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Much of this is foisted upon us by visual designers who wandered into product design. It's a category error the profession has never quite corrected. (maybe more controversially, i…

CBS mischaracterized this memo, which says basically that there will be fewer of some jobs and more of other. It's a pretty bland memo and a thinly veiled advertisement for AWS.

Sort of an entertaining read. The cornerstone of the argument starts on page 55 - three purported statistical anomalies that appear to be well-known and debunked. * One person sees…

You could still still see a greater left-side incidence if arm melanomas were higher on the left arm even though trunk/hip thigh melanomas were evenly distributed. The blog fails t…

Agreed. I'm an extremely fit runner doing 50+ miles a week and almost all of my runs are in a super easy zone that is equivalent to an uphill walk for most people. A lot of this ha…

> connected very intimately Do you mean hyperlinks? They're not hiding anything: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/about-us/our-partners/co...

If we give substance X to 17 people and 100% of them die, I would recommend against taking substance X. Of course, it's not as black and white here, but sample size and effect size…

Apologies for misrepresenting your source. I think there are salary differences across careers for a variety of complex market reasons. If I had understood the degree to which mone…

Nursing only requires a 2 year degree in the US and hardly any ongoing training apart from paid training provided by the hospital. There might be some additional certifications for…

I don't think the mortality rate needs to correspond to the incidence of long term effects.

I was saying that I think it's better to assume you're not dishonest, just intellectually lazy.

> "The effect of vaccination was not systematically assessed." I think you're either paraphrasing deceptively, or you are being intellectually lazy. Perhaps it is better to not ass…

This is a remarkably stupid comment but not everything is "unreasonably effective". Mathematics was noted as unreasonably effective for modeling the universe because most areas of …

I came here to say the same exact thing! These courses are excellent. As a follow-up to those courses, there are also some courses about the middle ages by Philip Daileader that pi…

I think you're largely missing the point of this article, which mostly summarizes a novel technique for comparing gut biome diversity, and which goes through a small amount of effo…

This viewpoint manages to miss the purpose of nearly all software engineering. We've already solved the tough algorithmic challenges relevant to most industries and those software …

There have been other studies with similar results but the main drawback of these population analyses is that glucosamine use is more likely in people with healthy lifestyles. Othe…

"What does it mean to get high? In a sense, it isn’t so complicated, when we do drugs, our “elevation” rises." Clearly, drugs aren't doing anything for this author's ability to dis…

Climate change has turned into a sort of quasi-religious moral issue that blends with other issues of our day. The thinking goes that, if only we could become pure and stop partaki…

That argument is totally unconvincing... like saying not to treat some lung cancer because the patient will just smoke more.

Nearly all of the disastrous things we've done to the planet were understood to have negative environmental consequences and yet we did them anyhow. Meanwhile, a great deal of our …

70% of the water in Arizona goes to farming. Our state ships hay to the Middle East. Subsidized water is a ridiculous subversion of market economics. Blaming this on suburban house…

Right? There's nothing surprising about getting scammed when you give out the 2FA code.

It wouldn't be very difficult to find a senior lecturer of Christian theology in any American university with borderline insane beliefs. I wonder how much of this is lazy journalis…