person1 either agrees, or disagrees with a person2
What’s wrong with calling them Alice and Bob like everyone else?
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See e.g. the post “Intelligence and Intercourse” on the blog Gene Expression (though it appears to only mention studies about people in the US).
When I take a class, my goal is to learn the material.
That does not imply that when anyone takes a class their goal is to learn the material.
That’s what I was going to say, too. But it probably lacks “objective and unforgiving”, depending on how narrowly the OP meant it.
Studying stuff using spaced repetition systems, e.g. Duolingo. (Though it may lack “useful in the real world” depending on, among other things, what exactly you’re learning.)
But in certain places the optimal speed to drive at (i.e. minimizing some linear combination of probability of dying, time spent, fuel used, etc.) may exceed the legal speed limit (i.e. maximizing revenue from speed tickets).
Then again, going fast and then braking right before a radar may itself be quite dangerous.
The feedback some of those give isn’t that rapid, though.
Yes, but I’d guess that many of the people who read this post and UnrequitedHope’s comment aren’t “normal” in the relevant sense.
driving sufficiently far above the limit to need a radar detector
That’s probably a bigger deal on certain roads than on others.
However I think that the subset of grown-ups who would grok Unix well AND haven’t tried it yet is pretty small nowadays.
Good point.
What’s the correlation between the left- and the right-hand digit ratio?
You can read posts on a Blogspot blog sequentially by adding
?m=1at the end of the URL of a post (so that you get the mobile version—but actually I like what it looks like on desktop computers too) and using the navigation arrows near the bottom of the page, below the comment box. (They work backwards, i.e. the left arrow links to the next more recent post and the right arrow links to the next earlier post.)
“80/20” are defined in relative terms, so it still makes sense if the overall complexity of your tax system is smaller.
I do not understand your need to post this comment anonymously.
IIRC there’s someone who has admitted to regularly using the Username accont just because they can’t be bothered to make their own.
TrE still has a good point if you define “clutter” in terms of how hard it is for you to find an item, regardless of what the desk looks like to an outside observer.
Likewise (this has just now occurred to me), if you’re participating in a discussion on Slate Star Codex you might want to open the page twice, and use the copy with the green borders intact to locate the new comments and the other copy to reply to them.
I use a non-Web-based user agent and I have it check my mail for me every 5 minutes and notify me when I’ve got mail.
Is saving 10 people from starvation (ie, funding the continued existence of 10 people, engaging in the typical activities of a subsistence agriculturist, and experiencing the normal pleasures/pains of a subsistence agriculturist’s life, of greater value than, say, funding one person working to figure out how to increase human being’s peak IQ? [although, of course, fill in here the research question that you think is the most important]
The former may be more terminally valuable for certain value systems, but as far as I can tell the latter is more instrumentally valuable for pretty much all reasonable human value systems.
Not to be sleep deprived is a massive, free cognitive enhancement. [emphasis added]
Check your having-enough-time privilege! ;-)
(But for > 50% of people, I agree with your comment.)
Hello, everybody, and happy belated solstice.
I used to post here from a different account until some time ago, then I decided it was not anonymous enough (also, the username was quite silly) so I deleted it. Here I am again, but this time I’ll be more careful about privacy.
BTW, the only reason for the underscores in my username is that the software won’t let me use spaces, so don’t bother with them. Also, in case you need to refer to me with a gendered pronoun, I’m a “he”.