I think most people have done psychometric analysis and that is a good way to learn how you can improve a solution by dropping an item.
Psychometric analysis, like creating a scale to measure an opinion or attribute.
I got the joke you're making, Moby, but that's a very small audience you're aiming for.
1: Of course.
"Drop bird"
"The little bird attacks the green snake, and in an astounding flurry drives the snake away. "
Yeah. In my neck, we've tried for a while to reform basic zoning so that most of city land isn't given over to single-family homes, but the reforms that have won are mostly complicated overlays like:
* Allowing extra units on single-family lots (ADUs) in newly-defined sets of circumstances
* Requiring cities to approve apartment buildings with affordable percentages in certain other defined circumstances, such as their not having enough affordable housing
* Refining the process by which cities reevaluate their zoning (and adding teeth to it)
Still, we work toward more simplicity. We might get to duplexes being the statewide minimum this year.
Additive vs subtractive solutions are one of the markers of bad code vs good, no? Definitely are for writing.
To elaborate, I think the groupthink process is: it's easier to say "Look, you should at least be able to do [X thing in Y set of circumstances], right? Let's change the rules to allow that specifically." Harder to say "Our fundamental approach is wrong."
At one point in my life, I was surrounded by people with very strong opinions on what is groupthink and what is some other psychological dynamic. Fortunately, I didn't catch that.
One of Brian Eno's Oblique Strategy cards says take away the most important parts.
Is this a shadow argument for abolishing the police?
I understood immediately and intuitively that it would be a good idea to subtract Trump.
OP.1: I thought that research was insightful. A former boss had a similar discussion about taking over a project where the previous engineer had lots of concrete walls on one side of the project, which attracted more of the seismic load, which required bigger connections and made the walls stiffer, which attracted yet more load...
When he took it over, he suggested adding some openings in the solid wall. The wall rigidity was less, breaking the cycle of attracting the load... and the architect was happy to have more space and light. They were able to save a lot of material by subtracting enough wall to prevent the rigidity/seismic attraction loop from starting. But it definitely felt counter-intuitive to "solve" a problem of "too good" a wall.
Taking away Trump's Twitter account was wildly more effective than I could possibly have imagined.
With buildings, that might be easier than with organizations. With organizations, taking out something means firing somebody in many cases. Businesses might like to fire people, but the people working with them usually don't like to suggest things that are going to get someone fired.
On Trump, I'm pretty sure this is just the rest period between two waves.
Probably, but I'm holding out hope that Wave 2 involves heavy use of the term "defendant."
Not just that. Unless and until the Democrats control swing state legislatures, it's near disaster after near disaster.
A gerrymandered state legislature stomping on the rule of law forever (or at least for the rest of my lifetime).
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I talked to my mother yesterday, and maybe being crazy for a lifetime, somehow inoculates her to old-people crazification. I found out, she and my sister said, "I probably shouldn't tell you this" that Fox is her favorite channel. It used to be CNN. She's always been anti abortion because she grew up Catholic. She had gotten vaccinated, so I brought up the fact that they've been really anti-vaccine, and she said "Well, I'm not anti-vaccine." And then "Well, the thing that really bothers me is all this gun violence, and how many guns are out there."
I don't get the dissonance, but I guess she's been living that way her whole life.
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19. Parts of the Internet are still heavily invested with people claiming that Trump is still legitimately President or if not, that he was the greatest President since Washington.
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I woke up with an earworm. Try this one out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUXSVnGsYyY
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I think there's a related phenomenon, where if you are looking at an updated photograph, or list, or similar, to see what has been added, it's often relatively easy to spot, but if you are looking to see what has been deleted, you tend to draw a blank, or at least I do. Looking for the subtraction requires me to mentally inventory the old photo/whatever to see what isn't there any more, and there is a lot more mental energy involved in trying to do that.
Put the things you want to wear on, then look in a mirror just before you go out and take one of them off. That's elegance. Also try not to completely suck up to the Nazis.
Doesn't work at the swimming pool.
Matthew McConaughey is currently ahead in the race to be the next governor of Texas.
I just saw that. It's agonizing, but it'd be better than Republicans in charge...
I bet he discards the idea though.
I'd prefer Parker Posey, if we're picking from Dazed and Confused. But she's probably not as much "Texas".
By which I mean she doesn't look like she's drunk all the time.
I associate Milla Jovovich with the Umbrella Corporation and Ben Affleck with Ben Affleck movies, so they're out.
It would be fucking amazing. The Republicans have such an iron grip on the governor's mansion these days that I would happily vote for Jesse Ventura at this point.
Should I say the line now?
That wasn't a great movie, even for comic book movies.
I never understood why diamonds were consumed as (as a fuel?) to make a freeze ray.
Even then, why couldn't he use industrial diamonds?
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"This just gets me back to normal."