citadel_melon

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by citadel_melon 4mo ago
There is a spectrum between an employer’s monopoly/oligopoly over labor that Marx’s narrative presupposes and a perfectly competitive labor market your narrative presupposes. Reality varies between these two extremes in different labor
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by citadel_melon 4mo ago
I’ve started picking up a new language with the help of LLMs (not the only source, but it helps me make flashcards using Leipzig Glossings) and it’s helped me read through math textbooks on my free time much faster/more thoroughly (amb
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by citadel_melon 4mo ago
Manhattan is filled with consultant-brained professionals and trust fund babies: I’m not surprised the business selection pressure is thusly catering to the lowest common denominator. Hopefully Flushing — NYC’s real Chinatown — is far enoug
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by citadel_melon 4mo ago
Creatine has been tested over long time spans already so this comment is not applicable here. The better rebuttal is that the paper didn’t follow RCT protocols.
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by citadel_melon 4mo ago
"The best cure for high prices is high prices."
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by citadel_melon 4mo ago
Chomsky's hierarchy makes sense as a theoretical basis. His theory is poor at describing how people actually learn languages and lazily conjectures preprogrammed language in the human brain to explain phenomena that other mechanisms co
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Chomsky['s theory of syntax] was wrong. They taught me a lie [video](youtube.com)
5 points by citadel_melon 4mo ago|1 comments
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by citadel_melon 4mo ago
Thiel is using Bad Bunny’s definition of America
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by citadel_melon 5mo ago
Thank you joe_mamba for your nuanced rebuttal to my pointing-out that your main tactical trick is contradictory when used evenhandedly.
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by citadel_melon 5mo ago
“Pragmatists” (but really anti-pragmatist) like you always find creative ways to bring the blame back to government but then don’t take the next step of blaming the private interests that crafted those government policies. Effectively, I co
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by citadel_melon 5mo ago
Property taxes already exist. There is no obvious reason why this particular property tax would be legally problematic. The tax is also likely politically difficult to counter. Consider how limited in scope these taxes are, how the tax reve
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by citadel_melon 5mo ago
Part of the problem is that there are fake “pragmatists” who claim that nothing ever comes from greed or market consolidation, making laymen who can’t mechanistically and empirically think through the markets skeptical of all “pragmatist” c
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by citadel_melon 5mo ago
You can succeed at that level while staying a moral person, but it’s a much tighter rope to walk. The ones wise enough to be able to walk such a tight line are also wise enough to recognize that the reward for all the effort is sour grapes.
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by citadel_melon 5mo ago
Fallacious appeal to the efficient market hypothesis
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by citadel_melon 5mo ago
Will this project eventually be able to completely replace MechE software students need to use for classes or what is the intentions about your software’s scope
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by citadel_melon 5mo ago
One could imagine a different legal standards for recreational, research, and commercial uses.
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by citadel_melon 5mo ago
I’m glad people will have to evaluate the substance of the deck rather than using a cheap heuristic like how visually appealing the presentation is. I understand there tends to be a correlation between visual appeal and effort, and correlat
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by citadel_melon 5mo ago
The executive also can’t declare war, yet we are in Iran. Executive orders have stood in for legislation; even though it shouldn’t. What is considered lawful is up to the whims of the pentagon and the other two branches have shown little in
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by citadel_melon 5mo ago
Let’s steel-man the parent comment. Obviously “just following orders” is not generally a morally sufficient argument even if you end up not facing repercussions for your actions.
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by citadel_melon 6mo ago
By what measure are Iranians more educated than US citizens? Are you also claiming infrastructure in Iran/Iraq/Saudi Arabia is better than the US, or just Saudi Arabia?
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by citadel_melon 6mo ago
But does it control for family/relative income? One could be poor but could travel and maintain a safety net from their family. Too many variables to control for imo to abductively say the sun helped. Once you start controlling for eno
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by citadel_melon 7mo ago
Teasing out causation with empiricism is near impossible without eventually needing to rely on occum's razor to some extent or another. Reliance on occum’s razor would probably be less needed if this was a random control trial, but sti
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by citadel_melon 7mo ago
Is there a way you can make custom time-intervals? One month seems too short for one of my friends, but 3 months is too long.
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by citadel_melon 11mo ago
The article states that AI is partly to blame. How could one state this claim is not sufficiently qualified?
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by citadel_melon 11mo ago
Efficiency does not necessarily mean lower costs. More efficient workers could mean more valuable workers, and thus something employers are willing to pay more for in a competitive labor market.
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by citadel_melon 1y ago
Bell Labs was at its peak from 1960s-1970s. Since the 80s, corporate governance has completely changed due to Jack Welch’s short-term shareholder maximization ideology taking over the corporate world. I don’t think there are current private
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by citadel_melon 1y ago
It’s silly. MLB players are unionized and they make more money than tech workers. The reason why management don’t need a union is because they have much more say in determining their own wages.
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by citadel_melon 1y ago
If you live in SF, you can get a cheap degree from a California community college. It will be 10-50 dollars per semester. You can even transfer the last year of the degree to a UC if you care for a name-brand school, but I don’t think that
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by citadel_melon 1y ago
The FDA was founded in 1906. They are the reason we don’t have formaldehyde in our meat nor chalk in our milk. Read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair to understand why people defend the FDA.
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by citadel_melon 2y ago
I agree with this point to some extent, but insurance before protections for preexisting conditions used acne as a reason to reject cancer treatment claims: obviously fraudulent behavior. If insurance is deregulated and any regulations aren

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