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by brownbat 8y ago
I once switched to T-Mobile from the plan Sprint offered to families of employees. At one point T-Mobile had better plans for the public than Sprint had as a private perk. I sometimes wonder what would happen if a Bezos or Walton wandered i
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by brownbat 8y ago
I think you're right that protectionism is not a great analogy here.
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by brownbat 8y ago
I found this 1982 documentary about malls fascinating, describing them as the future of shopping: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2BlyvN6EeI On the one hand, the confident forecasting seems silly in hindsight. You had mall
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by brownbat 8y ago
You're right that there are distributional impacts, but I don't think your summary of the position of economists was very thorough. If anyone wants to learn more about why economists almost universally, on both the right and the l
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by brownbat 9y ago
> death is such a remote possibility that most people can disregard it Even with highway fatalities declining it remains one of the most likely ways to die for younger age groups. There's a bit of a "paradox" in that likel
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by brownbat 9y ago
> Although the science behind so-called A2 milk remains disputed, the entry of big companies into the market shows how changing consumer preferences create new opportunities that dairy giants can’t afford to ignore—especially as profits
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by brownbat 9y ago
> Everyone does seem to agree, though, that welfare traps are a problem Do you have any programs like the EITC, where benefits fall on a curve and slowly phase out as you make more, so there's no hard cliff? Wiki: https:/&#x2F
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by brownbat 9y ago
It's hard to find much about why, BBC has a link to a study by an OECD think tank criticising the program, but no idea if that study specifically motivated decisionmakers in Finland. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-e
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by brownbat 9y ago
> However, programs which do not require meeting any qualifications are massively easier to implement, which can make them much cheaper overall - I agree you can get some efficiency gains from eliminating thresholds. Back of the napkin,
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by brownbat 9y ago
I sympathize with the consistency of a "pure universal" approach to policy, but like many purist policy philosophies, I don't think it would survive rigorous implementation. For so many reasons. Chief among them, maybe, peopl
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Restauranteur Looks Back at 2+ Years with No-Tipping Model(medium.com)
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by brownbat 9y ago
Including closed loops?
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by brownbat 9y ago
Reminded me of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chairs I love that that's an article, and the ridiculous geekiness it takes to appreciate it. I think we're overdue for someone to write a brief hi
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by brownbat 9y ago
> Maybe people who have a more sedentary lifestyle also tend to come from a lower social background My favorite confound is when Pauling convinced many reasonably educated higher SES people that vitamins were a miracle cure-all. Suddenly
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by brownbat 9y ago
I should have included above, but the wikipedia section on global effects shows how it varied by continent. Massive effects in Europe and South America, but with some evidence the Pacific wasn't as affected. en.m.wikipedia.org/wik
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by brownbat 9y ago
Well, it might be the best of several flawed models. Malcolm X's speech about the ballot and the bullet is worth hearing. Maybe democracy is only partly about rational policymaking, and mostly a pressure valve to prevent violent revolu
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by brownbat 9y ago
There isn't a check box on the LLC form that says all your actions from now on must be evil. There are going to be citizen interest groups you disagree with and corporations you agree with. And a lot of high-profile lobbying is corpora
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by brownbat 9y ago
> I think we should vote for people not because they share our views, which are likely based in ignorance, but because they demonstrate the ability to make informed decisions and come to reasonable compromises. I like this model, but I t
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by brownbat 9y ago
> you then won't have any healthcare or education costs 70 to 80% of healthcare plans are covered by US employers though. So maybe we should compare total comp plus benefits? Health plans aren't total costs, though, because cos
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by brownbat 9y ago
Additional background on the thermohaline cycle and the Younger Dryas period, which saw a change of 10 degrees Celsius in a decade: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/abrupt-climate-change/The%20Younge... Some more information
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by brownbat 9y ago
The cybersecurity research community should solicit some sort of endowment, like a Nobel Prize, that goes to deserving WH bug discoveries each year. Uncovering bugs that aren't attached to bug bounty programs still has external benefit
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by brownbat 9y ago
I just listened to a podcast with Laurie Santos, all about her course on happiness research, which quickly became the most popular course ever taught at Yale. https://verybadwizards.fireside.fm/136 A shortened version of th
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by brownbat 9y ago
Original full essay in German: http://www.dobelli.com/de/essays/news-diat-full/
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by brownbat 9y ago
> you should check the autopilot against a rested and concentrated driver that drives slowly and with a lot of care You raise an interesting point, accidents are not normally distributed throughout the driver's day, or even the popu
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by brownbat 9y ago
I really want to see the first city (or more likely, small campus) where only autonomous vehicles are allowed to drive. I don't know whether roads would become far more orderly, or if there would just be an plaza with every vehicle zip
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by brownbat 9y ago
> Seems that that mainly is in the creditors' interest, not the public's. It's in the public's interest to have a functioning credit system. We can use some information to determine creditworthiness, or we can give ev
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by brownbat 9y ago
> Contactless cards aren’t really any faster than Apple Pay I don't have to unlock my card. Also, the card is much lighter and smaller, and I don't worry about dropping and breaking it, so the cognitive load is lighter. I don&#
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by brownbat 9y ago
The original right to be forgotten case was about how a guy in Spain couldn't get cheap credit because of past defaults. It arguably is in the public interest for creditors to know whether or not someone has defaulted in the past. It a
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by brownbat 9y ago
It gives me that same feeling that people aren't using their product, but mostly about whoever designed the roads in DC. (I would like nav to notice every time I miss a turn it recommends, and if it's common for people to miss spe
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by brownbat 9y ago
I requested a contactless card in the US, it took some pleading, but it was the greatest decision. About half the places I shop support Apple and Google pay, and those systems always seem to take the card, but it's far faster than my p

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