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by chmod600 4y ago
"by consuming a lot of news then we have better odds of voting in ways that actually improve the world" I doubt that's true. Certainly not if we are all reading broadly and shallowly, from a few dozen media sources all trying
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by chmod600 4y ago
To play devil's advocate: If people are moving around to competitors, information will leak, intentionally or not, in small doses or large. You can call that a feature or a bug. If you call it a bug, then you'll try to prevent peo
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by chmod600 4y ago
"Short term risk can be mitigated by ensuring your companies have enough non-SVB cash on hand to make payroll." How do you do that without causing a bank run? Tell all the CFOs "Don't be alarmed, but you need to initiate
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by chmod600 4y ago
Software engineering, at least for the lucky ones (a not-small percentage), is the inverse coffee shop fallacy: people imagine it to be boring and it's not. (Note: the following is relative to other jobs, not relative to some ideal.) F
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by chmod600 4y ago
True, but there's an interesting difference between this case and, e.g., nuclear power or something. Government is one way to outsource charity. Vote for programs, pay your taxes, and you care. When it actually affects you directly, th
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by chmod600 4y ago
I met someone that seemed to experience the cognitive dissonance in real time. Voted for people who advocated affordable housing. They built some next to her and she started calling and complaining and going to meetings. Apparently the buil
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by chmod600 4y ago
"there are many that invest in government bonds" If a government "invests" in its own bonds, that's not an investment.
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by chmod600 4y ago
It's definitely good for alarms, music, and controls for a few lights around the house. Occasional factual questions at the dinner table without needing to bring out a phone. Does it need to be more than that? I guess the hopes were hi
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by chmod600 4y ago
Is there rigorous evidence that these treatments do more good than harm?
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by chmod600 4y ago
As the headline is phrased, the answer is almost certainly "yes". Even if you have an objective diagnosis and a rigorously developed treatment, you'd expect far less than 100% success; and you'd also expect side effects
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by chmod600 4y ago
Unless you are an exceptional person, software has permeated your life. Most of the ways in which it affects you are invisible because it works so well.
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by chmod600 4y ago
And yet, extraordinarily complex systems seem to work somehow, which means each of the zillions of pieces is pretty much doing the right thing.
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by chmod600 4y ago
"But your chances are FAR better if you are well prepared, know the stats..." Gambling is zero sum. Businesses, even failed ones, generally do some positive things along the way. Learning to do things that are useful and getting p
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by chmod600 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/2733/ What a weird way to phrase a headline. From the article, it seems US population grew 2% and pedestrian deaths by 18%. But why relate those two numbers? If the US population declined by 1%, that w
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by chmod600 4y ago
Labeling something as "misinformation" is asymmetric: being right 90% or even 99% isn't good enough. Being wrong about a misinformation label, even if there's nuance about confidence levels, or even moving from "mis
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by chmod600 4y ago
What other evidence supports that theory? Are there counterexamples?
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by chmod600 4y ago
How do things in space end up pulled into each other? If big object A pulls small object B with gravity, wouldn't B just speed up and then miss, ending up in some kind of orbit? Like, if you are in space and throw a rock at the Sun, it
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by chmod600 4y ago
Maybe change happens for a good reason sometimes? Engineers no longer have secretaries, file cabinets, etc. We have all this technology to help us organize things, is an individual office still the right thing? I get the value of quiet time
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by chmod600 4y ago
Can you explain more? I would have guessed any great collection of people is bound to slowly unravel for all kinds of reasons. Why would you place so much of the blame on money people?
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by chmod600 4y ago
"if you annoy somebody enough that he and a dozen friends make false anonymous reports to get you kicked out" There's all kinds of reasons that might happen that aren't your fault. In the past, maybe having the wrong ski
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by chmod600 4y ago
"maxed out on its credit etc and is not happier" I came to the conclusion that sustaining the status quo, and even growing modestly, doesn't require a huge amount of effort on average (relative to history, of course). But doi
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by chmod600 4y ago
Does it? People complain a lot about Congress, and a lot of those problems are reasonably connected to size. More likely, there are a benefits and costs to a large government. I doubt it's scale-free.
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by chmod600 4y ago
"Previous human civilizations did a better job of recognizing that we enjoy imbuing objects in the world with meaning, I think." I wonder if that's true or just nostalgia? Certainly there are examples of prized possessions in
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by chmod600 4y ago
"That Amazon doesn't trust its managers to make these decisions" Leaving it up to managers is wrong. The employment agreement is with Amazon, and they need to make sure that material parts of it are administered fairly. Not t
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by chmod600 4y ago
In general (across most software developers at most companies) I think senior people work really well from home, but junior people are missing a lot. In particular: access to senior people. That could probably be settled with a couple solid
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by chmod600 4y ago
I don't think it's necessarily a sexist phenomenon. A lot of our cultural leaders generally seem to be pushing us toward a weird and sterile (literally and figuratively) existence. Men are encouraged to be less masculine, and wome
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by chmod600 4y ago
"Critically, natural hydrogen may be not only clean, but also renewable. It takes millions of years for buried and compressed organic deposits to turn into oil and gas. By contrast, natural hydrogen is always being made afresh, when un
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by chmod600 4y ago
You have to weigh actual policy proposals, though. Throwing money around doesn't always help. This particular proposal doesn't seem likely to help. It's a nationwide hack. An obvious likely consequence is larger class sizes.
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by chmod600 4y ago
Sometimes there are unfortunate associations, and that can cause real damage to a brand. Also, sometimes even if you don't make the association, once someone points it out, it's hard not to think about it.
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by chmod600 4y ago
In the US a lot of tax dollars are wasted on healthcare. A lot more would be wasted if we tried some kind of universal health care in the US.

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