>History repeats itself here, with the difference that instead of paying for the data, the ai crawlers simply take it for free. This discussion was broached originally when discussing whether or not search engines and…
No, most genetic drift that ends up being reflected in wildtype populations happens during those periods, because small errors taking up a sizable percentile of the allelic distribution is easier when there are less…
America had a true famine; the dust bowl resulted in mass displacement, and the government took exceptional steps to create remediation programs to address the plight of those affected to maintain relations. The…
It's worse than that; within a few generations our linguistic and biological systems will begin to diverge under conditions with little cross-pollination and different selective pressures. We will become aliens in the…
>I disagree. You can escape a disease, even during a global pandemic. And not every person that got COVID was on a ventilator or even felt that bad. Propaganda works. The knowledge worker class often believes their…
I feel like this was more accurate a long time ago when the first rounds of YCombinator hopefuls were all piling in here and nerding out. The vibe, tone, and content has dramatically shifted towards the finance and…
There were a lot of pre-internet 2.0 groups that were phenomenal in terms of competence density. The first point I worry a bit less about but it does have moments when it's suboptimal - for certain specific discussions…
Not really. When performing clinical trials, if you'd like to use the results of the studies in chinese/indian populations you'll need to prove bioequivalence in many cases, so you're going to need to collect a…
> We should be seeing many people holding mortgages at HSBC not able to pay. Not really. Lying about the source of cashflow doesn't mean the cashflow isn't real. The end objective for a lot of these frauds isn't to sink…
Vaccination generally uses an adjuvant to increase immune response to the target antigen in order to provoke a response strong enough to produce lasting immunogenic memory. Antigens alone in small numbers aren't enough.…
I think most people recognize that you don't get every job you apply for, but there are people who contact hundreds to thousands of organizations, apply with custom crafted letters and tailored resumes, put in thousands…
>but does that make it surprising that people hate doing it? When an activity validates you, it's tough to imagine other people having the opposite experience with it. Imagine every time you went to a round of…
This is only true to a point. Evaluating incremental cost benefits on the basis of the delta of energy loss along specific lines ignores the state change that occurs when main trunk elements of the grid become lossless…
Retail banking is low margin high volume, but a bank's CMG or IB divisions are NOT low margin operations. Trading desk margins vary depending on the strength of the group and the clientele. If you're a primary desk for…
The number of banks is not a good indicator of how much competition exists in a market. The elasticity of prices in that market is a better measure, but also has flaws. In general you need to look at how much margin a…
This is misleading. Banks have capital sufficiency requirements following the implementation of the Basel 3 capital sufficiency framework. This has created an international growing market for bulk capital availability…
>This is a Motte and Bailey. No it isn't. The motte and bailey tactic is when you advocate for a very broad position, then retreat to something more defensible. I've stated that the broad statement (that all censorship…
>When you trust your government with the power to control the flow of information, you trust them with the power to hide their own actions from you I think this is as false dilemma - no one's advocating that any…
There's a common issue in philosophy and epistemology over how we come to know things. We wanted to know what 'knowledge' was, and settled upon the concept of a 'justified true belief' for a fairly long period of time.…
>But it doesn't make a lot of sense to me since influenza will be mutating to escape the immune response Not all mutations are equal; the flu has antigenic factors that rapidly change in response to evolutionary…
>Like how is it not an admission of wrongdoing if you finally say "Ok, I'll give you money for this problem to go away". Because an admission could be used against you in future litigation, thus defeating the purpose of…
>It's not a problem with the "system" that mathematicians know more about math than the general public One of the historical high watermarks in legal history is the existence of the twelve tables, a highly condensed,…
>People will say capital Because the answer is capital.
