TimPC

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721.
by TimPC 5y ago
Accept the 30% voucher that represents what a typical student getting into private school costs the system instead of demanding 50% as fair when that leaves the system too impoverished to deal with the students that remain.
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by TimPC 5y ago
I feel sorry for him. Spending your life trying to make it into a good story is sad. Most good stories have characters who are intentionally flawed in order to create conflict and plot. The best lives are fairly boring as far as narrative p
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by TimPC 5y ago
I think it’s more important for the game to be meaningful than difficult. How well do you know a neighborhood is deeply meaningful. How well do you know 2.5 neighborhoods isn’t. I’d strongly recommend sacrificing difficulty for meaning here
724.
by TimPC 5y ago
Every proposal I’ve seen for vouchers tries to tie the amount to average spending per student. My point is that’s fundamentally unfair because private schools are only interested in students that cost below the average to educate. They work
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by TimPC 5y ago
The circle is a bit large as in larger than a single neighborhood for my city. I feel like the game is useful when it asks you how well you know a single neighborhood. It’s less interesting when it asks you how well you know 2.5 neighborhoo
726.
by TimPC 5y ago
I think the author is fundamentally correct on the main point: the interface for environmental review needs to change. The current interface is that you generate a report and anyone can sue to require that report to have additional details
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by TimPC 5y ago
Not when anyone can sue because a certain detail is missing. The fundamental interface to environment work needs to change not just the length of the reports.
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by TimPC 5y ago
True school choice is an illusion as long as private schools are free to decline unwanted students that cost more to teach. The advocates of such policies tend to ignore the fact that it would leave disabled and other special needs students
729.
by TimPC 5y ago
Does anyone else find a man who makes a living selling propane and propane accessories criticizing others over global warming to be a bit rich?
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by TimPC 5y ago
It’s not always a nice problem to have. Before a change in tax policy under Trump it was possible to have taxes due on some of the gains the stock had made before you were able to sell it. At least with this type of liquidity program you co
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by TimPC 5y ago
It’s very hard to do good real estate pricing models from raw data. You can get all sorts of metrics on the property statistics but one important factor in the cost of the home is the state of renovation. Since most listings don’t have a hi
732.
by TimPC 5y ago
These laws are hard to get actually correct. The major problem is court delays. There is a very high bar for kicking someone out before they get their day in court about whether it is fair to do so. This seems eminently reasonable but t
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by TimPC 5y ago
I'm curious if anyone else is concerned about the downside to this. Once they post a range they have to follow it because of the legal implications. Many companies are willing to bend the budget for an exceptional candidate at the very
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by TimPC 5y ago
Prop 13 is bad policy as demonstrated by every single area of the world that gets by without it. Most cities assess property values on a lagging window basis where your value for property taxes is set every few years based on the value fro
735.
by TimPC 5y ago
I’m not making an argument about what taste is or which tastes are correct. I’m merely interested in establishing taste exists and the “all works are equally good” school of thought is wrong. We could have a stronger argument separately abo
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by TimPC 5y ago
You’ve substantially moved the goalposts. Your argument about the French Lit. PhDs involves understanding the field at a roughly undergraduate level not producing new work. Developing a deep enough understanding of physics to create novel i
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by TimPC 5y ago
I think one could argue there is an objective good taste even if every attempt in society to find it results in quite different subjective approximations.
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by TimPC 5y ago
I think a more favourable interpretation is “Taste is multidimensional and complex but to show it exists it is sufficient to show it exists for the simplest to prove dimension. Technical talent is that least subjective dimension. Argument f
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by TimPC 5y ago
It only assumes production skill is correlated it doesn’t require a perfect correspondence. I’d argue it is hard to have a meaningful concept of production skill that is either independent of or anticorrelated to taste. Yes production skill
740.
by TimPC 5y ago
I used to be very big on commuting less. Then my wife got pregnant and suddenly it was more important to be in the right school district and close enough to my parents that they can come over regularly to visit and help. I find that shorten
741.
by TimPC 5y ago
There is such a thing as lot size and footprint in real estate and things are dramatically more affordable if they are built on 1/4 of the land. People used to live in small tenements but we’ve zoned such property out of existence. Jus
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by TimPC 5y ago
50% affordable housing in a single area is a model most cities have moved away from. There has been a substantial effort to distribute affordable housing geographically to reduce the clustering effects that lead to high crime and gang forma
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by TimPC 5y ago
Careful. I have a strong disagreement with this. Doing good requires doing good in the sense of doing the things that are high impact. Some of those things require personal loss or suffering but it’s not the personal loss or suffering that
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by TimPC 5y ago
Financially sure we face more pressure. But let’s be honest that modern society is practically a utopia compared to being drafted into WW2 and facing carnage and death.
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by TimPC 5y ago
Roads aren’t as easy to justify as you think. Different people use them at different rates and in order to account for this there is a concept called a “toll road” which is a road that has usage fees. I’d argue if you can support public roa
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by TimPC 5y ago
In most countries it’s not fully paid but a fractional pay setup for paternity leave. Some good companies top the benefit up to 75% of base pay. But bonus and stock are challenges. For many people being on paternity leave they earn 40% of t
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by TimPC 5y ago
Degrees are often used as proxies for an IQ test. To get into school X you must be at least Y smart. As long as we ban IQ tests for employment employers are going to keep using this as the best practical proxy. It’s going to have these kind
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by TimPC 5y ago
I also think the right thing to do is pull out individual claims in articles and rate the claims rather than trying to rate the article as a whole. There are a few edge cases where entirely true facts are put together in misleading ways tha
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by TimPC 5y ago
I’d rather focus on the broader claim that the right set of answers for fact checking is {True, False, Opinion} the get bogged down in the specifics of the exactly correct boundaries between these categories, which has some subjectivity and
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by TimPC 5y ago
The biggest problem with Snopes is their unwillingness to rate something as opinion rather than fact. As a result they assign truth ratings to things that are mostly opinion pieces and those truth ratings are often accusing the opinion piec

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