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I grew up in various Midwestern suburbs in the 2000s-2010s and it's almost exactly how you and the OP describe.

Trump?

His grandfather was a war criminal, and he has a track record of running interference for Japanese atrocities

virtually no teenagers or college students do any of this.

I think people are criticizing this checkbox in a vacuum. This is a mobile app that I personally use to track a small number of habits a day, it's not like I'm filling out a form on a PC. Within the context, it's definitely an appropriate design

I think it would be the opposite. Someone who is taller than you would on average look more like their head is tilted up from your perspective, and vice versa for someone shorter than you.

I think it comes from the statistical expectation. Like, if you were able to donate your kidney any amount of times, you would on average expect to lose your life on the 3,000th donation. So the question is, do you want to be the kind of person who would do that at the cost of your own life?

In your golf example, making that guess requires an additional knowledge of what "pro" means and it's frequency among golfers. The data doesn't know that just like the randomness data doesn't know that most humans are younger than 65 years old. If you really want to figure out how predictive the data is, you shouldn't include considerations like that in your model. I get what you're saying but ultimately I don't think their goal was to make the most accurate prediction, they wanted to make one that illustrated their point by basing their guess off the data alone.

Again though, they are arguing that there is no correlation between randomness and age. This was just a demonstration that when they use randomness to predict age, the results are wrong 50% of the time-- which is precisely in accordance with their hypothesis

Isn't that the point, though? Their argument is that there is no correlation, in contrast to what the original study claimed

You're saying that oligarchs taking control is good because it will cause more people to realize that oligarchs are taking control?

> Twitter became a negative-sum game of people competing to debase themselves in service of narrative in exchange for nothing but the approval of others who had already done the same. Unlocking that negative cycle can release a lot of captive value for everyone. The best way to do that is to connect great minds and scale them based on their revealed desires.

What are you even saying here?

This is a pretty big overreaction to a statement no-one should have any issue with accepting. It's manifestly obvious that property damage is not the same as violence against humans. It's something which is reflected in our laws. You can believe that property damage is bad and still accept this as clearly true.

Well, many rioters did target police stations. The issue is that any sufficiently large riot is necessarily disorganized, composed of different people with different motivations. For that reason, I think private property being targeted by rioters is actually not too different from your example of fire spreading to buildings. It seems an impossible standard for any riot / rebellion on a large scale to meet.

There are situations where the defenders of the fence are willfully obscuring / misrepresenting its purpose or may not even know it themselves, when I think this argument reaches its limits.

> the grandparent seemed to be stating that enjoying living in a place like this in the Midwest requires being white and straight

I don't think they meant that you can't own a house and lead a nice life if you're not straight and white. I think they just meant to say it's difficult to 'fit into' Midwestern culture if you don't fall into certain identity categories. While I'm from the Midwest and have fondness in my heart for it, I have to concede this is true from experience.

He's just saying that the Midwest (eg. Wisconsin) is not generally as diverse as Overland Park, which is true. You should examine what made you react so strongly to this.

I think what's uncharitable is assuming that someone is 'afraid to speak out' just because they don't want to wade into politics.

I don't see how a union-busting institution which has produced and continues to produce some of the leaders of capitalist society, can be construed as 'embracing far left ideology'. As the author rightly points out, their commitment to 'social justice' is entirely superficial.

I don't think it's a typo. The author is a sophomore, meaning he was admitted in 2020 and is therefore part of the class of 2024.

I don't think there is a real correspondence between math and some kind of 'mathematical reality' or Platonic heaven. Mathematical notions of truth are just mathematical. If you say something like "2+2=4 is true", you are making the purely mathematical statement "2+2=4", nothing more and nothing less. It's like saying "Sherlock Holmes lives at 221B Baker Street".

> America having more hispanics and blacks than places like the UK, the US seems like it is more obese.

Whether or not you actually meant it, this very clearly comes off as you saying that they aren't American.

I don't know, I think he made a very fair critique. Sure, there are hundreds of algorithms textbooks. But there are hundreds of anything. Anyone can make anything they want to, and they are subject to criticism for that.