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by bo1024 5y ago
Yes. A large fraction of the experts are submitting to the same most-prestigious conferences every year.
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by bo1024 5y ago
Very sad to hear about this. The top theory conferences are much smaller. Reviewers are usually invited to participate by a committee member who has met them personally or at least knows their body of work. If a low-quality paper was accept
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by bo1024 5y ago
I use from gromit-mix for giving talks, drawing on my slides. Very effective, great tool.
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by bo1024 5y ago
I generally agree but it's more accurate to classify "intellectual property" as a completely different concept than "property rights".
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by bo1024 5y ago
The Walmart TVs brand is spectre. They have cheap large 4K displays but the quality is not considered good - works for me, but I slightly prefer a 1080p projector.
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by bo1024 5y ago
I would think more information about the jobs improves competition and efficiency of the labor market. Unfortunately politics uses the term anticompetitive to mean bad for big businesses, which is almost the opposite meaning.
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by bo1024 5y ago
Are you thinking of the NSA?
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by bo1024 5y ago
I really hate it when I'm trying to spend money at a company and get hit with a captcha box right as I click "checkout". I could see it for selling scarce items like concert tickets, but in general it's very insulting, a
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by bo1024 5y ago
Or ditch site passwords and use public key authentication, like ssh has used for decades...
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by bo1024 5y ago
> who got all the money from the cost of education hikes Can you recommend a source on this? My first guess is construction companies and football coaches.
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by bo1024 5y ago
> I do wish we had a "web lite" mode that we could turn on, if only for certain domains. You get to choose what browser and plugins you use. That goes a long way.
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by bo1024 5y ago
I disagree, we can and should do much better. If only 90% of your christmas cards arrive, fine. But if only 90% of people's paychecks or tax returns arrive, that's a national disaster. To be useful for anything essential or import
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by bo1024 5y ago
So is whoever filed the notice going down for perjury?
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by bo1024 6y ago
Sure, but it's not stable or dependable. If one person goes bankrupt or dies or moves away, then everybody would go bankrupt one after the other. Compare to a scenario where everyone actually is at zero.
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by bo1024 6y ago
Very interesting - the Basecamp statement addresses both discussions about politics broadly, and discussions about internal company policies related to diversity, ethics, and inclusion. In fact, it changes the power structures around thos
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by bo1024 6y ago
I think this is easy to resolve. With Netflix, the terms are that you pay a fixed amount and you get one month's access to stream whatever they choose to offer at the time, repeat. If Netflix terminates your account, well, you lose out
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by bo1024 6y ago
As someone else said, this originally linked to a tweet by linketter, who is being sued by proctorio. Similar but different scenarios
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by bo1024 6y ago
Hmm, if your philosophy is "we own the government," then is it "we own the land"? Or is it "I own this bit of land and good luck to the rest of you"? A philosophy that starts from "I" naturally suppor
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by bo1024 6y ago
This seems to contradict his analogy between 2020 to, say, 1890. Instead of a bunch of people starting small local businesses and gaining moderate wealth, we have winner-take-all dynamics.
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by bo1024 6y ago
I think the difference is that survivorship bias applies when the difference between winners and losers is mostly due to chance. I don't think the fact that we use 4-legged chairs and not 5-legged is survivorship bias. I believe the Li
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by bo1024 6y ago
I generally agree with that conclusion, an ideal competition would be all barefoot. (And if we could hold marathons barefoot on golf course grass ... wow!) But I'm willing to compromise, just not very far.
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by bo1024 6y ago
I think it's trying to draw a difference between how good your body actually is at the activity of running itself, versus how well it responds to a particular technology. Sort of like if they legalized one particular performance enhanc
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by bo1024 6y ago
I am reminded of the guy who noticed a nest of termites in one of his house's support beams and said, unworried, "No beam is irreplaceable."
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by bo1024 6y ago
This sets up a false dichotomy, I think. There's no need to believe that only one of the two extremes is possible, nor to decide on and commit to a specific belief/worldview about a person. I think there's evidence that her r
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by bo1024 6y ago
First result I found: > in San Francisco – as well as many other high-cost cities such as Vancouver, London, and New York – we see a different phenomenon: an extremely tight housing market with skyrocketing rents, that puzzlingly also ha
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by bo1024 6y ago
Can you explain what you mean here? > maxi long risk assets I think you mostly mean "own assets", but would like to understand this phrase precisely.
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by bo1024 6y ago
A benefit they don't really highlight is alignment of incentives. The platform doesn't benefit from 'repugnant' sites -- they actually hurt the platform's bottom line. Compare to e.g. Facebook whose statements about
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by bo1024 6y ago
This is not generally true.
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by bo1024 6y ago
Oh, I thought of another (not exactly transparency): - If you lend out your shares, you can't "sell" them until you've recalled them and had them delivered to you. If the float is X, then there shouldn't be more tha
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by bo1024 6y ago
nrp's reply makes complete sense, but I like this argument as well.

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