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amvalo··on Frequently asked questions about your craniotomy (2020)
Was disappointed when I realized the author was not an actual doctor.
amvalo··on The Financial Times’ 404 page
Do you remember what they were called?
amvalo··on Futarchy: Robin Hanson on prediction markets
Wrong how? Skewed R?
amvalo··on On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking
If he knew they were going to kill him why did he let them visit?
amvalo··on Co-founders tried to reduce my equity after company was accepted into YC
> the signs of this type of person are pretty obvious in retrospect

What are the signs?

amvalo··on A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to be true is cited more
Why not just name the paper :)
amvalo··on Deep genetic affinity between coastal Pacific and Amazonian natives
> some other N. American immigration hypotheses (eg, that pleistocene peoples could make boats)].

Why were they so opposed to this? You can't leave us hanging...

EDIT: ok and why is this at -1??

amvalo··on I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
Fake story -- that's way too fast.
amvalo··on Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
Yeah it’s all about the 3rd party who gets insulted. I have one friend whose brother is disabled and he’s told me off for using it, which I get. Transgression is part of the appeal of curse words

I agree it’s rude but banning a discord of 50k people just for that is highly sus

amvalo··on Discord bans r/WallStreetBets server, subreddit went private for a while
So calling someone R*** is not allowed but calling them shit-for-brains is, though the intended meaning is pretty much the same.
amvalo··on Parler’s amateur coding could come back to haunt Capitol Hill rioters
> From what I understand, Parler was bankrolled and designed to do exactly what it was ultimately shutdown for. That is, be a concentrated anger-machine-echo-chamber. I'm not angry at the public corporations that have dropped Parler. I'm angry at the people that created Parler in the first place.

Where did you get this understanding? Seriously. My understanding was that the founders were mostly anti-trump libertarians.

amvalo··on Bias in radiology resident selection against the obese and unattractive?
Ok, now I really wanna see a photo.
amvalo··on Americans are getting more nervous about what they say in public
He does have the disclaimer
amvalo··on Ask HN: After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuanced discussions?
> how much of this nuance is achieved by having discussions about issues which have real life-or-death impacts on people but without having any of those people inconveniently present?

Uh, not much? This comment seems to be assuming some weird things about what the blog typically focuses on. Actually, he writes about trans issues a bit, got some flack for defending Blanchard, and a large fraction of the readership is trans.

amvalo··on Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions Next Year
The test has actually changed over the years and since people made a stink about the oarsman question, they’ve been more careful to reduce cultural bias (though I’m not convinced it was ever that bad in the first place). It is basically a canard at this point.
amvalo··on Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions Next Year
What are you saying "No" to? This article says it may have been from the 80s?
amvalo··on Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions Next Year
Talking about the Oarsman-regatta thing? That was 2 decades ago...
amvalo··on Show no mercy: The tragedy in Xinjiang
That and... the war
amvalo··on China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest
Just because it's not engineered doesn't mean it didn't come from a lab. It could be a natural virus that was collected and escaped. The original SARS escaped no less than 3 times from chinese labs following the outbreak.
amvalo··on FDA just cleared a $20 Covid-19 antibody test
"Page Last Updated: 03/23/2020"

Strange indeed.

You said your test kit arrived already? What does it look like?

amvalo··on FDA just cleared a $20 Covid-19 antibody test
Yeah, and it's not listed... in the actual FDA database.
amvalo··on California lifts restrictions allowing restaurants to sell alcohol to-go
Until recently there were sites selling contact lenses (like visiondirect.co.uk) that would flaunt this rule, but visiondirect was recently being investigated for it so YMMV.
amvalo··on FDA just cleared a $20 Covid-19 antibody test
Yeah, after digging into it more I saw that. Doesn't explain the missing FDA number though which is quite sketchy.
amvalo··on FDA just cleared a $20 Covid-19 antibody test
Seems to be a scam. If you look up their FDA registration number nothing shows up.
amvalo··on Where is the fashionable mathematics?
The biggest pain point with the theory was its handling of equality, which HoTT fixes.

Ergonomically.. well it's hard to describe TBH, the easiest way to see is to just download one of these systems and try using them. You try to prove a theorem and everything just ends up taking way longer than you'd expect. Mostly because you can't gloss over small details the way mathematicians will do informally. Every small turn of phrase like "for large enough N" or "without loss of generality" can become dozens of extra lines of code.

amvalo··on Where is the fashionable mathematics?
The answer is simple: these systems aren't mature enough to formalize the modern fashionable math. They need better ergonomics and perhaps better underlying theory before we attempt that.
amvalo··on If the Tuition Doesn’t Get You, the Cost of Student Housing Will
being very expensive
amvalo··on If the Tuition Doesn’t Get You, the Cost of Student Housing Will
Oof, madison is pretty "hot" these days.
amvalo··on One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online
I assume the explore-every-corner-of-the-map thing he was doing made it hard to make money
amvalo··on One player spent 10 years exploring every corner of Eve Online
> Most Americans can't even afford a $500 surprise bill[0].

EVE costs money wikipedia doesn't?

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