carsongross

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by carsongross 9y ago
My interpretation of the data is that women tend to tire more quickly of their husbands and are more likely to end a marriage over it. We have the stock story of the man "trading in" his wife, but as we can see from the statistic
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by carsongross 9y ago
Yes, there are many interpretations of the data, as with any social science data. None the less, women end marriage (we are discussing preserving marriage) vastly more frequently than men, and I stand by my interpretation. I doubt very muc
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by carsongross 9y ago
Women file for divorce twice as often as men: http://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/documents/pr... It is not popular to discuss sex differences in marriage behaviors (as my burnt karma in
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by carsongross 9y ago
Given the force-multiplying factors of technology, more and more can be accomplished by fewer and fewer people. IBM > Google > Facebook > Instagram That's not to say I disagree with you completely: large corporations can achi
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by carsongross 9y ago
The author is recommending, in a round about way, a way of dealing with a sex-asymmetric phenomena that was perfectly expressed in this image, from another NY Times article on marriage[1]: https://static01.nyt.com/images&#x2
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by carsongross 9y ago
I have seen this problem first hand in a startup. I theorize that it is related to size/scale, which disassociates causes and effects across time and groups. My solution is to keep companies as small as possible
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by carsongross 9y ago
That model only worked when people would buy your new software every year. Now a lot of software is good enough, and maybe your competition is even free, and the revenue dries up.
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by carsongross 9y ago
Asians are proportionally over-represented because programming broadly rewards IQ, and asians have the highest IQ. Men are over represented because they are naturally better, on average, at abstract mathematical reasoning. There are social
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by carsongross 9y ago
> so I had to delete the prefilled info to see which ones needed to be changed. Gah! What an anti-pattern! Total OT sidebar, but UX has gone through so much regression in the last decade I'm starting to view it as confirmation o
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by carsongross 9y ago
Email client economics are tough, you need some sort of service-like revenue associated with it or you sell your customers data in order to have a sustainable business. I hope canary has something non-evil figured out, the client looks nice
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by carsongross 9y ago
> How exactly do you convince a nation which already isn't willing to pay for healthcare to pay for basic income, too? Fun fact! Did you know that the US spends more per capita on socialized medicine (that is, excluding private sp
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One reason to consider keeping your experimentation on the server side is that the browser is an untrusted computing environment and can be easily manipulated by hostile agents. This is a general problem with client-side code, I'm surp
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> But it's not as cut and dried as your last paragraph suggests. It was the libertarians and liberal economic establishment who claimed it was cut and dried that unrestricted free trade was better for all Americans. Anyone who ob
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That's certainly a reasonable position.
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by carsongross 9y ago
Thanks for the link, interesting read.
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by carsongross 9y ago
Being 50% in treasuries right now is not particularly conservative. The Schiller P/E ratio was only higher in 1929 and 1999: http://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe/ So, broadly, equities look like a pretty bad deal rig
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by carsongross 9y ago
I agree entirely with you on the urgency of figuring out productive jobs for people with IQs on the left side of the bell curve. Jordan Peterson has a very good video on this[1]. I would couple this with a concern that we end (or, dare we
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by carsongross 9y ago
If it were true that manufacturing jobs aren't coming back (and it isn't, at least in the short term) it would still be worth it to move the supply chain back to the United States. If the future is automation, then lets do that a
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by carsongross 9y ago
Heh. The fish does not notice the water.
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The article demonstrates a specific way that "bad" ideas can become more deeply ingrained. I am mildly agnostic towards the amount of contribution man is making towards temperature change, I've read reasonable people with var
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by carsongross 9y ago
The MBA thinks in spreadsheets and talks in scalpels.
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by carsongross 9y ago
> I’m not really sure what half a year of holding on to my money will help PayPal achieve It doesn't help them. If it were possible they would complete every transaction with minimal fuss. The reason transferring money is so dif
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by carsongross 9y ago
Why Jordan Peterson still believes in God: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28i3lWxW5xs
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by carsongross 9y ago
If you wish to stay with the thick client model, Vue.js appears to be the simplest alternative. If you are willing to consider returning to the original RESTful architecture of the web, intercooler.js will dramatically simplify your applica
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It was almost all anecdotes, with some vague platitudes around not shushing students, focusing on "teaching mechanics" etc. The US spends more per primary age pupil than all but a few countries (Switzerland, Norway & Austria,
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Don't get ill. Sin brings its own punishment along with it. Ask me how I know.
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While I appreciate the token nod towards controlling costs, and the text book scam is a mark of shame that the professoriate class should be deeply embarrassed by, this is a bit like tending to the deep cut on your hand while your severed l
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"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations" --Orson Welles
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Having resigned myself in most international matters to narrative collapse, a post-modern inability to determine the relative truthfulness, completeness or meaning of conflicting narratives, I offer only the following content: https:/
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The problem you are experiencing is an interesting one. It turns out conservatives understand liberals but think they are misguided. Liberals, on the other hand, do not understand conservatives and, therefore, think they are evil. A liber

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