force_reboot

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by force_reboot 10y ago
I disagree, the law does provide these exceptions but I (and presumably the author) don't find these exceptions to be comprehensive enough to render the unqualified statement of the author "out of context". How is a person su
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by force_reboot 10y ago
I don't really see support for that in the article, but most of the details are in the individual studies. The study does say Kanazawa notes that intelligence correlates positively with evolutionarily novel activities, but the correl
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by force_reboot 10y ago
In my experience, intelligence is correlated with bad dress sense, lack of hygiene, awkward personalities and poor motor skills. I know a lot of professional mathematicians, and they all would have been bullied for these things things (lik
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by force_reboot 10y ago
I'm sure most people would not deny this mechanism exists. The distinction is whether one focuses on this mechanism (correct Bayesian inference) or the various biases and feedback loops described in the article. Personally I believe
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by force_reboot 10y ago
you've just expressed a great counterpoint to https://xkcd.com/1357/ . Furthermore, it's not just a matter of ISPs. Because of its refusal to censor various kinds of content, sites like 8chan have been refuse
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Isn't the concept of an "information bubble" already inherently relativistic? sevenless was simply pointing out the relativism cuts both ways.
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by force_reboot 10y ago
As someone with a PhD in economics, and a believer in the what the mainstream econ departments teach, I still found this article very reasonable. I hope no one will take this article to be saying that orthodox economics is fundamentally
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by force_reboot 10y ago
I have a PhD in economics, and your claims about monopolies and competition aren't accurate. Economic theory doesn't state that monopolies always arise, at least not under the circumstances you are describing. If you can buy yo
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by force_reboot 10y ago
On what basis do you say that meta-analysis is not credible? From my stats background, (but without any direct experience in meta-analysis) I would say that they could be problematic because the N is very small and so have a lot less to wo
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by force_reboot 10y ago
One thing that is glossed over slightly in these discussions is the distinction between collections of sound-meaning compound characters where the rebus is the same but the words aren't cognate, and where the words are cognate. I'
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Yes, that is an equivalent phrase, but much less commonly used than 加油 and "gi' det gas".
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by force_reboot 10y ago
I mean in English it isn't used as a generic encouragement, while in Mandarin and Danish it is.
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Almost certainly. One fascinating aspect of language is that many metaphors that are baked into language appear in many languages. E.g. In English we can form the future tense with modal verbs, "I will..." and "I am going t
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Proponents of diversity engage in non-Bayesian updating whereby if a non-diverse company/city/person does well, they update their prior that the system is rigged, but if a diverse company/city/person does well update the
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by force_reboot 10y ago
The problem with the Situationists is that they have no political program. They refuse to describe how they would like the world to be, instead coming up with convoluted explanations for why doing so is unnecessary and counterproductive.
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by force_reboot 10y ago
I'm not sure about that. I'm not saying this boy's parents pushed him into this path, but by virtue of their own education (mother has a PhD, not sure about the father) they would have provided him with many opportunities fo
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by force_reboot 10y ago
While I don't know if this is the right path for the kid, or if he really is a genius (from the article he seems very smart) your comment comes across as mean spirited. Do you not believe in the existence of genius, or that people vary
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by force_reboot 10y ago
I think that a "biological basis" means something different to you than to me. How exactly do these studies show that depression is different from being unhappy? Did they study the brains of merely unhappy people and find no suc
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by force_reboot 10y ago
I don't have time to read every book out there, so when I look for answers to questions like this I look for sources that are authoritative, that is, sources that summarize the majority opinion in a field. The book you recommend doesn
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by force_reboot 10y ago
There seems to be a huge gap between what psychiatrists believe and how psychiatric knowledge is presented to the general public. For example, I'm not aware of any scientific evidence that depression is qualitatively different from b
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Maybe I'm just a third level contrarian, but I don't think one can reject mainstream advice on, for example, saturated fat simply because the USDA changed their mind on cholesterol. Mainstream medical sources have never claimed to
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by force_reboot 10y ago
when I say "positive statement" I mean in the positive/normative sense.
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by force_reboot 10y ago
It's natural for compassionate people to prefer to characterize addition as a disease, because it gives a powerful argument for treating people with addiction compassionately. But this is deriving an "is" from an "ought
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by force_reboot 10y ago
There is a glaring contradiction between the two mainstream narratives, one of which goes that we need working class jobs because not everyone is capable of middle class jobs, the other of which says there aren't enough people to fill
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by force_reboot 10y ago
There seems to be very non-Bayesian updating that goes on around this issue. When White people do well at something, people update their prior that White people experience White privilege that makes it easier for them to achieve these thing
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Most of my information on China comes from my father who was born in China, and was very well studied in Chinese history, although he left when he was young because of the famines during the Great Leap Forward. The part of history that he
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by force_reboot 10y ago
Do you think there are circumstances where it's ok to shame fat women? E.g. if they had incorrect beliefs that lead to bad diets?
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by force_reboot 10y ago
As a native English speaker, born in England, I always enjoyed Shakespeare in the original language because I could understand many the nuances and plays on words, and because I could see the continuity between the language of Shakespeare a
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by force_reboot 10y ago
A good portion of mainstream American and European liberals would consider Jewish culture to be a real thing that deserves preserving, even while they claim that saying the same thing about any other culture or identity is racist
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by force_reboot 10y ago
When it comes to outsourcing or moving manufacturing overseas, there is no difference between robots and foreigners. Some economists who study international trade like to emphasize this point, that there is no fundamental difference betwee

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