RustyEarthfire

joined 1 year ago
[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago
  1. The article argues campaigning with Liz Cheney seems to have no effect. Calling it an "electoral fiasco," especially in the headline, clearly implies that it was detrimental in a significant way.
  2. The evidence that the rallies were ineffective is comparing Harris's results against Biden's. This is terrible analysis. This should be at least a difference-in-difference comparison (the difference in the change vs Biden, using similar counties that were/weren't visited). Useful evidence that their analysis actually works would be applying it to strategies they think were positive, and showing the relative improvement there.
[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

An article about how we all need to come together opens with a salvo against all of their allies. Beyond parody

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

slightly more weight per vote

Wyoming citizens count three times as much as California citizens

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Like a spider dangled over the fire by a thread.

No I wasn't emotionally scarred by high school American Lit, why do you ask?

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Also, he was suspended in July 2021, so the consequences were pretty quick, and only the final nail in the coffin was delayed.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Sisyphean Effort is actually a thing

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

omg Toad, you can't just ask people why they're purple!

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

The short answer is being admitted by the bar; we already trust them to certify humans.

If for some reason I were arbiter, I would say a convincing record of doing actual legal work, vetted by existing lawyers. The legal profession already has a well-defined model of how non-lawyers can contribute to the work, so there is no need for a quantum leap up to being a lawyer.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
  1. The bar exam is just one part of a larger set of qualifications
  2. The bar exam is just a (closed-book) proxy for the actual skills and knowledge being tested. While a reasonable proxy for humans, it is a poor proxy for computers
[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It has a watermark explicitly saying it's a colorization. The embossed faux cursive is pretty hard to make out, but it is https://www.jecinci.com/

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

Is this p-hacking?

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