andrewjl

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> Chess champions before Magnus would’ve had books of strategies to learn from as well, thereby benefiting from the time spent of players long gone. While agreed on the hyperbole, we're talking about something, in this case learning
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This isn't really the whole story. Many of the founders were Deist and/or practically irreligious. The other important distinction is that the Church of England is essentially a state church. In many ways the U.S. Constitution, on
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> Failure to do this would push us over into inflation. Can you explain why you think this would happen?
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> A more analogous example to the case at hand would be an employee at Google/Humana/Tinder selling your private details to a third party. That's not a realistic example because something like that would be covered by an N
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How would that help businesses that saw demand drop to zero due to the pandemic? Such as airlines, hotels, and many others that supply them.
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> (a) We have universal healthcare for those without income: Medicaid. > (b) We have universal healthcare for those over 65: Medicare. In varying ways, both of these programs have large gaps and do not achieve "universal" co
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Not so simple. Raising the cost of labor also means increased aggregate demand as workers make use of a higher disposable income. On the business side, capex increases as routine work is automated. As we've in prior periods, automation
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Maybe not such a bad thing given the zeitgeist? Also higher and rising labor expenses force higher capex, a long-term benefit for American competitiveness.
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Not the OP but look into links between stress and inflammation.[1] [1] https://www.healthline.com/health/inflammation
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By the time Protestantism came about, this type of life was only present in the countryside and receding fast.
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Obvious copyright & TOS issues aside, how does this compare to the S3 bill?
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I'm a strong supporter of this sort of research but our lack of fundamental understanding of most life processes does not inspire confidence we'll crack this puzzle soon. More likely, through use of bioinformatics to customize chr
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I see a different implication, no matter how much change occurs our perception of circumstances will inevitably regress to the mean. This is consistent with what the discovery of the hedonic treadmill tells us about human nature.
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What specifically is nihilistic about the comment?
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Indeed, hence the nature vs nurture debate. The environment and how it indirectly interacts with the genome is just as big of a factor.
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Assigning labels to things or events inevitably involves some subjective judgement and it is often unnoticed or unacknowledged as such. It's also shaped deeply by the observers own experience. So when I see references to value-laden wo
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It's possible for a company to benefit from an M&A deal in a way that is not anti-competitive. > For Apple and Amazon I don't know where they are benefiting from their M&A (this is likely my ignorance, I would be intere
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Without knowing your entire genome (23andme looks at markers and not much else) it's going to be hard to give an accurate answer to that sort of question. And that's aside from non-genetic risks of death that the other commenters
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> My money stays in my bank. That's not quite right. [1] [1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fractionalreservebankin...
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The IMO best contemporary overview of the legal issue as it pertains to tech is this piece[1] by Lina Khan. Love the subtle irony I did not catch until today in the title, "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox". It cites and argues the
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> Monopoly isn't just about pricing power, and whatever else ancient economists observed in previous centuries. This understanding of monopoly has only existed since the mid-20th century. Prior to that, the definition of a monopoly
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> My understanding is that the vast majority of these M&A destroy capital. The FAANG stocks have very high compound annual returns stretching over more than a decade. I don't think there's evidence that those returns would
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Wealth inequality is disproportionately skewed to the top. And one thing the wealthy are known to do is save and invest rather than spend. The owners of securities traded today are individuals or institutional investors with a strong lack
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> The reason we lack context is that the world moved from chronological feeds to "engagement" based feeds. Engagement based feeds are more profitable due to ads and also the rich profiles that can be built from aggregated engag
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> Being able to detect the tribal flavor of information so that you can filter it out is what got us into this mess in the first place because it indexed on creating outrage bubbles for clicks. What you're referring to as outrage bu
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Yeah that sounds right, although I don't think they ever claimed or even implied that they themselves are creating manufacturing jobs. Even prior PR by them around creating domestic manufacturing jobs was showcasing their suppliers. Ba
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Besides a deliberate paucity of knobs to tweak, what exactly is the difference with AWS S3 as far as the target market (app developers) is concerned? This is a cloud hosting service in all but name. https://developer.apple.com&#x
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They already have, though the marketing is subtle. [1][2] [1] https://www.apple.com/icloud/ [2] https://developer.apple.com/icloud/cloudkit/
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The environment, for one thing. Cities emit much less CO2 on a per capita basis. E.O. Wilson put out a bold plan turn half of Earths landmass into a wildlife preserve[1] and something of that scale can only be accomplished by building very,
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> Liberalism has no ends, it's effectively JUST a description of means. If anything, the means are themselves the ends. Liberalism has terminal values, wouldn't those qualify as ends?

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