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by brownbat 9y ago
Ok, TP was literally the counterexample that made me hover over the back button and almost not post. Some generics have multi-ply and quilting features and they do ok, but most generics are John Wayne toilet paper: they're rough as hel
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by brownbat 9y ago
> better information availability to consumers Devil's advocate... Brands can be a mnemonic that helps customers quickly recall relative quality experienced in previous purchases. This may vary across brands, and my experiences with
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by brownbat 9y ago
Eternal court battles about what counts as a company to start.
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by brownbat 9y ago
Huh. My algorithm for bathroom goods is basically: these are all the same get the cheap one. There's probably a bell curve where we all make some decisions on brand, but some people moreso. I wish they could put where I fall in my adve
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by brownbat 9y ago
Before getting outraged I try to apply the Matt Levine test: insider trading is about theft, not fairness. The first study talks about investments during TARP. The premise of TARP was that credit markets were seized by irrational fears, and
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by brownbat 9y ago
Charles Kuralt has an old documentary about the shopping mall. He mourns outdoor shopping downtown, worries about progress, then eventually gives up and announces, "Well, this is the way we live now." Uh, maybe. Kuralt didn't
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by brownbat 9y ago
Minus, say, "how did we get here" or "how should we behave?" Or another way to look at it, we could reduce almost all questions, in science or religion, to something like "what is the nature of this stuff around me?
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by brownbat 9y ago
There's a Wiley paywall past the abstract. Would be curious how they separate out the impact on Mexican cartels from cheap fentanyl from Asia. US opiate overdoses were already high, and they went up 21% last year, largely driven by syn
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by brownbat 9y ago
"[M]uch of the debate in both the popular press and academic circles centers around a false dichotomy. On the one side are the alarmist arguments that the oncoming advances in AI and robotics will spell the end of work by humans, while
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Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work(nber.org)
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by brownbat 9y ago
If the sky's the limit, I'd like kiva for my home. Maybe a dumb waiter would open in the wall with a little standard sized basket. I'd name what I'm storing, like tennis racket or snow shoes, and it would whisk it away t
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by brownbat 9y ago
> Murphy Brown Great catch. I think Sorkin followed that model in Sports Night, probably trying to emulate MB's feeling of crashing into a busy production room. Can't think of an earlier one though. I, Claudius also just had a
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by brownbat 9y ago
We are wired for accomplishments and refining our skills. Games definitely hack that process like a virus. This isn't completely new though, it's why chess is regarded so skeptically in the Hadith. Maybe we are in a newly rapid it
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by brownbat 9y ago
Agreed, I don't think these thought experiments are coming from nihilistic economists who want to toss it out completely, but just trying to safeguard against ways it might be systematically biased, or identify ways we could improve it
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by brownbat 9y ago
> Transaction loops may be a problem in simplified theory of economics I think if you generalize it, it's not the loops per se as the failure to baseline against opportunity cost or counterfactuals, which could have a small impact o
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by brownbat 9y ago
Yeah, the more canonical counterexample/paradox about GDP is different... and you hint at it at the end. Imagine I stay at home watching my kids and you stay at home to watch your kids. Nothing is added to GDP. However, what if I pay y
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by brownbat 9y ago
Lost was the first big show I can remember that just had a one to two beat opening theme. It's weird that it took so long. Early films, the Jazz Singer if you go way back, had a fifteen minute overture, reminiscent of the orchestral op
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by brownbat 9y ago
You can combine many of these... Several early inventions were incredibly time consuming to make by hand, and judging from apes, social groups didn't have a concept of specialization, but all sat around making and teaching the same thi
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by brownbat 9y ago
Let's run some numbers. MoviePass will buy all your movies in a month for $10. They plan to make it back on monetized data. So one user ups his monthly movie consumption from 1 to 12. Let's say they get tickets at a bargain, $10 e
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by brownbat 9y ago
> car companies will have to radically streamline their dealership networks Electrification won't kill inefficient dealerships. They're too entrenched in politics. https://www.inc.com/magazine/201411/p
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by brownbat 9y ago
> as I'm using FB comments [Smacks forehead.] That definitely explains why it looked so much like FB comments. That's a neat approach. FB moderation handles spam and blatant trolls. Next layer moderation - promoting insightful
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by brownbat 9y ago
I really think there should be a .text TLD. I don't know how you enforce it exactly, and maybe it's redundant with pastebin. It still nags at me that sometimes I want to go to the web to just read a thing, measured in the tens of
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by brownbat 9y ago
I really like this idea. HN is too curated to cover literally every site or article (and that's a good thing), but you could have a sidebar that federates multiple comment outlets... "Here's what people are saying online...&q
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by brownbat 9y ago
I love the idea of disaggregating content production from moderation, they are very different competencies, and these annotate everything approaches are a great way to follow that philosophy. Google Sidewiki was one of my favorite shut down
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by brownbat 9y ago
I think this is generally true, but I'm not sure how to explain pasta sauces since I've been paying more attention. Sugar content in pasta sauces is almost random. Varies from 3 to 10 grams per serving at least. It seems to vary
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by brownbat 9y ago
Yeah, planet money had a good episode debating whether that's why they put milk way in the back of the store. But people also spend more money when it's easy to do so, and when they aren't frustrated by the process. How many
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by brownbat 9y ago
Even just with the input from the current game, the engine could get more aggressive by estimating the skill of its opponent.
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by brownbat 9y ago
There's interesting metagame theory here... It should get more aggressive whenever it's behind its goal rank in the tournament. You can often trade variance for performance in competing strategies. The amount you're trading d
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by brownbat 9y ago
Unless the project is teaching students python. EDIT: More seriously py2's print handles parens in unpredictable ways if you have open questions about types, which has been a nightmare for me on multiple occasions. I trust you that you
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by brownbat 9y ago
My pain point isn't checkout, it's wandering around a store and dodging large carts in narrow aisles. Maybe they'll tackle that next. I really wish Amazon would let me put dry and frozen goods in an app, then have kiva robots

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