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by chillacy 6y ago
Oh just thought of another example: bodybuilders apply heavy tan to look darker on stage. It helps muscles show better under heavy stage lighting. https://www.quora.com/Why-are-all-bodybuilders-tan-Do-they-u...
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by chillacy 6y ago
Well, humans have a version of this bias as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect > Thus, to the uninitiated Caucasian, all East Asian people look alike, while to East Asian people, all Caucasian peo
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by chillacy 6y ago
I recall being amused maybe 3 years ago when I took a picture of two friends, one with dark skin, one with light skin, and the camera choose to expose for the darker skin. He looked fine, the lighter skin friend looked like snow lit by head
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by chillacy 6y ago
Yea in those cases I agree that they do have more involvement than slapping a logo on. That's the case of sunglasses and luxottica: companies are selling a design/logo which is the distinguishing factor, and the manufacturer is si
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by chillacy 6y ago
Add to this the fact that a lot of these brands don’t even manufacture their items in the first place: they source manufacturers and slap their logo and marketing on, then markup the item price. Does that really add value? In some cases the
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by chillacy 6y ago
Sadly there are already a number of courses which teach you how to make money by making... courses. No joke, it's all circular. People teaching each other to teach people to teach people to teach.
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by chillacy 6y ago
That's what bugs me so much. We'd never know if it weren't for video evidence. Police testimony is treated with high regard in the legal system too, maybe in the age of hard video evidence that should go away.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Bingo, actual tolerance means accepting with people you disagree with, as long as they can do the same with you. Something like "I disagree with what you say but will defend your right to say it" From a wonderful essay on the topi
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by chillacy 6y ago
These recent events have really highlighted to me the fact that police lack accountability. It all folds into a bigger picture of policing (civil forfeiture, no knock warrent-less raids, etc) and a contentious history of policing minorities
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by chillacy 6y ago
I think they should just block ads from non-domestic media outlets instead, that way you don't have to distinguish between "state controlled" or not, just say that foreign states shouldn't run election ads in other count
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by chillacy 6y ago
A lot of psychology research backs that up: the more people see something the more they like it: mere-exposure effect https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8721.00154
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by chillacy 6y ago
I can think of a number of reasons: 1. The firm has enough growth to cover it up (downturns can finally bring about layoffs here) 2. Measurement is difficult or not practiced at certain firms vs others 3. Subsidies or contracts from the gov
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by chillacy 6y ago
I'm with you but substitute WORK for Value Creation. It's way to easy to "create jobs" which are essentially busy-work with 0 to negative productivity. In the coming decades, economic productivity will become more and mo
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by chillacy 6y ago
It could just be that police testimony is not admissible without extra video evidence. In this day and age it may make sense. Especially given how the George Floyd and Amy Cooper incidents wouldn't have been known without video evidenc
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by chillacy 6y ago
It's definitely evidence that unions work at a minimum. It's just as you said, unions advocate for their members above all else. Just like a union of coal miners might be against environmental regulation if it protects the jobs.
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by chillacy 6y ago
That's an interesting article but buried near the end it looks like an actual study found that it wasn't all that effective in the end: > An early study even suggested that altercations between citizens and police had declined
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by chillacy 6y ago
I think you'll find that to be true in most discussions about UBI, even those backed by conservative economists like Charles Murray. As for economically conservative discussion about redistribution, I think Greg Mankiw had one of the b
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by chillacy 6y ago
In case you're serious, the point is redistribution. Abolishing the income tax probably just makes income inequality worse. If you're against redistribution in general then that's a different discussion, but at a minimum, in
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by chillacy 6y ago
That sounds like you want to provide everyone with stuff you like. Someone else probably wants free fast food and guns. How do we settle the difference? A bunch of lobbying and political action? Or just give everyone cash and let people mak
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by chillacy 6y ago
This argument always seems to frame "the poor" as being unable to deal with having money, as if it's better to leave them poor else they'll just misspend/lose it. As long as people don't get scammed _future_ ba
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by chillacy 6y ago
I think I've heard that argument made by a "sovereign citizen" once in a youtube video. It ended with them being tazed and booked by a police officer for noncompliance.
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by chillacy 6y ago
That's not always true, a UBI doesn't say anything about its funding mechanism. Some UBI proposals are indeed funded on tax revenues and thus revenue neutral.
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by chillacy 6y ago
To draw an analogy to the stock markets, long term growth or decline based on fundamentals is the market pricing a company’s profit potential. Gouging is something more like a short term pump and dump scheme. The SEC doesn’t appreciate the
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by chillacy 6y ago
> Taking it from other people's earnings and spending it through a committee of politicians sounds pretty dystopian to me though. That sounds exactly like how social services work today, with the extra bonus of high administration c
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by chillacy 6y ago
Even if companies uproot, selling to US consumers means paying US VAT taxes. US companies pay european VATs too, they all complain about it but don't leave the market as long as profits are positive.
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by chillacy 6y ago
> 'more supply will come in' just isn't working for housing Curious where you live because in Seattle this has definitely kept the rent prices from growing as fast as in the SFBA. Admittedly these are apartments on the exp
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by chillacy 6y ago
Agreed that housing needs to be fixed. In the short term it would eat away at any income but it won't be 100% of it, and it will also vary by location. Some housing markets are more supply constrained than others. Also a portable sourc
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by chillacy 6y ago
Yang cashed out and ran a nonprofit for the past decade, his net worth is nothing like Dorsey's. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2019/11/19/andrew-...
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by chillacy 6y ago
Look at it this way: 1. The US is already spending over a trillion a year on welfare 2. These programs have high administrative costs and create negative incentives to work (you can make more not working than working) 3. UBI has low adminis
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The author of the expanse himself clarified that Basic is not UBI http://www.scottsantens.com/the-expanse-basic-support-basic-...

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