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by wisty 5y ago
Correlation is not causation. Someone who is interested in being good with people is likely to look for a model, but maybe it's their motivation (rather than the model) that makes them good with people.
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by wisty 5y ago
It seems logical, but badly explained. Wait for the opposing case to contradict themselves, then jump on the contradiction. Now the jury is going to argue over which of the prosecution witnesses were lying. If you just attack the first one,
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by wisty 5y ago
Note - if a medical professional is saying someone is unfit to go to work and needs some recovery time, that's different. I'm talking about self-proscribed mental health days. It's one of several things people are very confid
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by wisty 5y ago
It's not a question of whether it's misused. It's whether it's misused so often that it's a bad idea. And while I hope most professionals can be trusted to use it appropriately, I think the whole "awareness&quo
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by wisty 5y ago
The alternative to "butts in seats" is some kind of hard KPI. Uber doesn't need to pay for "butts in seats" because it can manage workers through discrete and easily monitored performance indicators. For any job whe
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by wisty 5y ago
Yeah Spartans were the aristocracy, then there were peasants (free but not citizens, Perioikoi) and serfs (Helots) below them. IIRC the Spartan aristocracy were originally Doric invaders who most likely created the rigid rules because they
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by wisty 5y ago
As far as I can tell, infanticide was accepted in ancient Greece and Rome at a lot of points. Ancient historians did have a habit of making assumptions that previous societies, they might have assumed that infanticide was common in Sparta b
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by wisty 5y ago
When there's a disaster, there will be emergency responders from other jurisdictions lined up on the state lines as the commanders call to ask if assistance is needed.
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by wisty 5y ago
Or they could get a list of deps, and just get their engineers to occasionally keep tabs on a few random deps. Random would be almost as good as systematic if a few companies did it. Check the security of the infrastructure (is it one guy?)
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by wisty 5y ago
I think science has the abstract (tell em what you'll tell em) then the body and a discussion which is more "OK, now that I got you're attention, here is what I actually think but can't prove".
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by wisty 5y ago
"Trickle down" is a snarl word like "Cultural Marxism". Supposed advocates of it never call it that, and anyone talking about it is probably getting most of their information of it from other like-minded critics.
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by wisty 5y ago
I love pointing out that if it becomes a serious currency banks would offer bitcoin-denominated loans (causing an increase in money supply); and if there's then a credit crunch the Fed could offer bitcoin-denominated (but unbacked) bon
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by wisty 5y ago
That was my thought too. It's nice to try making an MYP without any nasty technical debt, but only if it's a hobby and you can pay your bills without needing to ever launch.
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by wisty 5y ago
No, the induction step works for n>=3. The induction step fails for n=2. For n=2, you can't prove h1 is the same colour as h2, because you don't have a h3 to compare it to.
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by wisty 5y ago
One of the biggest source of bad ideas in education is that people think it would be better if it catered to the kind of person they thought they were when they went to school. "Imagine if, instead of wasting time on phonics, we inspir
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by wisty 5y ago
Do they account for where they went to school? I went to a fairly rural high school. Pretty much everyone who turned out to be gay went to university, because it's a good choice if you want to go move to the city. A lot of poor /
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by wisty 5y ago
OK, so it's one of the more flexible ones (like those binary jsons) rather than something like protobuf. I guess that should have been obvious from "self-describing".
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by wisty 5y ago
I scanned the docs, and can't see what happens if you alter your data schema. Anyone know?
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by wisty 5y ago
So why were they clockwise? Here's my guess. Falling down a staircase is way worse than falling up it. If it's clockwise, then if you hug the outer wall (with the less steep steps) as you go down then your dominant hand can hold t
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by wisty 5y ago
I presume this is partly because Tory supporters are more likely to watch the news on the television, listen to the radio or read dead tree newspapers so they kind of have to pander to them. For similar reasons, most political comedians see
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by wisty 5y ago
IIRC if you repeat it 1000 times the adults can start to figure out the rules. Kids are quicker at solving totally novel problems where pre-existing knowledge actually makes it harder, but adults are usually capable of figuring out their pr
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by wisty 5y ago
"Solve it yourself" vs "ask for help" has trade-offs. I think a lot of smarter people usually try to solve things themselves, and that's why they're smart. But there's always some problems where you just h
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by wisty 5y ago
http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
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by wisty 5y ago
I've got mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, writing dross is actually quite good practice. On the other hand, having standards (at least before publishing) is something that should be encouraged.
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by wisty 5y ago
I mean, the streets look ugly and boring. Tokyo is the only city where I've been that only really looks good when it's night and it's covered in neon billboards. Other than billboards (and a few interesting shopfronts), stree
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by wisty 5y ago
It talks a lot about the lack of zoning, which (combined with lots of low-rise) leads to convenience stores on every corner. This makes living a lot easier (you don't need to drive to get basic groceries), reduces crime (eyes on the st
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by wisty 5y ago
Decimation was rarely used IIRC. But as far as I can tell, the Romans were similar in a lot of ways to the Spartans. Probably everyone was in the region, the Spartans were just a bit more extreme, and had the best propaganda. But look at wh
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by wisty 5y ago
> Among those willing to fake their minority status, 48 percent of white male applicants lied about their race, while 16 percent of white female applicants did so. I suppose male students are likely to have lower grades. From what I can
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by wisty 5y ago
If an adult child said they want to stay home, cook for you and clean the house, and maybe look after younger siblings, most people would say they need to grow up and get a job.
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by wisty 5y ago
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~todorov/papers/TodorovICRA1...

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