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One weird thing about the language, which seems contrary to this "most productive language" claim, is that it seems a bit complicated to use normal version control https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/26174/what-a...

Went looking for later studies with larger population sizes and found this review https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S204908012...

It's not that much larger -- I guess reinfections are hard to find -- but surprisingly this found that ICU admission was higher for reinfections.

Indeed, small sample size!

That link shows most (69%) have similar outcomes. 68.8% -- 19% had worse symptoms and 12.5% had milder symptoms.

Small sample size, but even similar result is somewhat surprising -- I would've thought the 2nd infection would be weaker.

By "move-to", not sure if you mean Chicago overall, or the north side in particular, but if the former Chicago is growing slower than the national average. 2% last decade (vs 8% nationally) https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/8/12/22622062/chicago-cens...

I had the impression Chicago was actually losing people, but that info was old, from the previous decade where it lost 7%.

Was in the same boat 10 years ago. In my quest to replace AHK on MacOS, Hammerspoon is where I ended up. It's great.

Because people can sometimes detect when someone is trying to manipulate them (we're having this discussion after all), and it might backfire?

Right. For some reason the author thinks abolishing is easier?

> Since we can’t change Yale, we have to tear it down.

Maybe the author thinks a similar "revolution" would ripple to other Ivys?

I thought initially "abolish" here is used to mean "reform" in the same way that many people use it in "abolish police". But then:

> Since we can’t change Yale, we have to tear it down.

Is abolishment really easier than reform?

I'm surprised private schools have a lower default rate, since they cost more. I suppose people who attend private school come from wealthier families on average?

For reference, those numbers are all higher than the typical mortgage default rate: https://www.statista.com/statistics/205959/us-mortage-delinq...

I'm surprised an article on hippo poop altering the local environment doesn't mention the unique (and disgusting!) way that hippos poop: by spraying it everywhere propeller-style with their tails! The usual explanation for that is that it's to mark their territory, but I wonder if this offers a more cooperative explanation? (I would be skeptical of that explanation TBC.)

Ha. We better read it while we can!

Is this a sign that Fox is going more Trumpy/to the right?

I wonder if it also signals that CNN is trying to appeal more to conservatives?

No https://www.audacy.com/sports/ncaa-football/gallery/2021-hig...

Yeah, “specific” would have been better.

He says “most likely” and only 20% live in rural areas. Also there are other sources of heat in rural areas.

Hm, now that you mention it, I guess my reaction is more against the parochial choice of content, rather than the appropriateness of the headline. But s/The state of Washington/Colleges/ would might work?

OP doesn't comment on the air pollution from wood stoves, except to say it can be "cut in half". Half the pollution from wood stoves is still a lot of pollution. I'm reminded of this essay by Sam Harris https://www.samharris.org/blog/the-fireplace-delusion

I feel like college coaches at good schools are probably overrated: players choose which team they play for, and school reputation is a major factor. Talent on pro teams on the other hand are much more equitable distributed due to the draft, making it easier to judge coaching talent.

Also, $50k is a weird number to choose in your example. Presumably the best players would command much more than that.

Yeah, the headline weirdly implies Washington is unusual in this regard.

Yeah, I'm pretty receptive to this POV. "Manipulative" is carrying a lot of work in this discussion though.

I'll just add one memorable example of where ads actually worked for me. I was frustrated by how thick wallets were and so I happened to Google "thin wallets," and got an ad for the "Allet", which was exactly what I was looking for, and I did end up buying it, and I still use Allets to this day. That said, I tried the same search just now and Allet didn't come up in the first page of results, so I'm not sure what to make of that, ha.

Right. I mean you can opt out of specific ads to some degree. For instance, when we were in the process of launching a site, but the ad account was using the "bottom of the barrel" setting and we kept getting those "manscaping" ads, which are pretty raunchy and were embarrassing to have on your computer in the office (especially when demoing to a client)! Disabling them one by one did eventually work.

Related to this whole discussion, if you turn off ad targeting, you often get some garbage ads.

All else equal, sure, but wouldn't advertisers change the content and style of the ad knowing if it will be targeted or not?

Can't broad and shallow be manipulative--"keeping up with Joneses"--while deep and narrow is purely informational?

Ha, I feel like people assign higher competency to agents they fear (in an extreme case “the CIA is reading my mind”).

Hm, that’s a good counterpoint. I guess it depends on the nature of the “good” (“bad”? Ha) being advertised too?

But even here, there’s still the possibility for a better world with targeting, given good intentions of the targeting system (I know I know). Surely the best world isn’t one where casino ads are sent out blindly?

Is that a comment on modern day Antwerp, or some period covered in the article?

All ads are a form of manipulation. I can see a case that targeted ads are less manipulative to the extent it presents you ads for products you’ve already shown a propensity for. Untargeted ads on the other hand would need to more manipulative to be equally effective.

It seems the problem this site is really taking issue with is privacy.

I didn’t know - I never really thought about it. What caused you to think about it?

This video demonstrates that as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNmUNHSBac

Yeah, sounds terrible. I wonder what medical treatment he's seeking? My understanding is that there wasn't much you can do other than rest https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/concussion/di... but there must be something hopeful if he's willing to move states to seek it.

I'm reminded of solving Laplace's equation in Excel. It makes some cool animations too https://www.av8n.com/physics/laplace.htm