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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Actually it appears that the more police you have the more misdemeanor arrests result, but this does not impact the clearance rate for violent felonies. I don't have access to this study, so I cannot really comment on it, but this
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If you look at the most apples-to-apples comparison of crime rate between the countries, the homicide rate, it is beyond clear that the disparity between US and Europe is very much real, and not just an artifact of differing reporting rates
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Have you ever looked for it? Here is a systematic review of available evidence: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10610-021-09500-8 > The systematic search strategies yielded 49 studies focusing on te
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It is generally expected, and in fact almost always the case, that if you hire people to deal with a specific problem, hiring more of them will result in less of this problem, and conversely, hiring fewer will result in having more of that
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
It is indeed the case in US. This is because we have way fewer cops than we should have relative to the amount of crime. We have 30-50% fewer cops per capita than France or Germany, but a big multiple of their crime rate. We have about as m
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
United States is highly underpoliced. Look at this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_depend... We have much fewer officers per capita than France or Germany, but these countries have much less crim
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
If p is the probability of success, then probability of 1500 successes in 150 independent trials is p^150. With p = 0.99, the chance you see 150 successes in a row is 0.22. If we take significance level to be the standard 0.05, then we cann
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Copper inferior for productivity, which is what we are talking about here.
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I don't think that most people would agree that anarcholibertarianism (the system which allocates least decisions to state) is the least "partisan" option. That's not what people understand by partisanship.
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> Roe was decided by conservatives Roe was decided by the Burger court, which, according to Wikipedia, "is generally considered to be the last liberal court to date". It was heavily based on a Griswold v. Connecticut precedent
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What do you mean that it is now oriented towards partisanship? This has been true for at least a century. The recent Dobbs decision is as much the result of partisan efforts to institute policy opposed by the majority of the country as th
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> I'm not sure how the title got past the editors, considering how misleading it is. The editors of The Guardian want their readers misled. This is very deliberate. Everything the article says will be true if taken literally, except
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It was not an assassination, only an assassination attempt; the trooper has survived being shot by the domestic terrorist.
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A typical household uses something on the order of 1-2 MWh of power a month. This is something like 2-3 KW on average. 1 MW can thus support something like 300-500 households, and 50 MW can support 15000-25000 households, i.e. small to medi
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Every single thing you mentioned is based on existing IP, with the youngest one, Avatar, bring already a decade old, and others multiple decades. We are running on fumes.
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Google is bragging about spending hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity programs every year.
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> Fair enough, but in a way it's more false comparisons; investing billions into a tribal-agrarian society in the midst of civil and religious war is qualitatively different from investing it into an already industrialized society.
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> After all, he might have gone pro but he wasn't even in the top half nevermind the top quartile. No, he was deep in the top percentile of players. By the time you even get to NFL draft, you're clearly one of the best ones. Ev
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Contrast that with the topic of the article at hand, which is a solution for a non-problem and serves no purpose. See, the Republicans can say the exact same thing about this as above: “the work from home ban is not meant to spite an
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Note that I said “you should probably drop out”, not “you need to drop out as soon as you notice others are better”. This shows that there is hardly a way I could have advocated it better, as people like you, or others in this thread (rea
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Assault weapon bans, for example. They do absolutely nothing to reduce gun violence, and they only serve to annoy law abiding gun owners and enthusiasts. Laws focusing on handguns would have made some sense, as most crime is indeed committe
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
My experience is that I dropped out after getting Master’s degree, after realizing that while I can graduate and then get a postdoc job, I am simply not able to produce as high quality output as some of my colleagues. In hindsight, and espe
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> Not only would I say that research isn't special, but I would also say that, just like every other field of creative endeavor that doesn't intrinsically bring a lot of money, those who write the checks (and those who focus on
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> My experience is that "being smart" is an advantage for the first years - say up to bachelor - at which point there is no magic: if you don't work, you won't get your exams. Yes, if you don't put in the effort,
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> Some of the best scientists were and are unconventional late bloomers. Sure, but that's beside the point. The funding is limited, and, what's even worse, if we spread it too thin, best scientists will leave to make millions o
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In your professional life, you are encountering people who are already heavily preselected, most recently by the hiring process, earlier by hiring and promotion processes of their previous companies, yet earlier by graduation requirements o
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
If you read what I said with even a modicum of good will and charity, you'll observe that I recommended that people who don't keep up drop out on their own initiative , instead of being culled by "my own definition of smart
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> That doesn't mean there is no room for "average" researchers. The "average" researchers are doing disservice themselves, the people funding their research, and actually good researchers. They are doing disservi
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Yes, of course. Some people will produce valuable research, and others will produce worthless papers nobody will ever read. The society is funding the entire activity, so it has vested interest in ensuring that as much money goes towards th
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I’ve seen fellow students put a quarter of time on studying that I did (they spent the rest studying all the other advanced stuff that I didn’t even have time to look at), and get top scores on exams and effortlessly explain everything to

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