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by bumby 1y ago
I don’t know why you are ignoring the concept of opportunity cost to make an argument. Did you drive to work today? Did you learn everything about the tensile strength of nylon seatbelts before you buckled up? How about tarmacadem design be
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by bumby 1y ago
I agree with you, but just to steelman the other side: how do you know when you are robbing yourself and when you are just being pragmatic? When I change the spark plugs in my car, am I robbing myself if I'm not learning the intricacie
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by bumby 1y ago
I'm seeing something similar. LLMs have helped me tremendously, especially in tasks like translating from one language to another. But I've also witnessed interns using them as a crutch. They can churn out code faster that I did a
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by bumby 1y ago
That’s Arizona, mate.
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by bumby 1y ago
It depends on how far you want to go back for comparison. The average house size has grown a lot since the 1960s, but dropped some more recently since the housing crisis. But it’s still up, and by a pretty big margin. In the 1950s, the aver
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by bumby 1y ago
How are those class strata thresholds defined? I usually see it defined as quintiles, so by definition the distribution remains constant but the money to get there changes. I think upper/lower class are usually defined as the top/
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by bumby 1y ago
And do you think that is an equal differential in risk compared to someone in the US doing the same? I can think of at least a handful of reasons why that may not be the case.
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by bumby 1y ago
I think this may be missing the difference in differential risk. If I live in a place with constant uncertainty, taking one uncertain bet over another makes little difference. If I instead live in a place of relative historic stability wi
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by bumby 1y ago
> Are the goods not being traded to the US "things that Americans can do without"? I think for a large portion of that, the answer is "yes". How does one reconcile this with the fact that 2/3rds of the US econom
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by bumby 1y ago
> Sports team and TV show loyalty is there to get us to consume more. A less cynical take: there seems to be some research that following sports fosters greater social connectivity and well-being. It may just be that we're hardwire
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by bumby 1y ago
> protecting your country even when it doesn't actually benefit you Perhaps this needs some nuance. It seems like duty has some relevance here. Military service may not actually benefit someone directly, and it could easily be a de
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by bumby 2y ago
> You seem to be assuming that being in it for the money implies corruption. No. There are plenty of other ways of selling your constituents out for money that aren't corruption. I am assuming that people who value money over most
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by bumby 2y ago
I think u/lotsofpulp addresses this in a comment below. I agree with that position: the reason it is becoming harder to fill those jobs has more to do with the lowered quality of the job than the pay. I'm not sure the pay argument
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by bumby 2y ago
> Low pay selects for rich and corrupt politicians. Ignoring all the other non-salary pay they get, I'll buy that low pay can select for rich politicians because it means you can't rely on your Congressional salary to make end
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by bumby 2y ago
I agree with basically all of this. The one distinction I would make is that the pay reduction is real terms is across all kinds of domains so I don’t think it’s particularly unique of physicians, but part of a larger issue. Same with the c
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by bumby 2y ago
This is a different argument. And there are plenty of people who put up with the bad parts of a job because the good parts are rewarding. Nobody should be so naive to think every job is all rainbows and puppy breath. If your stance is that
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by bumby 2y ago
I think you may be misunderstanding. The right to join a union is the right to association. Right to association is not something provided by a union. In other words, you have a right to collectively bargain for certain working conditions a
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by bumby 2y ago
I agree and I think that supports the idea that salary alone is a bad metric for skills. Many people will take a lower pay to support a mission they are passionate about. To claim that makes them lower skilled or that they couldn’t get a hi
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by bumby 2y ago
For the government. The stats are based on employer, so even if you switch roles or organization, you are still counted in the same “federal employment” bin.
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by bumby 2y ago
Again, this assumes the main motivation is money. Ie if they could get a better paying job, they would. You can select for highly skilled people who also aren’t putting money as the top priority. The point I’m getting at is that pay can be
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by bumby 2y ago
> Most have never worked in private sector before and has no idea. The average tenure in the U.S. government is 8.2 years. The average age is 47.2 years old. I don’t know how to reconcile the facts with your claim. Either most have been
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by bumby 2y ago
Doctor pay is already 10x doctor pay?
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by bumby 2y ago
Your stance seems to be at odds with the freedom of association protected by the US Constitution.
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by bumby 2y ago
Do you think the best doctors are the ones who go into the most lucrative paths, like cosmetic surgery in Beverly Hills? You're deliberately strawmanning. The equivalent statement on the other side would be: We should 10x doctor pay so
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by bumby 2y ago
Oftentimes, the consulting companies are outsourcing back to the government but for free. The dynamic is something like: 1) Consultant is hired to solve a problem. 2) Consultant struggles to understand the nuances of the problem. 3) Consu
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by bumby 2y ago
A counter point: Salary should be decent, but I’m not wholly convinced it needs to be at “market rate.” By having reasonable rates but below “market” value, you are likely creating a selection bias for people who are in it for the mission m
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by bumby 2y ago
Based on your answers, I'm guessing you haven't been involved in this process. (Not saying it as a bad thing, but just as a rationale for clarifying with further discussion). An FMEA (and other safety-critical/quality product
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by bumby 2y ago
FMEA is not a “reliability study”. Reliability studies are inputs to FMEAs. Where do you think the likelihood data comes from? If you’re doing an FMEA before a reliability study, your probabilities are just guesses. I don’t think any FMEA i
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by bumby 2y ago
I'm sorry but I think you’re mixing things up in the traditional sense of risk management. The probability is covered separately in risk management. A brake failure doesn't guarantee a particular consequence, but it does bound it
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by bumby 2y ago
I don’t think anyone who work in risk mitigation would conflate those scenarios. Risk = probability x consequence. What you’re pointing to is the difference in consequence. It’s already acknowledged in mature risk mitigation programs. Eg, F

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