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that could be a confounding factor, but it's hard to know for sure without really digging into their data and methods. they may have tried to correct for that. in any case, this study actually seems to suggest that while vaccination pr
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it's the accounting/finance profession's fence you're quibbling with here, not something i just made up. those are indirect costs. in marginal analysis you only consider direct costs, not indirect ones (for background:
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perhaps consider chesterton's fence here. the topic at hand is pretty boring accounting 101, not some exotic double-dutch irish sandwich with a macau cherry on top. in most cases, you don't (and typically can't) attribute the
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by clairity 4y ago
right, i was going to make a similar kind of critique (but probably less lucidly). the effect sizes are tiny and the confidence intervals overwhelm the supposed conclusions. seems to be motivated reasoning rather than impartial science. cov
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in most cases, those (as well as licensing) aren't considered direct, variable costs, but rather sunk costs, as they exist regardless of the number of customers served, even if there's a rough correlation with size. this is akin t
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yah, this is all econ 101 stuff. what you're talking about is a specific application of marginal analysis to a firm's pricing policy, namely, making sure marginal revenue is greater than marginal cost (or, MC ≤ MR), ignoring sunk
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yes, declarative is exactly how i'd describe css "programming". you supply constraints and the css engine applies them as best it can. the constraint declaration language of css is becoming more sophisticated, which is much
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they're doing cut and cover on some fraction (maybe 1/3) of the purple line subway extension here in LA. it's still a bloated, expensive, late mess of a project, so technique matters little relative to incentive structure on
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not keeping architects in the loop doesn't sound like that big of a problem, if it just affects the quality of the finish as noted. it'd be much more concerning if engineers weren't signing off on construction changes (which
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one simplified way to visualize this: create a corporate entity with the debt raised from investors (typically investment banks)--this entity will have a bunch of cash, the debt it owes for that cash, and no assets--and have that entity buy
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of course it was a leveraged buyout. no single person has $44 billion burning a hole in their pocket, especially not musk, who has most of his net worth tied up in the equity of his various ventures. and that equity is too valuable to trade
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i've had t-mobile before and even tried mint too, but t-mobile is awful in (my area of) LA. so during the pandemic, i switched to visible ($30/mo) and it's been great. no congestion slowdowns yet. it has unlimited talk/t
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"free market" is more a political slogan than an economic concept. that's why i prefer the term "fair market", which is better aligned with the underlying economic concept and conveys with it the need for a strong a
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Monumental Diplomacy(99percentinvisible.org)
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you can listen to "Inflation", the song at the center of this story, on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0PUWmPna5P0hKtSwXWin9o?si=1f8... and apple music: https://music.apple.com/au&#x2
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the first step, repainting lines on roads to add (ideally protected) bike/scooter lanes, is a large but imminently manageable project that can get done quickly. while that's happening, you direct various agencies to favor bike&#x2
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How does the music industry work? Planet Money started record label to find out(npr.org)
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Drag and Drop UX Best Practices(pencilandpaper.io)
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ViewComponent in the Wild I: building modern Rails front ends(evilmartians.com)
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Map Misconceptions(storymaps.arcgis.com)
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> "It's sad, but we've gotten to the point where you simply cannot trust major news organizations to report on science without ridiculous levels of clickbait spin." news may have waxed and waned on reputability but it
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Oklch in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL(evilmartians.com)
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Scroll to Text Fragments(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
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iOS & iPadOS 16.2 Betas Overhaul Home App Architecture With Improved Performance(macrumors.com)
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Jekyll 4.3.0 Released(jekyllrb.com)
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Beauty in the machine: Post-industrial design(matthewstrom.com)
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yah, as i noted in my other reply, tab in that post seems to have been trying to solve the problem of sharing css across regular dom and shadow dom, rather than focusing on regular dom css and trying to remove the need for js and css prepro
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yah, i've read that thread before, as well as tab atkins' "abandoning @apply" post, and i think both are trying to solve problems that are beyond css itself (js-style scoping in the first, and shadow dom styling in the l
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yes, cost was mentioned in my original post.
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two things that sass has that i want to see in plain ol' css: 1. nesting - but this is coming! 2. mixins - not even static mixins are coming =( static mixins might seem to be limited in utility at first, but it'd alleviate a lot o

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