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How do these companies perform compared to the USPS? Just knowing that they're privatized without any mention of customer satisfaction, cost, or other comparative metrics doesn't s…

Sure, but with the amount of wealth and power that they have, it goes beyond lobbying. If there were any sense of the other side getting equal bargaining power, maybe people would …

What about this video did you find relevant? The case where one individual attacked a plywood barricade with a hammer and was stopped? (Surely not the Andy Ngo digression.) That's …

I will have to take a look at that paper. I didn't catch your edit before replying. It would certainly be worthwhile to verify that claim (or not) using the paper's model if I find…

I wish there were a freely available copy online, I could link, but the passage is at the end of chapter 2 of Syntactic Structures. It's not a footnote, but rather the crux of his …

I think the more interesting result (and more relevant to Chomsky's point) would be to work in the other direction. If you instead produce a list of sentences with similar log prob…

Right. The sentences are both very unlikely to be uttered even though one is grammatical and the other is not, so there must be another factor in play.

It's funny the author wasted energy composing this after admitting he barely knows the origin of the sentence. Chomsky invokes it in "Syntactic Structures" to illustrate that the g…

What examples do you have in mind when you say this? The main case studies that I see get brought up are Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War and the Paris Commune, but the warti…

And did those arrest and charges come before or after multiple days of protests? At this point the protests have snowballed into a larger frustration over police conduct (and I'm s…

Seriously, "any tools"? You are commenting on an article about the use of new surveillance tools like facial recognition software that scrapes Facebook, not a discussion on whether…

So your point is that this justifies the expansion of the surveillance state? Do you consider all of the protestors responsible for looting? And should we just discount the evidenc…

Yes, what a heroic display we're commenting on here. What exactly is your point and how is it relevant to this unsettling video? Just the platitude that not every interaction is ne…

Having gone through two chapters now, I also feel the need to caution others that the amount of typos in this book is simply jaw-dropping. The conceptual explanations in the text a…

Thank you! This looks great and surprisingly affordable for an academic textbook. It seems like a lot of the good material for teaching these topics at the undergraduate level has …

Wow, this is beyond what I could've hoped for. Especially the coding exercises, which make up for the other massive difficulty in self-studying--a lack of solutions to verify the w…

Can anyone recommend a good introduction to differential geometry and forms? Does something analogous to "Visual Complex Analysis" exist for the topic? I have been curious to learn…

Unfortunately, it looks like this will be short-lived. China's emissions for some pollutants are already above what they were pre-shutdown. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt…

Unfortunately, the third part is missing from youtube. Full video here https://reason.com/video/mississippi-drug-war-blues/ .

I'm genuinely surprised someone could read that whole blog post (I'm assuming here) and come away with that conclusion. Gelman addresses this so directly in the article: "Recall th…

Walker has clearly made a huge name for himself and sold a significant number of books by skewing the evidence to make his thesis sound more substantial than it is

What do you mean that stretching doesn't do anything? Any links to such evidence? It's a pretty simple experiment to stretch every day for a month and measure your flexibility gain…

Except there are cases where Walker went so far as to remove portions of a graph to support his argument. This kind of manipulation shouldn't be allowed to stand and it's frustrati…

> Entire patterns of thought become antiquated as our communication wiring adapts to the ever increasing pace of society. Social media is driving dopamine hits from shorter and sho…

Could this have to do with the fact that the site is paywalled and not open to the bots and trolls that overwhelm other news organizations' comment sections?