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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Well-compensated is necessary, not sufficient
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
It's quite hard to tell if this is satire. So... good job? Maybe?
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
It's just the UK state in it's classic rut/local minima. Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be solved by simultaneously (a) paying MPs a lot more, and (b) banning all other forms of income. As it is, being an MP is a to
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
If an oligarch extracts wealth from Russia and parks it in London... that seems like a win for London? It is a bit anarcho-tyrannical in nature though. That is, the AML/FCA stuff then has the outcome of only effectively constraining t
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
I'm not convinced the bad market is due to AI at all. That's just a convenient excuse to do layoffs without the bad PR normally involved in admitting you need to do layoffs. Also, the Open to Work banner has the stink of desperat
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Doesn't really follow for structural reasons. Same as how the management of most countries sucks and is entrenched such that they can't be replaced.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
RE the first question I'm sure someone hasn't seen this yet: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1 Subjectively though, sleep 'feels' like it maintains continuity in a way. But of course that could
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
The airlines could alway remove you for literally any reason. Even if it was discriminatory or otherwise illegal, you'd still definitely be getting off the plane, at least.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Do you also boycott Toyota for the Hilux?
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
> I would use the fork as a "shovel" for the peas Well I don't personally mind, but this would be seen as poor form in the sense of the original article. You're 'supposed' to kind of spear them onto the end
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
You're not supposed to use the fork like a shovel, is the thing. The tines are to skewer the food, which is why tines-down makes sense. Otherwise, why not a spoon? Also, the at-distance interaction between two tools requires much mor
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Others have addressed the clickbait nature of the title I'm just surprised the food industry or whoever is willing to fund FUD content that ostensibly has such an indirect effect on their bottom line. Although I guess they spend a ton
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
I counter with the American swap-the-fork-hand-after-you-cut thing. Diabolical.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
You could surreptitiously agitate the soup as you pull out the solid contents.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
> Just proceed to eat some splinters, then? What is the good etiquette way to handle low quality el-cheapo chopsticks? Well first of all the chopsticks are joined at the non-eating end, typically. So the splinters would be bothering you
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Not sure about this because many charities are designed to spend their income, rather than hoard it. A big part of choosing which charity to donate to is, or should be, how effective they are in spending what you give them.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
> Most of these are common sense. A lot of them are not common sense at all. Even the 'serious' ones require cultural knowledge to understand. Only a subset of the rest would be un-ideal across cultures, which is what I would
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Well there's a virtuous cycle for immigrants whereby if you integrate, you improve the language, you get a better job, and you integrate more, thus often ironing out any weirdness wrt to the host culture. Uber driver is pretty dead-en
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
It being signed doesn't make it nebulous.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Nobody is asking about ethics or a fulfilling life. We are talking about maximum _impact_.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
That's not their stated goal. Their stated goal is to maximize impact, not their own happiness.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
But you're not supposed to accumulate the wealth, you're supposed to forward it to your elected causes.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
There is no moral excellence but which you invent for yourself. But given the first principle or goal of 'having the most impact', maximizing money is often quite useful.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Being a quant is not that interesting and if you're not redirecting the money you're not really an EA, are you? Your first paragraph is just a standard response to utilitarianism, although a poor one because it doesn't consid
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
> My goal in life is not to maximize financial return, it's to maximize my impact on things I care about. In the vast majority of cases, financial returns help maximize your impact on the things you care about. Arguably in most cas
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Yeah I was talking more about the definition of obscene. Like is it obscene to make 300k if housing is so expensive? I say no, and that London salaries are just bad. Although it would be preferable to fix the housing market. To be fair t
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
The S3 API/UX/cost model is so seductively simple for static hosting though. I kind of think they deserve their ubiquity. Not on 90% of their products though.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Impact size is not relevant to funding allocation?
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
Perhaps but the fastest race car is not possibly marshalling in the end of human involvement in science, so you might consider these of considerably different levels of meriting the funding.
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by 0x3f 7mo ago
It's not about deserving, programmers just have enough market power to be able to choose to go elsewhere. Janitors and other more fungible employees do not. Besides, I did already say that everyone else was underpaid relative to costs

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