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by yk 8y ago
> I fail to see how "we" are forgetting. Anytime a journalist writes "we," you should read that as "we journalists." That has the nice advantage of subverting the rhetorical intent, and keeping the blood pre
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by yk 8y ago
The relation of journalists to the truth is quite similar to the relation of used car salesman to road safety; I am sure every used car salesman can tell you a story about the clunker he didn't sell. (The big difference is, that for so
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by yk 8y ago
> Of course Hamlet only makes sense within the value system of England of that time Lit studies usually claim something quite different, namely that you need a sophisticated interpretative framework. The values of that time may or may no
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Kalashnikov takes on Tesla with retro-look electric 'supercar'(theguardian.com)
8 points by yk 8y ago|1 comments
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In particular the DoD. It's not like the Iraq war helped anybody except turning Al-Qaeda from 500 people on the verge of getting kicked out of Afghanistan into an army large enough to have it's own internal civil war in Syria. And
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by yk 8y ago
So the last hope collider people are getting desperate? To explain a bit, the well known trouble with today's physical theories is, that on one hand we know that general relativity and quantum field theories do not fit well together, o
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by yk 8y ago
> Funny how the freezing snap at the beginning of the year March-April was put down to “weather” and a hot spell is put down to “climate change”. You are confusing journalism with science, journalists want to sell newspapers, ideally by
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by yk 8y ago
Air travel is actually not that hard, just very energy inefficient. A turbine will work with almost anything that burns, that is the reason why airplanes use kerosene, it is the cheapest fossil fuel. To get green airplanes you just need to
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by yk 8y ago
> I don't agree that schools are any more 'clearly environmentally contingent' than intelligence, Clearly I can change all the rules governing schools without changing the genetics of any of the students. So you are claimi
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by yk 8y ago
From the discussion: > However, theoretical projections that failed to consider heterogeneity of effect sizes were optimistic Our and others’ findings suggest that imperfect genetic correlation across cohorts will be
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by yk 8y ago
> And in any case, the model only generated probabilities of winning a game and advancing, and no team was given more than an 18.5 percent chance of winning the World Cup. > [...] > But Goldman Sach’s misfire is perhaps the most cu
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by yk 8y ago
With most software, well most software is pretty inefficent and profits from HT. However there are a lot of reasons for that, writing in something interpreted because it is faster to develop and the software does not need to be very efficie
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by yk 8y ago
Redirects to history.de for me. (Which is correct in some geofencing sense, using a vpn solves the problem.) Sort of fun to have a light challenge to obtain documents THEY (history.com) don't want you to see.
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by yk 8y ago
I think one out of 32 squids will do nicely.
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by yk 8y ago
Two problems, first the tax system needs to raise a certain amount, just to cover government expenses. So putting forward a proposal of lowering taxes should always be accompanied by a proposal of how to cover the shortfall. Second, I would
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by yk 8y ago
> the more you care and provide for the society - the more you are punished for it. Could you expand on your argument? It appears that you are arguing that income directly correlates with social benefit, which I would argue is at the ver
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by yk 8y ago
If I understand the graph correctly, the gap in absolute terms reduces, when the derivative of the (original) Elephant graph is negative, that is the gap between the lower half of the income distribution and the P50-60 (6th decile, somethin
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by yk 8y ago
In short quantum stuff. With additional kinds of neutrinos, you get different patterns of oscillation, and the experiment is located at a spot were sterile neutrinos change the oscillation pattern in such a way that you get additional neutr
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by yk 8y ago
My point is, that after reading the NYT article twice, I see several different interpretations, and the difference between the interpretations runs from FB is trying to do the right thing, to FB is outright lying. (And that it is pretty har
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by yk 8y ago
I agree, however my point is, that this is potentially just a disagreement over definitions, not a disagreement over reality.
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by yk 8y ago
> Editorial: It's startling to me how outfits as reputable as NYT can time and again parrot a narative (e.g., FB is better than sliced bread), and then after the fact report on something that was right under their nose all along. Th
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by yk 8y ago
The study is suggesting that the marshmallow test is a test of mother without college degree, and not testing something about the children beyond that. [0] And in general, my suspicion about psychology is, that since you can always invent a
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by yk 8y ago
Can someone point me to a concrete use case for speck? As far as I understand, Speck is designed to use less resources than AES. However, even on very constrained devices I believe one needs at worst hundreds of kB of RAM and even a low end
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by yk 8y ago
"Turning momentum against the wall" needs actually more force than just stopping the faller. If the faller initially falls with momentum -p z (where I will denote the unit vectors of the coordinate system with x, z, and p is the m
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by yk 8y ago
Just from a counting argument, the strategy is probably closer to cooperate against the leading team. Then you commit half of your players to the attack, as does the cooperating team, and you can then match the leading team, while having ha
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by yk 8y ago
I would read that as "adhoc guess of people outperforms statistical model," so the model probably misses some factor that people just take into account. As an example, someone who knows that they have cancer and that therefore the
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by yk 8y ago
When I thought about this, I first agreed, then I thought that from the perspective of the interpreter it is else as in checks the condition and then goes to else if the condition is false. So I think it is not so much unintuitive, as it is
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Think Military Strikes Could Stop North Korea? Try It and See(nytimes.com)
2 points by yk 8y ago|0 comments
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From eyeballing the second graph we see, that lead production (taken as a proxy for economic activity) spikes shortly after a maximum in temple building, as any virtuous Roman would expect, temple building pleases the gods, who then grant t
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by yk 8y ago
On the other hand, I guess Facebook really does not want to do that, because it would create an opening to attack Facebook. Right now, you can't compete with the network effects of Facebook's size, however if 10% or so of all Face

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