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by zazen 8y ago
So, you don't actually have to regard BG and GB as separate cases if you don't want to. People like to write the outcome space as ordered pairs BB, BG, GB, GG (ordered by age or whatever else), because this has the advantage that
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by zazen 8y ago
> I don't have time to explain it to you Just read that phrase again and think about how it comes across.
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by zazen 8y ago
I really like this idea, but there's one question that I always wonder how people doing this handle. If your kids are not yet school age, and you plan to send them to school rather than home-school when the time comes: what's your
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by zazen 8y ago
The headline's use of the word "argument" rather implies that he did think he had a reason backed up by rational thought. Like GP, I'm hoping someone with the time and inclination will summarise that argument for us.
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by zazen 8y ago
I haven't previously come across the idea of trying to make wordless proofs. I guess this is the mathematical equivalent of code golf: a clever game for insiders to play, but basically the opposite of good practice from a readability
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by zazen 8y ago
> some of this money will make it into hands of other people, but most of this is just removing value from society. I'm not an economist, but... surely near-as-anything 100% of this money is going to other people? Some tiny fractio
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by zazen 8y ago
It doesn't mean greater London. It means the second and third things on your list.
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by zazen 8y ago
> how bad they are as measured by how much complaining we see about them. > common enough that ... people uovote them. But you must have noticed that social media feeds on outrage? People amplify the extent of things they are shocked
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by zazen 8y ago
Whether this is the norm for a large population of employers is a statistical question that you cannot "personally witness" even in principle. We desperately need a better way than anecdata to look at this.
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by zazen 8y ago
This sounds like a reasonable point to me, and I'm not sure why this and your other post in this thread are being down-voted. Elon Musk might well be OK with Tesla cratering, provided he gets to make an electric-car-shaped dent in th
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by zazen 8y ago
I'm sure that what he's saying is that this is a feeble way of complying, not that it's non-complying. The site has apparently chosen to simply block European users, and then to display the insultingly evasive and insincere
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by zazen 8y ago
Yes, this seems to be broadly true. TIL about benefit corporations. I deeply apologize for my repeated rudeness towards your original post.
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by zazen 8y ago
Ah, I finally begin to see what you mean. Sorry if I've been a bit boneheaded in this thread. I finally started googling instead of speculating, and I found this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments
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by zazen 8y ago
I think you know that's not a reasonable thing to ask for a "proof" for. On the other hand, anything which someone claims to have proved is a reasonable thing to expect a proof for. I'm not the one throwing clickbait hea
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by zazen 8y ago
> A company is not legally obligated to maximize profit. Well, if we agree on that core point - which I think is all the point that wool_gather was trying to make - then that's great! And I think there's no point in the two of
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by zazen 8y ago
Well, your wikipedia link seems to confirm my layman's understanding of the term "standing", which is that it is about a party's right to participate in a court case. I am no closer to seeing how the English phrase &quo
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by zazen 8y ago
"Legal standing" isn't quite the right phrase. I think you're saying the board does in fact have a legal duty to prioritize profit above all else? If so, are you sure, and do you have sources? wool_gather said that &qu
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by zazen 8y ago
Well, if it's not a proof, then it's not a proof, right? You see more interest and creativity than I do in the article here, and that's fine. But surely that doesn't affect the fact that the title's claim to have
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by zazen 8y ago
Perhaps we could change the title to something less baity? I'm tempted to suggest "Military-themed toy data science project". But if there is more interest than that in there somewhere, then maybe a title that reflects what
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by zazen 8y ago
OP does use the word "imprisonment", but I think it's possible he's actually asking about pre-trial incarceration. OP says he's from Europe, and a lot of countries don't have the jail/prison distinction a
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by zazen 8y ago
I think we have similar hopes for quality discussion in forums. And I certainly agree that a thoughtful response giving reasons why it's not as simple as "why can't we just" is more useful - assuming anyone feels inclin
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by zazen 8y ago
Well, you probably won't have to wait 10 years for another non-peer war like that. I think he's envisaging a big peer war with mass mobilization ala WW1/WW2, but he imagines such a war would be like a big Iraq/Afghanista
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by zazen 8y ago
You seem to have a war like WW2 in mind. But a war between big powers in the 21st century couldn't drag on for five years while you frantically work on new technology. Even without use of nukes, one side or the other is going to be f
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by zazen 8y ago
Perhaps it is used to stop thinking in some other circumstances, but I don't think that's what's happening here. When people make three-sentence internet comments featuring the phrase "Why don't we just", they
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by zazen 8y ago
> Maybe my browser is just not displaying things right. Yah, there should be a slider... Initial view shows left half of the area from before, right half from after, and you drag the slider to change the ratio. You might want to recons
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by zazen 8y ago
I was briefly very confused until I figured out you were correcting Themes to Themas, and the dropped "l" was just an accident!
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by zazen 8y ago
HN is a fairly rare exception among news-commenting forums, in having a reasonable level of polite and intelligent discussion. Perhaps the Economist's forums were another such exception, I don't know. But I know that most newspa
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by zazen 8y ago
> Let's just ban It's rarely that simple. I don't know exactly how local government works in the USA, but I presume the federal government can't just summarily revoke powers from cities and states?
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by zazen 8y ago
This reeks of confirmation bias. The guy started with a stereotypical belief that rich people are really impressed by expensive watches, and by considering the times that he _just felt sure_ he was impressing people with his expensive watc
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by zazen 9y ago
Yes, snopes is strange like that. You'd think a site dedicated to debunking stories would take care to be precise with the arguments it makes, but snopes often comes across a bit sloppy. But here they still are, after all these years

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