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Libraries and books were pretty cool too though. You could go to a library and find information on anything and a librarian would help you. Not super efficient but good for humans.

Incentives determine outcomes. Most grad students are grad students because they are responding to incentives. It's competitive so cheating is ubiquituous. Reduce competition in academia and problems would lessen.

On the latter point I agree completely, on the former--demand for mid-late career quant types, I want to agree but also think we'll need to wait and see because current AI will lower a lot of bars, and as you acknowledge it's all about money ultimately.

"Allowing this solid 1/5th of the workforce to confront their employer without fear of deportation would go a long way increasing compensation for the industry as a whole."

It is strange to read this all typed out in earnest like that. Housing costs triple over night for the win? We'll all be homeless but those of us in construction will get a boost (or decreased competition from low cost imported labor).

"Folks"

"Do you folks need more time?"

The problem with "people" is it sounds vaguely rude or hostile.

"Do you people need more time?"

Look, by "won't reteach" you give it away. Those who are not rusty in linear algebra will tend to be recent grads, younger people who are probably not looking for a boring defense job with no remote somewhere in Alabama. Those jobs appeal to people who may have had enough time to forget how to implement a SVD without googling.

Regulations aren't all designed for society's well being. Some regulations are very narrow and help only specific businesses, like tarrifs.

Can we make a strategic vs tectical distinction when it comes to reforms?

Do you suppose that study is the final word on topic? Replication is an important part of the scientific process, as are converging lines of evidence.

Define phone. See.

Right, mainstream news has been doing this same clickbait for half century at least and it is the reason we allow it from social media. We're desensitized to it and actually seek it out. We live to suffer and be enraged, because in our minds democracy depends upon it.

>I hate to see it happen as part of a charged ideological / political process.

Can it happen another way?

All doctors,like all lawyers, are in a union in the sense that they cannot operate without approval from their peers. It's collusion by labor, but with patient outcomes being the supposed concern rather than pay (though obviously it is also precisely why doctors and lawyers get paid so much).

The solution to amoral familialism?

Not so sure about 3. Wouldn't it be more sensible to be flexible in terms if what you optimize? Some projects need best work, some need a friendly face, some should just die quickly.

>At what point do you have to accept that the tsunami is here and there’s nothing you can do about it?

Around the late 2000's, but maybe it was earlier. The best time to buy msft stock is always right now.

Interesting. Rexroth to his credit wasn't a terrible poet.

Carbs are harder to control for many people, and less forgiving. A side effect of keto is decreased appetite. A side effect of carbs is overeating.

People double down as part of human psychology. Some grasp their own biases much better than others. We should try to train people to be more self reflective and less biased politically. It does not correlate with education level so something is clearly broken in higher ed..

This matches my experience. Sadly the way tech has evolved has made a lot of entertainment totally unaccessible for a lot folks. It needn't be that way. Seniors would be happy to just have a button thst played a netflix title randomly, but somehow that is unattainable.

"I'm not sick I don't need help" was a very useful read at one point. A key point I recall is the importance of avoiding taking an adversarial stance and maintaining trust.

Go to the store people! You cannot buy things safely online in this day and age. An UBER driver is not going to be a person you can trust, they're often financially desperate people, and the customers are all too well off for them to care much about. Brick and morter retail solves a lot of security problems.

If you work from home you can spread monitors out, so you switch positions while working on a problem without losing focus the same way you switch back and forth on a dual monitor setup. E.g. Have documentation on monitor one at a standup station in one corner of the room, the other monitor with code a few feet away at a desk, email on a laptop in a separate room, etc...

And drinking more coffee helps a lot. You have to get up to make the coffee, then to pee it out. The caffiene in sufficuent quantity makes it hard to sit still. You talk faster so people think you're more productive too.

“We’re enamored by high technology,” he said at the Council on Foreign Relations. “And we’re not in love with low-tech. Low-tech is always seen in our eyes as second-class. Why would you do this, when you could do that? And I would argue just the opposite.”

Noteworthy that others tried to gatekeep thier low tech approach and experimental efforts. So much "perfection, enemy of the good" in expert circles.

Imagine if you could buy car insurance after you crash your car.

Right. You would want to do it immediately so that initial hits to economy can be claimed as belonging to Biden. And then you can cut the tarrifs and make things improve.

>Maybe we should be getting it from supplements anyway.

Supplements as in flouride toothpaste and mouthwash? I think most everyone does, aside from those on HN who read Scott Alexander's blog.

Great for learning for learning sake. Learning with the intention of pursuing a career requires the economic/job model too, which is the problem.

Sounds good but is that true? A single unreplicated paper could be science couldn't it? Science is a framework within which there are many things, including theories, mistakes, false negatives, replication failures, etc... Science progresses due to quantity more than quality, it is brute force in some sense that way, but it is more a journey than a destination. You "do" science moreso than you "have" science.

"We found little or no effect of reducing saturated fat on all‐cause mortality (RR 0.96; 95% CI 0.90 to 1.03; 11 trials, 55,858 participants) or cardiovascular mortality (RR 0.95; 95% CI 0.80 to 1.12, 10 trials, 53,421 participants), both with GRADE moderate‐quality evidence.

There was little or no effect of reducing saturated fats on non‐fatal myocardial infarction (RR 0.97, 95% CI 0.87 to 1.07) or CHD mortality (RR 0.97, 95% CI 0.82 to 1.16, both low‐quality evidence), but effects on total (fatal or non‐fatal) myocardial infarction, stroke and CHD events (fatal or non‐fatal) were all unclear as the evidence was of very low quality. There was little or no effect on cancer mortality, cancer diagnoses, diabetes diagnosis, HDL cholesterol, serum triglycerides or blood pressure, and small reductions in weight, serum total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and BMI."

This is your citation for saturated fat is evil?