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by woopwoop 6y ago
I don't think the sort of ad hominem you are engaging in here is very useful, or convincing. Ad hominem is exactly what it is: you aren't arguing that the negative comments are wrong, just that the sort of people who make them are
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by woopwoop 6y ago
I usually agree that "brain drain" arguments are nonsense, but the United States really badly overpays for medical care because of our horribly dysfunctional system, so I'm a bit more sympathetic to them in this particular ca
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by woopwoop 6y ago
Here's one: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/hry8db/arme...
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by woopwoop 6y ago
This is extremely vague.
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by woopwoop 6y ago
> Wasn’t that a factor that was emphasized later? If anything, the opposite is true. You can read the declarations of secession for the southern states; e.g. see South Carolina's [1]. They seceded to protect the institution of slave
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by woopwoop 6y ago
Maybe the other commenters tearing into this are on a higher plane of irony from me, but I want to point out that I'm 99% sure the article is meant as a joke.
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by woopwoop 6y ago
I like the title, although maybe it could have included the phrase "representation theory". I did not know that Burnside expected so little of representation theory; I think it's an interesting and important part of the artic
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by woopwoop 7y ago
I would be very interested in understanding the psychology of the 1%. I would bet they (we? I mostly lurk, but am still probably at least in the top 10%) are a very weird bunch.
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by woopwoop 7y ago
I was 6 years old when this document was released to the public. It was written by a man who mailed bombs to people, killing several. He mailed this document to many large newspapers, demanding they publish it under the threat of further ac
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by woopwoop 7y ago
Here is section 230, the law protecting websites from liability for things published on them by third parties. [0] I do not see anything about a provider needing to be content neutral. In fact, part c2a seems to be explicitly saying the opp
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by woopwoop 7y ago
The 100k is a net present value calculation, which includes a 5% per year discount, which is quite steep. 1/1.05 15<0.5, 0.95 30<0.25. The undiscounted difference in lifetime earnings looks, just eyeballing the figure, to be ar
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by woopwoop 7y ago
I don't think your first dash is correct. It looks like they just integrate the curve in figure 4, multiplied by a 5% discount. This includes both tuition cost and missed work during college. Also, it's not really fair to represen
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by woopwoop 7y ago
Oh. I still don't understand how the word "Trump" makes the title non-neutral.
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by woopwoop 7y ago
In what way is the article title non-neutral? It seems fine to me. For the record, I oppose the Trump administration but support this action by the Trump administration.
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by woopwoop 7y ago
What are some examples of these experiments?
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by woopwoop 7y ago
The article specifically complains about even slightly less than even-handed promotion of conservative and liberal viewpoints, so it's certainly not only talking about forcing people into a filter bubble. It's just not the case th
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by woopwoop 7y ago
Replace "censoring conservative viewpoints" with "censoring the nice people who tell me about how I can make $13,000 a week working from home". Which part of this argument changes? I can't find any part that does.
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by woopwoop 7y ago
I'm a little perplexed by the dismissiveness of your response (perhaps I'm misreading?). I'm not saying IMO problems will never be algorithmically approachable, just saying expressing these problems in terms of Grobner bases
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by woopwoop 7y ago
There is a Mathoverflow thread [0] about this. Discussion in the comments expresses skepticism because olympiad questions usually involve questions about choosing specific real roots of polynomials, not just arbitrary roots. The discussion
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by woopwoop 7y ago
From Dirk Gently: “What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more
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by woopwoop 7y ago
I cannot fathom how this story is possibly in this sites purview.
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by woopwoop 7y ago
Instructors are often unbelievably naive about this, saying things to the effect of "Cheaters are really obvious, so there can't be that much of it." No, the cheaters that you catch are really obvious.
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by woopwoop 7y ago
Lots of public libraries also allow you to download audiobooks from their websites.
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by woopwoop 7y ago
I live in Austin. I find it completely baffling that the increase in rent is blamed on dense development in the area west of campus, and not on population growth coupled with the complete lack of any development at all in the area north of
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by woopwoop 7y ago
This is selection bias. Of course the cheaters who get caught are obvious. The question is whether the cheaters you don't catch are obvious. Academics say the same thing about students who cheat in university, apparently unaware of the
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by woopwoop 7y ago
The means to recreating human level intelligence could be out of reach of human beings for the same reason that the means of recreating cat level intelligence is out of reach of cats.
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by woopwoop 7y ago
Perhaps, but there's two ways that this can be interpreted. One is that Democrats have a misperception about Republicans' beliefs on this issue. I'm sure to some extent this is true. The other, though, is that Democrats and R
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by woopwoop 7y ago
Maybe this is just my partisanship, but the misperceptions on the conservative side seem much more egregious than the misperceptions on the liberal side. Liberal misperceptions are of the form of wishy-washy statements such as "racism
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by woopwoop 8y ago
To clarify, are you saying you've met people who have been successful at Olympiads and the Putnam who fail out of grad school because they can't learn LaTex?
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by woopwoop 8y ago
If you really think education is all about signalling, shouldn't you be more, not less, optimistic that it will be robust to technological changes that make delivering course materials cheaper?

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