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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
If there is a vastly overpaid asshole in the group, they could throw others off their scent by adding a really small, or even negative value. Then when the overall sum is revealed, they would be able to calculate the correct value for thems
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
Sounds nice in theory, but the whole idea behind the right to face your accuser is that people depend on their senses to judge if someone's lying or not by how he/she reacts to the confrontation.
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
I love seeing this phenomenon appear in the wild: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox In short: people can be correct when they notice an inverse correlation, because their world consists of people who go
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
Americans are generally sentenced to prison for committing specific crimes. Sure there may be some things you think the law should decriminalize (do vote), and also, sometimes innocents are imprisoned, which absolutely should not happen.
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
I think there are multiple factors that will prevent the US from ever taking a united stance on it: 1) Republicans are probably louder about criticizing China but lose credibility when they don't speak up about (less severe, but still
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
>There is statistical data saying the opposite Interesting study and really good discussion on HN at the time, but the opposite of "[Whiteboard interviews] often give a very good and reasonable signal that often has a high corolla
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
Regardless -- I think it's a valid reading to say the "area between" say, g(x) = x and the x-axis from -1 to 1 equals 1. Only people who are trained would say it's 0. So I don't think something like that really meas
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
The second summand due to the sin^3 is not nonnegative (so you do need to use oddness to avoid the integral) Right on the second part, my bad.
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
I think the following is poorly worded and possibly incorrect: >What is the area enclosed by the function f(x) = sin²x - x²(sin³x)(cos²x) and the x-axis — between -π/4 and π/4? Well, the second part is an odd function so we kno
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
>Assuming that every question in this 20-question test has only 1 right answer and you choose to answer each question randomly, what is the chance that you're so bad that you only get 4 questions right or less? They probably mean fo
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
Well this is sad. It seems to me that this should have been avoidable - along with others like airlines and cruise lines saying they're going to go bankrupt. Why is hitting "pause" for half a year such a death sentence? As a
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
Mormons are a vanishingly small percentage of all religious people. You asserted that MLMs are correlated with religion (with no qualifiers), and instead of backing up that assumption with data, you went right into sociologically theorizing
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
Perhaps law firms could invite people with smaller cases to cooperate as follows: everyone contributes some amount of money to a pool and gives the description of their proposed case. Then the law firm chooses the best action to pursue usin
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
Can public schools just mandate that kids wear masks, from a legal perspective? On the one hand, kids are much less... annoying about enduring inconveniences; but on the other hand, public schools can't play the private-business card t
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
Even if the science on this isn't settled yet, it's such low hanging fruit that I can't think of any reason why the big N companies aren't already doing it. Besides, it would require less time from the interviewers (sinc
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
I'm not really sure anger or violence works that way. Some would say that tolerating violence leads to more, or more severe violence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
I think you're touching on a more general trend. People are waking up to the fact that punishments and jailtime are often excessive for criminals. And also that for too long people got away with saying terrible (but not illegal) shit.
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
One could probably extrapolate from the statistic mentioned in the article (below). It seems plausible that the US visa system ends up taking in more people of high castes. >In 2003, only 1.5 percent of Indian immigrants in the United St
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by virtuous_signal 6y ago
Does anyone think this happens nowadays in interviews? I am not in favor of any kind of “standardized test” for software engineer interviews, but it seems like the practice of picking just 1 or 2 problems could easily be used to reject an u
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Why Bats Make Such Good Viral Hosts(the-scientist.com)
2 points by virtuous_signal 7y ago|0 comments
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‘I Will Not Apologize for My Needs’(nytimes.com)
3 points by virtuous_signal 7y ago|0 comments
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
I see this sentiment expressed a lot, but I can think of edge cases where it fails. One case is regular sexual harrassment from a peer (say 2 students in a class). It's not technically a crime, but it's easy to see that the educat
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
The matter is not as simple as "Devos is against it, so we must support it"; also one could say recent revisions aren't attempts to "dismantle" it. Criticism has come from all sides: AAUP: https://www.aa
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
How easily could this story* happen in other fields besides University faculties? Could this all be avoided by just not telling anyone that you are in the running for a job, until you have the written offer in hand? *(1:frenemy finds out yo
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
The author makes the point that the investigator was sympathetic, but had to follow policy. It's the policy that is defective: >Melanie also hadn’t been able to locate a current student named Rebecca James in Marta’s department, but
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
At least for sexually reproductive species, your first objection could be addressed by defining the species relation as the transitive closure of the relation A ~ B if A can reproduce with B. (so for instance male1 ~ female0 and male2 ~ fem
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
I think anyone who has experience playing old video games can intuit the first 1/3 of the article from this experience. Think of one of those spaceship games played on a 2D screen, where you can exit out the right side and re-enter thr
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
Similar? In my opinion this is much faster, easier, and less burdened by notation.
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
Thinking about this and going down the wikipedia rabbit hole of inventions scares me. I've heard the Dark Ages happened in part because society collectively forgot how to re-create the advanced technology from ancients, so once things
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by virtuous_signal 7y ago
Results like this make me wonder what news from sociology or psychology can really be trusted. It seems that every finding I've heard about that has entered the mainstream (stanford prison experiment, the importance of "grit&quot

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