nostromo95

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by nostromo95 28d ago
I'm sure this aesthetic relativism holds up under argument, but this is an 'anti realization' that: -Reduces explanatory power (if Moby-Dick and 50 Shades are the same, why has one been lauded for 100 years, minted the career
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by nostromo95 7mo ago
Pension funds have a different time horizon / cash flow needs than individual investors (namely, they need to meet their liabilities every month) and so are going to have a more conservative asset mix (read: lower expected returns w&#x
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by nostromo95 3y ago
>You can't evaluate how good of a writer someone is unless you already know what they are trying to explain. I object to this premise. Trivial counterexample: Is it impossible to evaluate the quality of a novelist because we don&#x
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by nostromo95 3y ago
Tehanu is my favorite in the series; I'm sorry you feel that way! > And Ged kills a guy (which he didn't in the first three books) and gets to have sex right after, pretty explicitly as a reward - that was a bit of a "what
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by nostromo95 3y ago
Would you mind quoting a source?
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by nostromo95 3y ago
You might be a non-native speaker, but the title is trying to say his works evoke a darker America rather than that being a work he's written.
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by nostromo95 4y ago
Yes but the only way repeated cooperation can be maintained is if players can “punish” defectors by also defecting for a certain # of turns (thus making the PV of breaking ranks and defecting < keeping cooperating for every player). SBF’
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by nostromo95 4y ago
However, in Montaigne's essays he often doesn't have a clear thesis at the beginning of the essay. You are reading his (magisterial) thinking transcribed onto the page. The OP gestures towards a thesis ('here's why socie
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by nostromo95 4y ago
Charitably, I think what OP was getting at is that there was no pressure to arrest / prosecute Shkreli quickly because his actions hadn’t in actuality physically or monetarily harmed people, unlike, e.g., Theranos.
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by nostromo95 4y ago
> A high % of the people in your company primarily care about vision, goals, and priorities. To them, that is a strategy. Would be nice if the author defined what he thinks “strategy” is. It’s not obvious to me that the above is not stra
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by nostromo95 4y ago
You got me—funny thing is I took a couple analysis courses in school so I should have been more careful making such a strong statement.
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by nostromo95 4y ago
Essays by Montaigne. The best way I can describe Montaigne is it’s like talking to a brilliant, compassionate best friend.
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by nostromo95 4y ago
AFAIK "standard distribution" is not a defined mathematical term; usually it's shorthand for standard normal distribution. Can't comment on intelligence distributions.
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by nostromo95 4y ago
Any symmetrical distribution will have the mean equal the median.
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by nostromo95 4y ago
>am I using that reference right? Looks right to me! Although interestingly it’s unclear which book / Book you’re referring to, as the expression comes from Exodus 2:22: “And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for h
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by nostromo95 4y ago
Literally that’s the point of the article.
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by nostromo95 4y ago
Truly those squirrels were blessed.
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by nostromo95 4y ago
I did some work at a utility company a few years back where I had access to a database of every historical outage across the system along with such info as the diagnosed cause. Thousands of outages were caused by “Wildlife (Squirrel)”—more
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by nostromo95 4y ago
That’s a good point. I was imagining some sort of anonymized records database—turns out you can look up specific names which I agree yields some undesirable outcomes.
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by nostromo95 4y ago
Invasive to whom ? I'm certainly not going to be feeling outraged by medical records disclosure when I'm dead. Do with me what you will when I'm gone--I care more about my experience when I'm alive.
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by nostromo95 4y ago
“We are I know not how double within ourselves, so that we do not believe what we believe, and we cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.” -Montaigne
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by nostromo95 4y ago
Agreed. Playing through Elden Ring made it clear to me how impressive Breath of the Wild was in retrospect. Even without any meaningful awards (or because of?) the exploration in BotW is just so much more memorable and dynamic.
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by nostromo95 4y ago
Yes I do mean exactly that. It's entirely possible for both these things to be true: - Everyone believes that if they and everyone else had a 32 hour work week, they'd be happier - Everyone stays at 40 hours per week when given th
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by nostromo95 4y ago
Seems like we're mixing up couple things here--(a) the level to which a government represents the people and (b) the powers that a government should have. It's easy to lose sight of the fact that the government is--in its ideal es
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by nostromo95 4y ago
Eh whether government should have the right to do this takes a backseat to the fact that the government is the only way we can do this. The government is the only coordinating mechanism we have to enforce something like this, otherwise
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by nostromo95 5y ago
Montaigne often talks about this, but something that's true about virtue is that you can't disconnect the action from the motivation. Often what on the surface appears like virtuous fortitude is actually obstinacy and lack of self
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by nostromo95 5y ago
Well, (a) just because they invested in Coinbase, which does crypto, doesn’t mean they have as much confidence in crypto as they have in Coinbase—betting on Coinbase is a bet on the volatility of crypto + Coinbase’s ability to win, not a be
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by nostromo95 6y ago
Well despite anecdotes of workplace drama, they’ve definitely been effective at continuing to manage Steam, which is likely orders of magnitude more lucrative than developing single player videogames. Everyone points to Valve failing to del
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by nostromo95 6y ago
You are definitely misinterpreting the metaphor... ‘Shape’ != personal identity or ability. Shape is the sum of the work someone does (in fact, a triangle—if that even has any meaning over a circle in this framework—is a perfectly acceptabl
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by nostromo95 6y ago
They sleep for 13 hours a day?

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