RhysU

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901.
by RhysU 6y ago
A small number of people produce many of the productivity gains that improve broad quality of life. How do you know that they aren't the ones flying? Economics suggests that few would continually pay for useless business trips.
902.
by RhysU 6y ago
Assuming one is traveling up or down a coast. The coast to Chicago is a different matter.
903.
by RhysU 6y ago
Anyone flying can do work and possibly better humanity in the air. Anyone driving is at best picking songs and at worst texting.
904.
by RhysU 6y ago
Yes! Do not use "just" or "basically" or other words that imply that you believe the concepts to be simple. "Basically, you just frobnosticate the dodad." kills me when I hear it in a meeting.
905.
by RhysU 6y ago
It would be more compelling contrasted with ones that did not work.
906.
by RhysU 6y ago
Is this sort of upsampling essentially what the eye sees when it "sees" movement?
907.
by RhysU 6y ago
People who frown on children tussling take their young dogs to the dog park so the dog can "play" with other dogs. Because the dog needs it but the kids do not.
908.
by RhysU 6y ago
I doubt those effects are unintended.
909.
by RhysU 6y ago
Nah. I arrived when it was too easy to speed on Mopac. I left town before a north-south was totally inconceivable. Dunno if the behind-Pease-on-Parkway trick still helps. I had an east-west when I bailed.
910.
by RhysU 6y ago
30 minutes won't take you from the river to North Loop. And even Redbud is slow in the opposite direction.
911.
by RhysU 6y ago
I do not understand why public ownership should be a prerequisite for anthropomorphic treatment of companies. A thing is a thing regardless of who owns it. As for taxes, yes we all pay more. But we do not have our earning power attenuated e
912.
by RhysU 6y ago
Old monochrome duplex network-attached laser printers are hands down the best. So long as one can find a source of good toner cartridges.
913.
by RhysU 6y ago
Would you accept the forced sale of 1% of your personal income-earning ability each year? You get to keep 100% of your 2021 salary iff you can outbid the highest bidder?
914.
by RhysU 6y ago
> For private ones, the shares would be auctioned publicly. No company could be held privately in perpetuity. Taking ownership away is very different from taxing ownership.
915.
by RhysU 6y ago
> people have to agree on basic shared facts What are the facts that someone has to share on this topic to avoid your down vote?
916.
by RhysU 6y ago
> Instead, because Wyoming has more Electoral ballots per person than larger states like California and Florida, a vote cast in Wyoming is "worth" about three times as much as one cast in those larger states. Anyone truly irked
917.
by RhysU 6y ago
Would progressive taxation not already accomplish the intended goal of such a carbon tax by suppressing high-income consumption? Why add a second mechanism?
918.
by RhysU 6y ago
I do not worry about my particular government unjustly killing or imprisoning me. The platforms can deny me a voice, can allow lies about me to circulate in my absence, and can cause a mob with pitchforks to metaphorically show up outside m
919.
by RhysU 6y ago
> But let's not pretend that Twitter and Facebook hold information monopolies with equivalent power to the government's ability to censor. Those private entities can censor in excess of the government. They are scarier.
920.
by RhysU 6y ago
Saw a $20 on the ground in front of the elevators at a hedge fund last year. Lobby full of employees. True story.
921.
by RhysU 6y ago
I am unable to find something quotable to back me up. So, I can only offer my personal take. I lived in Austin from 2004 until 2014. Not a Texan by any stretch. When a member of a group says y'all to the group it is warm. When an outsi
922.
by RhysU 6y ago
Omnes
923.
by RhysU 6y ago
Except y'all can be dismissive or insulting depending upon context. Let's go y'all (idiots)!
924.
by RhysU 6y ago
The US vs EU discrepancy in "Audit fees per $10,000 of client revenue" is interesting. Is that driven mostly by regulation?
925.
by RhysU 6y ago
I want so many people in these threads to travel back in time so that they can tut-tut the market makers for wearing lifts in their shoes.
926.
by RhysU 6y ago
> Why isn't the benefit of that efficiency passed on to those employees who are now more efficient? Because any teenager would be more efficient with automated inventory control. Teenager X didn't have to learn how to do someth
927.
by RhysU 6y ago
Can one ballpark how many million acres must burn on average to reach steady state given the transformation of sunlight into captured energy via photosynthesis on the impacted areas? Can we say that a noble management goal is for precisely
928.
by RhysU 6y ago
Sure there's a way to finance it! Make everyone else in the country subsidize New Almaden! Works for hurricane and tornado areas too!
929.
by RhysU 6y ago
Change in deaths over change in statistical illiteracy is positive eh? How positive? Presumably the change in statistical illiteracy depends upon the magnitude of the deaths. It'd be an interesting relationship to study...
930.
by RhysU 6y ago
The GP is concerned that a word appearing in legal statutes is being redefined in a way that changes the law. A fair concern in isolation from policing considerations. "Species"-level differences are off the table. Everybody can h

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