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691.
by yasp 8y ago
How could you possibly argue that without studying the question?
692.
by yasp 8y ago
So rather than try to improve the science we should just ignore the question?
693.
by yasp 8y ago
Has anyone studied whether time preference might be genetically heritable? Edit: why am I being downvoted for this?
694.
by yasp 8y ago
Good point
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by yasp 8y ago
This exact case is discussed in Eliezer Yudkowsky's "An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem" [0]. [0] http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes
696.
by yasp 8y ago
Unfortunately there is another dimension here which is that we're allocating a scarce resource (medical care). If one group has significantly higher rates of hypocondria (again, I don't know for sure whether this is true, but assu
697.
by yasp 8y ago
So Bayesianism is good but only sometimes?
698.
by yasp 8y ago
Suppose for the sake of argument that on average women have higher rates of thinking something is physically wrong with them when there isn't. Is it not rational for doctors to take a Bayesian approach and weight their diagnoses accord
699.
by yasp 8y ago
Yes. This is how a well functioning economy works.
700.
by yasp 8y ago
I don't know much about the trucking industry but I imagine that it is competitive enough where employers don't feel like they have much latitude to pass higher wages along to their customers.
701.
by yasp 8y ago
I am so sick of this perpetual fallacy about labor shortages. If you can't find enough workers it means you need to raise the price you're offering. (But yasp the article cited one particular firm has already increased prices 15%
702.
How Institutional Complaints Procedures Are Being Weaponized(quillette.com)
2 points by yasp 8y ago|1 comments
703.
by yasp 8y ago
The author is a rising star.
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The Racism Treadmill(quillette.com)
12 points by yasp 8y ago|4 comments
705.
by yasp 8y ago
You need to find meaning in your life. For many people the work and the paycheck are a means to an end, not an end unto itself.
706.
by yasp 8y ago
> It is about the meaning of work at all. The point of it. Why it exists at all. Because someone finds value in the work you do.
707.
by yasp 8y ago
Previously (related) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17109290
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by yasp 8y ago
See also: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/05/the-philip-c...
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A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign(wikipedia.fivefilters.org)
748 points by yasp 8y ago|366 comments
710.
by yasp 8y ago
I'm not aware of people committing crimes to fuel their social media habits.
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US Supreme Court rules for New Jersey in fight to legalize sports betting(cnbc.com)
7 points by yasp 8y ago|0 comments
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by yasp 8y ago
> Users are anonymous and posts go away. This is the one that always gets brought up, but the fact is that by having ephemeral accounts and posts, people are free to speak their mind and to change their position later without ill effect.
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by yasp 9y ago
Related: How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument (PDF) >The Chinese government has long been suspected of hiring as many as 2,000,000 people to surreptitiously insert huge
714.
by yasp 9y ago
> Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/24/us/affirmativ... Maybe it works as
715.
by yasp 9y ago
Giving someone a 200+ point advantage on their SATs based solely on the color of their skin is an anti-bias program now?
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by yasp 9y ago
They didn't analyze IQ?
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by yasp 9y ago
And yet ultimately the users can move to a fork if they are unhappy. To wit: Bitcoin Cash, which is the true bitcoin. (With Bitcoin Cash, Nassim's coffeeshop transaction would indeed be possible, and without needing to wait for 10+ min
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No Passport or Ticket: How a Woman Evaded Airport Security and Flew to London(nytimes.com)
2 points by yasp 9y ago|0 comments
719.
by yasp 9y ago
In defense of PoW: http://truthcoin.info/blog/pow-and-mining/ http://truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/
720.
by yasp 9y ago
yes. at least with BTC you have an audit trail.

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