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by csa 1y ago
> HN readers from USA, what the hell is happening. How do we "get back to normal"? For the vast majority of Americans, life is “normal”, but perhaps in a slightly different key. Outside of educated liberal circles, there is no
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by csa 1y ago
I have some MAGA-leaning family and professional acquaintances. Here is what I hear from them: > I doubt they voted for _this_. They most certainly did. First, they love the retention of the tax cuts and the OBBB. Second, they were repul
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by csa 1y ago
> The woman is going to claim it’s a service animal. There’s no real rules about service animals I agree with your overall point, but there are actually rules about what types of behavior are unacceptable for service animals. Uncontrolle
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by csa 1y ago
> It's always a combo of vibe coding + automation tools like n8n/zapier that does some simple data plumbing or just calls an API. I agree with all that you said, however… I have found that doing stuff that could be done with
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by csa 1y ago
> IQ of 200 (or higher) do not exist according to the original definitions of this metric Just to expand in this point… Most IQ tests for adults lose a lot of precision over 130 (2sd), and they are extremely imprecise over 145 (3sd) — al
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by csa 1y ago
> Which makes me wonder what's the point of all the intervention in the form of teaching/parenting styles and whatnot, if g factor is nature and immutable by large? What's the logic of the educators here? Many/most pe
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by csa 1y ago
> How do you square your comment with the fact that companies routinely engage in mass layoffs when they are profitable already? Not op, but… Just because a company is profitable doesn’t mean that they make good decisions around hiring.
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by csa 1y ago
> The bifurcation of incomes pre-AI should be a warning that we're reaching a point where the average human (in physical ability and knowledge) can no longer efficiently create value. IMHO, the value will be in creating f2f human in
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by csa 1y ago
> Find me one serious person who has ever argued for equality of outcomes. Without commenting on or evaluating the merits or demerits of the argument, here is a representative example: https://onlinepublichealth.gwu.edu&#x2F
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by csa 1y ago
> If the builders are at capacity why aren’t there more? Great question! My friend says that it’s tough to hire for the following reasons: 1. Many people don’t want to do the work. 2. Many people aren’t willing to adhere to drug policies
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by csa 1y ago
> So the response of the government is to add even more rules and limitations to building housing… I mean… they are rules, but not limits. Low-income housing is being built. All of the locals I know consider it a win. Note that “low inco
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by csa 1y ago
> But if they build tons, the older stock drops in value. Maybe I wasn’t clear. The local builders are at capacity. They literally can’t build any more. > Nobody is paying $500k for a 20 year old house if a brand new one is available
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by csa 1y ago
> Always amusing that this is the go-to argument against free markets, when the major cause of housing unaffordability is that governments prevent housing from being built. I’m not sure where you live, but in my little corner of Californ
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by csa 1y ago
> Is the theory here that the previous owners were altruistically pricing below what the market would bear? As someone who has done research on pricing in a range of sectors, it’s usually some form of ignorance rather than altruism. In c
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by csa 1y ago
> We've lost the fundamental stability of a time when one income could comfortably sustain a family. There has been a systemic shift that undermines family well-being. I used to agree with you. I currently believe that period of tim
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by csa 1y ago
Just a note you may find helpful. > I feel your post is too long It’s about 700 words. It’s thought through, well-written, neatly organized, and it’s a fine set up for further discussion. If that’s too long for you on this forum , then
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by csa 1y ago
Hi Cate, Welcome to HN! A few things: 1. Thank you for writing the book and providing the excerpt. 2. Here is a link to the original blog post by Jason: https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-sur... 3
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by csa 1y ago
> What's the prevalence of female drivers on Uber Article says uber had about 20% female drivers in US in 2015. “A survey from the company in 2015 found that about a fifth of its U.S. drivers were women.”
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by csa 1y ago
For the curious, “luck surface area” was coined/popularized by Jason Roberts from the Techzing and Tropical MBA podcasts. Our own patio11 (Patrick McKenzie) also helped propagate the concept. The basic equation is L = D * T — that is,
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by csa 1y ago
“No”
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by csa 1y ago
Thank you for sharing your experience. It makes the impact of the recent advances palpable.
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by csa 1y ago
> More than 50% of people employed as software engineers cannot read an academic paper in a field like education, and explain whether the conclusions are sound, based on the experiment description and included data. I know this was meant
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by csa 1y ago
You took the words right out of my mouth. Thank you!
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by csa 1y ago
> I was thinking of other things like how companies want to replace customer service, claims processing, etc. where efficiency improvements pretty directly translate into job losses Given that most of my recent experiences with the tier
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by csa 1y ago
> I’ve seen people driven to tears in this environment right now from stress due to overwork. Everyone in my org was either burnt out or soon to be. And that overwork is from managers demanding more and more without any data to back up e
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by csa 1y ago
> That is assuming that it is really a force multiplier which is not totally evident at this point. I really think that this is a lack of imagination at this point for people who actually think this way. There are two easy wins for almos
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by csa 1y ago
> If it's a multiplier you need to either increase the requested work to keep the same humans or reduce the humans needed if you keep the same workload. It's not straightforward which way each business will follow. I guess what
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by csa 1y ago
> Among non-technical friends, after the initial wow factor, even limited expectations were not met. Indeed. I think that current AI tech needs quite a bit of scaffolding in order for the full benefits to be felt by non-tech people. &gt
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by csa 1y ago
> Why? (I speak as someone who fits that description and has kids) I’m not the original commenter, but I assume that the reference is that this/your group fairly reliably across most cultures does not maintain the 2.1 children per w
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by csa 1y ago
> If you believe that you have celiac but for whatever reason you haven't been able to test it yet, then there is no harm to try going glutten free. The real issue is how many people deny the very existence of glutten sensitivity an

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