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by blip54321 5y ago
There's a world of difference between high interest rates (which are good and healthy) and rising interest rates (which implode the economy). You gotta look at the derivative. Rising interest rates are really, really bad. Anyone who re
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I'll answer a different question. The major cost of airplanes is engine wear. Engines have a TBO of maybe 2000 hours, which means about a year's worth of flying at 40 hours per week. For a cheap plane like a basic Cessna, the over
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I think the line should be drawn at intentionally lying. I also do think that all sorts of conspiracy theories ought to be taught. Teach flat earth along side round earth, and both geocentric and heliocentric. We all believe things which ar
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I recall a lot of the things mentioned contributed significantly to the education of many of my peers from undergrad. If you assume your students are helpless immature idiots, it's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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It does deter others from following in their footsteps. Once name-and-shame comes in, that deters anyone but the super-privileged from going into management. No one who can't weather name-and-shame will go for jobs like that. Name-and-
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by blip54321 5y ago
HR should be managed. Situations are complex. HR exists to protect the company, but the company isn't necessarily your boss or your direct management. If the CEO is sexually harassing women, and acting racist, HR will probably protect
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by blip54321 5y ago
Yeah. That was a bad call. Having been a manager, about 1/10th of employees had... issues. Those employees took up an inordinate amount of management time and especially energy. I don't know whether she or her manager were the pro
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It does imply that the vaccine would also inhibit DNA damage repair. I think the key question is timescale. I suspect this would be a short-term side effect, with no real impact. If not -- if it's longitudinal -- it could be scary. I c
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> I don't know how anyone produces meaningful research in that environment anymore. It's untenable. By ignoring the system. One of the biggest problems in academia is that students don't know their rights, and professors s
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Straw man. There's a gap a mile wide between Ph.D+family+work (which I described as a bad idea) and "Being able to devote every waking hour" The whole point of graduate school is to have time for intellectual exploration -- r
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New continent: - Full time commitment seems critical to the process. A Ph.D is a time of intellectual exploration, and you can't really do that fighting work and family deadlines. - On the other hand, time can be squished for older peo
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There's only so much accelerating that can happen. At some point, the market saturates. I looked at Tesla's share of the car market too.
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That's a market cap of around $3000 per American or $100 per human being in the world. That feels high. Tesla sells around a million cars per year. That valuation is around $1M per car sold annually. That feels high too. I'm bulli
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> And I cannot imagine a local zoning board wanting to go out on a limb to do something novel like approving containers just because a port is backed up. I can, if they get paid for it. Rent should be reasonable for short-term storage an
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Only sometimes I used to live near an excellent technical book store which carried things like O'Reilly books. It went under as the Internet progressed. Many countries have such things like math book stores, or stores specializing in p
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You're arguing for the merits of marijuana being legal. That's different than arguing over the bounds of what government should and should not regulate. A statement like "There is no logical reason to allow all drugs if you a
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That's a New England liberal perspective on freedom. It's not a Texas small government conservative perspective on freedom. I'm not arguing for the validity of that (or either) perspective. I'm simply describing classica
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I have to agree with most of those, with two exceptions: - Marijuana isn't really on the same axis. It only becomes the same axis once you allow _all_ drugs -- cocaine, opium, etc. Once you ban one drug, government has control over whi
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Regulating private businesses like this feels anti-Texas. Governing by executive fiat also feels anti-Texas. I'm not sure what's going on in Texas, but I miss the small government, freedom-loving Texas.
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To be fair, for some people, it is the case that everyone they work with is a moron. For example, high IQ / low EQ can lead to a position where: - You won't get higher-end jobs due to low EQ - Lower-end jobs, you'll be surrou
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A lot of this is closely related. Encryption and spread spectrum are sort of tied. Ideally, spread spectrum looks like noise. My carrier isn't a sine wave, but something which looks a lot like a one-time pad. If I'm allowed to exp
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To me, the encryption things is a big issue. In 1950, transmitting for the world to hear seems reasonable. In 2021, virtually anyone with a few grand could record literally everything transmitted on the 160, 80, 40, 30, and 20 meter bands a