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by ckemere 10mo ago
My experience backs up that this is increasing even on the last decade. I worry that it’s yet another hack that the $8000 admissions consultants offer to their clients, potentially pointing (yet again) to a version of DEI that doesn’t mostl
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by ckemere 10mo ago
Original poster explained that the functionality is having a contact list. WhatsApp will either access and use ALL your contacts or none on iPhone as well as android. Having jumped through many hoops to preserve conversations without leakin
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by ckemere 10mo ago
Hot take - the private doctors tell you they are great but the public doctors can often be spectacular because their motives are not primarily economic. For example, the absolute best diagnosticians in Houston are at the public hospital pri
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by ckemere 10mo ago
Potential counterpoint. Is it possible that one challenge is the lack of expertise in government? I think it’s clear that most novel permitting situations involve one expert party (who want the permit but are potentially motivated to not re
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by ckemere 11mo ago
Looking at the discussion I’m struck by how there are really two “goods” that are conflicting in people’s minds. Many of those of us who are parents embrace the idea of sacrificing to make our kids lives easier and better than our own. We r
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by ckemere 11mo ago
I had a friend who worked at a plant and was an author on the side. I don’t think there’s any evidence that good novelists (let alone merely promising ones) are likely to have personalities that make them likely to be bosses.
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by ckemere 11mo ago
I’m confused about who will make our stuff if we decouple from China. As far as I can tell (trying to order advanced parts in smallish quantities), anyone other than China is a ~10x price difference? I have to assume labor cannot fully expl
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by ckemere 1y ago
Audible is an Amazon brand, no?
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by ckemere 1y ago
Not just LA. We're out in Houston too.
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by ckemere 1y ago
I'd love a better summary story / more reputable source.
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by ckemere 1y ago
I think citations are an insufficient metric to judge these things on. My experience in writing a paper is that I have formed a well defined model of the world, such that when I write the introduction, I have a series of clear concepts that
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by ckemere 1y ago
In the case of the active conflicts (Gaza, Ukraine), it seems that there is a strong disconnect between internal-facing media and political will and external facing media on potential allies. I would have liked some more unpacking of how t
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by ckemere 1y ago
A visit to Ellis Island museum would suggest many waves of disfavored/impiverished “European” immigrants that faced significant discrimination for a generation. Or a visit to California railroad museum documenting Japanese immigrants b
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by ckemere 1y ago
I’m a bit confused about this. I live and work in Houston, and it seems like the number of apparently homeless panhandlers I see (specifically in the med center / NRG) area seems approximately constant over the last decade. Disclaimers
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by ckemere 1y ago
Lots of arguments back and forth about the politics of government workers. But perhaps the biggest argument against the “creative destruction is good” might be that it favors hiring workers who like to leave a lot of the details up to someo
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by ckemere 1y ago
Both of my parents worked at times for the Federal, state, and local governments. From that small sample size (also including corworkers, neighbors, etc) I would suggest that it IS the case that government workers will be strongly biased to
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by ckemere 1y ago
There are multiple generations of folks who've been trained to believe that Ronald Reagan was delivering divine wisdom when he said "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem" / "The n
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by ckemere 1y ago
Feels quite ominous.
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by ckemere 1y ago
Gift URL: https://wapo.st/4nidndf
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Hegseth orders all generals to a mysterious, in-person meeting(washingtonpost.com)
19 points by ckemere 1y ago|6 comments
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by ckemere 1y ago
I think the key problem with this idea is taught in basic Microeconomics. A competitive market should have zero profit. The choice of the government to allow a non competitive market is a choice to transfer consumer surplus to producers, wh
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by ckemere 1y ago
Quick comment - I think many lesser known Palestinian leaders have advocated for decades for a “one state solution” that would give Palestinians equal rights but preserve some aspects of the current Basic Law to protect Jewish rights?
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by ckemere 1y ago
Perhaps Tibet might be a better example?
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by ckemere 1y ago
I interpreted it as a potential explainer for why this sort of result is unlikely to spread broadly. Do you have knowledge of, eg of New Hampshire (which is mentioned as a counter example in the article?)
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by ckemere 1y ago
https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/80552/total-tax... (Though this doesn’t capture top end federal income tax rate.)
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by ckemere 1y ago
We had a surplus under Clinton (well after Nuclear Arms race) which was parlayed into deficit by Bush tax cuts.
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by ckemere 1y ago
Lots of comments below. I think Reagan “Government doesn’t help” campaign + (obviously) big tax cuts were the beginning of the end. Early 1980s was the beginning of deficit spending and tax cuts based on the Laffer Curve big lie. Bush follo
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by ckemere 1y ago
As a memory neuroscientist, I enjoyed the shoutout here to episodic memory. It strikes me, however, that a feature that I've noticed when observing "reasoning" models is that they may explicitly search for evidence for interm
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by ckemere 1y ago
Addressing the second paragraph here - while conflation and reconsolidation are real phenomena, it's also quite clear that most humans form episodic memories. Some quite clearly have incredible abilities in this regard [2]. A distincti
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by ckemere 1y ago
I think that the negativity here is unfortunate. The reality is that it’s very hard to see a normal VC level return on the $100M+ Elon and friends have invested here. And don’t let anyone fool you - this is the fundamental reason the BCI fi

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