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by boole1854 4y ago
Suggestion: if you want people to give honest answers to a question, it's best not to load the question with such a thickly non-neutral tone of voice. Consider the difference between... "Would you actually support an addled-brai
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by boole1854 4y ago
U.S. sending money to Ukraine: True Ukraine funding FTX: Mostly false. This appears to be a confusion related to the fact that Ukraine launched a website accepting cryptocurrency donations that were processed via FTX [1]. However, as far as
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by boole1854 4y ago
In my experience, the cognitive load depends on the speed at which you're running. Jogging at a leisurely pace, I don't need to consciously think about the jogging process at all and my mind is free to think about the books I have
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by boole1854 4y ago
Many government and academic institutions do in fact publicly publish all salaries, so the question of what the effect would be is not entirely theoretical. Here's one place that aggregates this data: https://www.openthebook
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by boole1854 4y ago
Musk attracts engineers by selling a vision. Reusable rockets to make humanity an interstellar species. Electric vehicles to free humanity from fossil fuels. Humanoid robots. Neuralink. And on it goes. For Twitter, the vision Musk is sellin
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by boole1854 4y ago
> Patient compensation is intentionally limited to prevent economic incentives from interfering with informed consent; pay people too much and they may participate in research that they would have passed on. I'm not sure I understan
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by boole1854 4y ago
If you check Coke's financial statements, you'll see that although revenue has risen quickly, cost of revenue has risen about as fast, leading to relatively unchanged gross profit margins (36% so far in 2022, compared with 40%+ in
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by boole1854 4y ago
A notable difference between 2007 and now is that in 2007, major banks were highly leveraged and held large quantities of assets whose value was highly sensitive to increases in interest rates (specifically: ARM-financed mortgages). So when
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by boole1854 4y ago
Awesome, thanks
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For perspective, Mozilla is sitting on $800+ million in net assets, most of which is cash and investments. https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2020/mozilla-fdn-202...
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by boole1854 4y ago
> Non-profits funded by grants. Employee owned businesses funded by loans. Serious question: is there any evidence to suggest that non-profits and employee-owned businesses are on average better at serving the public good? There are powe
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by boole1854 4y ago
If otherwise unspecified, the "unemployment rate" refers to U-3, which is also called "the official unemployment rate" by the BLS. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
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by boole1854 4y ago
And here is the chart comparing unemployed according to U-6 to the job openings: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Vx5b
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by boole1854 4y ago
This is helpful in putting the recent tech layoff announcements in perspective.
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by boole1854 4y ago
This may be an attempt to appease their store franchisees by eliminating the cost advantage of avoiding the stores. Why compete against your own franchisees?
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by boole1854 4y ago
> Scare people and tug on the belief, which is confirmed in these comments, that the US spends the most money on the military. I just don't see where the article stated or implied that military spending is the largest spending categ
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by boole1854 4y ago
> If you tell a lie enough times, it becomes the truth. What's the lie supposed to be here?
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by boole1854 4y ago
In the thread linked to by this post, Musk says that they will pay part of the monthly fee to content creators on Twitter. If true, in-demand creators will likely earn far more than they pay.
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by boole1854 4y ago
And in the case of new goods, only the final product sold to consumers or held in inventory at the end of the accounting period counts towards GDP. Intermediate inputs do not count. So one paper clip sold one million times counts as one pap
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by boole1854 4y ago
I see that as being more helpful from a regulatory point of view (i.e., by providing a limited defense against claims of pay discrimination) than from an employee morale point of view. E.g., when people express dissatisfaction over the fact
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by boole1854 4y ago
In my opinion -- and I have no hard data to back this up, merely some limited personal experience -- the biggest issue employers will have about salary transparency is that it makes paying high performers high salaries more difficult. Typic
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by boole1854 4y ago
Not in general, no. They do count the dollars, but they also measure the dollar-to-quantity ratios of various goods and services. The final productivity measure is based on these adjustments. So if the amount of money that is exchanging han
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by boole1854 4y ago
> And no one is measuring output in terms of the number of bowls of soup produced by homeless shelters; those are converted to dollars based on a current index price. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does have multiple teams dedicated to d
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by boole1854 4y ago
> https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/ The history of that EPI report is useful to know. Early versions of it showed a large gap between rising productivity and stagnating employee compensation. Some critics th
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by boole1854 4y ago
No, it's a measure of a weighted average quantity of output of goods and services (not of money) compared with the quantity of labor input.
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by boole1854 4y ago
> Author probably tried to pull a fast one onthe govt. In what sense is the author trying to pull a fast one? They own agricultural land. It is legal to convert agricultural-use land to non-agricultural-use land. There is a legal procedu
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by boole1854 4y ago
I don't see anything in the OP's statement that made it sound like their situation is one of co-employment.
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by boole1854 4y ago
I just tested this on the latest desktop version of Excel on Windows 10, and I did not get the 'large amounts of data' warning with only a single cell copied in the clipboard (the cell contained the word 'foo'). Increasi
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by boole1854 4y ago
YouTube Premium is the only video service for which I have consistently keep a running subscription over the last couple years. Reasons: - I vastly prefer an ad-free experience, and I'm willing to pay for it. - I don't care for po
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by boole1854 4y ago
What a bizarre teaching philosophy.

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