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by 2devnull 3y ago
Can I mail cash? That would be ok.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
With a totally straight face, “With significant proportions of individuals with long COVID unable to return to work7, the scale of newly disabled individuals is contributing to labour shortages” And I thought it was the Fed!
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Who hasn’t done this. And now gpt can do it for us, for greater obfuscation at lower cost.
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Valuing learning is not the same, maybe inversely related to, valuing achievement. One can value academic achievement in a way that minimizes learning, and one can value learning in a way that minimizes achievement. The children from such f
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So your argument is, hopefully I’m not strawmanning: People who are from cultures that value education tend to be more educated. Based on that you reject the parent’s point about education being a function of student motivation (derived vi
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>and a much bigger chunk was killed with it. To say nothing of the opportunity costs. They killed a lot of what was, but they’ve also prevented so much of the promise of the internet from coming to fruition. Lost time, lost talent and li
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“ Allowing poor students from families that value education to go to schools with like minded students is an unequivocally good thing compared to what the public schools currently do.” But it is sort of what schools currently do. The filt
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Hospital saturation is lightly correlated with vaccination rates. In fact, it’s probably reverse correlated. Rural areas which have a high degree of social isolation due to low population density didn’t run out if capacity to the same exten
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I’d guess that the vast majority of California renters are in big cities, where 3% rent control is typical. You get stuck after a year or two, unable to move without leaving the state, and landlords exploit this by neglecting repairs (i.e.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
I think you are under informed. Science is often clear right before it is not clear. Here’s an example. https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep
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I now think it’s best explained by simple economics. Academia and academics are the product of economic forces by and large. It’s not quirky personalities or uniquely talented minds that make up academia today. It’s droves of conscientious
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Very common in California where rent is outrageous and rent control strongly disincentivizes moving.
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“ that much of their research can be shown a priori to not be worthwhile” Bingo. Cargo cult stats all the way down. It’s not just personal interest, it’s the entire field, it’s their colleagues, mentors, and students. Good luck getting some
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No.
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You are right, except in this instance there is very objective proof that inflation and homelessness are problems that have gotten worse recently and are having widespread impacts. If the media choose not to cover this, because of whatever
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Oh don’t I know it! That wasn’t the best example, just saying, “penny wise pound foolish” applies to health as well as finances.
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I cannot sleep and there’s nothing I can do to alter that and no doctor that I’ve found can help. It was not my choice to stop being able to sleep. It’s not my fault either. One finds the benefits in it because the only other option is sui
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I only need 2-3 hours. I wish I could get more. You learn to use it as an advantage.
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Precisely. And those houses may be in areas that have relatively more confounding factors (eg gas generator use will be higher).
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No it doesn’t. I think my point was that people budget their carcinogenic exposure in non-optimal, hard to rationalize ways. Like living in places with terrible air quality (California) and then being concerned about gas stoves.
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People with stoves live around other people with stoves. The air inside houses comes from somewhere. :) they hint at this in the study somewhere.
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People like to “bbq.” It’s like cancer as a hobby.
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So merely owning a stove but never burning wood gets you to HR 1.42. That makes the 1.6 for occasional use less bothersome (ymmv).
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So if I’m reading this right, for never smokers who lived in a house that used a woodstove between 1-29 days of the year have the same risk as smokers who used one everyday if the year?
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Researchers and scientists could do a lot with such data. A tyrannical government would find many uses in furtherance of their repressive tactics. Blackmailers can find high profile targets where genetic linkages have been obscured by birth
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This and noticing a bunch of accounts are suddenly being logged into in mass in a way that is obviously an attack. It cannot be hard to detect such an event if you cared to notice . So it’s 100% negligence and 100% the result of putting pr
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It won’t be your bank, it will be google. To some extent it already is.
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“I argue this is actually more convenient, but some people (esp. young people?) have an aversion to email which i don't understand.” Uhaul does this and it’s maybe the only good I can say about Uhaul. I think the catch is that some peo
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“Organized religion” describes a lot of things, only a subset of which is actually organized religion.
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Anthropomorphizing LLM is at best misleading, but probably extremely dangerous. At first I didn’t care too much, the “hallucination” term got traction, now the ladies on The View are saying it and thinking they “understand ai”. The public n

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