srinivgp

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by srinivgp 1y ago
Some people certainly can simply enjoy spending time with people not of their assumed cluster of traits. But that's not what's going on with trans women. They aren't doing some sort of "going overboard when you'd be
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by srinivgp 2y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Like-State-Condition-Paperback... The alternative is to do the thing that doesn't scale, because all the purported ways of scaling are worse than that.
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by srinivgp 3y ago
Um. A hammer that can build 100 houses a second would be incredibly valuable, both solving and causing some very important problems. So good analogy from my perspective I suppose, but I don't think it supports your conclusion?
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by srinivgp 3y ago
Salespeople don't want to join an org without performance-based compensation. We can ask why, but that brute fact is enough to explain why sales positions tend to have performance-based compensation.
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by srinivgp 3y ago
"people only use about 2% of the volume of their house at any given time"
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by srinivgp 3y ago
Did you not read the last clause? > lastly, it happens to be true
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by srinivgp 3y ago
> which are far less intelligible they seem fine to me maybe you're just used to it, and i'm used to the other it, and mine requires fewer distinct glyphs
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by srinivgp 3y ago
> resent Fine, step one, work on why you'd resent that.
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by srinivgp 3y ago
It contextualized, of course. <= 2019: 4.5-5.5 == 2023: ~5.5 (between: significantly higher, also COVID, probably not a coincidence)
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by srinivgp 3y ago
If you play games you can't play games without missing a ton of really good games. There are _a ton_ of really good games.
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by srinivgp 3y ago
Only if they actually tried to think. Otherwise they don't get automatic passes for believing random things just because I am not 100% guaranteed to end up believing a correct thing.
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by srinivgp 4y ago
In a very real sense, so do you.
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by srinivgp 4y ago
Not easier. More awesome .
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by srinivgp 4y ago
Things going bad is bad. Dying is bad. Etc etc. Sometimes on net things are good because of other effects like "ah, promising new competitor gets a chance to shine!" but if you could have _both_, you absolutely _would_. A company
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by srinivgp 4y ago
IF a company goes bad, it's great that new companies eat their lunch. It's bad for a company to go bad. It's bad for a company to lock out competition.
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by srinivgp 4y ago
Pretty much every direction is a local improvement given _some_ starting point, but if you broaden your overall search, the "more self-deception" direction is gonna be worse.
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by srinivgp 4y ago
If we prevented all suicides there would be _well more than ample_ precedent of people trying to commit _and being stopped from_ committing suicide and later hating everyone for keeping them in hell. You can't ignore downsides just &#x
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by srinivgp 4y ago
'cause humans beat apes and if you plunked down 20,000 humans onto a world with 10 billion apes, humans would beat apes call it a slippery slope if you want, the fallacy is when you take it too far, not inherently any time you extrapol
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by srinivgp 4y ago
I had this problem. It crippled me. One or more of the following solved it: - just time plus regression to the mean - talking with a therapist, for a while - being hit with a completely different enormous life stress, allowing me to say &qu
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by srinivgp 5y ago
> we’ll need to identify important people with both a high degree of importance but with a low degree of tech literacy, i.e. your average white, male C-level executive From this, you think the author is suggesting that white male users a
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by srinivgp 5y ago
It is not flawed. The subject is under study, continually. The debunking comes from https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2016976118 where yes, many measures of happiness seem to increase linearly as log(income
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by srinivgp 5y ago
There are many potential right reasons. One wrong reason might be "I heard it from a Facebook group founded to spread the word that GMOs were created to make a pliable citizenry".
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by srinivgp 5y ago
The paper you linked to says, in its summary section, "For the general public, evidence shows that physical distancing of more than 1 m is highly effective and that face masks are associated with protection, even in non-health-care set
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by srinivgp 5y ago
It's pretty conclusive. It's been conclusive for years and years, before COVID-19. There's no question at all that masks reduce infectiousness through the extremely obvious method of preventing some virus particles from going
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by srinivgp 5y ago
It does not. It maximizes log-wealth. Maximizing expected wealth gives a strategy which results in $0 a lot of the time but much much more than Kelly occasionally, achieving a higher average wealth. Kelly gives that up, getting far less exp
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by srinivgp 5y ago
A good night's sleep is better than antibiotics.
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by srinivgp 5y ago
Well stop. You're the one encouraging this bad behavior.
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by srinivgp 5y ago
Absolutely not a distinction without a difference. "Less than 10%" implies, in the vernacular, that they didn't have confidence stating another round bound. That almost certainly it is greater than 1%, probably greater than 2
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by srinivgp 5y ago
How many of those are quite aware that if they don't choose, they're on the chopping block? So far I've known exactly two people who actually want to return to the office more than just like once in a while for fun, regardles
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by srinivgp 5y ago
I hear people say this so much and it's so incredibly not true for me but I dunno if I'm different, they're all full of it, or both.

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