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by anchpop 6y ago
I think in theory corporate taxes don't add any burden, because they only apply to profits and not to overall income like personal taxes do. You could theoretically have a 99% corporate tax and corporations that don't make a profi
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Thank you for your contributions! I'm most excited about labeled run criteria and the other ECS improvements. For those not following along, the goal is to eventually implement statecharts [0], which are kind of a generalization of fin
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You could write in Elm, which has no runtime exceptions and thus no crashes (barring stack overflows and similar). I have and it didn't seem to result in zero tech debt, incredibly well-formed UX, or a shortage of QA surprises.
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The thing to know here is the bayes factor. That’s the true positive rate divided by the false positive rate. In this context, it’s the percent of successful articles that have a property (like using the number 10) divided by the number of
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by anchpop 6y ago
I believe canada proposed doing it by taking all the money collected through the carbon tax and giving it equally to all Canadian citizens. This would mean everyone gets back the amount that the average person paid, making it so the average
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> Under a public option system, you'd still be able to buy private insurance. No one is banning this. Of course not. A public option obviously implies there is a private option. But a public option isn't the only thing being su
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Sounds like a case of poor incentives. It's easy to wag our fingers and say "well they shouldn't be doing that" but difficult to come up with a system of incentives that makes everyone want to do what's socially ben
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If you feel that lies are being spread about you and you try to correct the record, how is that a self-inflicted wound from ego? Isn’t that what anyone would do?
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> unless you aren't white or male You mentioned that this was seen as an exceptional case. It is exceptional. The vast majority of americans are white or male.
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Arrays could be any length, but generic functions were only generic for arrays of length 32 or lower.
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Good post by a psychiatrist on implicit association tests: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iYJo382hY28K7eCrP/the-implic... The good news: > There's been some evidence that the IAT is pretty robust. Most tr
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Don't compare Spotify against god, compare it to the alternative. Everyone has a "recommendation algorithm", it just doesn't have to be spotify's. It could be the radio, or what they see talked about in pop culture
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I read this article a couple months ago and found it incredibly bizarre (to the point of wondering if the economist was actually real or just an invention of the author). Firstly, it spends a lot of time analyzing the consequences of expone
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I feel like unless the words "as checks" are doing a lot of work, the implication of your last sentence is not true. A sibling comment posted a link to a wikipedia article which says: > The bill's economic-relief provision
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If there's two groups of people, one who listens to pop music for 10 hours a month and one who listens who indie artists for 20 hours a month (which could easily be the case if their recommended playlists are mostly indie artists as mi
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> Already downvoted for stating a fact. Amazing "Didn't do enough" is an opinion, and the satellites you saw were ones that hadn't reoriented themselves and so aren't representative of how they'll look in th
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There are two things to consider: your discount factor and how quickly the utils you generate compound compared to your money. Let's say your discount factor is 3%/year. That means you have no preference between generating 100 uti
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Amazon Transparency(brandservices.amazon.com)
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If you don't want to see ads, why not run an adblocker or avoid visiting sites that show ads? There's no good option right now, if you have a paywall people will complain and almost no one will visit your site, and if you have any
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by anchpop 6y ago
My worry with that business model is that people concerned about privacy enough to switch to DDG probably are really likely to use adblock
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I don't think very many people care about online privacy or tracking. People in the HN bubble really overestimate the amount that most people care that some company is giving them targeted ads. We're not anywhere close to the leve
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Pay each inmate $10k for each day they're unable to leave prison past one week after the end of their sentence. Most inmates probably wouldn't mind staying a couple months longer if it means they get to leave with a million dollar
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How to Practice Perfectly(chadnauseam.substack.com)
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Kind of makes this seem funny in retrospect: > Aaronson and O’Donnell both called Huang’s paper the “book” proof of the sensitivity conjecture, referring to Paul Erdős’ notion of a celestial book in which God writes the perfect proof of
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Can you link to Matt Levine's argument? (I googled a little but didn't see what you were talking about)
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This is risky, because if the fed accidentally injects too much money by buying back too many bonds, they can always un-inject it by selling the bonds back (and banks are compelled to buy). This lets the fed be more aggressive because it kn
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> Also, even the general approach for game development--presumably there's some white boarding phase followed by a wireframe phase etc like you have with app dev? What does that look like in game dev land, what are some reasonable t
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Would it be any more complicated for banks than enabling this [0] (or whatever comes after it) in their webservers and asking visitors to use Chrome? [0]: https://security.googleblog.com/2016/07/experimenting-with-
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Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1462/
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I'm writing a primer on music theory, and I have this same fear. I resolve it in three ways: 1) I try to make the writing entertaining enough that people won't mind reading something they already know 2) I added an anchor tag sayi

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