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by vannevar 2y ago
So your point isn't so much that language policing costs a lot, it's that it doesn't provide any value. But what if it does? What if the way people talk publicly about other people does impact behavior? Do you think the soc
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by vannevar 2y ago
Is it an "enormous amount of resources"? How do you think it compares to the amount of resources historically put into racism, including all the waste and lost opportunity costs? In my experience, most people complaining about wok
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by vannevar 2y ago
I don't think anyone reading this article would conclude that PG believes racism is a bigger problem than wokism. Which wildly diminishes the actual real-world impact of racism and wildly exaggerates the actual real world impact of wok
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by vannevar 2y ago
This was my first thought as well. It won't be long before OnlyFans is swamped with bots from organized syndicates, and individuals will be forced out.
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>To illustrate my point, we can compare earnings of men with no college to women with a bachelor’s degree. Men make $45k, women make $65k. To believe that men are choosing trades you have to believe that men would voluntarily choose to m
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by vannevar 2y ago
I understand what you're saying, but in a broader sense there aren't as many opportunities for a woman without a college degree to earn a comparable living as a college graduate, given their prevailing preferences for types of wor
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by vannevar 2y ago
This makes intuitive sense---men have more opportunities to make a decent living in the trades without a college degree. See e.g. https://iwpr.org/numbers-matter-clarifying-the-data-on-women... .
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by vannevar 2y ago
The article doesn't provide details, but it would be interesting to know what percentage of the test subjects, if any, did in fact change their view in light of new evidence. Surely some people are more rational than others.
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by vannevar 2y ago
If anyone has ever read Tad Williams' Otherland series, this is basically the core idea. "The dream that is dreaming us."
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by vannevar 2y ago
Yes. While it's true that most EV owners now are relatively affluent, there are a lot of sub-$10K used EVs on the market and if chargers are available in disadvantaged communities, those used EVs become a much more viable option.
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by vannevar 2y ago
A better and more informative (albeit older) article can be found here: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/05/congress-ev-charger... According to this article, while the chargers are funded by the fed
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by vannevar 2y ago
>Every professional understands priority and expectations. And communication is all that is required. Sure--the kind of communication that is ensured by a brief daily standup (communication within the team) and a regular progress review
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As you note, the issue isn't women in the workforce generally, but professional high-salaried women in the workforce. From the 80s to the 2000s, the number of women doctors doubled; the number of women lawyers went from less than 10% t
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by vannevar 2y ago
I'm skeptical. During the same period of time, I suspect that the number of professional women in the workforce increased significantly, and it seems likely that this would have a much bigger impact on household income inequality than
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by vannevar 2y ago
I didn't say they were slacking, but they may be working on the wrong things, or prematurely optimizing things at the expense of other priorities. Ironically, it's the author who suggests implicitly that devs can slack more in wat
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>It's always the same with Scrum. Every time you point out something clearly wrong, the response is always "well that's not really scrum, you're doing it wrong". Yeah, that would be the correct response. If we we
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by vannevar 2y ago
There are several flaws in this article's arguments, but the central one is easily revealed when you ask this question: why is there a big spike in stress for the "waterfall" project? The answer is that as the deadline nears,
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by vannevar 2y ago
The right answer, objectively, is Crew Dragon. They cannot verify any of their theories about the Starliner, however confident they may be in those theories, without access to the vehicle. They cannot get access to the vehicle without bring
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by vannevar 2y ago
There are a couple of obvious problems with the breadth-first approach. While I think everyone would agree that a great platform beats a bunch of great one-function apps, building a great one-function app is much cheaper and less risky than
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For sure it will depend on use case, if you have fairly structured data or a clear domain-specific terminology to rely on, there's probably no reason to use semantic search. >Query expansion with FTS search works more predictably fo
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>throw out vector DB and embeddings into the trashcan (they are pulling junk information into the context and causing hallucinations) Not sure why this would be true. In my experience, semantic search based on a vector index/embeddi
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by vannevar 2y ago
>Then OP is essentially saying that we appear not to choose politicians that are prescribing bitter medicine. Sort of. I think it's more accurate to say that there are just enough fiscally irresponsible politicians in office to prev
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>[Technological progress] has been the default for at least a century or so, and I think it's done us quite well. Such progress has presented an existential threat only once previously in the past century, and that was the developme
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by vannevar 2y ago
You're speculating here. Let me speculate as well: if I were a research institution working with an advocacy group, and the group decided it wanted review and veto authority over my research, I would go ahead and publish my research to
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by vannevar 2y ago
>> Now, more than six years after signing the agreement, the EPC team does not appear to have published anything else, despite having provided WPATH with the material for six systematic reviews, according to the documents. >(Where
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by vannevar 2y ago
There is plenty of evidence that both the climate and Covid exist. Not sure what case you're making here.
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This is an allegation of suppression. No evidence is provided in the article that the supposed suppression actually happened.
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The content of the article does not support the claim in the headline. No specific evidence is presented that any particular study was changed or suppressed at WPATH's request. The article presents evidence that WPATH requested the aut
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Broken if you're trying to search for things, working great if you're an advertiser buying traffic.
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>And if the last few sprints they've completed between 5 and 30 points, do you believe they'll complete around 17.5 points next sprint? I don't know, what did the team figure out in retro? Was the big difference a real und

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