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gpawl··on 42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the U.S
Industrial engineer jobs went to China because the low-wage factory job they oversee went to China. Industrial engineers would be easy to find if their was demand for them.
gpawl··on 42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the U.S
Even if education was the same everywhere, the most talented would tend to flow toward the areas of highest opportunity, and employers and customers will pick (their judgment of) the best performers.

Either the best here will compete with the best there, or the best there will come here (or vice versa)

gpawl··on 110 N.F.L. Brains
Football pays better than mesothelioma settlements.
gpawl··on How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit
No. Everything comes down to trust and reputation. The NYT has over a century of reputation. When something like that is broken, it can't be quickly replaced.
gpawl··on “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”
Videos aren't interactive. Homestar Runner animations were interactive.
gpawl··on “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”
China.
gpawl··on “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”
Meanwhile, DOS programs from 1986 still run in DOSBox.
gpawl··on How Did Anyone Do Math in Roman Numerals?
I think what you mean is that most proofs follow easily once proper definitions are chosen. Notation is a visualization of definitions.
gpawl··on How Did Anyone Do Math in Roman Numerals?
syntax, not semantics. Mathematical semantics is quite precise.
gpawl··on Show HN: A Set of Dice That Follows the Gambler's Fallacy
"truly random" refers to how well a real distribution matches its intended distribution. So, a long cycle is not truly random, because many desired outcomes are physically possible to obtain.

This is orthognal to the choice of distributon. Shuffle and Weighted Sampling are different choices of distribution.

gpawl··on Show HN: A Set of Dice That Follows the Gambler's Fallacy
> the various "interpretations" of quantum mechanics frequently fail to address what the nature of physical reality

No, they ALWAYS fail to address it, That's why they are called "interpretations", not "models".

> Do they actually exist

This question is completely outside of the realm of science.

gpawl··on Show HN: A Set of Dice That Follows the Gambler's Fallacy
The NBA Draft Lottery is similar in spirit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_draft_lottery

gpawl··on Linguistics and Programming Languages
When you say "glirp couldn't fit on the vell", do you mean to say that the glirp was placed onto the veil, or that the glirp placed the vell on the glirp itself?

The melon could not fit on the hat because it was too small.

The melon could not fit on the hat because it was too big.

https://www.google.com/search?q=watermelon+hat

gpawl··on Linguistics and Programming Languages
The self-help pseudoscience? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_semantics
gpawl··on Linguistics and Programming Languages
Perl has this, in $_, the default/implicit argument.
gpawl··on Machine Learning Crash Course: The Bias-Variance Dilemma
In what scenario is it ever possible to understand the underlying model, if the model was naturally occurring and not invented by the scientist?
gpawl··on Machine Learning Crash Course: The Bias-Variance Dilemma
Statistics is the science of making decisions under uncertainty.

It is far too frequently misunderstood as the science of making certainty from uncertainty.

gpawl··on Machine Learning Crash Course: The Bias-Variance Dilemma
This is a pernicious misunderstanding of "frequentism", often found among people who studied statistics mainly by reading comics.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130117080920/http://andrewgelma...

gpawl··on Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
and if you can't judge him for being addicted to taking risks, you can't judge people for being addicted to having feelings about it.
gpawl··on Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
Your life insurance policy is what it is because diving is unsafe
gpawl··on Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
Surely employers must cover life insurance then?
gpawl··on Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
The day you flip out on your bike and land on your head, god forbid, the same questions will be asked of you.
gpawl··on Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
Look, I love diving, and I love my kids. But I can't rent kids for just a few years [ok, excepting foster parenting]. Having a child introduces complexity, and "drop everything for 15 years" is only one possible answer.
gpawl··on Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
pre-conception birth control is still a male's choice.
gpawl··on Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
the common marriage vows explicitly state death as the one justification for exiting vows, so married with no kids is definitively in the clear.
gpawl··on Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
risk is easy to calculate. reward is not.
gpawl··on Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
the people who die in war aren't the people who decide to get into a war.
gpawl··on Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
http://www.insuranceclarity.com/life/life-insurance-extreme-...

OP is between "extra premium" and "cannot get coverage"

gpawl··on Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
what are the actual measured chances of dying at these various activities?
gpawl··on Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
Dying at your hobby is #1 form of neglect, partly mitigated only if you've set up quite an insurance payout.
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