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by xenocyon 7y ago
That's interesting, this method has Google take the place of peer review. Are there concerns with the Google algorithm being unsuited to this purpose, or SEO? Personally, I only trust arxiv preprints when I know something about the aut
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Reminds me of Matt Bors' Mister Gotcha: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha
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Establishing causation is often more difficult than it seems. You're drawing a particular arrow of causation here: kids talking about or joking about depression or EDs -> kids actually suffering from depression or EDs. How do you kn
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It's weird to speak of literal organ harvesting and the legal fiction (admittedly, an arguably useful fiction) of intellectual "property" in the same sentence. One of these things is not like the other.
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I heard commentators make the same argument when Facebook was trying to push a Facebook-preferring free "basic internet" in India, which India rejected. It turns out the terms of these ostensibly beneficial deals generally only be
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It's not OK to oppose drug legalization merely because one wishes to find ways to criminalize homelessness.
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Data scientist here. I'm surprised nobody here has yet mentioned the false-positive issue with trawling a large dataset: even a tiny false positive rate leads to a very high probability of convicting an innocent person if you mine a
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One concern is the possibility of being sued by Monsanto. Monsanto has promised on its website not to sue farmers if there is inadvertent contamination in their crops. OTOH Monsanto has aggressively sued farmers in other cases. So I guess i
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I'm measuring with respect to the default. When I say "useful" I mean "more useful than the default". Investing in stocks and bonds is the default (very few rich people save cash notes in a coffee can, so that'
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I think about this a lot, as another frugal but high-earning household that earns way more than we spend, even after maxing out 401(k) contributions. Most people in our position save more than they need partly as a means of hedging personal
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That's very hard to believe; glass is pretty inert.
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Causality is just human perception and there's nothing special about time. Let me try to explain this in three ways, going from intuitive/trivial to non-intuitive/mind-blowing: • You can have causality in space rather than ti
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Anecdotally it seems to me that not only is most business travel wasteful, but the people who do it the most are the most wasteful (e.g. a junior dev won't make a trip unless it's really needed where an exec won't think twice
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That's not exactly correct. There are several factors here. A big one is that prosecutors (whose jobs depend on police cooperation) have been reluctant to go against police; this probably won't change with video evidence. However,
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It's worth remembering that the 10 hours include "commute" and lunch, so it's about the same as as a nominally 8 hour workday.
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It's strange that statements like your "the best drugs" theory are allowed to stand uncontested when there is a plethora of evidence showing that homelessness is largely caused by housing unaffordability.