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by cryoshon 7y ago
>"The higher savings rate, we believe, has had disinflationary impact, driving the relatively slow growth and low inflation in this recovery," wrote an analyst for Raymond James, observing that younger people are "saving i
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by cryoshon 7y ago
i find the chance argument very compelling, but there's another factor which to my knowledge the OP researchers didn't investigate: ethics. the richest people i know (with wealth in the 10M range) are the most amoral in their thou
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by cryoshon 7y ago
this was my experience in college as well, but i didn't really put the pieces together until i had the same experiences in my professional life. there were those who were competent, wanted to be hands-on, and who were clearly very moti
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by cryoshon 7y ago
re: poisons, it isn't a bad analogy because you're referencing the dose-response curve. many of our medicines are "poisons" in the sense that if you take them in a large enough dose, they will kill you. but a small dose
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by cryoshon 7y ago
keeping my realist comments to myself took me more than two decades to become competent at. it'll take me another two decades to master. the trick is to understand that all people live in a marginal headspace where engagement with the
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>Perlow describes how she developed a solution to white-collar peonage at Boston Consulting Group. She called her strategy “PTO”: predictable time off. It didn’t seem like a big deal. Teams would pull together to arrange one weeknight of
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by cryoshon 7y ago
this is a very interesting comment here because it exposes how different the chinese and american polities really are. america is not a unified bloc, internally. nor does it aspire to be. the differences between a city in massachusetts and
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by cryoshon 7y ago
i'm on board with a boycott of blizzard and also activision. we can't continue with appeasement of a totalitarian state bent on controlling the discourse of the world if we want to claim that we are a democracy. unless we're
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by cryoshon 7y ago
if you don't own the land, you can't stop the owner from chopping down all the trees you planted and letting the CO2 exhaust into the air again. i guess you could try putting it into a contract, but it would de facto be unenforcea
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by cryoshon 7y ago
if CO2 is removed from the oceans and other CO2 sinks, won't that still leave us in the position of having less free CO2 to release into the atmosphere in the aftermath? i'm trying to understand multiple angles of this issue becau
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by cryoshon 7y ago
i'm currently looking into tree-planting as a climate change solution with the aim of making it into either a nonprofit or a for-profit organization, but my research so far has not been promising. the trouble with planting trees is tha
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by cryoshon 7y ago
based on my research into phytoplanktons and cyanobacteria-based climate change mitigation for the purposes of commercialization, my take on this is that planting trees is probably a significantly easier approach in terms of the amount of e
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by cryoshon 7y ago
from shortly after our first civil war until relatively recently, we could say to ourselves and say that our hodgepodge of cultures were not mutually exclusive. coexistence with these other cultures was a benign fact of life, something that
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by cryoshon 7y ago
we can't "electric van" our way out of the climate crisis because it makes too little of a dent over too long of a timescale. bezos' plan is far too weak to even be worth media coverage. mediocre quarter-measure plans li
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by cryoshon 7y ago
why? what is the point of this? how does this benefit the country? climate change aside, i cannot imagine how someone could argue in favor of dirtier air when we already had a solution in place which addressed the issue somewhat. and yet, t
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by cryoshon 7y ago
this is exactly why i view surveillance and advertising as attacks on my personal autonomy. advertisers will use anything and everything against me, whether or not i ever consented to anyone knowing or using any of my information. if i&#x27
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by cryoshon 7y ago
5 billion is peanuts to google. if the fine is low enough that it can be written off as a cost of business, it's too low. effective fines devastate profit margins rather than merely crimping them.
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by cryoshon 7y ago
another bad sign for the economy. the people with insider knowledge are trying to bail from the market ASAP to lock in their gains from the long run of economic growth.
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by cryoshon 7y ago
i worked in an HIV research lab for three years. we were trying to find a vaccine. in the lab, many of the things we did might have been considered "gain of function" research because we were artificially creating viral particles
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New law will let students take mental health days(theguardian.com)
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>And while fires in Brazil have increased, there is no evidence that Amazon forest fires have. i see. let's read on. >What increased by 7% in 2019 are the fires of dry scrub and trees cut down for cattle ranching as a strategy to
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by cryoshon 7y ago
if it's the Blitz, don't be the guy who shows up to tea time and tries to talk about the weather. it isn't that tea time is the place for political battles. it's that when bombs are falling, there is little else which fe
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by cryoshon 7y ago
it's way too late. the time for this was back in 2011, when the populist politics were first rearing their head on a national scale. now, it reads like a belated non-apology for past maliciousness. and it won't save them from the
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by cryoshon 7y ago
this frightens me far more than the yield curve inverting. the information-distributing capacity of the fed's website is built for routine loads, but the fact that it is down suggests that everyone is scrambling.
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by cryoshon 7y ago
my take is that we've harvested the easy pickings which were accessible as a result of formalized and professionalized scientific research and engineering processes. now, we're entering the era of formalized and professionalized d
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by cryoshon 7y ago
in the US, science has become a political act because science is inextricably linked to improving human welfare. frequently, the prescription to improve human welfare is for other humans to take certain actions, or to refrain from certain a
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by cryoshon 7y ago
>Who will double check a doctor’s orders? last i checked, insurance companies do not do this to any extent that is beneficial to the patient. in fact, my experience with this is that the insurance companies get in the way of the doctor d
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by cryoshon 7y ago
provide big bounties for drug development. from the government. we're gonna pay for the drugs either way, so we may as well create our own incentive structures to ensure that it's done right.
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by cryoshon 7y ago
where are you seeing the rumors, if i may ask? i'm not interested in propagating mistruths, but i'm interested in digging deeper.
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by cryoshon 7y ago
if you've ever been to a middle school or a high school as a student, you know that these surveillance systems are probably already being used to crush innocent dissent. imagine how many times you made a snide remark about a teacher or

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