y ago
> Some of the least interesting students are "box checkers" who have a bunch of disconnected extra-curriculars that don't show passion, direction, or a proclivity towards success. If a student defines "success" a
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by tqi 5y ago
The author of this article doesn't want to do the work to change their bubble, they want everyone else to change.
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by tqi 5y ago
Unless I'm missing some context it seems like this guy tweeted something intentionally cryptic, inflammatory, and baiting for no apparent reason then got mad when people took the bait?
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by tqi 5y ago
If an author called people who bought the first book of a series but didn't buy later ones bullshitters, they would be mocked for being an entitled idiot.
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by tqi 5y ago
Actually what you can't have is your own personal, idiosyncratic sense of right / wrong dictated on everyone else.
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by tqi 5y ago
Journalists love to talk about the danish study that paid people to quit Facebook and found that they were measurably happier. They conveniently ignore that the other measurable change was that people were less informed about current events
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by tqi 5y ago
By "60s/70s cultural change period", do you mean the civil rights era?
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by tqi 5y ago
> I really don't understand the militancy of both sides. The loudest voices are the whiniest and most entitled, thus more likely to engage in online discourse about it. That in turn amplifies the team sports mentality that has becom
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by tqi 5y ago
That's why they have minimum terms, but not why they charge rent monthly and not as a lump sum at the start of the lease. They do that for the same reason Adobe created this billing scheme.

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