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by TeaBrain 2y ago
When I hear about police getting involved simply because a person is out walking, the story almost always turns out to be about somewhere in the south.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Fortunately for the rest of the Western world, I don't think most of it has to deal with the artificial community concern about children walking on their own that the US experiences.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>I'll bite, I guess: > In deferrence to Boglehead philosophy, hedging bets is a fool's errand The flagged comment didn't say that hedging was idiotic, but implied that the specific hedge mentioned was idiotic, yet didn&
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Unlike most AI companies, Chegg at least still breaks even.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Of course there are implications between mental health and AI, but I didn't write my comment to address those, nor did I attempt to interpret any implications. My comment was solely on the section of the article the parent comment refe
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Work Number is from Equifax. ADP's similar product is called Smart Compliance.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>It's easier to go to a cheaper state/city college and then take your first job severely underpaid. You will still be much better off than $200K in the hole and learn actual skills useful in the job market. The person you respo
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
That was the most relevant part of the article. It shows what wasn't clear by the title or the first part of the article, that the kid killed himself because of mental illness, not because an insidious chat bot encouraged him to do so.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
They didn't start off with a large audience and they weren't granted one by having something like a channel reserved on the airwaves. They gathered a large audience organically because people just wanted to watch. They have no ob
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
That isn't actually an example of the Gell-Mann Amnesia, as he described, but just an example of the cherry picking of data and selective interpretation. The Gell-Mann Amnesia, as he described it, refers to how people will not read a
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
He does, but I'm kind of glad for it, as if they weren't around then there probably wouldn't be a podcast. Even though he's the only member of the podcast I find likable, I still find the exchanges entertaining.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
I think Chamath is guilty of this to a degree that far exceeds the others. Chamath regularly states misconceptions about economic data, but with extreme confidence as if he's a macro econ subject matter expert. I think Friedberg shou
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Technology definitely plays into it. As an aside, I stopped in an a old bar recently that was long known for regularly having live jazz and the bartender mentioned that they hadn't had live music since the covid lockdowns.
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I think it was decently clear that they were disagreeing about the age restriction of 18, but my comments were referencing how the two of them had been simply arguing over the semantics of the mention of 18 years of age then 6 years of age
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
I think that the idea is that once they ban the offices, then they might have stronger legal justification to ban the app.
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The point is that from a disinformation dissemination perspective, it doesn't matter where the data was stored, but the government could have possibly had more control if the data was stored in Canada. Forcing the data to be removed f
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
He was establishing the age of 18 years old as a reference point for the lower bound for when people are able to make adult decisions. His mention of the age of 6 after this, which your primary contention with him seemed to be about, was s
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
He mentioned on the livestream yesterday that he didn't vote for either and just wrote in a name.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
I think you are fundamentally misunderstanding his use of English. You seem to be interpreting the structure of his sentences in a way that he wasn't intending at all.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Yglesias has no business commenting on macro finance. He just as good at being confidently incorrect as Chamath. An entertaining example of this was his confidently incorrect tirade about basis points. https://www.cnbc.com/2
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
This is how baseless rumors start. You're speculating without a hint of evidence.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
As SpaceX is essentially the only mature commercial launch company with reusable rockets, it should be no surprise that the company gets government contracts.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
I actually was of the impression that David Friedberg got a decent amount of speaking time in the last few episodes, especially in that recent one that he moderated, which I enjoyed since he's the most level headed, least partisan and
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Do you think that of the four of them, Friedberg has a best grasp of the finance side of things? I would think he would be since he was apparently formerly involved in IB, PE, then corp dev when he was younger.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
You misread their last two comments on the 18 years old remark. The mention of 6 years was a hypothetical for if the age restriction wasn't set at 18.
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Expats typically aren't immigrating permanently to a country, or even trying to establish new citizenship, only residing to the medium to long term, with the option of returning to their home country where they have citizenship. If th
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Interest rates remained relatively low compared to history throughout the 2010s and the year over year inflation figures for that decade remained below 2.5% throughout those years, during both Obama's and Trump's presidencies. In
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
I don't agree with the idea of everything being a "lie" as they put it, but I have also noticed prices have risen over 50% for a number of food items. I'm a regular consumer of dark chocolate and brands that used to cost
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
"Most of reasons for failure is that incentives in between contractors and hiring company is misaligned, leadership have no idea what they are doing, cultural differences, time zone differences" No-one was referring to moving busi
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
> If you mean the parent misinterpreted what we're talking about – that is likely true. No, like I spelled out, your response that I replied to misinterpreted the comment that you replied to. What they were pointing out was that th

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