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> There's some evidence that philosophy majors score pretty high on the GMAT (for graduate admissions to business school) and on the LSAT (for law school), as well as pretty good on the GRE Verbal and GRE Analytical Writing test

As a philosophy major you should be the first to point out this doesn't imply causation.

When I wake up in the middle of the night, I ask Siri what time it is, so I don't have to open my eyes.

That's about it.

Well the grandparent disagrees with those evaluations. I have no opinion.

My point is, there's a difference between deserving a job the most and being the best candidate for it. Whether someone has "earned" a job on a moral level should not be the only factor in hiring them. I am also surprised you decided to take your supervisor's motivational comment so literally.

Yeah, that's inspiring and all, but if you have a domestic and a naturalized candidate for the job who are both equally qualified, and the naturalized one has a 10% higher chance of being turned, just go with domestic right? Might not be "fair" to the naturalized candidate who worked hard to get where he was but fairness is not always the priority.

Reminds me of the diversity debate at Google where google jobs are talked about like some kind of award or trophy of excellence and not just selling your labor to Google

A job is not (just) a privilege.

I don't know how someone can say "this promising therapy exists only in Tblisi" and not be immediately suspicious...

And the hunt for the "magic sauce" in education trundles on...

But by that logic younger siblings would be overrepresented next bin, [30,40]. What goes up must come down.

Personally, I mulled over it for a while and I don't see any mere "statistical" effect that's plausible. I think we are forced to conclude there's a psychological difference with firstborns.

> I think it's more likely a measurement error, or some subtle statistical effect caused by a combination of probability skewing and demographic changes.

Can you elaborate?

The authors note in the Spectre paper that Chrome already does this, and they can get around it with a timer thread.

Interesting to compare the reactions in this thread from 1 day ago:

"Intel's CEO Just Sold a Lot of Stock"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16055851

Several of those already exist. Somehow, it seems intrinsically impossible to solve this problem with another app.

But whatever process the human eye uses to piece together a flickering image should itself be fairly simple, right?

In the US, inequality has been mostly driven by the top 1-10% outstripping everyone else. But the murders described in the article (and that comprise most of thise statistics) are obviously between two 90%ers. So the Guardian's conclusion that inequality trends will cause more murders hardly follows. As other comment points out, poverty is the relevant variable here.

No but I found it funny

Not to mention, they fucked up the grammar and it doesn't even make sense. Unless they mean seeing your reflection in someone's cornea, which only happens in movies.

...isn't that sort of what a massage is?

It's even easier to type the two words, "Philip Anschutz"

You may as well name these people, to save us the effort of digging it up

Richmond, VA is the biggest and most important Richmond. Anyone who has heard of Richmond, VA will likely assume that is the Richmond being referenced. Anyone who hasn't heard of Richmond, VA gains no additional understanding from knowing which state it's in.

Yeah, but the distance from the center is itself just a one-dimensional gaussian...

I suspect there's some vague "psychosis level" that spikes and decays exponentially when you use weed, lsd, etc. And then people with schizophrenia find these drugs near age 20 just as the level is rising naturally. So it looks like LSD triggered it but there's no real interaction besides adding the two curves.

Most people who use telegram haven't heard of Signal, most people who use Signal won't touch telegram with a ten foot pole.

*presuming that Satoshi is not Hal Finney, who is dead.

Oops. Didn't notice it's cumulative.

Tangential, but has anyone else noticed a surge in newsweek links here and on reddit? I feel like they hired some consultants.

Take out what, precisely?

The idea that psychedelics are only harmful to people with "latent" schizophrenia is equally unsupported. It's an old canard that people with a one-sided view of these drugs keep repeating.

I guess you can't do this at an office, but as a student I just project onto the wall whenever I work at home.

> pneumonics

mnemonics :P