Eliezer

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by Eliezer 12y ago
Speaking as someone whose writings as a teenagers are often dragged up by Internet trolls with no disclaimer about when they were written, I find myself extremely, extremely sympathetic to Quora here.
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by Eliezer 12y ago
All we need now is the blood of his enemy and the flesh of his servant.
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by Eliezer 12y ago
Whether Overstock succeeds in this or not, it's coming and it will be huge; I so predict.
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by Eliezer 12y ago
I wonder whether legislating a minimum rate paid for prostitution (e.g. 100 euros per hour), with violations criminal for the underpayer but not for the prostitute, would have resulted in a nicer-looking industry. In other words, whether i
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by Eliezer 12y ago
Hi! This is the Yelling Math Fairy and THE WORD EXPONENTIAL DOES NOT MEAN MORE. IT IT IS A MATH WORD. IT MEANS e^kx. IT MEANS THE SOLUTION OF y' = ky. DOES EACH NEW ASSAY DOUBLE THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF WORK? NO IT DOES NOT. THE ADDE
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by Eliezer 12y ago
Hi! This is the Market Economics Fairy! Just a quick reminder that if virtuous people selling a stock would predictably lead its profits to be temporarily priced lower relative to the rest of the stock market, even a small group of profit
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by Eliezer 12y ago
Apparently literally everything is a cult.
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by Eliezer 12y ago
Skimming three chapters reveals no sign that the author of the above book knows first-year undergraduate economics, why the current economy is arranged the way it is, or what policy tradeoffs would be involved in their hopeful ideas. May I
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by Eliezer 12y ago
Hi! This is the Market Economics Fairy! I can't tell whether this is just a case of the journalist not understanding what properties make for a good unit of exchange, or if the actual creator of the currency has never heard of the La
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by Eliezer 12y ago
I second the recommendations of both _Worm_ and _Ra_.
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by Eliezer 12y ago
As tzs points out above, this could be because police take crimes against black victims less seriously.
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by Eliezer 12y ago
How is this score calculated? Would it look anything remotely like a chart of growth in total valuation of the portfolio? Without knowing more about the metrics, this chart is meaningless. In particulary, if we have a dozen different gro
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by Eliezer 12y ago
That's... kinda not a very good description of the major contemporary schools of thought on metaethics. I don't know if any respected analytic philosophers take moral relativism seriously as philosophy; you can't ground the
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by Eliezer 12y ago
I'm skeptical because it sounds like this effect should be tradeable, unless they're using some measure of shareholder returns which doesn't imply that you could short-sell high-paid-CEO equities and buy median-paid-CEO equit
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by Eliezer 12y ago
My intuition would be that functional startups are visibly functional; they feel awesome. If you have to ask whether your startup is dysfunctional, then the key fact is that it's not awesome which I would expect---someone correct
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by Eliezer 12y ago
Hi! This is the Market Economics Fairy! I would like to respond to whatever it is you're thinking, but I honestly don't know what exactly you're thinking! Increasing the supply of something almost always makes the price go
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by Eliezer 12y ago
If this is the manufacturing process and its price, why are LED light bulbs still expensive? (Serious question.)
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by Eliezer 12y ago
I watched "Star Trek: Into Darkness". At first I was like "Kirk should be fired." Then I was like "Everyone on the Enterprise should be fired." Then I was like "Everyone in Starfleet should be fired.&qu
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by Eliezer 12y ago
I am a tad perturbed that a quick skim didn't present to my eyes any statements along the lines of "But we never tried it, at all, so take it with a grain of salt." Either that or I somehow completely missed the table showing
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by Eliezer 13y ago
Price-weighted? Price-weighted? (Market Economics Fairy bangs head against wall.)
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by Eliezer 13y ago
The opening comments about the Federal Reserve trying to inflate US debt out of existence caused me to stop reading, as it was immediately obvious that the author didn't understand economics.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
So my first thought looking at this was, "Companies in modern times are forced to pay dues of this type as a cost of doing business and not having the government randomly shut them down." In other words, that Dropbox doesn't
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by Eliezer 13y ago
A slidebelt ($28). I recently bought one and it's superior to any belt I've ever owned. It instantly tightens if I want to run, and with only slightly less effort loosens. It's exactly the right tightness, no holes. If yo
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by Eliezer 13y ago
"Seduce"
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by Eliezer 13y ago
That actually sounds fairly legit, especially since the commenter below notes that the union has asked for more privacy protections but not received them. Hadn't realized the policy debate was multi-sided.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
I guess they try to keep the airplanes cheap enough that they can't spring for a 16gb card in the CVR.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
Ooh! The media! We're supposed to blindly trust their reporting even though they get wrong everything we know about personally, right? Clarification from Julie Ann Horvath describing everything TechCrunch misrepresented in 3... 2...
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by Eliezer 13y ago
Am I over-inferring from one piece of info, or does this writing represent an entire branch of early feminism which lost the struggle for the heart of the movement and was driven out by worse ideas?
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by Eliezer 13y ago
I think that's a bit strict. The Judeo-Christian God, if functioning exactly as advertised, shouldn't be able to do that.
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by Eliezer 13y ago
Far as I can tell.

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