carsongross

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by carsongross 9y ago
We need to bring back a long lost concept in economics: Usury
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by carsongross 9y ago
Wow. Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is an enemy action.
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by carsongross 9y ago
It is amazing how quickly the slur "bro" has become an accepted part of the public lexicon.
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by carsongross 9y ago
One advantage the Norwegian prison system has is that it is filled with Norwegians, I would be careful generalizing conclusions from it. That being said, one concept I rarely see discussed is the use of basic income as an incentive against
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by carsongross 9y ago
Hardly?
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by carsongross 9y ago
> tfw I don't have to shill my own library in this thread
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by carsongross 9y ago
This tweet is evidence (not proof, but evidence): https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/866536275972689920 Truth will out eventually. We'll see.
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by carsongross 9y ago
Few know this: The United States currently spends more money per capita on socialized medicine than any other country except Norway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea... In fact, the US spe
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by carsongross 9y ago
I was dead wrong about the open office layout: I was an advocate, but I now see that over time, for any company larger than a garage startup, it ends becoming a way to cut costs and pack more employees per square foot. It isn't worse
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by carsongross 9y ago
> One of the worst idea is to have non-technical people try to create a tech business without a strong technical co-founder. The best formula I have seen is one business guy and two strong programmers, where one of the two has some tal
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by carsongross 9y ago
> After a lifetime of saving, it requires some psychological gymnastics to start spending your nest egg. Browning’s suggestion is that financial planners urge their thriftiest clients to make big purchases–like a second home or a fancy
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by carsongross 9y ago
> flat design and washed-out colours are great compared to the graphics-and-rounded-edges horror that we used to contend with See my sibling comment: flat UI improved default aesthetics but hurt UX. We should have retained simulated
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by carsongross 9y ago
Flat design is bad UX because it took a useful and familiar dimension, simulated depth, out of the toolbox. I agree that simulated depth was over used and that the minimalist aspect of flat UI did improve aesthetics in many cases, but it w
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by carsongross 9y ago
The UX world has gone so far backwards, regardless of age, in the last five years it's hard to know where to begin: flat design, washed out colors, thin fonts, buttons that look like badges that look like input boxes that look like bor
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by carsongross 9y ago
Interesting, I didn't know they bought jet.
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by carsongross 9y ago
Well, if you are going to force me to actually think about it rather than just fire off one liner advice on the internet to one of the most successful companies in the history of the world like I actually have any idea what I'm talking
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by carsongross 9y ago
Walmart needs to suck it up and rebrand its online store as a separate, more updated identity. My wife won't shop there "because Walmart". It isn't rational, but it's a thing. Edit: to clarify, my wife won't s
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by carsongross 9y ago
The problem I see is that businesses are not agnostic to the lifestyle choices of their employees. The parent comment said: "As long as they are offer equal pay for equal work they should be largely agnostic to the lifestyles choice
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by carsongross 9y ago
> Even when mothers cut back at work, they are not paid proportionately less. When their pay is calculated on an hourly basis, they are still paid less than men for the hours they work, Ms. Goldin has shown in previous work. Employers,
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by carsongross 9y ago
There's a big difference between just not wanting and threatening violence against.
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by carsongross 9y ago
All jobs suck in their own special way. Improving your response to your environment (stoicism, seeing the humanity below the artificial surface of the company, seeking out the good people at your work place and working with them, etc.) is
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by carsongross 9y ago
Post-modern politics can be contrasted with modern-era universalist rationalism: identity politics become dominant, inter-temporal logical consistency becomes less important, inter-group dialog becomes devalued, power structures become inte
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by carsongross 9y ago
I am using Peterson's psychological definition of liberal and conservative temperaments, which I think holds regardless of the current manifestations of (and abuses of) the terms. He has theorized that the core political, and in fact
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by carsongross 9y ago
There is more meat to the argument than you are giving credit. Peterson has done quite a bit of psychological research on ideological differences and the behavioral manifestations of them. Jonathan Haidt has as well. Both are worth readi
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by carsongross 9y ago
The new nationalist/globalist split emerging/subsuming the fading conservative/liberal split is shattering this trope. I don't see any particularly ideological reason conservatives (high conscientiousness, border and rul
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by carsongross 9y ago
Related video by Jordan Peterson, on how liberals and conservatives need one another because liberals (high trait openness) innovate, but conservatives (high trait conscientiousness) maintain things: https://www.youtube.com/
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by carsongross 9y ago
It is insane that we don't regard it as such. I'm circumcised, as are my boys. I assumed it was for sound medical reasons. When I found out it wasn't, I was, and I am, furious.
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by carsongross 9y ago
Most people are aware that the US pays the most for healthcare per capita. Most people are not aware that the US pays more per capita on socialized medicine than any country except Norway: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by carsongross 9y ago
I will grant you that my original comment was too snarky. I am trying to be less so.
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by carsongross 9y ago
I would not expect a sociology study to pursue my thesis, as it would be severely career limiting in today's university environment. I will certainly grant that confirmation bias is a risk for all of us, particularly when the hard data

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