andrewjl

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by andrewjl 9y ago
Probability of making onto the Forbes 400, very low for sure. Probability of building an income or capital base whose returns can match a typical salary, over a lifetime of attempts is very high. Your examples showcase the pitfalls of bad p
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The probability may be low but the number of attempts allowed is unlimited (barring time / energy / other obligations). So one can keep trying until something sticks. The important part is to keep trying.
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That would be the beginning of a killer opportunity for regulatory arbitrage.
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This is definitely true, though many of the big-time poachers are foreigners. A key mechanism that's been shown to reduce poaching is to let the local people derive an economic gain from the animals without killing or maiming them. Lik
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by andrewjl 9y ago
This is less about capitalism more about status-seeking.
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There's all sorts of costs associated with the latter approach, you need to expend capital on equipment, methods to monitor progress, these workers need supervision, etc. I guess that explains why many firms that take this approach are
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They'll need to make capital investments in order to do that.
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If so, why hasn't that work been automated away by now?
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It's interesting to see this reduction in labor demand is coupled with new lows in the unemployment rate. There's a shortage of labor but employers don't seem to be willing to pay more to incentivize more people to enter the
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The Wire needs to do a new season and incorporate this. Truth is stranger than fiction.
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It is a subsidy under our legal system if the industry / plant / miner causes a tort and it's not remedied. That's money going out of one persons pockets into another.
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For the recruitment, data management, and study coordination piece, sounds like a great area to optimize with software. I'm sure big pharma will also happily shell out for something to help them manage their own clinical trials. Academ
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How did you arrive to that conclusion?
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What prevents researchers from running studies like these on the order of thousands of individuals, as opposed to 40 or 100?
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New leadership is proving to be adept at messaging all the right things. Looking forward to see if they're able to go beyond that.
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You're assuming that the coordination costs and timescales of such a Teamsters / UPS agreement match the timescale of such a disruptive innovation arriving and putting UPS out of business. Historically that assumption is inaccurat
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GWB may be intelligent, but he demonstrated very little of it during his tenure in office. The Iraq war was architected by Cheney / Rumsfeld, Bush playing an incidental part at best. The invasion of Afghanistan demonstrated a studied l
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by andrewjl 9y ago
Definitely. Mature (in terms of process, not age) companies realize this and design planning, update, post-mortem processes accordingly.
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Ten minutes of meditation done daily. The benefits compound exponentially over time.
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2017 also saw no commercial flight related fatalities worldwide, in large part due to the NTSB (and it's non-US equivalents) process of getting the root cause of each crash and putting in place systems or procedures to eliminate that p
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"Done is better than perfect"
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It's a real business model until we deploy widespread ML-driven ad-blocking across all browsers. Not such a real business model after that. And it WILL happen, because ads are a nuisance and the browser market is competitive. You'
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I would _love_ to be able to pay for all the content I read while knowing my privacy is preserved. Good riddance!
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Whether or not the company has drivers, the data on who rides where and how much it costs to meet that demand via local driving pool is valuable. And Uber has by far the biggest data set on the planet. (They are active in more cities than L
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by andrewjl 9y ago
Our culture, and even our language, fails us by treating death as a given and as something we passively accept. There are many avenues of research to achieve radical life extension, and it's a worthy thing to pursue.
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As long as there's land to build on and materials to build with, all creditworthy consumers who wish to buy a house should be able to buy one. (I'm using should in a non-normative sense here.) It may not be spacious, it may not be
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With sufficient time and resources, death can be prevented. https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
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Supply and demand
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The problem isn't necessarily capitalism, but market failure in housing. Economic laws dictate that anyone who wants to purchase a house should be able find one that they can afford (assuming good credit history, etc), instead through
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That may well be true, but those same millennials face higher rents and also higher state taxes (in the Bay, not Seattle obviously). They also missed out on the post-2008 stock market boom that the boomers 401k's got to ride.

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