hntrader

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by hntrader 5y ago
Correct. I was asking what the basis is for your confidence that it positively isn't substantially genetic. We know that intelligence is highly heritable, which leaves a few possible explanations, genetics being one of them (along wi
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by hntrader 5y ago
You strongly believe this based on what? Being "99.9 percent identical" doesn't necessarily preclude substantial genetic variation in intelligence just like it doesn't preclude such variation in height or skin tone. h
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by hntrader 5y ago
"These standardized tests don’t add much." Do you have any evidence for this aside from your immediate experience?
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by hntrader 5y ago
But that's marked to market value. The shareholder still has to receive a dividend or sell that higher priced stock, which are both taxable events. So I still don't get it.
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by hntrader 5y ago
I don't understand this. If I'm a greedy shareholder, then I want dividends and cap gains, which are both taxable outside of company tax. How does hoarding cash inside a company, which is out of my personal reach, help me to satis
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by hntrader 5y ago
He worked as a research assistant for a professor for three years and is now engaged in amateur research which he shares on his blog, some of which has received positive feedback from some highly credible people. Also, "researcher&quot
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by hntrader 5y ago
What about this? "we want to emphasize is that those estimates of poverty do take into account non-market transactions such as subsistence farming." https://ourworldindata.org/poverty-home-production-and-con
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by hntrader 5y ago
Respectfully, I think this misses the point a bit. Roser himself says that there could very well be valid criticisms that Hickel is correct on and he is incorrect on. The criticism that Hickel recently raised and that you mention here (rega
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by hntrader 5y ago
On the other hand, corporate taxes advantage large multi-national corporations over smaller companies because they have the resources and capability to manoeuvre around the rules and pay a lower relative tax rate. A government should be abl
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by hntrader 5y ago
What would be the incentive for this? The whole point is for stakeholders to eventually get paid in a taxable event; either shareholders through a capital gains taxable event or employees through an income taxable event. Some tech companies
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by hntrader 5y ago
The tone of these particular tweets should be parsed in context. If you think that someone has been operating in bad faith towards you for years, eventually you lose interest in engaging and choose the "block" option, which is wha
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by hntrader 5y ago
Hickel did a similar thing to Steven Pinker. He wrote a scathing article falsely claiming that the poverty rate was increasing (contra to Pinker's claim), when according to his own data in that same article - it was actually steadily d
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by hntrader 5y ago
It ideally should've been made clear that the veracity is unconfirmed, but aren't there more charitable interpretations for why it wasn't?
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by hntrader 5y ago
The contradiction pointed out in the article (section 2) doesn't require domain expertise to understand. Basic comprehension will suffice for that. The misquoting of sources doesn't require domain expertise to understand. The misl
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by hntrader 5y ago
"suggest an effort to misrepresent at the very least UC Berkeley's position." This is a non-sequitur. The decision to keep the identity of the contact anonymous and the presence of a dead link (when a slightly redacte
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by hntrader 5y ago
He still seems to be twisting and misrepresenting the NSF guidelines of 7-9 hours to mean the point value of 8 hours. No, Walker, 63 percent of people don't have unmet sleep needs, as you are still falsely claiming. You're either
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by hntrader 5y ago
But you do have the knowledge to verify some of the accusations, because much of them don't require any knowledge to verify. He's often just pointing out logical internal contradictions in the text (point 2) or lies/mistake
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by hntrader 5y ago
Looks like they used a variational encoder-decoder net to reduce the dimensionality of the action space. Not manual and it sounds like a good idea.
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by hntrader 5y ago
Delusional - absolutely. Such a large proportion fall into the trap of iteratively overfitting to the test set without much of a care for the basics such as data quality, what question to ask, etc. It's a problem.
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by hntrader 5y ago
The supply of USD should be mostly irrelevant. If supply is constrained then the FX rate just adjusts. The parent's point (about US' share of world GDP) is quite different to the one you're making here.
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by hntrader 5y ago
This is an example of an analogy that is superficially fitting but doesn't actually map to the reality of what's being discussed. The reason why our subjective probability of a building collapse goes up with the passage of time is
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by hntrader 5y ago
The article, despite being quite long, didn't provide any evidence for the thesis aside from a single survey of East/West Germany. Perhaps the book itself has some actual data?
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by hntrader 5y ago
The losses aren't big, we'd get sub-10 percent between any two locations within the US, and sub-4 percent in the typical case.
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by hntrader 5y ago
Because those costings for solar and wind don't include the costs and viability of storage.
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by hntrader 5y ago
Of course it makes the ICE car more expensive (when including fuel costs). That's the whole idea. Consumers will see that EVs are cheaper (post-tax) and will switch to EVs as a consequence. You can make the tax revenue neutral.
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by hntrader 5y ago
How do you view the classic front-page?
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by hntrader 5y ago
I'm at the opposite conclusion to you. You firstly say that improved life expectancy isn't due to science, then you say that two of the three main reasons for improved life expectancy are pandemics and childhood mortality. Those t
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by hntrader 5y ago
They do do something. Caffeine is a nootropic that has well studied positive effects. The thing with most nootropics though is that the effects aren't big, the side effects of chronic usage aren't well known, and the basics such a
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by hntrader 5y ago
The evidence of efficacy is very weak and the risks are very high. This article goes into much better detail about that: https://theconversation.com/no-evidence-that-ect-works-for-d...
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by hntrader 5y ago
You have the right practical mindset, and it might have something to do with your degree choice. People that pick psychology aren't going to have their head in their clouds and aren't doing DS for prestige reasons - DS is more a m

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