yetanotherphd

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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Most of the objections here and in the article are not inherent problems with frequentist p-values. First, the reported p-value might be wrong. E.g. basing it on assumptions of normality when the data is non-normal. However modern non-par
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
All I see is the assertion that "money isn't real" interspersed with rambling anecdotes.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Great ideas, I look forward to them in your fork of HN.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I don't know if this man's views on sugar are accurate, but things like: >''Reviews of the body of scientific evidence by expert committees have concluded that consuming sugar as part of a balanced diet does not induc
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I made the switch to OpenCombat, it's based on the same open source software, but without the spammy ads.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Programming used to be hard because of the hyper-optimization needed to get things to run. Now programming is hard because of the giant scale of existing open source codebases. It's not just the libraries, it's the toolchains, the
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
You assume that there is some relationship between churn, and total unemployment. I don't see how that would work. If Uber were convinced that it was terribly immoral to fire someone, they would just put greater effort into making sur
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
It seems that Hawala might be used for import tax evasion: >Most hawaladars take care of money transfers as a side part of their small business, so often hawaladars pay each other back in non-monetary ways. The most common case is by dis
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Is there anything that grasshoppers eat that isn't kosher? Maybe Watson is much smarter than we think.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
The Google barge is displacing thousands of cubic meters of water, some of which has been in the bay for decades.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
You are clearly taking one side of a debate, whether you admit it or not, cunt.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Porn is wonderful and liberating. Booth babes are degrading and misogynistic.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
It really depends on your definition of sexism, which is an ambiguous term. Suppose it were true that given a woman and man with the same resume, the woman tended to perform worse. It would them be rational to assume that, given two otherw
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Let me clarify the the alternate explanations for this study: The researchers are aware that women on average perform worse than men, even given the same resume. As a general principal, this is not ridiculous, e.g. a female boxer will perf
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Fun fact: the US government has the ability to tell you how much you should be paying in taxes, and to pre-fill your tax returns. However this has been prevented by lobbyists from the tax preparation industry http://www.techdirt
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I asserted that both explanations are possible, which is an obvious fact to me, until it is shown that one of the explanations is wrong. I didn't notice I was replying to you, not aestra, who implicitly explained the results of the stu
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
That is really gross, can you at least add some trigger warnings next time?
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I'm giving an alternative explanation for why the female named resumes are rated worse by the professors. I'm "pulling it from" the same place you pulled your preferred explanation (that female performance conditional on
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
It's also possible that the scientists correctly infer that, even conditional on having the same resume, female applicants were overall of a lower quality. The study doesn't prove whether this disadvantage comes from people discri
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I don't think there is any conflict of interest. The police are only concerned with the criminals who stole the password. Whether the university owes the employees their pay because of the lax security they implemented, is almost cer
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Wild speculation that {women|older people|Black people} are inherently less inclined/capable in a field, is baseless discrimination. Wild speculation that {men|younger people|White people} are inherently less inclined/capable in
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
I think the only comparison that makes sense is the benefit from the scan. So if you are certain that the benefit of the scan is, no matter what the particular case, going to be worth much more than a 1/1000 chance of getting cancer, t
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
That still makes no sense. If I want to know whether to do a CT scan, the only relevant fact is the increase in probability (in an absolute sense) of cancer that it causes. It seems like either you, or the entire field of medicine, is obfus
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
>If you do the math by ICRP formulae, you end up with increase chance of cancer of 1 in 2600 over the next 20 years from a single 7ms CT scan today. This compares favorably with "natural" risk that is 1 in 10 without any extra
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
In the actual video, the principal doesn't say there are no rules, but that they start off with no rules and create them collaboratively is the need arises. E.g. no high tackles in the game of bullrush
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Those are separate matters: one is a matter of law, the other a matter of fact. Suppose for example, that the police interviewed this man and he confirmed every part of her story. Then I think there would be sufficient evidence of rape. On
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
being "cheaper" is not in itself an advantage. You personally might benefit from having a lower cost of living, for whatever reason, but your employer never sees this. All they see is the value you provide when you are at work.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Why did they have to smash up the fax machine too? That was just gratuitous.
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Bear in mind Snowden has proven his commitment to rigorous honesty. Many people you might think of as decent might think these things, but not admit it, even to themselves. I don't judge Snowden for saying these things, any more than
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
>I've only sees "only abstinence is 100% effective" mocked from a policy perspective. It is true that abstinence is 100% effective on a personal level, but teaching it is remarkably ineffective at a population level. The p

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