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Well, it is mathematically impossible. Traditional IQ tests have a mean/median of 100, and follow a normal distribution with standard-deviation of 15 points. So 270 would be 11 standard deviation…

It’s shocking to me how few people I see suggesting we march on Washington and make a new government where corrupt pedophiles get capital punishment.

Sounds like those people are having an irrational emotional response to a term rather than addressing the presented research in good faith. Also being a broad or nebulous category doesn’t make it not …

Yeah ever heard of popcorn lung? Crazy stuff

The one in the article is dose dependent… And I really don’t understand your point at all. All science starts with observing a correlation and deducing a cause years to centuries later. But you don’t …

How about responding to the one in the article…?

It’s bad for health because the science says so. You’re welcome to do your own years of research to learn more (everything, cooking, freezing, drying, blending, adding acids affects amino acids and ce…

I don't get the point of these types of "5 levels of X"... Like yes you can take any continuous variable and draw as many lines in the sand as you'd like (5 levels of tallness, or …

I don't think kubernetes is inherently bad... it's just a tool that engineers are about 10x as likely to use as a footgun than as a nailgun.

Of course the loneliest 5% are going to do something like this. If it weren't for AI they'd be writing twilight fan-fic and roleplaying it on some chatroom, or giving all their money to a &q…

Fair. But the agent still takes 5%. Plus these days your mortgage would be so much worse if you moved that it would cost you potentially double.

I'm not sure if I understand how a break-up would work, but the sentiment that government be ready to nationalize or otherwise prevent a single company from potentially disrupting the whole econo…

I think it's actually very simple... the paradox of choice. You introduce somebody to your attractive single friend there's a real chance they hit it off and form a relationship. You introdu…

Current and long-time loudoun county resident here. We mostly don't like them, we mostly do feel disenfranchised, and people are trying to mobilize more political awareness of which politicians a…

To be clear -- the data centers aren't even a slight cause of the high incomes in loudoun county, that long predate the datacenters and the data-center salaries likely bring that number down. Als…

So for a simple example: Suppose 1/20 people are sadistic, and 1/20 people love eating bitter food. Let's suppose each question is multiple choice with a T/F. Let's suppose al…

So since this study is just mechanical Turk it’s entirely possible that this is nothing. Supposed x% of participants are bots or answer randomly — if we’re measuring a trait that isn’t significantly m…

Yeah, I was thinking about it, and I do think if you graphed it out it would be pretty easy to see. But afaik this site doesn't even track that many metrics (e.g. does it even count clicks on art…

Off topic, but I do feel like there is a significant number of things that mysteriously get to frontpage with 12-40 upvotes, zero comments, and then sit there getting no more upvotes / comments f…

> The levels of legibility that companies actually aim for are much more defensible Many companies run in such a way that there is no bucket for "engineers get to do stuff they know is importa…

Mostly a great piece. The only thing I need to challenge is the default assumption that leadership is automatically correct that "legibility" is worth all the overhead. Imagine if you brain …

I think this is largely practical advice if you want to influence a tech company at all costs. That is -- to have multiple projects lined for each executive goal that you can singlehandedly deliver on…

Agreed. I’ve actually tried quite hard for decades now and I wish I had just chilled — that extra effort rarely turns into a commensurate reward

I guess the main point I took away was that the expectation of masking creates a lot of pressure on everyone. Maybe the optimal solution is us all dropping the pretense and being chill with it.

It's been my experience (~ 4 years ago) that generally taxis were cheaper than Uber in new york, especially for anything like "Get me to the airport", sometimes like $25 cheaper.

I feel like this article is a bit too confident for the evidence provided. I recall going to a Steven Levitt speech (Freakonomics) speech where he was talking about looking into what miraculous star t…

> Even when you don’t agree with decisions the company leadership is making, part of your job is representing and facilitating those decisions with full alignment. No, not for a staff engineer. You…

Absolutely. Especially when those election deniers become insurrectionists.

We are usually skeptical. And I don't know why a weird ad for a smart-knife has gotten to the top-page of HN. We don't like "buzz" and "hype"... if it's truly a grea…