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by chillacy 6y ago
For some limited definitions of prove maybe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
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by chillacy 6y ago
Their other conclusions are all pretty sensible. E.g. Does the MMR vaccine cause autism? Ans: no https://www.rootclaim.com/claims/does-the-mmr-measles-mumps-... This technique looks reminiscent of "superforecastin
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by chillacy 6y ago
>> Japan and Korea have collectivist cultures and made that leap in the past 50 years. > Japan and South Korea are both democratic republics. I think we should be crisp on the difference between government systems and culture. Eas
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by chillacy 6y ago
Japan and Korea have collectivist cultures and made that leap in the past 50 years. Singapore has an authoritarian government and also managed the leap. Has China gotten to that point yet for planes? No, they clearly just started. But they&
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by chillacy 6y ago
What if in 1920 someone told you that looking back 100 (or even 200) years, you needed a strong agrarian society with a lot of service age men and horses to win wars? Technology has changed so much since 1920 I somehow doubt it's usefu
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by chillacy 6y ago
You should see how Toyota got started. They aren't exactly ashamed of the fact that they reverse engineered a Chevrolet, its displayed quite proudly in their factory museum.
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by chillacy 6y ago
There are many losses in the funnel to conversion, poor targeting is probably not even the biggest. At the end of the day if you can spend $1 in advertising and make $2 in sales, who wouldn’t press that button again and again and again?
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by chillacy 6y ago
Yes this: in real estate investing this is called the vacancy rate and it eats into profits, sometimes significantly. Too much vacancy and you can’t cover the mortgage.
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by chillacy 6y ago
The fact that many self contained vision and language tasks can be solved with curve fitting is in itself an interesting finding. Certainly I did not expect this 10 years ago.
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by chillacy 6y ago
5 years ago the fast/slow pointer technique for cycle detection could have been impossibly hard, now I see questions that just assume the candidate knows this. Every year the bar gets higher.
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by chillacy 6y ago
> The HTC First, also known as the Facebook phone, was unofficially declared a disaster after AT&T dropped its price from $99 to 99 cents on Wednesday. https://www.cnet.com/news/heres-why-the-facebook-phone-flopp
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by chillacy 6y ago
I didn't think this was true until I read Permanent Record, where Snowden talks about how the agencies could get stuff done through bribes or planted employees. Since knowing that, I've become a lot less certain.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Values are quite often a consequence of profits, in that companies develop values that align with how they make profits. Ben Thompson once coined this "strategy credit". Show me a company which has values contrary to its profitabi
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by chillacy 6y ago
Where could you move that has more freedom of speech and press than the US? Asking for a friend...
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by chillacy 6y ago
Fun fact, Tylenol works not only on physical pain but also emotional pain, because of shared mechanics in the brain.
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by chillacy 6y ago
The debate of electing competent politicians is pretty old. Plato criticized democracy and advocated for rule by wise philosopher kings. In the 1900s it manifests as a debate in Europe where communism gives it a go. In more modern times, Si
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by chillacy 6y ago
Splitting WA from Facebook isn’t going to change that though. It’s still going to look like WA is a monopoly, then what?
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by chillacy 6y ago
By this definition it seems like every social media app, by virtue of it being different, is a monopoly of its own? Eg: Twitter is “Twitter” that is the problem.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Either one is right or the market is irrational? Seems like by that logic one can never really be proven wrong.
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by chillacy 6y ago
It was thrown away because apparently everyone disagrees about what “evil” is. Congress brings tech ceos and then subjects them to partisan grilling where every action is alternately praised and condemned depending on party.
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by chillacy 6y ago
This is a great exercise because code reviews are such a important part of the job.
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by chillacy 6y ago
What you're saying is true but I don't believe humans to be in any kind of "constrained environment" if more people can work on ad delivery and social media marketing than space exploration and environmental engineering
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by chillacy 6y ago
LTC is often the cheapest mainstream coin for moving stuff around on chain, and has faster confirm times. They seem to be focusing more on transactions as opposed to storing value like BTC.
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by chillacy 6y ago
I suppose it’s easier when you’re smaller and you can just ignore regulations (Uber, Airbnb).
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by chillacy 6y ago
There have been some interesting market driven pricing schemes mentioned in this thread where your property tax is set based on an auction model, though that seems to have the opposite problem where the person with the largest bank can stea
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by chillacy 6y ago
If you’re hinting at taxing having more kids, I know it’s an unpopular idea but honestly it sounds decent to me. It just doesn’t mesh well with the declining birth rates in developed nations. Some countries are paying people to have kids, a
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by chillacy 6y ago
Food for thought: profit per square foot could stay the same by decreasing unit size and increasing the number of units if zoning allowed it.
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by chillacy 6y ago
If the definition of squander is defined such that any government spending on anything OP don’t benefit from counts as squandering, then it’s not so easily solved. A bit tongue in cheek but not an uncommon opinion.
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by chillacy 6y ago
That does contain the huge and unprovable assumption that there is such a thing as natural property in the absence of the state. See https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/01/why-taxation-is-neith...
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by chillacy 6y ago
I once had an interview like this from a very large e-commerce company in Seattle (though I did not get paid, at least they paid for my flight and hotel and food. A good deal for a college kid). Though the coding problem was less "poor

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