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by wisty 7y ago
IIRC it is true, but it's a quirk of the phone market. People either go for the the flagship or for an economy phone, but it's a weird quirk of the mobile market (since most people assume that the cheapest phones are basically as
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by wisty 8y ago
Stories are often modified to make them more compelling, often to follow a 3 act play - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-act_structure A founder's story (when it's told for PR reasons) will rarely be so me
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by wisty 8y ago
I suspect a lot of readers will have some proficiency in either R or Python and want to learn the other.
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by wisty 8y ago
I'm very pro free speech, but having the ability to discuss ideas on a public platform being temporarily curtailed is only worrying if it's overused.
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by wisty 8y ago
> But to play devil's advocate for a moment, isn't there something of a natural disincentive to level up one's employees in such a tight labor market? To follow the author's analogy, by mentoring someone, we're e
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by wisty 8y ago
I'd imagine that after a week you'll start checking email (because that's still work, right?) and after a month you'll be on Facebook because really, who cares about some stranger knowing you're procrastinating?
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by wisty 8y ago
Look at Australia. We've been very easily influenced by the coal lobby. If there's plenty of jobs and investment flowing in, we'll do the same for nuclear.
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by wisty 8y ago
But is there a better way to understand things?
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by wisty 8y ago
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story... > But that story is about to change. A paper now in press, and due to publish next month in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, des
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by wisty 8y ago
IMO a lot of people mistake disagreement for "concern trolling". "Oh my goodness, how can anyone be so stupid that they don't agree with my (somewhat statistically fringe) position, they must be a troll!"
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by wisty 8y ago
It doesn't seem like the system dampens. Instead, there seems to be some kind of anger that for 99% of men "privilege" means working hard, making compromises, and other stuff that's roughly as crappy as being a housewife
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by wisty 8y ago
I think a lot of dystopias arise from Rousseau-style or blank-slate naturalism - the idea that humans are naturally good (or that they can be easily socialised to be naturally good). A dystopian ruler does not believe they are destroying hu
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by wisty 8y ago
People who wanted to cheat were already cheating.
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by wisty 8y ago
The world isn't made up of just laymen and students. There's also professionals. In some cases employers will pay, or individuals can pay, but journal payment schemes aren't really set up for this.
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by wisty 8y ago
That's not the only issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#Psychology_... > A report by the Open Science Collaboration in August 2015 that was coordinated by Brian Nosek estimated the reproduci
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by wisty 8y ago
Any flashcard system will have shared decks of the most common words.
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by wisty 8y ago
The backfire effect seems to be heavily exaggerated - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2819073 And just think about how the research is done. "Hello conservative test subject. Here's a 1 pa
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by wisty 8y ago
Theory of the second best - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_second_best Basically economics talk for how the second best solution might not be close to the best solution (i.e. there are local maxima). A per
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by wisty 8y ago
A lot of murderers are low socioeconomic status males, but the vast majority of low socioeconomic status males are not murderers. It seems a lot like there's a choice.
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by wisty 8y ago
I think I read it in reference to university lecturers.
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by wisty 8y ago
There's a much better way to hold educators to account - have other educators sit in on classes. But this is often very strongly resisted, apparently it's 'unprofessional'.
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by wisty 8y ago
I think negative emotions are like a stop sign, not a stop light - they mean "stop and look for danger", not "stop, do not continue this way".
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by wisty 8y ago
You might not want to look up Hugh Everett III.
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by wisty 8y ago
I'm not personally a conservative, but I'm pretty sure conservatives are not all hardcore libertarians or objectivists. Some of the intellectual brain-trust of conservative thought is libertarian or objectivist, but a lot of the b
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by wisty 8y ago
While Americans seem obsessed with defining "free speech" as being exactly the same thing as the 1st Amendment, it might help to ask exactly why the 1st Amendment is a good idea. JS Mill argued that censorship is wrong on a rights
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by wisty 8y ago
If only there was an unpaid army of people who would benefit from learning how to reproduce scientific works.
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by wisty 8y ago
Or people who feel bad but still need to get stuff done may be more likely to drink a lot of energy drinks. Given the importance of mental health in the military, I'd think it should be enough evidence for some kind of intervention tri
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by wisty 8y ago
They do have a valid argument - it's possible that future predictions are badly wrong. It's like the early days of the space race. Scientists would say things are dangerous and were just being alarmist, or think it was safe then t
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by wisty 8y ago
Here we go: "Why Diversity Programs Fail" https://hbr.org/2016/07/why-diversity-programs-fail There's a ton of data. Compulsory implicit bias training, for example, will most likely be bad for diver
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by wisty 8y ago
It seems like the article is just beating up a straw man. It doesn't define futurism, name any major futurologists, and seems to just rely on the stereotype that it's "flying cars" and "the Jetsons". It does me

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