tashi

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by tashi 10d ago
Well, to become the world's youngest female billionaire, you just have to pick the right parents and birth date. Difficult to do for sure, but seems much less interesting to talk about than becoming the world's youngest self-made
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by tashi 1mo ago
Holy cow, that's a small baby! Congratulations on being alive! It looks like good old fashioned jQuery, so I'm surprised your browser doesn't like it, but it looks like the direct link for the video inside the iframe is http
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by tashi 1y ago
One of the problems with trying to apply the Objectivist view to a situation like this is that often experts need to tell their patrons true things they don't want to hear. I'll leave any sociological or economic examples aside an
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by tashi 2y ago
I don't think that's what people have been taking away from the idea of stereotype threat at all. I think it's been much more likely for people to think, "Oh, instead of unchangeable genetic traits, the difference in out
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by tashi 2y ago
A good idea unless it becomes popular. I'm picturing bumper-to-bumper traffic on a highway with a cloud of drones overhead. Each person in their individual car using their individual drone to all report back the same thing: that everyt
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by tashi 2y ago
That reminds me of the difficult constraint they must have had in making art and architecture for the game The Witness: nothing could ever accidentally seem to be, from any viewing place, one of the world's simplest shapes. Only by des
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by tashi 2y ago
It's weird how, in the the second-to-last paragraph, the author takes the opportunity to attack a few unrelated composers he just thinks are overrated. Almost as if they were guilty by an association that exists entirely in his mind.
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by tashi 2y ago
All the poor children you've met were addicted to drugs? Seems odd. Are you counting sugar as a drug?
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by tashi 2y ago
And a song that uses it as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOCsdhzo6Jg
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by tashi 3y ago
If we want to open the floodgates on being too pedantic, I think there are uncountably more irrational numbers close to any rational number than there are rational numbers close to an irrational number. But in both cases, it's definite
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by tashi 3y ago
The article goes on further to explain that, "Shipwrecks create richer habitats that in turn boost fishing conditions, but only as long as the wreck is preserved."
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by tashi 4y ago
Well, since lack of bank regulation almost destroyed the economy a little while ago, having a job that comes with incentives to reduce regulations is qualitatively different than those other options: more morally complicated, more dangerous
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by tashi 4y ago
Well, he just introduces rudimentary technology to ancient humans and then stands back for thousands of years to watch it evolve. He feels guilty that the chain of technological progress eventually leads to Hiroshima, but I don't think
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by tashi 4y ago
What political sermon? Do you just mean the diversity of the cast and crew, or did you find something in the story itself that sent a more coherent political message than, "If your boss tells you to blow up the world, say no."
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by tashi 4y ago
That's surprising to me. What statistical measures did you use to make sure your conclusion wasn't confirmation bias?
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by tashi 4y ago
Not to say they've found a good strategy(!), but when the market fails to price in externalities like pollution from cars, acting against the market would be the right thing to do, wouldn't it?
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by tashi 4y ago
"Songs of Inaudible Automobiles" would have fit and been fun to say aloud.
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by tashi 5y ago
For context: She's starting off the article with that obviously false malapropism sometimes attributed to George W. Bush as a springboard to talk about entrepreneurship in France, and it's clear that she is using it as a joke.
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by tashi 5y ago
Is Sendhil Mullainathan the "black researcher and author" you're talking about? I'm trying to get a sense of how much fact-checking you've put into this.
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by tashi 5y ago
I think your example fits the theory pretty well. If you flip a coin ten times and get mixed heads and tails, it's boring, but if you get ten heads in a row (so the theory goes), at some point your brain suddenly recognizes that you&#x
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by tashi 5y ago
https://archive.org/details/viva-variety-s-01e-01
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by tashi 5y ago
That's a very impressive achievement, but I think this is one of those classic examples of the post hoc fallacy, "I succeeded by doing this, therefore those who do this will succeed." That logic is unsound.
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by tashi 5y ago
Yes, to be 100% crystal clear, I'm saying the thing that feels so obvious to you that to deny it would be pure stupidity does not appear to be true. There's a quick summary at https://languageattrition.org/use-or-l
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by tashi 5y ago
You seem very certain, but that doesn't seem to be the consensus about how it works.
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by tashi 5y ago
Is that how it works? Deep enough conversations, periodically, prevent language attrition? I don't know anything about this phenomenon, so that could be how it works. But the fact that she seems to have love and gratitude for her paren
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by tashi 5y ago
I feel like I read a different article than you! I thought she was saying that she had a pretty good relationship with her parents overall (other than some teenage resentment about their not learning English), that she lost her fluency unin
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by tashi 5y ago
For people who haven't read the article, this is absolutely not a summary of it. It's short and interesting, so give it a shot.
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by tashi 5y ago
I haven't seen any comments that praise him for cheating or stealing or faking his way through being a teacher. The only praise I see is for his learning to read and then coming out to tell his story.
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by tashi 5y ago
Similarly, you probably meant "averse" instead of "adverse."
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by tashi 5y ago
All these complicated incentives make it hard to figure out who's responsible, so let me ask a question: What if a manufacturer lowered the price of insulin to $10 a month and gave no rebates at all? Would insurance companies refuse to

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