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by yxwvut 4y ago
Anyone else exhausted by the hand wringing whenever obsolescence hits red states particularly hard? Nobody's writing op-eds when corporate realty staff or office front desk staff are laid off due to remote work.
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by yxwvut 4y ago
The article describes the lack of sanitation as a baseless part of the negative mythology, but a dearth of scientific studies (and questions of generalizability of the existing studies) does not mean that their reputation is without merit.
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by yxwvut 4y ago
Thank god we have the rich to care for us instead, they know what's best.
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Ask HN: Why isn't biometric (face, finger) login used more for exploits?
2 points by yxwvut 4y ago|0 comments
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by yxwvut 4y ago
Or, as their football opponents mockingly know them, "AN Ohio State University".
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by yxwvut 4y ago
Like many others I thought my family was predisposed to bad teeth based on the number of diagnosed cavities my sister and I had in HS/college (she had probably 10 fillings before college and I had 3). Then I moved to a new city and tha
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by yxwvut 4y ago
Of course, if the arbiter is chosen by the defendant (as is the case in most fine-print 'gotcha' arbitration clauses), the same problem of motivated reasoning applies as in the article.
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by yxwvut 4y ago
Sarcasm aside, there doesn't need to be a conspiracy for a privileged group, acting as individuals, to want to discourage changes that would upset their advantaged position in the status quo (and to use their privileged position to mai
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by yxwvut 4y ago
The advertising element of 'smart' devices subsidizes their price. You're competing against devices that are both more convenient and cheaper, and whose drawbacks are not immediately apparent to the general consumer, both bec
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by yxwvut 4y ago
There's not a line in this that makes any sense. Sure, maybe you're only TA'ing 20 hrs a week max, but you're also doing research work well beyond those 20 hrs regardless of whether your advisor has enough grant money to
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by yxwvut 5y ago
Virtually everything even slightly abstracted from directly quantifiable tasks: sporting skill, driving skill, intelligence, etc. None of those are measurable without significant confounding or a 'dumbing down' to some adjacent ta
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by yxwvut 5y ago
You're making the same mistake of conflating 'good' with 'scores high on a measure'.
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by yxwvut 5y ago
The existence of 'general intelligence' is a pretty different question from "can we measure 'general intelligence'"? The analysis demonstrated does not account for the possibility of confounding by some externa
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by yxwvut 5y ago
These results are consistent with a group of people answering accurately and honestly mixed in with a large group of people giving random answers to complete the paid survey as quickly as possible (which will naturally drag the averages of
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by yxwvut 5y ago
What's going to be the rate of 'acceptable loss'? There's an obvious point on the cost curve where companies will begin pushing for driverless tech before the problem is fully solved. Without some standardized 'mile
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by yxwvut 5y ago
There are arguments from improbability in the article that rely on implicit assumptions that are obviously wrong once made explicit, akin to a creationist arguing for the improbability of the human genome's complexity as though it aros
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by yxwvut 5y ago
Entertaining to see them simultaneously claim 100% uptime in February and list outages both yesterday and today. If 'users can't send or receive messages' on a messaging platform, your service is down.
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by yxwvut 5y ago
Endurance typically improves with age into the mid/late 30s even at the elite level.
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by yxwvut 5y ago
The problem is that tax avoidance is an economy of scale - it's easier to avoid taxes the bigger your revenue stream is, and as such follow the letter of the tax law while completely subverting the spirit of it (whereas the gap between
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by yxwvut 5y ago
I think the only tenable solutions are 1) a ceiling on the loan amount tethered to public college costs to increase price elasticity and prevent runaway costs, along with a quota on loans to address the 'future ability to repay' i
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by yxwvut 5y ago
This is just the “religion might all be made up but it gives people comfort/morality so we shouldn’t look too closely” argument in another form. A useful lie eventual causes side effects (eg: in this case, causing managers to base care
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by yxwvut 5y ago
The ground principle here is one of flexibility: that your model of behavior should allow for context dependence, not that it need be entirely context driven. As an analogy, consider a ground principle that your statistical model shouldn’t
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by yxwvut 5y ago
As someone who’s wasted probably 80+ hours in the last 2 years getting through to the offer stage only to find that none will match my current comp (all of whom were coy at the outset about comp), fuck this opinion. I’ve now learned to che
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by yxwvut 5y ago
The problem is an incumbency/network effect problem. Sure, the ad-supported model helped them get off the ground, but it's not what's keeping them #1. The larger your library, the greater your value to viewers, and, thereby,
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by yxwvut 5y ago
You’re totally right. I was more referring to his review of the merits of the various studies, which as a statistician I actually agreed with - I mostly read the article to understand the history of these studies, having no prior familiarit
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by yxwvut 5y ago
Because 'works' in a medical context is a boolean that encompasses everything from 'order of magnitude lower chances of death' (effective vaccines) to '1% relative reduction in death' (off-label use of some ran
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by yxwvut 5y ago
This article is a nice counterpoint to what's felt like a trend of Scott's writing (outside of psychology) increasingly becoming contrarianism in search of evidence. Many pieces he's written in the last 1-2 yrs feel like he&#
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by yxwvut 5y ago
As someone who's been on the buyer side of the market for the past few months, I think it's even worse for their objective: they might be good at forecasting home prices on average conditional on their statistics, but bad at forec
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by yxwvut 5y ago
A currency that is practically impossible to use as such...
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by yxwvut 5y ago
I've enjoyed watching crypto acolytes gradually learning why the consumer protections of traditional banking and investment exist. Until regulation catches up there's bound to be a stream of unscrupulous scammers taking notes from

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