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by chillacy 6y ago
It doesn’t help that tech salaries outside the US are so low. I don’t know if that’s union related but relatively high salaries lead to higher contentment.
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by chillacy 6y ago
The same growth hacking techniques that make for annoying landing pages with huge CTA buttons and fake countdown timers has made it to political fundraising. I had definitely noticed that the political emails I've been getting (my emai
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by chillacy 6y ago
Most of the political destabilization (in america) has been going on before social media: https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-we-polarized-dont-blame-... > EK: ... The core story of the book is that over the past 50
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by chillacy 6y ago
I'm somewhat of a fan of Taleb but I've never quite figured out how this works out in practice. 1. Taleb says the stock market systematically under-prices risk when in reality probabilities have fat tails, or high kurtosis. 2. Tal
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by chillacy 6y ago
> The idea that there is a group of some super-smart genius forecasters is a rather common mistake of academics I'm pointing out is that there do exist some people who are more accurate than the others at assigning probabilities con
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by chillacy 6y ago
> old research literature on LSD like stuff from James Fadiman True, much of the research before we knew about set and setting approached the substances as psycho-mimetic, or substances that induce psychosis. Aldous Huxley described them
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by chillacy 6y ago
Yea it’s a forecasting competition but it does seem related in the way that if you were to take things seriously, step one would be to estimate the odds, step two is to buy the position that’s underpriced.
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by chillacy 6y ago
For that you’d also have to be betting serious amounts of money. Take a trip to Vegas or options trading forums and you’ll see some people get very serious while others trade “for fun”
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by chillacy 6y ago
I have read most of Taleb's books and I'm aware of his objections (and public beef with Tetlock). Nonetheless, empirically some people are better than others at the task of assigning probabilities to events (as insanely hard as it
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by chillacy 6y ago
It seems to use reputation instead, which might do decently with those who take it seriously. For example, the Good Judgement Project forecasting competition uses points and scores to incentivize: https://www.gjopen.com/faq
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by chillacy 6y ago
This is what I find most exciting, ever since I ran across the story of Superforecasters, who supposedly develop techniques to narrow down the probabilities of specific future events within very accurate bounds. https://en.wikipe
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by chillacy 6y ago
I’ve taken a cab in Shanghai and it was terrifying. If they can make autonomous cars drive there then they can drive anywhere...
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by chillacy 6y ago
In MLK's book "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community" he talks about some of the internal battles within the civil rights community and how they explicitly tried to forge alliances with other groups. That's when I
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by chillacy 6y ago
There's probably a handful of people who had already interviewed and were on their way out in the next few weeks who got a lucky break today.
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by chillacy 6y ago
That sounds nice on principle but I'm not sure I liked the world where Taxis were a monopoly and did things like "not pick you up if you weren't in the city" and "not pick you up if you were nonwhite." So, I&#x
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by chillacy 6y ago
While I don't like Nth degree media (you know, the types of articles that link to other articles which link to other articles which link to the primary source), I'm also not a lawyer and find it tedious to read legalese. One of th
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by chillacy 6y ago
This article is content marketing for a VPN service, not so much interesting content as much as demand generation for their product.
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by chillacy 6y ago
If you look at the history of the US credit system, it used to be about other aspects of like (a bank employee factored in if you went to church, were an alcoholic, etc) and it resulted in low access to credit, especially to minorities. Tha
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by chillacy 6y ago
I saw a documentary a year ago and it looked like in one of the credit schemes people literally just "donated money" to increase their scores, so you can improve your score... but it also looked kind of like bribery with more step
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by chillacy 6y ago
On Blind they're famous for paying the least out of any FAANG company and having the fewest perks. I have met some talented engineers who work there though.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Netflix doesn't hire junior engineers: https://www.quora.com/Why-aren%E2%80%99t-there-interns-at-Ne... But at companies which do, progression usually goes up by around 100k per level: https://www.levels.fyi&
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by chillacy 6y ago
Harassment might though, if the hotel is to be believed in this story.
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by chillacy 6y ago
> Thailand has a tough lese majeste law prohibiting insulting the monarchy and a Computer Crime Act that outlaws information that is false or affects national security has also been used to prosecute criticism of the royal family. Well,
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by chillacy 6y ago
I myself prefer option two, but if you were to change the supposition to: assume you have a chance to be born into a society at random but you don’t know who you will be, which would you pick? Then option 1 looks a little appealing as a way
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by chillacy 6y ago
If it wasn’t China it would have been Thailand or Brazil. If outsourcing never happened, automation would have brought us here anyways. The forces that push manufacturing to find ways to lower the cost of production are relentless.
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by chillacy 6y ago
What I find ironic is that this is the exact logic Facebook made for not taking down posts from politicians (the political speech exemption) and then most people didn’t find that very compelling. Perhaps the content should just be hidden an
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by chillacy 6y ago
Even in other US cities with local incubators and seed funding, startups all face the prospect of needing to visit SF for serious VC rounds later. If these companies are going to need investment from SF, why not just incorporate in Delaware
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by chillacy 6y ago
In the short term businesses saved 30% since Facebook isn’t making profit from the events now, in the long term it’s probably good for Facebook, assuming Apple renews the deal.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Almost sounds like making offerings to a friendly god. How curious!
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by chillacy 6y ago
I have great hopes for smaller countries trying out UBI. Nowadays the US is far too slow with implementing policies that are proven in other places (e.g. healthcare).

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