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by zug_zug 2y ago
Yeah, I've certainly seen cases where something was overbuilt and 90% of the time was wasted. But I've also worked at places where things were underbuilt (e.g 0 test environments whatsoever except prod). If there was a gun to my h
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by zug_zug 2y ago
When I see big blanket statements of advice, I usually try to "unit test" them to see if they have any value. So I think of wildly different scenarios, and imagine whether this advice is useful, neutral/depends, or negative.
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by zug_zug 2y ago
The article certainly paints it in that light. I also agree that it isn't clear to me how stealing information from private citizens would be a justified response for ongoing tensions in the region. Not sure why you're downvoted.
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I'm not sure how it happened, but this tracks with my personal experience. 15 years ago the local stabucks had a fireplace, was meticulously clean, was busy but had seating, and generally was a place I associated with a really pleasant
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Technologically seems cool, and the first use that pops into mind is "wouldn't this be funny to prank my friend?" But maybe no, it wouldn't. Maybe it'd be deeply disconcerting. We have very strong norms around hones
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I've heard all of these lip-service justifications before, but I've yet to see anybody actually publish data showing how they saved any money. Would love to be proven wrong by some hard data, but something tells me I won't be
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by zug_zug 2y ago
PFAs should be illegal in all food applications by now. The danger of PFAs isn't really new at this point. I'm sure if we really try hard we'd find hundreds of viable alternatives (e.g. wax? noodle straws? bamboo?), they just
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Out of curiosity, where is that 150x number coming from? Is that just an off-the-cuff expression of frustration or is a real estimate from somewhere?
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by zug_zug 2y ago
There's no such thing as an "everything bubble." All prices are relative. An everything bubble would basically be inflation which wouldn't justify moving any assets. You only need to move between assets when one is infla
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Well, it looks to me like they look at 34 types of cancer, and found that 8 of those were increasing. So "we detect cancer better" isn't really a good theory, unless it just so happens we only have improved our detection for
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Yeah but I feel like you have to admit there is a tragedy of the commons here -- there will always be more people who want to live somewhere than can realistically have a high-quality of life there.... Part of the reason San Francisco is so
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by zug_zug 2y ago
> but it does show that parental 'hyperactivity detectors' are broken I'll grant that some are for sure. But it doesn't mean other parents can't quietly and effectively notice their children's responses to v
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I think it's only for short-term psychological measures Here's a study highlighting the psychological effects of sugar https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-n...
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Well if there is plenty of evidence, perhaps it should be linked here rather than this relatively weak meta-study that confuses the absence of evidence with the evidence of absence.
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Two things can be true.
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by zug_zug 2y ago
No, that's not it at all. What you would do is you would have a higher standard of proof. If you conduct a study with a 95% confidence interval that sugar doesn't increase excitement more than 5% then, you can say with 95% confide
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Sorry what? This is just out of the realm of plausibility. There's a reason why academics no longer use sugar-pills as placebo, because sugar has immediate psychological effects. ------- Edit: Just read it, the blog author doesn't
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by zug_zug 2y ago
My advice on giving advice: Step 0 - Ask "Would you like my advice?" Anything other than a sincere yes (not a maybe, not a patient okay, not a hmm) then don't give advice.
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Here's my theory on why we see internet toxicity -- A lot of people think they are offering "free information" on the internet, but what they are really doing is offering a transaction: "I'll tell you what I think b
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I'm confused. I consider a d12 a larger die than a d6. Perhaps you're making a pun about physical size of the dice?
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by zug_zug 2y ago
To be fair, I didn't hand-check the answer it gave (and I didn't retype the whole prompt exactly here) - but here's what it gave me [4o model]: ... (lots of calculations) Final Comparison Variance of 20d6: 58.33458.334
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Well are the "people" responsible, or are outrageous-prices (e.g. one subscription costs 50k) responsible? Or is it just like 1% of people have cancer? Would love to see a good-faith analysis by somebody who has 50 hours to commit
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I'm sorry but this falls flat for me. GPT4 routinely can answer impressive math questions for me (college-level): - What diameter steel wire would I need to be rated for a weight of 500lbs? - How many digits would a ID need to be (usin
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I wonder if these poorly-conducted studies are properly reporting any sources of funding an conflict of interest, as well as how they get past peer-review if they have relatively basic methodological flaws.
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I'm not GP, but I've played a few adventure games and was very excited to try Monkey Island because of its sense of humor and style. But it felt basically unplayable to me (basically it felt like the only strategy was brute force)
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Frankly I'm not very convinced by that -- it seems that most social networks are already killed by winner-takes-all SV companies buying-out any possible threat. The situation in America is an absolute nightmare with data being sold thr
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Is that true though? Are there any 5-person startups with < 10k users getting sued/shutdown by this regulation?
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I feel like if you really think there's a piece of evidence that you think needs to be shared you should link to some of the published journal articles tho book links to rather than trying to sell a product.
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DevOps Like You're a Feature Engineer(think-twice.me)
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by zug_zug 2y ago
A blog post won't be indexed on google scholar for other academics to reference though. Maybe a preprint would be? In my opinion the goal is to get a record of the information and the dataset out there.

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