Tyrek

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by Tyrek 4y ago
There are productivity decisions at the micro-level that actively hurt scaling. The easy business example here is the choice to manage data in Excel as opposed to a formal database. (Very common in financial orgs). Excel gives the team toda
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by Tyrek 4y ago
Increased prices (and sufficient demand to justify the price increase - e.g, overall profit increase) is part of the interaction between demand and supply. Sure, demand for food is inelastic, but there are plenty of different suppliers at e
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by Tyrek 4y ago
gouging is an incredibly unhelpful context in a macroeconomic sense. In cases of shorter term scarcity (e.g. toilet paper during early covid), you can have instances of gouging. But over a longer-term period where prices are calibrating to
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by Tyrek 4y ago
"hollering", as outlined in the Dean's memo, is fine. Attempting to execute a 'heckler's veto', however, is not.
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by Tyrek 4y ago
I suspect your conceptualization of 'dangerous and violent' as a single axis may be the main weakness here. We've struggled with 'dangerous and violent' for a long time (e.g., incorporating 'friendly' Gall
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by Tyrek 4y ago
What the business truly requires is an abstract question. What the business expects of him, however, has been answered in this thread. The purpose of a system is what it does, etc.
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by Tyrek 4y ago
The difficulty here, as in many cases, comes down to uneven enforcement and unclear lines. Consider the typical example of a consistently noisy neighbor and filing a noise complaint - in many/most cases, often nothing gets done.
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by Tyrek 4y ago
I suspect there's a simpler takeaway than what most comments are suggesting: Don't spend substantial amounts of money (based on nominally promised funding) before the checks have cleared.
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by Tyrek 4y ago
If we "actually work" 32 hours out of 40 (80%), what is the likelihood that if we shift to a 32 hour max week, that the average person will only "actually work" ~26 hours (80% of 32) in this hypothetical future? What if
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by Tyrek 4y ago
> insufficiently compensated for their time You've just described the job market. If this employee cannot find better paying employment (assuming that the job market is operating efficiently) then it is either a skill issue (This hy
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by Tyrek 4y ago
Are you implying that the Napoleonic wars, all of the resulting politics, etc. are the natural result of revolution? That the revolutionary ideal requires military defeat in order to reach a positive end state? You're not being serio
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by Tyrek 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. Time is just a statistical construct, but it's also a useful one. Similarly, base load is a concept to determine how power generation should be distributed between high reliability/consis
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by Tyrek 5y ago
I agree for the most part - I don't think that there's any strong conclusions w.r.t. spending here, but an interesting direction for future research. What I'm struggling with, however, given the assumption above (spending is
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by Tyrek 5y ago
Could you point to the part of the paper that you're drawing these conclusions? It's been a while since I've done serious econ work, but I'm not seeing a spending variable when I scan through the paper.
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by Tyrek 5y ago
I'm still working through the paper, but this is actually an interesting one to me - The common response to this paper will likely fall along the lines of 'Tax cuts bad because it clearly doesn't stimulate growth'. Howev
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by Tyrek 6y ago
I'm not sure I agree that this is /wrong/ per se - the issue arises from the city council's disinterest / lack of expertise (which itself comes from disinterest) in these systems. If the issues are disclosed clearly
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by Tyrek 6y ago
I appreciate the intention, but this is the sort of approach that leads to a long-term distrust of what 'the scientists' say - if we let politicians dictate the scientific message and consensus, then there's no room to critic
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by Tyrek 6y ago
The argument here is that it's all shell games otherwise if the money isn't set aside - e.g. look at the broader trend with social security's solvency. With the way public funding has trended, it would not surprise me if any
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by Tyrek 6y ago
but if, as the OP article suggests, there is no lost value, then there is no incremental value to pay existing NIMBYs. Otherwise you're just paying people off based on some subjective measure, which does not seem eminently sustainable.
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by Tyrek 6y ago
Why not enforce regulations that prevent bad actors from pursing anti-competitive behavior? It's harder, and much less flashier than mandating a cap, but it retains much more of the free market integrity. Pricing is a genuinely hard pr
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by Tyrek 6y ago
absolutely not. If shareholders were risk neutral, they'd be buying bonds, or holding cash. "passive" investment is wholly built upon the concept that "passive" investment outpaces active investment - the very fact
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by Tyrek 6y ago
It's both. Sovereignty should not be taken lightly, nor do we really need yet another avenue for the big fish (read: US/China/Russia) to start throwing their weight around - whether it be through ""democracy"&q
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by Tyrek 6y ago
As a direct response, this is not strictly true. The SEC and IRS require financials prepared under different accounting standards, due to a different focus of each group (SEC - focused on overall profitability and activities of the Company;
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by Tyrek 6y ago
The general line of argument here is that the managers have spent time and effort as part of their professional development in order to understand the business, whereas the engineers have dedicated their time towards a more technical focus.
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by Tyrek 6y ago
Can't publish employee quality/motivation. By nature of the game, the Federal level generally has more quality expertise available to it,(larger talent pool, more prestige) more funding to explore different issues, and the ability
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by Tyrek 7y ago
this is both a pro and a con. If companies could hold on indefinitely without running a sustainable model, then old companies would never die and disruption would be much harder. To analogize it to a HN audience, this would likely mean that
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by Tyrek 7y ago
and what if it died down due factors other than social distancing? You're positing an irrefutable claim which is sloppy logic.
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by Tyrek 7y ago
it's kinda not fair to say that a large org should have enough internal coordination to align incentives and coordinate between different teams? It sounds reasonable to start with, but really gets to the whole making-excuses-for-them k
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by Tyrek 7y ago
The easy solution to this idea is to have the guy inside the car (you know, the passenger) pick up in this case. He's right there - no latency problems. The difficulty is in correctly identifying an unresolved edge case with enough mar
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by Tyrek 7y ago
Local maxima is explicitly not the greatest good for the greatest number. In many ways, it's the greatest good for the greatest visible number, and only for a relatively short period of time. I'm not the biggest fan of raw unb

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