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by wutbrodo 4y ago
"Victim" still feels appropriate, on grounds of what should be the pretty basic expectation to be transparent with the patient. I know it's not feasible to exhaustively explain the entire sausage factory, but it's not di
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
You're misunderstanding either the parent comment or how entropy works. An organism is not a closed system, and thus isn't bound by any law of increasing entropy. In fact, life is practically _defined_ by maintaining local entropy
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> If you have any kind of condition, disorder, disease, etc. obviously talk to a medical professional. That's sort of the rub in cavalierly recommending things to the general population, even when they're only somewhat extreme.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> What is the "standard western diet"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_pattern_diet , also referred to throughout the article as "The Standard American Diet".
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Unfortunately, that's not quite true. Here's the AMA[1] with a press release entitled "New AMA policies recognize race as a social, not biological, construct". They discourage using race as a source of any physiological
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Thank you for making the effort to type out such a clear explanation. Covid further ratcheted up my hopelessness in people's ability to maintain the most basic grasp on how reality works. But in the early days, it was insanity-inducing
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> I’d be careful not to jump to the conclusion that credentials are bad or requiring them amounts to anything corrupt, extractive or squatting. I'm not assuming this. I have independent reason to consider universities to be corrupt,
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> Although don't be categorical about it, I'm European-descendant and don't feel the slightest disadvantage compared to those groups. Yes, I thought it was explicit in the conversation that we're talking about average
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Of course, there's a dramatic premium on college degrees, no question about that. But the selection effect in that statistic is disproportionately important to understand, even if at this moment in time its magnitude is low. It helps u
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I gather why it's male, but is spatial intelligence particularly European? IIRC, East Asians overall score noticeably higher than Europeans overall, all else held equal. And their relative underrepresentation in the US elides the fact
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Not to mention the selection effect: if you took the cohort that would finish four year degrees and didn't send them to college, they would still be making more money.
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It's a large enough disparity that it says something useful about the component majors. And unsurprisingly, when you look at the component majors, the same effect is dramatically apparent. It's like looking at "total househol
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
As I said, I don't think tesla is properly valued right now (though I haven't looked into their financials rigorously enough to have a strong opinion). The market is betting on Tesla being "Apple for EVs", with a combina
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> I think OP would not be the confused one in 6 months time Apologies, but this doesn't make any sense. The OP referred to the current size of Tesla ("mid-size car company"), with no reference to future cash flows, which i
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
There's a very weird strain of culty utopian-maximalism in our culture right now. It'd bother me less if the entire last century wasn't filled with horror stories about what can happen if this sort of childishness festers too
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> part-owner of a mid-sized car company (by number of cars sold) Because the market doesn't, and shouldn't, value things solely based on a snapshot of current business, as opposed to a projection of future business, based only
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I don't follow your logic. "This isn't crazy for one of the highest-earning majors" is true, but what does it have to do with the average college student's expectations? Agreed that the headline stat is very broad,
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> Dorsey is now influenced by the likely new owner of Twitter because of fear of different factors (stakeholders, financial consequences), he wants the deal to go through he will not go on the record and contradict the person he is selli
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
You don't need any conspiracies theories to explain why Dorsey is a supporter of free speech. Dorsey has always been part of the crop of Enlightenment-liberal tech CEOs, which includes Larry, Sergey, and Zuckerberg. It got memory-holed
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I'm quite sure you're misunderstanding the purpose of this conversation and thread. When people talk about housing prices spiking, and that not being included in inflation, they're pretty much exclusively talking about _land_
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
The cost of maintenance of a structure is far less relevant than the value of the land underneath it.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> New Yorker to New Yorker adds a lot of context. Google's corporate culture is generally very Californian As a lifelong Californian who moved to NY, this makes sense. Though I don't know if it's a blanket excuse... There&
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
My recollection from my time there, as well as one of the biggest cultural differences noticeable between my and my workplaces since, is that big chunks of the company really do believe in the blameless postmortem ideal. But culture isn&#x2
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Please, read the paper or at least the abstract before commenting. The paper is not about "at-rest" devices; it's about inferences made from the audio stream of activated commands. Ie, it's about the depth of processing
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Given your framing as "massive scale audio processing" to pick signals out of audio streams, I think you may have misread (or not read...) the paper. It's not claiming Alexa is listening in while inactive. It's claiming
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I agree with you at the industry level, but a characteristic of a burgeoning industry is that it's overextended on the margins. There are plenty of individual companies that are sustainable during flush times but not during a recession
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> the character limit means nothing complex can ever be successfully discussed there. Which excludes basically every important subject, leaving quick news and jokes as the only viable uses of the platform for anyone of sense. Definitely
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Ah OK, so you're saying that this will enable an expansion of verification, which will then serve as a solution to the bot issue.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Obviously, but verification already exists. For your answer to make sense, one needs to assume that there's a non-trivial problem of verified bot accounts. Is that assumption correct? It seems incredibly wrong to me, but I may be misin
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
It's like Reddit, or uh, a billion other things in life. People complain about it because they don't have the will or emotional health[1] to be disciplined about how they use it. Despite following a decent number of econ- and poli

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