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by csee 5y ago
Covid-19: lockdowns caused a huge transfer of wealth from small businesses and services to big tech, media and Amazon. Did that motivate decision making and political pressure? I have no idea - perhaps not. But the financial incentive fro
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by csee 5y ago
The threat of violence in the form of intra-tribal and inter-tribal violence was commonplace, even though nation states weren't a thing. I can't imagine that being less stressful than today where we have very close to zero chance
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by csee 5y ago
> reports and studies that I've seen. What studies look at the impacts of COVID on the brains of vaccinated people?
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by csee 5y ago
He says a wealth tax will be more effective than a carbon tax at stopping climate change. What planet is he living on? Is reducing the wealth of billionaires supposed to stop Big Plastic from lobbying? He mentions Bill Gates' personal
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by csee 5y ago
It's terrible but not all of that is because of smoking. Smokers are often also drinkers, drug users, bad eaters, and just generally unhealthy people.
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by csee 5y ago
Yes you have it wrong. That goes against medical ethics. You can't give someone a treatment that is net detrimental to them in order to benefit others.
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by csee 5y ago
Wow. Loads virtually instantly. No whitespace. No video auto-playing with intrusively loud audio. No annoying bright colors. No buttons moving around while the page loads. Seriously.
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by csee 5y ago
They might think narcissism isn't a real thing.
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by csee 5y ago
I agree with most of this. I just don't accept the original claim that there isn't a supply shortage. There is a supply shortage. If supply isn't keeping up with demand, that is by definition a supply shortage. Whether the de
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by csee 5y ago
It's not infinite demand. That's something you came up with to prove your point. It's highly elevated demand, and supply isn't keeping up with that elevated demand. You can't separate out demand and supply insofar a
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by csee 5y ago
For me, they're not even fun to shoot the shit with. There's nothing like 1 year of built-up resentment at having to pick up their slack again and again only to be paid roughly the same and sharing half the credit with them.
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by csee 5y ago
I was sharing my subjective preference and the reasons for my preference. The research is surveying other people's subjective preferences. There is no conflict here.
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by csee 5y ago
Trustworthiness, sure. But not friendliness (unless it's asshole-level unfriendliness) over competence. There's little worse than a friendly but incompetent teammate, who will often get too many passes and second chances (because
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by csee 5y ago
Who said anything about a lower bound of p? I was talking about a lower bound on N, not a lower bound on p. Bayesian reasoning (by using the fact that we exist rather than don't exist, as well as other info about our existence, such as
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by csee 5y ago
Leave ASAP. Personally and for people I know, quitting quickly always turned out to be the right move. The only exception would be if your finances are really tight.
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by csee 5y ago
You mistakenly think that "ethnic discrimination" is distinct from racism when it's not. Racism: "prejudice, discrimination ... against a person ... on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic g
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by csee 5y ago
> According to Facebook's Internal research, I am not alone in that. I think the core point is probably true, but I wouldn't be 100% confident about this statement. The research seems murky. https://archive.md/
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by csee 5y ago
This could be racism driven, even though SG is known to be heavily authoritarian against drugs regardless. East Asian countries tend to be very racist towards brown Asians (South East Asia and South Asia). "His IQ is only 69"
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by csee 5y ago
Your statements in this thread have assumed we have no info to work with (as far as estimating p goes) because we have no understanding of the mechanisms behind how life came to be. But this ignores the evidence that we are here, which is i
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by csee 5y ago
We know approximately the lower bound of N, which is the approximate number of stars in the observable universe multiplied by an informed estimate of the expected number of planets within the goldilocks zone. That's usually what people
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by csee 5y ago
What about the argument that our existence is some evidence that a Bayesian estimates of p can't be so small that N p is less than one? You're focusing on (lack of) evidence for a mechanistic explanation but that's not exhau
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by csee 5y ago
This is an example of why analogies and metaphors make clear thinking difficult. They're easy to think up - anyone can find some abstract similarity between X and absurd thing Y - but there is no substance there since the two things be
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by csee 5y ago
This is where you take a gamble and hire them, then ask them to leave if it really doesn't work. The chance you're giving up on a 10-100x leverage hire is just too high in such a case.
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by csee 5y ago
But people have been buying these necessities before the pandemic. If spending shifted from services to goods, that implies that it's non-essentials that people are increasing consumption of. Unless people started eating more?
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by csee 5y ago
I disagree with most of what you've said here, although I enjoyed reading it and learned a few things. > humans can produce conducive environments ... without having a profit motive This is an answer to a malformed question.
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by csee 5y ago
It's going to be great for exploratory data science. You don't really need stellar, maintainable or extensible code for that, the early stage is largely about iteration speed.
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by csee 5y ago
I think there's a decent degree of truth to this rent-seeking framing, but many of these companies are also legitimately value adding as well, and the ratio between these two things differs by company. Groupon skews heavily to the form
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by csee 5y ago
I read the whole of [1] and it doesn't actually explain why these companies are rent seekers. Just puts the label on them with no stated justification.
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by csee 5y ago
Yeah I agree with that. I just don't think they can dump books effectively.
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by csee 5y ago
Companies will be evaluated that way if the government intervenes in the carbon market and fixes the price. But profits will still be the metric, as it should be. You'll just get much better alignment between profits and the environm

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