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One way people try to tease out those differences is through methods like "Difference in Differences"[1] which try to estimate causal relationships from observational data. These m…

One small additional point. I completely agree that Jagex has done a great job maintaining OSRS. Polls for changes to OSRS typically require 70% of votes to pass[1] instead of a si…

You're correct. I was saying that correlation implied either causation or at least a common cause, and you correctly point out that there can be (edit: and frequently are) spurious…

I completely understand your point. Misinterpreting correlation with causation is something that frequently bothers me in writings and discussions. In this case, however, I did fin…

I believe this is in reference to Professional Engineering firms, which often requires PEs either as owners or in certain roles. As far as I'm aware software engineers are not requ…

I find it fascinating that there are more than 11,000 tax jurisdictions in the USA[0]. I think the comparison is interesting, as I'm sure many of these are ignored by many online r…

I found myself struggling with the intuition of this similarly to amingilani until I made the connection you're mentioning to infinity. The thing that helped me understand the fall…

This isn't quite what you said, as your comment spoke about the energy industry specifically, but I decided to see if there was any data on people's beliefs about climate change by…

I think you've hit on what always bothers me about this sentiment. It is obvious that at any point in time you can charge the maximum customers are willing to pay, but that allows …

I somewhat disagree with the idea that a Big Corp reduces your learning opportunity. I work for one of the big companies, and one benefit I don't see highlighted frequently is chan…

Current Amazonian, my opinions are my own. I love the emphasis on writing these papers to drive a meeting, and 6 pages is an upper limit. I personally prefer trying to condense it …

I'm no expert, but Wealthfront currently uses VEA for foreign stocks and VWO for emerging markets. https://support.wealthfront.com/hc/en-us/articles/210999343-...

This appears to be another scalability vs human intervention argument that occurs commonly in public and private enterprises. I think much of this community favors the scalability …

I really appreciate the cognitive dissonance you're experiencing related to this case. Blindly accepting presumption of innocence, which I support in the justice system, is not som…

I have to say, I strongly disagree on this point. I am a coder who works in a variety of languages build on many paradigms, of which SQL is one of my most enjoyable. I agree that t…

I think this is okay, but I really hate the current landing page. It would be nice to have a description of the service instead of a message warning you that you are not logged in.…

Both of those languages have seen vast improvements in speed throughout the past ten years. Java 1.4.2 was immensely faster than any previous Java implementation. I would be very i…