anonporridge

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by anonporridge 3y ago
If the pool of candidates doesn't itself have the race or sex proportions that you're hoping to hire, then you intrinsically have to lower your standards at least for the underrepresented group. Then you end up with a wider range
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by anonporridge 3y ago
DEI and affirmative action are systemic racism in a very literal sense.
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I don't understand how you extracted that from my comment above. We obviously live in an insanely positive sum world. That doesn't mean systems can run sustainably at a loss.
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That will always be a possibility when systems fail, like it did during Texas winter storm. If masses of people not having power sometimes is a fundamental part of the system design and not an extreme systemic failure, then that's comp
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Of course it will. But the economics still has to balance out. Zero and negative prices would have to be subsidized to maintain economic viability, which just means the actual price is hidden.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
I'm an Android user who cares. Not necessarily for myself, but more generally for the damage Apple is doing to society by creating a divisive wedge between people for the sake of luxury signalling. Like you say, there are lots of iPhon
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by anonporridge 3y ago
California can power about half of their homes with batteries for 4 hours. https://www.energy.ca.gov/news/2023-10/california-sees-unpre... That is certainly hugely significant, and does spell an end of peaker plan
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by anonporridge 3y ago
This is also an important problem that might start showing up with energy overabundance. If we too regularly have these periods of 0 or negative electricity prices, the economics of supporting the infrastructure collapses. Projects go bankr
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Wind, solar, and hydro don't have unlimited potential. They all asymptote out once you saturate the area. We're already noticing that wind farms can't be too close together, because upwind farms slow the wind, degrading the o
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Not completely. Batteries are only going to offer on the order of hours or maybe days of energy storage to manage short term hiccups in wind and sun. You will always need a backup that can spin up quickly in in the long tail events where
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by anonporridge 3y ago
8.5% out of one plant for the entire state of California is fucking enormously significant.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Addendum; A concrete example of this conflict that I've been wrestling with recently. I've been considering going all in on home automation. Zigbee devices and sensors everywhere managed with custom rules on Home Assistant. I want
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by anonporridge 3y ago
All wealth (negentropy/complexity) creation creates debt. Whenever we build, we use intelligence to rearrange things in more complex ways that don't naturally occur. Ideally, this creates value by unlocking things we want that we
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by anonporridge 3y ago
> you can achieve great things when you don't give a shit about people I think this is a completely wrong take from the armchair philosophers. You actually can't do great things when you treat people like shit. The people who
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by anonporridge 3y ago
It's not about slave labor, although all job dependent people are wage slaves even in a union. It's about labor market flexibility. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/labor-market-flexibilit... Overly
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Then frankly, we would probably fall to level of innovation that modern Europe is known for.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
I've had friends observe that I'm sometimes extremely oblivious to public signage that gives important information that I should really be paying attention to, or looking around lost to figure out my way when a directing sign is r
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by anonporridge 3y ago
A standard blood panel is relatively cheap to order for yourself. It can actually be cheaper to go this route with cash than through insurance, especially if you need a doctor's visit first to order one. https://www.healthla
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by anonporridge 3y ago
"Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome." -- Charlie Munger
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by anonporridge 3y ago
"I've seen gluts not followed by shortages, but I've never seen a shortage not followed by a glut." -- Nassim Taleb
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Life expectancy is a broke metric. Healthspan is woke. Living decades longer in a state of in incapacity and pain in a nursing home, lucky if anyone cares to visit once a year, is hell on earth.
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by anonporridge 3y ago
My understanding is that different devices measure HRV with different techniques, so they're not necessarily comparable. I've heard Apple Watch is especially bad at measuring HRV, while Garmin and Whoop are good. One performance a
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Sleep quality would be a better metric than duration. HRV is generally the metric used. You can measure that with a cheap chest monitor, or get a fitness watch that tracks it continuously throughout the day and night. Good HRV levels are hi
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by anonporridge 3y ago
One of the underrated benefits of having hoards of haters, is that they'll work feverishly to find and yell about any and all of your flaws and weakness, for free. Those who don't have any haters have to pay for that valuable info
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Tax burden is somewhat tangential to real root of the problem on working people. The deeper problem is that pushing so many resources towards old, retired people means that a huge chunk of the economy and jobs are forced to orient towards e
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by anonporridge 3y ago
It's unbelievably depressing in the initial onset. Couldn't sleep. Couldn't do my job. Forced to take extended time off. Terrorized by the possibility that I would never be able to work again. Closet I've ever come to su
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
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Single-celled eukaryotes aren't conscious in any meaningful way as far as we can tell. We humans do in fact feel a sense of obligation to species with whom we are not close kin, but share with us primitive forms of intelligence and con
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It does. It's not intrinsically obvious to me that continuously improving your self as a singular entity is possible or optimal. Death evolved because it is a survival advantage for the species to regularly turn over old individuals th
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by anonporridge 3y ago
Destroying your predecessors sets a bad precedent for whatever entity succeeds you. We don't kill our parents when they become old and useless, because then we become like Cronus devouring his children, forever paranoid about our child

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