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That is the expected result for a sub-population that has a shorter lifespan. My sibling comment addresses deaths lagging over time. But even in the steady state of (say) 18% smoke…

I believe the grandparent's comment was a bit misleading if not wrong. ( http://xkcd.com/386/ ..) In most dialects of English (notably British English), the short form of the subje…

I believe you have misunderstood your parent comment. The question "Do you actually believe suicide can be caused by someone playing dress up?" asks whether suicide can be caused b…

I believe the suggestion is to use the "From:" field of the email, which for a significant fraction (perhaps even majority) of people includes their name. I think it's an interesti…

I think you misunderstood your parent's comment. While the phrasing of the final sentence was awkward, the post was arguing for exactly the same thing as you.

As a correction to my sibling comment, orange _is_ counted as a color in English. The most widely-cited list of colors in English, as seen on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguist…

People actively look to credit other people's success to anything but their work all of the time. Just this week, such a webpage was heavily discussed on Hacker News: https://news.…

More or less, yes, that is my implication. Luckily, my sibling comment provides some extra information. For the example of SHA-1 computation, you mention using FPGAs that finish in…

gwern, if you're reading, this section is misleading if not wrong ...: "But that doesn’t seem very true any more. Devices can differ dramatically now even in the same computers; to…

Hi, thank you for your insightful comment. Can you provide a source for the sentence "The Federal government does (more than 90%, in point of fact), through the FHA."? I am unable …

To be fair to mathematics, in your example the proper notation is df = (del f/del x) dx + (del f/del y) dy, which does not suggest the possibility of cancelation.

The Valiant-Vazirani theorem says that both Unique and Unambiguous SAT are NP-hard under randomized reductions. While this is not NP-hard under the usual definition, modern complex…

People generally agree that there was not a malfunction in the electronics. But whatever happened with Woz's car? He claimed he could reproduce an uncontrolled acceleration bug in …