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by csa 2y ago
> Never heard of decoy effect. Always referred to this phenomenon as “anchoring” Correct. The example they gave is anchoring. Anchoring typically looks like $10-$25-$50, and they want you to buy the $25 item. Sometimes the presence of th
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by csa 2y ago
> Imagine having fun with animals, men, children, bsdm and so on. That's not even bottom of the pit. Other than children/minors, I don’t think the others are likely. Possible, but not likely. Whatever kompromat they have was al
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by csa 2y ago
> It would come as no surprise if Russian intelligence has some juicy blackmail material. I’m pretty sure the only blackmail that could be bad enough to motivate Trump would be if he had relations with a minor. I’m pretty sure that’s the
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by csa 2y ago
> This is the only optimistic view I've heard on the subject. In no way was my comment optimistic. It was charitable at best. > Surely they don't actually want to hand over national security to the Russians. Right? Well, tha
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by csa 2y ago
> but amazingly depressing that you can work as an ATC for arguably the most difficult forms of civil aviation, with no planning, aids, or procedures -- all without qualifications. Your wording is ambiguous to me. Are you talking about t
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by csa 2y ago
You can work around this a bit by using “new” and/or “active”: https://news.ycombinator.com/active Since I’ve discovered active, I actually look at it first to find stuff that got pushed off the front page while I was
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by csa 2y ago
> How much more evidence does anyone need? “Being cozy with” and “being compromised by” may look similar, but aren’t the same thing. We can’t be certain just based on the presence of a Tass reporter. Remember, Trump is the same dipshit w
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by csa 2y ago
This is probably an empty gesture, since NSA and “sigint work” is excluded from this order. That said, if it’s followed up with similar orders to NSA and “sigint work”, then I will humbly suggest that our executive branch has been fully c
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by csa 2y ago
> what can actually be done in Japan to increase the birth rate? Re-establish the social contract that was unceremoniously thrown away in the ‘90s and was replaced with a ragtag collection of weak measures and inaction. Large swathes of
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by csa 2y ago
> Say more. That kind of thing sounds worth paying for. I’m not sure what you have in mind. I’m assuming “get a local and cheap degree that gets you a job” means going to a community college and a directional school (at best). The whole
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by csa 2y ago
> Are they right? Maybe > Is it really important for their kids future to go to a top 70 instead of 130? There are definitely rough cutoffs. Using your ballpark thresholds, yes, there can be a big difference in 70ish and 130ish in ter
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by csa 2y ago
Vouched for this. I know it’s political, but the details and mechanisms discussed are interesting (imho). That said, I do think the original memo should be linked rather than a brief summary of the memo. Here is the link to the actual memo:
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by csa 2y ago
> otherwise you can just point to his absence and claim its only covering his add … or trying to arrange to save positions at the last minute. I’ve seen the other side of this before. If he’s a shit leader, he’s just hiding. If he’s a go
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by csa 2y ago
I don’t know the specifics for this case, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he was voluntold to do this on very short notice while under duress.
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by csa 2y ago
> If you don't have access, it is not a meritocracy. I think you’re running into resistance because of this stance. You’re talking about an optimized meritocracy or a meritocracy at one level of abstraction in which raw talent is ab
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by csa 2y ago
> You can't change what's direct vs indirect. I may have incorrectly used a term of art there. That said… I am certain that universities will not come out on the short end of this deal for very long, if at all. There are myriad
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by csa 2y ago
> eg the researcher doesn’t have budget for new fees the institution charges for equipment/services that were previously “free” I think many people don’t realize this point. The universities made it easy with large indirect costs th
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by csa 2y ago
This is a great point… in theory. In the case for higher ed and hospitals, I don’t think people are complaining about staff (the vast majority of the “tail” in the military). Rather, they are complaining about the administrators , which
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by csa 2y ago
The ideas you’ve laid out sound really good while theorycrafting over some drinks. The reality that I’ve seen is that it rarely works out like you are suggesting. Real examples that I’ve seen twice in detail is that senior management (and l
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by csa 2y ago
> There is a base package of employee shares you get upon being hired. Where do these shares come from? Do you dilute the pool? Will people who are no longer part of the company (but are still partial owners) want their ownership pool di
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by csa 2y ago
> You do it as a partnership where new employees buy into the company when they get hired. Practically speaking, this does not work in most businesses. But maybe you have an idea that I haven’t seen. What would some numbers look like for
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by csa 2y ago
> Why does no one run a completely employee owned tech company. What is the disincentive for modeling your company as employee-owned and operated. It seems that would be the best path to an efficient company and a focused company that’s
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by csa 2y ago
> Is it good for one person (the writer) to save time, only for lots of other people (the readers) to have to do extra work to understand if the work is correct or hallucinated? This holds true whether an LLM/AI is used or not — see
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by csa 2y ago
> Is it a given there would be a budget impasse, if all institutions of power are held by Republicans? I’m not an expert on this topic, so please take these comments with a grain of salt: 1. The simplest way a budget impasse could start
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by csa 2y ago
> If they were not paid because they were on "admin leave", does that look bad for Trump, or does that look bad for Congress? It would be Trump/Elon. Someone told me the details of how they could not pay people. It’s admin
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by csa 2y ago
You’re welcome. There a little more commentary in a reply above to jventura.
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by csa 2y ago
Thank you for the kind words. I just remember feeling like I had been punched in the gut after some of these conversations. It was like history had come alive right before my eyes. I remember having a few sleepless nights just processing th
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by csa 2y ago
> this was never authorized by congress, Correct. > so the money to pay people to September is questionable if it exists at best Incorrect. The money is budgeted through September (end of federal FY). Things are currently only fund
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by csa 2y ago
> Interesting they say their goal is 5-10% when normal attrition is six percent, that means essentially their goal is -6 to 4% Basically, yes. If they had worked within the existing VSIP (voluntary separation) and VERA (early retirement)
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> I’d love to know more. Probably not news, but here are a few big ones that I remember from our conversations: 1. Family member lived in a rural area. They could see the train line that ran between two major cities. I can’t remember the

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