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To be fair, it is less about "keeping top kids down" and more about "let's use our very scarce resources helping the bottom kids". Put that way it seems less malicious, and more li…

The upside is that I was a total basket case in my 20s, completely incompetent to be able to raise a child. I'll leave it to my children on how it turned out in my 30s. Generally I…

Whipping Star has some amazing alien vs human discourse (at least, that's my memory from ~20 years ago!). It was the first time I found alien dialog that didn't sound like repackag…

The really fun thing is to realize that juggling is a meta-hobby. I started out with juggling balls, a short time on rings, spent a long time on clubs, and now spend my time trying…

There are several philosophical approaches to the purpose of prison. 1. Revenge 2. to keep society safe from dangerous/anti-social people 3. to provide a safe space for rehabilitat…

I know American management isn't a monolith, but over the course of my career, I have gotten extremely good play by educating people about blameless RCAs both for myself and my cha…

I know this is off topic, but having spent a significant amount of time convincing people around me to use signal, once they remove this feature, literally 100% of the non-tech fol…

I'm certainly unconvinced that the first part of that statement is true. We've seen self-driving cars run into static obstacles. We still need to deal with emergent behaviour of gr…

Stupid question(s) for a non-medical person who doesn't even know enough to be wrong. I really thought "inflammation" is/was a generic term for a myriad of different causes and sym…

I can't read the study directly (and it's not my field, which makes reading it directly challenging), but this is the abstract conclusion: ` Higher fasting insulin and higher c-rea…

Bashing on lottery tickets due to EV also really feels like it's really missing the point. Lottery tickets are a mechanism for enjoying a fantasy. Sure you could technically just p…

In general, you won't have enough information to accurately model this yourself, IMO. You might increase your edge, but you're still basically getting lottery tickets.

None, unless you think that people are somehow able to side-step this problem in a way that a computer can't mimic.

I am assuming that. In most countries it's required that you can return non-consumable items in a sensible time-frame. Restocking fees vary in legality, but typically need to be di…

I mean, you could have bought them. Tried them out while in the store, then returned them if they weren't to your liking. But I'll admit that might be more overhead than you were h…

Having grown up poor, I was going to challenge the statement that 'most Canadians own property', but it looks like it's ~70%. I mean, I think hanging 30% of your population out to …

I found that earplugs + headphones with brown/grey noise absolutely made the universe go away. I don't use it now because my work has changed and I work in a single-person office, …

Can you provide some substantial ideas about what you would like to see different and what makes the current model "garbage"? Otherwise it's not clear what you're advocating for.

It's easy to spot the badly astroturfed accounts. How would establish your baseline truth? I'm not claiming it's impossible, but it's very easy to fool yourself in this territory. …

Yeah, this is like "people who are overweight: lose weight". Well gee I never thought of that before, I guess I'll go right out and do it. I certainly won't continue lying awake be…

You could posit that this woman is in no danger whatsoever and it would still meet my budget for outrage. I guess we have different budgets.

> __on the ground__ in a 1g

It's about tradeoffs. On one end you have precision, speed, reliability, diagnosability. At the other end you have "realness". Unit tests fall on the far left, workload tests/E2E t…