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by INGELRII 6y ago
Low cost index funds for over 7 year investment horizon. If you are in the US and just want to keep the value, Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) directly from the U.S. Treasury. https://www.treasurydirect.gov/in
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by INGELRII 6y ago
> Technology is deflationary, things should get cheaper because we go after producing them in creative ways one demand is high. And as a consequence the wages you earned by making tech year ago should have less value than the wage you
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The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies(cepr.org)
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Antitrust in the Digital Age – Google, Amazon, and What Follows(econofact.org)
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by INGELRII 6y ago
Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics (London: Macmillan and Co. 8th ed. 1920). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_Economics_(Marsh... ---8<--- The relative fall in the incomes to be earned by moderate a
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by INGELRII 6y ago
Insurance business is risk management in imperfect world. Quantifying the risk and pricing it is their business.
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by INGELRII 6y ago
>Wouldn't it be better to simply invest that money in better security to begin with ou are arguing for behavior without providing any suggestions on how to achieve it. "Wouldn't it be better to simply do the right thing.&q
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by INGELRII 6y ago
This issue can be solved with mandatory insurance and compensation structure. For this sensitive private health information compensation should be at least 5 figures per person, no excuses. A data breach involving 10,000 people could cost 1
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by INGELRII 6y ago
I'm against "entirely" anything. There are no fixed solutions for organizing society. We don't know what it is to be a human (only strict ideologies are certain what humanity wants and what the goal is). Allowing chang
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by INGELRII 6y ago
I'M NOT AN ANARCHIST. Consider the difference between a faceless government and something with a face. Faceless means impartial, once removed, not having skin in the game. Faceless means not having to take aside. Faceless allows more f
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Complex systems science allows us to see new paths forward(aeon.co)
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The Power of Incentives: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior(fs.blog)
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by INGELRII 6y ago
“Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.” — Charlie Munger, https://fs.blog/2017/10/bias-incentives-reinforcement/ Mechanism design is a subfield o
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by INGELRII 6y ago
Unnecessary accuracy is technical incompetence.
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Maybe GPT-3 and its successors could be used as a filter to force people to say something or meaningful or get ignored. Instead making new sentences it could be used as a tool to give "cliché index". Imagine browser filter that
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by INGELRII 6y ago
How many of you remember MegaHal (1998) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaHAL It said many random clever sounding things. For example: I COULD SHAKE MY TINY FIST AND SWEAR I WASN'T WRONG, BUT WHAT'S THE SENS
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The Deck Is Not Rigged: Poker and the Limits of AI(undark.org)
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If there is one thing I would suggest for all large open source projects, it's separating the functionality, data model etc. from UI as much as possible. It should be possible to have two separate open source projects. One is just exte
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What is it like to be an electron? An interview with Galen Strawson(nonzero.org)
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Climate crisis: alarm at record-breaking heatwave in Siberia(theguardian.com)
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by INGELRII 6y ago
(Not native English speaker, non-American here) Master seems a perfect word to describe anything that is controlling or has authority over the other thing. Things can be a person, organization, device. Slave seems like a perfect word to
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by INGELRII 6y ago
There are two types of peer review. 1. Pre-publication peer review Reviewers examine the work before it's presented to the rest of the people. 2. Post-publication peer review Paper on an online forum where others can read and comme
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Spatially regulated editing of genetic information within a neuron(academic.oup.com)
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The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance(advances.sciencemag.org)
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Appeal to authority is not not deductively valid and thus it's logical fallacy. On the other hand very little can be learned with deductive reasoning at once. Deductive chains in debate are very short and shortcuts must be used. Autho
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by INGELRII 6y ago
True. Corrected.
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>This is sadly common on Internet debates Internet debates can be really good in very small, focused or closed forums where people have time to learn each other over time. Some mailing lists and tiny groups are phenomenal. Debates that
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by INGELRII 6y ago
Very true. Two very frequent argumentative errors in online comments are: 1) refuting argument with counterexample. 2) refuting causal argument with alternative cause. Very few things in the world is universally true without exceptions or
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by INGELRII 7y ago
> They didn't realize there was any danger in making false predictions. Is there any danger for them? PG seems to have very idealistic view of politics. As far as I know, any amount of fact checking in politics don't change po
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by INGELRII 7y ago
In addition to noise and small changes, the same genome can contain multitude of mutually exclusive anatomical and behavioral traits. For example, high stress environment might trigger different genetic traits than low stress environment, i

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