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And if anything, I'd expect machines to have faster reflexes than humans. The Medium article is walled off, but I found another source[1]: "The child reported minor injuries and di…

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> It's like asking someone playing roulette to value "13 black", after they bet on it. Even worse, because you don't get better odds or payouts by persuading others to bet on 13 bl…

Uber and Lyft both provide an option for women to request female drivers. In both cases, they say they can't guarantee it and that they may end up matched with a male driver. (In L…

Surely, if the compensation was high enough, you'd be like, "Sure, I'm happy with that outcome." And then, if the AI company thinks they have a low enough failure rate that the exp…

Multithreaded: seq 1 20 | xargs -Iqq -n1 -P0 yes >/dev/null

So is it your position that, when the Chinese government imposes takedowns or worse on Chinese people posting Winnie the Pooh stuff, it's primarily because the Chinese government i…

> This is arguably rational because the pool is small and there's little to gain by studying harder if you already have a perfect GPA. So there is a low ceiling, and if they instea…

Theoretically yes. But I think at least part of the decision they've made is to delegate a chunk of the decisionmaking to doctors' guilds. Which—on the one hand, they are experts o…

That would increase competition and thus depress wages for existing doctors, who are the ones who make the decisions here. I heard, from a medical school attendee, that she overhea…

No matter how many have good grades, you can always pick the top n by grades—unless there's a ceiling that the top m > n have all hit. Which, if you're talking about "grades" as in…

Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome, I imagine? That's probably the one category of XY people who have undergone no hormonal masculinization throughout their lives, and the on…

https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/2024/09/uneven-playin... “Women tend to have thinner skulls than men, along with smaller neck muscles, which can predispose female athletes t…

Googling "fargo police chief resigns": https://www.inforum.com/news/fargo/zibolski-announces-his-re... among other results. That said, it's portrayed as a retirement, and doesn't s…

I guess, in theory, this can eventually be countered by people using LLM browser integrations to tell them whether comments are worth reading (and maybe to summarize long comments)…

It's one of the relevant factors. It, and related facts, make it usually possible for a man to overpower a woman (and a predator self-selected for being somewhat above average in f…

If Whites had, on average, 2.5 standard deviations lower upper-body strength than non-Whites, then maybe.

A general reason to focus on abuse instead of immediately visible outcomes: if the abuse is not dealt with properly, then that may lead to the abuse becoming increasingly widesprea…

Has anyone here switched roles from programmer to manager (of human programmers), and is it a similar feeling?

> need not bother with teachers outside that top 25%. To simply "not bother" with lower-quality teachers sounds like you find it easy, as an institution, to determine teachers' qua…

> Its primary outcome is a modest reduction in propofol and fentanyl dose under a very specific anaesthetic protocol. Ooh, that sounds like p-hacking. How many other protocols, and…

Guessing those rewards are in the hundreds of dollars, probably a fraction of the engineer salary that went into the technical work.

To be sure, is it possible that, on each subsequent iPhone release, the hardware got better at handling weak signals, and thus a mediocre signal for iPhone N was decent for iPhone …

More generally regarding poisons, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridatism . TLDR: YMMV. "Mithridatism is not effective against all types of poison. Immunity is generally onl…

> Doctors aren't paid by the hour. Not explicitly, but do you think the salary wouldn't change in the medium to long term if the hours changed significantly? Of course, in the shor…