>I'm sure everyone could probably live much longer and "healthier" if the government controlled every aspect of their life, but that's exactly the authoritarian dystopia that much of the population fortunately rejects.…
I think the only way you can make this argument is to have a completely value agnostic perspective and believe that any individual value curve is good. Is Meth good because people clearly value it enough to destroy…
>History repeats itself here, with the difference that instead of paying for the data, the ai crawlers simply take it for free. This discussion was broached originally when discussing whether or not search engines and…
No, most genetic drift that ends up being reflected in wildtype populations happens during those periods, because small errors taking up a sizable percentile of the allelic distribution is easier when there are less…
America had a true famine; the dust bowl resulted in mass displacement, and the government took exceptional steps to create remediation programs to address the plight of those affected to maintain relations. The…
It's worse than that; within a few generations our linguistic and biological systems will begin to diverge under conditions with little cross-pollination and different selective pressures. We will become aliens in the…
>I disagree. You can escape a disease, even during a global pandemic. And not every person that got COVID was on a ventilator or even felt that bad. Propaganda works. The knowledge worker class often believes their…
I feel like this was more accurate a long time ago when the first rounds of YCombinator hopefuls were all piling in here and nerding out. The vibe, tone, and content has dramatically shifted towards the finance and…
There were a lot of pre-internet 2.0 groups that were phenomenal in terms of competence density. The first point I worry a bit less about but it does have moments when it's suboptimal - for certain specific discussions…
Not really. When performing clinical trials, if you'd like to use the results of the studies in chinese/indian populations you'll need to prove bioequivalence in many cases, so you're going to need to collect a…
> We should be seeing many people holding mortgages at HSBC not able to pay. Not really. Lying about the source of cashflow doesn't mean the cashflow isn't real. The end objective for a lot of these frauds isn't to sink…
Vaccination generally uses an adjuvant to increase immune response to the target antigen in order to provoke a response strong enough to produce lasting immunogenic memory. Antigens alone in small numbers aren't enough.…
I think most people recognize that you don't get every job you apply for, but there are people who contact hundreds to thousands of organizations, apply with custom crafted letters and tailored resumes, put in thousands…
>but does that make it surprising that people hate doing it? When an activity validates you, it's tough to imagine other people having the opposite experience with it. Imagine every time you went to a round of…
This is only true to a point. Evaluating incremental cost benefits on the basis of the delta of energy loss along specific lines ignores the state change that occurs when main trunk elements of the grid become lossless…
Retail banking is low margin high volume, but a bank's CMG or IB divisions are NOT low margin operations. Trading desk margins vary depending on the strength of the group and the clientele. If you're a primary desk for…
The number of banks is not a good indicator of how much competition exists in a market. The elasticity of prices in that market is a better measure, but also has flaws. In general you need to look at how much margin a…
This is misleading. Banks have capital sufficiency requirements following the implementation of the Basel 3 capital sufficiency framework. This has created an international growing market for bulk capital availability…
>This is a Motte and Bailey. No it isn't. The motte and bailey tactic is when you advocate for a very broad position, then retreat to something more defensible. I've stated that the broad statement (that all censorship…
>When you trust your government with the power to control the flow of information, you trust them with the power to hide their own actions from you I think this is as false dilemma - no one's advocating that any…
There's a common issue in philosophy and epistemology over how we come to know things. We wanted to know what 'knowledge' was, and settled upon the concept of a 'justified true belief' for a fairly long period of time.…
>But it doesn't make a lot of sense to me since influenza will be mutating to escape the immune response Not all mutations are equal; the flu has antigenic factors that rapidly change in response to evolutionary…
>Like how is it not an admission of wrongdoing if you finally say "Ok, I'll give you money for this problem to go away". Because an admission could be used against you in future litigation, thus defeating the purpose of…
>It's not a problem with the "system" that mathematicians know more about math than the general public One of the historical high watermarks in legal history is the existence of the twelve tables, a highly condensed,…
>People will say capital Because the answer is capital.
>I'm sure everyone could probably live much longer and "healthier" if the government controlled every aspect of their life, but that's exactly the authoritarian dystopia that much of the population fortunately rejects.…
I think the only way you can make this argument is to have a completely value agnostic perspective and believe that any individual value curve is good. Is Meth good because people clearly value it enough to destroy…